Hmm, so why pick him every week?
Do you think he is crying into his pillow every Saturday night whispering 'Damn you Tony (manager 3rd person syndrome), why did you have to make him captain! Now you can never ever drop him, EVER!!'
Well yup.
If Mowbray has a habit of going into panic mode on being unable to change things on say the back of 3 defeats in row, then it could well be relevant.
If other seasons when it has worked for him and his teams haven't slipped and they haven't lost 3 in row, that would eliminate the...
Wasn't mentioning this as a told you so sort of post, by the way. :) Just as an interesting to know sort of way.
Very interested to see where it went wrong for him. I really like the bloke.
I kept weeing myself.
Interesting to note that the season where Middlesborough dropped from 3rd to end up 16th, they only won 3 of their last 21 games.
Their demise started in the new year, losing 5 in a row. Never seemed to recover from that.
Be interesting to know if injuries really hurt...
Well I have to disagree and say it may well be relevant.
Let me give you an example scenario. Might actually prove to be the case. ;)
When things were going well and Middlesborough lost 1 or 2 games in row, but managed to then claw it back and win the next one, the good run was back on track...