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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckg14xm7910o
No big name appointment to my surprise.
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3 year deal for a wholly untried manager.albeit an experienced lower league coach.
Bold.
Edit: Fuckin' hell, must've had a big paper round, looks older than me, I was in senior school before he was born.
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Might venture on to their forum to see the natives comments on this as assume they thought Warne arriving.
TBF when Evans went lots blamed the players not just him.
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Warne has just gone to MK Dons - big step down for someone who has had success in League 1
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Yep but don't they have new moneybags owners so probably on silly money .
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Also a club with big growth potential. MK Dons should be a Championship-League 1 yo-yo club at a minimum.
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MK are a first generation club. Only now are younger fans following their parents into supporting them, something that hampered/hampers us in growing our base.
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It's impressive how they managed to get to League football in such a short space of time since forming.....
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One of the reasons why they have big growth potential. Especially with Milton Keynes being the biggest town/city in that part of the country (>250,000 population which is bigger than Luton, Bedford and Northampton).
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Stevenage must be over 110k now, with Great Ashby and the rest of the NHDC bits.
Add in the rest of the broad catchment area, say a 10-15 mile radius or 3 train stops (Knebworth, WGC, Hitchin, Letchworth, Baldock, Hertford?) and it must be 200k+.
Granted MK is still bigger and probably still growing faster.
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The catchment area should be along the rail line. It's a shame they never brought the shuttle bus back after covid
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Should run it with the foundation minibus.
They could call it the BoroBus or get Scott Cuthbert to drive it and call it Cuthbert-the-Coach.
Or something.
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Also a bit further away from the big London clubs than Stevenage/North Herts
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In 2004, it was deemed close enough to Wimbledon for their fans to travel to their new MK home.
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Yep but of course most did not. Talking of franchise iubs n States think often American Football teams change cities and not talking just down the road , other side of the country.
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Ha yep.
I've 4 cousins who live in MK, all been there since they were at school 45 years ago now.
1 still a diehard Charlton ST holder
2 Spurs regulars
Plus 1 who's an MKDons ST holder but also a Spurs fan who can't afford to go Spurs.
Only 2 of their 8-10 kids, all in their 20s now at least, follow MK at all. Most tend to be Spurs, Arsenal or Man U, same as most of our millennials
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We have hundreds of young fans on the ET...most are Boro first. Very refreshing to see their enthusiasm. Caveat..."young fans"...most of our fans are younger than me nowadays!
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Policemen look younger every day to be too
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For those who genuinely want to watch/follow football in the flesh, I think there will be a shift towards local lower EFL/non-league teams as they're being priced out of Premier League games (clubs earning more from tourist fans etc).
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I'd like to think you're right.
However I think dodgy firesticks and streams mean they will see football as a TV show.
You only realise how crap TV football is as an experience if you've been to a few games, if you haven't, it's all you know, you've nothing to compare it too.
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This is a good point and part of the reason I have little interest in TV football (beyond short highlight clips).
Football just being another form of consumable entertainment takes the essence out of it. That's where I hope clubs like Boro can fill the void being left by the Premier League big boys.
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When one has decided to live overseas TV football is all I can get.
The new Sky deal has been a real bonus for me, see way more Boro games. But, and I've had this conversation with Chuds, it doesn't connect you to the club or the community like going to games does, even when we play shit.
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It’s a real shame football never caught on outside of England.
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Talking of dodgy sticks they are trying to clamp down on the users not just providers .Whether it will succeed who knows.
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They say that every year, they can't stop organised online crime which costs billions let alone someone in their house with a dodgy firestick/stream.
They still can't detect if you have a TV licence and are watching EastEnders illegally withoout entering your home.
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Went to a bigger club with better resources and (theoretically) a better squad. Proceeded to leave them in a lower league position than us under a manager who we’re still not sure of being the right fit.
He’s always better as a big fish in a small pond. Fostering that backs to the wall, siege mentality atmosphere. That’s why he did well here, he came in when we were in the gutter. Wouldn’t want him back now. If we were staring down the barrel of relegation though I’d take him back without a second thought, it would be the right environment for him to walk in to.
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We've got super Stevie Evans, he knows exactly what we need....
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He took a chance.
Sometimes they pay off. This one probably didn't.
But I'm sure he had a better salary, and a decent pay off.
Now he'll have a couple of months holiday before rejoining the merry-go-round, probably in L2.
Can we forget about him now or will he always be in the background, like Westley was for about 10 years.
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What do you mean 'Westley was'? The dream lives on :)
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Wonder where he will end up next.
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Would take him back if Revell went to Rotherham.
We should also sign Danny rose again
Cheers,
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Its serious. Rotherham will have interest in Revell. I would rather have Evans than Revell, we would get money for Revell to Rotherham and could then get Evans back who is the better manager.
Rose is also very good and would do better than most of our forwards this season, not sure why I put that in the same post though.
Cheers,
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No thanks. Evans did his job - saved us from relegation and got us promoted, so I thank him for that. He is someone with a shelf life though and think his leaving was at a good time for us - stories about squad unrest and a downturn in results
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If Rotherham hadn't come in for him, PW may well have had to a make a change anyway by now given how poorly we finished last season.
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He's done objectively worse than Revs this season and if he got a few results you'd be biding your time until he was whoring his arse out to Peterborough, fuck that.
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We’re doing worse than last season under Evans. He still has a shelf life
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Good point. Should probably get Gary Smith back.
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Has any other Stevenage manager beaten Sheffield United 4-0 I don’t think so….
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By the same token, has any other Stevenage manager released Sir Ronnie Henry?
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Rose wanted to move back up north, otherwise he would've been a guaranteed signing for us.
Rotherham will go for the old Derby boss
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I would let Rose live with me rent free if he could come back.
I miss him :(
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Me too. Absolute shithouse of a footballer and a top top man
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Do you seriously think they would want Revs , on their forum talk is of much more well known bods with Warne an early favourite.
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At home with his wife enjoying his well earned retirement and looking after his grandchildren.
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