| GA podcast interview post sacking 11:16 - Nov 10 with 13371 views | sdm1508 |
I know there was a thread recently about Ainsworth and if anyone knew how he was doing. He's been in a podcast since so thought some might want to have a quick listen. Seems ok
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 11:42 - Nov 10 with 10670 views | BklynRanger |
I really do wish Wild Thing well but....too soon.
Maybe I'll give it a listen around Easter or thereabouts once the ptsd has died down. |  | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 11:50 - Nov 10 with 10623 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Looking forward to hearing this.
Let’s not have another Ainsworth is shite thread though. I think that horse has been flogged to death. |  | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 11:57 - Nov 10 with 10588 views | Northernr |
I'm interested to see what job he gets next.
I know I stuck the boot in a little bit last week, he lost me in Leeds frankly, but I am gutted for him and for us that it didn't work out. It was basically the worst case scenario we always feared whenever he was linked. |  | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 12:00 - Nov 10 with 10571 views | TheChef |
Wonder if the Oxford vacancy will be of interest?
Although for them it's quite an ethos shift from Manning to GA. |  |
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 12:14 - Nov 10 with 10507 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Long term, I think he has potential as a kind of John Still lower league / non league specialist. | | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 12:36 - Nov 10 with 10424 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Bennett was at Rangers at one stage. Not sure if he still is? |  |
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 12:56 - Nov 10 with 10296 views | SydneyRs |
He's gone so there is no need for another pile on.
He did his best and he cared, which is all you can really ask from anyone. I wish him well. | | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 13:04 - Nov 10 with 10259 views | connell10 |
What a great guy he is !! |  |
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 13:20 - Nov 10 with 10189 views | Loyalitat |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 12:56 - Nov 10 by SydneyRs |
He's gone so there is no need for another pile on.
He did his best and he cared, which is all you can really ask from anyone. I wish him well. |
I don't believe that there has been any concerted pile on by the fan base at all, considering he presided over a set of results and poor points' haul that ranks alongside some of the worst in the club's history.
The opprobrium levelled at Ramsey was infinitely worse and also that directed at Les Ferdinand, the latter being a legend of far greater standing in my humble opinion. Last season, Ferdinand couldn't go onto the pitch at half-time with some of that excellent team, of which he played an integral part, for fear of what would have happened. [Post edited 10 Nov 2023 22:04]
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 13:31 - Nov 10 with 10116 views | loftupper |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 13:20 - Nov 10 by Loyalitat |
I don't believe that there has been any concerted pile on by the fan base at all, considering he presided over a set of results and poor points' haul that ranks alongside some of the worst in the club's history.
The opprobrium levelled at Ramsey was infinitely worse and also that directed at Les Ferdinand, the latter being a legend of far greater standing in my humble opinion. Last season, Ferdinand couldn't go onto the pitch at half-time with some of that excellent team, of which he played an integral part, for fear of what would have happened. [Post edited 10 Nov 2023 22:04]
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 13:43 - Nov 10 with 10083 views | sdm1508 |
I posted this purely because he was a great player for the club and that we probably all thought it wouldn't work but hoped it would because of the man he is. He tried his best and loves the club. It's good to hear he holds no ill feeling and is doing ok it would appear | | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 15:20 - Nov 10 with 9793 views | londonscottish |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 11:57 - Nov 10 by Northernr |
I'm interested to see what job he gets next.
I know I stuck the boot in a little bit last week, he lost me in Leeds frankly, but I am gutted for him and for us that it didn't work out. It was basically the worst case scenario we always feared whenever he was linked. |
I don't think you stuck the boot in that hard; he knows the fans wanted it to work and he must have known it wasn't working, especially in those last games.
The fans home and away were brilliant to him the whole way through.
