Tony Mowbray Discussion

[Gav]

42 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

i wonder if tony is jumping up and down in a swansea hotel,as his beloved middlesborough have done the football world a massive favour by dumping the cluessless man utd out of the cup,******** fantastic 🤣😂😅

If the club I supported had dumped United out of the cup I would be. 

[TheRoversReturn]

Promotion this season will be a far greater achievement than getting up from League One with the squad we had then compared to the rest of League One.

[Atko's Engine]

The BBC are reporting that it's turning into a memorable season for Boro since Wilder took over, that they're unbeaten in 13 games in all competitions. 

Erm, hello?!!

They're as bad as sky sometimes...

[Gav]

12 hours ago, TheRoversReturn said:

Promotion this season will be a far greater achievement than getting up from League One with the squad we had then compared to the rest of League One.

Agreed.

But I do have to take issue with this messageboard 'divine right nonsense' over promotion from league one, not aimed at you RoverReturn, just a general comment. 

Look at the number of promotions we've had in our entire history, its not that many, they don't come along that often, yet the league one promotion seems to be overlooked because we had a decent wage budget?

Is this driven by overseas posters who didn't witness the scenes at Doncaster or at home to Oxford? because that promotion along with all the others I've witnessed will live with me forever and I couldn't care less about the wages being paid or the transfer kitty.

Ask Sunderland, Ipswich or Portsmouth if they're rather be in league 1 or Championship, all have decent budgets, all languishing in the lower leagues. 

Edited February 5, 2022 by Gav

[Mattyblue]

Of course getting out of L1 was an achievement, however my overriding feeling was one of relief, Blackburn Rovers being in that league after everything Jack had built was upsetting, and I didn’t want to see us get stuck in down there, like many others, and seeing the club wane and wane as a result.

However, getting out of this league would be dream land stuff, as post Kean, post Wigan 2012, post everything this past decade has seen I never thought we’d see the PL again…

Edited February 5, 2022 by Mattyblue

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, Atko's Engine said:

The BBC are reporting that it's turning into a memorable season for Boro since Wilder took over, that they're unbeaten in 13 games in all competitions. 

Erm, hello?!!

They're as bad as sky sometimes...

the media have never forgiven us for 1995😄

[riverholmes]

With the influx of wing backs into the squad, including, return to fitness of JRC, and the addition of Hedges, Mowbray, potentially, is back to having options comparable to last year when we had a whole range of CMs from Trybull, Evans, Bennett to Downing.

I feel that this remainder of the season will be a test for Mowbray, as he seemed to struggle to decide upon his best 11 last year and has a tendency to experiment with new signings in unfamiliar roles and shifting personnel around. The larger squad and new loanees will create new choices and decisions to be made. 

For me, the warning signs are already there, with new loanee wing backs being thrown into winger/forward roles. It's comparable to Poveda and Clarkson being thrown in the No.10/false 9 role and, unsurprisingly, struggling. 

 

Edited February 9, 2022 by riverholmes

[Bbrovers2288]

What would be the consensus if mowbray doesn’t get us up on moving him on and getting Rooney in?

im coming round to it, doing a helluva job with derby despite their circumstances but still very unlikely to keep them up 

[Armchair supporter supremo]

12 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

What would be the consensus if mowbray doesn’t get us up on moving him on and getting Rooney in?

im coming round to it, doing a helluva job with derby despite their circumstances but still very unlikely to keep them up 

Dear me! You had me onside until you mentioned Rooney! 😄 Wretched bloke that carries a lot of unwanted bagage with him. No thanks 

[CrazyIvan]

Last time I posted, we went on a great run but we seem to have fallen foul of the Mowbray slide yet again. If we f*ck this season up, and it looks like we're doing that right now, fault has to fall at Mowbray's feet. If he gets us into the Premier League, I still don't think he should get an extended contract (but he will).

[G Somerset Rover]

The famed Mowbray death spiral, back with a bang after a strangely long hiatus. 

Can’t say there weren’t signs of the writing being on the wall against Wigan. 

[JHRover]

These spirals tend to last around 8 games before we sneak a win against someone and recover for a while. 

