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Peace: We’ll fight to keep gaffer
Friday 9th May 2008, 12:23PM BST.
Albion chairman Jeremy Peace has insisted he has the ambition to keep Championship-winning Tony Mowbray at The Hawthorns for the long-term.
Mowbray was today celebrating his second manager of the month award at The Hawthorns as Peace spoke out about the threat of bigger clubs poaching his manager.
Mowbray has been linked with his former club Middlesbrough and was an outside bet with the bookies when it looked recently as if Gordon Strachan would lose his job at Celtic.
And the Baggies attractive style of play, which has seen them score more than 100 goals for the last two seasons, has left fans nervous of an approach from bigger clubs.
But Peace is confident he can keep Mowbray at the club thanks to the “happiness factor” that has been created at the club.
“I’m sure he’ll be on a few lists,” said Peace. “It’s up to us as a football club to make sure he stays with us and stays happy.
“When he joined us I said to Tony that we would just try to provide him with the platform to be successful.
“We’ve achieved that this season and I know he’s very anxious for the Premier League challenge.
“I think it’s the job for me and our colleagues on the board to try to provide Tony with the platform to continue to succeed and hopefully, if our ambitions remain in the same place, Tony will be happy to continue with us.
“It’s a very good working relationship which we all have with Tony, and I think you’ve seen from the way the players are with him that he has their respect.
“I’m hoping we can make a good fist of it next season.
“We’ve stuck to our principles.
“Tony wanted to set the team up a certain way and play open, attacking football,” added Peace.
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I’m not nervous, is anyone else? More mischief making from the Express and Dingle!!! Speculation will always follow success I suppose you have got to put something in your paper.
Boing Boing
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BOO BOO..GET HIM OUT HE’S A MUPPET!!!
oh sorry..see what happens when the word manager gets mentioned.
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oh dear. Fighting to keep the manager already.
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3. Hughesy
That’s something you won’t have to worry about mate
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stir it up small ones,
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3) hughesy fighting to get rid of yours :-)
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Theres no doubt he can manage at the top and he’s very ambitious hence why he left Hibs to come to England.
He will go first offer he gets
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@ #3
read the story.
it’s inevitable that TM will be associated with perceived “bigger” clubs, just as wolves better players are being linked with moves to perceived “bigger” clubs.
mind you….i bet you wish MM took up that Korean job eh?
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3. Yes that’s true but what does it tell you?? Mate you’re making your-self look foolish!
I’m glad, tells us we have a great manager un like the dingles!!!!
Anyone after him?? Stafford??
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There’s not even any major vacancies and there’s talk about him being tied to us. This is Peace making the position clear before anyone even approaches us in my opinion.
Let’s be honest, To Mo has been successful in the Championship and in the SPL. We all know that this does not necessarily translate into success in the Prem. The only way To Mo will be going is if a bigger, better challenge came along (a club in Europe) and I can’t see them taking the risk on someone unproven in the top flight.
If we stay up next season (even if it’s on goal difference with 12 points), then we may see that kind of club approaching us, but I don’t think that would happen until a second season of Prem football is guaranteed.
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Don’t get me wrong here but this is your biggest problem. I’m not saying that the likes of Liverpool or Man U are gonna come calling but you have to admit that the success TM has had is going to attract attention ! The Premier clubs that are languishing in mid-table and are looking to go somewhwere are gonna sit up and pay attention. Links have already been made with the likes of Middlesborough so you know what to expect. I think tha TM is a genuine sort of bloke and I think he want’s to see the job done with you. however……….
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WELL WELL WELL is he going up the mowbray way HAHAHA WOLVES FOREVER
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Jealous Dingles to the fore!
Bet you wish your manager was being linked with perceived bigger clubs. Instead of compensation I hear the Dingle watchers are having a whip round for a golden handshake for whenever/wherever Mad Mick goes.
CHAMPIONS! CHAMPIONS!
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dear dingles,have you really nothing better to do than speculate about our manager ?? better to concentrate on sorting out that dross of a club of yours – wolves big club ? – dont make me laugh you have a would be michael knighton as chairman the worst manager in the chumpionship the most fickle fans and you live so far in the past that colour tv”s were still 20 years away !!!now go do something useful like pray that one day you to can start on a level playing field with the albion !!!!!!
