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Want to know how many players we're still short after three solid years of multi-million pound transfer deals? Want to know how difficult it's going to be at Burnley on Saturday? Want to know what a good team Sheffield United are and how many Premier League teams they've beaten recently? You're in the right place. We're sort of live from 9.45ish.
In he comes, bold as brass, rubs his hands together, says good morning to Andy, takes a massive slurp of tea. And it's live.
Errrrm not sure about injuries. One or two knocks. See how we go this morning. Looking at it out there we're struggling, the groundsman says the pitch is under water, we've got a ten yard strip to train the team on. We haven't got anywhere else to go. It's a problem. Not ideal is it? Everytime it rains they get flooded (excuse #1) we'll have to see how it goes in an hour or so. (Joe Jordan walks past with a bucket with a hole in it swearing loudly)
We've taken Zarate on loan. Hope he does well for us. Bags of ability. Lovely fascist. Loves his mum. Not close to doing anything else at the moment.
What Sam said, at the moment he's got Valencia, Carroll, the boy Sakho is it? Scoring for fun. And Carlton Cole. I can see where Sam is coming from (unplesant image), my situation is different, 've got Charlie and Bobby Zamora, different when you have four. I've got two. We need him to make an impact.
Difficult to spend big money in January. We bought some in during the summer, now we're looking for loans. When you sign in January on loan you're taking gambles. If you're signing Bony from Swansea you're not taking a gamble, he's top quality, he's £25m. If people are loaning them out there's a question mark, you don't loan him out unless there's a reason. (He's not happy). You don't loan players out at this time of year. It's an absolute gamble.
I'd take Salah on loan, I don't think he's available on loan, I'd never thought about him until you just mentioned him there.
Tough game. Big game. Burnley came up last year. Leicester ran away with it, Burnley chased em, we came up through the play offs. They're a good outfit.
Sean has done an amazing job with them, difficult game, we've got to be ready, it's a big game for us, really looking forward to it, we have to start picking up away from home.
Danny Ings an outstanding player, came from Bournemouth. Vokes came from Bournemouth. Vokes scored against Tottenham. They're both from Bournemouth. I've watched them develop. Both good players. Bournemouth.
Ings is in Under 21s doing well, great if they did, not up to me, up to somebody else.
Sky's wnk off question is about Ched Evans, thinly veiled.
people make dreadful mistakes in life, go in prison, murdered somebody or whatever, a lot of them come out, some of them you wouldn't want to see come out, once you've done your time you've done your time, at some point you've got to come out and make a go of your life. If the lad is a footballer what does he do? If he works in a supermarket people will say there's rapist at the supermarket. Has to have a chance in life somewhere doing something. Lad who drunk drove wiped a family out back playing, another killed a guy and fled the scene back playing, what does he do with his life? Got to go somewhere and work. Has to carry on with his life. Difficult. Lots of issues.
No opinion on the growing financial crisis in the EU. Have to speak to the chairman, I don't deal with the money.
Ajax lad? Sigurdsson, Sigthorson, Sigbordson, I don't know, he's Icelandic. (actual quote) That was a while ago. Nothing at the moment.
Not involved in Charlie's contract. Don't know where we're at. I don't deal with that.
We're all down there scrapping away trying to stay in. Lots of them. Played Villa, Palace, Leicester, West Brom at home, had a big run, it went well for us. Now got to get points away from home against these teams.
It's an advantage for them now, playing at home, everybody would rather play at home. We need to up our away form, if we don't it's going to be difficult.
Both teams know each other, we came up with Burnley, they know us, we know all about them. At the end of the day it's about good players. No magic formula to winning the game. PLayers have to be at their best.
Sandro is coming on. After the Man Utd game there's a break (otherwise known as FA Cup fourth round day) and he'll hopefully be back at Stoke.
I made a lot of changes, changed the way we played, it didn't work. I've got players coming back this week. It's not a case of getting a response, the players have been excellent. I can't get any more out of them. If you said you can have 19 points at this point I'd have taken that. Not disapointed with where we are. We've got the best out of the players and you can't get any more.
I don't blame the lads who came in, we tried something new, it didn't work.
It's difficult to know what will keep us up. Just got to keep picking up points and see where we end up. Sighs. Seems bored.
