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All joking (and general puzzlement) aside, I would think the Brentford background is quite encouraging for where we want to go as a club - even allowing for the fact that Brentford have prospered after sacking off their Academy.
I get a lot of the cynicism and concur with some of it .
What I will say is the everyday staff at the club are totally blown away by the change in every tiny aspect of the club in the last 12 months. Itās a very different club and environment now.
The overriding take from staff is that the club āmeans businessā whereas it is only clear now how far we were lagging behind the rest of the football world until very recently .
Could all go belly up of course but you canāt say they aināt trying
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WTF is a head of methodology? on 19:56 - Jul 22 with 2123 views
WTF is a head of methodology? on 19:50 - Jul 22 by mart_Goblin
I get a lot of the cynicism and concur with some of it .
What I will say is the everyday staff at the club are totally blown away by the change in every tiny aspect of the club in the last 12 months. Itās a very different club and environment now.
The overriding take from staff is that the club āmeans businessā whereas it is only clear now how far we were lagging behind the rest of the football world until very recently .
Could all go belly up of course but you canāt say they aināt trying
Can you explain how you know this to be the case?
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WTF is a head of methodology? on 22:44 - Jul 22 with 1984 views
Yep...nothing I can really add to this thread that Clive (imho) hasnt already reflected in his excellent Spurs report. Head of Methodology, data analytics, modern transfer analysis - it's all OK, it's all new, it's all a really genuinely good thing while the whole club is in clear and rightful credit with its massively loyal, long-suffering fanbase. But it would take no more than a few heavy defeats to the might of Oxford, Plymouth and Preston to blow the new Methodology sky- high out of the water by November. And appointments like these would then be first in the firing line imho.
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WTF is a head of methodology? on 22:49 - Jul 22 with 1967 views
WTF is a head of methodology? on 22:44 - Jul 22 by loftus77
Yep...nothing I can really add to this thread that Clive (imho) hasnt already reflected in his excellent Spurs report. Head of Methodology, data analytics, modern transfer analysis - it's all OK, it's all new, it's all a really genuinely good thing while the whole club is in clear and rightful credit with its massively loyal, long-suffering fanbase. But it would take no more than a few heavy defeats to the might of Oxford, Plymouth and Preston to blow the new Methodology sky- high out of the water by November. And appointments like these would then be first in the firing line imho.
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I don't doubt that this could well be a positive appointment
I think people just amused by the job title and the Nourry chat bot language now being used by the club
And most of us over the age of 40, would have zero idea as to what a head of methodology actually is.
Am all for the data analysis if it improves fitness, performance and team unity on the pitch and think it has its place absolutely
It's the job title itself that seems strange at a football club
WTF is a head of methodology? on 22:44 - Jul 22 by loftus77
Yep...nothing I can really add to this thread that Clive (imho) hasnt already reflected in his excellent Spurs report. Head of Methodology, data analytics, modern transfer analysis - it's all OK, it's all new, it's all a really genuinely good thing while the whole club is in clear and rightful credit with its massively loyal, long-suffering fanbase. But it would take no more than a few heavy defeats to the might of Oxford, Plymouth and Preston to blow the new Methodology sky- high out of the water by November. And appointments like these would then be first in the firing line imho.
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Iād disagree to an extent
I think most sensible fans would have trust in current process as these boys have earned significant credit for how theyve rolled last year or so. The way we finished the season sort of feels like we were on a high. Itāll take a very long run of defeats for Marti to burn his credit and Nourry strikes me as level headed and wouldnāt be reactionary away from the plan due to fan pressure.
None of that would stop the Twitter warriors though
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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WTF is a head of methodology? on 12:03 - Jul 23 with 1459 views
WTF is a head of methodology? on 11:24 - Jul 23 by Lblock
Iād disagree to an extent
I think most sensible fans would have trust in current process as these boys have earned significant credit for how theyve rolled last year or so. The way we finished the season sort of feels like we were on a high. Itāll take a very long run of defeats for Marti to burn his credit and Nourry strikes me as level headed and wouldnāt be reactionary away from the plan due to fan pressure.
None of that would stop the Twitter warriors though
It's easily spun though isn't it.
There's already been several fck ups, like the School End lower tier ticketing for Birmingham, Sheff Wed and Leeds, that has basically been allowed to slide because the team's doing well and everybody thinks Nourry is this force of brilliance sweeping through the club.
