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Tony Mowbray


I hope he’s given another season tbh, if not England could do worse than replace Southgate With him(obviously I’m aware it would never actually happen).
 
Mowgli said:
If Mowbray gets peddled it's going to be a head scratcher for plenty on here. Loads like to talk about having no ambition and not wanting to spend money.

Sacking Mowbray after such a good season would suggest otherwise.
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I like him, he's changed mine and a lot of other's opinion of him and I think he's done an exceptional job this season, but could that sentimentality be holding us back? Maybe going for someone else is showing ambition?

However, Blackburn probably thought that when they replaced him and he went on to better their finish at his next side.

If he is replaced the club will be ramping up the pressure on themselves to do better next season.
 
I know I’m probably in the minority but if there is a quality coach available that we can bring them in, I would do it.

I said when we hired him, he would only be a stop gap. He’s worked absolute wonders with the squad we have a viable. The injury list has been like nothing I’ve ever known and playing the majority of the season without Stewart was a killer. BUT … I actually think that the adversity worked for Mowbray. He really has got the best out of heavy hindered squad. As daft as it might sound, I’m not convinced that he’d have got the same results from us, had we had a full squad available all season.

I appreciate I’ll probably get pelters but that’s my opinion.
 
Massive risk from the board to piss the fans off. If he goes and we bring in one of these foreign coaches mentioned, and they don't do as good as, or better, than Mowbray, the board will get deserved stick.

After this season and getting so close to promotion, the ambition should be promotion next season, as there's a very good chance we'd of of got it this year with a fully fit squad. Possibly even top 2.

Can't fault KLD and Speakman much at all since they've came in, so if Mowbray does go, I'll be gutted as I've grown to love the bloke this season, and we've played the best football I've seen us play, but I'll trust the board know what they are doing, due to what they've already done whilst being here.

If it goes tits up though then they'll deserve stick. I think it's barmy we are considering changing managers. From now, and until the transfer window closes, we'll see what the boards ambitions are.
 
ClassicDom said:
And how are they doing now under their model there? Which is the question I literally asked.

Or are you ignoring how they hired highly rated Nathan jones, highly rated Heisenhuttl and highly rated Selles?

On the plus side the club has managed to unite the fan base. Just uniting them against them rather than with them. Quite the feat after the season we’ve had, and in a far quicker time than it took with Donald and methven.
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They ditched the model when the Liebherrs sold up.
 
Does seem very curious. Do they think Mowbray can't deliver some kind of footballing utopia? Very weird coz he has shown he is no dinosaur. Seems a very open-minded chap. I wonder if he has somehow pissed someone off and is being pushed out. Hope he gets a pre-season and happily munches his biccies all summer.
 
My own thoughts are that the club will have seen Mowbray as a steady pair of hands to come in and guide us through the season after Neil left us in a world of shite.

Mowbray is close to Stuart Harvey, has been around the game for a long time and done relatively well at this level as recently as last season.

I suspect the plan was for Mowbray to see us through to the summer and then move on (or potentially upstairs) and bring in a long-term Neil replacement in the close season which is always the best time for such a change. It would give Mowbray a path back into the game with a big club without being out of it too long and forgotten about, whilst remaining close to home and working alongside someone he knows very well.

That said, I doubt anyone at the club (including Mowbray) expected things to go as they have done and it has likely thrown a bit of a spanner in the works.

Mowbray will feel he has done more than enough to warrant another crack at it, but the club may want to press on with their initial plans.

It would be a brave decision because if Mowbray departs and a new manager comes in, the new gaffer will need to get off to a very fast start or there will be serious pressure coming on the board from fans, pundits and media alike.

Whatever happens, I think the club under this board and recruitment structure have enough credit in the bank at this point in time to be given the benefit of the doubt.

I'd be very sad to see Mowbray go as he's done a brilliant and totally unexpectedly job here and above all is a genuinely nice man, but it would be difficult not to back the club to get it right given their track record to date under KLD/Speakman/Harvey.
 
The Situation said:
My own thoughts are that the club will have seen Mowbray as a steady pair of hands to come in and guide us through the season after Neil left us in a world of shite.

Mowbray is close to Stuart Harvey, has been around the game for a long time and done relatively well at this level as recently as last season.

I suspect the plan was for Mowbray to see us through to the summer and then move on (or potentially upstairs) and bring in a long-term Neil replacement in the close season which is always the best time for such a change. It would give Mowbray a path back into the game with a big club without being out of it too long and forgotten about, whilst remaining close to home and working alongside someone he knows very well.

That said, I doubt anyone at the club (including Mowbray) expected things to go as they have done and it has likely thrown a bit of a spanner in the works.

Mowbray will feel he has done more than enough to warrant another crack at it, but the club may want to press on with their initial plans.

It would be a brave decision because if Mowbray departs and a new manager comes in, the new gaffer will need to get off to a very fast start or there will be serious pressure coming on the board from fans, pundits and media alike.

Whatever happens, I think the club under this board and recruitment structure have enough credit in the bank at this point in time to be given the benefit of the doubt.

I'd be very sad to see Mowbray go as he's done a brilliant and totally unexpectedly job here and above all is a genuinely nice man, but it would be difficult not to back the club to get it right given their track record to date under KLD/Speakman/Harvey.
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Don't think anyone could disagree with all that..I mean they'll make out they do..but they'll be telling porkies
 
ClassicDom said:
We’re probably going to lose Mowbray, and added to that a few of the first teamers this summer due to the way they’ve played.
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This. Massive summer coming up. Get it wrong and we could end up doing what happened to Huddersfield this season after getting to the PO final last year. Very hard for the fans to trust the model given what the club has been through in recent times. Losing Amad, Joffy, potentially losing Pato, Ballard, Cirkin, Clarke and Stewart. Then getting rid of a manager who has the likes of Roberts playing some of his best football since his Celtic days feels like it’s going to be something like a near full rebuild job in the summer as opposed to just strengthening the current crop.
chunksafc said:
I think he knows he's off. I dont like it and feel it's a risk, but these rumours won't go away.

Not sure what any other coach could have achieved with our injuries
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If he is to go it won’t be because of what he’s achieved or not this season, more to do with the long term future of the club.
 
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OohBaldyBally said:
I know I’m probably in the minority but if there is a quality coach available that we can bring them in, I would do it.

I said when we hired him, he would only be a stop gap. He’s worked absolute wonders with the squad we have a viable. The injury list has been like nothing I’ve ever known and playing the majority of the season without Stewart was a killer. BUT … I actually think that the adversity worked for Mowbray. He really has got the best out of heavy hindered squad. As daft as it might sound, I’m not convinced that he’d have got the same results from us, had we had a full squad available all season.

I appreciate I’ll probably get pelters but that’s my opinion.
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You deserve pelters for posting that, and I totally agree it sounds absolutely daft. If you can't see that we would have been even higher in the table with a fully fit squad then you need your bumps feeling. Absolutely ludicrous way of looking at it.
 
Club willing to show ambition and bring their plan forward thanks to the success of the players we have at our disposal. Class. Should all get behind it, unless we'd rather do another season of consolidation?
 
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