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Will this work ? God knows and to be quite honest I don't really care. Because after watching that interview Holloway has made me feel good about QPR again. Not since the Warnock/Taarabt season have felt this positive about the club.
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Holloway CONFIRMED on 11:47 - Nov 12 with 3723 views
"I used to take penalties at Bristol Rovers because I didn't trust anyone else to care like I did. I feel like that about this job.
I've painted a picture in my brain of the QPR badge up on a mantelpiece covered in gold. It needs to be looked after and worshipped. Like with the penalties at Rovers, I don't think anyone would care for that badge as much as I would." ___
"I want my players to relate to the people - otherwise football will slip too far away from the working man.
I'm going to try and make every player that puts on the Hoops shirt aware of how I, Les, and all the fans feel about QPR."
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Holloway CONFIRMED on 11:47 - Nov 12 with 3721 views
Listen to the way he talks about Sir Les. It is entirely in accordance with my view.
Sir Les as DOF, Sinton and Furs involved and Ollie as manager. We have our Rangers back!
It might very well not work out, but it will be US doing it.
Taken years off me this has. I even tried to goose the missus after I heard the news and that hadn't happened for a loonnng time.
Come on Sooopa!!!
Hard not to agree.
I was against sacking both of the last managers, thought it was too early and against what we had been preaching.
I'm sick of change and sick of being a circus, but this is very exciting, add Bircham to that list as it looks like he's incoming and it's hard not to smile.
Personally, I don't think we''ll be chasing promotion anytime soon but frankly who cares. We now have people who care as much as us and I'm sure that will become evident on the pitch.
We''ll still be the underdogs and a mid table champ team but it will be fun again. I'm confident fans will be much happier accepting our mid table status when it's fun and being run by people who care and are trying their guts out......... the scary part is the owners , I just don't think they will ever settle for mid table and I'm sure the circus will continue
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Holloway CONFIRMED on 12:47 - Nov 12 with 3608 views
I think after JFH trying to convince everyone that football management was rocket science. It might be nice to have a manager just playing players in their correct positions and letting them get on with it.
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Holloway CONFIRMED on 13:01 - Nov 12 with 3564 views
When the first suggestion that Ollie was a candidate came out, I was concerned by the manner in which his last 2 managerial jobs had ended. After Palace and Millwall he looked a broken man, who shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near a football club as manager.
However, a year away, albeit still involved in the game, seems to have rekindled his enthusiasm. I hope that's what he will bring to the club. I don't see him as a coach who will improve individual players significantly, but that enthusiasm should rub off on the players and the fans. We already have a decent Championship squad. If Ollie can get an extra 5-10% out of them, they will climb the table. In any case, it's likely to be more entertaining.
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Holloway CONFIRMED on 02:49 - Nov 13 with 3316 views
I think after JFH trying to convince everyone that football management was rocket science. It might be nice to have a manager just playing players in their correct positions and letting them get on with it.
This one always makes me laugh.
Firstly, the idea that football management is somehow not an incredibly difficult and complex job. It's easy - just play 4-4-2 and whack crosses in. Yep, that's all there is to it.
Secondly, the players in their correct positions thing. Said it on here before, will say it again, most managers look to get their best XI on the pitch and if that means two or three play outside of their favoured position, then they'll take that. The idea that footballers who have reached this level somehow become bereft of a clue once they're outside of their small area of the pitch in which they're supposed to operate is as bizarre as the longevity of the square pegs round holes argument itself.
Even the best managers in the world play players 'out of position' - Everyone insisted Lahm was a full back - until he was bloody brilliant as a holding midfielder under Pep. Everyone laughed at Macherano being a CB - except he's great there. Milner a left back? Not in a million years. Oh, except actually he's pretty damn good there.
And finally the idea that Olly will start playing everyone in their exact positions makes me laugh, because people must have very, very short memories... one of the major criticisms of him last time was exactly that he played people out of position (actually, it's a criticism of all managers, because they all do it):
Palmer at CM Bignot at RM or CM Rose at LB or CM Santos at CM or CF Langley at RM (although Ollie was spot on with that - turned out to be his best position there) Rowly as a dreaded inverse winger on the left Cureton out wide
Those are just off the top of my head.
Managers generally have good reason to play these players in different places. But it all seems so simple from our vantage point.
Bare bones.
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Holloway CONFIRMED on 23:50 - May 7 with 2791 views
Goes to prove, the heart ruling the head decision rarely breeds success. Feels like history repeating it'self all over again like when the fans called for Butch Wilkins as manager.
Never thought I'd see someone make a worse finish to a season then Gary Waddock managed and we all know what happened the following season. An element of Irony that the manager this time with that record is Holloway, the man Waddock replaced.
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