'Jonathan has my total support'

“ “I still believe the best years are ahead for this club,” he said.“

“We will look to strengthen the team in the summer and start giving Jonathan Woodgate the tools to do the job.
But right now we need to get out of the situation we are in.“

What’s he on???
I wonder how he’d judge best years? Everyone to a man knows, we won’t sign Brazil’s number 10 again, we’ve won one major cup, made Europe, made the UEFA Cup final. Gibson sees better ahead, FA Cup? Winning the Europa Cup? Champions league? We are so far behind, it’s untrue. For us even to do a Wolves, he would have to accept outside help.

If he honestly believes our best years are ahead, and he is going to achieve success by giving Woodgate the tools to do the job, the man is seriously deluded!! Those two quotes from him are completely juxtaposed.
 
Buddy said:
Not me, Gibbo...

So three things I take out of this

1/ He's basically accepted relegation

2/ He hung Mogga out to dry, but includes him in a list of mistakes while not including Pulis which is a disgrace.

3/ Its early bird renewal time so he can always come back with caveat emptor after we do go down for those that coughed up before it actually occurred.
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He wants to get us back up there, he's totally committed, he'll work his socks off, blah blah blah.

But he won't be able to because he keeps making mistakes.
 
1finny said:
'I've learnt from mistakes as far back as Southgate'.....:)
That's why I cracked on and appointed a manager who no one else would have touched with a barge pole....

Gibson is learning from other politicians and conning his constituents with blather
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Reading that again. It worries me even more about the future of the club with this man at the helm. He’s deluded.
 
The whole point of him coming out and speaking was basically so we know Woodgate will be our manager next season in league 1. Exciting times
 
Gibson you have either lost your heart and ambition for the club, or you have lost the plot and are totally deluded. ' I see where we have made mistakes'...............and then you appoint Woodgate. Ridiculous appointment in the first place.
 
"There are a host of big earning players out of contract which will free up space in the wage bill for new signings."

Blah blah blah - we hear this every season and manage to keep moving backwards.
 
Cardiffdaffs said:
Well thats more than the proverbial “vote of confidence”.

It reads pretty much as a guilt ridden confession that he he put JW in a position he shouldn’t have done and that it would be unfair to sack him for that.
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Spot on. "Guilt ridden" because he acknowledges that the problems go way back before Woody.
 
So essentially... I'm not firing JW and the rest is spin with some borderline offensive remarks regarding some previous managers.

Wonderful, I'm back in full belief mode. 👀
 
KingOfTheTribes said:
"There are a host of big earning players out of contract which will free up space in the wage bill for new signings."

Blah blah blah - we hear this every season and manage to keep moving backwards.
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More Dijksteels and Bolas in the pipe line. Get in
 
Block21 said:
The whole point of him coming out and speaking was basically so we know Woodgate will be our manager next season in league 1. Exciting times
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That's exactly it. He's more or less saying, "even if we get hammered tonight don't even bother showing any form of disdain"

Its just another two fingers up to the fans of the football club.
 
uncle_rico said:
That's exactly it. He's more or less saying, "even if we get hammered tonight don't even bother showing any form of disdain"

Its just another two fingers up to the fans of the football club.
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Managing fans expectations isn’t two fingers up at the fans
 
I understand Gibson's message - we're not sacking Woodgate and we need to focus on staying up, rather than the fans using the remaining games to get rid of him. The type of mentality that leads to fans almost wanting Boro to lose, to get a management change. That's not what we really need right now.

However, Gibson needs to support Woodgate in actions as well as words by getting some experienced staff in the managerial team. Surely there is someone he can call upon now.
 
Nothing new really from Steve Gibson. He says all the right things including supporting his manager. I would bet that if a change is going to be made it would be agreed that JW would resign which would probably suit both parties.
 

I don't think he's saying Mowbray was a mistake. He's saying mistakes were made during Mowbray's tenure, possibly by Gibson himself, which is different from blaming Mowbray. Those mistakes could have been recruitment, not supporting the manager in the transfer market etc.
It's true that they mostly got things right under Karanka, which is different from saying Karanka mostly got things right.
 
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