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There are people that are total shitehawks, ones that you love, and ones that would never be your mate but are bloody good at their job.
I don’t think I’d get on with Warnock down the pub but I never asked to. He was a bloody good manager not just for us but a load of other clubs in crappy old stadiums and not enough money but which are the heart and soul of their little patch of scruffy streets, clubs and streets that noone else gives a sh*t about, from Notts County to Plymouth, clubs which are the lifeblood of football in this country far more than your EPL, clubs which are why football is in the DNA of our country, not necessarily more than, say Brazil, but uniquely so.
He’ll be a footnote in the history of English football and maybe even of QPR but without loads of blokes like him none of it would exist.
After the much-missed relegation-promotion indexes from Robith, maybe we should have an Impending Doom index. People could vote on their phones on a scale of 1-5 while walking up the South Africa Road.
The fact that he went from managing Kiddy to being our assistant manager was, I thought at the time, a great move for us and one of the things that gave me confidence in the QPR management of that era.
I rate him highly and, given that Derby are almost out of sight in our rear-view mirror while Blackburn are currently sat in the league spot which is the absolute height of our current ambition, I'm quite glad to see him making the move (less so if Derby massacre us on Valentine's Day, obviously.)
"And all the while, the hills were alive with the sound of Muslic. The new Plymouth coach may only have been in the job for a month, but already he has infused the club with the vigour so lacking under his predecessor Wayne Rooney. There is a kind of alpha magnetism to the bearded Austrian, a coach who talks a lot about “courage” and “balls”, who looks like the sort of guy who will try and sell you a 12-part online course on how to unlock your inner wolf."
Another good thing about this, is that it's another case of a good, unheralded coach (like Marti here, and Danny Rohl at Sheff Weds) outperforming so-called big name media darlings like Rooney or Lampard.
I suppose what I mean by "unwilling to do what it takes" isn't so much about charging around at high temp, it's more about mailing himself a key part of the team - which in his case would be about pulling the strings, pinging the ball out to willing runners like Smyth or Saito. That's what I'm not seeing and hoped for.
QPROslo may be onto something with the idea that trying to contribute more defensively has been detrimental (though if so that makes him a luxury this team probably can't afford.) Certainly there were some signs early on that he had something to offer, which have largely disappeared.
Less than a month ago people were slagging off the manager for picking Edwards in the FA Cup and using his selection as evidence that we were playing a weakened team.
Yeah, it might not be fair to say that Frey "woke up to" the need to run, I'm not sure he was fit enough to do that when he joined, but he's made bloody sure that he can and does.
I just don't get why Madsen has seemed so unwilling to do what it takes. He's really blown a chance here, because if you look at where we are despite our appalling start to the season you can see that thee's plenty of potential here but he's p*ssed away the chance to be the main man in this side.
(Pretty sure Varane is going to get lots more game time, btw. Very willing player and usually good value for his place when he plays.)
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