The training ground is waterlogged apparently. The dome over the pitch is not available today, somebody pulled the pin out and its deflated. We'll have to go out and splosh through the puddles. We're training whether they like it or not.
We're looking at loans. You can only have two from this country so we haven't got a lot up our sleeve. We'll see what we can do.
Cue the dry ice, strike up the band and pray silence please for Kevin Bondy Bond.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 19:29 - Jan 8 with 2368 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 12:18 - Jan 8 by bosh67
I don't think the squad is that bad. Sure it has had injuries but the planning has been terrible from a management perspective.
We go up with one good striker and one hero/crocked veteran striker.
We get no other strikers but we do get a loan of Vargas, who like many foreign players, probably take a good season to adjust, if they ever do, to the climate and level of pace of football here. We then tell him he's a winger, which must have been news to him.
We have Hoilett and Phillips. Phillips has never played at this level to any extent and looks like a good Championship player and perhaps a sub option and Hoilett is relentlessly played down the left wing where he cannot cross from the byline because he can't kick with his left foot. So everyone knows he has to cut in. We don't have a right winger who has the guile and brain to put in the crosses.
We have no supply to the 2 strikers we have so they feed on scraps, we have no playmaker in the middle to link up play since we lost Faurlin. We have Fer so we play him as a wide left midfielder rather than a central playmaker, because at the moment he is the best option in that position. He too is right footed.
We then bring in Mutch and he doesn't know what position he is meant to be playing or why. But play him at a Lampard style midfielder through the middle and he may do something and come good. But the policy is to have him floating around somewhere behind the strikers or over on the right. Neither position he knows.
Our one left wing player, Traore, who can occasionally cross with his left foot we play at left back where he is hopeless or we put him on the left wing as an emergency filler, when he hasn't played competitively for weeks and looks totally off the pace and clueless. We also could recall Andrade, who despite only being in his 20s can cross with both feet. God forbid we consider that.
We have needed more strikers for 2 seasons and done nothing about it, apart from Hitchcock, who, being under 30 we shipped out as soon as he dared to score a goal on his debut.
We then have Sandro who has regularly won the Matty Rose award for injuries for about 3 seasons. Undoubtedly a good player but a massive risk when that is the player you are depending on to shore up the midfield.
So, are we getting the best out of our players? Not really. I am surprised we don't play Charlie in goal. I thought we were when McCarthy missed the cross at the weekend and Charlie was our deepest line goal line marking defender.
If we can't cross to the forwards we need to play a diamond formation and play through teams with strength and pace. We have half of that.
For me we have nothing at all going down the left. So we need a dedicated left footed left winger who can cross. We need to play Mutch/Fer in areas that they are used to rather than this strange self zonal positioning they seem to have.
We need two more strikers to vary the attack options and style. Okay, we have Zarate, so we need one more. Do these strikers have to be outcasts from fellow Prem clubs, no. We have proven that with Charlie and whilst Harry says where do you get strikers from, then there are a few at least in lower divisions with the ability to make the step up. Better we look for English strikers because they don't have to settle here, get used to the weather, they just have to get up to the pace and touch at this level.
So, bottom line, look at talent in the lower divisions and play what you do have in the positions the players are designed to be in.
It ain't rocket science.
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absolutely brilliant post; makes you realise just how inept and limited our management team actually are.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 20:33 - Jan 8 with 2282 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 20:33 - Jan 8 by daveB
He did say they would get out be able to train
what did you make of Redknapps press conference crap then daveb , didn't even you think it was pathetic! A tired bored man, and that's just me watching him.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 21:05 - Jan 8 with 2228 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 20:49 - Jan 8 by WilloW4
what did you make of Redknapps press conference crap then daveb , didn't even you think it was pathetic! A tired bored man, and that's just me watching him.
same as usual and same as most press conferences these days, dull questions followed by dull answers, i don't think he looked or sounded too different to any of the other ones this season possibly baring pre liverpool when he looked under pressure and came out fighting.
I watches a few on sky tonight, all the managers looked and sounded bored and spoke a lot but said nothing.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 23:34 - Jan 8 with 2104 views
My mate just sent me this text, and I quote.." Just seen Redknapps press crap for the burnley game, blimey mate, he put about as much effort into that as I do during a wet fart after 15 pints of Guinness '.... It might not be Wordsworth or Shakespeare, but made me smile.
