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Football Insider say it's Mowbray.

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The Good Sir said:
I liked Neil. I thought of him as a decent upper mid table championship manager with relatively recent experience of promotion. He was clearly taking a step down, that I don't believe he would've made for many, if any, other clubs. We are Sunderland AFC. We were the biggest club in league 1, but didn't act like it - grayson, parkinson, Johnson. With Neil we finally did say, we're Sunderland and we're going to get a championship level manager to get us out of league one.

I don't give a fuck how arrogant I seem, as far am I'm concerned we are the biggest club in the championship. We have an exciting young squad that could easily go places and I feel like we should act like it, and not hire some mod table plodder that would've gone to basically anyone at this level. Say to MK Don's, we want your coach, and f***ing take him - all properly of course, none of this stoke shite of taking him out to dinner while he's still employed. A young, forward thinking, stylistically matches our squad perfectly. Think outside the box for once, act like the draw that we are at this level. Be dynamic, be on the front foot, not someone that's going to bore us to tears talking about how happy we should be he's taken us to mid table.
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Is manning any better than Mowbray though? It would certainly be a gamble. People are going in like he is a young jose.
 
I didn’t want TM and said as much on Satda. I have since mellowed and think if he is appointed let’s get behind him and urge him on to success.
He might just surprise us. He knows all about adversity in his own life and must be a strong persona and he might just be the right fit for us….his swan song.
Let’s hope so.
 
Mowgli said:
Is manning any better than Mowbray though? It would certainly be a gamble. People are going in like he is a young jose.
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Would prob have absolutely no knowledge of the opposition or payers at this level it’s ridiculous people would prefer and ex bishop stortford player and mk dons mama her with absolutely nothing on his cv
 
The Good Sir said:
With this squad, even as it currently stands, we should be aiming to be in or around the playoffs. This appointment smacks of "we want to peak at mid table and you'll be happy with it". And the worst thing is, some people actually are.
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Who would you appoint instead? I don't think Mowbray has a mid table ceiling?
 
Been willing to give KLD the benefit of the doubt even though I thought his handling of the share issue was amateurish and gave off a tonne of warning signs. It’s becoming increasingly clear however that he isn’t much better than Stewart f***ing Donald.

He’d been in charge for 18 months and it took sustained fan pressure for him to match Solihull Moors’ ticket office and club store opening times.

It’s becoming increasingly clear the club isn’t paying the going rate to its non-playing staff.

No Academy manager… STILL.

Ground and training facilities are dropping to bits.

I had absolutely no faith that we’d approach another club for their manager because that would require having to fork out money in the form of compensation. The sad thing is if you look at my posting history I said on Friday afternoon “can’t wait for us to appoint Smog monster Mowbray” and the sad thing is I meant that as a joke as even I didn’t think we’d sink that f***ing low.

Get used to the Championship folks as this is the sort of appointment that screams mid-table second tier club for the long term… if we manage to stay up this season with our wafer thin mostly League 1 team.
 
Mowgli said:
Is manning any better than Mowbray though? It would certainly be a gamble. People are going in like he is a young jose.
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Ive no idea how he'll develop, but that's the same as most of the players in our squad tbh. We've take a chance by going down the almost exclusively young signings route and it's lead to us have a very exciting team imo. I'd like us to take a similar sort of risk with the coach, a young up and coming, well regarded coach who matches our style of play perfectly.

I've not even got my eggs all in the manning basket, I'd be more than happy for us to look abroad for similar. It's just these bland, merry-go-round appointments like parkinsonism, Mowbray et all that people expect us to be happy about because.. I don't know why truth be told, they're a name?
 
Nelson! said:
So are you expecting a PL manager to step down? Is the at what you’d be happy with?
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No, not at all, it's that a lot of people compare Mowbray with the appointment of Neil. While they may be similar in stature, mid table championship managers, the difference is we appointed one while in league 1, and so imo aren't comparable as appointments.
 
The Good Sir said:
No, not at all, it's that a lot of people compare Mowbray with the appointment of Neil. While they may be similar in stature, mid table championship managers, the difference is we appointed one while in league 1, and so imo aren't comparable as appointments.
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But you’d have been happy to keep Neil?
 
The Good Sir said:
Ive no idea how he'll develop, but that's the same as most of the players in our squad tbh. We've take a chance by going down the almost exclusively young signings route and it's lead to us have a very exciting team imo. I'd like us to take a similar sort of risk with the coach, a young up and coming, well regarded coach who matches our style of play perfectly.

I've not even got my eggs all in the manning basket, I'd be more than happy for us to look abroad for similar. It's just these bland, merry-go-round appointments like parkinsonism, Mowbray et all that people expect us to be happy about because.. I don't know why truth be told, they're a name?
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I'm not disagreeing, however is the fact our squad is such an unknown quantity not a reason they're going for a steady Eddie? Who can guide them and ensure if their levels drop, his experienced and knows the division.

It's certainly less risky for a mid season appointment like. Is managerial and squad inexperience not too much of a gamble?
 
Inside Forward said:
Been willing to give KLD the benefit of the doubt even though I thought his handling of the share issue was amateurish and gave off a tonne of warning signs. It’s becoming increasingly clear however that he isn’t much better than Stewart f***ing Donald.

He’d been in charge for 18 months and it took sustained fan pressure for him to match Solihull Moors’ ticket office and club store opening times.

It’s becoming increasingly clear the club isn’t paying the going rate to its non-playing staff.

No Academy manager… STILL.

Ground and training facilities are dropping to bits.

I had absolutely no faith that we’d approach another club for their manager because that would require having to fork out money in the form of compensation. The sad thing is if you look at my posting history I said on Friday afternoon “can’t wait for us to appoint Smog monster Mowbray” and the sad thing is I meant that as a joke as even I didn’t think we’d sink that f***ing low.

Get used to the Championship folks as this is the sort of appointment that screams mid-table second tier club for the long term… if we manage to stay up this season with our wafer thin mostly League 1 team.
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Thats ok then because I have no appetite for PL football in the near future
 
Inside Forward said:
Been willing to give KLD the benefit of the doubt even though I thought his handling of the share issue was amateurish and gave off a tonne of warning signs. It’s becoming increasingly clear however that he isn’t much better than Stewart f***ing Donald.

He’d been in charge for 18 months and it took sustained fan pressure for him to match Solihull Moors’ ticket office and club store opening times.

It’s becoming increasingly clear the club isn’t paying the going rate to its non-playing staff.

No Academy manager… STILL.

Ground and training facilities are dropping to bits.

I had absolutely no faith that we’d approach another club for their manager because that would require having to fork out money in the form of compensation. The sad thing is if you look at my posting history I said on Friday afternoon “can’t wait for us to appoint Smog monster Mowbray” and the sad thing is I meant that as a joke as even I didn’t think we’d sink that f***ing low.

Get used to the Championship folks as this is the sort of appointment that screams mid-table second tier club for the long term… if we manage to stay up this season with our wafer thin mostly League 1 team.
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I Can’t argue with any of that. The handling of the ticket office and club shop is a real embarrassment. Disgraceful and it woukd still be a disgrace if the fans hadn’t stepped in.
Makes you wonder does KLD actually know what is going on ?
Mowbray is coming and I am as shocked as you, but let’s get behind him, see him turn it around and make us happy.👍🙏🏻😄
 
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