Well ... 1. Briatore and Ecclestone stayed too long and didn't support NW in the early days of the transfer window. 2. NW bought Barton and made him captain, which seemed to upset the ship. Too many new players brought in who weren't that much better than the side we had. 3. Poor run under NW. 4. Warnock sacked and Huges brought in. 5. Hughes almost starts from scratch. More new players, totally new training regime and new formation. Too much all at once. 6. Injury to Faulin. 7. Poor discipline. Too many red cards.
I don't think our blueprint for PL survival will attract too many adherents Run to the dept store at 4.55 on last day of sale, put on blindfold and grab anything we stumble into. Pay a fortune for them and promise them everything they ask for. Bring them home, chuck out most of what we had before and wring our hands in despair as they behave like we did in the dept store. It just wasn't going to happen for us this time around.
Gutting to see us make such a feeble attempt at staying in this league after such a long time out. Really gutting.
1 nil to the Arsenal was built on the foundations of a consistently solid back four - Adams bould dixon & keown We've contrived to use 456 different defenders AND fitz hall Many of our 'issues' originate from this basic failing
Plus 11 or so mercenaries who basically dont give a f**k. Ferdinand ,Barton and SWP probably couldnt believe there luck when NW offererd them a contract.We must have been the only club stupid enough to buy them.
Looking back at the season only one person comes out of it looking good... Neil Warnock. Fernandes was inexperienced but, Warnock's sacking aside, the appointment of Hughes was a monumental error. Ok, the team is chock full of mercenaries who couldn't give a **** but where's the management FFS.
I don't think its lack of effort that's the problem - if anything Cisse and Diakarte have got themselves into trouble by trying to hard to impress - but a good team is a well oiled machine - with all the additions and changes we've had, we're very far from that.
11 square pegs in 11 round holes. I really thought there would be signs of improvement under MH but unfortunately not.
Eamon I make you right on all counts, everything seemed to be against us from the start cannot express what I am feeling now.
Warnock wasn't backed in the summer, so he was working with the same squad as last year, with the addition of free transfers. By the time Fernandes came in, it was too late, and the signing that were made were very much panic ones. Most of the time when a new chairman comes in, they have their own idea for who they want to be manager, which added even more pressure to Warnock. After a poor run of results, sacking Warnock was the correct decision. Mark Hughes was the best option to replace him, and I don't think anyone can argue with that. Sacking a manager mid-way through the season is never easy, especially when the manager you appoint is the complete opposite to the one before. Players haven't been able to adapt quick enough to Hughes's style of play, which is showing on the pitch. A mixture of bad luck, and our own stupidly has really cost us so far this season, but we've only got ourselves to blame IF we go down!
I agree with you up to a point, Wubba. But I've said on many an occasion (on previous threads) that its predominantly the forward line and attacking midfield that's been our problem this season. The setup of the team has been all wrong, exacerbated by the lack of real quality in those areas. I can discount Bolton (home) and Fulham (away) as abherrations and, these results aside, we've not really had a spanking off teams. The issue for me has been the inability to keep possession in the final third. Poor first touch. An absence of guile and creativity. And a front line that's really not been good enough. There's not been the pace, incisive passing and tricks that we grew accustomed to last season. Taarabt has been a pale imitation of the 2010/11 Championship Player of the Year, and I'm sorry to say that we've missed his understanding with Routledge. Warnock tried to replace the latter first with Dyer (remember him?) and then SWP. Whilst the statistics may show that SWP has had a significant number of shots on goal this season - as has Taarabt - they've all been largely hit & hope attempts from hopeless distance/angles. When he's actually had a reasonable scoring opportunity he's fluffed it. Helgusson has done OK but can't stay fit. Bothroyd is another Hulse. Can't say much about DY 'cos he's hardly featured (through injury). And now we have Cisse, who can't stay on the pitch to do the job he was acquired for. For me, my friends, it is no wonder that we've been losing by a margin of one or two goals, as the defence is bound to crack when put under sustained pressure as a result of the frontline's inability to win them respite by keeping the ball in the final third for sustained periods. My big regret now is that we still have to endure another eight humiliating games before we can skulk back into the Championship with our tails between our legs. The consolation is that Norwich City will doubtless be found out in their 'difficult second season', as was the case with Reading and Hull before them.
Rather than deciding your team are doomed, and then seeking solace in the entirely conjectural future suffering of another clubs' failings, why not support QPR until you actually are down? There's lots to still be decided. You can still stay up. It might not be very glamorous but you are still capable of clawing your way out of it. Personally the day i stop wanting to support my team and seek pleasure in wishing failure on others instead is the day i stop following football, but i guess i'm a sucker for good vibes.
I've had enough of this Gimp. Why don't you just piss off back to your Carrot field you smelly in-bred farmer?
