Tony Mowbray Discussion

[We Are The Rovers]

Just now, Rovers Trust said:

It’s been quite the week so far. While today sees the club celebrate another anniversary, we are less than 48 hours removed from the worst result ever witnessed at Ewood Park.

Today’s comments from the manager only serve to highlight the disconnect between the supporters and those entrusted with the running of the club and their bosses.

Every single Rovers fan is acutely aware that it is no longer 1995, and of the clubs current state and the wider financial landscape of football. But on a day where the club are actively encouraging us to celebrate our illustrious 146 year history, we are also being instructed to be happy with our lot, to curb our expectations, to accept mediocrity.

Every Rovers fan wants to see us right the wrongs of the Fulham debacle this Saturday when Sheffield United visit Ewood. Unfortunately the clubs pricing initiative seems to have been met more enthusiastically by the away fans than those of the Rovers, as the steady erosion of the supporter base continues. The events of this week will not have done anything to halt this.

Recent happenings have only heightened our concerns around the lack of transparency, slow decision making processes, and absence of any clear strategy or vision. We would once again call for the Rao family to respond to our concerns highlighted in our letter dated May 14th.

 

[Bigdoggsteel]

I think he needs a good old fashioned booing at the weekend

[tomphil]

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

How many tickets has he paid for in his life considering he’s been on the books of clubs/in the game since being a teenager?

The ‘flask and bovril on the terraces’ routine has always been a load of old blarney with him.

If it was Boro or Ewood in the 80's both without a pot to pee in and both getting 4 or 5k he'd still have been blasted out the ground after that shower the other night.

Why is it that Celtic, Boro and Coventry were ok to criticize him and some of the shite he talks but Blackburn Rovers fans aren't ?

Very odd that, almost like there is an agenda at play.

[booth]

2 hours ago, Rovers Trust said:

Happy Birthday Rovers(!)

 

 

 

He doesn't know what abuse is! There was no one in the stadium last season and barely anyone in it this season.

And so defensive considering the events on Wednesday. He's pretending to be surprised that a sports reporter would ask him about it, the self entitled prick. Has a manager ever asked "why the negativity?" after a historic 7-0 drubbing before? I doubt it.

Great at being defensive in press conferences but not so much on the pitch.

Resign now you embarassment.

[booth]

3 minutes ago, tomphil said:

If it was Boro or Ewood in the 80's both without a pot to pee in and both getting 4 or 5k he'd still have been blasted out the ground after that shower the other night.

Why is it that Celtic, Boro and Coventry were ok to criticize him and some of the shite he talks but Blackburn Rovers fans aren't ?

Very odd that, almost like there is an agenda at play.

Resigns from Coventry because he felt he couldn't take the club forward. Here he's happy to just shamble along and insult our collective intelligence week after week.

[chaddyrovers]

3 hours ago, Mike E said:

Well based on Wednesday night, Tony, you turn your backs on them just as they need your guidance.

What you should have done is apologise for YOUR 'no plan to deal with Mitrovic', apologise to your players for leaving them hanging out to dry with a baffling formation, and apologise to the fans for delivering the worst result ever seen on our hallowed ground.

It's called taking responsibility, try it some time.

 

 

Where is the apology for that sort of performance and result from Yourself? Where the accountability for your team selection and tactics that failed massively and miserable. But fans will always continue to back the team as always but the fans are entitled to their opinion about the game Tony. 

These sort of comments are very Kean esque and not very helpful at all. I just wish he would accept his failings for not getting the club promote after being backed financially for the past 3 seasons. He cant have any complains at all. Its time to go Mowbray and I imagine fans will turn on him tomorrow if the game and performance is poor.

3 hours ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Sorry now, but fuck me, thats a tough read

“I’ve said that before, I don’t say that trying to be clever, I just can’t understand why people wouldn’t support their club, why they want to be negative about anything?

Changing the manager is no problem to me, I’ve said this to you before, I don’t want to be a burden on this club, change the manager, you’re not getting Pep Guardiola to turn you into a super, amazing football team.

 

“I can’t affect the noise in the background, and let me tell you that when I leave, there’s only going to be another guy you are sat here asking the same questions to.

