Who do people think/hope will be the final club to be relegated next weekend? It's between Bolton and QPR now after Wolves and Blackburn have been confirmed in the last fortnight. QPR will need to muster a draw at Man City to ensure survival due to their vastly superior goal difference. Anything less than a win at Stoke will see Bolton go down, regardless of the QPR result. Despite our poor record against Bolton, and the fact that it must be a nuisance to travel to for our squad, I'm hoping Bolton stay up and QPR go down. Owen Coyle has made them a much better team to watch in the last couple of years, without spending much money at all and has always come across as a decent bloke. QPR have spent millions assembling a squad of misfits and rejects and treated Neil Warnock very poorly, i'd love to see Mark Hughes relegated just to knock him down a peg or two...
Hughes is a ****, I'd like to see QPR go down. Especially since it would mean United don't win the league.
Whilst it wouldn't be a surprise to see another member of Fergie's Old Boys Network try and do a favour for their old gaffer, it's highly unlikely that QPR will get anything from the game. Bolton will be raring to go at Stoke and won;t be turning up defeated like Blackburn did against us, so I'd give them the edge when it comes to staying up. However, why do people say QPR treated Warnock shabbily? They'd lost something like eight straight games when they sacked him, which implies they'd been remarkably lenient with their treatment considering he's a manager who, winning the Championship with QPR one time, has never done anything to earn the reputation he somehow has.
He also got Sheff Utd promoted (and subsequently relegated)... Perhaps you're right, it just always annoys me when a newly promoted club sacks their manager, it very rarely has a positive effect on the team and seems a little ungrateful.
Actually it nearly always has a positive effect, although often the manager given the push has done little wrong and deserves more loyalty. Hughton and Di Matteo both got the boot last year against their fans' and probably players' wishes yet I doubt any have looked back in regret since. Coyle came in and saved Bolton the season before also.
West Brom sacking Di Matteo last season worked out well for them - it guaranteed them three seasons of Premier League football, so now their fans hope the club don't tempt fate and hire Alex McLeish which would probably rule out a fourth... The one that always gets me is the African teams in the World Cup - they qualify with a local coach, but when qualification is secure they get sacked in favour of some journeyman coach who gets paid for taking them home in the first round like the coach they had in the first place inevitibly would have.
Bolton are going, I think. They'll struggle massively against stoke to get 3 points. As a result, it doesn't matter what happens with QPR! I am praying for another twist in the season. Would love to see mark hughes' face on sunday. what a ****er.
I don't like any of them so I don't care! Coyle - didn't like the way he walked out on Burnley Warnock - still remember that Notts County side he put out to "stop" Gazza in the FA cup Hughes - he's just a miserable bastard I think Bolton will fail at Stoke anyway, so it doesn't matter what QPR do.
I'm not concerned but I've never rated Hughes who seems on skid row since the lofty heights of Man City.
Yes, he doesn't seem to have the personality to deal with the diverse characters he's going to come across as a manager. He comes over as very much a " my way or the highway" type.
I remember hughes from wales and blackburn, looked to be on course to be a top manager but since the man city job he seems to have lost his way and comes across as being over confident and arrogant.
Bolton because I'm sick of them, and I'd be delighted to not have to endure Kevin pointy head Davies play his best games of the season against us. With B'burn, thats 2 less trips to the NW. Looks all good to me. Coyle may well be a decent bloke, but his credentials as a PL manager have been tested this season, to think some people a year ago thought he'd be a good idea here!
If QPR stay up we'll have 6 London teams in the prem next year, soon to be 7 with Charlton doing so well. And the likes of Southampton, and Reading aren't too far either.
I know, I've commented on the state of his terrible 'knobblies' before....put them away man, put them away!
