http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...will-not-be-sacked-despite-crisis-at-QPR.html I for one think this is sensible. We have good players...Sparky has been dogged by injury, the spirit of yesterday shows the players are still with him. Get us up the table before January, bring in a CB of note (Chris Samba?) and Bob (or Tonys) your uncle Keep believing We are the RRRRs
I agree. Sensible, measured approach. There are too many in the footballing world who want instant success without recognising the many variables which contribute to match outcomes. I am fed up with chopping and changing managers all the time.
I agree Beth that its too early to press the panic button. We knew we had a thin defence at the start of the season when Hughes failed in his attempts to bring in a big name centre back. The four injured defenders exposed this weakness to breaking point. The injured players are coming back now and, judging by yesterday's performance, need a game or two to get to their best. Then we will see if we can stop gifting 2 goals a game to opponents. We can score goals as we showed yesterday (the first goals that West Brom have conceded in the Prem this season) but what unsettles me is that we have to rely on individual genius (and we do have that in the team) rather than tactical team guile to break down defences. When we attack as a team we do look lacking in a single purpose, but perhaps that will come as the players learn to understand each other. I'm still supporting MH but the results and performances over the next four or five games are crucial to my support.
It is obvious Mark Hughes prepares the team for each game. He cant be held responsible for defensive blunders as in yesterdays game or do much about an increasing number of players visiting the treatment room. With the exception of the west ham game i think we are passing the ball and holding a far better shape than we did last season. I beleive this will come good, lets not forget that we are the only team to have taken points off chelsea this season and the only team to have scored against west brom at the Hawthorns. Work in progress!
The current team has to stand up and be counted. We couldn't bring in the CB steel/leader that we all know we needed (would all those screaming for MH's head prefer to waste good money on a compromise rather than wait until Jan???). With a stronger, settled and well led defence our role players in midfield and forward will be more expressive and influential and more opportunities for our forwards will become apparent. But then there are those that would prefer to follow their bias and throw everything into the mincer, cross their fingers and hope the managerial carousel can throw up a bit of luck and short term, lower table success and throw out development, growth, stability and progress. I know which camp I stand in. Forward with our current Board, management and coaching team. I don't like the current results, but I see where we are heading and I like some of the players we are bringing in. I like the direction and determination. So I'm moving forward and supporting the team in difficult times and not throwing rocks at them. Wish we could all do that and show our support (we are meant to be supporters aren't we?)
Can we please drop talk of instant results? After 10 months I would like an away win. Hardly instant.....there are a lot of sweeping it under the carpet merchants on here
Mark Hughes is a manager that needs time. It has proven to be the case that teams under his stewardship do perform better in the second half of the season than the first, and Hughes has regularly pointed to this (with justifiable reason). This suggests that players themselves need time in order to grasp what Hughes is trying to do, but it does raise a question - he has often been a very active manager in the summer transfer window, but perhaps instead of numerous changes in playing personnel taking place, why does he not undertake a more gradual, slower approach to rebuilding? I genuinely believe that had QPR only bought in two or three players in the summer, and kept the nucleus of last season's squad intact, then you wouldn't currently be propping up the Premier League. This leads me to believe that Hughes is an impatient manager - one who metaphorically wants to run with a team before the team can walk. He is clearly ambitious, but perhaps his ambitious nature is clouding his judgement in respect to how quickly his teams can realistically progress. What makes this worse is that his judgement in the transfer market is suspect. While he has made some very astute signings in his time, he has also made many baffling ones - for example, at City, signing Tevez, Santa Cruz, and Adebayor in one transfer window, at a time when the club already had several other strikers on the books (including 3 players who were signed under Hughes the previous season). In short, if Hughes admits that it takes time for his teams to gel, then why doesn't he afford time for his players to do so under him?
How many away games since our last win? Easy to make it sound bad by saying 10 months when that includes the close season. Get a life and support the club its better now than anytime over the last 18 years you short memory moron!
Agree. Expecting us not to be bottom after 7 games is very different to expecting instant success. Let's not exaggerate.
You should have pressed the panic button the day after Hughes was appointed. How the hell he's managed to con a living as a Premier League manager for so long will be one of the great mysteries of the game. Clubs eventually wised up to Bryan Robson and Steve Bruce, yet Hughes continues unchallenged. Still, come January you'll probably bring in another six or seven players on fifty grand a week and everything will be fine.
OK then, lets take TF at his word. If MH is unable to turn this around would he ever consider resigning? Thoughts.....
How can you tell when you're winning an arguement? When the opposing view has to resort to personal insults. If that's the best you can do loopy then I would direct you to the watrb site And for the record I can't see how our worst start ever equates to the best time in the past 18 years. I for one believe that relegation as the club is currently set up would be very very traumatic Still you stick with the aggressive attitude, that'll really help
Oh and I know you'll ignore this FACT - As a club we have taken 3 away points from the last 51 available......but hey I'm craving instant results You'll not read this post as no doubt you'll be trying to spell 'over reactionary'
Ok big man, you say the next four or five games is crucial to your support. What are your expectations for the next five games and will you no longer support QPR if they fall short........ I wont call you a moron so that you can focus on the question
Shouldn't we concentrate on this season as thats how long the current squad and management team have been together?
Loopy calm down son Read goldie's post again and you will understand he was giving Hughes 4 or 5 games support, not the entire club! Less haste more speed .....actually less speed probably I'm not advocating drugs here obviously
Yes that's a fair assessment. My take on that is Hughes bought too many midfielders not enough defenders or strikers. Pre-season obviously counted for nothing. He persists with players nearly all of us are united on being started instead of taraabt and hoilett and also in the wrong positions. Tactically he's all over the place and seems to go über defensive until we're behind and only then reluctantly throws the talent on As an example we've got a world cup winning goalie and a temp left back who came from Palace. I'm not knocking hill as I think he's done a great job but it shows the disparity of Hughes planning
QPR have the lowest points tally of any team in either the PL or FL. Mark said in an interview that "What we can deduce, is that we're good enough but we have to earn the right to stay in this League and we have to do it quickly." That's a nice piece of deduction Mark.(No ****, Sherlock)
TF does talk some sense in his interview especially concerning our defensive frailties caused by injury. However, that doesn't cover up the cracks in Hughes's inability to see what most of us can; SWP is NOT better than Hoilett, Taarabt has the ability to change games, so why doesn't he start, we were beating the spuds and when they changed their formation we didn't, why? Injuries aside, Hughes is tactically poor.
