Cheer up Tony Mombrsy

Gazboroontour said:
Mogga is a Boro legend, he was awesome alongside pallister during the Rioch era, one of the most exciting times as a Boro fan. He always has time for Boro fans and I’m sure he will be supporting Boro if we get to the final.
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He will be there.
An probably a few other ex-Boro players(y)
 
TheWolfman said:
Ive met him a couple of times nice guy, took time to speak with me about the Boro when he didn't have to. Maybe its you 😛
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It is true that people can and do interact differently with one another, football and celebrity affords people statuses that are set unchallenged, in tablets of stone and believed by many to be fact without a second thought, but can be built on a foundation of quicksand. There is a proverb that says ‘Never meet your heroes’ well, i fully understand why that is such a wise saying. I have people I consider legends, but usually they are real life heroes, ordinary people doing wonderful things within communities, often under the radar, not well paid so called celebrities. So, being brought up on the basis that in the real world, courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything, and furthermore, to answer your comment, I will quote Orville Richard Burrell, no, “It wasn’t me”
 
Met Mowbray many, many times and he's always gone out of his way to be pleasant, polite and accommodating, far more so than any other person with a similar profile or standing in the game that I've come across.

A more grounded humble and decent person you couldn't wish to meet, a man who has faced plenty of personal tragedy with a grace and dignity that few could manage.

I know he regularly keeps in touch with young players who were at clubs and didn't go on to make it in the game and has gone above and beyond at times to help them when they have life has derailed them.

He was heart broken by how things ended at the Boro, especially as he was reluctant to take the job in the first place knowing that one day it could end and was given assurances that never materialised, look at the players he signed and the young players he developed.

Col, as you know I totally respect your opinion but I'm surprised that you have had such a bad experience with Mowbray, but as you told me when I wrote about my experience with Warnock and his behaviour in a game I was involved which was among the worst I've ever encountered, that he really wasn't like that and I'd caught him on an off day then I can only say the same most apply to Mowbray.

Undoubtedly a club legend as a player but in a world full of hyperbole someone I hold in high enough regard to say he is also a legend of a man.

EDIT: All my meetings with have been outside the professional environment and from that perspective I've witnessed countless interactions with others where he's never been less than courteous and polite.
 
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American_Mary said:
Met Mowbray many, many times and he's always gone out of his way to be pleasant, polite and accommodating, far more so than any other person with a similar profile or standing in the game that I've come across.

A more grounded humble and decent person you couldn't wish to meet, a man who has faced plenty of personal tragedy with a grace and dignity that few could manage.

I know he regularly keeps in touch with young players who were at clubs and didn't go on to make it in the game and has gone above and beyond at times to help them when they have life has derailed them.

He was heart broken by how things ended at the Boro, especially as he was reluctant to take the job in the first place knowing that one day it could end and was given assurances that never materialised, look at the players he signed and the young players he developed.

Col, as you know I totally respect your opinion but I'm surprised that you have had such a bad experience with Mowbray, but as you told me when I wrote about my experience with Warnock and his behaviour in a game I was involved which was among the worst I've ever encountered, that he really wasn't like that and I'd caught him on an off day then I can only say the same most apply to Mowbray.

Undoubtedly a club legend as a player but in a world full of hyperbole someone I hold in high enough regard to say he is also a legend of a man.
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I fully respect him as a player and inspirational captain at Middlesbrough, I also respect what he tried to do as manager at our club in terrible and dire circumstances, leaving a decent base for AK to build from. I was extremely appalled and frankly disgusted at how many Boro fans treated him so badly at Barnsley over a game of football (just like they did to AK at Stoke really), maybe some of them now though still refer to Mowbray as a club legend, despite their own actions, who knows.

I have no doubt when anyone who met him in a Boro context, he will likely have been a gent as some have said. Most people have more than one persona though as I’m sure you know and people assume they know the real you, when what they are seeing is maybe the work you, or the social you, but have they met the other personas us humans all generally possess and some can be more dominant than others. We all have fronts we switch on and off, it is a psychological fact, when we are switched on, we display the image we wish to project. I am glad your experiences have been positive, but we all have to rely our own experiences when we interact with anyone, like you with Warnock.

When you have or come across situations with your heroes, whoever they may be, in everyday life they can be a let down, just like we ordinary folk all can be to one another, hence the never meet your heroes proverb.
 
Markburke said:
The TM in FMTTM. My childhood hero; stayed unpaid, led us from bankrupt to the top flight; a legend forever and a lovely humble kind man. Always always always. For Bruce Rioch to say that about him he’s some human being.
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Fly Me To Tony Mowbray?
 
coluka said:
I fully respect him as a player and inspirational captain at Middlesbrough, I also respect what he tried to do as manager at our club in terrible and dire circumstances, leaving a decent base for AK to build from. I was extremely appalled and frankly disgusted at how many Boro fans treated him so badly at Barnsley over a game of football (just like they did to AK at Stoke really), maybe some of them now though still refer to Mowbray as a club legend, despite their own actions, who knows.

I have no doubt when anyone who met him in a Boro context, he will likely have been a gent as some have said. Most people have more than one persona though as I’m sure you know and people assume they know the real you, when what they are seeing is maybe the work you, or the social you, but have they met the other personas us humans all generally possess and some can be more dominant than others. We all have fronts we switch on and off, it is a psychological fact, when we are switched on, we display the image we wish to project. I am glad your experiences have been positive, but we all have to rely our own experiences when we interact with anyone, like you with Warnock.

When you have or come across situations with your heroes, whoever they may be, in everyday life they can be a let down, just like we ordinary folk all can be to one another, hence the never meet your heroes proverb.
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My barber was a real friendly chatty type when he was cutting my hair. Then I met him on holiday in Turkey and he was a right old grump.
I think he was probably jealous of the Turkish barbers.
He wasn't my hero by the way. Just my barber.
 
Mogga is Mr Middlesbrough - I just picture him down Cargo Fleet rolling and shaping the steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
 
Marvanelli said:
Looks like he won't even make October.

He's already fighting to save his job.

That club really is a basket case
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Hard to believe - but that's Sunderland logic.
Mid table mediocrity next season.

Rather than fighting to save his job, he ought to tell them to shove it. He won't of course as he still has a year contract.

They will have to push him, and he knows he will have no problem finding a new club at Champ level. His stock is high.
 
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