Tony Mowbray Discussion

[AAK]

19 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Heard that from you a few times! 

Whys he doing it? He offers nothing there, hes a shite striker too. Total waste of money, his refusal to change things up drives me mad. Ill be sticking to cricket i think mate, cant watch it anymore.

Edited January 11, 2020 by AAK

[Mattyblue]

Ha quoted the wrong bit! Meant to quote the ‘won’t be going again’... you will!

[PeteJD13]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

nope!

nope x2

[47er]

Carry on like this much longer and we'll be a Div 1 club with 5000 fans in a couple of years.

And  "yes" I am pessimistic! Give me a reason not to be.

[Pedro]

2 hours ago, Scotland1 said:

Heard it recently from a guy going 30 years. 

That he couldn’t give his season ticket away when he was on holiday so someone could go for  free. Same lad also is usually passionate but is getting bored of going and watching the stuff at ewood. 
 

Anyone else getting “bored” of ewood?

Is this me? ?

[Amo]

Mowbray has far outlived the average shelf-life of a league manager without pulling up any trees. His uncontested position at the club has bred complacency, comfort and a serious lack of urgency. Do the manager and this group of players really want it enough? 

[tomphil]

15 minutes ago, Amo said:

Mowbray has far outlived the average shelf-life of a league manager without pulling up any trees. His uncontested position at the club has bred complacency, comfort and a serious lack of urgency. Do the manager and this group of players really want it enough? 

No they haven't got it in them.

It all starts at the top though and works its way down. Just enough is enough at this club 

Mind you they'd probably sit back and watch us fall a division again if we were really struggling. So no surprise if there's no freshing up of things in the next few years at all 

[Amo]

10 minutes ago, tomphil said:

No they haven't got it in them.

It all starts at the top though and works its way down. Just enough is enough at this club 

Mind you they'd probably sit back and watch us fall a division again if we were really struggling. So no surprise if there's no freshing up of things in the next few years at all 

The owners are so detached and uninterested but at the same time happy to keep underwriting the debts. None of it makes sense. 
 

They seem happy to plod along with certain managers if they take a shine to them. It also depends which particular adviser happens to have their ear. Pasha got them to dump Bowyer for Lambert, but with the way that ended he's probably exercising caution.

[AAK]

10 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Ha quoted the wrong bit! Meant to quote the ‘won’t be going again’... you will!

If its free maybe pal.

[JHRover]

The Mowbray flag was out pre match again yesterday. A sign there's no appetite at all for him to go.

Where else would the club pay for a huge flag of the manager and wave it on the pitch pre-match?

Looks good in India I suppose.

[Mattyblue]

For a club middling around in the second tier it’s quite a bizarre thing to see. 

Where was Bowyer’s?

[jim mk2]

Whose idea was the flag and who's paid for it? 

[Exiled_Rover]

16 hours ago, tomphil said:

Hill's been having a rant at Bolton. I genuinely wonder what he could do with the budget Mowbray has here.

This long balling a dwarf up front whilst sticking your 6'3" marquee striker signing on the wing is beyond ridiculous now.

It serves nothing, never worked and never will chufing sick of this type of thing. 

To be fair I'm not sure which one is better in the air...

[JHRover]

13 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Whose idea was the flag and who's paid for it? 

Fairly sure it wasnt anything to do with the fans. Presume therefore that the club paid for it. Suspect Waggott or Pasha behind it.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

There's an interesting article in my paper today regarding the up coming Bournemouth v Watford game.

" During Bournemouth's downturn their possession has increased and their passing accuracy has gone up, as has both the number of passes attempted (  from 385 per game in their first 11 matches to 449 subsequently ) and successful ( from 289 to 357 ). Yet they are scoring 0.6 goals per game down from 1.3.

In Watford's upturn their possession and passing accuracy has gone down, as has both the number of passes attempted ( from 403 to 354 ) and successful ( from 311 to 251 ), yet they are scoring 1.1 goals per game, up from 0.6. In the 4 games where they have had the greatest possession Watford have lost by and an aggregate score of 9 to 1.

Bournemouth have extracted 2 points from the 6 games where they have had the ball the most."

Has Mowbray backed the wrong horse implementing this new brand of possession based walking football ?

