Tony Mowbray Discussion

[rigger]

13 minutes ago, Gav said:

When was the last time you saw a Rovers team as united as this one?

If the squad is so united and happy. Why then are some players not re-signing contracts ?

[booth]

15 hours ago, 47er said:

He's a Liverpool icon really, Best to leave him with them imo.

He may be a Liverpool icon but he's a Rovers legend. The difference between us and bigger clubs is we don't make enough of it.
 

15 hours ago, Upside Down said:

The one person there should be a statue of is Bob Crompton. Why this hasn't been done already is beyond me.

Agreed! There's a few statues around the place.

At least the one statue that there is is Jack.

Ps, Fulham's legend.

Edited December 3, 2021 by booth

[Gav]

20 minutes ago, rigger said:

If the squad is so united and happy. Why then are some players not re-signing contracts ?

Would you work for 2 milk tokens and a handful of magic beans?

Your eyes don't deceive you, they're united alright and playing for the manager.

Edited December 3, 2021 by Gav

[Ulrich]

9 minutes ago, Gav said:

Would you work for 2 milk tokens and a handful of magic beans?

Your eyes don't deceive you, they're united alright and playing for the manager.

United yes, it appears so. But psychological profiling and playing for the manager, being casual factors, are assumptions.  We have a strong core of players who have played together and at rovers for a very long time, through the academy. With other players of similar age surrounding them, it is just as plausible this is the cause. If TM had created unity in his previous teams, spoken about trying to do it, then I would view it differently, but he hasn't and credit and praise should not be given for stumbling upon winning formulas. We will see as the season progresses whether skill or luck are the routes to which our current form depends and our final league position will be very telling in that outcome.

[Bigdoggsteel]

🙄🙄🙄

[Spartakfenni]

3 hours ago, Gav said:

Its 2021 not 1971 👍

Some of the biggest and best companies in the world use things like MBTI which helps people gain insights about how they work and learn, its a bit old hat now with new personality type indicator tools out there, but it does work and can give managers and employees that extra 1%.

I completely disagree. All successful managers know their players and which buttons to push. I couldn’t see Shankly, Paisley, Ferguson, Dalglish, Clough using this. They are some of the most successful managers in the world. This for those managers who can’t be bothered to get to know their players.

[rigger]

1 hour ago, Gav said:

Would you work for 2 milk tokens and a handful of magic beans?

Your eyes don't deceive you, they're united alright and playing for the manager.

It depends on what the magic beans did. My eyes tell me that the players are fighting for each other. Nothing to say they are playing for the manager.

Edited December 3, 2021 by rigger

[Bigdoggsteel]

1 hour ago, rigger said:

It depends on what the magic beans did. My eyes tell me that the players are fighting for each other. Nothing to say they are playing for the manager.

If they weren't playing well though, you would 100% be saying they weren't playing for the manager, right? 

 

[Exiled in Toronto]

1 hour ago, Spartakfenni said:

I completely disagree. All successful managers know their players and which buttons to push. I couldn’t see Shankly, Paisley, Ferguson, Dalglish, Clough using this. They are some of the most successful managers in the world. This for those managers who can’t be bothered to get to know their players.

Or for the 99.999% of managers who aren’t as good as Shankly, Paisley, Ferguson, Dalglish and Clough. Or are you suggesting being as good as them is merely a matter of effort?

[Gav]

2 hours ago, rigger said:

It depends on what the magic beans did. My eyes tell me that the players are fighting for each other. Nothing to say they are playing for the manager.

I'm speechless, for once....

[rigger]

2 hours ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

If they weren't playing well though, you would 100% be saying they weren't playing for the manager, right? 

 

Wrong !

[Upside Down]

5 hours ago, booth said:

He may be a Liverpool icon but he's a Rovers legend. The difference between us and bigger clubs is we don't make enough of it.
 

Agreed! There's a few statues around the place.

At least the one statue that there is is Jack.

Ps, Fulham's legend.

