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Post by Macmoish on Dec 31, 2016 12:01:30 GMT
I think we all know that at some point in their managerial careers, almost all managers, no matter how illustrious their past, no longer have it...Only question is whether that's true of Holloway
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Post by nomar on Dec 31, 2016 12:46:59 GMT
So is Ferdinand free of blame for our debacle of two seasons. Some say if we go down as well as the Managers the players we have brought have not been good enough (Les's remit) or the correct players for this league. (Too many overseas and not enough already use to this division) Surely Ferdinand is part accountable if we go down. It doesn't say that he is free of blame does it mate, but it does point out that the majority of what we are now suffering from was instigated before his time and that he has taken on a thankless task in trying to sort out our mess. Warnock, Hughes and Redknapp spunked away 250 million pounds, our current recruitment policy is dictated by that. We do now, however, have some players with a resale value, there haven't been many of those in the last few years. Our academy was decimated before his time, he is re-building it. It also questions whether the managerial appointments have been Ferdinand's choices. I suspect that both Ramsey and Holloway were Fernandes' choice; Holloway said that the first contact was made by Fernandes. Ferdinand is battling against FFP and the heightened expectations of the fan base (for which Fernandes must take a significant degree of responsibility) in an era when the patience of many is measured in weeks not months or years. He may not be the greatest Director of Football in the world, but he is trying to do the right job against considerable odds. It also hints at highlighting the ridiculous theory that still holds sway among the QPR fan base that we are just one sacking away from everything coming good. How many times do we have to prove that it doesn't? So much this. The criticism of Les is typical of everything that's wrong with our so called 'fans'. |
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Post by nomar on Dec 31, 2016 13:03:14 GMT
His biggest fault IMO was thinking he knew it all and didn't need anyone with any football knowledge on the Board. Whilst he has a thankless task and he is easy to criticise, can you imagine if he was the owner of a successful football club (yes I know I'm pushing reality to the boundary)? As the football club was so successful, he decided to buy a low cost airline.......can you imagine him appointing non-aircraft knowledgeable members to his board? Can you imagine him saying.....'well we know all about football, we don't anyone with aircraft management experience?' That to my mind has been the key reason we are in this mess now. He allowed Phil Beard to ruin the football club because poor soul he didn't know what he was doing. Complete and utter madness. I genuinely don't think that he thought he knew it all. He had an agenda which had very little to do with football and everything to do with The Regeneration Project, so he put the club in the hands of someone who would specifically manage that side of things. Beard knew nothing about football but felt he could bring his other business experience and translate it into the football side of things. There's no reason why it couldn't work, except that they were coming from the wrong starting point in the first place. We also had Mike Rigg, who did have football experience, but at that time the club's remit was to use Mark Hughes' name as a lure to attract big name over the hill players that would have global appeal, giving Air Asia the celebrity endorsement TF craved. I don't think any of it was done with Hubris, they just never grasped that continuing to take the soul and identity out of a club that had already had its soul and identity ripped away was never going to end well no matter how much money they threw at it. But, yes, complete and utter madness is totally correct. And at some point you have to reap what you sow. Now appears to be our harvest time. |
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Post by sharky on Dec 31, 2016 17:07:08 GMT
Nothing like an away win to lift the pressure!
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Post by NO1QPRNZ on Jan 2, 2017 8:17:32 GMT
And a Home Win to Follow!
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 2, 2017 8:57:50 GMT
G-d willing.
And if we do, I guess we'll never know how close Holloway was to the Fernandes precipice....
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