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We weren't relegated that season, we finished eighth. You said we had no cover for Johnson, we had 9 centre backs or players who could play there over the course of the season yet you say he was obsessed with strikers instead of looking at cover for centre half. We had nine players who could...

Didn't know Biamou's name, just kept calling out how bad the number 9 was. He started it from virtually minute one and kept it up throughout the first half. Didn't hear him after half time thankfully.

Your point was there was no plan B for Johnson being injured. My point was that this was not the case shown by the cover already at the club and by the signings made that season. Four season ending injuries to four good centre halves and he still had contingencies in place.

As mentioned both Vincelot and Stokes did play centre half that season so did cover that position when needed. Surely you can only criticise if the players brought in were not very good. I think with regard to the centre half position only Ramage could be said to have failed. He either already...

And an attack containing Wilson, Baker, Moussa and Clark and with Christi at full back and Murphy in goal. A team that he partly dismantled himself for "footballing reasons."

The leaving out and then the loaning out of O'Brien was one thing that I could not understand. To some on here he was a headless chicken. To me he was an influential and skilful player. Again if he had remained we may have got in the play offs.

Not sure what your point is. To compare Mowbray and Reid is a very odd choice. Mowbray was more than just a one match wonder (For Preston in the JPT Robins was in charge) He came in at the end of a season and turned around a team heading for relegation and saved them. He then got that same...

I think Willis did start at right back. I think most people would see him as a centre half than a full back.

During that season we had Johnson, Martin, Willis, Cargill, Turner, Stevens, Ricketts( who I had forgotten about ) Stokes ( who looked a good centre half when he played there), Vincelot who played a few games at the back and Ramage who failed. That is 9 players to cover two positions, 8 of...

One thing that I can guarantee is that there were very few of the people now slating Mowbray who were saying what a poor manager he was after that November game against Gillingham. Easy to be wise after the event. I really enjoyed watching us play under Mowbray. We played fast exciting football...

As mentioned, he did bring in replacements, 4 in all. Three who were good players (2 of which had season ending injuries themselves) and one signing who failed. If you count Willis, Martin and Stokes we had 7 players for two positions that season, 6 of which most fans would rate as either good...

Johnson played in the last four or five games of Mowbray's first season (end of the 14/15 season). During his two years at the club Johnson played in (as far as I can see) 32 league games. We had a record in those games of won 15 lost 6 drawn 11 giving a points total of 56, equalling 1.75 points...

And he would be able to have that quality of player, just waiting for Reda to fail , happily sitting on the bench, on the budget we have? Also, up to the point that Reda was injured, as I have mentioned he played almost every game for Mowbray. If you remember the injury that did for him wasn't a...

So he should have had a player waiting in the wings? Ben Turner arriving not an adequate replacement?

I was at that game. As with most of the season, we played well and deserved the win.

He inherited Reda Johnson. At the end of his first season here I think Johnson played in all of, certainly most of Mowbray's games in charge as TM turned things around and saved the club from relegation. He wasn't in and out of the team. Reda then played in all of the games at the start of the...

Stephens and Cargill were both signed together more or less as we had been hit badly by injuries to centre halves, both good players and both signed by Mowbray. Maddison was certainly off the boil in the second half of the season after he had been sold to Norwich. Not the same player, who was...

The fact is that it indicates the luck or lack of it that season that 4 centre halves, 5 if you count Stokes who did play centre half around Christmas time, were injured. Mowbray mentions this in the interview and it's true.

I don't like playing weakened teams. It is the mentality that people like Eddie Howe had last season when he said how he respected the FA Cup but made 11 changes from the previous league game and promptly lost to lower league opposition. They then went on to lose the next 4 or 5 league games. A...

Lost 4 Centre halfs over the course of the season, Willis, Reda, Turner and Carrgil. I would say they were all pretty vital. Stokes was injured around February time and didn't play again properly until the end of last season. We also had Maddison out for 4 months after he made a major impact...