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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 10:34 - Jan 9 with 1558 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 10:05 - Jan 9 by Lblock
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
I agree his demeanor in the dugout is of a man who wants to be somewhere else.
I don't know what he's like with the players during training and if he's a good coach or not really, I think in some games he's set us up really well, I think back to the win at Chelsea when he worked on a real plan on the training ground and for the next few weeks we looked a proper team, i was quite surprised and impressed with that but it's not something that's happened very often since.
I don't think we have much of a plan in games and I'm not sure about the shape of the team either but despite all that results have been pretty decent for the last 2 months and we're not in a bad position so he can't be all bad. The players all seem to work hard for each other, no real lack of effort in the majority of games so the players must be reasonably motivated. That could all change in the next few weeks but I just think all press conferences are bland so can't get worked up when Redknapp looks bored in them.
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 10:53 - Jan 9 with 1522 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 10:34 - Jan 9 by daveB
I agree his demeanor in the dugout is of a man who wants to be somewhere else.
I don't know what he's like with the players during training and if he's a good coach or not really, I think in some games he's set us up really well, I think back to the win at Chelsea when he worked on a real plan on the training ground and for the next few weeks we looked a proper team, i was quite surprised and impressed with that but it's not something that's happened very often since.
I don't think we have much of a plan in games and I'm not sure about the shape of the team either but despite all that results have been pretty decent for the last 2 months and we're not in a bad position so he can't be all bad. The players all seem to work hard for each other, no real lack of effort in the majority of games so the players must be reasonably motivated. That could all change in the next few weeks but I just think all press conferences are bland so can't get worked up when Redknapp looks bored in them.
Most press conferences are bland I agree .I suppose we are lucky ours are enlightened by H's spin on things..
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 09:57 - Jan 9 by Northernr
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.
Great set-up, killer punchline.
‘morbid curiosity about where this is all going’
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 11:01 - Jan 9 with 1515 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 13:15 - Jan 8 by Hunterhoop
It's not a case of getting a response, the players have been excellent. I can't get any more out of them...We've got the best out of the players and you can't get any more."
What utter utter rubbish!
There is no way whatsoever that all of our players are playing to the best of their abilities. That is absolute b*llocks. Surely EVERYONE can agree with that?!
And, if you can't get anymore out of the players, Harry, why are we continuing to employ you?!?
If that's not justification for removing him I don't know what is! He's admitting this is as good as he can get them. So, if we want to improve at all, he's basically admitting we'd need to employ someone else to manage them.
I know he's making that statement to make out like our squad is weak and he needs more players (it's always more players), but honestly, what absolute cr*p to say they we can't get any more out of these players! Redknapp might not be able to do, but I'd wager practically any other manager worth his salt could very quickly.
The guy is a dinosaur and a moron. He needs to go. I pray we win on Saturday, but he still needs to go.
"It's not a case of getting a response, the players have been excellent. I can't get any more out of them...We've got the best out of the players and you can't get any more."
What utter utter rubbish!"
Spot on and we should all been furious about such a ridiculous statement.
Do all our crosses reach their target (assuming the target is not row Z)? No!
Are all our shots on target? No!
And that's just for starters. Redknapp is one lazy b@stard.
There is plenty of work still to be done on the training ground.
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 13:14 - Jan 9 with 1402 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 14:12 - Jan 8 by Northernr
With the usual disclaimer about not reading anything into these nonsense things, as somebody who has sat through every one of them for a season and a half now, I found that quite dispiriting. Redknapp came across as thoroughly pisd off, clearly doesn't think we'll survive without more signings and is basically going to hammer that point home all the way through to the end of the season. Pisd off with the training ground, pisd off with the loans, pissd off with the budget. Also at pains to point out that this is all these players have got, he can't get anymore out of them and neither will anybody else.
Thoroughly depressing 15 minutes.
Since the day he walked into our club, he has regarded us a small club who are well beneath him and who will never achieve anything. He has never had any faith in us or taken any pride in being our manager.
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 13:21 - Jan 9 with 1379 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 16:23 - Jan 8 by kropotkin41
I have tweeted Ruben Gnanalingam to ask him to watch this press conference.
I'm not going to stop tweeting him examples of Redknapp's performances either. This is ridiculous. If he's half as bad as that with the players we're going to get absolutely tonked against Burnley.
The oft used refrain about not wanting to be in the trenches with someone certainly applies in this case........ I mean feck King and Country as far as I'm concerned, but how much worse would it be with Redknapp by your side? Gawd!
Good on you!
Redknapp is an example of how a person will try to take ther p1ss if they are not properly supervised by their employer.
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 13:28 - Jan 9 with 1367 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 00:18 - Jan 9 by JAPRANGERS
HR just comes over as a bored depressed old man.
True but your sentence would be more accurate if "man" were replaced with "multi-millionaire"...
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 13:36 - Jan 9 with 1348 views
Little Boy Vargas and other tall tales - 'Arry's pre-Burnley 'presser' on 14:48 - Jan 8 by daveB
Until I watched this clip I thought the 'presser' was something cleverly written by NorthernR, based on recent events.
I have no idea, until I watched this clip that it is created from a transcript of the press Conference.
The fact that this Loveable East End Barrow Boy actually says what is written is astounding - as are the lame excuses he trots out - and yes he really does slurp his tea.
I couldn't watch the whole clip as I had a bilious attack of some magnitude.
What I don't understand is why he gets no criticism from fans at our home games.
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