McClaren sacked

Your a hard but fair man, DT.

A plethora of jellybacks, spivs & spooks looking for a spine.
Pearson would kick some butt, hence why they won't appoint him.
They want a softie who can be their whipping boy when it goes pear shape, again.

 

I have to say that having sifted through the ****ers List, which includes inspirations such as Cotterill, Appleton, Billy ****ing Davies (I ask you!), Tim ‘Would You Like The Job? I’ Sherwood and most likely Uncle Tom Cobbly, I’d probably plump for Psycho Pearson and be done with it.

We may as well spiral out of control and burn spectacularly than just fizzle out.

 

Great word, plethora.

 

Pearson is suitably mental for the role but I’d give it three months until he goes all Jim Magilton and nuts someone.

 

Mate I am feeling really down re our club at the moment this having spent a morning at the club when I got involved with club badge

I was full of promise about the future back then but always knew in the back of my mind that the people I met seemed to be slightly unprofessional compared to the general business people I meet

Since then it’s gone well beyond on what I thought could happen and that’s nothing to do with the football on the pitch ... I have always blasted on what the clubs image should be and imo it’s been overlooked

You will always get football laughing at any club but to shout out a load of ideas and fantasy and not only not deliver but actually run the clubs image down the pan is not acceptable

Making a west London side look like we are at the moment after promising the moon on a stick just insults the fan base.

We are looking at League One football at this rate and could probably need a smaller stadium

A team now in the championship needs 100m spent on the team before a ball is kicked so when we now get to not being able to hire anyone to do the job plus sack anyone if we don’t win is madness.

It’s a controlled decent now in a uncontrolled way and best we all get used to it ... they will probably muck this all up

Pink shirts for FFS soon we will be wearing red noses and wigs and size 24 clown shoes

 

Well even that would be positive imo
We are only in the news now as the reference of complete failure

 

I do have some sympathy for the club. We can bemoan the names on the list but who else can we really expect? We aren't going to prise away a top manager without it costing what we can't afford. We could look abroad, as is currently trendy, and appoint an unknown foreign manager but this is nothing new and fails more than it succeeds. Whether a manager works out clearly has much to do with how well the club is run but I reckon it needs a good load of lady luck as well.

 

We are still paying the devil back for that playoff final

 

This is the same Nigel Pearson who has just been sacked from a Belgian second division club after taking it to a position lower in the league (second bottom, 20% win rate this season) than QPR, one backed with the wealth and excellent corporate approach of the owners of Leicester City FC?

Yeah, why not. Other potential managers:

Theresa May
Gerald Ratner
Mickey Rourke
H from Steps
Kim Kardashian
Norman Wisdom RIP

Perhaps that is the true, philosophical objective - become the living embodiment of the Platonic Ideal Type of chaotic disaster and failure to learn from experience. Which is actually a noble and worthwhile aim.

 

Sounds about our level then.

 

Such an uninspiring deposit of individuals linked to what will probably prove a (another) CV marring appointment for the lucky candidate.

The level of financial and managerial incompetence our club has been subjected to over the past few years is truly staggering. I think Debenhams, with all its overhead, Brexit, the rise of on-line retail and the death of the high street, has managed to lose less money.

Yesterday, I received my obligatory email warning from QPR that I’ve less than 30 days to benefit from my season ticket loyalty price discount. I’d like to inform them that I’d get more return and a better sense of occasional well being from alcoholism.

 

I thought alcoholism, or at least semi permanent intoxication, was a pre condition of season ticket renewal.

 

As I recall, when Pearson was getting into trouble for being rude to journalists and, later, was sacked, it was said that he was a different animal (I use the word deliberately) with fans and players. They were warm towards him and were sorry to see him go.

I can see why some fans object to Pearson based on his record post-Leicester but he would be on my short list, along with Warburton (my favourite) and Rowett. Most, if not all, managers on our short list will have an uneven record: we never know the circumstances they operate under at their former clubs. These circumstances might include a mad chairman, financial restrictions, a poisonous dressing room and bad players with long contracts. Having written that, it sounds a bit like a club I know...

 

I just hope we don’t get a ‘gone by Christmas’ manager and more of a ‘gone by May’ type. Saving private Appleton would probably last a year and even more as the board would be ****e scared to sack him.

 

Mark Bircham would be an emotional choice, not an intelligent choice. We've done the emotional thing with Ollie when he was already past his sell-by date. We need a coach with a proven track record of success and of developing young players into first team players. Sure, none of our candidates have an unblemished record but they have better records than Bircham. That's not his fault, he's not been given the chance but I don't want to experiment at our club. He should do an Ainsworth and manage in a lower League before seeking a Championship job for which he currently has no experience or history of achievement.

We are fortunate to have better, albeit not perfect, candidates available. Warburton, Rowett or Pearson for me, in that order. Frankly, I'd choose almost anybody on the list but Sherwood, whose only real qualification for being bookies' favourite seems to be his friendship with Les Ferdinand: no other clubs appear to have wanted him in recent times.

 

I would agree with Warbuton Rowett or Pearson over the others

 

Think I'd put Pearson top of that list because he has achieved more.

 

I sometimes wonder about that. The Italians actually did quite a few things well, despite them being a pair of knobs.

Luigi di Canio was their guy, right? Parejo turned out to be a good player. They acquired Warnock. Taarabt was contracted under them? What else?

One quality they had that's now lacking is the absolute refusal to mess about with or waste money.

 

This is why I'd have kept Ollie. He was making very slight improvements here and there. He seemed to learn from the error of making too many starting 11 changes every week and was actually being more consistent toward the end.

But Ollie was also giving the youngsters a proper crack and offered stabiity.

I'm not saying Ollie was the answer but if we'd stuck with him, I'm a) sure we'd be in a better state than now and b) the club would be looking a lot more appetizing for a better manager. Now the club looks like a ****show and no decent manager is to be seen.

Our owners are too knee jerk and always dreaming too much about the big time.

 

I’ve just seen sherwood is favourite.

I have no words