Departed QPR man names players sent to train with youth team By Nick Wright Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:00 AM New Charlton loanee Rob Hulse has revealed he was one of six players sent to train with the youth team at his parent club QPR. CommentsEmailPrintGot a story?. .To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. .. The experienced striker sealed a three-month loan move to Charlton on Monday having fallen out of favour with Râs boss Mark Hughes at Loftus Road. After coming off the bench for his Addicks debut in their 2-1 defeat to Watford last night, Hulse - who was left out of QPRâs 25-man Premier League squad this season - explained that he had been made to train with their youth team. When asked which other senior players at QPR had suffered a similar fate, he said: âDJ Campbell, Luke Young [before he got injured], Jay Bothroyd, Smithy [Tommy Smith], [Heidar] Helguson. So there were about five or six of us.â Hulse was disappointed with manager Hughesâ refusal to let him join up with the first team but insists he holds no grudges. âItâs difficult but Iâve been at football clubs and Iâve seen it happen to other people,â he said. âIt happens and you wonder why, and you donât think youâve done anything wrong. âBut youâve just got to get your head down and work hard, and thatâs what I did.â QPR are rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table with just two points from their opening six games, but Hulse hopes they will get back to winning ways soon. âThereâs no animosity there, I hope they do well,â he said. âI hope they start winning some games because Iâve got some good friends in the changing room. âItâs just football. You just move on and get on with it.â
My opinion of Hulse as a man and a professional has just risen. As for MH, well, I can understand he just wants the squad to train together, but it's hard on players like Heider who have played so well for us (top scorer last season). I guess it's done partly to make them feel uncomfortable so they look around for another club
Get this man out quick TF - Hope some of those chairmen you've been talking to have informed you of a certain Mr.Wright. DJ - Would be more of an asset to the squag than Ephrahim, Luke Young has never caused trouble wherever he's been and although limited a whole lot better than Onuoha has shown and as for HH? Well gobsmacked that you treat a seasoned pro in that way! This has done it for me - It's Magilton all over again!! Clueless TF? I've just seen how you're operation is running in SIngapore and Malaysia - now some of that was clueless! Remember -Many a good man has gone down through defending the down right useless!
Fair enough on 5 of them but that shocking to treat HH like that. He played very well for us. Awful mistake by Hughes, its getting harder and harder to like or have any respect for him.
I really doubt this is something unique to Hughes or QPR. I'd rather the focus of he and the coaches was on the players who were actually going to play.
Yep that's it. Would any of these players have made a difference to our season? And if you look at the squads for all the other clubs, how many in the 25 don't even get a game all season? In other words, who cares about the fringe fringe players.
This is a massive example of dramatizing a practical situation. There is no reserve team at QPR now (or the rest of the PL) and the under 21s now take up that role. If you are not part of the 25 man squad then your only chance of playing competitive football is with the 'youth team'. So perfectly normal. However, I agree that it was a travesty (not to mention rank stupidity) to exclude HH and Young from the 25. How we could use both of those two right now!
With hindsight then yes, perhaps some of them would have done but other than maybe Ephraim, who is far happier to be a squad player than Helguson, Young or Campbell would be, there's not much argument for keeping any of them in the 25. If they're not in the 25 they can only train to keep fit and might as well do that with the reserve squad so Hughes et al have a smaller group to work with.
This is standard practice at all clubs when you have players who aren't in the 1st team squad. It's not disrespectful in the slightest, that would be making them train on their own or told not to come in. Like Chelski did to anelka before outing him. The youth squad isn't made up of 10yr olds, it's the reserves!! Mr people person cockney sparra redknapp treats his fringe players much worse. There is no place for sentiment in pre season when you are trying to build your own squad up.....
Thanks for this Sooper. I did feel a bit too much was being made out of this, and your Post confirms.
Again...give it a rest. He works on players with squad numbers who are going to play. He then practices teams and formations against teams that have not witnessed the training (e.g youth team and extras etc)...Sooper is so right...it what happens in schoolgirl hockey.....standard practice Stop being silly. HH was being sold...he was a player that Sparky thought he didn't need (I personally disagree but...) who was being sold...same with Young, Smith and DJ. No pulse I thought we couldn't give away with a packet of chips ..OK Charlton took him...did it cost us a bag of chips???
Hulse was sent to train with the youth team!!!! That's outrageous - the poor youth team what had they done to deserve this. I can't imagine what they would have learned from him, I'm quite concerned what affect this might have had on some of them, they might start trying to play like him.
I know youre taking the piss but Id be surprised if any more than 1 or 2 had a better career than him.
Well its not how I personally would deal with the situation however I am not the manager so its Hughes rules. Frankly though we had a decent defender in Young already on the books so I think its pretty dumb when all the other options fell through not to put him into the 25 until January just in case
Exactly. We were always short at the back and up front, but have plenty of midfielders. So including Ephraim in the 25 before Young must be a decision that I doubt many of us Clueless ones understand.
It's the only part of all this that doesn't make sense. All the other players, you can sort of understand. I don't think mh owes us an explanation for everything he does, but he should certainly come out and tell us why young was so unceremoniously dumped after the Sunderland game. And why ephraim made the squad because I'd rather have hh, dj, smith or young instead, as I'm sure most on here would.........
