Albion duo Tony Mowbray and Peter Grant are colleagues, close friends and for the moment housemates.
But Albion’s new first-team coach reckons no amount of friendship will prevent sparks flying between him and his temporary landlord at some stage this season.
Baggies fans need not worry. Mowbray and Grant have argued before and the newest member of the Hawthorns coaching staff insists a spot of disagreement can only be good for the cause.
The duo’s paths first crossed in 1991 when Mowbray joined Grant at Celtic and there was instant common ground.
Both were students of the game with coaching aspirations and they struck up an instant friendship.
As Grant recalls, their similarities did not always come across on the field.
He said: “There’s no doubt you could see Tony’s potential. We are similar in that respect.
“We could both see that we weren’t the most gifted individuals in the world.
“The one thing we had was a great knowledge and understanding of the game. We had to, otherwise we wouldn’t have been on the pitch.
“We had to be good organisers on and off it. We fell out on the pitch and he’ll be first to tell you I could moan when I wanted to, but it set the standard.”
For now, Grant is watching his Ps and Qs, having been offered a room by the Mowbray family for his first few days at Albion, giving him time to find his own accommodation.
Grant still believes there is scope for the occasional heated debate as the Premier League season draws nearer.
He said: “Yes there is and a I think Tony knows that. He knows I’m not one to keep things bottled up.
“We are football people and we want to take this team forward. There will be differences of opinion.
“If there isn’t, then I think you’re kidding each other and we’re not like that.
“We all have opinions, but I know that as manager the buck stops with you so you need good people around you.”
Grant is confident he fits into the category of ‘good people’.
He has served as assistant to Alan Pardew at West Ham and been manager of Norwich.
31 Comments
We’re gonna win the cup…..
It’s good to be a baggie…..
Phillips gone..
Alby gone..
Gera gone..
And we’re still buzzing!!!!!!! 79 all over again!!!!! Please no snow christmas!!!!!!
I was so happy to hear my baggie friends had received a grant but it seems it’s not an amount of money , it’s a new coach. My mistake. Sorry.
First they shack up together and they are already predicting arguments well saying that you already have hoefkens and robinson to unsettle the dressing room with their comments and actions but still phillips and gera wont have to worry about it!
OUT OF DARKNES COMETH LIGHT…
OUT OF MOWBRAY BEDROOM COMETH A GRANT LOL…
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3 - Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
OUT OF DARKNES COMETH LIGHT…
OUT OF TONY’S BEDROOM COMETH A MUCH NEEDED GRANT LOLOL
BOING BOG BOG THE PIKEES
3 - that record has been played so often now its worn right through.
You really are a one trick muppet with nothing new to say.
Is your “investment portfolio” (snigger) as interesting and varied ??
3: Loffing your just like our very own Terry, there is one difference Terry is funny!!!!
laughing wolf (or shadrack as youre more effectionately known on these pages), just read the express and dingle and the headline wolves story is about the forthcoming coming dinner to celebrate the 20th anniversary of you lot winning the sherpa van trophy. Ha, Ha , No wonder youre constantly on our pages. If we had any season tickets left I`d say go and get one to cheer yourself up.
Think crying wolf might be a better name for you, ha, ha, poor little dingle.
Lovers tiffs predicted already!!!!
Wait till the big boys get hold of you!!
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A staple diet of cucumber and radishes would fail to repeat with such regularity as yourself.
So based on that i reckon you have given me carte blanch to repeat something i posted earlier.
If your investment portfolio`s crash due to the current economic crisis, you could make a good living by being a human anesthetic.
Is there any news from the Molenuuugh???
Has anything actually happened apart from Eastwood being touted to everyone?????
Mowbray talks sense and knows how it it!!!!
OK so 3 players have left, obviously he wasnt too bothered on them going because he has some targets in mind. We sold 6 players at hte end of last season and most people would have agreed that they were our better stars. What happens then?? We get around 9 replacements and win the league and get to an F.A cup Semi. Its certainly not dull at he Hawthorns!!!!!
Now anything happened at he Custard Bowl since I started????………. No? OK.
Sir Tony Midas Mowbray is the breath of fresh air the Hawthorns needed.
A few fall outs always happen and at least they are honest about what we face. Yes some good players have left, but I know Tony has bought well because he is no fool. He has not jumped at the first player available, or paid over the top prices unlike our neighbours have year in year out. Gera, Phillips, etc made their own minds up to leave not Sir Tony. It was purely down to money, not prospects of doing badly in the Premiership this season. Grant is going to be an asset to the Baggies as you can always rely on trusted friends rather than an unknown to come in and work with you. There cannot be many Albion fans who disagree with much Sir Tony and JP have achieved so far ? It may have be raining most of the time over the past few weeks, but there is a ray of sunshine coming from the Hawthorns.
