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Assessment of TM

OnlyOneTugay

OnlyOneTugay

Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
I don’t like criticising managers and I definitely wouldn’t condone the inane ‘Mowbray Mowbray sort it out ‘ chanting from the Blackburn End , which was just about audible in the JWU Darwen End and took place when Rovers were drawing 2-2 ! The atmosphere at Ewood is that bad these days that the boos can barely be heard !

However ........... TM just hasn’t progressed this team since promotion. Let’s put to one side his appalling signing of Brereton and give him the benefit of the doubt that he was foisted onto the club and he had no choice . To almost make the same mistake and spend £5 million on Gallagher, after what we all saw him during his loan period and probably thought ‘ not bad but not really good enough ‘ is unforgivable.

He has completely failed to address the defensive weaknesses and that’s not just by not buying decent defenders but by not prioritising the defensive aspect of the game . That continues to be a source of great puzzlement to me when he’s an ex centre half .

With the defensive frailties remaining unfixed, I just hope Rovers can score enough goals to win the important must win games , like Barnsley . If they can we should avoid the drop and that will be a massive result for me .

The only way a team like Rovers can get back into the Premier League is by having a manager who gets something special out of a group of ordinary players . Recent examples are the Dingles , Sheffield United , Cardiff and currently riding high PNE .
 
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Drog

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I believe the supporters have treat Mowbray well until last Saturday. That is the first protest that I can recall at Ewood. I thought something might be brewing given the rapturous applause that greeted Graham as he began his warm up. Like us all they are frustrated, they see things that are wrong which TM appears oblivious to. I still cannot imagine what was going through his head at PNE as we let a 2 goal lead slip and were being mullered and he didn't do a thing to address it until 80 odd minutes. Also wtf was the point of bringing Evans and Buckley on when we needed a goal at Leeds when we had Johnson (ex Leeds) and Rothwell gathering splinters.
Mowbray is on a spike with Gallagher and Brerton imo. They will see him off sure as eggs are eggs. As the old football Manager mantra goes...... "you have to get rid of bad players OR they'll get rid of you"
 
Drog

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Something distinctly weird about last night and something which I commented on on here during the match.
Surely ANY manager playing against a goalkeeper who he used to manage would know his weaknesses and target them. So why then were we playing out swinging corners into the Brentford box?
Just about every member of the crowd last night if they had been in Mowbray's position would have instructed the players to send high in-swinging corners onto the goal line with the likes of Lenihan and Graham crowding (but not fouling) David Raya. We all know full well he can't handle that situation. We know too that most opponents were doing that to him when he played for us.
OK so we only had 4 corners all night but what sort of a tactician is Mowbray to not have prepared a proper and fitting reception for Raya last night?
As I say .... Weird with a capital W!
 
Drog

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errr........... Are you his agent by any chance dave?;)
 
davebirch

davebirch

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sadly, no, drog.
in a year or so I'd be coining it.
This guy is going all the way.
It's a case of doing it his way, with his time frame, and, if at any time you get the wobbles (as an owner) and not back him, he'll be off.
He's been in Japan for 18 months (a season and a half) and he taken a team that had done nothing for 15 years to a title.
He's working his way up to a major club, let him do it with the Rovers.
 
Drog

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Wasting your time on here then. You'd better write a letter addressed to 'Messrs venkymob, Pune, India'.
 
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Smells Like Kean Spirit

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Adam Armstrong has been frustrating to watch for most of last season and some of this one, but with 9 goals and 5 assists, so far, he's starting to look like a good signing and is helping to compensate for the loss of Dack. Not sure what his fee was but I think it was relatively low. He still hasn't turned 23 yet, so credit to the coaching staff, who've obviously been working on his awareness and finishing.

Good Mowbray signing?
 
Barmitzvah Boy

Barmitzvah Boy

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Smells Like Kean Spirit said:
Adam Armstrong has been frustrating to watch for most of last season and some of this one, but with 9 goals and 5 assists, so far, he's starting to look like a good signing and is helping to compensate for the loss of Dack. Not sure what his fee was but I think it was relatively low. He still hasn't turned 23 yet, so credit to the coaching staff, who've obviously been working on his awareness and finishing.

Good Mowbray signing?
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Well I am prepared to eat humble pie. I was critical of AA earlier this season; he has proven me wrong and he has turned out to be a decent TM signing.
 
OnlyOneTugay

OnlyOneTugay

Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
I always thought AA was a mercurial talent , sometimes brilliant , sometimes distinctly average . However I always resist criticising players who have speed to burn . Like in cricket , even the best players have problems with raw pace , no matter how erratically it’s served up .

With players of AA’s type who at times frustrate and fail to perform , I’ve always felt half is their own doing and half is how the coaching staff / manager get the best out of them ( as SLKS implies ) , whether that’s tactics , positional and motivation or a combination . His performances this season show both parties are stepping up and getting it right . Nine goals and five assists is a fantastic contribution to the team . Long me it continue
 
Drog

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Exactly OOT. I've always rated Armstrong. The type of players that Souness would have called 'Spikey'. Anyone with pace like his allied to a low centre of gravity is a dangerous opponent and especially if they can ally that to good finishing ability which he can. We have another in Harry Chapman but for some reason TM preferred Brereton on the bench last night. The trick is for the coaches is to get the rest of the team to play the right balls into his path at the right time so that he can burn past the defenders, otherwise it's just a talent wasted*. Leicester under Brendan Rodgers being the perfect current example. They do that to a tee for Jamie Vardy!

*I always thought we should have got more out of Jeffers. He had a devastating first 5 yards and a marvellous ability to play off the shoulder of the centre halves. Everyone in the land knew he could finish but somehow we couldn't adapt the midfielders to make the best use of him.
 
steve w

steve w

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I'm with BB on this
I accept he is doing a much better job but suspect its because he can have the limelight now with no Dack, his present roll means he doesn't have to do the hard yards and that has always been my concern
If he becomes a "team" player I will also eat humble pie
 
Drog

Drog

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I've said many times on here, fine player that he is Bradley Dack is not irreplaceable should injury or transfer intervene. I believe Armstrong, Holtby and Rothwell are currently proving my point. Dack's infuriating habit was to slow attacks down far to often.
 
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