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  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451

  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Lee Bowyer needs a break. Yet another manager where results got worse in his career as the politics at clubs wore him down and players leave and the replacements are inferior. I wonder if it hasn't totally put him off. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,613
    He's only got Leeds & W'Ham to do & he'll have the set  😄. 
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,030
    golfaddick said:
    He's only got Leeds & W'Ham to do & he'll have the set  😄. 
    You are forgetting Ipswich and Newcastle.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    Really not surprised, wish him all the best, wonder if he’ll come back as a number 2 to Ben Garner. ;)
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Swisdom said:
    I’m not sure Bowyer will take another managers role for a while.  He’s hardly had a good time of it and wasn’t a raging success at Brum
    I think he’d need to drop back down to league one or even two and I doubt he’s likely to do that. Carp fishing beckons methinks.
    Maybe. But he does have a playoff win on his record.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,442
    Can see a struggling Championship side giving him a call this season, because of how he kept Birmingham up. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,942
    I can't see him getting another Championship job at this point, but he could get a League One one - promotion on his record, Championship experience, two difficult jobs under dodgy owners etc.

    Might not be arsed though, will have earned enough as a player and in the last 4 years to take it easy, run his fishing lake and do a week or two of coaching here and there etc if he wants less stress.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    SELR_addicks said:
    Can see a struggling Championship side giving him a call this season, because of how he kept Birmingham up. 
    Technically he did not keep them up, Derby's points deduction did.
  • dicktracey
    dicktracey Posts: 318
    .... unbelievable .... top of the league as well !
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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,942
    eaststandmike said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    Can see a struggling Championship side giving him a call this season, because of how he kept Birmingham up. 
    Technically he did not keep them up, Derby's points deduction did.
    Not true, Reading would have gone down.

    If Reading and Derby both didn't have points deductions, Birmingham would have stayed up above Reading on goal difference.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    killerandflash said:
    Notts_Addick said:
    It was only in the papers yesterday that Bassini's exclusivity period had ended without him stumping up any funds and that Brum were talking to other parties so not entirely sure this is a sign Bassini's takeover is close.  Let's hope for their fans it's not.

    Birmingham are an absolute car crash of a club and have been for some time, I think keeping them up two seasons in a row is a pretty decent accomplishment on LB's part and he can walk away with his head held high.
    Agreed, though VERY lucky last season that two clubs had points deductions
    Would have kept us up if a second one had....
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    soapboxsam said:
    Lee Bowyer needs a break. Yet another manager where results got worse in his career as the politics at clubs wore him down and players leave and the replacements are inferior. I wonder if it hasn't totally put him off. 
    He doesn't need the job either.

    He will go back fishing, thinking he is a good manager, with nothing to prove and he will either get the call for a job he fancies, or he won't.  I can't see him hawking himself about for any old job to keep himself relevant.
  • Kips
    Kips Posts: 689
    Blues are a relegation waiting to happen. Bow did a par for course job there albeit with some luck along the way with the Derby situation.

    I agree with other posters, I think he'll take a break from management, and I don't expect he'll pitch up on Soccer Saturday any time soon either. Then again they employ Clinton Morrison..
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,877
    North Lower Neil said:
    eaststandmike said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    Can see a struggling Championship side giving him a call this season, because of how he kept Birmingham up. 
    Technically he did not keep them up, Derby's points deduction did.
    Not true, Reading would have gone down.

    If Reading and Derby both didn't have points deductions, Birmingham would have stayed up above Reading on goal difference.
    Reading also received points a points deduction. If derby and reading hadn't, both would have stayed up and Birmingham would have been relegated 
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    Have never really understood some fans attitude towards Bowyer. Under the circumstances he done a brilliant job, that probably applies to his time at Birmingham. A friend of mine who done some work at the training ground a few years back told me Robinson was a great bloke, and Bowyer was a little shit. That said, I started off thinking Bowyer was the wrong man and was proven wrong. I wish him well. That day at Wembley was a better day for me than 1998 as I don’t remember the 1998 final for a variety of reasons. 
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,897
    He left a car crash to join a multi vehicle pile up ..under the circumstances he did 2 decent jobs .I ll always wish him well 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,987
    Todds_right_hook said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    eaststandmike said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    Can see a struggling Championship side giving him a call this season, because of how he kept Birmingham up. 
    Technically he did not keep them up, Derby's points deduction did.
    Not true, Reading would have gone down.

    If Reading and Derby both didn't have points deductions, Birmingham would have stayed up above Reading on goal difference.
    Reading also received points a points deduction. If derby and reading hadn't, both would have stayed up and Birmingham would have been relegated 
    The original poster is correct.

    Birmingham 47 points -25 GD.
    Reading 41 points -33 GD.

    So even with the 6 points back that they were deducted, Reading would still have been relegated on goal difference.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    Once players or managers decide to walk out on us, I do take more notice of them than other players or managers but can’t say I really care how they do. Not bothered it Aribo or Gomez or Bowyer etc are successful or not. 
    Probably the only player I kept an affinity for was Darren Bent as felt he was given a raw deal by England 
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  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,877
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Todds_right_hook said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    eaststandmike said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    Can see a struggling Championship side giving him a call this season, because of how he kept Birmingham up. 
    Technically he did not keep them up, Derby's points deduction did.
    Not true, Reading would have gone down.

    If Reading and Derby both didn't have points deductions, Birmingham would have stayed up above Reading on goal difference.
    Reading also received points a points deduction. If derby and reading hadn't, both would have stayed up and Birmingham would have been relegated 
    The original poster is correct.

    Birmingham 47 points -25 GD.
    Reading 41 points -33 GD.

    So even with the 6 points back that they were deducted, Reading would still have been relegated on goal difference.
    Oops. My bad

    i thought reading were deducted 9
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    lack of progress comes to a complete stop .. where next for Lee ?
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Lincsaddick said:
    lack of progress comes to a complete stop .. where next for Lee ?
    Peg 16 on lake 6.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,352
    Lincsaddick said:
    lack of progress comes to a complete stop .. where next for Lee ?
    LB football career sleeps with the fishes.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Nah. You stick a great big sharp and pointed lump of metal in the mouth of a fish and yank it unwillingly out of their environment…and the fish doesn’t feel a thing, not even distress.
    Indeed Angling is a form of yoga therapy for fish, teaching them mindfulness with crushed avocado on toast after each session.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    seth plum said:
    Nah. You stick a great big sharp and pointed lump of metal in the mouth of a fish and yank it unwillingly out of their environment…and the fish doesn’t feel a thing, not even distress.
    Indeed Angling is a form of yoga therapy for fish, teaching them mindfulness with crushed avocado on toast after each session.
    Crushed avocado? Don't you think they've suffered enough?

  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    He knew what he was getting himself into at Birmingham. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    mendonca said:
    He knew what he was getting himself into at Birmingham. 
    Yes, and he knew what he was getting himself out of at Charlton.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,365

  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,942
    Close to the ferry back to Etang de Bows I guess.

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