QPR assistant manager Mark Bowen was the guest on the Open All R’s Podcast this week addressing, at length, the club’s defensive woes, the possibility of being replaced by Harry Redknapp, and what the coaching staff are trying to do to rectify the current problems.
Bowen again pointed out the problems Mark Hughes has had with selecting a settled back four this season but did say: “I’m not going to sit and bullshit anybody, we’re all surprised and gutted with the way things have gone. We all wanted and expected better.”
He went onto say that despite the unsettled nature of the defence, the players involved should be doing better than they are. He said: “We pride ourselves with the work we do on the training ground, getting a group established with the way we want to play. When we go into the games we are fully expecting the players to deal with the situations they’re facing. I’ve spent the majority of the season so far beating myself up and wondering why the hell we can’t deal with corners and set plays when we did it fairly well last season. You keep working on it and hoping it comes right.”
And on the speculation linking Harry Redknapp with Hughes’ job, he added: “People talk in the media, you keep hearing, Harry Redknapp this and Harry Redknapp that. If you’re looking at facts and situations, the fact is Harry Redknapp took over Southampton in 2005 as the big saviour and took them down.”
The full, extensive interview is well worth a listen as he answers questions put to him straight from QPR fans about the club’s current predicament. Click here to listen to or download the podcast.
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