http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/tra...pend-his-way-to-safety-article848756.htmlNeil Warnock is back under pressure at QPR - but wants the chance to spend his way out of danger. Darren Bent tops the west London side's hit-list for January and owner Tony Fernandes is being kept informed about developments to see whether they can lure the England striker away from Aston Villa. But Hoops boss Warnock is also battling to keep his job after a recent slump saw the Premier League new boys slide down the table and into serious danger of an instant return to the Championship. Warnock is still confident of turning things around at Loftus Road and is hopeful airline tycoon Fernandes will give him the chance to get it right, having led them to promotion last season.
Okay, just more tabloid talk BUT it does suggest my own increasing worry that our Neil's short of some things money just won't buy: tactical nouse. If he's got it in there somewhere he's keeping it well under wraps. We didn't see it last year when we fooled the whole Championship by playing the same 4231 system all year. Maverick Taarabt was the misfiring loose canon that few barring Savage managed to suss and neutralise. That in itself took the pressure off our defence. This year it's been far worse because even beatable prem teams don't lay down as easily. Whilst our new bloods have produced sufficient quality to impress at times, we've had no real game plan to secure the number of wins we need. Deep defence just doesn't do the trick does it? I worry that without systematic innovation, over-reliance on new players has even more chance than simple gelling to turn out to be a damp squib. Question is, how do we get NW to look at himself and wise up a bit quick? Whilst it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, we really don't want to have to go back through all that promotion stuff again do we? Is that the bell tolling - or am I just imagining it?
I have to agree with you Brix. The trouble is, we are in a catch 22 with NW. I think more and more of us are suspecting that the Premier League may be a step too far for him, but most would agree that it is too soon to get rid. Then, after we give him till, say, the end of Feb, it could well be too late to save us!! I'm not convinced that a change in manager now will be that detrimental......can't get much worse can it?
I'd say give him until after the Blackburn game on 11th Feb. That gives him five matches, including home to Wolves, Wigan and Blackburn, to get it right. And in the meantime, draw up a short list of who might take over...
hold boys. When NW took over, he said he needed two sides, one to get us up, and one to compete in the Premier League. Unfortuantely, he also had a hinderance in the form of Bernie and Flv basically telling him, the team that got us up were good enough to keep us up and therefore didn't want to strengthen the team. IF no new players, whether freebies or not had arrived, I personally think we would really be in a mess and stuck at the bottom of the league, and it wouldn't have just been Bolton or Fulham that would have scored a hatful against us. Whilst we are in a bad run at the moment (and this is the first bad run in two years and first one under NW's leadership) for the fact he got us up, and for the fact he has given us premier league football possibly a year earlier than we really anticipated I think he deserves this season through to the end. Whilst his tack tics have and are being questioned, he can only work with the tools he has at his disposal. SWP was good at first, and hasn't hit the highs we all expected, Taarabt has had his head turned by "advisers", Barton was always going to be a controversial signing and his baggage was going to bite us in the arse at some stage. Mackie returning has been a plus, as has HH. Some of the others have not reached the level expected, especially those from the promotion team. Even IF we can bring in 5 or 6 players in, are we really expecting to see them he the ground running and fit straight into NW's plans? 17th spot in our first season back was always going to be what the majority expected, and none of us expected this first season back to be easy. You have only got to see Bolton (who alot of us expect QPR to be - a side comfortable in the top fight) and Blackburn struggle to see just how hard the premier league is. I know we have talent in the team, a win against chelsea (who played better with 9 than 11 players), very good entertaining draws against newcastle villa and a performance that scared Man City. I was expecting Arsenal to beat us by more than 1, and expected Man Utd to score more than 2. new players that have arrived, Ferdinand, Traore and Young have been a plus, but we are still a work in progress. We should have beaten Norwich, and in my opinion JB cost us the game by getting sent off. The win against CFC affected Ferdinand because of the terry racist comment and after effects - things you cannot plan into your season. NW appears to know the players he wants, and according to the daily mail a bid of £6 mill has been made to Blackburn for Samba (cannot confirm whether this is paper talk or not) but he would be a player that would have an immediate impact on our team. NW needs time to complete his premier team, and, then lets see how good we are. Hopefully there are no get out clauses in the players contracts IF they take us down, only a clause reducing their salary. Have faith, it's taken us a long while to get a decent owner in, we are going to have afew more hiccups along the way but I reckon with players like Ferdinand, Derry, Hill and Barton we have steel in the side. Some of the "deadwood" needs to go, Hall, Hulse, Vine, ****tu, Dave and players that are not good enough for the premier league like Cookie and Rowly. It weren't that long ago there were collection buckets outside the ground collecing to keep the side alive.
I disagree with your attitude. I think it's a bit negative. Firstly, do you think that his tactical domination over teams in the Championship (not just with QPR) does not give a sign that he'll be able to make decent tactics in the Premier? Secondly, he has good help from other staff, who are also useless in your opinion. Thirdly, apparently you'd be doing a better job and know more about the ins and outs of the club than he does. When a team is having bad form like ours, there are always various reasons... numerous reasons, in fact. I think it's silly for a person so far on the outside (a spectator who only has the 90 minutes of a match and the media to go by) to point the finger at one particular reason or person. You're also silly to think that Championship teams don't bother to research and impliment tactics against opposing teams, or that there isn't enough money involved in the Championship for them to care. Of course all the teams had a good look at us, especially as the season went on and we remained at the top. That's probably why the season got harder as it went along but we still kept getting the results with Neil Warnock's tactics. Also, you seem to think that Taarabt simply got away with everything last season because he wasn't found out and that Savage and Derby were the only ones to do a bit of research on Taarabt and the QPR system. Is it crazy to say that Taarabt had a bad match and simply was ineffective in that game?
If you think NW is going to change set/up or tatics you are all wrong.He will sink or swim because he believes he is right. Unfortunately potential players looking at our performances may not like the look of his methods.Time is historically not on our side,if we sre going to change now is the time,if we dont we will go down.I,for one will not be unhappy as I do not enjoy his tatics or our performances against sides that are far superior to us across the park.I really do hope we stay up but I cannot see it based on the results of teams around us.
