Albion blog: Mowbray to leave?

Albion blogger Jarrod Hill gives his reaction to the possibility that manager Tony Mowbray could leave the club to go to Celtic.

It looks like being an interesting summer in more ways than one. With Celtic parting ways with manager Gordon Strachan this weekend, our own boss Tony Mowbray has been placed at very short odds by the bookmakers to take over.

For supporters of the manager it's a worrying time, the glamour of managing at Parkhead must be a temptation difficult to turn down. Offers of this type do not come along too often in a person's life time.

Some fans may find it hard to believe Celtic would be interested in recruiting the services of a manager whose side has just finished bottom of the league. But, as we know, the margin of success and failure has been just three points.

The fact it ended up being three points between us and Hull has only served to infuriate my feelings on this season even further.

Three blumming points, my counsellor tells me I need to let it go, but when I think of the points we have given away this season my blood pressure goes up another notch, OK I am kidding.

But if we had stopped up everyone would be lauding what a successful season it has been and praising Tony Mowbray for succeeding playing an entertaining attack minded brand of football.

The weekend also confirmed that we have been joined in the Championship by Middlesbrough and Newcastle; I must admit both teams should make the league more competitive and both will be under huge pressure to bounce straight back to the Premier League.

The same pressure that will be weighing in Mowbray's mind against the pressure of winning back the Scottish title for Celtic, a choice he will have to make if offered the hot seat.

I must admit I do worry for our future if Tony sees his future north of the border, but his decision will be based on a number of different factors.

He has a young family and will he want to move his family again? Will his wife want to move back to Scotland?

Mowbray may also be that rare thing in football today, a loyal man. The show of support shown by the Albion fans on Sunday for our manager must have touched him, and he has reiterated his belief that his Hawthorns career is still a work in progress.

Question is, will he still be here to finish it?

Already I have heard of fans placing bets that Strachan and Mowbray will exchange jobs!!

We all now wait to see what happens, personally I can appreciate what a difficult decision Mowbray would have to make.

It may be that Celtic fans do not want a manager who has just finished bottom of the Premier League, or like many of us, can see past that and recognise his future potential.

I was expecting this to be my last blog for at least a couple of weeks, I thought the next one may have been covering the first of our incoming our out going transfers, but I fear it could be covering an outgoing which holds much greater importance for us.

I suppose the next question would be, how do the fans feel about the possibility of losing Mowbray?