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And the vast majority of these clubs also haven't tried guilt tripping fans into not asking for refunds by pleading poverty.

Hilton Nyambe Carter Lenihan Thompson Travis Davenport JRC Holtby Chapman Armstrong Let's play a team of players who are going to be here next season.

It's all well and good until reality dawns and the young players are found not to be good enough. As Middlesbrough have found out to their cost.

The much fabled overseas scouting network, I do fear that you are going to be disappointed by it's results Chaddy. Or rather a lack of results.

And we lost both of those game. Our record must be awful when playing that terrible system.

He resigned. In Steve Parrish's own words regarding Pulis. 'It came to a point where he felt he didn’t want to carry on...so reluctantly I agreed to let him out of his contract.' https://www.thenational.ae/sport/football/steve-parish-on-tony-pulis-resignation-i-agreed-to-let-him-out-of-his-contract-1.634452

How is it debatable over who is the better manager. One has had 9 seasons in the Premiership and never finished below 14th. The other has one season in the Premier League and finished bottom. And in his other big job at Celtic was sacked after a matter of months and is regarded as one of their worst managers ever. It's all about levels and as a manager Pulis is comfortably at least level above Mowbray.

Sadly that's part of the problem a lot of our fans lap up anything that their messiah says because he finished 2nd in League 1.

He wouldn't be the first manager to play down getting back into management and then a few weeks later take a job would he. He's a football man all it would take is an enticing offer. And what is Mowbray's style of play exactly? It certainly doesn't excite me and I used to quite like watching Pulis' Stoke team. But at the end of the day its not style of play that worries me its results. He was sacked at Stoke after taking them from mid table in the Championship to an established Premier League side that in his 5 seasons there managing in the Premier League never finished below 14th. If he did that for us I would be quite content. Mowbray who's West Brom team were promoted along with Stoke lasted one season in the League finishing bottom. He wasn't sacked by Palace he resigned. And in the 6 months he was manager there he took them from 19th to 11th. As for West Brom perhaps they should have kept him as they were not in relegation when they sacked him but ended up finishing bottom. And the season before he got them a top half finish It is strange you point out that Pulis has been sacked by West Brom and Stoke who he had as two mid table premier league clubs. Yet you think that Mowbray is the man to lead us forward a man who finished bottom in his only premier league season, who is one of Celtic's worst ever managers and who left Coventry bottom of League 1 prior to coming here.

Firstly its Dalglish. I'd have thought someone purporting to be a Rovers fan would know that Secondly he's been there for 3 games and he will keep them up. No doubt about it. Thirdly Warnock has a better return from his last 3 games than Mowbray does.

A has been who has 2 promotions from the Championship since Mowbray managed his only one. If he's a has been what does that make Mowbray?

The man's had more comeback's than Frank Sinatra

Surely someone with your incredible range of football knowledge will know some.

Because managers have never ruled out taking jobs and then a few weeks later taken one have they?

Amazing that people can back Mowbray and turn their nose up at someone like Pulis who did good jobs and Palace, Stoke and West Brom all in the Premiership. Even if his best days are behind him so are Mowbrays the difference is that Pulis' best days were spent in the mid table of the Premiership. Whereas Mowbray's were spent in the mid table of the Championship or being one of Celtic's worst ever managers.

I'd say the club needs promotion in these uncertain times. As we have seen before stability eventually results in going backwards and in the end in relegation.

What's soccer?

He also did well at Crystal Palace and West Brom. Winning is all that matters in football, I'd rather play Pulis' football and get promoted than play whatever it is that Mowbray is trying and finish mid table. To be honest I enjoyed watching his Stoke team. What makes Pulis an infinitely superior manager to Mowbray is that he has managed 9 seasons in the Premiership and never finished lower than 14th. Meanwhile Mowbray (who for most of that time was bouncing between around mid table of the Championship and in League 1) has managed 1 season in the Premiership where he finished bottom. It just shows how strong the cult of Mowbray is that it even a debate over whether Pulis' is an infinitely superior manager to him or not.

And the last time?

This is the sort of charity attitude that Mowbray has created at the club and sadly it was been lapped up by the happy clappers. This proposal is possibly even less appealing than Mowbray staying on as manager for next season. Why on earth would we move upstairs a manager who has constantly failed in the transfer market and given out ridiculous contracts. Also if we can't attract a better manager than someone who has never managed a club before then we'd just as well give up.

I think you've hit the nail on the head here.

Pulis in an infinitely superior manager to Mowbray.

Where the hell did you drag Tony Philliskirk's name up from. Haven't heard that name in 20 years.

I must have missed that post.

Mowbray's own personal target was 70 points and he is going to fall short of that. He seems to be teflon and must have the easiest job in football. Seemingly no pressure on him, brings his mate in as CEO, gives contracts to all his favourites and spins the clueless uninterested owners a few line of how rosy everything is. It honestly does seem like he has the job for as long as he wants it and he knows it.