IT’S BOSTIN BEING A BAGGIE !!!
KP HAS SHOWED THAT EVEN HE THINKS HE WOULDNT HAVE EARNED A SECOND SEASON CONTRACT!! OTHERWISE HE WOULD NOT HAVE DROPED DOWN TO ST ANDREWS. TM HAS DONE THE RIGHT THING … THANKS KEV AND GOOD LUCK TO YOU .. GRANT WILL ONLY HELP IN MAKING US A TEAM THAT CAN AND WILL COMPETE.. CANT WAIT !! DOING IT THE MOWBRAY WAY !!
3. never mind philips isnt our worry but he is now yours.. cum on blues 6 easy points against dingles with philips in your side
Tony and Peter will fall out less times than Mick and his shadow.
Mabey he’s getting it the Mowbray way HEHE
If Grant is any good then he will have arguments. That means he has an opinion he wants heard, not like some of the sarcy drivel we read here hey L.W.?
When TM has taught Venus enough maybe the Wulfies would like to see some REAL football and take him on as manager?
AJAY, is that you honey wants to know about ‘The Man In Black’? When I was a kid and we had battery valve radios in the cave, we’d light a fire by rubbing two sticks together and settle down to listen to Valentine Dyall play “The Man In Black”. You had to sit in the dark so you’d be scared. Then he’d tell a ghost story. Back in those days, Wolverhampton had a football team too, but it was a long, long, long time ago.
Is money that tight the boggies can’t afford a
B & B in Smethwick for your new coach?
Premier league in name only…amateur in everything else.
Do they take sandwiches from home made by Mrs M to training?
3 LW.
Ever thought of trying punctuation? Your posts still won’t make much sense but at least you won’t look such an ignoramous.
I typed a really funny (IMO) big brother senario where LW spent his days telling his sandwell slums joke to everyone but ended up in the bedroom making a “you let us down again” banner.. and guess what - the E&D didn’t post it (although they are happy to repeat LW and his tourettes sydrome on EVERY page).
Sometimes these guys just have NO SENSE OF HUMOUR !!!!
3. I reckon Hoefkens and Robinson upset the wolves dressing room a lot more than ours last time we were at the custard bowl!
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Hey! don’t knock the sherpa van pot - its a big and prestigious thing in Wolverhampton!
its great 2 b a baggie
Baggies fans always make me laugh this time of year, always full of it, they will be crying come May2009 when they are back in the fizzy pop league and the mighty Wanderers will wave to you as we go up (and stay up). Good luck sandwell fc your gonna need it !
St John’s Wood woolf - not sure what you base your opinion on, but if that’s the case we still finished 6 places above you, so based on that theory wolves must be sub-amateur, if such a thing exists!!!
Never mind, you’ve still got another 6 Kevin Phillips goals in your net to look forward to, plus trups to Doncaster and Swansea, all culminating in another mid-table finish.
BOING BOING PREMIERSHIP LOVIN’ IT!!!!
Quite a celtic link-up in the in the black country at the moment. I wonder how close Grant Mowbury and McCarthy were to playing in the same team, that would be a pretty hard team to play against.
in mowbray we trust .
jealous wolves fans - shouldn’t you be more concerned with your clubs affairs than ours? It won’t be long till hennesey is on his way and even the hand bag hitter is getting attention - have you got some more “young and hungry” (ie cheap and lacking) players lined up?
All that money Hayward pumped into the club over the past 10 or so years and you’re still in the same position - high hopes, low achievement!
Enjoy the memory of the Sherpa van trophy… LOL!
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It`s difficult to know where to start with this post…….erm…..we are full of it this time of year…..but you will be crying blah blah…….
…and the mighty wanderers will wave as they pass and stay up………erm…not full of it yourself then ?
This is by far the worst case of pot kettle and black, it has been my misfortune to read.
EVERY SINGLE YEAR!!!! you lot spout about having the league won by xmas, and despite abject failure every single year (bar one) you are thick skinned enough to make the same ridiculous claims the year after.
Mighty Wolves, that`s really funny.
25.
Your lack of self awareness is beyond belief. It’s pointless Happy, Terry, Forever, Bomber, etc or even any of your own sensible fans Malvern, Debenham, We8WBA, trying to ridicule you, you’ve done a far better job than even any of them could manage. This post encapsulates the lunatic fringe from the Mol. LCW, LW, Sandwell Massive might as well give up, in the Idiot Grand Prix you’ve just been lapped.