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I HEAR THE DOG AND DUCK RESERVES WANY SUPER MICK
BUT ONLY IF HE DONT SIGN IRISH PLAYERS
BOING BOING
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I reckon Mowbray will stay with the Baggies for a long time. He’s ambitious but has his head screwed on. He knows that success has to be built on the right foundations, and our club gives him every chance to make a big impact on the prem. He will have many admirers and opportunites to move but he would have to weigh up how long he will be given at these supposed ‘big’ clubs, M’boro excepted. Mowbray is a top manager and a top bloke. Peace has struck gold.
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I don’t think Tony will be going anywhere soon. He seems like a very honourable man and not the sort to walk away when he’s only just started something. I think there are things he wants to achieve with WBA.
Also aren’t the rules on managers switching clubs a lot stricter in the Premiership, it will obviously be easier to keep him anyway now we are in the top flight.
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ohhhh dear you tescos know that all the other teams in the prem are bigger clubs than yours and a few in the championship as well so he could go anywhere really.never mind though bryan robsons looking for a job you can get your messiah back…robbo for tescos…checkout.till next time..isle be seeing ya..bong bong going down the mowbray way?
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Chances are he could go to a bigger club…BUT at the moment Wolves have gone on record as saying they are keeping MM. Happy relegation battle Baggies ;-)
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Reply to 18. I was just laughing at your comments you ignorant little twerp! Concentrate and focus on your own team and try, if possible and post some constructive comments about them. I know it will very difficult but if you just think hard enough its amazing how much sense you could make!
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The current Albion team is one Mowbray’s built. Many players he’s signed (Brunt, Morrison, Miller, Tex, L Moore) are players for the future which suggests he’s not about to jump ship to a team that another manager has built….
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dear wol1877ves is this your lunch break from your job as a trolley boy at nettos ?? because lets face it robsons still a better bet than mccarthy and lets face it why would ince go there ?? he has more chance of sucess with mk dons than netto fc …… now run along and collect your trollies up there”s a good pikey dingle !!!
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Why would Tony want to go ? He has achieved what he wanted, but now wants to proove himself in the Premier league. Celtic would not pose such a challenge as you know they will finish in the top 3 whoever takes over. Better to have the challenge of gathering a Premiership squad to stay up firstly and then to stay up for a few seasons. If it is money then he could have gone anytime last year. I think fans can see he is happy at the Hawthorns for the time being and he knows if he asked for a bit more cash he would get it.
Great to see so many Dingles snapes again they are sooooooooooo envious. I for one won’t buy the Hotton Courir to see how they are getting on next season. Any lower and they will drop off the coupon !
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@ 19 funny Mick.
bigger club? old hat more like.
happy relegation….doubtful, but then again
i suppose your season will be as uneventful
as the one just finished?
wolverhampton wanderers? you have be go somewhere to be classed as a “wanderer”.
seeing as your team doesn’t go anywhere i’d suggest a name change….
suggestions please?
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more messages on here from dingles than from us,,tells me one thing.SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEALOUS,,have been all season and will continue to be next season.what a shame….PLAYING IN THE PREM THE MOWBRAY WAY,,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,,OOOOOOOOOOOH YES.
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24.
How about “Squatters”-Just like Wolves they never budge!!!!!!!!
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18 – My clubs bigger than your club – once again rather similar to my Dad’s bigger than your Dad.
Grow up you cretin.
Any club that’s in the PREMIER LEAGUE is bigger than a club in the Chumpionship otherwise we wouldn’t be in the Premier League, oh and i suppose you’re going to come out with “we’ve got more fans than yowww”..think about the geography.
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It’s just hillarious reading all of these Wolves fans posts, “your manager’s going to a bigger club” and “happy relegation battle” etc.
Obviously jeaously eats away at people to the extent that they have to come onto another teams page and write pathetic and futile posts.
I’ll just say one thing, I’d rather be where we are and playing the type of football that we play, opposed to the dross that I hear many Wolves fans moan about on a Monday morning. Enjoy playing Swansea etc next year boys, we’re off to ‘The Bridge’.
Entertaining and promoted…..glad to be a Baggie.
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20 Costa del Sol Baggie now now name calling isnt going to get you anywhere is it showing yourself up in front of your fellow tescos and by the way i go on the wolves page to post my comments because im a wolves fan but for some reason its full of you lot thats why i came on here.and as for you 22 macthebaggie robsons a better bet than mcCarthy yehhhh thats why you hounded him out when things started going wrong instead of giving him a chance to sort it out.now you run along little boy youve got homework to do.bong bong..WE ARE WOLVES..
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You only have to look at the big sam debacle to know that he is here to stay.
The only thing Wolves will have in common next season with Albion is a 10th place finish!!
Boing Boing!!!