So I suppose it depends where we are in the spiral now. You could argue it started back against Huddersfield where we got a reasonable 0-0 draw but didn't play well, or even before then when we edged out an abysmal Barnsley side. Since then we've had a couple of narrow wins settled by single goals against Cardiff and Boro. Good results but not particularly good performances.

Hopefully the passing of games means we've only another one at most before a recovery comes. Doesn't feel like it though, feels like we are only in the early stages of it and it has a while left to run yet. The arrival of a few new players and return to fitness of others won't help as I think Mowbray will baffle himself with his selections and substitutions.

[RevidgeBlue]

Sack him for me whilst we still have a chance of the play offs. Compensation should be minimal by now.

At least someone else might start with our best eleven players.

[Sparks Rover]

14 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Sack him for me whilst we still have a chance of the play offs. Compensation should be minimal by now.

At least someone else might start with our best eleven players.

Step up, Sir Allardyce the venkys complete the full circle 

[RevidgeBlue]

18 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Step up, Sir Allardyce the venkys complete the full circle 

Would rather go for Hughes personally.

[Mattyblue]

Why are you doing it to yourself Rev (and others) ? It’s not even worth the energy of briefly thinking about the prospect.

He wasn’t remotely under threat in that horror run last season, so he certainly won’t be now.

[roverblue]

8 hours ago, JHRover said:

These spirals tend to last around 8 games before we sneak a win against someone and recover for a while. 

So I suppose it depends where we are in the spiral now. You could argue it started back against Huddersfield where we got a reasonable 0-0 draw but didn't play well, or even before then when we edged out an abysmal Barnsley side. Since then we've had a couple of narrow wins settled by single goals against Cardiff and Boro. Good results but not particularly good performances.

Hopefully the passing of games means we've only another one at most before a recovery comes. Doesn't feel like it though, feels like we are only in the early stages of it and it has a while left to run yet. The arrival of a few new players and return to fitness of others won't help as I think Mowbray will baffle himself with his selections and substitutions.

I was thinking the same, the Huddersfield game at home for me was the start of the dip.

During and since that we have lost our attacking edge or other teams have worked out how to stop us.

The saving grace from previous years is our much improved defence so rather than losing 6-7 games in a row we have nicked a few points here and there on the back of it.

The manager needs something freshening up in the tactics or personnel to try and get back to a higher level of performance.

[RoversClitheroe]

3 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Why are you doing it to yourself Rev (and others) ? It’s not even worth the energy of briefly thinking about the prospect.

He wasn’t remotely under threat in that horror run last season, so he certainly won’t be now.

Rev is right though, get Mowbray out NOW.

[Mattyblue]

And feel free to have that opinion, but there’s absolutely no point in going ‘well if we just pot him now, bring in Manager X etc etc’

Just fantasy land stuff.

[Bigdoggsteel]

Sacking the manager who has us fighting for the promotion for the first time in 10 years. 

Ridiculous

[Wheelton Blue]

12 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Sacking the manager who has us fighting for the promotion for the first time in 10 years. 

Ridiculous

It wasn't ridiculous for WBA.

[RoversClitheroe]

As I posted on another thread but:

As I said before - Mowbray absolutely failed in this transfer window, by his own admission had the money to buy players but didn't.

We were absolutely desperate for a striker.

[Bigdoggsteel]

2 minutes ago, Wheelton Blue said:

It wasn't ridiculous for WBA.

What? They lost last night, again. 

Their fans aren't unanimously happy with the Bruce appointment

[Wheelton Blue]

Just now, Bigdoggsteel said:

What? They lost last night, again. 

Their fans aren't unanimously happy with the Bruce appointment

WBA didn't think it was ridiculous to pot their manager whilst in the play offs. They saw the writing on the wall and did something about it. Their fans were also up in arms over the last guy and his style of football.

Whether Bruce is an improvement we'll see, but I suspect that they'll finish the season stronger as a result.

[RoversClitheroe]

1 minute ago, Wheelton Blue said:

WBA didn't think it was ridiculous to pot their manager whilst in the play offs. They saw the writing on the wall and did something about it. Their fans were also up in arms over the last guy and his style of football.

Whether Bruce is an improvement we'll see, but I suspect that they'll finish the season stronger as a result.

I'd personally take that WBA manager that got potted over Mowbray personally.