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 21:05 - Jan 8 by daveB
same as usual and same as most press conferences these days, dull questions followed by dull answers, i don't think he looked or sounded too different to any of the other ones this season possibly baring pre liverpool when he looked under pressure and came out fighting.
I watches a few on sky tonight, all the managers looked and sounded bored and spoke a lot but said nothing.
Sorry Dave, but I just don't agree with that. Probably my biggest gripe with Redknapp is actually his demeanour. I'll leave his lack of tactics, "style" of play, training, bringing in the youngsters, lack of future planning etc etc etc to the rest. What grates me more than anything is his demeanour. Although I don't watch other post/pre match press conferences and interviews I am pretty damn sure that Harrys are the most depressing. He looks utterly disinterested. He has absolutely no "feeling" for QPR, that's obvious. He is completely negative and provides no optimism and / or fighting talk. He has to be the least inspirational manager I've witnessed and that includes Houston. He comes across as he couldn't give a flying fcuk and I can't believe that there is any other Premier League or League manager, for that matter, that comes across as badly as him. His performances on the touchline, in general, reflect his "attitude" as do a lot of his teams performances, especially away from home.
Some of the most important assets of being a manager are to be positive, inspirational and convincing. Redknapp, unfortunately, provides none one of the above.
I realise this has turned into yet another anti Redknapp post however, I'm not asking for him to leave, I just want, as I posted elsewhere, him to do enough such that we don't get relegated and then he can leave. He is so not what QPR need or want and I find it painful everytime I have to listen to him.
He's actually turned out to be the opposite of Warnock (in more ways than one!). Warnock wasn't liked before his appointment but turned it around based on his teams and his personality and his enthuiasm. Redknapp was liked and respected from a distance (ok by some!) but came to us and yet he quickly managed to change all that.
I'm surprised there's so many posters on here who seemed shocked at that presser. He's been that way from the first time he walked through the door. I stopped watching them ages ago because they were so depressing and more than likely full of lies ,exaggerations and excuses. Like Clive say's H is upping the ante now with the start of the window so these pressers will only get worse as the month drags on.
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 14:28 - Jan 8 by Hunterhoop
If he was my employee and had said those things, I'd would get rid of him immediately. Compromise agreement, pay him off, happy to make it look like it was his decision. Anything to get rid.
If we can justify spending money on signings and big salaries because safety is worth £60m, we can justify paying 6 months off his contract. Having a "leader" of a large team saying those sorts of things and being that negative, defeatist and miserable is sure fire route to failure.
He (and every manager) should always be looking to the teams they've got. They should always be driving for improvement. Redknapp, in an effort to justify bringing players in, is effectively throwing his hands up in the air at the resources he's got and giving up.
If you were a really bolshie manager you could just about put a case forward that, in the working world, those sorts of comments and that approach is tantamount to gross misconduct.
As far as I can see, Redknapp exhibits no leadership qualities whatsoever. This can't have been the case his whole career. He's clearly lost the motivation and desire to do this job anymore.
Can't argue with much of that.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 07:32 - Jan 9 with 1991 views
Spoke with a scum supporting work colleague yesterday and mentioned football as ever plus specifically Candle Faces presser. He contrasted with Moaniniho who combines that "they are all out to get us" siege mentality with subtle motivation and protection of his players. He must've gone off and watched Candle Faces video as he text me this overnight "Fck me mate you've got the bstrd love child of Leonard Cohen, Morrissey and Pinnochio running your club!" I'm loathed to give a scum fan any credit but he's spot on. I just can't make my mind up if he's talking specifically about Redcrapp or individually about The Fun Boy Three aka 'Arry, Bondy & Joe
HUGE game tomorrow now I said he was playing Russian roulette with away games as as soon as we didn't win a couple of home games a bundle of knives would be out.
