Tony Mowbray

[tomphil]

Whatever we might agree or disagree with Mowbray there's no doubt he's a proper football man and bloke.

Might be a bypass job in which case he should be well again after a good long rest, hes certainly earned it.

[simongarnerisgod]

get well soon tony,did`nt much like his football philosophy but away from the pitch he came across as a thoroughly decent bloke

[Andy]

I'll always be grateful to TM for turning a club in a death spiral (following relegation) around.

If memory serves me right, the club was a total mess back to front and he was central in reestablishing departments and structure to the club.

And that's before some of his signings (BBD / Rothwell / Dack / etc) who should have gone on to earn us many millions.

Many negatives, of course, but he's a good man and hopefully his health situation improves.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I gave him the benefit of the doubt regarding the relegation. I thought he did ok to get us promoted with the best squad in the league. I wasn’t best pleased when he racked our cue and let Wigan win the league.

However he lost me in the immediate aftermath of promotion when he decided we didn’t need any high profile signings, just a few bodies to help the existing team out. 

After that I’d no confidence in him ever taking us to the next level. He  made more bad signings than good and I was relieved when he left. I would have fired him years before then.

Having said that we’ve had worse managers and I wish him well in his return to full health and a return to management. Some things are more important than football. As Klopp once said “ Football is the most important of the least important things in life “.

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I gave him the benefit of the doubt regarding the relegation. I thought he did ok to get us promoted with the best squad in the league. I wasn’t best pleased when he racked our cue and let Wigan win the league.

However he lost me in the immediate aftermath of promotion when he decided we didn’t need any high profile signings, just a few bodies to help the existing team out. 

After that I’d no confidence in him ever taking us to the next level. He  made more bad signings than good and I was relieved when he left. I would have fired him years before then.

Having said that we’ve had worse managers and I wish him well in his return to full health and a return to management. Some things are more important than football. As Klopp once said “ Football is the most important of the least important things in life “.

I think that's a good summary of TM.

He was very lucky here to have been preceded by the shittest managers we've ever had at this club. Even the promotion back was tainted by not winning the division, especially when we lost out to Wigan.

Generally I don't think he's a very good manager. His level is stabilizing a club in this division that's just come up. Anything more than that and you need someone proper.

I'm sure he'll make a good recovery and we'll see him back at it sooner than we think.

[joey_big_nose]

Hope he recovers well, he seems a really good football man and all round decent human being. 

In terms of his quality as a manager he is a solid Championship guy. Will get you mid table / edge of the playoffs with the sort of funding we had at the time. Issue is that the majority of managers in the Championship will get you that level, he didn't have the something extra to get us over the line.

Think Eustace will be quite similar to Mowbray - will hit what is expected on the level of funding provided, not - like JDT or Hughes - exceed it.