It's a shame but he's still a playing legend. |  |
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 16:50 - Nov 10 with 9500 views | numptydumpty |
Might not wish to listen to this but wish the man every success. |  |
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 16:56 - Nov 10 with 9458 views | Benny_the_Ball |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 13:43 - Nov 10 by sdm1508 |
I posted this purely because he was a great player for the club and that we probably all thought it wouldn't work but hoped it would because of the man he is. He tried his best and loves the club. It's good to hear he holds no ill feeling and is doing ok it would appear |
As much as I like the man, there's nothing more to add to what's already been said on countless similar threads. Good player, no doubt tried his best as manager, it didn't work out, his legacy remains untarnished, we move on. And, of course he's doing ok. [Post edited 10 Nov 2023 16:59]
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 16:57 - Nov 10 with 9461 views | DavieQPR |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 11:57 - Nov 10 by Northernr |
I'm interested to see what job he gets next.
I know I stuck the boot in a little bit last week, he lost me in Leeds frankly, but I am gutted for him and for us that it didn't work out. It was basically the worst case scenario we always feared whenever he was linked. |
Not the worst really. He is still held in quite high esteem, as a person, by the supporters. |  | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 18:06 - Nov 10 with 9300 views | Shev |
For anyone who does not want to listen, a little run down.
1. He starts off by saying he still wishes QPR the very best and wants the club to succeed. He understands why he was sacked. Last Saturday was his first out of the game since the late 1980s! He spent it with friends watching....QPR (on TV).
2. A lot of the interview is simply him narrating his career from youth footballer all the way to managing QPR.
3. Spends a decent amount of time on Wycombe (which I liked as a Wycombe fan) and some time on QPR, though obviously a smaller sample size. No bad words for QPR at all in the interview, apart from very mild "the club was struggling a little" comments.
4. At the end he gets asked about his future. A couple of clubs tentatively reached out already (my guess would be Bristol Rovers, Lincoln or Grimsby) but he is not ready yet. He wants to learn guitar and possibly spend a holiday season at home. Long term he is open to anything, including L2 and abroad. | | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 22:24 - Nov 10 with 8876 views | Hoopsie |
We had a thread about Ainsworth’s mental health, which was a concern having seen him looked so battered when he left QPR compared to 8 months ago when he was at the “top of the world” when he first arrived at the club
Delighted to report he is looking better, a bit more refreshed and certainly healthy (probably doing some fitness and exercising as he said this is his way of coping with stress)
All good words for QPR, remembered fondly of his time here as a player and definitely was disappointed as much as the fans that things didn’t work out for him as manager for the club, wishes the club all the best as he is also a fan
Interesting that he explained the way it worked for him at Wycombe, the culture that was instilled at the club and the family they have had, when everyone has the back of everyone including the manager being picked up by players sometimes when things were down and how he had “generals” that protect this culture in the form of senior players and even young players, and players of different backgrounds (for eg different ethnicity) backing each other. Dobbo is with him from the beginning of his managerial career and is completely the opposite to his positive and enthusiastic extrovert self, being more of an introvert and thinker, a check on him when they needed to discuss issues like getting a player to come in, whether he was any good or suited the club. Definitely the things he managed at Wycombe cannot be easily replicated in another club due to the number of years he has had at Wycombe to develop the culture and get the buy in from everyone at the club including owners and the fans. Am sure this is how he would have wanted at QPR and also the thing that he will continue to build on if he so manage another club in the future.
Also, with a couple of rejections from his early playing career, when starting out at Blackburn and also at Preston, when he was told he wouldn’t make it as a pro player, he said to never give up and continue work hard at what you wanted to achieve, and pointed out that in 4-5 years (actually 6 years on when first released by Preston) from his early years setback he was a premier league player, Wimbledon paid 2 million pound to Port Vale for his service
He is still Port Vale’s most expensive player, 500k paid to Lincoln in 1997 and also the player with the highest transfer fee received (2 mil from Wimbledon) in 1998.
