Agree with this...I was originally one calling for him to stay. I have become fed up of the managerial ins and outs and those ins and outs making no significant difference at all, certainly no great improvement. However, the bizarre selections, poor form and generally negative football of the past few months has led me to change my mind. We need a change, a fresh approach and to start again. I do think that could involve more than just a change in manager, but as I mentioned earlier, a revamp of the senior team at the club...managers, directors of football, coaches etc etc.
Meaning? Higher finishing position? More points? Play off place? Promotion? Delivered on a lower/equal/higher budget? Playing a more aesthetically pleasing form of the game? Too easy to massage after the fact something as broad and bland as ‘improvement’. Exactly why Bhatia and Hoos, the chairman and CEO, the ones who should be seen and heard occasionally rather than leaving everything to their employees, should, ahead of every season, issue a clear statement of objectives, which should be measurable and traceable, covering performance at every level of the club and the financial envelope within which we are operating, Hoos’ operational objectives, contingency plans, consequences of failure etc etc. what most other companies would do, so accountability and reward is clear. As it is everything hangs on Warburton (or whoever the manager is). Poor performance? Sack the manager! It’s a cop out for all the other elements of the club which should be contributing to success. But I suppose that’s the way football has always been run, so I won’t expect any change.
All I can say on this Stan.. Is that the Board ( and this is relayed by Hoos who is just a mouthpiece) wants something......a certain improvement, players to sell at the end of season, an improvement in end of season league position, nicer football..I don't know what???!! Warburton asks for and "sometimes" gets the tools to implement these requests. It his job to do what the board demand. Get us promoted Do not get us promoted this year Do not flirt with relegation Get us someone to sell for 15 million Make the fans happier. Keep the players happy Make ups more secure financially I have no idea what they want..nor have any of you. I would love to know
90% wanted him to go Dec 2020? On here maybe? There was a poll on LFW about then which if I remember right had seventy something % wanting him to stay. I was certainly one of them and because of his record since he's been here I still am. Sick to death of these knee jerk reactions if we lose a few games. The last 4 games we have lost in a row now is the most since Warburton joined us according to the QPR+ guys. He'd never lost more than 3 in a row before. We lose good Managers because of these knee jerks. Warnock 11 years ago in particular. I don't think it's possible for Supporters to judge the Manager by which team he picks and what subs he makes because we don't know how fit they are or how they have trained. Probably most of us do not know so much about the opposition we will face in the next game either. We can really only judge them by the results and how enjoyable the football has been.
To be fair I don’t think our club is different to most others, except for those ‘big’ clubs who expect to win everything every season. Probably doesn’t bother most fans who know what they want and that’s enough. Pisses me off a bit, I like clarity. Easy enough for other industries as well.
Its a catch 22 for me to be honest. I would love us to get promoted to the Premier league but on the other hand think, 'whats the ****ing point'! I wont enjoy getting trounced by the like of City, Liverpool etc etc but surely its better than getting beaten by Barnsley and P'boro!!!
Apologies, like all the best stats that was completely made up. But I do remember a thread with the vast majority of contributors wanting him gone. I wasn't (quite) in that camp then, and I'm not in that camp now.
I find this rather sad, he doesn't deserve being frozen out when others are performing so abjectly...
Yet alot of people on here are happy to carry on regardless at least until recently. Major changes need to take place, the Chairman and Amit need to show some bottle and get rid of the dead wood. It's all very well doing good things around the community but the footballing side of things have gone tits up, we're soft as **** and need to appoint the relevant people to get us out of this worsening slumber
Pretty damning post that, a guy who while not the most technically gifted never gave less than 100% when on the pitch. I wouldn't mind so much if he'd been totally cut adrift for players that were outstanding and we were winning every game, but for him not to have been used at all for so long tells you all you need to know about our manager. Stubborn and short sighted doesn't come close, I wonder how many in that dressing room just can't be arsed to perform for him. As professionals that would be wrong, but as in every walk of life if your working under a complete tool , do you really bust a gut for them. Look at Forest and their team and manager, you can see I every performance that they'd go to war for their manager. So ****ing sad
Listening to London radio tonight & they are backing Warbs to stay & at least give him another season & I have to agree, blamed a lot on the jan window & board not supporting him & should’ve done with the position we was in, need to get rid of a few players & get pace in the team all round which we are so lacking, might have to sacrifice a couple of players but only for right price. Also had Luke Amos on & spoke about what he’s been through & how disappointing the team are with last couple of months & will still fight to the end for top 6 place To listen go on loftorwords site & your see the topic
SHEFFIELD UNITED BOSS SLAMS QPR, SAYS THEY ‘TOOK ADVANTAGE’ OF THE RULES AFTER PREVIOUSLY POSTPONING FIXTURE Luke Phelps @Lukephelps72 21 Hours Ago Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom says QPR maybe ‘took advantage’ of the Covid rules after postponing their previously scheduled fixture. Sheffield United hosted QPR in the Championship last night. An early goal from Oliver Norwood sealed the eventual 1-0 win for the Blades which moves them up into 5th place of the table, with Heckingbottom taking his side down to QPR at the end of the month. QPR were originally scheduled to travel to Sheffield United back in December. But after a Covid outbreak within the R’s camp, the west London club decided to postpone the game. Having his say on that after last night’s victory, Heckingbottom told SUFC TV: “QPR were one that set us off really, cancelling on us when they probably shouldn’t [have], but they did, probably took advantage of the rules. “It set us on a tricky period of one league game in six weeks, which meant we had to catch up then over a long period of time, two games a week. “That training period was terrible for us because we kept having games cancelled at the last minute, so we could never get the work in to supplement not having games.” Sheffield United played just twice through December. They won their last four games of 2021 but went winless in their first three of 2022, before returning back to form.
