Holloway Gone! Steve McClaren In?

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Status
Not open for further replies.
The only positive feeling I have, is that after McClaren left us that year our football got a lot worse, and we won less games. He was doing something, whether it was in training or from the bench during games, that was really helping us out. Assuming he can bring back whatever expertise he was using to help us out last time, it could be a good appointment. As I write that though, I can't help but have an uneasy feeling in my stomach for Holloway. Tranmore summed up Ollie's situation perfectly;

Tramore Ranger said:
Not sure about this....think holloway has been poorly treated....done what he was asked to do....keep side up, slash wage bill, Give youngsters a pathway and 1st team opportunities......and still gets fired.....
Click to expand...

Also can't help but remember another time we sacked Ollie and then had to watch him take Blackpool into the Premier League, thus proving he is capable of doing it.
 
  • Like
Reactions: WalsallHoop, The other R in Houston and QPR Oslo
QPRski said:
I have the impression that most of us have mixed feeling and it it is easy to see both sides of the arguement.

It is worth to read this "best" and "worse" article from LFW which succintly states the facts for both sides of the arguement.

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/48073/holloway’s-best-and-worst-–-column

The morning after, my "heart" really feels for Ollie, however my "head" understands the "need to progress".

I just hope that next season we do have "progress".
Click to expand...

I read that yesterday Ski, and it does paint the picture that Ollies time was up with his constant tinkering and determination to stick with the 3-5-2, as well as some of his other eccentricities.

The point Clive makes about retaining the current scouting network with Gary Penrice is important in my opinion, as he's a close friend of Ollie so may feel he is pressurised into walking too. We need to recruit well over the summer to have any chance of progression in this league, hopefully McLaren (or whoever it turns out to be) has a plan and targets that are within our budget, and gets the squad fired up for the new season.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Rodney
Steelmonkey said:
I read that yesterday Ski, and it does paint the picture that Ollies time was up with his constant tinkering and determination to stick with the 3-5-2, as well as some of his other eccentricities.

The point Clive makes about retaining the current scouting network with Gary Penrice is important in my opinion, as he's a close friend of Ollie so may feel he is pressurised into walking too. We need to recruit well over the summer to have any chance of progression in this league, hopefully McLaren (or whoever it turns out to be) has a plan and targets that are within our budget, and gets the squad fired up for the new season.
Click to expand...

I agrre. I hope that the Board hgas taken the Gary Penrice situaton into account. It is a big risk and could be a big loss.
 
We still seem to be fairly rudderless! One minute we need stability, the next we're changing management again. I think it's time TF stood down.
 
Ciarrai_Abu said:
TF's first mistake was sacking Warnock. I think he is being badly advised since.
Click to expand...
Spot on and then losing him the second time. I don't buy into the stories of NW not staying because of his wife's illness as he went into the Cardiff job shortly after. Always thought it had something to do with our management structure and the DOF.
Ollie was again a poor choice however he did what he needed to do. He kept us up when most thought (including me) that he would take us down.
I don't want another crap manager, it's about time we got a result and brought in some decent.
Only at QPR.
 
  • Like
Reactions: WalsallHoop
I get what people say about stability being key but you have to have the right man in charge. At least we now have time to make those decisions ! I can’t help feeling the jfh sacking and installation of olly was all rushed and he was never the right man to bring back in . We wouldn’t have gone down with jfh and they should have had a more measured approach that summer making plans for the right man to come in.
I hadn’t renewed my season ticket as some of the football we played this year was awful to watch . I will be renewing today as now have some hope .
 
Was a bit shocked about this when I heard yesterday. Not sure anyone we can get in will get the club much further up the table, with the level of expenditure we have I'm happy enough with mid table be that upper or lower as long as we are safe, with what's gone on in recent years some stability would be nice.

Not sure who I'd like to see in, guess it's easier to decide who you don't want, Sherwood who tops that list is thankfully a million miles from getting it. If Darren Moore doesn't get the West Brom job he might be worth a shout. The one thing I would like to see is players not being totally frozen out, JET I can understand but some of the others including that Polish centre mid for instance still baffles me (I do get that they see a lot more than I do).
Like I saw someone mention I think getting in someone early is very important, transfer window opening, a world cup not far away... It just makes sense to me for the incoming to know what he has and to have spent time with the squad before trying to recruit. The feeling I get is that Steve McClarren has been lined up for the past few weeks, but few things would surprise me at QPR
 
QPAAAAAGH said:
I'm certainly not his greatest fan and will never understand his tactics but after a season of well-and-truly delivering on the commitment to provide a focus on youth and keeping the ship stable with zero to spend this looks to be very shoddy treatment of Holloway to me. Had this been a mutual decision it would have been different but the man very clearly wanted to stay and the club statement makes no reference to the reasons why he was rejected having thrown his hat into the ring again. I'm praying that there is stuff we don't know but unless we have somehow managed to bypass the FFP stuff and have new investment to make use of I really can't see the point in a change at this stage. Come on Tony and co, this is a fellow QPR fan you're treating in this way and we deserve to know more.
Click to expand...
Couldn’t agree more, there is a proper way to do things and this doesn’t seem to be in that ballpark.
 
  • Like
Reactions: WalsallHoop
Rangerw9 said:
I get what people say about stability being key but you have to have the right man in charge. At least we now have time to make those decisions ! I can’t help feeling the jfh sacking and installation of olly was all rushed and he was never the right man to bring back in . We wouldn’t have gone down with jfh and they should have had a more measured approach that summer making plans for the right man to come in.
I hadn’t renewed my season ticket as some of the football we played this year was awful to watch . I will be renewing today as now have some hope .
Click to expand...

I think this may have been Holloway's downfall.
 
  • Like
Reactions: The other R in Houston
ELLERS said:
Spot on and then losing him the second time. I don't buy into the stories of NW not staying because of his wife's illness as he went into the Cardiff job shortly after. Always thought it had something to do with our management structure and the DOF.
Ollie was again a poor choice however he did what he needed to do. He kept us up when most thought (including me) that he would take us down.
I don't want another crap manager, it's about time we got a result and brought in some decent.
Only at QPR.
Click to expand...

To stop any misleading comments, he finished as temporary manager in December 2015, in February 2016 he became Manager of Rotherham where he kept them in the Championship and left them in May 2016. He was appointed manager of Cardiff in October 2016........hardly shortly after.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom
Back