http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2640286/Harry-Redknapps-promotion-QPR-incredible-fans-not-giving-credit-strange-dislike-personal.html
There was a thread on this a while ago, also dedicated to flyer, who would have thought http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/264236-Adrian-Durham-in-The-Mail?highlight=Adrian+Durham
There are some on this board, that actually think we got promoted despite Harry's efforts to wreck our progress, and take his own payday, then exiting blaming others ??? Now who would I be referring to ???
Rufus brevetted piece on the happy clappies “Do they need a raft of changes? Even before Rangers got a man sent, Derby were the better team, and Harry (Redknapp, manager) knows it,” he said. http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport...ont-go-7220272 There’s a couple of people too ignorant to understand that we are all delighted to get back in the premier league- that’s obviously a given. SO to avoid a summer of this, what follows is all I have to say on this matter: The bickering on here centres around these oracles who knew that in what is essentially a cup competition (which would have been a calamity if we hadn’t managed to get into the top 6) where we would come up against a team that had already beaten the team that would eventually become premier league champions they were so certain that we would win AND Mclean wouldn’t squeeze the ball under Rob Green and then miss the rebound. They also knew that Kiernan’s deflected shot would not go in the far corner but just past the post. They also knew that in the final that despite getting outplayed and going down to 10 men and drifting to 10/1 with bet in play markets that the ball would fall to Bobby Zamora for our 1st and only shot on target. Wow!! You guys must all be millionaires because I’m sure you went and lumped your entire life savings on at the point at which we drifted to 10/1 bet in play. You also knew after the perfomances like Sheffield Wednesday away, Charlton away and Blackburn away that we would get promoted??? Of course you didn’t know any of this, like me what you really knew was that we would get in the play offs and from there have a punchers chance. You also know Harry had been outperformed by Pearson, Dyche and McClaren who with the exception of Pearson undoubtedly had a far more difficult job on their hands. Now again it’s a given I cant wait for games against Chelsea, United, and even Stoke rather than Rotheram, Doncaster and Huddersfield next season but while we obviously achieved our aims the fortunate circumstances 1 shot on target against the run of play with 10 men another major feeling is RELIEF. We had to do it this year or we were in huge trouble. While I’m sure we would have survived but the chances were that 15 years out the prem like the time before this could have seemed like no time at all. With the team we had, the money invested, the debt growing, and the increasing difficulty of getting out of the league the longer your’e in it (Bolton is best example, 2 seasons out the premiership with far more conservative spending and at last count they are in £164m of debt with no prospect of promotion) we had to do it this year. Thank f**k we did. But we did it through the play offs, a better manager would have done it through the automatics and taken all of the risk out of it. Lets hope Harry is wise enough this year to go into the season with 4 strikers and not 2 injury prone strikers and 1 other who had just failed a medical. Lets hope he is wise enough to not go into this next season with just 3 centre backs 2 being injury prone and 1 being in his mid 30’s. As I’ve said before Warnock led us into the premier league and Redknapp fluked it. But they both achieved the same end and for that I’m delighted but don’t pretend for a minute you knew it would happen and you didn’t know the risks if it didnt happen. I also was giving Redknapp a season so this cannot be claimed by any one group as no one was calling for him to be sacked. The only difference is that Harry made a lot of mistakes and some of us pointed those out.
I'm not disagreeing with it mate. Just pointing out that presenting what Rufus Brevett says as fact to back up your own argument/stance doesn't make it so.
We are up nothing else really matters we must all be happy however it would be fair to say that there is a hint of all of us wanting more at different degrees? I am not a Harold fan but he and Stephen did get us playing much better possession football early on Harold IMO is a celebrity and just the face of our success ... that's how i see it. I think he is a poor footballing coach
I think there is a fair degree of truth in this... despite the superior tone. I think you have missed one crucial dimension though, which is in the way that Harry has managed to turn the dressing room from a 'toxic' environment, to one comprised of a 'band of brothers' - credit where credit is due eh? Like many on here I wasn't a Harry fan, but it's not all about luck - whatever you say. There is no God given right to automatic promotion, and the teams that got there did so because they were better prepared. I'd like to think that we will be better prepared this season... time will tell.
Nor does posting an article from a mate of Redknapp who probably only seen us a couple of times on sky.
I think the 'band of brothers' mentality is more likely to have been instilled by Steve Black, the sports psychologist. If Redknapp brought him in, then he deserves credit, but it doesn't seem to me that it would have been 'Arry's idea.