That's disturbing for so many reasons 

[Armchair supporter supremo]

8 hours ago, Gav said:

Its 2021 not 1971 👍

Some of the biggest and best companies in the world use things like MBTI which helps people gain insights about how they work and learn, its a bit old hat now with new personality type indicator tools out there, but it does work and can give managers and employees that extra 1%.

is it really not 1971, i had no idea🙄🙄🙄

 

.shit managers and shit employers. 

[Armchair supporter supremo]

6 hours ago, Gav said:

When was the last time you saw a Rovers team as united as this one?

It's only the beginning of December!! and our form is pretty average really, it's just the teams around us are doing marginally worst at the moment

Edited December 3, 2021 by Armchair supporter supremo

[Darrenbot]

1 minute ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

It's on the beginning of December!! and our form is pretty average really, it's just the teams around us are doing marginally worst at the moment

I agree.Its a whole month since we experienced our worst ever home defeat,they weren't very united that night.Some people seem to have short memories.

[Armchair supporter supremo]

1 minute ago, Darrenbot said:

I agree.Its a whole month since we experienced our worst ever home defeat,they weren't very united that night.Some people seem to have short memories.

absurd isnt it! some fall for it every year now under this dipstick of a manager

[simongarnerisgod]

that is the problem with the mowbray regime,5 good performances followed by 10 bad ones

[Mike E]

8 hours ago, Gav said:

When was the last time you saw a Rovers team as united as this one?

Under Gary Bowyer, probably. Before that, I'd have to say the season Hughesy kept us up. 

[Exiled in Toronto]

1 hour ago, Armchair supporter supremo said:

It's only the beginning of December!! and our form is pretty average really, it's just the teams around us are doing marginally worst at the moment

You might want to look up the definition of average.

[Gav]

10 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Under Gary Bowyer, probably. Before that, I'd have to say the season Hughesy kept us up. 

You could be right Mike on Bowyer.

Its been a tremendous response by the players and manager since we got beaten by the best team in the division playing with 10 men for over an hour. Some sides would have crumbled, we seem to have grown if anything, that performance against Sheff Utd was the best I've seen in years, superb stuff and the points are piling up.

Tremendous. 

[Upside Down]

I think we lack some experience on the pitch to be fair. It's great having the young players but sometimes you need a couple of older heads to keep things steady when we're under the cosh. That's what we had with Souness and it was a recipe for success. 

That said Mowbray should have sorted it out against Fulham so that we didn't get completely bummed like that at home.

Edited December 3, 2021 by Upside Down

[tomphil]

30 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

I think we lack some experience on the pitch to be fair. It's great having the young players but sometimes you need a couple of older heads to keep things steady when we're under the cosh. That's what we had with Souness and it was a recipe for success. 

That said Mowbray should have sorted it out against Fulham so that we didn't get completely bummed like that at home.

Yep things were going bad against Fulham and his meddling made it two or three times worse.

Having said that we'd only have been wheeling out Bennett and Evans then they'd be starting the next games and so on and so forth. If the odd pasting due to inexperience happens but we are rid of going around in the same old circles with managers pets i'll take it, for now. 

Edited December 3, 2021 by tomphil

[Darrenbot]

41 minutes ago, Gav said:

You could be right Mike on Bowyer.

Its been a tremendous response by the players and manager since we got beaten by the best team in the division playing with 10 men for over an hour. Some sides would have crumbled, we seem to have grown if anything, that performance against Sheff Utd was the best I've seen in years, superb stuff and the points are piling up.

Tremendous. 

Yeah that was the game where we were already 2-0 down before the red card and playing awful,it's right to say they've reacted well since that game but it shouldn't be forgotten how bad we were in the game.

[Armchair supporter supremo]

3 hours ago, Exiled in Toronto said:

You might want to look up the definition of average.

Yes I'll go do that 🥱

Edited December 4, 2021 by Armchair supporter supremo

[Spartakfenni]

15 hours ago, Exiled in Toronto said:

Or for the 99.999% of managers who aren’t as good as Shankly, Paisley, Ferguson, Dalglish and Clough. Or are you suggesting being as good as them is merely a matter of effort?

No not effort, you can be a busy fool. It’s a matter of intelligence, as I said knowing your players, what makes them tick. If you need someone to do physiological profiles then you ain’t doing your job.