Mowbray - You're a WEASEL

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What a pathetic set of responses from a formerly alleged Boro fan. What he did say:
"We rolled our sleeves up."
"I didn't see it to be honest"
"He's just a young kid, he's a skinny, scrawny kid who you could blow over." (so that's all right then - everything's allowed)

What he didn't say:
To be brutally honest, it's a disgraceful challenge by the kid and almost a life-changing injury.
We have obviously got away with one and are lucky the referee was myopic or otherwise we'd have to battle for 80 minutes with 10 men.

Mowbray's comments after the away game when we murdered them 0-0 were just as ridiculous. Seemed to think that they should have won. You're allowed to be biased but that was deranged.
Don't come back any time soon Mowbray and don't ever express your affinity with Boro again.
 
No respect for anyone turning a blind eye to what happened.

Yes. he's a manager of the opposing team but more than that he's a human being with I'd hope a litlle bit of empathy for the victim and not the perpetrator.

At the least he should be ashamed of his comments.

Oh, and at 18 he's a fully responsible adult, not a "scrawny kid"
 
Just when I thought some of our fan base couldn't get anymore pathetic.

I honestly don't know what we don't employ Simon Armitage or Ian McMillan as manager, as it seems press conferences and what is said in them, is an obsession of this fan base over anything else.

Mowbray is, and will forever be, a Boro legend and his gamesmanship and psychology are what his current employer pays him for - Imagine if he throws the player under the bus, will that result in a loss of confidence for the next few games at Blackburn's cost ?

Perhaps looking a bit closer at some of the activities of the current messiah, such as the Sheff Utd V's West Brom game back in 2002, will show you some real underhand tactics - but I forget he's flavor of the month at the moment because we're in a relatively decent position.
 
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It was a young kid making a block, it was high but there was no malicious intent there whatsoever.

It should have been a penalty and maybe even a red card but its the refs fault for not giving it. Mowbray hasn't torn into his player just like any other manager won't and he's absolutely right not to.

Some people really need to grow up, Mowbray has done more for this club than the majority of people on this board put together.

Yes we got beat and people are disappointed but show some respect.
 
And... 'we murdered them'...... really?

You must have been watching a different game to me. I thought we shaded the game before their goal and they controlled the game after that.

We were pretty average for most of the game and that isn't anyone else's fault but our own.
 
Of course he could of been critical but it’s standard that managers say they didn’t see it these days. Few managers will openly criticise on TV. The reaction towards Mowbray especially the OP on this thread is like the challenge over the top.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Just when I thought some of our fan base couldn't get anymore pathetic.

I honestly don't know what we don't employ Simon Armitage or Ian McMillan as manager, as it seems press conferences and what is said in them, is an obsession of this fan base over anything else.

Mowbray is, and will forever be, a Boro legend and his gamesmanship and psychology are what his current employer pays him for - Imagine if he throws the player under the bus, will that result in a loss of confidence for the next few games at Blackburn's cost ?

Perhaps looking a bit closer at some of the activities of the current messiah, such as the Sheff Utd V's West Brom game back in 2002, will show you some real underhand tactics - but I forget he's flavor of the month at the moment because we're in a relatively decent position.
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I agree to a degree but it may have been more palatable if he just told the truth” I.e that it was an accident - I don’t believe there was any malicious intent in the challenge but these things can happen” type of response rather then deny seeing it. He can say this whilst not criticising his own player.
 
Uwefuchs said:
It was a young kid making a block, it was high but there was no malicious intent there whatsoever.

It should have been a penalty and maybe even a red card but its the refs fault for not giving it. Mowbray hasn't torn into his player just like any other manager won't and he's absolutely right not to.

Some people really need to grow up, Mowbray has done more for this club than the majority of people on this board put together.

Yes we got beat and people are disappointed but show some respect.
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Thats the point though, there was no malicious intent, but it was still extremely dangerous. There is no excuse, and if that was someone like Richard Keogh there'd be lynch mobs. I was thinking of how it wouldve panned out if it was Nathan Wood who had challenged like that and caused such an awful injury to one of their players. Hard to know, but I'm sure both him and Warnock would have acted differently and would have at least wanted to ensure that the opposition player was OK.

I was under the impression that Mowbray was better than that. The fact that he claimed he didn't see it when the game was stopped for 6 minutes, with multiple replays on Sky and a monitor by the dugouts was strange. Also, if Warnock and the Boro bench was making such a fuss, then why wouldn't you look at it? Plus Fry walked past him with blood pouring out of his face. Mowbray showed a lack of class yesterday, something I always thought he had an abundance of. It wouldn't have been hard for him to say that it was a bad challenge, but wasn't intentional, and everyone at Blackburn hopes that Dael is OK. It really would have been that simple. And, Branthwaite made the situation at the final whistle worse when he was smirking and mouthing off. A little humility wouldn't have gone amiss.