“Unless someone gives him £100m or £200m to get him experienced, talented footballers to get out of this league, you’re going to have the same questions and have the same days, the same results.

“My job is to try and put a team out on the pitch who work and fight for the club, and to understand there’s no magic switch.

“You aren’t getting Pep Guardiola to come in and change this team, and even he spent £200m on full backs alone to try and win a title.

totally deluded and not understanding what fans saying. 

Are fans meant to be happy with 7 nil defeat at home?

12 minutes ago, Gav said:

I wasn't at Ewood on Wednesday, thankfully......

From the Tv coverage I never heard a dissenting voice other than the usual booing? Granted most of the fans had seen sense and left by the final whistle, but can anyone that went confirm if the crowd turned on the manager?

Cheers.

They were a few people shouting for Mowbray to go. I think that @Neal posted about his dad and another fan arguing about chanting for Mowbray to go. 

 

[CambridgeRover]

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

Where is the apology for that sort of performance and result from Yourself? Where the accountability for your team selection and tactics that failed massively and miserable. But fans will always continue to back the team as always but the fans are entitled to their opinion about the game Tony. 

These sort of comments are very Kean esque and not very helpful at all. I just wish he would accept his failings for not getting the club promote after being backed financially for the past 3 seasons. He cant have any complains at all. Its time to go Mowbray and I imagine fans will turn on him tomorrow if the game and performance is poor.

totally deluded and not understanding what fans saying. 

Are fans meant to be happy with 7 nil defeat at home?

They were a few people shouting for Mowbray to go. I think that @Neal posted about his dad and another fan arguing about chanting for Mowbray to go. 

 

I was shouting for Mowbray to leave, was similarly lectured by anothet fan that Mowbray is great etc 

[JHRover]

Steve Gibson and Middlesbrough saw through the bullsh!t he comes out with and realised that they were on the road to nowhere with him at the helm - actually worse than that the longer he stayed in charge and imposed his 'vision' on the club the worse they got so they were looking over their shoulders at relegation by the time he was potted. He was replaced with Aitor Karanka who took them to the PL within a couple of years.

That was 8 years ago. In the time since then he's had a short doomed spell in League One with Coventry, sending them to League Two whinging and whining about not having enough 'men' in the squad he assembled. He was succeed by Mark Robins who in the time since then has hauled the same Coventry, with the same nutjob owners and the same issues behind the scenes, all the way from League Two to above us in the Championship.

Then 5 years managing this club, the pinnacle of which was getting a massive and mind blowingly expensive squad out of League One, and is now leading us to club record defeats and complaining that the squad he assembled has too many boys and not enough men.

[AllRoverAsia]

21 minutes ago, DavidMailsTightPerm said:

We didn't even give them a good game for the first 5 minutes

Reading Mowbray you would think we dominated early play whilst Fulham did  little but score 2.

I really think he headed the ball too much as a donkey CB in his 'playing' career, I saw him play, nothing special.

He got the ''when I was a lad'' line in too but didn't see a repeat of the one about his dad covered in blood saving the wife's honour. He plays a very good BullShit heart & mind game.

[matt83]

Wow. Just wow.

Ive never liked comparisons with Kean but that right there is kean all over. After that any future comparisons with king rat are more than justified. 

[Bigdoggsteel]

9 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Steve Gibson and Middlesbrough saw through the bullsh!t he comes out with and realised that they were on the road to nowhere with him at the helm - actually worse than that the longer he stayed in charge and imposed his 'vision' on the club the worse they got so they were looking over their shoulders at relegation by the time he was potted. He was replaced with Aitor Karanka who took them to the PL within a couple of years.

That was 8 years ago. In the time since then he's had a short doomed spell in League One with Coventry, sending them to League Two whinging and whining about not having enough 'men' in the squad he assembled. He was succeed by Mark Robins who in the time since then has hauled the same Coventry, with the same nutjob owners and the same issues behind the scenes, all the way from League Two to above us in the Championship.

Then 5 years managing this club, the pinnacle of which was getting a massive and mind blowingly expensive squad out of League One, and is now leading us to club record defeats and complaining that the squad he assembled has too many boys and not enough men.

