Redknapp defends QPR league position and denies sacking talk Frank Dallares by Frank Dalleres February 25, 2014, 1:28am 0 0 1 UNDER-FIRE Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp has dismissed suggestions that his job is on the line as the clubâs bid to return to the Premier League at the first attempt threatens to unravel. Saturdayâs late defeat to London rivals Charlton was a third loss in a row and has left Rangers in fourth place, 15 points behind Championship leaders Leicester, albeit with a game in hand. Redknapp said he âwouldnât take much noticeâ of reports that his position had become uncertain, adding that QPR ought to be content if they finished in the play-off positions. âThis is the first little blip we have had all season and it can happen. Weâve got four or five of our better players missing at the moment, and that is how it has gone,â he said yesterday. âIt is all to play for. If we end up in the play-offs then I still fancy us. We have put a new team together and if you had said at the start of the year we would make the play-offs, I think we would have been quite happy. âWhen you are up there first or second, as we were, then you get disappointed when you lose a few games and start looking at the play-offs. We can still make automatic [promotion], it is not impossible.â Since drawing with second-placed Burnley, QPR have also lost to play-off rivals Derby and Reading â a sequence that has coincided with top scorer Charlie Austinâs injury absence.
Haven't listened yet but it's probably from this interview: http://talksport.com/football/exclu...pr-can-make-premier-league-return-14022481056
Been said a million times but if we finish in the play-offs, were wasting our time based on we haven't been able to beat anyone near the top, have we? I would have thought Harry needs to put the vibe 'out there' about us definitely playing only to make the automatic promo spots. Nothing else is good enough.
"We have put a new team together and if you had said at the start of the year we would make the play-offs, I think we would have been quite happy." Well if that's the start of the calendar year, 2014, QPR were only 1 point behind Burnley, so I doubt very much he would have been happy with a play off place. Now they are 7 points adrift..well...it's strange to see a man who has worked his fair share of miracles, suddenly searching desperately for excuses. Like so many I was shouting for him to be England's head coach not so long ago. It goes to prove that no one is infallible. Equally weird is seeing my team Leicester doing what most people thought QPR would do this season. Good luck with the run in though.
Ughh...a play-off place. Like a really short cup competition. I'm struggling to remember the last time we won more than one game in either the FA or League cup, so I think the play-offs are a bit of a write off. A bit like England going to penalties, you know deep down how that's going to turn out! If we're lucky enough to still be sniffing about for automatic promotion in a month or so then there might be hope - if we're looking at the play-offs then I think we can enjoy another season of "consolidation"...give us a chance to get some more of the right sort in.
Do you know, I'm starting to wonder whether the play offs may be suited to our lot. Experienced players who won't freeze on the big occasion may be just what we need in a couple of huge games, rather than having to do it week in week out. Oh ****...............see where you're hankering for the play offs has taken me Roller!! (Reading in the final...............)
I think other teams with younger hungrier players will love to pick our lot off in the play offs. I just don't think our team has a 'roll the sleeves up and get stuck in' attitude
Won't need it we are going up automatically as we have 15 games left 45 points so how can any of us feel resigned to failure .. We clearly have the best squad and manager ... what can stop us?
I suppose in a way Harold is right afterall if before the start of the season we were offered a Paly Off place most of us would have taken it.......the only problem is that until this month we were going along quite nicely, well placed for an automatic spot, so now the Paly Off's look very much like a consolation prize and it is hard to come to terms with......
I'm pretty sure promotion was the objective set, and frankly do we need to pay a manager £3m to keep us mid table in the Championship? Only if he will cost us more to get rid of is my guess.......If we go up via the play offs all will be forgotten, though I am sure we could all do without the stress. If the target was 'consolidate' we would not have packed the squad with short term experienced pros and loanees. Whatever Redknapp says anything less than promotion, whatever method, is a failure.
Stan, not disagreeing, I'm sure TF made it clear to Harold that promotion by Hook or Crooke was the only objective, it seems to me that Harold is playing the game of reducing expectation of automatic promotion....part of his exit strategry perhaps?
