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The Redbaron said:
Rubbish, its Speakman who is the problem. The manager who was going to be appointed wanted the same as it appears AN now wanted..Control of players.
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Roy Keane would have been a disaster. We got lucky at the time that it fell through. I don't believe for a second we would have been promoted with Keane in charge.
 
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Nads said:
He just felt a bit smug to me, like as if he wasn’t arsed and knew best.

Ill watch again I watched it early doors this morning and was hungover tae ****.

All he said means nowt if it’s Mowbray.
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I thought he came across well on the video interview, I was more angry at the Sky TV shot of him in the stands eating a packet of nuts and laughing and joking, while the rest of us were still reeling from Fridays events <ok>,
 
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Just a thought, but it's been mentioned that Neil hadn't been backed by the club with transfers.

So essentially saying the current squad aren't good enough and he needs better. Hardly a great morale boost to the squad is it?
 
Chunksafc said:
Just a thought, but it's been mentioned that Neil hadn't been backed by the club with transfers.

So essentially saying the current squad aren't good enough and he needs better. Hardly a great morale boost to the squad is it?
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One way to look at it is Neil chose no players last year but he coached the ones chosen for him to promotion. Maybe he needs to have a bit more trust in those staff on the same team as he signed up to be a part of to pick players this time around. We have hardly looked out of our depth so far.
 
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The Redbaron said:
Rubbish, its Speakman who is the problem. The manager who was going to be appointed wanted the same as it appears AN now wanted..Control of players.
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or perhaps AN was the problem by lying to the club from day 1 by saying he was happy to work under our DoF model when he quite clearly wasnt

Tbh having seen the rubbish our managers have generally bought for last I dont know how many years Im more that happy for the facility to be removed from them
 
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FellTop said:
One way to look at it is Neil chose no players last year but he coached the ones chosen for him to promotion. Maybe he needs to have a bit more trust in those staff on the same team as he signed up to be a part of to pick players this time around. We have hardly looked out of our depth so far.
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And he also had a day in who has been signed this year.

I'm struggling with the not being backed arguement to be honest
 
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Southern A said:
Devils advocate here.

What if KLD and Speakman have collectively decided Speakman is out of his comfort zone with first team stuff - and so Mowbray would come in as Director of Football - focusing on first team and recruitment (but under the same philosophy).

Speakman remains as technical director - looking after academy, coaching quality, youth recruitment, data and analysis etc

I know football manager is just football manager - but KLD is a massive FM fan. And on FM that’s what those roles do. And it always seemed weird that Speakman was “Technical Director” and not “Director of Football”

And it would work in so many ways. Mowbray and Harvey already operate hand in glove. And Speakman gets to stay and do what he’s best at, which I think is important considering the club seems to be built to his vision
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Was just thinking along these lines as ive been reading through posts....obviously something in Mowbray as ges been at game & AOL, maybe we have learned how the Neil appointment dragged on & nearky cost us, so maybe we want Mowbray in asap take charge of next 3/4/5 games or whatever whike we get the right man at which point Mowbray steps into the background in another role....if this is the case we may come out stronger from tgis mess.

we have to look forward, get players in & off we go again KTF
 
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Southern A said:
Devils advocate here.

What if KLD and Speakman have collectively decided Speakman is out of his comfort zone with first team stuff - and so Mowbray would come in as Director of Football - focusing on first team and recruitment (but under the same philosophy).

Speakman remains as technical director - looking after academy, coaching quality, youth recruitment, data and analysis etc

I know football manager is just football manager - but KLD is a massive FM fan. And on FM that’s what those roles do. And it always seemed weird that Speakman was “Technical Director” and not “Director of Football”

And it would work in so many ways. Mowbray and Harvey already operate hand in glove. And Speakman gets to stay and do what he’s best at, which I think is important considering the club seems to be built to his vision
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Has Speakman not been pretty successful in recruitment? Why would you want him removed from it?
 
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Culinary said:
Has Speakman not been pretty successful in recruitment? Why would you want him removed from it?
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Aye, as I’ve said few times over last couple days his recruitment on the playing side has been superb.

We haven’t bought a lemon yet. Couple were signed for League One KD did their jobs to that end, the ones playing in the Championship not only look good enough, they look comfortable future PL players.

He’s done brilliant on the playing side. Jury is well out on the other elements.
 
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Culinary said:
Has Speakman not been pretty successful in recruitment? Why would you want him removed from it?
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thats Harvey. Speakman oversees it. I wouldn’t be removing him entirely from the process, just bringing in Mowbray as the liaison between recruitment and first team. So there’s continuity that allows the head coach to coach
 
The Professor said:
Was just thinking along these lines as ive been reading through posts....obviously something in Mowbray as ges been at game & AOL, maybe we have learned how the Neil appointment dragged on & nearky cost us, so maybe we want Mowbray in asap take charge of next 3/4/5 games or whatever whike we get the right man at which point Mowbray steps into the background in another role....if this is the case we may come out stronger from tgis mess.

we have to look forward, get players in & off we go again KTF
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Interesting thought process maybe something in it or how about AN was told mowbray would be his new Boss and thought time was right to jump even though he's agreed to new terms..totally made up idea of course but hey oh we'll find out soon enough.
 
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