Tony Mowbray Quotes (21 Quotes)


    I have told Derek we will see him on Monday because I want him to make sure he gives it plenty of thought, to make sure we are not pushing him in any direction. I want him to have a clear head and make a decision. My advice to Derek would be to go and listen to them and to see what they've got to offer, see what is on the table. My advice is to give it some thought and we'll see you on Monday.

    I am excited about him. He will be a good signing for us. He brings further competition and hopefully his arrival will give us a wee lift.

    It is a cruel game and it is very harsh on the players. To come in 3-1 down at half-time felt unfair and the penalty was a killer for us. It looked very soft. At 2-1 down, we were just one goal away from winning the tie and in with a real chance.

    If he is to last 90 minutes he must learn when to run, when to pass and when to hold the ball. It's been a fairytale two weeks for him and it is up to me to keep his feet on the ground.

    Mowbray is a great football thinker but he does ask a lot of his players to remain on his wavelength. I sat and watched Sven-Gran Eriksson getting grilled about formations after the Northern Ireland game, ... I said to my team before kick-off that playing a lone striker at home against Dundee United could lead to criticism and if we didn't win I could be sitting on a sofa like Sven next week.


    As I've said to him, it's not about one game - he's got to be a threat every time he plays. He has to build a career for himself.

    The manager is hopeful of a performance tonight of which the Hibs players who embarked upon that run to the semi-finals of the European Cup 50 years ago would approve. You still see some of that team around the stadium on match days and they are all perfect gentlemen, ... Those are the guys who laid the foundations for Hibs being an entertaining, open, passing football team, which is something I try to follow today. It's thanks to those guys that we can try and humbly follow in their footsteps.

    Yes, we've got a few Scotland internationals who play regularly but their last game was still in front of just 1,500 people, ... So, OK, you're playing international football against decent players but European football is about the night, the occasion, t

    When the match is poised at 1-1, you know one mistake could be crucial and there is an understandable nervousness. We seem to want to score the perfect goal when I'd much rather see us get scruffy ones - a toe poke or a ricochet.

    There is no truth in the fact that Chelsea want to take John Park,

    Last season Dnipro won their group against teams like Real Zaragoza, Club Brugge KV and FC Utrecht and therein lies the task for us. They have a squad packed with Ukrainian internationals who romped away with a FIFA World Cup qualifying group that included Denmark, who humbled England recently, and Greece who won the 2004 UEFA European Championship. So we are under no illusions that it's going to be a tough game.

    It's a journey into the unknown, ... but we will be doing our utmost to get as much information on them as possible. We are going to be underdogs and the fact they won their group last season suggests they are a very good team. We have to be more than wary of them and we will prepare very thoroughly.

    I still remember the excitement within our camp that we were going to be playing Inter Milan. Their squad was filled with names like Seedorf, Adriano, Vieri and Ronaldo.

    If Derek wants to sign his contract extension, then everything would be great and we could just get on with things. That has always been the case. I have always said that the best-case scenario for us and Derek is that he signs his contract extension and concentrates on his football and scoring goals until somebody that he is happy with comes in with the right money for him.

    Garry is still feeling a bit tender but he will train today and he'll be fine as will Michael.

    I know if Derek is in the team and we create chances, invariably, he will hit the target and score. All I'm trying to make him aware of are the standards required to play at another level. Ian Rush was the best striker I played against because, when I had the ball, he was like a cat. He was always waiting for you to have just one touch too many and would take it off you.

    Steven didn't train on Monday and it's not been confirmed one way or the other whether his nose is broken. But he'll be back at training on Tuesday and I'm sure he will be okay at the weekend.

    I liken the second leg to playing the Old Firm really, ... We've had good results in Glasgow the last couple of times we've been there.

    We can't come over here, just sit in and not try to score a goal, ... We don't want to lose 1-0 and then be full of 'what ifs' and wonder why we were not more attacking. If we go a goal down, it won't psychologically damage us too much because we will still have to score one goal to win the tie. If they scored early, our game plan wouldn't really change.

    I have to say I am a bit surprised at how quickly Gary has returned but that is all credit to him. He has shown a determination from day one to get himself back, that was evident when I went to see him in hospital the night he suffered his injury. I've already said that everyone in the squad will likely participate at some stage over the next three or four weeks, I'm pretty sure of that, so to have another body available certainly does help us.

    We've talked about it and if that's the case for Gary then that's the case for Derek. But that's the era we are in. If he leaves for nothing that's fine, I would hopefully go and find a wee gem from somewhere who is hungry enough to come and score goals and make a name for themselves.


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