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tomphil

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  1. The first Mowbray game i saw was Barnsley at home and i knew then we'd go down and probably posted it on here. Team was shite, defence made mistakes and his tactics were odd and in the first several games i saw nothing to make me think he was the man for the job. Of course that wonderful hindsight tells us if he'd maintained that record over a season we would have stayed up but the reality was neither he nor the squad had enough about it for almost half a season to do enough.
  2. League 1 is full of Garretts, Leonards etc league 1 clubs do have their own young players you know. If you think what's left of this squad will do well i'd suggest you need a rethink our wallflowers will get kicked from pillar to post.
  3. Because the Ewood brains trust have now chosen to blow a million on 2 short term to the end of the season 'frees' instead of committing a bit more in a 2 year deal for a better and slightly younger player. Penny wise pound foolish as always but it's ok the bean counters see the sense in it !
  4. We'll go there and park the bus, hoof it to Gallagher and lose 1-0.
  5. Fine lines again today. Nothing wrong with the start and we should have been 2 too the good but they did carve is open too easy once they settled down. Clearly our lack of pace at the back is a target and gives a massive dilemma for Eustace in the need to not play too high a line which then affects us attack wise. Crap recruitment for years is behind that we haven't had pace anywhere in defence since Olsson but these present lads don't just lack pace they have concrete boots but fatigue won't help. Today though keep 11 and we might have been holding on for 3 points it seemed one of those days but in the end it's a fortunate draw. Over all another shite week which seems in some parts to be triumphant because 'at least we didn't lose' and whilst there is truth in that it also can't be overlooked that if we went for it in the games and just won 1 then that's 3 point instead of 2. That was the JDT philosophy.
  6. Well i've been saying that for a decade and something finally did in terms of the funds being used for houses and pop stars instead of the club. I'm certain there is loads more but that will be well buried now and nobody will investigate it anyway this has only come to light because of a miffed govt in India. They've only scratched the surface and will only be interested in anything that looks like they've been evading tax so it'll probably blow over eventually. Then we'll be left with much reduced funding due to the 20% levy so league 1 we are coming whether it's now or in the near future.
  7. I see where you're coming from but he did sign a contract which enabled Rovers to get a fee plus add ons. He could have walked 12 months earlier for minimum compensation so he obviously wasn't that eager to leave until there was something he probably couldn't turn down financially. Booing him is petty, best just to treat him with silence.
  8. I still think the reason they carry the club now is because it sits comfortably in the VH group portfolio soaking up a lump of spare money some of which goes through the pipes elsewhere. That has kind of been proven with what's going on now over there with the investigations etc. Don't think that's why they bought it but that is what it became and as for betting i think if that goes on it's just a nice little perk from owning their plaything. In the early days though i very much think some involved were in it for that very reason.
  9. Teams like Spuds have been known to throw in cars, penthouses, jobs for family arranged etc when luring young players plus there is London to play around in during their downtime. It's a heady brew when plonked in front of a young lad from a small town club.
  10. Philips it was probably hard to turn down going from a few grand a week to about ten plus whatever other incentives a club like Spurs throw into a young player package. However from a football perspective it was a bit stupid given that here he'd have been maybe a 1st choice starter now or not far off form permitting. Games under his belt in the Championship = bigger transfer fee, bigger initial wages and more chance of being a Prem starter. As it is it's Plymouth this year for him then probably Hull or Qpr next season.
  11. It's like hes been tared and feathered as straight out of the Kean/Coyle stable of ####s just installed here by a third party to do their dirty work. A bit too early to be marking him down like that imo. Trying to portray him as a hate figure is pathetic to be honest he's just another run of the mill British coach walking into a mess and trying to stabilise it using his previous trusted methods. No different to anyone else walking in just like when Mowbray did and if it wasn't him it'd be someone of very similar ilk. Not saying i'm impressed or a huge fan but i can at least see where it all stems from and the much wider issues he's dealing with and after a few weeks he shouldn't have to fight fans as well, all he's doing is trying to pacify everybody and that's understandable. We are likely stuck with him whatever happens now so no point doing anything other than backing him in the next few games at least.
