Tony Mowbray Discussion

[tomphil]

All I want to hear is Mr Balaji or Mrs D or preferably the whole clan have made a conference call to TM and Waggot.

"Hey guys thanks for your hard work but we are concerned about losing this many already. We know the circumstances but we feel we've given you adequate backing and support to cope with this. Please put on record we are not happy with the way it's going and feel it's only fair to expect improvement in the coming weeks "

Some bloody culpability and the odd kick up the backside.

Edited October 31, 2020 by tomphil

[rigger]

What I can't understand, is that if TM thinks playing Gallagher on the wing is a fantastic tactic, why doesn't he start him there? I think it is another case of a failed plan that TM is too stubborn to admit to.

[Stuart]

Just now, rigger said:

What I can't understand, is that if TM thinks playing Gallagher on the wing is a fantastic tactic, why doesn't he start him there? I think it is another case of a failed plan that TM is too stubborn to admit to.

I think it’s as simple as having to play him because of the price tag but there being better players in the middle. If he was ‘one of our own’  he wouldn’t get a look in.

[Waggy76]

9 minutes ago, tomphil said:

All I want to hear is Mr Balaji or Mrs D or preferably the whole clan have made a conference call to TM and Waggot.

"Hey guys thanks for your hard work but we are concerned about losing this many already. We know the circumstances but we feel we've given you adequate backing and support to cope with this. Please put on record we are not happy with the way it's going and feel it's only fair to expect improvement in the coming weeks "

Some fucking culpability and the odd kick up the backside.

Follow Alan Sugar....You're FIRED !

[rigger]

2 minutes ago, Stuart said:

I think it’s as simple as having to play him because of the price tag but there being better players in the middle. If he was ‘one of our own’  he wouldn’t get a look in.

To me, if true, that is the sign of a very poor manager.

[Gamst]

20 minutes ago, tomphil said:

All I want to hear is Mr Balaji or Mrs D or preferably the whole clan have made a conference call to TM and Waggot.

"Hey guys thanks for your hard work but we are concerned about losing this many already. We know the circumstances but we feel we've given you adequate backing and support to cope with this. Please put on record we are not happy with the way it's going and feel it's only fair to expect improvement in the coming weeks "

Some fucking culpability and the odd kick up the backside.

Tony is coasting and the comfort zone mentality filters down to the players. He needs pressure applying from Pune now, but I somehow doubt its happening. 

[Stuart]

8 minutes ago, rigger said:

To me, if true, that is the sign of a very poor manager.

Can’t argue with that.

[unleaded]

Mowbray needs 10 snookers .. Not many balls left on the table ...But just keeps on playing hoping for a miracle .... 
Venkys just need to call time ... everybody knows he’s lost ....

[LDRover]

A bit of dissent among the fans, a couple of games into the death spiral, I know exactly what is about to happen.

The Mowbray flag will make a reappearance.

[G Somerset Rover]

1 hour ago, LDRover said:

A bit of dissent among the fans, a couple of games into the death spiral, I know exactly what is about to happen.

The Mowbray flag will make a reappearance.

One always needs a little peek of our forcthcoming fixtures. Will we beat Boro? Not a chance. Worrying times. 

[G Somerset Rover]

1 hour ago, rigger said:

What I can't understand, is that if TM thinks playing Gallagher on the wing is a fantastic tactic, why doesn't he start him there? I think it is another case of a failed plan that TM is too stubborn to admit to.

To my dying day I will not understand it. Right wing. Left wing. He’s taking the piss. 100%.

[broadsword]

That reminds me of that Mitchell starc song. 

Tony plays him on the left, plays him on the right. Sam Gallagher, he truly is shite

[Mogga]

35 minutes ago, broadsword said:

That reminds me of that Mitchell starc song. 

Tony plays him on the left, plays him on the right. Sam Gallagher, he truly is shite

Sorry to be pedantic, but its actually Mitchell Johnson.

Suppose it would be. He plays on the left, he plays on the right, that sam gallagher all round hes f*****g shite.

Edited November 1, 2020 by Mogga

[broadsword]

Oh yeah, got my Mitchell brothers mixed up ? 

