2006/07 - first season in the Championship after being relegated, finished 4th after a bad run of results. 2007/08 - promoted. And yes he had a decent budget. TM's CV is... Hibernian - left for WBA WBA - got them promoted to PL in second season Celtic - sacked Middlesbrough - sacked Coventry - resigned after 10 consecutive defeats.

I was being facetious obviously. However I've always thought he's a very laid back manager who has a history of teams collapsing. He probably gets found out and for some reason has no plan B when that happens. I remember one LT interview a couple of years ago in which he was asked why there was a sudden upturn of results. He said something along the lines of... I don't know, we aren't doing anything different. It's a surprise to me as well. I think there's more prayer than planning when it comes to TM's management style. And when his prayers aren't answered he just stumbles on till it either works again, or he's sacked/resigns.

https://wbaunofficial.org.uk/showthread.php?tid=24314 Looks like some would welcome him back and some have common sense.

If true that's despicable. Also I'll add to that... Poor WBA. No doubt TM will work his socks off to get results there, then get bored just before Christmas and spend the rest of the season phoning it in whilst passively blaming the young boys at the club. If any of our players are stupid enough to follow Mowbray anywhere then they are as daft as he is.

Echoes of the Venky takeover but Rovers were in no danger of relegation and as yet, ALK haven’t put a fox in charge of the chicken coop.

Wouldn’t surprise me. Yesterday it looked like he’d completely lost them.

The loan players are also the young players he’s nurturing. Anyway he’s the one saying it not me. I think he’s generally poor at whatever he does whether it’s nurturing young talent or making a sub.

Well as he keeps telling us his job is to develop these young boys. That seems to be his main role there. Managing a football team and winning games seems to be secondary.

A very ordinary team created by a poor manager. With some decent signings in January, implemented correctly we could have been promoted automatically (when you look at how other teams have dropped points).

There was one bloke on Facebook trying to start arguments with everyone last night. He finally gave up.

Yes, for man of his age and experience he’s thin skinned.

Yes it is, they had to keep him somehow after making such a poor impression.

I think I'll go off football altogether.

I was meaning in matches where someone goes off injured, instead of just replacing them with a similar player, he'll swap it all around. He'll stick Giles on the other side and someone less suited where Giles was. Then the next match comes along and Giles on the other side is the new normal.

Because it all began with Kean and co. I don't know how you missed that, it was quite possibly one of the most well documented and most despicable things ever to happen to the club. Just google Ruben Rochina.

Bizarre decision to take your fullback off and replace him with a CB - especially a CB that wasn't playing particularly well.

The big difference for me is we had a few players out so TM decided to completely fuck with the team rather than just swap like for like and bring in some cover for BBD. Then he forgot what made them successful in the first place. He did pretty much the same last season. His persistence in playing Gallagher means that most of the time we're playing with ten men.

At the time Kean could have stayed as long as he wanted.

I'll make a prediction that he'll get a 1 year rolling contract.

Yeah, some are being daft. Kean was the lowest of the low. It was a living nightmare and I hope I don't ever witness anything like it. I was just having a chat about this myth that we had loads of debt before Venkys turned up. £21m was the debt. Kean and friends weasled their way in and in 2020 it hit £156m. Someone did well.

Nah, he's done this in almost every season at every club he's been a manager.

He's been getting some flak recently for being direct. While I'd prefer someone with experience of Championship promotion I'd swap him for Mowbray in a heartbeat. https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/sport/20073208.gareth-ainsworth-criticises-lazy-analysis-wycombes-tactics/

"Dumbing down" for life in the championship?

What a journey.

“We can build on the success of last year…” I’m guessing he’ll omit to mention we will need to buy half a squad in order to avoid a relegation scrap, never mind promotion.