He also admitted it probably saved his life and was very very grateful that the club helped him when he needed it. Pretty sure that was in the news article when it came out
I didn't know that. And that's a class act by the club! He was employed elsewhere at the time so really not the clubs responsibility.
I'm sure I read how complimentary he was of us and Birmingham while he was recovering. Sure he said SAFC really looked after him
I was a bit dubious about Mowbrays appointment but it turned out well and I have a decent opinion of him since his time here. I'm also glad to see you back Bob. I don't always like your opinions but it's interesting to hear them That's not a dig by the way. It's always refreshing to hear different things.
i hope Tony gets a job after what he has been through, great bloke loves football, best of luck mate.
Where I think Mowbray really shines is when he is focussed on coaching players of a certain age group or mentality. Paddy Roberts has never played as well as he did under Mowbray. There are others. He loves bringing young players through and guiding them. Venus is the same and he in particular has a brilliant eye for a young player. The thought if him going to Stoke makes me shudder, he is so much better than what they try to do. I dont know where he will end up, but I would bet two things if he is a 1st team coach again. 1 he will outperform Lampard. 2 he will be trusted with some of the best loan talent from premier league clubs. He would be perfect for Hull, but they look to have an owner who doesnt know one end of a coach from another so far. Might sound mad but if I were a premier league serious about developing my u21s to be ready for 1st team, I would pay him top dollar. Murty is doing a great job for us at that, Mowbray, if he wanted less of the limelight, would be tailor made for a role like that, in my opinion.
The one thing that really struck a chord with me about TM was how he spoke about developing the players mentally as well as on the pitch and not resting on their laurels because they had made the first team. He got what the club needed and as I have said before he gave us a team that understood what wearing our shirt meant
Mowbray has limits, no doubt. He gave us a massive boost imo, and moved us forward probably 2 years in 1 year in terms of player dev. As with everything the next guy should be better. Ignore the Beale debacle, but the club have found a better coach now. There will come a point Regis isnt right I suspect. As the club progresses so will our need for better coaches.
Tony Mowbray details emotional Mike Dodds conversation after Sunderland game against Birmingham City https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...nderland-game-against-birmingham-city-4872468 Tony Mowbray has detailed an emotional conversation with Sunderland assistant head coach Mike Dodds following his bowel cancer diagnosis…. “Gosh I remember getting emotional telling Doddsy,” Mowbray said. “He was asking how are you, gaffer all right everything good and I said oh no mate it's not good and he said what do you mean it's not good I said oh I've just been diagnosed with bowel cancer and I'm gonna have to leave but he got quite emotional as well, to be honest. “I was going into the unknown I genuinely thought I was big and strong and I was going to get through this no problem, I'll get through an operation with no issues and yet the moments those days when I was picking myself off the floor the days when I was emancipated I'd been I've been to the toilet 40 times in an hour and um and you've got no fluid left in your body and your body's crinkling away your voice you could hardly talk because your throat was so choked up because there's no fluid. “It's horrific really and that's what I can say and yet your family get you through it's the people who care and love you know get you through it my wife at a drop of a hat would drop everything and just drive me two and a half hours to Manchester because I needed to get to the and the doctors were there and the nurses were ready and everything was there for me but yeah it was tough. “Birmingham have been amazing to me very supportive, the owner is an amazing human being the chief executive Gary Cook has been fantastic Craig Gardner, the sporting director, was unbelievable with me, and I felt as if we were had a chance to be all right and yet they did always say that things were going to change at the club and they were going spend some money and yet probably the plan wasn't that they were going to get relegated. “It's easy for me to say no I don't think we would have got relegated we just won the last two games against Sunderland and against Blackburn Rovers and we were on we were pushing pretty good I think, but listen it is what it is and Birmingham have now done what they're doing you know they're going to move into a 60,000 seater stadium in three or four years time and hopefully they'll be pushing to be in the Premier League if not in the Premier League by then the owners talking.”
