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Mowbray confirmed

Thatheaderman said:
Think the biggest factors of promotion last season were Batth, Pritchard and Stewart.

Who were already at the club before Neil.

Yes he galvanised the squad to a certain extent but we have lost an ex Preston and Norwich manager who is only ever going to be championship level to Stoke , and gained an ex Blackburn and Boro manager.
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I know we are disappointed that Neil walked out by I would not bet gainer him getting Stoke promoted within the next couple of seasons.
 

Nukehasslefan said:
No matter what your fans think of him, whether good bad, or indifferent, he's your new manager so the best you can do is get behind him and the squad he's taken on.
If the effort and commitment are there then go with the flow.
The minimum requirement for you this season is to make sure you avoid playing with the relegation candidates, which you should do, and once that is achieved over the best part of the season then see where you are in the league to see what hope you have of nudging wherever the rest of the season can take you under him.

He has to be given a chance if you're clear of any relegation issues by January.
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I agree with that. I’d say anyone not backing him after the circumstances we’ve found ourself in due to
Neil’s actions is a terrible kind of fan.
I’m expecting us to be more attacking but slightly less resilient though my understanding is Blackburn were better defensively than his previous clubs.
 
EchoMan said:
Forget Alex Neil for a minute. It’s obvious he was only ever using us as a stepping stone and jumped ship at the first opportunity.

Now think whether you’d rather have Tony Mowbray or Lee Johnson. It’s a no brainer for me in this league.
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Interestingly they're both being described in very much the same way, after taking over. Mowbray had Blackburn making up the numbers in mid table, just as LJ did with Bristol City. Mowbray finished 8th with Blackburn, just as LJ did with Bristol City. They aren't quite the achievements that many would have you believe imo.
 
ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
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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Bloody hell i agree with you, did somebody else write this for you.
 
Gloucester said:
I know we are disappointed that Neil walked out by I would not bet gainer him getting Stoke promoted within the next couple of seasons.
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Possibly but the way football is then he would be sacked and back to another champ club.

Days of Reid being sacked and Keane leaving were way harder to me than this. He managed us to get out of league 1. Well done.

But he decided to go the way he did and that tends to lead me to not give a flying fart about him and get behind the next boss , or the next.
 
ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
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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Good effort 🙌
 
ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
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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You say goodbye… I say hello!
 
I'm fully behind him and will be until performances and results say otherwise. Some of our fans are going on exactly like The Mags did when Rafa left and Bruce was appointed. Our ambition with Neil in charge was lower to made table and gain stability, Mowbray can achieve that and has proven he can. The 2 year contract is ideal to get us stable, have a good solid core of players and hopefully get the off field issues sorted. I would love us to be playing Premier league football, however, when clubs are chucking £70 million transfer fees at average players, it shows we are a million miles away.
 
Botchie said:
I'm fully behind him and will be until performances and results say otherwise. Some of our fans are going on exactly like The Mags did when Rafa left and Bruce was appointed. Our ambition with Neil in charge was lower to made table and gain stability, Mowbray can achieve that and has proven he can. The 2 year contract is ideal to get us stable, have a good solid core of players and hopefully get the off field issues sorted. I would love us to be playing Premier league football, however, when clubs are chucking £70 million transfer fees at average players, it shows we are a million miles away.
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I wouldn't, and probably couldn't afford to go if it came to that. Catch 22 for me but my loathing for the crazy way football has gone would make it an easier choice I feel.
 
The Rolls Royce said:
I don't particularly rate Mogga but I think he'd do a competent job in a stable club.

The problem is we quite clearly aren't. Costs cut to the bone across all areas, a paper thin squad filled with inexperience. No good will at all from the fans and arguably the players, who are not happy with losing Neil and how he was treated.

The odds are stacked against him in every way.

The way this whole situation has arose is concrete evidence of cracks being papered over, and Neil's ability to get more out of less.
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Blackburn under the Venkys was stable?
 
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