This cropped up on my social media this morning - what a great team this was to watch. Used to look forward all week for the next game to come around. He didn’t enjoy a great derby record, but watching that team was more often than not a joy.
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19-09-2019 09:06 AM #1
Tony Mowbray
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19-09-2019 09:15 AM #2
Yip remember the team used to run out to John Peels all time fav record Teenage Kicks by The Undertones
On their day a brilliant team to watch The Golden Generation led by a very good young up and coming Manager Tony Mowbray
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19-09-2019 09:18 AM #3
Derby record wasn’t bad in terms of wins but the defeats tended to be heavier.
First season we had 2 draws at home - both of which we should’ve won, a familiar story. But did also have that great win at Tynie and a 2-1 defeat.
Second season took 2 thumpings at Tynecastle but won both home games 2-0 and 2-1. Obviously also hammered in the SC semi but we know circumstances didn’t help there. Also this was peak financial doping time for the Yams
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19-09-2019 09:28 AM #4
He possibly got lucky with inheriting a youth team of good players covering the whole pitch. But his transfers to finish the team were excellent. The likes of Murphy, Jones, Benji, Hogg etc. Up there with Stubbs as my favourite Hibs managers.
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19-09-2019 09:29 AM #5
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He did of course compliment them with some outstanding signings.. Boozy, Murphy and Sproule being the real standouts in that regard.
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19-09-2019 09:34 AM #8
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From what I remember we could look like championship contenders one week vs Celtic and Rangers and then get gubbed by the likes of St Mirren the next.
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19-09-2019 09:34 AM #9
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A friend of mine who works in sports promotion told me that when he met Tony just after his appointment he had to go back to basics with the players. For example get them passing again to each other.
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19-09-2019 09:42 AM #11
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From what I can remember, none of these guys where playing the same way under Blobby. Mowbray was definitely lucky to arrive at the same time as them all but he certainly helped their development in to the players they all later became.
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So yeah I think Mowbray was lucky to inherit them. He filled all the gaps brilliantly (apart from a decent keeper) and turned us into a very good team.
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Damn, absolutely everything is jumped upon on this forum at the moment
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19-09-2019 10:11 AM #16
Hibs.netters were very much pro-Tony as I recall, revering him to hero like status based on what they saw on the park and his righteous rhetoric about upward spirals and winning more than you lose etc.
We took issue with him only twice IIRC over our 'comedy defending' (scapegoat of choice: Chris Hogg) and our inability to sign a keeper.
We disliked RP for failing to keep Craig Rocastle but overall, planet .net was a positive place to be in that era.
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19-09-2019 10:14 AM #17
I remember speaking to Kevin Nicol about him a few months after he was appointed, he loved him and said the players did too.
He liked the way he spoke to the players, he said that the training was top notch and they enjoyed the tactics he played in games.
It's normally a good sign when players are that enthusiastic about a gaffer and tbh the players all appeared to be happy and enjoying themselves at that time.
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19-09-2019 10:18 AM #20
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Mowbray made every single one of the players we brought through a lot lot better. Each one says exactly the same. Then there was the likes of Boozy, Murphy, Jones, Benji, Zemmama and Killen all came in and done brilliantly.
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Actually just checked and I think you were right, it was Dunfermline he went to that summer we took Zibi. Watterus was the reason though, McLeish chose him as 2nd choice behind Klos.Last edited by MikeyS; 19-09-2019 at 10:50 AM.
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Brown was suffering a bit from playing in multiple positions, centre forward, winger, 10, centre mid. Before finally getting a nailed on role in midfield that could have only helped him be the player we've seen in the last 12 years.
Mowbray was lucky to inherit a crop with talent, but the golden generation were lucky to get a manager that believed in youth and knew how to play to their strengths.
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