[h=1]QPR exclusive: Beard confirms Hughes job is safe[/h] Thursday, March 1, 2012 4:28 PM Rangers board are keen to keep hold of manager regardless of their fate this season QPR chief executive Philip Beard insists that manager Mark Hughesâs job will be safe even if the club are relegated this season. Rangers have lost four of Hughesâs six league matches in charge, and sit 17th in the league ahead of tomorrowâs visit of Everton. Hughesâs predecessor Neil Warnock was sacked in January after a run of nine games without a win, but Beard insists Hughes must stay regardless of QPRâs fate if the club are to achieve their aim of long-term stability. âWeâre building here and we believe Mark is the right man to help us going forward,â said Beard. âI try not to think about scenarios where QPR donât stay in the Premier League, but if we donât then weâll just have to regroup, roll up our sleeves and sort it out. âMark and his people are the right team for QPR definitely, and whatever happens I envisage him being here next season. âItâs taking a bit of time to bed everything in, but Iâve got no plans if things donât work out to change things too much on and off the pitch. âStability is proven to be important, you make your changes but if you keep making changes then you donât achieve any stability at all.â Follow me on Twitter @QPRTimes
Good. Slowly but surely we are learning, perhaps the hard way, that success does not come instantly just because that is what we wanted to happen. If it is true, and I have absolutely no reason to doubt it, there is light at the end of this tunnel even if it does take us another year or two to get through it.
If we go down, the problems (aside from playing Kenny) arent of his doing. We have to get everyone pulling in the right direction and he knows that hence the reason for the Portugal trip. Its on the players and previous management if we go down.
Great message both to Hughes - you wanted a project you got one - and to anybody who thinks 'player power' will dominate. Expect some radical squad surgery in the summer, as we prepare to consolidate in the Prem.....
Sounds like Beard thinks he can hire and fire. Does TF think the same? Does Amit also think that? Strange. Sure I'm reading too much into it.
If we go down, its down to MH, full stop. We were on track, just, when he came in, he got the cash, and the players in to keep us up, so no excuses for him. But nevertheless we as a Club really need to stop this Managerial merrygoround - if MH shows he really has a good plan for an immediate return to the PL, and plans to build up development of young players, he should get another chance. Would still have preferred Neil, and without question in the Championship.
We were not on track, we were in freefall and the club was split due to the players bought in by Warnock. While Hughes has bought us no improvement, every problem was created by T&C and then Warnock. If we sacked Warnock last summer, wed have not bought Barton, SWP and perhaps some other bad players and there wouldnt have been a bad dressing room.
You don't know that other Managers eg MH, wouldn't also have taken chances on the same available players we brought in, in August in the same circumstances,with little time and some cash. Think MH may well have got in these 2 as well if he'd been the Boss back then. If you call where we were at Christmas "freefall", then now we are in melt down, and it seems that the dressing room is more fragmented now than then. But fact is we are still on track, just, so we must keep our faith and give our support. MH can turn this round! Come on U RRRRRR's.
We are not on track, I think we are bottom of the form table, Id feel better if we were bottom and in better form. We had a decent start but have been the worst team in the league for months. Something like 2 wins in 17 games. It will take a miracle to stay up.
Agreed. We need stabilty at the top and that means keeping both TF for many years and MH for the rest of his contract. Then great things will start happening from next August. And as long as MH is still about, I see a top 10 Premiership finish in 2013-14.
OOI Flyer what was your last board? You ain't a wummer that's for sure, but you carry an incessant air of doom and gloom around with you. I'd like to see what they made of you where you were before. Is there a player of ours you actually do like? That depends on what you'd see as being "on track". No we weren't. We had a bad run lasting 6 weeks and fell down the table to a position most of us would have taken in September given the pre-season circus (being "on track" if you will). Don't believe me then go back to the posts on here at that time. I'd have said we were in freefall when Warnock took over. Source? Disagree. The money spent on quality players has improved us albeit not in results so far. But the results will come. Hughes has always started slowly at clubs, and while it always rains down on you, I've seen enough to give me hope. I know our run in is horrendous, but none of our rivals have it easy either. True we do play the top 6, but so many of fellow strugglers have games against them too. Not to mention the games they have against one another. If we do go down we'll be back. Whatever "problems" Warnock "created" can only be judged fairly in the light of what Ecclestone and Briatore created and bequeathed. You won't even give him that will you? I really want to see your posts on your old board, because my guess would be you were one of the ones getting all sniffy about his appointment in the first place. Am I right? How do you know this?
Playing Zamora as a lone striker, at home,SWP playing down the middle,not recognising Diakite firework about to blow?...and for a crucial game?!?...my confidence in him fell apart that day,sorry. Will he want to stay if we go down and why is everyone so confident we will come straight back up???..
I said on an earlier thread that I can see Spunky walking out if it doesn't work out for him. I see no reason to revise this at this stage. There'll be managerial changes towards the end of the season, as well as during the Summer. I would not be surprised to see him resign if relegation appears a certainty in order to be in consideration for something else before the start of the next season. Villa?
Nah, I don't think Lerner likes him - he was keen on the Villa job when he left us, but didn't get a sniff. What I think he really wanted was Chelsea.
