Corry Evans has recently given some insight as to what it was like in the dressing room when we were getting the best out of Amad week in week out. Evans has given the credit to Tony Mowbray for that after sharing our former gaffers simple tactic, give the ball to Amad and he will score...
LUCKY TO HAVE MOWBRAY
“I think he [Amad] was lucky in the sense that we had Tony Mowbray, who was really entrusting with young players. Tony has done it loads of times throughout his career… He just trusts the players, no matter what age they are, and I think that’s why young players really develop under him.”
UPFRONT AND HONEST
“Tony just trusts them and says, ‘Listen, they’re talented, just give them the ball’. That’s what he used to say about Amad. He would say, ‘Give it to the good players. I’m not saying in a disrespectful way to you, but just give it to the good players because they’ll make the best decisions.’”
GIVE THE BALL TO AMAD
“And then he would say something like, ‘Back when I was a player at Middlesbrough and Ipswich, I would give it to the best players and we would win games’. So it was always drilled in to feed him basically, give him the ball, because they’re the players who can change games.”
YOU COULD SEE HIS ABILITY
“You wouldn’t think he’s strong, but then you get up close to him in training… He’s very wily and he uses his body really intelligently. That impressed me straight away. He was a bit shy and we were lucky because we had four or five French boys, so obviously he mingled with them straight away and that helped him settle in. Some of the stuff he was doing in training and then later on in games as the season went on, you could see his ability.”
