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Football Insider say it's Mowbray.

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The Good Sir said:
Everything has context. We got beat by sheff United, however I didn't come away from that result with any less confidence for our season than I had before the match. Because we played very well, with 10 men. If we played them tomorrow I won't be thinking fuck here we go again, they beat us so they're clearly better than us. I'll be thinking that we can have them and they're there for the taking. If you just see the results/defeat as doom and gloom then fair enough, but the quality of performance against Norwich under the off field shit show, again, didn't leave me any less optimistic about our quality and aspirations than I was before.
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I don't see the results as doom and gloom.
You can't get to 6th place and higher on missed opportunities.
It isn't 3 points for a win, 2 for a draw and 1 point for turning up and trying.
 
Cowboy said:
I don't see the results as doom and gloom.
You can't get to 6th place and higher on missed opportunities.
It isn't 3 points for a win, 2 for a draw and 1 point for turning up and trying.
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No, but you can take confidence in the fact that we're performing very, very well against the top sides. Imo there is context to our losses that should allow us to continue with the mindset we've had so far, and not take the attitude of a "loss is a loss, lets settle for mid table".

Arrogant or not, imo we are the biggest club outside the Premier league, I just wish we'd act like it.
 
If tonight’s Look North is to be believed ( 😮) then Tony Mowbray is the de facto new Head Coach. Fine by me, especially if he turns out to be as competent as Neil.
But, can people please stop parroting the Speakman line that everything at SAFC is “ data driven”?
Just like Neil, this is an appointment of convenience - nothing more, nothing less. Speakman got lucky with the unemployed Neil. I hope he gets just as lucky with the unemployed Mowbray.
Sooner or later though Speakman’s mendacity will come back to haunt him if the next cheapo, currently unemployed coach turns out to be a dud. Speakman’s “data” is driven solely by who is in the dole queue. He’s full of shit.
 
UrbanFox said:
If tonight’s Look North is to be believed ( 😮) then Tony Mowbray is the de facto new Head Coach. Fine by me, especially if he turns out to be as competent as Neil.
But, can people please stop parroting the Speakman line that everything at SAFC is “ data driven”?
Just like Neil, this is an appointment of convenience - nothing more, nothing less. Speakman got lucky with the unemployed Neil. I hope he gets just as lucky with the unemployed Mowbray.
Sooner or later though Speakman’s mendacity will come back to haunt him if the next cheapo, currently unemployed coach turns out to be a dud. Speakman’s “data” is driven solely by who is in the dole queue. He’s full of shit.
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Nobody in a job that's relatively secure would join this amateur circus only to be out of work in 9 months.
Unemployed coaches are the best we will get currently.
 
Yep, Mr Speakman - a man of smoke and mirrors and verbal diarrhoea.
And as for KLD I keep hearing that he’s a man of substantial wealth: a billionaire so I’m told. Yet where is any evidence he’s using any of that supposed affluence to benefit the club? For instance, is he too tight to test the resolve of even lowly MK Dons - or any other modest European club- for their managers? Or is it that this so called billionaire can really only afford to pick off the lowest fruit on the tree?
All this talk of the new SAFC football “model” is just illusion - it’s SAFC - and their “ billionaire” part-owner- operating as cheaply as possible and praying to god they get away with it.
 
UrbanFox said:
Yep, Mr Speakman - a man of smoke and mirrors and verbal diarrhoea.
And as for KLD I keep hearing that he’s a man of substantial wealth: a billionaire so I’m told. Yet where is any evidence he’s using any of that supposed affluence to benefit the club? For instance, is he too tight to test the resolve of even lowly MK Dons - or any other modest European club- for their managers? Or is it that this so called billionaire can really only afford to pick off the lowest fruit on the tree?
All this talk of the new SAFC football “model” is just illusion - it’s SAFC - and their “ billionaire” part-owner- operating as cheaply as possible and praying to god they get away with it.
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As far as I understand it, KLD is not yet a billionaire, he's the beneficiary of a multi billion trust fund.
Ive always assumed that means he gets a yearly allowance off the investment return, until he inherits.
So he might not currently have as much as you think, which is probably why the EFL required financial guarantees from the other shareholders when he first bought in.
 
Cowboy said:
As far as I understand it, KLD is not yet a billionaire, he's the beneficiary of a multi billion trust fund.
Ive always assumed that means he gets a yearly allowance off the investment return, until he inherits.
So he might not currently have as much as you think, which is probably why the EFL required financial guarantees from the other shareholders when he first bought in.
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Interesting you say “ not yet” a billionaire, implying he’s about to be.
Whilst your point might make some sense I’m sure I read on this forum from a reliable poster that his entitlement would come good last December? When he turned a certain age and/or got married?
Regardless, a man with such associations and assurances of such significant wealth should have no problem underwriting any modest footballing ambitions.
I still believe that SAFC’s model isn’t so much about sustainability, nor even affordability, but more about parsimony.
 
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