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 07:35 - Jan 9 with 1991 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 02:46 - Jan 9 by FredManRave
Sorry Dave, but I just don't agree with that. Probably my biggest gripe with Redknapp is actually his demeanour. I'll leave his lack of tactics, "style" of play, training, bringing in the youngsters, lack of future planning etc etc etc to the rest. What grates me more than anything is his demeanour. Although I don't watch other post/pre match press conferences and interviews I am pretty damn sure that Harrys are the most depressing. He looks utterly disinterested. He has absolutely no "feeling" for QPR, that's obvious. He is completely negative and provides no optimism and / or fighting talk. He has to be the least inspirational manager I've witnessed and that includes Houston. He comes across as he couldn't give a flying fcuk and I can't believe that there is any other Premier League or League manager, for that matter, that comes across as badly as him. His performances on the touchline, in general, reflect his "attitude" as do a lot of his teams performances, especially away from home.
Some of the most important assets of being a manager are to be positive, inspirational and convincing. Redknapp, unfortunately, provides none one of the above.
I realise this has turned into yet another anti Redknapp post however, I'm not asking for him to leave, I just want, as I posted elsewhere, him to do enough such that we don't get relegated and then he can leave. He is so not what QPR need or want and I find it painful everytime I have to listen to him.
He's actually turned out to be the opposite of Warnock (in more ways than one!). Warnock wasn't liked before his appointment but turned it around based on his teams and his personality and his enthuiasm. Redknapp was liked and respected from a distance (ok by some!) but came to us and yet he quickly managed to change all that.
All these press conferences are the same, people say what a great character Mourinhio is but 99% of the time in his pre match press confrence he looks like a walking corpse, mumbling about how great everyone else is and how his team are going to find it hard, he only comes alive for the big games.
It was no different when Redknapp was at Spurs, he'd say how good everyone else was and talk about new players and lack of numbers from december to Jan 31st. It's standard manager blah blah and I find it amazing that anyone takes it seriously.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 07:47 - Jan 9 with 1967 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 20:33 - Jan 8 by daveB
He did say they would get out be able to train
Redknapp said: “We’re struggling to train this morning. The groundsman is saying that all the pitches are under water, so we have something like a 10-yard strip in which to train. “It is not easy. We don’t have anywhere else to train at the moment. It’s a problem and we are just hoping the rain will stop soon. “It’s not ideal to have pitches that flood when it rains. It’s a problem.”
Then the club post a video of the team training on a full pitch. Sounds like they need to get the story straight before Redknapp goes telling lies to the press.
It's not even the lies that frustrate me more the defeatist attitude that Redknapp has which is slowly creaping into the players' mentality.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 07:59 - Jan 9 with 1956 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 07:35 - Jan 9 by daveB
All these press conferences are the same, people say what a great character Mourinhio is but 99% of the time in his pre match press confrence he looks like a walking corpse, mumbling about how great everyone else is and how his team are going to find it hard, he only comes alive for the big games.
It was no different when Redknapp was at Spurs, he'd say how good everyone else was and talk about new players and lack of numbers from december to Jan 31st. It's standard manager blah blah and I find it amazing that anyone takes it seriously.
Lol
Nice try Dave.. One of these two gives loads of f'cks.The other one struggles to hide the fact he gives one.Even if said f'ck is flying..
come on hardly comparing them as managers but Mourinhio in most of his press conferences says very little. He only ever comes to life when they play Arsenal as he knows he can wind them up.
All managers say very little, these things are a complete waste of time designed to fill a 24 hour news station. When Holloway was manager they used to do relaxed interviews with him on QPR world which were must see every week, when he had to do the weekly sky thing at Blackpool and other clubs even he ended up looking bored and tired.
Lets be honest all managers have to be bland in these things if they ever say anything with passion or what they really feel it's all over the papers of them losing the plot. Sherwood spoke his mind at Spurs and was branded a lunatic, Redknapp had said what he thinks twice in press conferences, both times he was full of passion both times it caused no end of problems first with Bosingwa and then with Taarabt.
Pick any team in the prem at random and watch their press conference, they will all be the same following the same rules.
1- Compliment the other team 2- Don't say anything to upset or motivate the opposition 3 - say how hard everything is, plead for more players 4 - never say what you really think
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 09:39 - Jan 9 with 1889 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 07:47 - Jan 9 by traininvain
Redknapp said: “We’re struggling to train this morning. The groundsman is saying that all the pitches are under water, so we have something like a 10-yard strip in which to train. “It is not easy. We don’t have anywhere else to train at the moment. It’s a problem and we are just hoping the rain will stop soon. “It’s not ideal to have pitches that flood when it rains. It’s a problem.”
