Neil Lennon v Tony Mowbray: who would you regard as the superior Hibs manager?

Lennon 110%

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Originally Posted by GRA

Mowbrays team was great to watch. So entertaining but really inconsistent. Still have the entertainment and inconsistency with Lennon but he has definitely got rid of the 'boy band' image that plagued Mowbrays time.

Injected far more steel into us and a winners mentality so gotta be Lenny. But I liked Mogga and think we could have achieved great things if he stuck around for a couple more years and kept that team together.

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Over the piece I don't think you can say results under Lennon have been inconsistent. Performances maybe but very few defeats.

I don't like comparing current managers to those from a different era, so i'll just say that when Stubbs left us we undoubtedly got the best manager realistically available, and that under Lennon / Dempster the club is in good hands the best possible and this makes supporting the team a joy at this moment in time.

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Originally Posted by easty

100% Neil Lennon

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Agree : Mowbray inherited a good squad.
Lennon is making a great team.

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Originally Posted by brydekirk

Agree : Mowbray inherited a good squad.
Lennon is making a great team.

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I would say Mowbray inherited a potentially good squad but he was the one who turned it into literally a good squad.

This was our squad of players as he arrived at the club in the summer of 2004;

Jonathan Baillie (19)
Gary Caldwell (22)
Jay Shields (19)
Gary Smith (33)
Steven Whittaker (20)
Scott Brown (19)
Stephen Glass (28)
Jamie McCluskey (17)
Kevin McDonald (19)
Ian Murray (23)
Kevin Nicol (22)
Alen Orman (26)
Kevin Thomson (20)
Stephen Dobbie (22)
Steven Fletcher (17)
Garry O'Connor (21)
Derek Riordan (21)
Colin Murdock (29)
Grant Brebner (27)
Alan Reid (24)
Tam McManus (23)
Alistair Brown (19)

With the exception of a few individuals, he inherited a very young squad, full of talented players who had yet to reach their potential. He inherited a squad which had just finished 8th in the SPL and then after a few shrewd buys like Murphy and Beuzelin, managed to blend the new guys in with the existing players and got us up to 3rd in his first season in charge. It's a position we haven't managed to finish in since.

We also only had one player over the age of 30 when he took over, which is quite incredible. If you compare that to our present squad, we now have David Gray, Steven Whittaker, Mark Milligan, Marvin Bartley, Lewis Stevenson and Darren McGregor all 30 and above and Efe Ambrose is turning 30 next week. There's a lot of experienced pros around the place for our young talented players of today like Ryan Porteous and Oli Shaw to look up to.

I love Neil Lennon and what he's doing for us right now but I honestly don't see that the gap between him and Mowbray is so big.

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Originally Posted by My_Wife_Camille

I think it's a real shame that so many people on here are being so dismissive of Tony Mowbray and his team.

Short memories indeed

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Yep. You don’t have to put the other person down to stand up for the other.

Both managers advanced our club on the pitch tenfold. As did Stubbsy.

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Originally Posted by brydekirk

Agree : Mowbray inherited a good squad.
Lennon is making a great team.

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Lennon inherited a better squad than Mowbray.

Lennon inherited a very strong squad of Scottish Cup winners, high value players and experienced pro's. Mowbray inherited a squad of generally unproven teenagers and turned them into one of the best and most exciting teams we've seen.

Important to remember the huge management experience Lennon had by the time he came to Hibs compared to Mowbray who was just starting out.