Tony Mowbray Discussion

[Paul Mani]

Just now, AllRoverAsia said:

Thanks. I can cope with that 😊

Like I said, nothing is impossible abd things change everyday...but the intention is there.

[booth]

Tony Mowbray. Capable of choosing a team if the tombola stops working. Of choosing a working formation if he his daft experiments aren't paying off. Of signing decent players when he can be bothered. Of getting off his arse when he thinks his job may be in question. Of coming out of his coma during in an interview if someone says something he doesn't like.

So capable of pulling a rabbit out of a hat when he needs to, if it means saving his own skin, not the clubs benefit. It's all about Tony.

Tony Mowbray - Rovers laziest manager. Very self serving, reactive not proactive.

We're now in the position where we need the league to contain enough abysmal teams to survive relegation because we have a crackpot who sleepwalks through a league season.

[J*B]

I reckon we’ll start next season as we’ve finished this one management wise. 

[PeteJD13]

16 minutes ago, J*B said:

I reckon we’ll start next season as we’ve finished this one management wise. 

from the noises mowbray is making i expect the same

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I was reading a report of the Derby v Owls game today in the “ Sunday Observer “ and this piece struck home for me.

“  You tirelessly run the channels for 46 games, only to be relegated on a technicality. You invest your time and emotion and your iFollow subscription, but you are powerless to stop the club you cherish being mismanaged into the dirt.

Grief is the price you pay for love. Despair is the price you pay for hope. But for the growing number of clubs in the dungeon of English football, the equation between hope and despair has never been so cruelly weighted. A life of eternal serfdom to the Premier League giants: that’s the best case by the way.

Meanwhile your wage bill  is 130% of turnover and there are still no fans in the stadium “.

Edited May 9, 2021 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[RoversClitheroe]

17 minutes ago, PeteJD13 said:

from the noises mowbray is making i expect the same

 

34 minutes ago, J*B said:

I reckon we’ll start next season as we’ve finished this one management wise. 

Hope you both are wrong 😂

[Armchair supporter supremo]

So With his recent form Armstrong adds a couple more £mill to his value.... Then right away Mowbray knocks the value straight back down by basically admiting publicly that he has to sell him.GENIOUS. 

Edited May 9, 2021 by Armchair supporter supremo

[Sparks Rover]

7 minutes ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

GENIOUS. 

Ironic🙄

[arbitro]

57 minutes ago, J*B said:

I reckon we’ll start next season as we’ve finished this one management wise. 

Sad to say I completely agree. The structure at Rovers just doesn't lend itself to making such decisions as sacking Mowbray and his staff. Pasha just wants a quiet, easy life and doesn't seem to want to upset Waggott and Mowbray and I'd guess his lines of communication to India reflect that.

[Mercer]

1 hour ago, J*B said:

I reckon we’ll start next season as we’ve finished this one management wise. 

I'm with @Paul Mani on this one.

I think the V's know they have to get the next set of managerial appointments right - quite possibly their last roll of the dice and hence the time being taken and what some folk might construe as an unnecessary delay or even evidence of maintaining the status quo.

I posted about a month ago, just days before Brockhall 'cessation' announcement, that I understood the whole thing had got bigger and more complicated.

If I'm correct, I think one hand might not be enough to count the departures from Ewood.

Edited May 9, 2021 by Mercer

[Sparks Rover]

7 minutes ago, Mercer said:

 

I think the V's know they have to get the next set of managerial appointments right -

Do they Mercer, do they?

Theyve never give a shit before and right now that country is living Armageddon with this pandemic.  Mowbray and Waggot will sort it no problem. Blame it all on the pandemic I'm telling you.  I'd back myself to talk them into keep going.....

 

 

Edited May 9, 2021 by Sparks Rover

[RevidgeBlue]

9 minutes ago, Mercer said:

I'm with @Paul Mani on this one.

Me too.

If the original plan was for Mowbray to leave in an orderly and relatively dignified manner at the end of the season then hopefully it isn't necessarily an adverse sign that it hasn't happened already.

I don't know about any other departures but hopefully the obvious suspects will be following on behind in fairly short order.

It would be incredibly disheartening if there'd been any sort of change to the original plan, almost too much to cope with in fact.

