| Give Harry Some Credit 11:41 - May 27 with 3952 views | Bedford_R |
From Adrian Durham in the Daily Mail. Almost as shocked as when Bobby scored on Saturday....
It’s about time we all started giving Harry Redknapp the credit he truly deserves. His reputation remains well and truly intact as one of the best managers England has never had. Let’s not underestimate the job he has done at Queens Park Rangers.
A bunch of high-earning, under-performing players - a squad rotten to the core - has been shaken up and transformed into Wembley winners in a short space of time.
It reminds me of the incredible job Redknapp did at Spurs — taking them from the relegation zone to the quarter-finals of the Champions League in a flash.
When he took over, Ryan Nelsen - a senior player Redknapp considered the best at the club - came to him saying he was leaving, and telling the boss he had ‘no chance’ with the QPR squad because it was ‘the worst dressing room’ he had ever witnessed.
Eighteen months ago QPR had a player who chose to pay a fine of two weeks wages - £130,000 — rather than sit on the bench for a Premier League game.
In January 2012 Redknapp’s chairman signed a player for a huge transfer fee, put him on £100,000 a week, only for the manager to then find out he wasn’t fit and was ‘mentally fragile’.
Just over a year ago Redknapp had reason to believe an agent fed a ‘story’ to a newspaper to whip up more trouble in the QPR camp.
At the start of this season Joey Barton told his Twitter followers he would not be playing for QPR in the Championship. Somehow Redknapp turned this belligerent hate figure into a dedicated professional and a crucial part of their promotion picture.
The critics tried to pin the blame for the huge Rangers wage bill on Redknapp, when clearly most of the players had been signed under different management.
The Harry-haters laughed as Rangers flopped, and seized on their golden nuggets like: ‘QPR’s wage bill is bigger than Atletico Madrid’s.’
Redknapp didn’t sanction the wages — almost all the high-earners arrived before he did. And those on big money were awful flops who refused to perform and refused to move away from Loftus Road.
That criticism of Harry smacks of desperation, and yet I can’t quite work out why people seem to be so anxious for Redknapp to fail. His teams try to play decent football, and at Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Spurs he achieved unprecedented success in the modern era.
After a succession of players and agents were allowed to strip QPR of its money and its dignity, Harry Redknapp has restored pride in this terrific football club.
Redknapp arrived to find a dressing room full of bad players with bad attitudes on big money. That situation requires strong and clever management.
The fact that QPR now find themselves back in the Premier League tells you Harry not only got the stinking, sinking ship cleaned out and floating in calmer waters again, he’s also steered it in the right direction.
If you’re not prepared to give Harry Redknapp credit for that then your dislike of him is personal, and a little bit strange.
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| Give Harry Some Credit on 11:46 - May 27 with 3911 views | daveB |
he deserves credit no doubt about it but we're not going to get much due to our wage bill and age of the squad. |  | | |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 11:48 - May 27 with 3898 views | easthertsr |
Finally some sense from Durham, he's still a tw@t though! |  | | |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:28 - May 27 with 3790 views | westberksr |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 11:48 - May 27 by easthertsr |
Finally some sense from Durham, he's still a tw@t though! |
so in the phone in this afternoon he'll be the straight guy and the other will be the tw@t saying that we should relegated to the conference then.
i might actually listen to Talkshite this afternoon as the chelscum fella will be delighted with our return to the topflight  |  | | |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:35 - May 27 with 3743 views | paulparker |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:28 - May 27 by westberksr |
so in the phone in this afternoon he'll be the straight guy and the other will be the tw@t saying that we should relegated to the conference then.
i might actually listen to Talkshite this afternoon as the chelscum fella will be delighted with our return to the topflight |
the deluded tvvat was on yesterday bemoaning us going up
saying how we will be up for it etc when we play them, but then saying we still wont get a point against them next year |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:42 - May 27 with 3711 views | westberksr |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:35 - May 27 by paulparker |
the deluded tvvat was on yesterday bemoaning us going up
saying how we will be up for it etc when we play them, but then saying we still wont get a point against them next year |
unlike the previous 2 when had we played Chelscum every week we'd have qualified for Europe based on the points obtained in those games (artistic licence before anyone corrects me with opta stats!) | | | |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:47 - May 27 with 3687 views | DWQPR |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:35 - May 27 by paulparker |
the deluded tvvat was on yesterday bemoaning us going up
saying how we will be up for it etc when we play them, but then saying we still wont get a point against them next year |
Jacobs is a cock of the highest order and is stereotypical of the average scum supporter. Thinks that they are god's gift to football and that every other club should roll over and let them win. Bircham's wind up of the Knut after the 1-0 home win was as funny as it was embarrassing for Jacobs. Couldn't take the heat and f**ked off. | |
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| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:48 - May 27 with 3684 views | GetMeRangers |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:35 - May 27 by paulparker |
the deluded tvvat was on yesterday bemoaning us going up
saying how we will be up for it etc when we play them, but then saying we still wont get a point against them next year |
If it is Andy jacobs, he tweeted that they "Chelscum" might drop points against us and even mention the 0-0 and 0-1 he remembers from last time
Fair to say, they are not pleased to see us back - reigning West London Champions |  | | |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 12:57 - May 27 with 3641 views | N12Hoop |
Saw some of the comments posted on the mailonline in response to this article and it was a bunch of w4nkers saying that he had only written a nice article because he is mates with Harry and it's Harry's mates in the press who had vilified Hodgson when he took over at Harry's expense.
Of course none of this has fck all to do with us, but we are now hated by association. |  |
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| Give Harry Some Credit on 13:30 - May 27 with 3554 views | Alvarado |
"If you’re not prepared to give Harry Redknapp credit for that then your dislike of him is personal, and a little bit strange. "
He must be talking about his boss, Patrick Collins head of sport at the mail, who wrote a lot of critical stuff on Sunday about Rangers and Harry.... |  | | |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 13:38 - May 27 with 3515 views | Nov77 |
Andy Goldstein was saying last night that our win was tainted because gary o'neill cheated and deprived derby of £130m.
Jason cundy was sticking up for us.
No mention of the derby player cheating in the first half to try and con the ref into giving a penalty. |  |
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| Give Harry Some Credit on 13:42 - May 27 with 3497 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 13:30 - May 27 by Alvarado |
"If you’re not prepared to give Harry Redknapp credit for that then your dislike of him is personal, and a little bit strange. "
He must be talking about his boss, Patrick Collins head of sport at the mail, who wrote a lot of critical stuff on Sunday about Rangers and Harry.... |
This.
Sundays piece by Collins was particularly vitriolic. |  | | |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 13:50 - May 27 with 3468 views | Flex |
This is a shockingly poor article, and simply fuels the pro Harry rhetoric, and avoids highlighting his many flaws. Just because we've been promoted, don't let that plaster over the flaws.
Harry isn't a great manager, and he's not a crap manager. He's simply an average manager that has performed as well as his resources allowed him too. | | | |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 13:57 - May 27 with 3441 views | JonDoeman |
| Give Harry Some Credit on 13:42 - May 27 by CroydonCaptJack |
This.
Sundays piece by Collins was particularly vitriolic. |
Yeah he's a snide. Still wasn't as bad as the one he did on Warnock last time we went up! |  |
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