Tony Mowbray

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, tomphil said:

Isn't Mowbray a head coach up there working under a DoF ?

If so he might not get his own way when the strikers are back, someone might be calling him in and telling him in no unvetain terms Sunderland fans love their strikers to be strikers.

One thing for sure is he'll be getting told that a 2 win in 17 game death spiral is not good enough. 

[Nuttall is lost]

24 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

One thing for sure is he'll be getting told that a 2 win in 17 game death spiral is not good enough. 

Why?  Don't the Sunderland fans realise its not 1995?

[AllRoverAsia]

7 hours ago, tomphil said:

Isn't Mowbray a head coach up there working under a DoF ?

If so he might not get his own way when the strikers are back, someone might be calling him in and telling him in no unvetain terms Sunderland fans love their strikers to be strikers.

Yes, Kristjaan Speakman, Sporting Director who joined from Brum late last year. He's from an Academy background, pro youth which is what their manager has just moaned about post the Burnley defeat. Well that and injuries, lack of height etc etc ... you know how it goes.

Anyone looking for some entertainment should have a look at this forum, its fun when we're not directly affected

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/forums/pure-football.86/

 

Edited October 23, 2022 by AllRoverAsia

[Dan]

15 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Yes, Kristjaan Speakman, Sporting Director who joined from Brum late last year. He's from an Academy background, pro youth which is what their manager has just moaned about post the Burnley defeat. Well that and injuries, lack of height etc etc ... you know how it goes.

Anyone looking for some entertainment should have a look at this forum, its fun when we're not directly affected

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/forums/pure-football.86/

 

Looks like they are already turning on him. Throwing on subs with no plan, run out of ideas, can’t defend set plays(I wonder if the fans know he doesn’t work on them in training? 😂). Luckily for them, I don’t think they’ll have to put up with him as long as we had to.  I wonder if he’ll be the honourable bloke he makes outs to be and walk before he is pushed there? I imagine their crowd has less happy clappers than us, so it may be a bit more difficult for him. 

Edited October 23, 2022 by Dan

[J*B]

In a sadistic way I quite liked reading this. It evidences that I wasn’t going mad. I cannot believe we put up with this man for as long as we did. 

[Claytons Left Boot]

I think someone should tell the Sunderland fans about the lemon drizzle..

[Oldgregg86]

1 hour ago, Claytons Left Boot said:

I think someone should tell the Sunderland fans about the lemon drizzle..

I already did when he went there along with everything else 🤣🤣🤣

[Irish_Rover]

Its actually bloody hilarious seeing someone else on the receiving end.

"Said he wasn't going to make excuses then spent the entire interview making excuses.

Looked a broken man mind you"

Along with

"You caught that as well?

"Well, you know, Luton is one hell of an intimidating place to go play football"

 

Bear in mind he basically just arrived and they were doing reasonably ok (points wise, havent looked any closer at performances or anything). The first expected death spiral and it will be curtains for him

[JacknOry]

One bad half and they calling for his head - he had it so goo dhere ffs. 

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/mowbray-should-be-sacked-based-on-the-2nd-half.1592163/unread

[Ossydave]

9 minutes ago, JacknOry said:

One bad half and they calling for his head - he had it so goo dhere ffs. 

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/mowbray-should-be-sacked-based-on-the-2nd-half.1592163/unread

It's not really a majority though is it?

There were people calling for JDT to leave after Wigan..  

[Irish_Rover]

And yet up until close to the end there was people on twitter actually suggesting we should have a statue of him outside Ewood

[Mattyblue]

They can’t be, it’s a uniquely brfcs thing to be ‘negative’ according to some on here…

[JacknOry]

19 minutes ago, Ossydave said:

It's not really a majority though is it?

There were people calling for JDT to leave after Wigan..  

Well, either way, it's fun to read. 

[smiller14]

Mowbray barely averaged a point a game at Sunderland. Can't see him lasting long there at all, and seems like he's dishing out the patronising interviews already. They've been unlucky with injuries to strikers I believe but throwing a 2-0 lead had all the hallmarks of TM. 

[tomphil]

It would just be like him if they go and win the next 2 or 3 now that's how it tends to work.

What he doesn't have to live off there for the next 3 years is a promotion, something that carried him through a lot of lean times and talking nonsense here.

[AllRoverAsia]

22 hours ago, Claytons Left Boot said:

I think someone should tell the Sunderland fans about the lemon drizzle..

And the data on the second half of the season death spirals

[JHRover]

Anyone know what happened to that giant flag of Mowbray that we used to have at Ewood pre-match? Just wondering if we can have it couriered to Sunderland so they can use it now.

[roversfan99]

2 hours ago, tomphil said:

It would just be like him if they go and win the next 2 or 3 now that's how it tends to work.

What he doesn't have to live off there for the next 3 years is a promotion, something that carried him through a lot of lean times and talking nonsense here.

The biggest thing that carries any manager through lean times here is disinterested owners.

[Dan]

20 hours ago, Irish_Rover said:

And yet up until close to the end there was people on twitter actually suggesting we should have a statue of him outside Ewood

Would have been like a gargoyle 😂

Edited October 24, 2022 by Dan

[Dan]

12 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

The biggest thing that carries any manager through lean times here is disinterested owners.

A lot on Twitter and Facebook loved Tony and were devastated when he left. Anyone disagreeing got called a ‘melt’, whatever that’s supposed to mean  🙄

[roversfan99]

7 minutes ago, Dan said:

A lot on Twitter and Facebook loved Tony and were devastated when he left. Anyone disagreeing got called a ‘melt’, whatever that’s supposed to mean  🙄

I suppose you get people on both sides of the argument who are so extreme in their argument that they stubbornly force themselves into a corner and away from any reasoned debate. I haven't thankfully seen much of that as I must not follow many of those people on social media, but equally we have seen stuff on here making out as if Mowbray was absolutely horrendous as a manager here which is equally not true.

[chaddyrovers]

3 hours ago, tomphil said:

It would just be like him if they go and win the next 2 or 3 now that's how it tends to work.

What he doesn't have to live off there for the next 3 years is a promotion, something that carried him through a lot of lean times and talking nonsense here.

Mowbray probably will do and given that Simms is almost back for them. He won't be sack there this season

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

Anyone know what happened to that giant flag of Mowbray that we used to have at Ewood pre-match? Just wondering if we can have it couriered to Sunderland so they can use it now.

Excellent suggestion there

36 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

The biggest thing that carries any manager through lean times here is disinterested owners.

you don't know the owners are disinterested in the club do you? what is this based on?

[rickard]

It was funny, I was listening to a Swedish podcast about EFL, and they were discussing Sunderland. They thought it was so strange that Mowbray played so many players out of their natual positions. I was thinking to myself that it sounded vaguely familiar... 😉 

[Dan]

2 hours ago, JHRover said:

Anyone know what happened to that giant flag of Mowbray that we used to have at Ewood pre-match? Just wondering if we can have it couriered to Sunderland so they can use it now.

Can we get Pears to deliver it(and then not come back)? 

[Mattyblue]

It’ll be flying in his back garden.