"It's so difficult" when we have a manager, renowned for playing attractive attacking football who is, week-in, week-out, producing a team that appears to be playing like Zombies. Two years ago we listened to comments such as "It's so difficult" as we effectively gave up and died in the last three months of the season. Harry's eye for a player included Chris Samba who might as well have danced the Samba on the pitch for all the use he was. We couldn't surely sign another 'turkey' for the big league again could we? Enter Rio, a "Top, top player" who has been so poor you couldn't even insult a turkey with a comparison. All Harry's signings just haven't gelled, glimpses of quality occasionally show but most seem to be lethargic and off the boil and Harry churning out excuses on fitness etc show him up even more as a fraud, the used-car salesman who has run out of sawdust for the gearbox, the same old spiel that everyone knows is bullsh*t and was never believed in the first place. As others have said, we had the chance for a change within the last month with proven managers available but squeaking home wins against Burnley, Leicester and West Brom, with hindsight, bought Harry time he didn't deserve. The draws against Palace and Swansea really are the games that will confirm our demise because whoever Harry brings in during the window, if any, will surely succumb to the 'Zombie syndrome' that afflicts all new QPR players and there is just too much wrong with this team to turn it round, we need six wins, I'll be surprised if we get three...
Harry can't get the players to gel because either he is disinterested or totally clueless. He doesn't do tactics. I think his strength is that he has an eye for a player but unfortunately he can't get the most out of them as a collective unit.
His "eye for a player" appears to be him flicking through old programs from teams he used to manage and finding out if any of his old players are available! The run of home wins injected so much hope, amazing how things can change so quickly! Personally I'd grown tired of our constant changing of managers and thought Harry and his group would bring stability and results given time. All it seems to have brought is the same old sh*t. I guess it's time to sit back and see if Tony takes the gamble.
Struggling to keep the faith. My faith is being crushed by messages like this, which I just received from a mate... please log in to view this image
Another problem is that he doesn't see which players are in form. He doesn't seem to choose the in form players. On this board we've said "why isn't so and so playing, he looks good at the moment." And then eventually, after Harry has tried and tried with the player he WANTS to be in form and doesn't work out, turns to those players we've been calling for and we are proven right. We could have had better results if Harry saw it sooner.
We are in danger of over reacting in the light of yesterday's disappointment. The fact is we are only just in the drop zone and 3 points between us and 14th. I'm just as bitterly disappointed as the next QPR fan but I'm not ready to capitulate and I sincerely hope the team isn't either! As the OP suggest, we should keep the faith.
Good post. Caulkers chance goes in on 90 minutes and we get a draw, then its not a bad result. It still **** we not producing away, but it's still close margins.
To give him some credit swords did a very good post last eevening about all smaller sides going on poor run of form at some stage of the season, Leicester took 3 points from 11 games, Burnley didn't Win for the 1st 11 games , Hull have been on a poor run and so on. We have not had a run where we have lost5 or 6 on the trot, ok we ha e lost all our away games but if someone offered 19 points from 21 games and be only 3 points from 12th at the start of the season would anyone have turned it down?
We took 4 points from our first 8 games, that was our 'bad run'. What's pissed everyone off were the two home draws that could have been better and the Cup surrender which seem to have put us into a downward spiral and ManUre next week doesn't look too appealing. It might be just the time to spring a shock win...
Thing is, we've had all or most of our winnable home games now. I think we'll be bottom this time next week and will probably stay there.
There is Faith and there is Blind Faith and when it comes to old hat Harry then the latter is the more likely..
Just looking at the run of games between now and the end of the season and I struggle to see where the points will come from
Totally disagree!!!!! there is a lethargy in the whole team at the moment which reminds me of bad times before and possibly something just isnt right on and off the pitch..............the quicker Arry goes the better. The quickness of pass a few weeks ago has disappeared and yday our passes were slow, misplaced, miss controlled and everybody was virtually static when receiving the ball. basically we are going backwards at a time this just cannot happen....... Yes, errors like Caulkers for 2nd goal are unbelievably bad but on the whole THIS IS DOWN TO THE MANAGER.......who I cannot ever bear to watch or listen to anymore.
Hmm, I disagree here. I finally lost patience with Harry yesterday and it wasn't even our worst match, so I'm not reacting to the match. It's down to the fact that I cannot take the completely lacklustre and directionless performances anymore. We will not survive this league playing that way. I can understand losing whilst trying hard but this is a joke. We play like a bunch of strangers who don't train together, no one seems to know what they're doing and there is no philosophy of football at the club. If we go down, I don't think we'll come straight back up again this time. We either stay up now or its championship football for the foreseeable future. Our current football will not keep us up. If it does, it'll be a miracle. This is not premier league football. The thing is, I'm usually one of the most positive posters! I'm just tired of crap, unprofessional management. I want to enjoy watching QPR. I want us to play in such a way that isn't embarrassing. I'm not aversed to championship football but I know going down will be a big hit to the club. I wouldn't be a QPR supporter if I was results based. I want to see a team I can be proud of!