Can you imagine the reaction a year ago if our pre-season had consisted of an 11-0 win against a Spanish Sunday league outfit played on a golf course? Fans locked out of the pre-season tour, squad list kept under wraps until an hour before the first game, opposition for the matches only announced a couple of days before? Ainsworth and Hoos would have been taking pelters for the farce of it all.
But at the moment, outwardly, everything in the garden is rosy, and so this stuff just slides by.
It wouldn't have been the big deal it was made out to be a year ago, but nor is it the completely irrelevant deal it's being made out to be now.
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WTF is a head of methodology? on 03:30 - Jul 27 with 900 views
On the face of it we're all, rightly, more optimistic than this time last year. However, slap yourself hard and remember this is Queen's Park Rangers FC. The most positive thing to happen to us in the next few weeks would be Eze signing for a Saudi side for a world record fee freeing up wonga for us to sign the best finisher available outside of the European top divisions along with a disgraced Rodri opting to do community service at a the club he's loved ever since he saw Ale Faurlin's left peg when a teenager. Marti instilled self belief into the team last season and we're buying into it, yet more quality is still needed if we're to compete in the top half. There's big positivity amongst us all, great support towards the end of last season carried on now with f ucking the away followers out of the bottom tier for this campaign, I just hope we can achieve what our bravado encourages.
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WTF is a head of methodology? on 03:39 - Jul 27 with 899 views
WTF is a head of methodology? on 12:17 - Jul 22 by CiderwithRsie
Many, many years ago at work we were doing a project and I was put in charge of methodology for it (not that I asked to be), at which point I realised that I had no idea what it meant.
I did find out, but I've now forgotten. It's a great joy not to need to know that sort of thing.
Ladies and Gentlemen meet The Loft For Words Head of Methodology.
Speech!
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WTF is a head of methodology? on 10:06 - Jul 27 with 773 views
WTF is a head of methodology? on 12:03 - Jul 23 by Northernr
It's easily spun though isn't it.
There's already been several fck ups, like the School End lower tier ticketing for Birmingham, Sheff Wed and Leeds, that has basically been allowed to slide because the team's doing well and everybody thinks Nourry is this force of brilliance sweeping through the club.
Can you imagine the reaction a year ago if our pre-season had consisted of an 11-0 win against a Spanish Sunday league outfit played on a golf course? Fans locked out of the pre-season tour, squad list kept under wraps until an hour before the first game, opposition for the matches only announced a couple of days before? Ainsworth and Hoos would have been taking pelters for the farce of it all.
But at the moment, outwardly, everything in the garden is rosy, and so this stuff just slides by.
It wouldn't have been the big deal it was made out to be a year ago, but nor is it the completely irrelevant deal it's being made out to be now.
I get that as a fan even more obsessed with the Rs than the likes of me this kind of stuff might be irritating, but just as prime ministers are judged on the big decisions, so are ceos. Signing Marti, insisting transfers are done according to data, recruiting youth, looking at the psychological make up of players, refusing to be bent over by rapacious agents, getting actual money for completely ineffective players and securing a proven goal scoring centre forward (until nowā¦) - all of this he has achieved and which apparently alluded Hoos, Baird, etc.
Very early days and it could and probably will all go wrong because we are Queens Park Rangers - but if he successfully rebuilds the squad and achieves a top 10 finish this season, are fans really going to be talking about the ticketing for Birmingham? I do get that as you, unlike me, follow the team away as well as at home you have more skin in the game, reflected in some of your beautifully evocative descriptions of miserable journeys to hell-holes. But the best way IMHO to make most fans happy is to run a football club that wins matches and shows progression. There at least appears to be a strategy now - compare and contrast to a couple of years ago with Amit basically saying: āI give up. iāve been in football for over a decade but essentially I havenāt learned anything or know anyone useful. We have tried the only strategy that could work and we failed at that too so the answer has to be Gareth Ainsworth.ā That was the moment I nearly despaired of this club, more even than when we were relegated to League One. If we pour over every decision made by a club of course there will be things some donāt like - I know you have a principled objection to the non-releasing of contract lengths - but on the available evidence I think, at the very least, Nourry deserves the benefit of the doubt, his management-jargon, nonsense-laden press releases notwithstanding.
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