I think he underestimated the league and thought he would walk it with a bunch of prem kids. Then he realised how tough it is and ran away from it
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I think he underestimated the league and thought he would walk it with a bunch of prem kids. Then he realised how tough it is and ran away from it
covcity4life
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8th place finish
If hes pathetic i dread to think what rest of our managers were like lol
Grendel
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Adams had an 8th place finish in a higher league.
Go on then other than Vincelot how many other permenant signings he made would you say we're good?
covcity4life
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Not sure it matters wether perms or loans. Budget was used and he got likes of armstrong murphy kent vincelot cole and ricketts. All good in that 8th placed season.
This season he missed out ontargets and plan b was clearly not good enouhh. No arguments
Still gave us our best season in a decade. I havw no doubt if he had stuck sround he woukd have got us goijg again results wise before a xmass window.
But hes gone now. I just will remmeber him fondly
This season he missed out ontargets and plan b was clearly not good enouhh. No arguments
Still gave us our best season in a decade. I havw no doubt if he had stuck sround he woukd have got us goijg again results wise before a xmass window.
But hes gone now. I just will remmeber him fondly
dongonzalos
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And who leaves football clubs without a pay off because the club itself needs the money.
Great man total respect for him and yes he gave us the one season to be proud of in the last 10 years
Would definitely shake his hand and thank him if I ever met him.
You cannot use Cole as an example of a good signing. One of mowbrays major problems was he did all he could to accomadate Cole
Nick
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To be fair if I massively fucked up a job I'd be ashamed to take a pay off or expect anything.
SkyBlue_Bear83
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I'm happy we've brought bodies in, I hope Foley and Clarke can have the intended impact but we also thought the same on Henderson, hunt, ricketts and ramage when they first joined.
hill83
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Hang on a minute.
covcity4life
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Well said. The people starting s love in with slade are pathetic. Especially as they have a go at me for liking mowbray lol couldnt make it up
But to be clear. I am also happy with slades signings and really hope we see a committed manly team from.now on. I hope one day we unveil a statue of slade!
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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I seem to have this constant battle with all my mates who are Cov fans. They can't blame Mowbray through their sheer vision that SISU hold the responsibility to everything.
Yes they are massively to blame for a lot of things, but Mowbray's flaws do exist. His player selection and transfer dealings in the last two windows. These two things are a massive part of being a manager. He can palm it off on Venus all he wants, but he blew the best promotion chance we've had in years, and also put us in for prime relegation candiadtes this year.
I'm sorry, but I can't see through that, as much as I do hate SISU.
Yes they are massively to blame for a lot of things, but Mowbray's flaws do exist. His player selection and transfer dealings in the last two windows. These two things are a massive part of being a manager. He can palm it off on Venus all he wants, but he blew the best promotion chance we've had in years, and also put us in for prime relegation candiadtes this year.
I'm sorry, but I can't see through that, as much as I do hate SISU.
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dongonzalos
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How many other managers do you know who have screwed up far worse waited to get sacked and took a massive pay off?
Fair play to him
SkyBlue_Bear83
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There's two ways of looking at everything.
He took over a team that was spiralling to league 2 and created a team which people were disappointed that finished outside the play offs, yes mowbray decisions were a factor as to why we missed out, but without him we would never have been in that position to begin with.
It went a bit pear shaped this season but I believe if Mowbray had stuck it out he would have stabilised into midtable, which whilst would still be disappointing given last season, is still much better than the current position.
I think we all know the real problem here, you've still never got over jim O'Brien leaving
Grendel
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The suggestion was that he had a clause in his contract after 10 games we could sack him for no recompense if we were in the bottom 4
dongonzalos
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That's quite a specific clause.
higgs
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Pity venus didn't have the same clause after his 10 games in charge we were in the bottom 2
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Speedies_Chips
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Interesting even.
shmmeee
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This post hasn't aged well.
MAFF
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covcity4life
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But st least i cant be called a hater for haters sake!
stevefloyd
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And as the surrealism ramps up
ajsccfc
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Stand by it. A relatively promising start and he signed all the kinds of players we need, it's just a shame he then shit the bed and didn't know what to do with any of them
Polar
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One for the archive!
Can understand why bringing in a tougher looking defence was welcomed...to be fair his signings clarke, foley etc should have done the business.
At a push I can see why Slade was seen as a positive thing too, when compared to a broken looking Venus after that defeat at Southend.
Hated our style of football under him though.
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Can understand why bringing in a tougher looking defence was welcomed...to be fair his signings clarke, foley etc should have done the business.
At a push I can see why Slade was seen as a positive thing too, when compared to a broken looking Venus after that defeat at Southend.
Hated our style of football under him though.
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YorkshireSkyBlue
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Haha this thread. With the earlier signings under slade things did look more positive but it went massively wrong.
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