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John Wick said:
Neil man, not even officially Stokes manager and still on Sunderlands books,but yet still sat in the Stands at a Stoke away game while sky saying "watching his new team".How disrespectful and classless from both Stoke and him.
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There’s Fault on both side in this debacle all this could have been done from Sunday onwards insult to injury comes to mind from Stoke and Neil but we will lick our wounds and go again onwards and upwards
 
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After we move on from AN and the it fully sinks in we will have Mowbray as manager....dear god!!! All the great work done by the new regime to get us to a position where we are now and had pretty much all the Sunderland faithful behind them will be undone, by many ,with this terrible appointment. Other than Mowbray bring available, cheap and almost certainly the ultimate yes man....what possible benefits are there?
 
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flandersmackem said:
After we move on from AN and the it fully sinks in we will have Mowbray as manager....dear god!!! All the great work done by the new regime to get us to a position where we are now and had pretty much all the Sunderland faithful behind them will be undone, by many ,with this terrible appointment. Other than Mowbray bring available, cheap and almost certainly the ultimate yes man....what possible benefits are there?
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Alex Neil was available and cheap. He did quite well

I'm no Mowbray fan but if it is him, then he has a lot of experience at this level and wouldlkely be the fabled "steady hand" we need to ensure we finish well away from the relegation fight
 
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flandersmackem said:
After we move on from AN and the it fully sinks in we will have Mowbray as manager....dear god!!! All the great work done by the new regime to get us to a position where we are now and had pretty much all the Sunderland faithful behind them will be undone, by many ,with this terrible appointment. Other than Mowbray bring available, cheap and almost certainly the ultimate yes man....what possible benefits are there?
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The club have said he's not been offered the job. They've only just started the recruitment process.

Maybe Mowbray is the Roy Keane of this manager search. We might get someone who's better than we could all wish for as he likes the look of the setup.

No point in getting upset over something that's yet to happen.
 
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BRMC said:
The club have said he's not been offered the job. They've only just started the recruitment process.

Maybe Mowbray is the Roy Keane of this manager search. We might get someone who's better than we could all wish for as he likes the look of the setup.

No point in getting upset over something that's yet to happen.
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Lets see...... I fear the worst. My only hope is KLD is reading some stuff on Instagram (which he does see) and realises this is huge PR nightmare. IF it does happen, our club goes from forward thinking club to a plodder...all the momentum we built up, potentially could be affected. I hope not, but I fear it could happen
 
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flandersmackem said:
Lets see...... I fear the worst. My only hope is KLD is reading some stuff on Instagram (which he does see) and realises this is huge PR nightmare. IF it does happen, our club goes from forward thinking club to a plodder...all the momentum we built up, potentially could be affected. I hope not, but I fear it could happen
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Mowbray wouldn't be a terrible appointment. Don't really get the fewm
 
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The Norton Cat said:
While Tony Mowbray doesn't fill me with excitement - I'd rather have a young, dynamic coach - and although I'm surprised that a club structured like ours would consider him, there is one crucial thing about him that no one seems to be considering; he is capable of setting his teams up to play the way we want to play. He had Blackburn copying the high pressing game of Liverpool and adapted that style to suit them.

I see him very much as in the same mould as Alex Neil. A slightly dour bloke who will play football in a way that the club's hierarchy want.
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This. The development of and willingness to coach a young squad is another feather in his cap in what we’re looking for.

There’s a lot of ill informed rubbish being spouted about him. I’m comfortable with people not wanting him, he’s not my preferred choice, but it has to be based on facts, he’s simply not ‘a hoofball dinosaur’ or ‘a Championship Parkinson’. He’s not only being considered because he’s free, there’s clear synergy with our strategy.

Incidentally, the comments on Mowbray read exactly as the comments on Neil when he was first appointed.
 
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Nixon with a little twist on things, don't pay for his patreon so don't know who Barry is? Gareth??

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TopCat_ said:
Mowbray wouldn't be a terrible appointment. Don't really get the fewm
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I agree. He’s not the one everyone wants, but let’s be honest, the more vocal previously wanted a guy who’s done nowt in the game for 15 years and we’re fuming when we got Alex Neil!!

Not box office, but, by all accounts, not a bad gaffer according to those who’ve watched his teams.
 
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My over riding memory of Tony Mowbray is his post match interview after Roy Keane's side beat him at the Hawthorn's. Can't remember the exact words. But he was pretty pissed we rocked up and beat his side who were flying at the time. Perhaps I'm being harsh. But I don't think he did that well at boro when he went there. But I could be wrong. I'm undecided now tbh, and that's after calling him a **** yesterday haha
 
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I haven’t posted much because I’m riding my bike around the Peak District. I think Alex Neil is a ****er. No reasons he couldn’t have kept his head down and waited but he put his own desire for power ahead of his commitment to our club. That said think I Speakman’s plan is working and developing the club but is too inflexible and will reduce our managerial options beyond common sense - he needs closer scrutiny. AN was right in saying our club needs an experienced manager. How experienced I’m not sure . Manning has done well but would be a gamble. Mowbray has the right level of experience without having done that well but at this crucial point his work with the recruitment team is a plus. My definite first choice would be Robins but he’s knocked us back before .
 
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Southern A said:
yeh I’m just saying if you use your “done with it” post to have a veiled dig at the people who don’t agree with your view that Alex Neil is a saint and Speakman the devil, you should expect a reply.

Way way way too much people trying to be divisive within our own fanbase here and it’s doing my tits in. Fans have a right to be pissed off at a manager who walks out the day before a game, no matter the circumstance.

We seem to have a camp who are 100% it’s all Speakman and another who are 100% it’s all Neil. And the answer is so very clearly in the middle somewhere. And frankly it’s becoming tiring being told by other supporters which way it should be.

edit just as a PS - talking about the SAFC twittersphere here - not just you. It’s just starting to feel like nobody’s allowed an opinion which is in the middle without being made to feel like they’re stupid by one or both sides
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It’s very rare that someone is all bad and another all good. Whatever Speakman is and does leaving at this time is a ****s trick that disrespects the fans and players.
 
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