[chaddyrovers]

4 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Fairly sure it wasnt anything to do with the fans. Presume therefore that the club paid for it. Suspect Waggott or Pasha behind it.

It will be the club of course but alot of fans are backing Mowbray still and just like they are some of want a change of manager..

I suspect he is here next season and beyond. Owners happy with him. If he got top 10 this season I guess they would see that as improvement. 

[JHRover]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

It will be the club of course but alot of fans are backing Mowbray still and just like they are some of want a change of manager..

I suspect he is here next season and beyond. Owners happy with him. If he got top 10 this season I guess they would see that as improvement. 

Irrespective of results or performances? We lose the next 6 games and he stays? Why? You are comfortable with that?

They must be very rich and very relaxed about things if another £20 million loss is fine as long as we achieve the meaningless feat of top 10 in the Championship. 

[Mattyblue]

As long as we are not in a relegation battle I just can’t see the crowd turning on him en masse. 

Barnsley got close to real dissent due to us slipping towards the bottom 3 at that time. The majority of Rovers fans expect little these days, so plodding around in mid table of the Championship won’t be inviting a rebellion.

[chaddyrovers]

9 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Bournemouth have extracted 2 points from the 6 games where they have had the ball the most."

 

Or is it down to 2 key defenders injured in Ake and Smith. Plus the loss of form of Callum Wilson, Harry Wilson and Ryan Fraser? 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Or is it down to 2 key defenders injured in Ake and Smith. Plus the loss of form of Callum Wilson, Harry Wilson and Ryan Fraser? 

Maybe they're knocking it around the back four and midfield most of the game like we do. You need the ball in the danger area to score goals.

[simongarnerisgod]

tbh i don` t think anyone expects us to be blasting our way out of the championship,what they do expect though,certainly me,is positive football that creates opportunities to score,the football produced at the moment is the most boring iv`e ever seen,id`e accept it if it produced consistent results,but it does`nt,it`s uninspiring and if waggott thinks he`ll get more fans through the turnstiles he`s an even bigger prat than i thought he was

[Husky]

14 hours ago, yoda's brother said:

time to go to the fans for a mowbrexit

I'll only end my #Mowboycott if there's a #Mowbrexit.

Edited January 12, 2020 by Husky

[DE.]

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

The Mowbray flag was out pre match again yesterday. A sign there's no appetite at all for him to go.

Where else would the club pay for a huge flag of the manager and wave it on the pitch pre-match?

Looks good in India I suppose.

It's just a weird extension of the 'cult of personality' thing Mowbray has going on where he is the messiah and cannot be questioned. All for coming second in League 1. Bowyer got it all wrong. He should have let us get relegated when he first got the job, then assuming he would also have been allowed to keep all of our best players and be given a budget far exceeding all other L1 teams, just gotten us re-promoted. Then he would have had the flag. Would probably still be here now. 

[chaddyrovers]

39 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Irrespective of results or performances? We lose the next 6 games and he stays? Why? You are comfortable with that?

They must be very rich and very relaxed about things if another £20 million loss is fine as long as we achieve the meaningless feat of top 10 in the Championship. 

well we know they are very rich and they keep putting the money in each and every season. 

The owners and Waggott are very happy with Mowbray in charge. 

and we win the next 6 games and he will the messiah with some fans. I think we get around 10 points from our next 6 games. 

39 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

As long as we are not in a relegation battle I just can’t see the crowd turning on him en masse. 

Barnsley got close to real dissent due to us slipping towards the bottom 3 at that time. The majority of Rovers fans expect little these days, so plodding around in mid table of the Championship won’t be inviting a rebellion.

The Barnsley game was the closer it has got to a revolt on him. 

I spoke to a couple of fans in front of me at Rovers and they are happy with a top half finish this season. 

30 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Maybe they're knocking it around the back four and midfield most of the game like we do. You need the ball in the danger area to score goals.

Like I said they missing key players and players out of form that is costing them. 

[Ewood Ace]

8 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

well we know they are very rich and they keep putting the money in each and every season. 

They aren't going to do it forever and when they eventually decide to stop propping up a middling second tier team then god help us. That is why it is imperative that we return to the top flight soon and surely even you must acknowledge that Mowbray is not the man to do that. The way the club is currently operating is not sustainable and only promotion will change that.