[Gone to seed]

Has TM ever actually explained WHY he insists on playing a big target man striker on the wing, instead of in the middle to batter the bloody ball into the bloody onion bag... (Bentley's 'haircut' rofl -oh I bet he paid loads for that!!)

 

[matt83]

Gallagher is just another cul-de-sac he’s taken us down and is too stubborn to admit he’s wrong or too stupid to see that it isn’t working.

Same with Bennett we all know he’s going straight back into the side when he’s fit even though now in most positions there’s at least one player better than him. 

[tomphil]

The most frustrating manager in Rovers modern history for me, many good points but his blind spots are insane.  Aside from having a dodgy back line his entire tenure the team as a whole has never had any balance.  Certainly not for more than a few games at a time when he actually finds one, he can't wait to change it up again.

That's why it's a bit misguided when fans say we have such a body out and so many to come back. True but as others have said a fully fit squad even in non covid times just means more rotation and constant tinkering with this fella is written in his dna like the middle of a stick of rock.

[arbitro]

Mowbray is responsible for results and the buck stops with him. There are extenuating circumstances sometimes but if results are poor then the outcome should be inevitable. The key word there is should because as most of us know we are a rudderless ship just drifting aimlessly along.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

13 hours ago, Gamst said:

Tony is coasting and the comfort zone mentality filters down to the players. He needs pressure applying from Pune now, but I somehow doubt its happening. 

Absolutely no rigour at the club. The " buck " doesn't stop anywhere. At other clubs the manager would be being called to the boardroom tomorrow morning for the hard word. At Rovers it'll be just business as usual. I thought the idea of bringing Johnno into the coaching set up was to allow him to have a greater responsibility for the first team. As far as I can see at the moment he's a glorified stats man.  

[Gone to seed]

6 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Absolutely no rigour at the club. The " buck " doesn't stop anywhere. At other clubs the manager would be being called to the boardroom tomorrow morning for the hard word. At Rovers it'll be just business as usual. I thought the idea of bringing Johnno into the coaching set up was to allow him to have a greater responsibility for the first team. As far as I can see at the moment he's a glorified stats man.  

Sadly there is no one in the boardroom with anything resembling a pair of decent bollocks...

The only folk in there, or in any position resembling authority at the club, are either narcissistic non-supporters hell bent on keeping their snout in the trough, or voiceless spineless inept makeweights there only to justify turning the heating on for match days.

Until we are a proper club again, this torment will continue.

[K-Hod]

On 30/10/2020 at 12:54, roversfan99 said:

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/18833297.no-lasting-defensive-tactical-concerns-rovers-boss/

Seems that Mowbray is naive to the vulnerability we currently have against anyone half decent on the counter attack. He doesnt think it is anything that he has done.

Play with 2 full backs as wingers and 2 of 3 central midfielders high up in the current manner and we will keep conceding against half decent sides. 

‘No lasting defensive or tactical concerns’.

Yet we concede another two at the weekend...

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

3 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

‘No lasting defensive or tactical concerns’.

Yet we concede another two at the weekend...

I don't bother with anything he says these days. I'm waiting for the football to do the talking. I realise it may be a long wait.

[Hoochie Bloochie Mama]

Apparently that's 20 points from the last 18 games (since end of Lockdown 1) according to someone on LT comments. 

I think my prediction of Top half might have to be revised. 

[AllRoverAsia]

I try not to but still find myself reading Mowbrays drivel.

Post Swansea he's hanging out to dry Lenihan, Williams and Armstrong.

Indeed revealing that our CBs are not up to it against big robust forwards and we would have been ok if Ayala had played.

Naturally he omits the plain fact that in the Championship big forwards are not uncommon and that prior to the very recent signing of another Sicknote the unfit for purpose had been our CB mainstays for quite sometime.

Only from a position of supreme power and control can such a basket case manager survive. Oh. and owners that don't give a fuck.

[LDRover]

2 hours ago, Hoochie Bloochie Mama said:

Apparently that's 20 points from the last 18 games (since end of Lockdown 1) according to someone on LT comments. 

I think my prediction of Top half might have to be revised. 

Gets us less than 50 points extrapolated over a season. Bona fide relegation form and 18 games is hardly a small sample.

Got to be happy for the Wednesday points deduction and that Wycombe are a load of pony.

Edited November 1, 2020 by LDRover