If we go down will Mowbray go down as one of our worst ever managers? (8 Viewers)

[Otis]

Just by the very fact that he would have presided over a City side that ended up in the lowest tier of league football. He has to hasn't he?

His abomination of a summer recruitment policy has cost us dear.

I liked him when he was here at first, but in the end he lost the plot and it's his and Venus's team building exercise that were a very major contributor to where we find ourselves now.

You obviously associate managers by the success of the team and by the same token if a team goes down they must hold a great deal of culpability.

Was expecting good things from Tony Mowbray, but he left the club with the squad ill equipped to make a fist of it in this division.

If we go down I think in years to come we will speak of Mowbray and just the mention of his name will leave us all thinking very negatively. (Everyone apart from CC4L of course)

 

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[Brylowes]

In years to come, if by some miracle we are still a football club, I will suppress any Memories I have
from the last 5 or 6 years, in much the same way as people do after suffering a traumatic experience.

 

[singers_pore]

Mowbray lost interest in the job once CA went against his advice by trying to flog JM for peanuts. Our problems run much deeper than the team manager.

 

[MatthewWallis]

Let's be fair, we could've been down 2 seasons ago if he hadn't kept us up. For the first 6 months of last season I loved watching us and if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have had that belief and optimism that I've rarely ever felt as a cov fan. I wouldn't say he would be one of the worst managers but a large majority of the blame certainly has to go to him for this season and also the fact that we should've got out this league last season

 

[PVA]

No.

 

[Hobo]

Well he kept us up from a March run in and gave us a good half season. The fact we faded wasn't the problem for me. But this summer was a disaster for signings.

Slade had a tough job when he came in. Slade may not be able to save us, but he at least needs to improve us. I am not sure this is going to happen but it is early days.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

Can't blame the manager people were creaming themselves when he was appointed saying things like see give sisu credit for getting him in.
Funny how they were also the first ones to turn on him, Slade will be no different he will be the next scapegoat.

 

[Otis]

Can't blame the manager people were creaming themselves when he was appointed saying things like see give sisu credit for getting him in.
Funny how they were also the first ones to turn on him, Slade will be no different he will be the next scapegoat.

I was well happy when he came and I expected great things from him.

We had a terrible slump, but I was prepared to give him the benefit of doubt and a fresh start.

The summer though was a disaster. We can blame Sisu for budgets or supporting him or whatever etc, but the bottom line is he was chasing players that were not attainable. That's down to Venus and Mowbray and nobody else.

Disastrous.

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

No, him and robins are the best managers the club have had in the last 12 years.

 

[Covstu]

For me I remember him for nearly taking us up

 

[Otis]

For me I remember him for nearly taking us up

But then it can be said it was his fault for NOT taking us up.

For us to be 11 points clear of 6th place and then slump so very badly has to be in part down to him.

 

[Covstu]

Half glass full and all that Otis.

 

[Brylowes]

Can't blame the manager people were creaming themselves when he was appointed saying things like see give sisu credit for getting him in.
Funny how they were also the first ones to turn on him, Slade will be no different he will be the next scapegoat.

He already is the the next scapegoat, after what is it 5 games.
See the Slade out thread.

 

[higgs]

When you see the job rosler is doing at fleetwood and the job the cov kid is doing at scunthorpe without massive investment we are massive under achievers

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[stevefloyd]

Like it or not TM is to blame for our current position...he brought in sub standard players with little or no foreseeable thought on tactics positions etc... when he 1st came here I genuinely thought SISU had pulled off a bit of a coup but after the intitial euphoria boy did it go downhill very very quick

 

[italiahorse]

No manager will stop this rot.
It's Sisu that are toxic and it will continue while they and their idiot Fisher are here.

 

[stupot07]

Hes not one of our worst managers but he should take his fair share and responsibility for taking us down if we do get relegation. I will always remember those 4 months where I dared to dream, but overall his stats are nothing to right home about and if he'd have clung on and not walked I'm sure they'd have only gotten worse.

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[skybluetony176]

Mowbray lost interest in the job once CA went against his advice by trying to flog JM for peanuts. Our problems run much deeper than the team manager.

First game during CA's reign was Northampton in the cup. Something changed the minute he arrived.

