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'Modern day penalty' robs QPR of Chelsea scalp - report
at 00:41:51

Agree with all your comments TR (watching on stream) i dont want to knock Yun and Vargas but they did look at fault to me. However if they hadnt played then i dont think we would have stood a chance as all the talk of our change of attitude, away games in particular, has coincided with their introduction to the starting XI so i say more power to their youthful exuberance and lets have more excitement (and mistakes?)

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A crucial crossroads for Mowbray and Boro — opposition focus
at 01:57:07

I agree SoN. i'm sure they love him at WBA as they played great football most of the time it seemed.
His problem at Celtic, I think, was their need for constant success. They desperately needed revamping and he went for it big style and upset too many stalwarts, given his preferred playing style i'm not sure how else he could go about it tbh. However this resulted in a slump and made them 2nd best all of a sudden, where Celtic always shout about having to play the game in a certain style (where have we heard that before?) the reality is that in their 2 horse race substance wins over style every day of the week and although a playing 'hero' there too he never had enough time to make his mark.
Would it be ironic that from his four managerial appointments so far he ends up as a failure at the two clubs which revered him as a player yet is still lauded at both Hibs and WBA where he came in as a novice at both levels?

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A crucial crossroads for Mowbray and Boro — opposition focus
at 01:15:46

Mowbray started his managerial career at Hibs and came in at a time when there was no money but what turned out to be a crop of great youth players (Scott Brown, Derek Riordan, Steven Whittaker, Kevin Thomson and Steven Fletcher among them). As a Hibs fan I will say he was instrumental in developing them into multi million pound sales for Hibs and producing excellent entertaining football along the way.
Obviously he was fortunate that these boys were there and ready to play first team football however his history at Hibs (as with most other Hibs managers for some reason) will show that there was always a peak and subsequent dip in fortunes after the New Year.
I loved his time at Hibs but in hindsight I think he does produce teams with a soft underbelly and it is no coincidence that the squads he assembled never won anything until he left and John Collins guided them to a first trophy in 2007. The fact that Collins faced a player revolt only a couple of months after this triumph (Hibs first since 1991) seemingly due to his aloofness and strict training and dietary regime probably says as much about the modern footballer as TM's 'fatherly' approach to management

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