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Scott Parker


He had very good players at Fulham and Bournemouth compared to the rest of the teams in the league, so difficult to judge him imo. He got them promoted mind so achieved his objectives.

I wouldn't be excited if we appointed him.
 
TravellingMackem said:
Same Mowbray that has us falling down the table and has done the same at WBA, Blackburn and Norwich around this time of year.

You’re kidding yourself if you think Stewart is the solution to all of this teams problems - the team is physically exhausted and aren’t capable of competing - striker or no striker. The “management” of fatigue is the biggest reason for our fall from grace, nothing else
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He’s changed it around a fair bit and rested players. Are you saying they aren’t fit because of Mowbray?

We are struggling because we are missing a focal point up front, nothing else.
 
KGC83 said:
He’s changed it around a fair bit and rested players. Are you saying they aren’t fit because of Mowbray?

We are struggling because we are missing a focal point up front, nothing else.
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I think thats the main problem but I do also think fatigue is another. The lack of experience throughout the squad is another big one for me. We`ve basically lost 2/3rds of our spine with Stewart and Evans out and thats done for us. Defence looks abysmal now Evans isnt screening them and the main replacements are too inexperienced.
 
Crook Mackem said:
I think thats the main problem but I do also think fatigue is another. The lack of experience throughout the squad is another big one for me. We`ve basically lost 2/3rds of our spine with Stewart and Evans out and thats done for us. Defence looks abysmal now Evans isnt screening them and the main replacements are too inexperienced.
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Yep this is the downfall of having the youngest squad in the league and being a newly promoted side.

Got absolutely nothing to do with anything else.
 
KGC83 said:
He’s changed it around a fair bit and rested players. Are you saying they aren’t fit because of Mowbray?

We are struggling because we are missing a focal point up front, nothing else.
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Who else is in charge of the conditioning of the players? Or have they secretly played 20 more games this season than Stoke, Rotherham and Coventry?

If you honestly believe that the whole problem is a lack of a striker you are massively mistaken. The players are completely dead on their feet. Anyone can see that. That is the main issue in the squad by a distance. And there’s only one person responsible for conditioning players and rotating players and it isn’t speakman.

Sure the striker situation doesn’t help, but we managed okay-ish in October when we didn’t have a striker but the players were fit and ready to play. They were completely out run by Stoke at the weekend, hence the drumming.

And mowbrays attitude of sending the players home for 3 days to recover is the problem - professional athletes don’t recover by sitting on the couch with their feet up anymore. That’s a 1970s attitude. They recover with ice baths, massages, yoga, things like that, all of which involve attending training. The blokes a dinosaur and his archaic methods have caused this massive fitness slump.

And it isn’t just here - when he joined we had Blackburn, Boro, Coventry and WBA fans on here all saying the same thing about their sides fitness falling apart come February.

This is going to become a repeat problem if we keep the dinosaur for next season too.
 
Stormo said:
Won promotion from the championship with two different clubs. Whilst I don’t think he’s a good premier league manager he’s already done better than some older coaches, including our former coach
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And the current one if you're gonna go down that route...


Be honest though, you'd be gutted if Scotty don't look at the camera Parker rocked up here.


Fraud.

At Fulham he took over a relegated side that managed to retain most of their players from the previous season.

Were Bournemouth not one of the division's better sides when he took over as well?
 
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Bruges didn’t concede any goal in their first 5 Champions League games this season either. Their downfall since he took over has been unreal.
 
chriswallace85 said:
And the current one if you're gonna go down that route...


Be honest though, you'd be gutted if Scotty don't look at the camera Parker rocked up here.


Fraud.
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I would aye. Having said that like, I’d be gutted with anyone these lot appoint as they’ll all be previously sacked managers who want to get back on the merry-go-round. Always go for the cheap option.
 
poolie said:
Hasn’t started well at all managing Brugge and tonights hammering by Benfica won’t have helped. Already talk of him losing his job.

With what happened at Bournemouth and potentially this, would that spell the end of his managerial career.
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Not if he gets the same agent as LJ😉
 
TravellingMackem said:
Who else is in charge of the conditioning of the players? Or have they secretly played 20 more games this season than Stoke, Rotherham and Coventry?

If you honestly believe that the whole problem is a lack of a striker you are massively mistaken. The players are completely dead on their feet. Anyone can see that. That is the main issue in the squad by a distance. And there’s only one person responsible for conditioning players and rotating players and it isn’t speakman.

Sure the striker situation doesn’t help, but we managed okay-ish in October when we didn’t have a striker but the players were fit and ready to play. They were completely out run by Stoke at the weekend, hence the drumming.

And mowbrays attitude of sending the players home for 3 days to recover is the problem - professional athletes don’t recover by sitting on the couch with their feet up anymore. That’s a 1970s attitude. They recover with ice baths, massages, yoga, things like that, all of which involve attending training. The blokes a dinosaur and his archaic methods have caused this massive fitness slump.

And it isn’t just here - when he joined we had Blackburn, Boro, Coventry and WBA fans on here all saying the same thing about their sides fitness falling apart come February.

This is going to become a repeat problem if we keep the dinosaur for next season too.
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What more rotating of the players can he do?

How do you know about this sending the players home to recover?

Mowbray uses data, talks about it in his press conferences but doesn’t take any notice of sport scientists employed by the club about players taking ice baths and having massages to recover and just sends them home? :lol:

We have got the youngest squad in the league, we have had a load of injuries where young players have perhaps had to play too much but it’s been needs must. It’s hardly the fault of the manager.

You have got an agenda again
 
Stormo said:
There’s plenty of teams who have kept their players and not gone back up.

I was under the impression he took over Bournemouth at the start of the season.
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True enough but it must make life a bit easier.

He's a fraud anyway. And he seems a petulant one at that.
 
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