Why Does Mowbray Escape Criticism? (2 Viewers)

Grendel said:

As a manager under huge budget constraints would your first action be to retain tudgay and Ricketts?

Probably not. That would eat at the very least £100k of annual wages out the budget - probably more.

The one player it seems they other clubs sought was Reid and I'd imagine he was on a higher salary than most.

I'd guess Sordell was a reasonably high wage as well especially as we've swapped with Beavon who I doubt took a pay cut to drop a division. Sordell wasn't prolific.
Bigiramana was a basket case last season and didn't fit any style of play at all. Why then actually sign him? Probably as it limited any effort to look elsewhere.

The club allocated responsibility to Mowbray and Venus and they didn't cut it. In the end if you've got a wage bill (budget is the wrong term) you adapt to it. It seemed they didn't and decided to sign few players on higher end of the wage scale.

It was just wrong. You wouldn't re sign aged players and you'd develop a salary cap based on numbers required in the squad. Also you'd adapt the squad and style of play to the league.

How could he decide a wing back system before he'd even recruited the players (one of whom said he'd never played as a wing back!)?

All the experienced players age wise - rose, Reid, Ghadzev, Sordell in the end were poor. His loans didn't work out either.

It sums up his whole tenure that despite the fact we are a dreadful team and in a dreadful position robins picked Slades signings and consigned most of mowbrays to the bench.

Shambolic. He's back where he belongs now. At this level he couldn't do it.

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SkyBlue_Bear83 said:

Mowbray was underperforming compared to last season for sure.

Yet I still believe he would have kept us up if he didn't walk away.

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SkyBlue_Bear83 said:

Mowbray was underperforming compared to last season for sure.

Yet I still believe he would have kept us up if he didn't walk away.

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Otis said:

I get the feeling though if he hadn't have walked he would have just got sacked further down the line.

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The Reverend Skyblue said:

G ,i've noticed you have a like rate of 22.35 % which is the about the same points we have, I think we have around 22 points,to tell you the truth I stopped looking at the table months ago. Anyway I think you deserve another like for this as I totally agree bar a bit, why give two people full control of the playing budget who have never before been in control of financial matters like these. They didn't have a Scooby doo what to do clearly
The majority back in august felt we were in for a very hard season, Tudgay and co ffs ,what a waste of wages, the only bit I disagree slightly is I would have used Ricketts and let him run or be part of the juniors like almost they have. The rest of the recruitment was inept.

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stevefloyd said:

Thing I dont get is why manager after manager signs players with abysmal scoring records... do they suddenly think they will be goal machines?

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shmmeee said:

I've never got this. If you can't afford a twenty a season player at your level, better to take a gamble on a kid with an outstanding youth record or someone from the lower leagues. Goal scoring is a knack that you either have or you don't IMO. Some 28 year old who has never got more than 10 in his career isn't going to bang them in no matter how many chances you create.

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SkyBlue_Bear83 said:

That's not always true though.

Would you rather have Cody McDonald or mcgoldrick?

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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:

I don't hate Mowbray at all. I just think his reputation here was overrated. I understand if the thread has annoyed you however. I am sure if someone did a 'Murphy is great' thread, it would take some self control from me too.

Your quote was dismissive and unfair, and on another post was EDL related. I don't want to crank on about it, but you've far from shown Earlsdon a whole lot of love recently.

Probably we should just leave it at that and now look forward to League 2...

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Nick said:

If any manager had loads of money and loads of resources they would probably do well, welcome to lower league football where managers have to work on tight budgets and make the best out of what they have / can afford.

It's too easy to just blame resources when you see teams and players with less resources make ours look silly.

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