Recent content by Stopthebus

He’s lightweight and gets knocked off the ball too much This is something that can be worked on and like EOM has shown this season, it may take him a season or two before we see a more complete player

Got a long drive back to Watford tonight after the game so hoping the team put me in a good mood ready for the drive back

It seemed to take Middlesborough 2 weeks to get Hellberg & his staff officially confirmed so this would give a baseline how long the process takes

Also I think since brexit the terms/conditions that work permits are granted have changed

Would have been a great appointment few years back for us He’s gone under the radar a little bit- doing well at Derby getting them into the playoff spots and also got both Blackburn & Birmingham into the play off places last few seasons If I remember correctly there was plenty of people...

I appreciate he needs time - but our next 5 matches we need to be picking up as many points as we can to ensure we aren’t dragged into a relegation battle post new year. They are winnable games against teams we should be beating. We have a tough fixture list in January/February and a poor...

Someone on twitter says Matos has done his coaching badges with Allen recently at FAW so maybe not such a odd link

I would guess we are going to keep O’Leary & Margeston. The other 2 brought in last summer (Spearman & O’Dea) I think will leave as they were brought in as direct assistants to Sheehan Margetson has always been thought highly of & he seems to have done a good job with our first choice keepers...

I wonder if we’ve done a u-turn on Matos and decided to look elsewhere. If we were close to appointing Matos surely the statement would read that o’Dea would be interim for the weekend. The fact they’ve left it quite open ended suggests we may not have decided on the new manager yet

Hit the nail with this one. We had already spoken with Hellberg before sacking Sheehan and were confident of getting him. People thinking we should have 4 or 5 options as a backup of the same quality are deluded. For all we know Matos may be 5th choice and we’ve been knocked back by all...

Interesting to read that he did his coaching badges with the FAW in 2024 - same time as Sheehan I believe I would guess our paths have crossed during this time and this is where the initial connection has been made. Lots of risk but I think his knowledge of the British game & championship is...

Looks like we are trying to push through to get this announced for the weekend. I would assume he won’t be in the dugout for Saturday unless we can fast track a visa.

The club during the Martinez days was completely different to now. The expectations were fairly low (I know we got to the playoffs with Jackett but we weren’t expected to be contenders). Our most recent managers at the time were Kenny Jackett (previously an assistant at QPR), Brian Flynn (only...

There’s been little media attention regarding Rodger’s which makes think he just isn’t interested Hi next move will probably be the Middle East on £5m a year His last 4 jobs suggest his wages are way out of any championship clubs budget

Lots of Swans fans on twitter arguing that we are prepared to offer £1million for Matos which we should have just offered to Hellberg instead to persuade him I think people seem to miss the fact that Middlesborough are a much better prospect than us currently. Bigger club, better league...