The LT need to go after him hard now. We need him out before the end of the season

[Bigdoggsteel]

He will give it the big one now if we win Saturday, with a few digs in no doubt. Like we are somehow unique in being disgusted at being massacred 7-0 in a record breaking defeat at home 

If we lose, he will blame young lads and injuries

MOWBRAY OUT

[G Somerset Rover]

17 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Then 5 years managing this club, the pinnacle of which was getting a massive and mind blowingly expensive squad out of League One, and is now leading us to club record defeats and complaining that the squad he assembled has too many boys and not enough men.

Indeed. What was the guff he came out with years back? ‘Judge us in 4 transfer windows time’ or similar. There’s been about 6 now and we’ll barely be able to field a 5 a side team next season. 

[den]

I know for a fact that when he was happily watching boro they certainly didn’t lose  to a record 0-7 home defeat.

[chaddyrovers]

14 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

The LT need to go after him hard now. We need him out before the end of the season

The LT wont do that at all

[Bigdoggsteel]

2 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

The LT wont do that at all

They are a disgrace too

[Gav]

34 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

They were a few people shouting for Mowbray to go. I think that @Neal posted about his dad and another fan arguing about chanting for Mowbray to go. 

 

Thanks chaddy.

The fans are clearly still on his side, despite the feeding frenzy on here.

Let hope he and the team rewards that loyalty tomorrow and we thump the blunts. 

[booth]

 

He doesn't live in a modern world of football either.

He thinks 3 at the back is acceptable when you're down to ten men against a top team yet plays 9 men in defence against the rock bottom club when you're 2-0 up.

Such arrogance, he doesn't have the intelligence to realise it just makes him look like even more of a dinosaur.

Just leave Mowbray, you only have the masochists left and you're too extreme for some of them it seems.

[Displaced Rover]

I've just made the terrible mistake of venturing into the LT comments section on the Mowbray article. Some of the crap on there is unbelievable. I'm not sure whether it's club plants, Dingles on the wind up or if the shared brain cell is on the blink. What will it take for those clowns to see the reality of the situation?

I fear we could be in the for a very fractured winter in the stands, the seeds of division seem to be firmly planted, exacerbated further my Mowbray's nonsense today.

[booth]

Just now, Gav said:

Thanks chaddy.

The fans are clearly still on his side, despite the feeding frenzy on here.

Let hope he and the team rewards that loyalty tomorrow and we thump the blunts. 

There's about 2 people on Facebook who post on the Rovers feed positively come what may, and from what I've seen a handful on Twitter who look like they only support the club as some sort of expensive drinking game. Everyone else seems to have had enough.

Anyone else is either on the wind up or they have a very skewed way of caring about their club if they are happy with 7-0 at home. Some are having a good laugh about it.

I know there's some football fans who can't separate the manager from the club and they literally won't criticise anything about the club, not even Kean, Venkys or JA. I don't understand it but each to their own. For me that's not caring about your club to see it go down in flames. We're already seeing what's happened to the club by people allowing managers and officials to do whatever they like. Kean would still be in charge if there hadn't been all out war against him inside and out.

[windymiller7]

Can we get him arrested for inciting crowd violence?

Wanker!!

[Darrenbot]

He's basically asking for fans to have a go at each other in the stands,i am working tomorrow but i feel like skipping it just to go to the game and boo the fucker for 90mins.

[Mattyblue]

But he doesn’t need to try and divide the match going fans, there is very, very little dissent against him. 

Even after a 7-0 mauling there was a collective shrug of the shoulders.
 

[AllRoverAsia]

4 minutes ago, Darrenbot said:

He's basically asking for fans to have a go at each other in the stands,i am working tomorrow but i feel like skipping it just to go to the game and boo the fucker for 90mins.

The one thing I am sure of is when the day comes that the crowd at Ewood turns on him he will lose the plot completely.

He is hiding behind his claim that he doesn't do Social Media and that current criticism is aimed at the players more than him, which I am pretty sure it's not.

An earful will wipe the smile of his mug.

He might go full Coco and claim he didn't hear anything. 

[tomphil]

Don't mistake it for unconditional backing for him though it's a brow beaten fanbase. Most have just given up and either don't go anymore or just turn up as is their duty as fans and just sit there.

The crowds bear testament to this.