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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 15:11 25 Apr 2025
I sincerely hope so!
Can you put any more meat on the bone Markofthegrove? |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 13:58 25 Apr 2025
It is almost impossible to transmit tongue in cheek on the internet!!
With you on Hoos, I think he has done a good job overall for us.
I think if he had arrived at the club a few years earlier we would never have breached the FFP regulations [Post edited 25 Apr 14:01]
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 13:48 25 Apr 2025
Lol, different circumstances, Hoos response was justified to the 'fan' trying to wind him up and not accepting Hoos invitation for a proper talk.
Most fans backed Hoos at the time.
Twenty years ago I was in the pub with the then club chairman. When the subject of the owner came up the chairman told me, 'there is so much one can say but obviously can't.'
Different times I guess. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 13:27 25 Apr 2025
Nourry and Hoos will make their decision based on how unpopular it will make them with the fan base rather than taking football in to consideration. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 13:24 25 Apr 2025
Seriously? The Chairman of the football club is in the pub bad mouthing the club manager?
You couldn't make it up, I thought Hoos had a bit more about him than that. |
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Reply | Why are so many bashing Nourry ??
at 03:37 25 Apr 2025
I have lost count of how many seasons we have lacked numbers and quality up front. Most clubs are looking to add a striker to their squad making them an expensive commodity and out of our price range.
Thanks to the Profit and Sustainability regulations we are currently a selling club and we got good money for both Armstrong and Dykes neither of which were going to be the answer to our striker problems.
By the time Dykes left both Lloyd and Kolli had made their debuts for the club leaving us with four strikers. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 21:28 24 Apr 2025
Of course I agree with you to an extent but if Marti had achieved the same without the intense highs and lows I would be in full agreement. We are playing better football now, with a bare bones team, than we started the season with. |
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Reply | Why are so many bashing Nourry ??
at 21:11 24 Apr 2025
If it wasn't covered thoroughly in the Marti thread it was certainly covered around November time over several VERY long threads to which I contributed a little.
At the time I stuck up for Nourry, to an extent. People were calling for his head after a very poor summer transfer window, the balance of our squad and our league position. I pointed out that the previous transfer window had been a success and that it was unfair to sack someone for what was basically one mistake, albeit a big mistake.
I was missing the bigger picture. I hadn't got a problem with Nourry's age but wasn't fully taking in to account his inexperience.
You would struggle to find a National League football club who would appoint a young inexperienced CEO but QPR did as a Championship club. Really not a good decision. But we didn't stop there we also gave Nourry the Director of Football roll for good measure turning a bad decision in to a wreck less, bonkers decision from our owners.
Apart from the bad transfer window there has been other issues such as club communication and keeping Marti hidden from fan led media coverage. Apparently, he also tries to coach the team from the Directors Box. Nourry has done a lot to make himself unpopular with the fan base. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 18:32 24 Apr 2025
The Norwegian and Swedish Leagues are a lot weaker than the Championship of course.
However, as you say, data profiling and analytics rule these days and are the reasons that we recruited Marti in the first place. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 18:03 24 Apr 2025
You can break Marti's time at QPR in to sections.
1. Saved us from relegation last season.
2. Started this season terribly sitting bottom of the table.
3. Enjoyed a purple patch that saw us motoring up the table.
4. Crashed.
5. Recovered enough to avoid the drop.
People say that Marti is in demand but if I was a club owner I would look at that roller coaster ride and Marti would remain on my watch list!
Ignoring last season’s fine effort, there are plenty of factors influencing our 2024/25 season. The players, the backroom staff, club culture, style of play, recruitment, injuries, interference from above. The manager.
To add to this sometimes-bewildering mix Marti achieved section five with the majority of his first team missing and yet playing some attractive football, winning away.
There is no doubt in my mind that Marti is responsible for some of that roller coaster ride, both the good and the bad. Team selection, team set up and tactics.
Marti is a highly likeable guy and has plenty of credit in the bank for keeping us in the Championship the past two seasons despite the ride. He now has a season and a half's Championship experience. I am more than happy for Marti and Xavi to stay. As Clive keeps telling us, continually changing the manager achieves nothing.
I am sure that Marti would also like to stay, you cannot fake his Swansea ( Wrong, Oxford away!) celebrations. [Post edited 24 Apr 18:44]
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Reply | club
at 17:20 24 Apr 2025
Vardy should be looking for a final payday in warmer foreign climes.
No doubt he is already set for life but would want the same for his four kids. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 17:13 24 Apr 2025
Whilst not jumping for joy when the news broke about his Brooklyn Nets job and being based in Dubai, I wasn't too bothered about the Ben Williams situation given that our injury record last season was so good. I assumed that our Director of Performance was a man operating at the highest of levels, highly respected and therefore his services wanted by other sports organisations. I also assumed that from his Dubai base Ben would spend at least a week each month at our training ground which doesn't appear to be the case.
This season has been an injury disaster and as many others have said on here it can't be a coincidence that our injury record is excellent with Ben being present at the training ground and then abysmal when he is not around. In Ben's absence players such as Frey and Varane are picking up injuries whilst not playing in football matches.
This is a situation that cannot continue. Wasn't it mooted that Ben's based in Dubai situation was temporary? I appreciate that it could be a 'how long is a piece of string' question but surely the club would have a clue as to how long the based in Dubai situation is likely to last? If there is no indication of it ending this year then surely it is best for us to replace Ben and move on. |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 11:41 24 Apr 2025
Not like for like Dave. As a coach Chris was working with both the team and individuals.
It could well be that last year Ben Williams was working personally with individual players whereas this year other folk are implementing his instructions and information is being moved between London and Dubai.
Maybe Chair would have been available more often this season if Ben Williams had face to face meetings with him and not zoom calls. |
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