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another trophy in the cupboard good job we daint have a tour weed have needed 3 buses boing boing another trophy
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Surely all the Dingles on here have got other things to worry about, rather than speculation about a Premier League manager
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tea pot wonderers cuz there always in the middle of the table boing boing
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This is the trouble when you have a successful club like the Albion,everyone wants what we have got,players and manager.Just like Tescos really.
Wolves are like Poundland,they would virtually have to give what they have got away.
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Droitwich baggie,
spot on post my friend. STORMING THE PREM THE MOWBRAY WAY!!!!!!
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30# CUTE.. NOW I KNOW I’M FAMOUS..EVEN THE BOGGIES ARE PRETENDING TO BE ME.
SHAME REALLY AS ALL OF YOU TOGETHER WOULDN’T FILL ONE OF MY BOOTS, THESE DELUSIONS OF GRANDURE OF YOURS REALLY DO NEED SORTING OUT.
TERRYI’MSOUTHBANKSBIGGESTFANBAGGIE..YOU IT WAS YOU ALL THE TIME MATE. LMAO SEE YA LATER MATE.
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He aint goin nowhere!
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24,how about wolverhampton old historians?????
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Its a difficult time for us, Tony Mowbury has done a great job, but like Billy Davies he is a great manager at championship level, but an unknown at premier standard. Im worried about silly signings being made by a man with no premier experience (it hurts me to say it). Perhaps its best we say thanks very much and pay him off now and bring someone in who can take things forward, Up the Albion.
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More utter rubbish from the Express and Star-Mowbray aint going nowhere..oh, you dingles would love to have him..
Try this for an idea: ‘McCarthy poached by bigger club’..nah, no one would buy that..
CHAMPIONS…
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I’m just wondering why our premiership business is of interest to these minnows in wulferhampton?It must be like a sad no-hoper reading a glossy celebrity magazine dreaming of what it’s like to mix with A-listers.You have to be a Baggie to move in these elite circles.Keep dreaming dingles.
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Just remind me!!
West Bromwich Albion – Championship League Winners
West Bromwich Albion – Most entertaining team
West Bromwich Albion – 100 goals scored this season
West Bromwich Albion-Season 2008/2009 Premiership
Wolverhampton Wanderers – Missed the Playoffs.
Nuff said??????????????????????????????
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Listen ….theres nothing like your page and our page. This is a free world we live in, and I guess both Baggies and Wolves supporters will agree that posting on the “other” site is part of the game and good banter. I, for one wouldent be without the Wolvse comments on Wba related stories. Haven said that, some are more constructive than others, but I guess thats the same the other way around. Keep them posts comming guys, If I was in your shoes, I would find something “nasty” about The Baggies to put on alswell ;-) Happy Danish Baggie
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39,mal dingle,have a nice w/e boing boing
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42.WOLVES, CHAMPIONSHIPS TOP SCORER.
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45. True shame only 12 for your lot.
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We’re getting back to the idiots pretending to support another team. Even someone pretending to be SBBA. Just because he does it doesn’t make it acceptable, it devalues the site.
29. On the subject of posting on each others sites. I think if you check you will find that it’s weighted about 4 to 1 more Wolves on ours than vice versa. I’ve no problem with this, after all it is a very heavily Wolverhampton biased newspaper.
On the subject of the article. I think TM is that rare thing in football, a man of his word, however I do believe in ‘never say never.’ Let’s cross this bridge when we actually come to it and in the meantime bask all summer in going to the prem the Mobury way. Sorry for the liberty TWB.
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#45 did’nt he score half his goals for plymouth, boing boing you saddo
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Ye but he scored most of those goals for plymouth! I disagree with 39. Mowbray knows what he’s doing. U can tell by the things he says. He’s a clever bloke, who’s obsessed with football and studies and analyses every part of the game and each team. The mans a genius. Keep him here!
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20– get a grip
plenty of tescos leave comments about wolves so chill out a bit , happy relegation! we’ll be laughing!!! :)
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Maybe I was a bit harsh !
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McCarthy for WBA
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Mowbray always said he wanted to create a team that would do well in the premiership and he probably has providing you keep your ‘cutting edge’. However portsmouth showed you that having all the play without goals is heartbreaking.
I think you are better than the Reading side that did well two years ago and I don’t think you’ll struggle providing you add a couple of quality defenders.
I’m glad you got up but you will probably lose Mowbray if you secure your place but that needn’t be fatal. I’m looking forward to playing you again in 2009/2010 and preferably 9probably) in the premiership. (I can dream can’t I ??????)
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