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Tbf Bowyer brought in Duffy, Cairney, King, Conway, Gestede, Spurr and a few other decent purchases. Granted he made some real cock ups too, but most of those came after the plug had been completely pulled financially and we were left scraping the very bottom of the barrel.

Agreed. Most of Bowyer's purchases were for less than what we paid for Dack when we were in League 1.

Did Bowyer perform significantly (or any) worse than Mowbray? Better squad maybe but he also placed them far higher, albeit short of the goal. I can't help but think even if Mowbray had GB's best squad he'd still find a way to mire us in mid-table. Rhodes and Gestede on the wings with Cairney playing a false 9.

As if he needed any help overthinking things!

Could have fooled me, Tony!

Been a long time since I've seen such a one-sided poll for sacking a manager. Probably going back to the SK days.

lolwut? Didn't we come out in the second half with no changes? What is he talking about?

Can only hope that result pushes Mowbray one step closer to the exit. One shot on target in 90+ minutes. Pathetic.

We still haven't had a shot on target.

No to all of the above. His specialities are talking a lot of nonsense, lemon drizzle, spending a lot of money on strikers that don't score and playing Elliott Bennett at all times.

Since we've conceded first that's pretty much game over, again. Now looking at 3 points from 15 at best. Mowbray is taking us straight into a relegation battle.

Weirdly I'd be more confident if we were playing one of the better teams in the division. We're capable of pulling out surprise results against those kinds of team, because our sit back, contain and try to nick a goal tactic is perfect for that kind of opponent. It's opponents similar to ourselves that we struggle with the most.

Kean's approach to football wasn't cowardly though, imo anyway, it was just haphazard and clueless. I don't think it makes sense to compare the two in terms of their approach to games as Kean didn't seem to be pragmatic/overcautious/overthinking/fearful of the opposition at all. If he had been then he might actually have been more successful. Probably not though. You are absolutely within your rights to express your view on the usage of the words "coward/cowardly", but at the same time I think it would be ridiculous to try to censor or discourage their usage in regards to describing players or managers. I don't think it's generally considered that offensive, as there are far, far worse things said regularly outside of the BRFCS bubble. If that's the worst we have to put up with then we don't have to worry too much. I certainly don't consider it anywhere close to the level of calling fellow fans racist for criticism of a poor player, but of course you are also within your rights to believe it is similar, as long as there aren't any personal insults towards other posters involved. Yes, absolutely. Have said many times that I think TM is a decent enough person (despite questionable treatment of certain younger players). I don't consider the word "cowardly" in a footballing context to be in any way offensive, as it's usage is fairly common when describing defensive tactics and styles of management. It is not meant in the same derogatory way as it would be when aimed at a person's overall character. Considering some of the things that I've seen written about TM on here and elsewhere I'm genuinely stunned that my fairly innocuous post has caused such a stir! But passionate debate is still fine by me as long as it doesn't stray into personal attacks.

I don't think we have a single top half of the table defender in our ranks to be honest, other than Cunningham who is now done for the season. Combine that with Mowbray's style of football and it's not hard to see why we're struggling to maintain any level of consistency.

I'm calling his approach to football cowardly, not the man himself. I don't know enough about him on a personal level to make that judgement. Would be happy to explain to TM the reasons behind my thoughts on why his approach seems cowardly, and I dare say he'd engage me in some interesting conversation about the subject as he seems like a pretty balanced person.

I stand by my comments even if you're offended by them, sorry.

Highlights one of Mowbray's biggest weaknesses - his lack of confidence in his own players. Rather than trust in his own methods and the players he's assembled, he spends his time desperately figuring out ways to combat the opposition to the point of total madness, as with the quote above. Preparing for the opposition a few days before the game, fine. A scatterbrain approach over two months to rotate multiple players and systems just to confuse the opposition - not fine, because our players are likely to be just as confused! TM over-complicates things to a ridiculous degree. His lack of courage and cowardly fear of every team we come up against is why we will never, ever be promoted with him at the helm.

I reckon Rowett could get them above us if TM stays to be honest.

He's done for me. I'm not confident in Venky's picking anybody better and I think they are the root cause of the problem, but ultimately we need an overachiever in the dugout and Mowbray just isn't that guy.

Not my kind of game, unfortunately. Am currently working my way through Chaos;Child which is a lot longer than I thought it would be.

No point even bothering to predict a team as Mowbray will do his best to confuse us with whatever line up he selects. Expecting a miserable defeat here, 2 or 3-0. Mowbray will continue to bemoan injuries and blame Harry Chapman's u23 performances for the result. Brereton will be very upset on commentary.

I firmly believe that was a last second decision, made because we either desperately needed to free up funds to bring in Cunningham or because Mulgrew and Mowbray had a falling out of some kind. It makes no sense to me otherwise to let our captain leave on loan in the final minutes of the window to a divisional rival with no replacement.

Wigan beating Forest at HT. Puts them within a point of us as it stands.

Would agree with that, but another thing I noticed is that Downing did quite often wait for support to arrive in the area and was still left with very few options. We had literally nobody on the pitch who is renowned for scoring goals with their head, so the idea of crossing into the box seems a bit pointless unless Graham is on the pitch.

This comment from Mowbray in particular baffles me. This is something you would expect to hear from a manager who has just been appointed at a struggling club. You've been here for nearly 3 years Tony - how can this still be an issue? Why after so long are your players, seemingly by your own admission, not strong or robust enough to play how you want? It seems like an obvious question to ask but of course this wasn't followed up on by the esteemed local reporters.