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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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We won 1in 8 with no striker first time
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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Norwich?
 
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Horace Cope said:
How on earth did he end up managing club Brugge in the first place let alone in the champions League 🤣

Up there with that Spanish job that Moyes got
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Plus the footballer that was somebody's cousin and went straight into the Southampton team.
 
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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Absolutely and pathetically wrong.

We started the season well, When our strikers were injured earlier in the season, we went from averaging 1.6 points per game to 1 point per game, winning 1 in 8.

We got the striker/s back, and we flew up the table. Got our average up to about 1.7 points per game, which is play off form, and we were as good as fourth, with an unreal goal difference we also hammered boro 2-0. Boro are clear third, with our striker we looked Head and shoulders above them.

Now our striker is injured again, we are dropping like a stone, and the average points per game without one is 1, or relegation battle form.

Mowbray has overseen all of this, I’d say there’s a pretty damning piece of evidence, which is very, very clear. The evidence points strongly to you talking absolute shit, and the lack of striker being the big issue not your hunch.

There’s a reason why every other team up and down the leagues has strikers, our form this season without one is case and point why it’s ridiculous.
 
TravellingMackem said:
You don’t need to actually achieve things to be hired as a football manager. So many clubs will hire you just because of a reputation or a name. See Mowbray for instance.
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I suppose it depends what you are defining achieving as, not every manager can win trophies but keeping teams up or have them challenging on certain fronts can still be an achievement.
 
Gelan said:
Plus the footballer that was somebody's cousin and went straight into the Southampton team.
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Ali Dia? Rang Souness and convinced him he was George Weah's cousin and that he's played for PSG when in fact he'd actually played a game or two for Blyth. Souness signed him, brought him on as a sub, subbed him back off and released him. Went to Port Vale on trial and scored twice in a game against... you guessed it, Sunderland. Ended up playing for Gateshead and Spennymoor up here.

Bizzare. :lol:
 
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