There is a lot of obvious sense in this article. http://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2014/dec/17/qpr-away-form-premier-league-harry-redknapp-everton Basically, do what your players are best at - attack!
If you didn't read it all, the article finishes with this paragraph: Their defence has looked more solid than it did at the start of the campaign, but if QPR are to stay up they will do so by outscoring their rivals. Redknapp isn’t the first manager to try to shut teams out on the road but he should stick to what suits his players best. Given the stark difference between their points tallies at home and away, that is clearly to play with a more offensive approach.
It's interesting to see an analysis based purely on statistics. Normally there would be complications behind the numbers but in our case the stats are so extreme as to make the conclusions straightforward. If we were offering any kind of real threat away from home the law of averages would have seen us pick up a point here and there. But our lack of ambition has been such that not even luck can help us out. The one statistic missing from all this is that in the PL there are very very few 0-0 draws so setting up specifically to achieve that result (and with an average defensive line-up anyway) is suicide.
I really don't care whether we get our points from home games or away games, getting enough from whatever source is what interests me. It will be interesting to see how we fare against the big boys at home.
I was convinced of that too a few games ago, but now I'm not so sure. I feel we will survive, but only just.
The truth is Redknapp has wasted too much time messing around with the team and sadly he is an old manager set in his ways and will never change. Redknapp should never moan about strikers because he spent too long trying to get in players that were never going to come to us while other clubs picked up players from the Championship. He spends too much time trying to bring in his old trusted players and moans when they don't come to us. If we stay up or not, Redknapp needs to go and a younger manager like the bloke at Bournemouth needs to come in. Redknapp only has himself to blame for the away performances.
"Why have QPR not won a single point from eight away matches this season?" .....because we've lost them all is the obvious, logical and irrefutable answer!
I was thinking something similar. Instead of worrying and panicking about away games and making the situation worse by doing so, concentrate on the home games because they are what is working. And if we really get that right and build confidence, then it should rub off on the away performances. If we put it into our heads that we're terrible away and need to change things we'll have a psychological monkey on our backs. So I say revel in the home success and just keeping plugging away at the away games. And, hopefully, Harry can supply some decent tactics for away games too. I hope.
It's what we've all been saying for week's. If he changes it and goes 4-4-2 away for a few games what's the worst that could happen - We'd continue losing. But at least we'd be having a go.
Think about it. In order to stay up we need to take points off those around us - especially away points. Of the other nine teams currently in the bottom half of the table we still have to play... EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM away from home. Think of it another way. So far we have only lost away to teams in the top half of the table.
In 2005-2006 Season Fulham finished 12th but only won once away from home the whole season and in 1992-93 Leeds didn't win away from home and finished 17th
