http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Harry Redknapp deserves better from his Queens Park Rangers side who feebly pretend to be footballers when they travel away from Loftus Road QPR have lost all 11 of their Premier League games on the road this term Fans are being subjected to performances from under-performing clowns Just take a look at the ridiculous goals they conceded at Stoke City QPR players are letting the supporters and chairman Tony Fernandes down By ADRIAN DURHAM FOR MAILONLINE - PUBLISHED: 08:33, 3 February 2015 Harry Redknapp’s travelling circus is still going strong. The away days from hell are being offered to Queens Park Rangers fans by a rabble of overpaid, under-performing clowns who are simply not prepared to do their jobs properly for the club, the supporters or their manager. Redknapp deserves better from these shirkers, who dress up and pretend to be footballers when they travel away from Loftus Road this season. Eleven games on the road in the Premier League this season, and 11 defeats. This useless bunch of wannabes even lost at League Two Burton Albion in the Capital One Cup. Barton was responsible for Stoke's third goal at the Britannia The Queens Park Rangers have let Harry Redknapp down this season; he deserves better Why am I picking on the players and not the manager? Just take a look at the ridiculous goals they conceded at Stoke on Saturday. For the first Karl Henry inexplicably lets the ball run across his body just outside his own box, Stephen Ireland ribs him and instantly feeds Jon Walters who scores. Nobody is near Walters because Rangers players have taken up space making themselves available for the ball because they were in possession. Until Henry’s blunder. For the second, Eduardo Vargas, an international footballer who played at the World Cup, was lazy and sloppy in possession, underhit a simple pass in the opposition half, and gave the ball away cheaply. Now Walters is definitely not Usain Bolt – quite the opposite. But with no fewer than four QPR players chasing him he still managed to find time and space to score his second. Those four will be named and shamed: Leroy Fer was guilty of trotting back; Nedum Onouha looked like he was towing a caravan with flat tyres through a sea of treacle; Vargas chased like a headless chicken to atone for his error; and Henry was in the vicinity but didn’t exactly bust a gut. The third was a joke. Stoke launched a free-kick from close to the half way line into the box. Joey Barton was outwitted by Victor Moses. Barton wasn’t concentrating, Moses got goal-side of him, and in his desperate attempts to recover the situation after he had dozed off, Barton launched himself at the ball, but only succeeded in heading it across his own penalty area straight into the path of Walters, hungry for a hat-trick. While Barton looked stupid, Yun Suk-young looked feeble: as Walters closed in on the ball, he was side-by-side with the QPR substitute. The South Korean makes a limp, pathetic attempt to beat Walters to the ball, leaning into the Stoke striker who probably didn’t even realise he was there. The Rangers man is brushed aside like he doesn’t exist. Tony Fernandes tweeted that QPR have good players, who fight. He failed to mention on social media that quite a lot of them fail to do their jobs properly and fail to give their all for the cause. So before these QPR wasters even got into their luxury expensive cars and headed to training this week, I hope they implore themselves to do the following: Henry and Vargas – look after the ball. You can’t score without it, but you can concede. Fer – run faster, at least look like it means something to you. Onouha – speed up. Barton – concentrate. It’s no good hitting the bar at one end if you fall asleep in your own box at the other. Yun Suk-young – bulk up, get physical and get yourself hurt for the QPR cause. Can any of this shower look Redknapp in the eye? A manager who took a team from the bottom three to the quarter-finals of the Champions League in a short space of time, a manager who has won more in English football than all of these players put together. These are players who were not professional enough in their work on Saturday, and I suspect they and some others could be accused of shirking responsibilities in all their away games this season. The QPR players are letting their extremely generous chairman down. They’re letting the fans down and they’re in danger of taking Queens Park Rangers down. It seems the only thing this embarrassment of players will succeed in doing is tarnishing Harry Redknapp’s proud managerial record.
Some of our fans would see Harry boiled in oil, but you only have to look at the individual errors our players are making to see it's not all his fault. You can't coach or account for those mistakes. Unless Rednapp is coaching the players to play badly and with no pride away from home, then you have to say it's down to the players to a large extent. But I do fear that instead of sticking a rocket up their arses like a manager should, I think he just get the hump and doesn't want to play them again. He acts like a spoilt child at times and doesn't seem to command the same respect he has at other teams. I'm certainly not in the Harry out brigade, sacking him now would hurt us more than if he stays, even if that means relegation, but I do hope he goes at the end of the season as his mere presence has ripped our supporters apart which is very worrying. But I also fear that this is just a natural reaction from our fans nowadays, a 50/50 split in opinions with half baying for the blood of the manager.