 

[Mercer]

14 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Do they Mercer, do they?

Theyve never give a shit before and right now that country is living Armageddon with this pandemic.  Mowbray and Waggot will sort it no problem. Blame it all on the pandemic I'm telling you.  I'd back myself to talk them into keep going.....

 

 

They've seen almost £200million 'disappear' in some 10 years.

In decades of involvement in business / commerce, I have never seen folk sit back, do nothing and watch more money disappear down a plug hole.

A tipping point will come. 

I think this will be their last roll of the dice to try and retrieve the situation otherwise it might well be curtains for Rovers.  To try and retrieve the situation they now HAVE to be radical - shuffling the deck chairs will no longer suffice.

Edited May 9, 2021 by Mercer

[Sparks Rover]

18 minutes ago, Mercer said:

They've seen almost £200million 'disappear' in some 10 years.

In decades of involvement in business / commerce, I have never seen folk sit back, do nothing and watch more money disappear down a plug hole.

A tipping point will come. 

I think this will be their last roll of the dice to try and retrieve the situation otherwise it might well be curtains for Rovers.  To try and retrieve the situation they now HAVE to be radical - shuffling the deck chairs will no longer suffice.

I wish my friend.  We are well low down on their list of priorities in my opinion.  In fact, I think they've forgotten all about us or he would have been out 18 months ago.

[Bigdoggsteel]

He's hardly going now , is he? It's not looking good 

[Bigdoggsteel]

7 hours ago, Paul Mani said:

Fully expecting them to be gone by next week.

Based off what? 

[Tormund]

There were messages on here saying he’d be gone weeks ago, I won’t be getting my hopes up too much. 

[Darrenbot]

He's going nowhere imo.I'd love to be wrong but as every day goes by i can see him less and less being potted by the chicken chumpsters.Get ready for a new 3 year deal being announced and this board going into meltdown.

[Gone to seed]

Who, exactly, do we owe '£200 million' to? If it is just the Rao family then no, we are not in peril - they are 😉

[RevidgeBlue]

53 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

He's hardly going now , is he? It's not looking good 

To quote you, based off what?

[OldEwoodBlue]

Please can we just stop wasting everyone's time, go into admin ASAP and then get cracking rebuilding Rovers.

[Ulrich]

Oh well as annoying as it is, I am resigned to Tony Mowbray being in situ next season. On the plus side if he stays at least I can hurl abuse at him as he clearly doesn't like criticism. And if that fails I will hurl eggs, at least then the yolks on him and a bit less on us.

I cannot believe he has not been sacked.

[tomphil]

We have to learn to realize all managerial appointments and sackings are decided well away from Ewood.  Done by the owners and their advisors, affiliates of the old you know who crew these days by the sounds of it.

So nobody around Rovers knows anything other than speculation and hearsay. If it was ever going to happen it would be decided thousands of miles away then relayed here.  They'd probably hire in someone else to do the dirty work as they have in the past.

They take the hiring and firing decisions regardless of what anyone at the club might say. If a director wanted rid of a manager and they liked him the director would get the chop instead. Other side of the coin is even if a director said a manager should stay but they'd decided otherwise then he'd be gone, regardless.

Mowbray for some unfathomable reason has survived where Bowyer didn't. I expect the carrot of him and his pals promising big money for Armstrong is the key to that.  In GB's case i think others were handling all that and his word was weightless.

Just imagine if he rakes in 15 million this summer, cuts the wages budget further then gets a contract extension ?

Because it's very realistic and i'm sure it's what they are angling for. Then into next season and not winning for ten games at some point which is surely to happen again under him. They really wouldn't be able to afford to sack him then, so we have Kean mk2 scenario.

It really doesn't bare thinking about and the only sensible thing to do is do the deed now. Let someone else rebuild it lean and mean even if we have to just consolidate again for a season.

[Bigdoggsteel]

2 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

To quote you, based off what?

Because he's still here and wasn't sacked during the most abysmal run of any team in the football league 

[Crimpshrine]

2 hours ago, OldEwoodBlue said:

Please can we just stop wasting everyone's time, go into admin ASAP and then get cracking rebuilding Rovers.

I would honestly prefer this option to the current purgatory.