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Tony Mowbray


I think it's a big mistake if he goes.
andysafc24 said:
TM has done a good job under the circumstances but when you look at his overall Managerial Career it goes back 15 years since he last won a competition (Championship with WBA) he has never won a Cup even at Celtic.
Compare that with one of the men who we are reported to be interested in. This man has won competitions at every level he has Managed

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TM has little sell on value but if this man was a success the big clubs would pay top dollar compensation to take him. Isn’t that the way the club is thinking?
Not just with players but the manager too.
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Fair points marra, but will he rock the boat when he can't bring his own players in?

Mogga towed the line and just got on with the job.
 
Steve 10 said:
I think it's a big mistake if he goes.

Fair points marra, but will he rock the boat when he can't bring his own players in?

Mogga towed the line and just got on with the job.
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Not really, European coaches generally manage that way.
Although the lack of strikers would certainly upset an ambitious coach.
 
chunksafc said:
Bloody hell, I'd have put good money on him being their longer. Shags that argument up then
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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.
 
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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Yeah I guess the days of a coach / manager really building something for years are long gone
 
chunksafc said:
Yeah I guess the days of a coach / manager really building something for years are long gone
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The only one who can build something for years is speakman, really. Thus far he’s doing a good job with that. However, he may well become a poaching target in time too. It’s just the food chain, unfortunately.
 
The Cabbage said:
The only one who can build something for years is speakman, really. Thus far he’s doing a good job with that. However, he may well become a poaching target in time too. It’s just the food chain, unfortunately.
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Grumpy Old Man said:
Think I read that TM is 6th longest serving head coach in the Championship already.
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The food chain needs resetting imo.

His stint at Blackburn will probably never be repeated for a guess
 
Coeus said:
I disagree, I think he has done a very good job but they got to the playoffs because of the recruitment and general squad build, the young squad that Mowbray talks so highly of that exceeded even his expectations.
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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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