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Mowbray confirmed


My new hobby of ranting stuff like “get a move on” on here (because there’s probably nobody suddenly available or breaking through that the owners need to interview (again) or approach and if they had any semblance of efficiency they’d already know who they could quickly appoint if a manager on a contract that enabled him to bugger off at a minutes notice actually errr… buggered off at a minutes notice) … has paid off and ‘tomorrow morning will do’ has been heeded.

Good luck Tony.

I can’t say if I’m either thrilled or disappointed because what the fuck do I know about selecting football coaches. I just wish the fella well and I’m glad it’s been done quickly

Should have been done yesterday though. Twats.
 
wisemensaysteve said:
No, I'm a Sunderland fan, I commented on his record and I am less than happy about your "shite reply!
My advice to anyone posting on a forum would be to imagine you are in a pub and only say what you would say if the people you were talking to were standing next to you. :lol:
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I would say it to you in a pub, why wouldnt I ? :)
 
I've reached the point of accepting that he's our manager so we need to get on with things.
Would I have preferred Neil to still be there? Undoubtedly.
Knowing what I do now, am I excited? No, but I'm not vastly underwhelmed given that we've got someone with experience of the league, and someone who seems to be a relatively safe and secure appointment.
The imminent (I hope) transfers have lifted my mood slightly. On Saturday I'd bark at anyone who mentioned Sunderland.
 
George Kaplan said:
My new hobby of ranting stuff like “get a move on” on here (because there’s probably nobody suddenly available or breaking through that the owners need to interview (again) or approach and if they had any semblance of efficiency they’d already know who they could quickly appoint if a manager on a contract that enabled him to bugger off at a minutes notice actually errr… buggered off at a minutes notice) … has paid off and ‘tomorrow morning will do’ has been heeded.

Good luck Tony.

I can’t say if I’m either thrilled or disappointed because what the fuck do I know about selecting football coaches. I just wish the fella well and I’m glad it’s been done quickly

Should have been done yesterday though. Twats.
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They certainly didn't let the dust settle and leave us in limbo for weeks.
 
Good appointment for you. Solid manager at this level. At least the manager search didn't drag on. Fairly quick tbh.
 
Tyrion Lannister said:
Which is ….

Twat leaves club because he doesn’t get his own way
Club replace him within 2 days after it’s official - with someone who has experience keeping teams steady in this league
Club linked with some exciting new talent as we feel our way around the Championship following 4 years in the wilderness


But the club shop isn’t always open, so Speakman is a w*nker and KLD is using us as a play thing so he can buy PSG next year

Aaaah right, get it now
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Forget AN for a second, you are telling me that Mowbray was the best available manager out there?
Where is 'the process' of selecting the best manager for the football club that Speakman referred to?
Or could it just be that he was cheap (no compensation) to another club, and is pally with Stuart Harvey??
The club shop & ticket office has been a well documented failure and so far we have spent very very little and are very vulnerable to injuries.
KLD lied about the ownership at the start and the whole set up smacks of being ran on a shoe string budget.
Now if people voice there concerns they are criticised by people like you.
Tony Mowbray man!!!
 
I’ll get behind him. No reason not to. He’s got a pretty decent record, knows the area, works well with young players.

I didn’t like or want Alex Neil initially but I was proven wrong — to an extent.
 
lawe toppa said:
Forget AN for a second, you are telling me that Mowbray was the best available manager out there?
Where is 'the process' of selecting the best manager for the football club that Speakman referred to?
Or could it just be that he was cheap (no compensation) to another club, and is pally with Stuart Harvey??
The club shop & ticket office has been a well documented failure and so far we have spent very very little and are very vulnerable to injuries.
KLD lied about the ownership at the start and the whole set up smacks of being ran on a shoe string budget.
Now if people voice there concerns they are criticised by people like you.
Tony Mowbray man!!!
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SD would've been rightly slaughtered for this sort of jobs for the boys appointment.
 
I'm as excited or otherwise as I was with Neil. We'll see. I bet Tony can't believe his luck getting this gig at his age. I am genuinely excited though by the signings that are being lined up. Lets just hope they come off and he turns them into Superstars. Lived on hope for last 40 odd years so no point changing now. HWTL!
 
lawe toppa said:
Wish him well but to me it is a shocking, cheap appointment, no vision or ambition.
I think we can all now see through the ownership of the club once and for all.
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Is that what Blackburn and Middlesbrough fans thought?

Cheap? No vision or ambition? We’ve just come up from League One man FFS and have a program of sustainability existing which does not mean being tight but instead I believe getting value for money! We were hardly going to get someone festooned with accolades and Premiership experience.

We are the basement end of this league. We are a club starting from scratch money-wise no thanks to Ellis Short and Stewart Donald. We have seen millions and millions squandered in the past only for it to result in us ending up in the third tier of football for only the second time in our history. We have had our fingers burned on multiple occasions because we spent so much getting players and managers in who frankly were not punching at their weight. They were not as good as they purported to be. Like O’Neill and Moyes.

In Tony Mowbray we have someone who does what he says on the tin. He’s not about the bells and whistle’s of management. All the finery and dressing. By that I mean things like “PR image” like Dyche - goes to Burnley, takes them up and keep them up and suddenly he’s in vogue. Every back page of every paper, every pundit on Football Focus and everyone of those lary losers on Soccer AM start banging on about him. Mowbray is a down to earth manager who is competent at the task he has come in to do. And that is more than good enough for me.
 
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