More utter horseshit from journos

[cousindupree]

Sorry if already posted

community.livejournal.com/ti_sportsshorts/31807.html

Possibly the biggest bollox I have read this season...or maybe its a windup

[Deleted]

That's got to be a wind up surely. Fuck me, let's do away with the notion of winning and losing altogether and just have a panel of judges headed by Simon Cowell and that botox bint from Strictly Come Dancing award points for how many girly stepovers we see per game.

[Dr Oetcake]

thats hilarious, that Frank Skinner, he's a genius...

[Pugsley]

Crock of shit. Perhaps he can inform us when footballing philosophy crosses over to derelict of duty?

[salopstick]

winning football is sexy football TM

[stokelad84]

Does 'He stuck to his philospophy' really mean 'hes tactically inept and can only set up his team 1 way'

[cantspellwontspell]

I think the advert says it all

[Lakeland Potter]

I'm a simple soul. It seems to me that if winning the Championship was a good thing (and Mowbray certainly got plenty of praise for doing it) then finishing bottom of the Premiership is a bad thing. So Mowbray should, logically, be criticised for that.

I wonder what job description Club owners and Chairmen give to the managers they employ. I bet most say something like "get the best results and league position you can with the resources I give you". On that basis Mowbray's annual appraisal shouldn't make happy reading and won't be a patch on that of Pulis. I bet another thing in the job description is "put as many bums on seats as possible" on that basis also Mowbray has done a worse job than Pulis.

[RAF]

I think it was summed up perfectly the other day on another thread.
Some Baggies fan said the reason they were crap was because they played good football.
You really couldn't make that kind of thing up!
Moanbray by definition has been a failure this year, and it's getting up all the pundits and journos noses because after spunking over him all season he's made them look like twats!
Simple

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[miffmister]

Its like a am golfer using a 7i,cuz hes seen Tiger Woods hit a perfect T shot 1 ft from the pin. He knows he is not as good as Tiger, and knows that if he used a 3 wood he may reach at least the green, but cuz Tiger uses a 7i, so will he. Result he will never hit the green with the 7i cuz he aint good enough, if he used the 3 wood he may not hit a hole in 1 but he will reach the green. I like Pulis approach shot and at least it gets us on the green. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONN STOKE!!!

[lew86]

Does this weedy little fucker look like he's we'll informed?




Everyone will miss the Baggies style of play six points.

[jorgieporgy]

Mowbray - manager of the year, absolute nonsense
What next Mowbray for the England Job
I can understand to some extent the Hawthorns faithful supporting their manager. But comes a time when the question is - did he get the best possible outcome from the resources available? Bearing in mind that he had a big part in choosing those resources.
Same goes for Southgate too - although they may still stay up.

[longwait]

well ITK this poster is for fucks sake , how can he say Mowbray as manager of the year, he must be more blinkered than shergar and biased than fergie.

what a complete and utter arse , if id got more time and patience id join the forum and slate the fruitcake

[monkhousestokie]

Mowbray has led the baggies to the bottom of the table and they're the first team to be relegated.

MASSIVE FAIL!!!

What a bell end.

[ted1965]

That is surely a spoof piece if it’s a serious article on why Mowbray should be named manager of the year it’s obviously written with the aid of designer drugs. He’s correct though if every one of the bottom 13 played football like Mowbray the Premiership would be exciting, every game would be like a park game that ends 0-0 after 60 shots on goal between them because none of those sides would be able to defend. But sadly they wouldn’t have forwards who could hit a cows backside with a banjo either.

Mowbray has proved he sticks to his principles because he is tactically inept and no other reason, it’s like the businessman who’s firm is going down the toilet, even though he can see it before his eyes he doesn’t have the intelligence to change his thinking because he is convinced he’s right no even when the receivers walk in the door and throw him out on his rear.

if being one dimensional and not knowing when to change qualifies you for manager of the year then Bravo Tony Mowbray you're a winner.

[Kenilworth_Stokies]

Amazing. What possible definition of 'good football' includes failing to score and failing to defend.

I'm ace at sword swallowing, except for the actual swallowing of a sword bit.

[bayernoatcake]

That has to be a wind up but it isn't, is it? Fool! When great football encompases being shit at attacking and defending then praise Mowbray, until then he's a idiotic Geordie that comprimise his "beliefs" for the good of the club he manages.

[lancer]

I knew what to expect when I read, 'the top four are enshrined in their rightful places'.
Well, it that's the case, the Baggies are intheir rightful place, aren't they? So based on that premise, efvery manager who takes his team down is entitles to be manager of the year.

[Deleted]

So KenilworthStokie, your good at swallowing, oh dear!

[anarchicalan]

"37 games gone and seven of the ten places that count for anything in this season's Premier League have been decided; the top four are enshrined in their rightful positions; Everton and Aston Villa are guaranteed Europa League football and now just face a shoot-out for the 'Best of the Rest' title; and West Brom are down."


Just that bit alone makes my blood boil.

It shows how far the game has sunk when anything bar the "status quo" is considered anathema by the media.

[Mr.Pickles]

Deep breaths.

No need to get wound up by it. Why do we have to throw a tantrum everytime someone writes something negative about us? The man is clearly ill so lets just leave him to it.

[barmystokie1]

that has to be the stupidist article I have ever seen in my life, I know everybody is entitled to their opinion, but that journalist if he showed it to his peers would be ridicled for absoulute rubbish

[cousindupree]

I dont think many of us are getting wound up by the article Mr Pickles....its not much of an attack on the Potters. Why i just had to post it was that the piece could not be more bolloxed if he tried. We have seen plenty of poor lazy journalism over the last few months but this is out on its own for sheer unsupportable garbage and from a more 'serious' newspaper. If i was the sports editor of the paper I would have thrown the piece back at the journo and ask him for a sensible piece...jeez where are these journos recruited from?

[burberrybassist]

Obviously a baggies fan, poor boy

[Davef]

I was flicking through the channels just now and came across highlights of the West Brom v Arsenal game on Arsenal TV.

I thought I'd watch it for five minutes and there was one spell of play when West Brom kept possession for quite a while, knocking the ball sideways and backwards until Brunt played a pass up the line which went out for a throw in.

Riveting stuff.

[actongatestokie]

Whether the pass is 5 yards, whether it's 10 yards, 50 yards or 500 yards. If it's losing football, its losing football.

And that aint ever pretty!