I've just read an article by a freelance journo named Nick Miller on the EPSN website. If this country had a more honest and less sycophantic culture when it comes to interviewing failing football managers, some of the lines in this piece would form the basis of questions to be directed at Redknapp in a press conference. For example: "By any reasonable standard, Redknapp has done a bad job at QPR." "Promotion to the Premier League via the playoffs last season was the absolute minimum QPR could've expected given the investment in an already strong squad at that level, and that was only just achieved. Now, they appear to be sleepwalking toward the drop again." "You wonder exactly how much of Redknapp's heart is in this. He has given the impression that he'd perhaps rather be somewhere else, which maybe is understandable for a man who was managing Tottenham in the Champions League relatively recently and thought he was in contention for the England job. Of course, he would do well not to make his half-heartedness quite so obvious." "Perhaps the nadir of this attitude came after May 2014's Championship playoff final. Redknapp admitted that with 10 minutes to go of a game in which QPR were dominated by Derby but were still level at 0-0, he was pondering which golf club to join after he retired had QPR lost that match. Not how to find a winner, not how to reverse Derby's superiority, not how to navigate the impending extra time, but how he was going to fill the hours after he'd jacked it all in." "Aside from the apathy, it's the excuses that rankle as much as anything. If you just take this weekend's carping, Redknapp claimed that "it was hard" because QPR "only have two strikers," despite the presence of Zamora, Charlie Austin, Mauro Zarate and Eduardo Vargas in his squad, as well as the newly reintegrated and now apparently acceptably slimline Adel Taarabt." "Redknapp's previous form tells us that no matter how many players are bought, he will always "need" a few more, which is all a part of him getting his excuses in early. All of this is definitely someone's fault, but in Harry's world it sure as hell isn't his." I think this guy pretty much nails it. Full article here: http://www.espnfc.com/blog/espn-fc-...time-at-qpr-is-running-out-as-are-his-excuses
Can't really argue with too much of that. Personally though I can't see that giving him the sack at this point would do us any favours at all. I just hope we manage to accrue enough points between now and May to stay up, and then if we have to make any change we do it early in the off season.
What a pile of **** Exactly what does this guy know about football , or is he just another mug using stars to write an article ?
Article hits many nails on the head. HR is a crooked buffoon and has been exposed for the chancer he is. Finishing 20+ points behind Leicester and Burnley and fluking a play off win with a significantly more expensive squad highlighted his tactical ineptitude This seasons approach to selection via the tombola it seems has merely confirmed that The amount of times he gets "it's difficult or its 'ard" into his lame excuse of a post match press conference makes my blood boil. This weekend took the biscuit when he found a new excuse that we were miles behind Burnley and Leicester and he's got the same squad - apart from all the players he bought of course in the summer - utter crap.
Hardly. So far it's only a couple of article on the ESPN website taking this tone, one of those written by the son of allegedly disgruntled former QPR coach!
I'd like to see Harry put under pressure by the media and see how he reacts. They appear to be sleepwalking toward the drop again - spot on
It won't happen. You'll see the odd article like this on a minor media backwater like the ESPN UK website. But as far as I can tell, most football journalism in the UK seems to consist of asking harmless questions and then writing down the boring answers. Isn't it the case that clubs ban less cooperative journalists from press boxes, press conferences etc.?
I think anybody who has a decent IQ and wants the best for Rangers can see Arry's total ineptitude. Most of us saw it last year............... Typical of us we got him at his most negative and just plain effing old. FFS Arry football has moved on....................... Please do the same
Can't argue with any of that. The complacency and hopelessness within the entire Club stems from his lack of belief, abjectily poor tactics, and lack of ideas about what to do, (rather than spend more on new players). Cliche after cliche trotted out as an excuse as to where we are. That is contagious and it looks to me like the whole squad have become infected with a loss of confidence, typified by constantly playing sideways or safely rather than growing a pair and taking people on. They look scared now when coming onto the pitch, with no-one knowing what formation he will snatch out of the air next, or which personel will be asked to try to cobble a result. Recruitment has been rudderless, and when faced with a problem(as someone else posted on here previously), he seems to flick through out Spurs programmes to see who might "'elp". Now, in the window, when we all know the areas we need help in, he huffs because Tone has refused to spend. QPR are a Premier League team, surely there are decent, eager, hungry players, keen to be given a chance. Don't even start me about youth development. The truth is he is too old.
Spot on mate. Redknapp has completely lost his mojo and it is clear for all to see other than the most dense imo.
What many of us have been saying for most of Harry's 'reign'. Tonight Adrian Durham did a hatchet job on our defence on Talksport and you had to agree with everything he said. Harry got away with it last time we went down because of the 'toxic' dressing room, well that one won't work. The bottom line is we have an unbalanced squad of has-beens and never-will-bes, it's HIS squad, HIS 'tactics' (or lack of), HIS game plan (or lack of) and HIS failings (no-one else's). Blame the players if you like, but two years of them being unable to string three passes together without giving the ball away and zero creativity suggests a total failure from top to bottom of the coaching staff who are Harry's responsibility. Without tempting fate we'll be lucky to top 30 points this season. "It's difficult" will be a fitting epitaph to finish this conman's career...
Grim but true Sooperhoop and I can't see it changing anytime soon. That's what depresses me most. Recalling Adel, whilst I'm glad to see it, shows his complete dirth of ideas. God help us.
I have to agree. Harry's done remarkably little with what he has. There is a lot of talent on this squad (although not nearly enough for the money being paid) and he's failed to mobilize them at the best of times. When they come out flat in games that are close to 'must wins' and can't manage even a bloody draw against their peers at places like Burnley, it's hard to point fingers anywhere but the manager. I watch every post-game presser and Harry gets nothing but a free ride from the journalists there. Taarabt starts and nary a peep about the conflict and Harry's relationship with the player. They can't win against Burnley? Just more excuses.
I am not sure where we will get any more points this season. We now have to play all of the top teams at home. We did not beat palace or swansea.... we cannot put passes together. We could not beat Burnley. This might be as many points now as a tally for the season. Of course this then become a stuff of legends and the football gods. Zarate / Adel / maybe Morrison if we sign hum back) could turn something around. I think we have a decent enough squad. Honestly better than many. But no tactics / will to win / strategy / form / cohesion / discipline. A better organised 'team' will beat us on any given Saturday - see Sheffield Utd. Of course it is Harry's fault. In any other field - including football - you would assume the manager has culpability.
