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Post by QPR Report on Apr 18, 2009 22:13:45 GMT
A little patience. A little managerial "autonomy" - Buying the right players rather than the wrong players. That kind of thing.
Kind of ironic the scorer of Wolves only and winning goal today: Very much the one that QPR missed out on.
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Post by londonranger on Apr 18, 2009 22:39:52 GMT
Did we ever sgow any interest in Ewbanx?
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Post by QPR Report on Apr 18, 2009 22:42:29 GMT
When Holloway was manager AND last January BEFORE he joined WOlves
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Post by ingham on Apr 19, 2009 11:52:37 GMT
It's tempting to pick the team at the top and ascribe qualities to them that they don't possess. If they're always at the top - impossible in this division - there's good reason to suppose that they know what they're doing.
But if Wolves are particularly well-run, what happened to them since 1960, when they were one of the top Clubs in the Country? Just about every Club has a good period for a few years. But all except Liverpool under the Boot Room and United under Ferguson have found it impossible to keep up.
Suggesting, perhaps, that they don't know why they're successful. The striker or manager they thought might turn out all right actually does. So we forget all the duds, all the false starts, and all the collapses just when things looked promising before.
Did we know Ferdinand would be as good as he turned out? If we did, why weren't we able to identify suitable successors?
Innumerable other clubs have gone up while Wolves have remained becalmed in this division, and worse. Perhaps they are now in the hands of people who know their stuff, but if they are, they're very unusual indeed in English football.
And, however bad the teams are, one team must go up as champions every season, and, I think, something like 11 different Clubs have gone up in the last 4 years, almost half the Championship winning promotion over that short period of time.
Which isn't unusual. The fear that the same 6 Clubs would go up and down indefinitely because of parachute payments has proved groundless, as the Championship has filled up with Clubs which had parachute payments, like QPR.
So - just to help the discussion along - I'm inclined to reverse our usual way of evaluating short-term success, ascribing it to luck, rather than judgement. You pick up players more or less randomly - hoping for the best, but usually you can't tell - with the result that it's bound to work out better at some times than at others.
It might be because the manager is a 'special one', but if that is the case, there are an awful lot of special ones with so many winning promotion year by year. Are they all brilliant for a few months, then ordinary again for years. Or are they all pretty ordinary, with some of them enjoying unusually favourable circumstances from time to time?
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Post by QPR Report on Apr 20, 2009 7:31:14 GMT
And from The Mirror "....Big Mick has taken his time to build a young, hungry squad epitomised by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, whose 25th goal of the season also all but secured the Championship title.... But owner Steve Morgan and chief executive Jez Moxey have already given him their most significant backing by refusing to bow to fan power when a torrent of jeers echoed around Molineux on the final day last May. McCarthy said: "Last season, when there were some rumblings, there was never any doubt in Steve or Jez's mind that there were going to be changes. "We have a management team which believes in a structure and works to it and didn't have a knee-jerk reaction to a few numpties who were shouting for me to be out. "I've no doubt those same numpties were in the pub on Saturday night shouting 'Super Mick' so it's bizarre isn't it? We've a close working relationship and have done from day one. I'll do my level best to be a good Premier League side. I don't think there is any doubt that will be the case. "Steve and Jez will do their level best for their club. There's no doubt we'll be given the opportunity to make a good fist of it. "... Qpr owner Flavio Briatore is desperate to experience similar success to Morgan. But unless the Renault Formula 1 boss stops wielding the axe with the same speed displayed by his racing cars, the brakes will remain on his hopes of progress. "I'm not a hire and fire merchant," said Morgan, who is expected to double the meagre £6million McCarthy was given when in charge at Sunderland four years ago. "Mick's a very, very capable manager. .." www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/2009/04/20/mick-i-did-it-my-way-115875-21291215/
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Post by ingham on Apr 20, 2009 10:34:31 GMT
Pity they spoiled it by saying they'll do well in the Premiership.
Doing well isn't usually a problem for the manager. It's the bewilderment and confusion when the Club isn't doing well that costs a manager his job.
If the Chairman said he'd be staying win or lose, and whether they did well in the Premiership or not. And they meant it. And we knew the supporters accepted it, it would be more convincing.
But we'll know soon enough, I daresay.
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Post by Lonegunmen on Apr 20, 2009 22:52:36 GMT
Pity they spoiled it by saying they'll do well in the Premiership. Doing well isn't usually a problem for the manager. It's the bewilderment and confusion when the Club isn't doing well that costs a manager his job. If the Chairman said he'd be staying win or lose, and whether they did well in the Premiership or not. And they meant it. And we knew the supporters accepted it, it would be more convincing. But we'll know soon enough, I daresay. Take Hull for example. Started off with a hiss and a roar but have been found out.
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