Post by QPR Report on Jul 18, 2009 10:05:24 GMT
Blackpool Gazette
By Andy Moore
IAN Holloway is offering striker Danny Nardiello a big chance to "climb back up" following his fall down the pecking order at Blackpool.
After a miserable first season with the Seasiders, the Wales international has played in all three friendlies under Holloway, scoring against Burscough and Barnstaple.
The 26-year-old signed for two years from QPR 12 months ago as part of the deal which saw Kaspars Gorkss move in the opposite direction.
He started only one match for Pool all season – the FA Cup defeat at Torquay – and was loaned out to Hartlepool for the final three months of the campaign. But Holloway will do all he can to help the former Manchester United trainee who got "lost in the system" to find his best form.
Holloway said: "He was a bright-faced young fella at Manchester United but if you go to a giant of a club like that (where Nardiello started only one game in five years) you have got to be built like King Kong.
"You have to be tough enough to withstand anything, and if you can't you then have to deal with why you weren't good enough for them. You are falling and you have to grip hold of something to stop falling.
"Danny has gone here and there and it hasn't quite worked. He has to deal with that and I will try to help him because I believe most of it has not been self-inflicted at all but has been very unfortunate.
"He has had a few injuries, and I will talk to him and try to get him over those injuries.
"I want to make sure he is tough enough, ready and not too bruised from the past to climb back up.
"That's what good players do – they get knocked down but they get up again."
Nardiello enjoyed most success during several stints at Barnsley, helping them to League One play-off glory in 2006. He joined QPR 12 months later, a year after boss Holloway had moved on to Plymouth.
www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sports-news/Nardiello-given-new-Pool-chance.5471567.jp
By Andy Moore
IAN Holloway is offering striker Danny Nardiello a big chance to "climb back up" following his fall down the pecking order at Blackpool.
After a miserable first season with the Seasiders, the Wales international has played in all three friendlies under Holloway, scoring against Burscough and Barnstaple.
The 26-year-old signed for two years from QPR 12 months ago as part of the deal which saw Kaspars Gorkss move in the opposite direction.
He started only one match for Pool all season – the FA Cup defeat at Torquay – and was loaned out to Hartlepool for the final three months of the campaign. But Holloway will do all he can to help the former Manchester United trainee who got "lost in the system" to find his best form.
Holloway said: "He was a bright-faced young fella at Manchester United but if you go to a giant of a club like that (where Nardiello started only one game in five years) you have got to be built like King Kong.
"You have to be tough enough to withstand anything, and if you can't you then have to deal with why you weren't good enough for them. You are falling and you have to grip hold of something to stop falling.
"Danny has gone here and there and it hasn't quite worked. He has to deal with that and I will try to help him because I believe most of it has not been self-inflicted at all but has been very unfortunate.
"He has had a few injuries, and I will talk to him and try to get him over those injuries.
"I want to make sure he is tough enough, ready and not too bruised from the past to climb back up.
"That's what good players do – they get knocked down but they get up again."
Nardiello enjoyed most success during several stints at Barnsley, helping them to League One play-off glory in 2006. He joined QPR 12 months later, a year after boss Holloway had moved on to Plymouth.
www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sports-news/Nardiello-given-new-Pool-chance.5471567.jp