Something tells me he wouldn’t so easily give up on players like Willock and Richards, just a feeling
Credited John Beck as the one of the most important person (if not most) that influenced his career both as a player (mental side) and manager (culture)
Top guy, wish him well for his future endeavours [Post edited 11 Nov 2023 3:31]
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 22:49 - Nov 10 with 8817 views | Shev |
The ideal ending here for everyone is that the new manager keeps you up, and you can look back on GA as a decent guy who (technically) kept you up last season and though it did not work out, no lasting harm was done to either party. | | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 23:01 - Nov 10 with 8783 views | kensalriser |
Gaz is a decent bloke, no doubt about that, but I think he got institutionalised at Wycombe and just wasn't able to adapt quickly enough. |  |
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 23:38 - Nov 10 with 8723 views | bosh67 |
He was a good guy whose heart was always in the right place. He did also inherit a total sack of sh*t from top to bottom so I think even his fiercest critics will one day realise that.
I do feel, given proper time that Marti may be able to sort it out. Let's hope. |  |
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 23:44 - Nov 10 with 8715 views | SydneyRs |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 13:20 - Nov 10 by Loyalitat |
I don't believe that there has been any concerted pile on by the fan base at all, considering he presided over a set of results and poor points' haul that ranks alongside some of the worst in the club's history.
The opprobrium levelled at Ramsey was infinitely worse and also that directed at Les Ferdinand, the latter being a legend of far greater standing in my humble opinion. Last season, Ferdinand couldn't go onto the pitch at half-time with some of that excellent team, of which he played an integral part, for fear of what would have happened. [Post edited 10 Nov 2023 22:04]
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Fair comment. I was probably referring more to some of the nasty stuff on twitter/X etc.
Ramsey in particular did get a lot of undeserved stick and IMHO that had a certain undercurrent that social media proves is far from absent among part of our fanbase.
Agreed on Ferdinand too. Got the blame for everything when it is becoming increasingly apparent that most of the worst decisions made at the club were nothing to do with him. | | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 13:43 - Nov 11 with 8364 views | DesertBoot |
He remains a legend as a player and I can see him at a top club in the National League. |  |
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| GA podcast interview post sacking on 00:06 - Nov 13 with 7985 views | QPRConor2000 |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 18:06 - Nov 10 by Shev |
For anyone who does not want to listen, a little run down.
1. He starts off by saying he still wishes QPR the very best and wants the club to succeed. He understands why he was sacked. Last Saturday was his first out of the game since the late 1980s! He spent it with friends watching....QPR (on TV).
2. A lot of the interview is simply him narrating his career from youth footballer all the way to managing QPR.
3. Spends a decent amount of time on Wycombe (which I liked as a Wycombe fan) and some time on QPR, though obviously a smaller sample size. No bad words for QPR at all in the interview, apart from very mild "the club was struggling a little" comments.
4. At the end he gets asked about his future. A couple of clubs tentatively reached out already (my guess would be Bristol Rovers, Lincoln or Grimsby) but he is not ready yet. He wants to learn guitar and possibly spend a holiday season at home. Long term he is open to anything, including L2 and abroad. |
Glad to hear he still loves the club, I hope we welcome him back to Loftus Road one day and remember him as Ainsworth the player, not the manager. | | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 04:04 - Nov 13 with 7827 views | CLAREMAN1995 |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 23:38 - Nov 10 by bosh67 |
He was a good guy whose heart was always in the right place. He did also inherit a total sack of sh*t from top to bottom so I think even his fiercest critics will one day realise that.
I do feel, given proper time that Marti may be able to sort it out. Let's hope. |
I think Marti has already sorted some stuff out bosh67 and that actually reflects even more badly on GA.
Getting clean sheets which were non existant under Gareth with exactly the same players show the power of change and maybe the new manager bounce finally can come to QPR.
Of course more worrying is the fact these players are willing to run through fire for Marti while they just added fuel to the fire under Ainsworth so its clear as day they quit on him.
Wrong manager at the wrong time just out of his dept so hopefully he bounces back but I suspect he will be struggling to get a new job anytime soon |  | | |
| GA podcast interview post sacking on 17:25 - Nov 15 with 7230 views | Wease1 |
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