  12. There is way too much hate floating around for this guy hes only been here 5 mins. I get the frustration at the football and lack of wins but it's 2 wins in 18 and that tells you the story here better than any managerial soundbites. He's here to try and keep us up so we need to lay off him and stick to the real causes of this mess don't fall into the trap, he's just another human shield they've thrown up to protect themselves. Had the fans not started kicking off i'm sure they'd have made JDT stick it out unless he or someone else bought out his contract. Only reason this happened all so quickly is because the fans, guided by JDTS comments, turned the heat up on the Shadowman and the Fat controller. Don't kid yourselves otherwise, the whole mess is down to those 2 and that 4 over in India.
  13. People in doubt this can have any sort of benefit need to read the many various articles out there based on fact not conspiracy. That doesn't mean it's happening in our case but to just brush it off as nonsense or not worth it for anyone to do it is really naive.
  14. Come summer we could well have sold 30 mill + of talent if Szmodics goes so some down there will proclaim the new 'model' is working. Relegation is just a blip they couldn't care less if the bills are paid and commission and bonuses come through. Last time we went down it followed about 30 mill of sales with no reinvestment so i find it very hard to accept they don't know the risks they've created. Last time Mowbray was given about 1.5 million to spend in lge 1 so don't be surprised if the idiots think it'll be that simple second time around.
  15. Like iv'e said most managers of his ilk would just do the same and just tighten up and not look to stretch or take risks and that's before you take into account injuries, knocks, poor keepers. TM did it, Lambert did it but got Graham in to run channels, Neil would do it if he'd have come or Ainsworth or any number of others. The sheer lack of bodies, quality and fatigue are also playing a massive part in how Eustace has to approach it at the min although at some point he'll simply have to take the shackles off and go for risk/reward. Looking at the goal we did let in v Millwall i'm certain had we been more open and attacking we'd have lost that game by 2 or 3 scored on the break.
  16. Mowbray, Venus and Swag led a charmed life for a number of years though owing to that promotion and it looked as though they were just left to get on with it. He covered for the owners when he had to and he received some good backing for a few years so it was pretty much a cakewalk for them that's why he was so bitter and gave up when the end was in sight. In truth he made it more about himself as time went on but then unfathomably didn't want to shoulder any accountability when it wasn't going well. He didn't roast the 'conduit' and CEO when he should have though which kind of says everything, towards the end it was just 'the owners have their own issues to deal with in India' - (he obviously knew what was coming) and 'you'll have to speak to my CEO about that' TM has played the game a long time.
  17. Consider not long after Jones was sold for 16 mill before add ons, Kalinic went for 6 mill and Samba eventually for about 12 mill to pay off the Barclays overdraft. I'm convinced they got their buying price back pretty quickly.
  18. Lads who weren't keepers but did a turn in goal on our Weds 7 a side used to dive like that. Ok it was well struck and maybe he didn't see it but the old 'make yourself big at all times' seems to be out the window these days.
  19. They'd paid it down though selling Bentley i think it was around 10 mill when the club was sold plus there was another 3 million loan from the Walker Trust.
  20. I thought it was 23 mill, 10 mill for immediate debt then 10 mill to be injected straight away to cover running costs ?
  21. Next season is going to be a really really tough sell. Not sure how many more blind alleys i can be bothered with as even when things went well for a short spell there was clearly no intention of promotion.
  22. It'll never happen they'll just arrange some high interest loan against the remaining Wharton instalments then sell what they can in summer. They've winged it ever since they walked through the door that's why we are in the mess we are and it'll never change.
  23. You could play 2 Leos in one goal and we'd still concede iv'e never seen such an odd keeper diving for the ball, flaps well fair enough many young keepers in this era have that problem but backflips are a new thing.
  24. Millwall fans gripes mirror these on here, Harris is too dour and negative, hope he's just here to keep us up then replace him, we show zero intent to attack a poor team, stop messing about with it at the back it cost a goal again last night... So on and so forth. Championship football in other words.
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