 

[italiahorse]

When you see the job rosler is doing at fleetwood and the job the cov kid is doing at scunthorpe without massive investment we are massive under achievers

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Like it or not TM is to blame for our current position...he brought in sub standard players with little or no foreseeable thought on tactics positions etc... when he 1st came here I genuinely thought SISU had pulled off a bit of a coup but after the intitial euphoria boy did it go downhill very very quick

With a new team every year we are going nowhere.

 

[higgs]

With a new team every year we are going nowhere.

We need stability but it's not going to happen when we don't even know where we will be playing the season after next it's a disgrace

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[Otis]

Hes not one of our worst managers but he should take his fair share and responsibility for taking us down if we do get relegation. I will always remember those 4 months where I dared to dream, but overall his stats are nothing to right home about and if he'd have clung on and not walked I'm sure they'd have only gotten worse.

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I am basing the worst manager tag though, Stu, on if we go down. He will have very heavily be to blame for taking us down.

THAT is what I would base the worst manager tag upon.

 

[pusbccfc]

I'll never get over the fact he couldn't get us into the play offs with that team last year.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

With a new team every year we are going nowhere.

But that doesn't count he should manage according to some......
Funny but how many managers have we had since Sisu have been here and everyone has been a failure.

 

[Covstu]

Name the last 'good' manager for us? You could argue Robins but he dashed off before he could be judged so personally I do not class him as a success.

Basically there hasn't been one for easily over a decade which tells me it cannot just be the manager who is bad but he is always the easy target

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Among such wonderful names as

Howe
Neal
Strachan
Thorn
Pressley
Coleman
Shaw
Plus many others

Slade will have had nearly half a season and a transfer window to save us so if we go down he will fit in to that group nicely

 

[Deity]

You have to be hard of thinking to assert that Mowbray is to blame for the clubs current plight. Beggars belief.

 

[Rodders1]

For me Peter Reid and Big Ron would be at the top of my list..... Mowbray got it to click big time for half a season. Really think SISU could have invested in that Jan to get us over the line. Obviously that's never gonna happen!

Also he walked away without payoff - he knew it was buggered this season. Yes bad recruitment, but this club is a shabbles now - who could blame him.

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

Mowbray lost interest in the job once CA went against his advice by trying to flog JM for peanuts. Our problems run much deeper than the team manager.

Agreed

 

[skyblue025]

Not for me Otis. Bought a bright light to what had been for years and years, a very dim room for his first year in charge. After that he went he same way as every other manager under Shitsu. If the same thing keeps happening again and again then it's not the mangers fault though he already gets the blame.

 

[Evo1883]

Look I said this on another post


Most wins in a season last year for 15 years
2nd most goals scored in a season for 32 years
Least goals conceded in a season for 20 years
Most amount of points amassed in a single season Since 3 points were introduced

Is it his fault the players he wanted to bring in wouldn't come so he ended up with a load of bang average or guff players ? maybe

But I enjoyed the football we played under him in an extremely difficult job .
Isn't it about time fans stopped blaming the managers , after all nobody has done any better here have they under SISU ???

And at the end of the season he would have been gone 36 games , out of the 46 games he oversaw 4 defeats this season .....so no it's not his fault

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

Even this season a big contrast in quality of football and organising the team between the start of the season with TM and what is being served up now. Two many drawn games at the start of the season when we were and still are missing a goal scorer. Nine years of failed managers. All of them useless? The common factor in all of this is Sisu. If we go down, I think most fans will know who to blame.

 

[ccfchoi87]

I've been a fan for around 14 years and I'm yet to see a manager who's been a success. Eric black maybe but I was only young then and it might have been different had he been granted another season in charge like thorn was. The best was probably robins but I still blame him for the Crewe 1st leg and again things might have turned sour had he stuck around longer

 

[singers_pore]

I don't think it's possible to make any comments about TM or other managers we have had without full details about what has been going on behind the scenes.

 

[Brylowes]

[QUOTE="ccfchoi87, post: 1248604, member: 8639) The best was probably robins but I still blame him for the Crewe 1st leg and again things might have turned sour had he stuck around longer[/QUOTE]

It would, he could see the future at this club was rotten, he was offered another job
And took it, and I don't blame him one bit.

 

[stevefloyd]

Whatever is going on behind the scenes is shite we all know that...BUT Mowbray brought in various players got lucky with Armstrong, Murphy and to some extent Kent...then it went downhill all the rest of his signings were very very very bad