A quick search reveals the Fer has equalled Redknapp's successes - a win in the Dutch equivalent of the FA cup. Although clearly they have all failed to win as much in their careers for Portsmouth as Arry ever has.
Hard to disagree with that. The goals conceded on Saturday was embarrasing to watch, and it wasn't for the first time this season.
It is hard to think of many games this season where teams have beaten us, we've always beaten ourselves with stupid individual errors. We've scored at least 3 own goals to add to the calamity. But it's hard to see how players who can play so well at home, can turn to ****e away, the level of our passing at home could be surpassed by the average team of 11 year olds. So I do feel for Harry in some ways, but even I am shaking my head at the way he operates nowadays.
I think the players are good on paper, it's just Harry can't get the best out of them or motivate them. Maybe he's too nice. We need someone who can tear them all a new hole when required, or maybe two holes.
Yeah but there you go, "QPR fans" wanted Rednapp, banners being held up "harry come and save us" at LR, now it's not going so well everyone's screaming for his head and calling TF all the names going cause he hired him. It's great being a fan, you get to walk away from your mistakes and aren't held accountable.
Don't think anyone is having a go for hiring him and can accept that even though with hindsight, it was palpably the wrong decision, the basis and thought process behind hiring and wanting him is understandable going back to those days where we needed a motivator to get us moving. Do you believe that Redknapp's tenure has been acceptable in results per money spent? Do you believe the club is better off then when he first arrived - both in marketability and in value? Do you believe that after 2 full years QPR has an identifiable playing style? Do you believe that after 2 full years at the helm it is acceptable for a Premiership club to have a wage bill such as ours and a defense and midfield, **** it, the whole team so devoid of pace and flair? If you have answered No to at least 3 out of 4 of those questions - Do you believe, especially if you are a regular paying punter, it OK to raise dissention and markedly point out under performance? One last question - why do you write QPR fans within quotation marks? Are you implying that "QPR fans" are inferior to QPR fans?
I think we have the worst football team in the league and deserve to be relegated, which we will and probably bottom of the table. By the way this is not first time I am saying this I have believed it for a couple of months
Agree on motivation, except that it isn't that Harry's too nice, it's that he doesn't care that much. Sure, he goes through the motions and thinks the owners are nice people, but he thinks he's doing them a favour and that at this stage of his career he doesn't need the hassle. That gets across to the players - that games aren't do or die. One thing Paul Merson said on SSN last night was telling - that Adebayor would find it better to go to QPR than West Ham because Fat Sam would keep the heat on Adebayor and make his life difficult if he underperformed, whereas Harry would be more understanding on the occasions when Adebayor was having an off day, walking around during a match with hands on hips. Merson meant it as a recommendation of Harry but he was closer to the truth than he realised.
Duly noted but the use of "English" is purely there to justify the point. Vargas has achieved more as a Chillean international than Redknapp ever has and YSY is much better at being Korean.....???? The article just doesn't sit as credible for me. Yes, there is a season full of individual mistakes but these are all by players that "don't cause a minute's trouble" in training so presumably work hard and concentrate. I'd speculate that any sport's psychologist worth anything (ie who's name doesn't rhyme with Leave Back) would say that the individual mistakes are symptomatic of the poor form and lack of self-belief that emanates from it. They're good players IMO but need to go out believing they are (or being in the zone) rather than feeling pressured and being distracted by what's happened in the previous few games. If only we had someone that could help them with that....
If we adopted a different style of playing away from home we might have got some points on the board, i have not enjoyed watching the redknapp playing style for 2 seasons now, as a person i've no problem with him but he needs change the way we play & play the right players.
He set them up in the same old dire formation!!!!! HIS FAULT as they were clueless and no forward passes. If we hadnt scored we may have been in for a spanking which hopefully would have seen his demise.................but seriously dont think that going to happen even if we dont get another point....I
Nearly all goals are due to errors by the other team. It is the job of the management to eradicate these mistakes. Especially when they are recurring. HR deserves better? No. We, the supporters deserve better!