Then the club post a video of the team training on a full pitch. Sounds like they need to get the story straight before Redknapp goes telling lies to the press.
It's not even the lies that frustrate me more the defeatist attitude that Redknapp has which is slowly creaping into the players' mentality.
He then said afterwards, But we'll be ok we'll get out and train no problem. Not lying at all just papers taking part of what he said to make it into a story
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 09:48 - Jan 9 with 1876 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 09:39 - Jan 9 by daveB
He then said afterwards, But we'll be ok we'll get out and train no problem. Not lying at all just papers taking part of what he said to make it into a story
Why say it then if its not totally correct. He says it for an 'out'. Another excuse. Watch out Dave the 'outs' and 'deep shrugs ' and 'shakes of the head' and the 'ards' and 'difficults' will be flying in the next few golden transfer window weeks...
He doesn't fancy it. After West Ham he was riled, even his mates in the press were questioning the safety of his job and Neville and Souness were tearing strips off his team. After that you could see he was a bit aggy and we produced our best performances of the season. But it seems since he won;t get all the investment he wants in Jan he's back to reality, he just hasn't got the appetite you need in this situation and it's showing.
ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 09:57 - Jan 9 with 1855 views
How about we see what the result is at Burnley? Might go up there and win, climb the table further. We'd all have taken our current position now, and we'd all take it at the end of the season. Plus, after all, "it's not tactics and systems that win football games, it's players", and our manager has been allowed to spend 15 times what Burnley have on players and we've got a whole load of full internationals at our disposal so we should pis it.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 09:59 - Jan 9 with 1854 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 09:48 - Jan 9 by Pommyhoop
Why say it then if its not totally correct. He says it for an 'out'. Another excuse. Watch out Dave the 'outs' and 'deep shrugs ' and 'shakes of the head' and the 'ards' and 'difficults' will be flying in the next few golden transfer window weeks...
he said it because Sky banter man asked if they would be able to train as the pitch was waterlogged so he answered him. Maybe it's him getting in an excuse early but it's seems a bit relentless this week with everyone trying to find new things to get angry about. Seems obvious many have been waiting for a poor home performance and result to let rip on here and they have this week, hopefully it's made everyone feel a bit better to get it off their chests.
Plenty to moan at Redknapp about but It just seems crazy to me that so many can get so angry about a press conference where next to nothing is actually said and we try and read into things that are not actually there.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 10:05 - Jan 9 with 1842 views
daveB - Give my love to Louise (you lucky bugger!!)
Let's agree these Thursday pressers are a waste of time and nothing can be read into them What about the whole "coaching" set ups demeanour outside of these? Post match Pre match The lethargy in the dug-out
Since day one CF has never integrated himself to the club. He constantly used reference to "they" and "the club" and "the players". Never us, we or my.
The words of great Paul Furlong echo in my head. He admitted when he came here first he thought it'd be an easy wind down to his career but soon realised he had to up his game. That admission and patent change in displays from him gave him more credit in my eyes. He caused himself a problem and fought it head on like a true professional man even though he was at the very arse end of his career Compare and contrast to Harry Mogodon
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 10:05 - Jan 9 with 1845 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 09:59 - Jan 9 by daveB
he said it because Sky banter man asked if they would be able to train as the pitch was waterlogged so he answered him. Maybe it's him getting in an excuse early but it's seems a bit relentless this week with everyone trying to find new things to get angry about. Seems obvious many have been waiting for a poor home performance and result to let rip on here and they have this week, hopefully it's made everyone feel a bit better to get it off their chests.
Plenty to moan at Redknapp about but It just seems crazy to me that so many can get so angry about a press conference where next to nothing is actually said and we try and read into things that are not actually there.
Sorry Dave ,the Sky man asked him how we are doing with injurys.H said not too bad BUT we aint got no where to train..Like I said another 'out' .In nice and early too.
>>>Plenty to moan at Redknapp about but It just seems crazy to me that so many can get so angry about a press conference where next to nothing is actually said and we try and read into things that are not actually there.<<<<
The happy clappers will just follow H whatever and totally deny ,deny deny..>>
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