Tony Mowbray Discussion

[Mattyblue]

I made a vow to not watch or listen to anything related to the abomination that is ‘The Hundred’ and it has helped my rage levels immensely.

By the same token I’ve not read or watched/listened to anything coming out of the mouth of this fella all pre season, here’s hoping I can keep it up until he finally departs.

[USABlue]

I can not believe this clown is still in here.  Morcambe ffs.  Another season wasted by Venkies, they should have potted him last season tonguve a new fella time to bed in and start the season running.  What haopens now is we drop like a stone, till anout November time before Venkies get iff their duffs.  Too late if course.  Gut feeling we have a Coylesque season coming but without having a go like Coyle might.  Doomed we are doomed I tell you.

[Ulrich]

Is tonguve some sort of America slang?

[4000Holes]

Dear Mr. Mowbray.  I saw this headline in the LET and couldn’t believe it.

Blackburn Rovers boss takes 'many positives' from cup defeat

Last evenings defeat, at home, to Morecambe was an utter and total embarrassment, nothing more nothing less.

The young lads coming through show promise but you will knock any potential out of them.  Not only are you changing formation (set up) match to match, you are changing it regularly more than once within matches.  Young lads learning their trade cannot handle that.  Even Klopp with his resources and personnel knows he can’t do that.

Time for you to call it a day and go NOW.

From a supporter of the last 60 years who has never seen a shambolic mess anywhere near this scale.

[gumboots]

What positives? That we didn't lose by more? 

[rigger]

45 minutes ago, 4000Holes said:

Dear Mr. Mowbray.  I saw this headline in the LET and couldn’t believe it.

Blackburn Rovers boss takes 'many positives' from cup defeat

Last evenings defeat, at home, to Morecambe was an utter and total embarrassment, nothing more nothing less.

The young lads coming through show promise but you will knock any potential out of them.  Not only are you changing formation (set up) match to match, you are changing it regularly more than once within matches.  Young lads learning their trade cannot handle that.  Even Klopp with his resources and personnel knows he can’t do that.

Time for you to call it a day and go NOW.

From a supporter of the last 60 years who has never seen a shambolic mess anywhere near this scale.

How can anyone take any positives from a home defeat to a team two divisions below us. But it was not just a defeat. We were out-played and tactically out thought. You cannot take a positive from a reasonable first half performance. All that shows is that you are good enough, but haven't got the ability to sustain the required levels. Or and more likely. You are being instructed to do the wrong things. If after last night you left the club, that would be a positive. 

Edited August 11, 2021 by rigger

[booth]

Positives from being defeated by Morecambe at home after selling your only prolific goal scorer. £12m on two forwards that haven’t scored 29 goals between them, in the years they’ve been here.

What a tit.

[DE.]

At this point I'd be far more surprised if he came out with something sensible. Feels like he's been trolling the fans non-stop for at least a year now with his comments. 

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

Good shout to get this thread warmed up again, it's going to get very busy over the next few weeks. 

[Ulrich]

What are you all on about of course there is a positive to take from last night's game. It's a huge one and one I know most rovers fans are praying for everyday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 less game till TM leaves.....

[SuperBrfc]

4 hours ago, 4000Holes said:

Dear Mr. Mowbray.  I saw this headline in the LET and couldn’t believe it.

Blackburn Rovers boss takes 'many positives' from cup defeat

Last evenings defeat, at home, to Morecambe was an utter and total embarrassment, nothing more nothing less.

The young lads coming through show promise but you will knock any potential out of them.  Not only are you changing formation (set up) match to match, you are changing it regularly more than once within matches.  Young lads learning their trade cannot handle that.  Even Klopp with his resources and personnel knows he can’t do that.

Time for you to call it a day and go NOW.

From a supporter of the last 60 years who has never seen a shambolic mess anywhere near this scale.

Has he no shame? We've just been embarrassed by a side that it would be unthinkable to lose against not so long ago, yet he wants to 'take the positives' out of it. Any manager worth his salt would be ashamed by that result, fuming and trying to keep a low profile. No way does a proper manager try and sugarcoat it in that way. It's an insult to read that headline.

I couldn't care less how many formations we can switch to during a game. That means nothing if we don't win. As it is, his experiment with this 3 at the back started at the Southend game in 2017 and failed miserably back then. Four years later he's still experimenting with it! Take your experiment somewhere else.

"We always deal with the result" he says. Yeah, shrugging your shoulders and saying "we move on to next week" is dealing with it. I've got to stop reading his interviews.