Fortunately it doesn't look like Fry's injury is too bad and he should be back soon. It's done now though, and we need to move on. It will all be forgotten with a good win on Wednesday night.
 
uncle_rico said:
Thats the point though, there was no malicious intent, but it was still extremely dangerous. There is no excuse, and if that was someone like Richard Keogh there'd be lynch mobs. I was thinking of how it wouldve panned out if it was Nathan Wood who had challenged like that and caused such an awful injury to one of their players. Hard to know, but I'm sure both him and Warnock would have acted differently and would have at least wanted to ensure that the opposition player was OK.

I was under the impression that Mowbray was better than that. The fact that he claimed he didn't see it when the game was stopped for 6 minutes, with multiple replays on Sky and a monitor by the dugouts was strange. Also, if Warnock and the Boro bench was making such a fuss, then why wouldn't you look at it? Plus Fry walked past him with blood pouring out of his face. Mowbray showed a lack of class yesterday, something I always thought he had an abundance of. It wouldn't have been hard for him to say that it was a bad challenge, but wasn't intentional, and everyone at Blackburn hopes that Dael is OK. It really would have been that simple. And, Branthwaite made the situation at the final whistle worse when he was smirking and mouthing off. A little humility wouldn't have gone amiss.

Fortunately it doesn't look like Fry's injury is too bad and he should be back soon. It's done now though, and we need to move on. It will all be forgotten with a good win on Wednesday night.
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I wouldn't expect lynch mobs if any player had done it, the reaction from our fans is totally over the top. People have seen Fry's injury and got themselves all upset over it.

Those types of incident don't happen every week but they do happen often enough for us to realise it was just a really clumsy challenge. If that happened in the centre of the pitch the reaction wouldn't have been half as bad, its only because its denied us a penalty and potentially impacted the outcome of the game that its got everyone upset.

I can guarantee you that if the roles were reversed then Warnock would be defending his player.

Its a physical sport and players get bad injuries, it happens. When you walk on the pitch you accept that another players clumsiness can cause you a bad injury if you are unlucky.

If the player had gone out to injure Fry then fair enough but he didn't so everyone needs to calm down.
 
Uwefuchs said:
I wouldn't expect lynch mobs if any player had done it, the reaction from our fans is totally over the top. People have seen Fry's injury and got themselves all upset over it.

Those types of incident don't happen every week but they do happen often enough for us to realise it was just a really clumsy challenge. If that happened in the centre of the pitch the reaction wouldn't have been half as bad, its only because its denied us a penalty and potentially impacted the outcome of the game that its got everyone upset.

I can guarantee you that if the roles were reversed then Warnock would be defending his player.

Its a physical sport and players get bad injuries, it happens. When you walk on the pitch you accept that another players clumsiness can cause you a bad injury if you are unlucky.

If the player had gone out to injure Fry then fair enough but he didn't so everyone needs to calm down.
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Clumsy? Really? It was extremely dangerous and under the laws of the game should have been punished.

We were poor yesterday but that decision, or rather lack of, changed the outcome of the game in Blackburn’s favour. That’s why people are “upset”.

I’d hope Warnock would defend his player, but I’d also hope he had the decency to admit that we’d got away with one, and at least check that the opposition player was OK, rather than sit their smirking.
 
uncle_rico said:
Clumsy? Really? It was extremely dangerous and under the laws of the game should have been punished.

We were poor yesterday but that decision, or rather lack of, changed the outcome of the game in Blackburn’s favour. That’s why people are “upset”.

I’d hope Warnock would defend his player, but I’d also hope he had the decency to admit that we’d got away with one, and at least check that the opposition player was OK, rather than sit their smirking.
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Yeah it was clumsy nothing more than that. Raising your foot high is dangerous but it happens all the time on the pitch and its just a reaction that the player made in a split second. It definitely wasn't a conscious choice to put someone else at risk.

And who was smirking? Are you suggesting that Mowbray thought it was funny that Fry got injured?

I think you're looking for something in Mowbray's reaction that isn't there.

We should put the incident into context, if we'd got a penalty and won the game no one would care about Mowbray's reaction, I'm not even sure people would be making that much of a fuss about Fry being injured if we'd won the game either.
 
Uwefuchs said:
We should put the incident into context, if we'd got a penalty and won the game no one would care about Mowbray's reaction, I'm not even sure people would be making that much of a fuss about Fry being injured if we'd won the game either.
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I definitely would.

It ruined the match for me, even when it was 0-0, and it was an appalling display of refereeing. Can't remember feeling so angry during a match for quite some time.

I have no doubt that Branthwaite didn't intend to injure Fry, but that's irrelevant.
 
If fry hadn’t put his head down and the foot went into his chest there wouldn’t be all these threads.

foots are going at the height every week. They should be punished for dangerous play. People are seeing the end result and getting their knickers in a twist
 
GazC_MFC said:
If fry hadn’t put his head down and the foot went into his chest there wouldn’t be all these threads.

foots are going at the height every week. They should be punished for dangerous play. People are seeing the end result and getting their knickers in a twist
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Because the end result is a player nearly being blinded through absolutely no fault of his own, and a foul wasn't even given.

If the foot had went studs up in to his chest, I would fully expect a penalty to be given then too.
 
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