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Curtis Fleming gone

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  1. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    first team coach poached by Pulis at Middlesbrough.

    Who knows, perhaps he was holding Ollie back.....
     
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    He played for Boro for over 10 years, no surprise he'd go back there now...
     
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    Just had an alert from the QPR app about this. Interesting to see if he is replaced and if so who by.

    He is ex-boro and his family home is 20 minutes from their training ground, as opposed to 253 miles. (yes, I did google it)
     
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    Perhaps. But, given that it's effectively a promotion, it will probably give us more problems.

    Still, Ian's QPR through and through, so everything will be ok.
     
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    Couldn't he have waited until the end of the season? That's now a rhetorical question because I've just looked up when he joined us which was 15th December 2016 from Hartlepool. Not a very loyal chap then.
     
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  6. Ninj

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    To move from Hartlepool - a club that is in danger of going bust ( or then relegation) to QPR in championship would have been a good career move. To move nearer to where his family is from a club with financial restrictions is also a good move. (I work away from home and have been trying to move back home for 2 years (however I am fussy with the job I go for!!)
    Tony Pulis has far more pedigree than our own Ian Holloway (no disrespect intended) - Maybe a new coach coming in will bring something else to QPR.

    Fingers crossed
     
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    Is there any loyalty in association football, Mr Cholmondley-Warner?
     
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    Preposterous, but frightfully correct Greesom.
     
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    Probably more money, promotion, a bigger club and not five hours from his family. I’d have done the same.
     
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    I have the impression Fleming improved our defensive organisation. So agree - crossing everything for a good replacement.
     
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  11. sb_73

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    Surely with the mighty intellect of Bircham we don’t need another coach?
     
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    I think we need a backup plan in case out and out onfield thuggery doesn’t work.
     
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    Middlesbrough haven't kept a clean sheet in the four games since defensive coach Fleming has returned there. We've kept two in four since his departure.
     
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