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Tony Mowbray


The Cabbage said:
It’s not a good example at all, but it’s a nice thing to hope for. However I look at how it would play out and it doesn’t line up to a coach being here for donkeys years. Either we stay in the champ and a coach is moved on within 24 months, or the coach takes us up, and then he may get a bit longer - if he isn’t poached on promotion like they tried to do with Kompany. With this stuff, success is almost as big an enemy to longevity as failure. Failure will get a manager out quicker but a massively successful safc manager, who got us promoted before taking the prem by storm, would still be gone within three seasons. You might get four or five if both promotion and prem establishment were a bit of a slow burn, but even then they’d be gone eventually. Even Potter only managed just over 3 years at Brighton. Honestly I don’t think safc can expect a coach to be in place any more than 2-3 years. More than that is the exception rather than the rule.
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Which in itself compounds the whole new structure and head coach setup at a club. If you had a 'manager' and that happens its impossible to build long term therefore you set up as we are now and accept what is inevitable but still build long term. Its the right strategy for any modern club imo
 
billyboy said:
I’m sorry like but you can buy the most talented players around but it’s the head coach who picks the team, sorts out the tactics and motivates them. The team spirit shown this season was purely down to Mowbray and his handling of the young players not the recruitment.
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No need to be sorry, just a difference in opinion. My opinion is far too much blame, praise, stock is placed on a head coach especially in a set up like ours which commonly leads to ultra extreme swinging opinions on them as if their ability changes as quick as a clubs form.
 
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Coeus said:
No need to be sorry, just a difference in opinion. My opinion is far too much blame, praise, stock is placed on a head coach especially in a set up like ours which commonly leads to ultra extreme swinging opinions on them as if there ability changes as quick as a clubs form.
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Id say with a bunch of inexperienced kids a lot of praise has to be levelled at TM. I agree with your point in a normal experienced squad but these circumstances required huge patience & a calm approach to help the young lads develop.
 
dave hedgehog said:
Id say with a bunch of inexperienced kids a lot of praise has to be levelled at TM. I agree with your point in a normal experienced squad but these circumstances required huge patience & a calm approach to help the young lads develop.
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My posts are meant as no slant on the chap what so ever, think he has done a cracking job and is obviously in many way very well tailored to the conditions the club has, I'm just making assumptions on why, if, they're looking elsewhere.
 
Showed signs last season he wasn’t happy with some aspects of recruitment. The recruitment in January wasn’t exactly good. Got nothing he needed. He’s no soft touch is Mowbray and his frustration was there for all to see.
 
BucketBiff said:
Showed signs last season he wasn’t happy with some aspects of recruitment. The recruitment in January wasn’t exactly good. Got nothing he needed. He’s no soft touch is Mowbray and his frustration was there for all to see.
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What were the signs he wasn't happy?

Is it the club's remit to make Mowbray happy?

Signing Pierre Ekwah for buttons isn't good?

We don't need Ekwah?

What makes you think Mowbray isn't a soft touch? What would consist of being a soft touch? How was his frustration there for all to see?

If his frustration is so obvious and emanating around the club, is it best he isn't there and moved on?

Many questions regarding that post.
 
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