THE MOGGA ERA

newyddion

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is it just me or does it feel like we are drifting into the Tony Mowbray era again? Somebody made quite an astute comparison (I thought) with comparing Kelechi Iheanacho with the loan of Yannick Bolasie under Neil Warnock.. that would make Samuel Iling-Junior the Neeskens Kebano and presumably we would have Morgan Whittaker playing the part of Nathaniel Mendez-Laing... hmm not quite.

But it got me thinking of that latter Strachan era.. probably a bit further on with Tony Mowbray when we had that feeling of a mend and make do squad that was just outside of the playoffs and the similarities between quite a few of our players.


1 Seny Dieng = Carl Ikeme
2 Tommy Smith = Darnell Fisher
3 Rav van den Berg = Rhys Williams
4 Daniel Barlaser = Josh McEachran
6 Dael Fry = Seb Hines
7 Hayden Hackney = Kevin Thomson
8 Riley McGree = Sammy Ameobi
9 Kelechi Iheanacho = Bartholomew Ogbeche
10 Delano Burgzorg = Marvin Emnes
11 Morgan Whittaker = Albert Adomah
12 Luke Ayling = Dean Whitehead
15 Anfernee Dijksteel = Tony McMahon
16 Jonny Howson = Kieron Dyer
18 Aidan Morris = Faris Haroun
19 Josh Coburn = Curtis Main
20 Finn Azaz = Merouane Zemmama
21 Marcus Forss = Tarmo Kink
22 Tommy Conway = Scott McDonald
23 Tom Glover = Brad Jones
25 George Edmundson = Andre Bikey
26 Darragh Lennihan = Alex Baptiste
28 Ryan Giles = Joe Bennett
29 Samuel Iling-Junior = Mustapha Carayol
30 Neto Borges = Justin Hoyte
31 Sol Brynn = Jason Steele
32 Mark Travers = Paul Smith
39 Sonny Finch = Luke Williams
49 Law McCabe = Richard Smallwood
50 Ben Doak = Willo Flood

yes.. we do need a Barry Robson type of player.. a Grant Leadbitter type of player, I don't think the comparisons are that far out.. if perhaps not entirely historically accurate. I liked a lots of the players in that era and many went on to to form part of a promotion winning squad and in some cases a premier league squad.. a few of the component parts do seem to be missing.

have I been overly harsh? Feeling very 2011–12 season all of a sudden. 7th place finish with a change in management next season?
 
I do feel we could go on the sort of terrible run in the second half of the season we did under Mowbray and our defensive organisation is similarly shambolic to the days we all raved about Rhys Williams!
 
‘Hayden Hackney=Kevin Thomson’ Surely you realized that is absolutely absurd when you wrote it?
I think Kevin Thomson was a very highly regarded midfielder.. if it were not for his broken leg we would have perhaps seen a lot more of that.

I don’t think we have produced a midfielder to such a high standard as Hayden Hackney from our own academy..

Would you have preferred Nicky ‘Zico’ Bailey? No

and as of yet I do not think that Hayden fully possesses the experience or influence of a Barry Robson or a Grant Leadbitter.

perhaps Grant Leadbitter would have been a more acceptable comparison to you.. but in answer to your question.. no.. I did not consider it to be absolutely absurd to compare 2025 Hayden Hackney with a 2010 Kevin Thomson.

The same Kevin Thompson that was part of the Rangers side which reached the 2008 UEFA Cup Final..

Hey maybe FC Porto considered putting a verbal bid in for him too off the back of it.

Not sure how much a Kevin Thomson would set you back nowadays? Probably around £15m to £18m

So maybe not that absurd after all.
 
I think Kevin Thomson was a very highly regarded midfielder.. if it were not for his broken leg we would have perhaps seen a lot more of that.

I don’t think we have produced a midfielder to such a high standard as Hayden Hackney from our own academy..

Would you have preferred Nicky ‘Zico’ Bailey? No

and as of yet I do not think that Hayden fully possesses the experience or influence of a Barry Robson or a Grant Leadbitter.

perhaps Grant Leadbitter would have been a more acceptable comparison to you.. but in answer to your question.. no.. I did not consider it to be absolutely absurd to compare 2025 Hayden Hackney with a 2010 Kevin Thomson.

The same Kevin Thompson that was part of the Rangers side which reached the 2008 UEFA Cup Final..

Hey maybe FC Porto considered putting a verbal bid in for him too off the back of it.

Not sure how much a Kevin Thomson would set you back nowadays? Probably around £15m to £18m

So maybe not that absurd after all.
With respect, that is mental.
 
The moral of the story is.. as with most of my posts recently.. I really want us to sign Timothy Fosu-Mensah and Alexis Beka Beka (11th/12th mention now)

Glover/Travers <> Dieng

Dijksteel/Fosu-Mensah <> Smith
Fry/Ayling <> Lenihan
RVDB/Edmunson <> Clarke
Borges/Giles <> Engel

Morris/Beka Beka <> Barlaser
Hackney/McCabe <> Howson

Forss/Whittaker <> Jones
Azaz/Palmer <> Hamilton
Burgzorg/Iling-Junior <> Gilbert

Conway/Iheanacho <> Latte Lath
 
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