The fact Harry Redknapp is available could be too tempting for TF. If we get gubbed by Arsenal I reckon Harry will be in by Monday morning.
I think there's truth in this. Hughes needs a good performance at the Emirates even if we don't get a result
Put yourself in Redknapp's shoes. Hypothetically, if the QPR job came up, is it particularly appealing at his age and given the life he now leads? I don't think it is.
Don't be too confident Both Saints and Reading will think the same about us. Agree our team is much better than both of them but they are the sort of teams that will scrap and change a game (esp Reading). WE have lost our fight, although we are playing well we are making silly schoolboy mistakes which is costing us. For Reading we must play Adel (who always scores past them) and Mackie.
On the contrary, it's one of the very few jobs he would take. He's only going to be interested in a Prem club. Geographically, because he lives in Poole, anywhere north of London is going to be out (unless it's one of the big boys). He's got a bad history with Southampton so wouldn't be a popular choice there. Which only leaves us, Fulham or West Ham as possibles for him. The other two are doing okay so no vacancy imminent. And at QPR he's got a load of decent players and an ambitious group of owners who's not afraid to spend. I reckon it's perfect for him
Can't see Harry taking the job, he's not that healthy and getting on on years. On MOTD at the weekend he didn't look well to be honest. Shame, would welcome him as a manager to the end of the season if only for his interviews out of his car window!
Wont be a job available anyway, Hughes will still be our manager by the end of the season and rightfully so.
Frome I admire your dogmatic defence of Hughes but if we fail to get anything from the Reading game I can't see TF keeping him.
Sam Allardyce has quite rightly many detractors but West Ham's results so far this season speak for themselves. Allardyce and his squad of players isn't exactly setting the bar high comparison wise with Rangers. Face the facts, the season has been a disaster points wise so far. Denial cannot change the reality of 3 points after 8 games plus a home defeat to Reading in the League Cup. If anyone wants to stick with that fair enough but be prepared to accept the results of inaction. £70,000,000 if we stay up this season, I'm no supporter of the evils of capitalism but to we have realise that we simply cannot afford relegation. Anything may have to be sacrificed to maintain Premier League status right now, even if that may include the manger, the players, the ground and the chairman. Nothing is sacred.
Agree mate, really hoping for something from the Gooners to ease the pressure before the Reading game.
Expecting any result at the Arse would be a tall order and not one that I'd hope to pin my job on. Hughes might well have said to TF that the games afterwards are where we stand more of a chance of points on the board. If we beat the Gooners all talk of Hughes being sacked will die down and won't start up again if we beat the likes of Southampton, Reading, Sunderland, Stoke and Villa who are all round the corner and are all games that we must think are 3 pointers. If we don't think that this is the calibre of teams we are expected to beat then what on earth do we think we are doing here in the Premiership? Apart from Arsenal and Utd our run up to the New Year isn't bad at all. There is every chance that we can do well enough to be mid-table by January. We'd better hope we are in the safety zone by then because fixtures in January are The Scum, Spuds, Hammers (away) and Man Citeh. Hughes had better hope we have done well by then, if not there will more than likely be a change at the top so that the new management team can have time to buy in what ever players are needed before the end of the transfer window. Let's hope we do the Arse in their own back yard!!
Why ´rightfully so?´ he has made some shocking team selections, especially against WHU, who are now flying up the table! - 3 points from 24 is relegation fodder and every game that passes we get a ´bit better´ by all accounts?.... So when exactly is the points rush gonna come??
Hughes hasn't got us above 17th I don't believe since he took over nearly a year ago, we sit bottom of the League without a win this season, and without an away win under him. Unless you cherish the idea of return to the Championship, why do you want Hughes to stay? I agree we are looking strong in the centre of the park, but at the cutting end at both ends, especially at the back, we aren't up to it, and we aren't showing enough guts and fight. We need someone else to come in and sort it out like yesterday, no more waiting.
Agreed. On MOTD2 he said he thought the current bottom 6 would still be scrapping it out at the end of the season come what may. Would he even consider the position given he reckons it is already doomed to failure (by his standards at least)?
I feel that MH could not care less if he gets the sack. What 2 and a half years left on contract,at 3.2 million per year. what a windful for a 50yr old..
POSTED ON A DIFFERENT THREAD - but need to put ours and WHU's position in context nothwithstanding I'd prefer to be in their position right now Difficult to do but we must stay calm. Lets compare ourselves to WHU for instance who on first glance seem to be adapting extremely well to the PL Our Fixtures haven't been easy - we've played City, Chelsea, Spurs, WBA, Everton (5 of the top 6)....actually if you include WHU (6 of the top 7).....Ironically our worst performance of all those was against WHU along the first halves against City and WBA However as an example of how the table can lie at this stage - WHU (7th place / 14 point) have not played any of the teams above them and have beaten AV, Fulham, Soton & us for their 4 wins. They've also got a point off Sunderland & Norwich to make up their 14 points. The other 2 games they were comfortably beaten. Their next 11 games include City, Newcastle, Spurs, MU, Chelsea, Liverpool, WBA, Everton & Arsenal so we would have played a similar group of fixtures by the end-Dec To date, of our 5 defeats WHU and Swansea were very disappointing but City, Spurs & WBA were not huge surprises and the last 2 we shot ourselves in the foot. Point of this article - even after 8 games the table can be very misleading. Anyone fancy WHU to have got 14 points from our fixtures to date?? Have to believe we'll finish above both Soton and Reading, leaving one of Villa, Wigan, WHU, Norwich and Sunderland to finish above - who all look pretty underwhelming to me. Of course we need points soon or it all becomes a bit self-fulfilling but performances continue to improve - clearly after the run of games that involve Reading, soton, villa, stoke & sunderland we need to have made a significant move otherwise my optimistic argument falls flat on its face and then I'll be the first to scream PANIC!! Think the table at top and bottom will have a more realistic look to at by mid-Dec and expect quite a bit of movement by then.....
I disagree. MH has a lot to prove. As a manager this is a big period in his career. If Hughes fails at QPR he would do well to be managing at Premier League level again. He may have to take a step down, which would be a huge step back in his career. For him I think everything rests on turning QPR around. It's not for me as a fan of another club to say what QPR should do but it's clear he's made mistakes but I'm not sure at the moment sacking him is the best solution, but if the club has to do it better to do it sooner rather than later
