A good performance for City - bags of spirit and some really nice touches at times in an entertaining game. However, I've just seen Tony Mowbray on the Football League Show saying that City didn't look like scoring until Boro let them in with a mistake. He obviously didn't see the two cross shots miss the far post by a whisker in the first half, the amazing miss virtually on the line in the 46th minute, the possible penatly for a challenge on Fryatt, Evans' missed sidefoot from 8 yards and two or three decent saves by his keeper.
City were by far the better side over the 90 mins and today showed that had we not lost keys players such as Koren Chester and Hobbs in mad March we would still be in contention for 6th place.. all in all today restored my faith in the squad, in NB as the manager and more importantly next season..
All managers are ****ers these days, I don't know why. When NP was here I thought it was just him that gets a bit grumpy but lately they're all having a good whine in the media. Even Nick has lost his temper a few times. Managers are just not nice people.
Was it him at Celtic when Fortune went to them instead of us, and we were bombarded on 606 with Celtic twats that bought the crap they came out with about him turning his back on PL money that they couldn't compete with? (At a time when their wage bill was about £50M a year, or more than 25% higher than ours)
Eh sorry Boro where the better team in the first half and where unlucky not to go in more than 1 nil up at half time. Second half though was a different story, we dominated the pitch and deserved the win
To be honest I thought the first half was marginal, Boro slightly better, but we still had some excellent opportunities to score in the first half. A few times Boro broke forward it looked like they were miles off side, not 100% as I sit in the south stand. The players didn't protest, but the short fat lino running the line in front of the west stand was not keeping up with the pace of the game at all.
City were playing far too high up the pitch in the 1st half and Boro targeted Garcia, which worked to their advantage. Full credit 2 City for coming out in the 2nd half though and probably just deserving a much needed 3 points
To be fair Mowbray did say we didn't look like scoring until we actually did! Whilst i don't fully agree with him, Evans' chance fell to him when we were already 2-1 up
Evans missed two open goals mate. One before we equalised and one right at the end. The scoreline could have been anything. Great match.
If anything I was concerned by yesterday's performance - we're clearly useless without the likes of Koren and Chester.
Tony Mowbray is the only defender I have seen who used to head the ball with his face. Peter Beardsley and him used to lock chins.
For what its worth I like Tony Mowbray.. pretty honest guy.. would have preferred him to Judas when we looking for a new manager ..
Must say that I really agree that Tony Mowbray is a good, honest manager but I think his view of Monday's game was pretty one sided. As far as comparing him with Nigel Pearson goes I don't think there's much between them although I don't think Mowbray would have opted to leave us without a management team at a key point in a potentially successful season.
I disagree, I think he's massively overrated and an outright liar (if it was him at Celtic with the Fortune situation). He basically had a PL squad playing in the Championship with WBA (they weren't quite, but they came down and lost one player the first season aving strengthened the one that too k them up in the first place). It took him 2 years to get them up despite having that PL budget (£20M+ wage bill in the Championship), and he nearly ****ed it up that time as well by pissing away a massive lead so that with a couple of games left us and Stoke could have been the top 2. When in the PL and clearly going down playing the way they were he refused to alter his tactics to even try something different (sounds familiar). At Celtic he was spending way more than half the PL clubs on wages (there was a report saying our £39M was top 10 wasn't there?) and at a time when Rangers finances were starting to take hold of the club there should have been no real opposition. at M'boro he's had to do a bit of turning round, but they're still spending an absolute fortune compared to everyone else and he looks like he's failing to get them up again.
