Steve Gibson

And the fact that they finished 10th and really struggled to get within any real touching distance of those playoffs.

And then at the end of that particular season, there was the owner of Middlesbrough, the chairman, Steve Gibson, well-respected in the world of football.

And I think, you know, didn't necessarily want to be the man to sack Michael Carrick, given the fact it was Michael Carrick and wanting to give him as much time as possible.

They had an end of season review, which went on for some time.

Like say, say Southampton get promoted or 13 points ahead of whoever, the, the points that they accumulated this season ahead of second, uh, third place, I should say.

That's just gonna open up a legal can of worms, especially say for example [chuckles] Steve Gibson of Boro is in third place.

How much of a problem have we got now? It, this is why it, like if things are cut black and white as they were, Tunde Kehinde came out and he bloody admitted it on a club video that he did it, you've got it then.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, I, I, don't...

Steve Gibson had the courtesy, 'cause I asked Steve, you know, "Would you like to come to the, the, the night?" Uh, and he, he did phone me, and I, and I expect that of Steve Gibson.

I respect Steve Gibson, and he got in touch and he said, "Look, I'm really sorry.

I'm really busy." So Steve Gibson was hoping to be there, but he wasn't.

Uh, Tim Herbert couldn't make it.

I asked for that as well.

I should have known better.

Love you, Hammy Middlesbrough 1986, 40 years ago, almost to the day.

Probably want to watch that one because they're so damn entertaining.

But Middlesbrough, Steve Gibson, the Borough fans, Kim Herbert, they want promotion, don't they? Can they hone this thrilling 4-3 up-down entity into a winning machine? Norwich were on for the nine-point week here.

And they're not leaving you wondering.

Canaries this season, are they? They haven't drawn a game.

not played well at all yet this season and yet we we seemingly have been in third gear if that and we've been pulling out some great results nowhere near knowing our best 11 um and i think there's still quite a few new players who've got still some betting in to do so if we can find the right formula and everything can click then yeah it's it should be an exciting one um yeah on paper it's it's been a pretty good window for borough cannot argue with how how much the club was backed.

You know, Steve Gibson's support for the recruitment team once again was really good.

Obviously, powered by some huge outgoings.

Hayden Hackney was one, but then the Morgan Rogers one was just a ridiculous bonus on top of that, which I'm sure has helped massively.

Mm

... from Steve Gibson when he went low, against lower league opposition, put a weakened team out.

We got knocked out in the second round of the League Cup.

Yeah.

And he got a right telling off from, uh, Steve Gibson.

We are a cup side.

Yeah.

Something tells me there's going to be a few hopes riding on his shoulders with Burnley in the position they're in.

What a shock that Middlesbrough and Steve Gibson are looking for compensation.

I'm not going to say any more than that.

Now, let's kick off then with our transfer roundup, Kyle.

But Dee, what do you think of the transfer business as well?

Yeah, I think it's been good and ambitious and for that Kieran Scott, Chris Jones and of course Steve Gibson deserve the utmost credit because we've landed a lot of our first choice targets, which is really important given that Borough are not a parachute payment team.

I would say the absolute best parts of our window are in both boxes.

Lancashire and Vitek, bringing them in, so important.