[gumboots]

You have.  I stopped listening a couple of years ago and it's done wonders for my mental health

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

23 minutes ago, SuperBrfc said:

Has he no shame? We've just been embarrassed by a side that it would be unthinkable to lose against not so long ago, yet he wants to 'take the positives' out of it. Any manager worth his salt would be ashamed by that result, fuming and trying to keep a low profile. No way does a proper manager try and sugarcoat it in that way. It's an insult to read that headline.

I couldn't care less how many formations we can switch to during a game. That means nothing if we don't win. As it is, his experiment with this 3 at the back started at the Southend game in 2017 and failed miserably back then. Four years later he's still experimenting with it! Take your experiment somewhere else.

"We always deal with the result" he says. Yeah, shrugging your shoulders and saying "we move on to next week" is dealing with it. I've got to stop reading his interviews.

I never listen to anything he says if I can help it, it’s all self serving garbage.

[1864roverite]

The man is deluded 

[JacknOry]

You take positives from defeats against top teams, not the other way around.

[benhben]

His comments completely sum up the complete lack of pressure he feels to get any type of result. Completely and utterly repaxed with his feet up taking home a pay check along with his mate Waggot.

Edited August 11, 2021 by benhben

[simongarnerisgod]

mowbrays terrible attitude in all departments of the game must rub off on his staff and players,if he can`t be bothered then why should his players,it seems to me to be very blaize right through the dressing room

[Southside Rover]

9 hours ago, gumboots said:

What positives? That we didn't lose by more? 

To quote a favourite...we only lost by the 1 goal 😔

[JHRover]

Normal club that loses a home game to lower league opposition there are powers above the manager that start asking questions or having doubts about the manager.

Here? The owners probably won't have known we were even playing and if they did won't know what the League Cup is or who Morecambe are.

The 'CEO' in the managers back pocket. Won't say a word that might upset or annoy St Tony and instead will ring him up for instructions rather than answers.

[USABlue]

On 11/08/2021 at 02:37, Ulrich said:

Is tonguve some sort of America slang?

Yes.

[rigger]

Mowbray states that Rovers fans have to accept it is not 1995 and all that went with it. Then they dig up Colin Hendry to model the new Third kit.

[JHRover]

Take the positives from losing at home to Morecambe.

Try to imagine Souness, Hughes, Allardyce or even rivals such as Warnock coming along with such an attitude and comments.

Sums Mowbray up. A loser.

[JBiz]

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Take the positives from losing at home to Morecambe.

Try to imagine Souness, Hughes, Allardyce or even rivals such as Warnock coming along with such an attitude and comments.

Sums Mowbray up. A loser.

Not wrong on that front, however comparing these ones - we ended up losing all three ultimately regardless of what they said.

I think it’s particularly obvious TM is trying to “protect” the atmosphere early doors where as Big Sam (quoted below) is trying to get a reaction, as he’d changed 11 players for that game.

Mark Hughes dryly said how it was, not good enough. Quite an interestingly bad FA cup record against COV!

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/jan/06/match.blackburn

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/4153033.coventry-city-1-blackburn-rovers-0-big-sam-slams-players/

 

He said: “We had 11 players who should have more capable of running around than anyone else at the football club but they didn’t do a lot of running around in that second half from what I saw.

“I was very disappointed with the attitude in terms of closing the players down and stopping them playing.

"We had no problems doing that in the first half and stopping doing that in the second is the reason why we lost.

“The FA Cup is not the priority but that does not mean the 11 players I picked today should not have gone and won that game. I think they should.
 

 

[tomphil]

3 hours ago, JHRover said:

Take the positives from losing at home to Morecambe.

Try to imagine Souness, Hughes, Allardyce or even rivals such as Warnock coming along with such an attitude and comments.

Sums Mowbray up. A loser.

He feels sorry for the billionaire owners whose share prices remain strong despite the pandemic.

He feels sorry for his squad so rotates them, he feels sorry for other players who can't play or he isn't going to use. So carries them on their contracts or sometimes even extends them. All using the clubs money.

He feels sorry for anybody who might leave Middlesbrough FC and be without a nice secure contract.

He feels sorry for himself and every challenge managing a football club might bring.

Sorry for everything he can spin to cover his own arse yet never sorry for the death spirals and never finishing in the top 10.

Martyr.

[rigger]

22 minutes ago, tomphil said:

He feels sorry for the billionaire owners whose share prices remain strong despite the pandemic.

He feels sorry for his squad so rotates them, he feels sorry for other players who can't play or he isn't going to use. So carries them on their contracts or sometimes even extends them. All using the clubs money.

He feels sorry for anybody who might leave Middlesbrough FC and be without a nice secure contract.

He feels sorry for himself and every challenge managing a football club might bring.

Sorry for everything he can spin to cover his own arse yet never sorry for the death spirals and never finishing in the top 10.

Martyr.

And certainly doesn't feel sorry for the fans who cough up every week.