Excellent appointment. He was a good manager for Hibs.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottB
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Excellent appointment. He was a good manager for Hibs.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottB
Could Beale do a Johnson?
Would loved to have had him backQuote:
Originally Posted by ScottB
Same. Wonder if we'd have had a chance if we had a vacancy when he was available. Imagine the buzz if he came back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winston Ingram
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Originally Posted by heretoday
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Birmingham have made a good choice there, taking advantage of Sunderland’s stupidity.
I doubt Michael Beale will last the season.
His record so far isn't too bad. The Newcastle game was probably a free hit, they're not expected to win that.Quote:
Originally Posted by jacomo
They were two wins and a draw in their last three in the league before that.
Now that he is away from Scotland I have no strong feelings about him. Guess I'd rather see younger manager succeed than the same old names getting the jobs.
At the same time Tony is only in a job at Birmingham because they got rid of their manager to appoint Wayne Rooney who lasted 15 games.Quote:
Originally Posted by jacomo
Another basket case of a club.
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What’s Tony Mowbray like now? Do his sides still play good football?
Seems to have been popular at Sunderland so presumably the football was pretty good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stubbsy90+2
I don’t think he’d ever come back. Loved him when he was here but has he ever spoke really fondly of his time here since he left?Quote:
Originally Posted by Winston Ingram
Tend to think the same. He's got a good - presumably very well paid - gig as a turnaround guy for flailing Championship clubs. Highly doubt he would ever consider giving that up for a return to Scotland.Quote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
He didn’t go for a meal with his gran on Friday night before they played Newcastle, did he?Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva_Palmeiras
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stubbsy90+2
Loads of young players. When they played Luton in the playoffs last season they ended up with quite a crazily small team which meant they were very vulnerable to high balls and set pieces but he had an almost romantic commitment to wanting to play football.
Instead of his GK blind spot with us he’d arguably been a striker short for Sunderland but the football his teams play has continued to be good.
He had his (vocal) critics at Sunderland but the majority of the fans were still very much on his side there - which will make life that wee bit more difficult for Beale.
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Originally Posted by Smartie
Will never enjoy watching a Hibs team as much as Mowbray’s. Frightening style of play.
Just skimmed the on our way doc on YouTube which Hibs released in 2005. Some great memories.
It’s mental to think that it’s just coming up for 20 years since Mowbray was appointed at Hibs.
He was very respectful of the club when he was with us and commented on how delighted he was to see us lift the 2007 League Cup after he left. I doubt he ever gets asked these days about a job he took 20 years ago tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
Done a very good job with a number of clubs at Chdmpionship level and will be a sound appointment for Birmingham I reckon.
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Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
TBH I think Mowbray is the benchmark when it comes to appointing a manager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trinity Hibee
Young, hungry, apprenticeship spent coaching at another club and ready to take the big job for himself (not unlike Stubbs).
It helped that he inherited an excellent squad of youngsters who'd had enough experience to not be absolute rookies but also not grizzled enough to be agitating for moves (yet) or to have picked up bad habits.
Great times though, that team were fantastic.
I was thinking about how there are similarities with him and Ange. Both go into clubs and change the style of play from the off both with positive results. Just shows you it can be done (granted to still need half decent players)Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
The description of the young ambitious manager/coach could surely be applied to Monty and dare I say Maloney?Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartie
The difference being Mowbray had superior players.
He did indeed. It seems over the years that the way he treats players/people also helps get the best out of them. Never heard anyone say a bad word against him. He’s just one of those people who is a born leader.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex Trager
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Originally Posted by He's here!
Unfortunately got caught up in the Celtc nonsense and acted like a bit of a knob when he took them to ER… but let bygones be bygones and all that.
Callum Davidson new Queens Park boss
Yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex Trager
FWIW I have a lot of hope for Monty. I like his pre-Hibs CV, I like his chat and I'd like to think we can back him with the players he needs to implement his ideas. We need to be patient with him. I'm not one of those who think we have a good squad and I think we're roughly where we deserve to be relative to the quality of the squad available.
Maloney - where to start? On paper it might be argued that he had the credentials. I wouldn't have been sacking Ross to appoint him but having done so I'd probably be looking to ride out a storm with him and give him a few windows to sign players and the chance to make a few mistakes. The football under him was garbage though, I found it really hard to see what he was trying to achieve and sometimes you've just got to admit early on you've made a bad appointment, as I thought Ron did.
We can't get it right every time.
That counts for a lot - and seeing stuff like the way Cummings responded to Monty gives me hope that he's more likely to be like Mowbray than some of our, say, less personable managers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trinity Hibee
Yep - putting feelings on the Mowbray sacking aside, have a hunch Beale will do alright actually. Certainly no reason to believe he won’t see out the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wilson
That seems like a cracking appointmentQuote:
Originally Posted by Sloop67
Must say I've a lot of time for the guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenNWhiteArmy
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