| Holloway Press Confrence 12:09 - Jul 31 with 3623 views | daveB |
Holloway press conference this morning, video can be viewed here https://www.qpr.co.uk/videos/interviews/ian-holloways-pre-reading-press-conferen
Quick summary though
Really happy with the fitness of the players, they have all worked hard and all in better shape than they were last season
Still work to do on the shape of the team as some players been unable to train but after trying several ways of playing out have settled on one way which he feels will get best out of this squad. Tried to play as he did at Blackpool and palace but that doesn’t suit these players
Delighted to have Ariel back, seems a lot fitter and showing a great attitude. I didn’t give him a chance last season but he’s looking good.
Caulker is also back in training, situation with him is well documented, has a lot of problems but wants to come back and work and get playing again.
Cousins and Hall both injured, always have injuries but transfer window makes it difficult as you have to put a squad together to cope with injuries and you never know where you will get the injuries. Transfer window isn’t workable, fine for a premier league team to rack and stack a squad but very hard further down. Looking to add to the squad but won’t say which positions or who as that’s disrespectful to his current squad.
Hall is a key player for us and we need to learn to win games without him, Caulker will be a big help in being a defender who can bring the ball out of defence.
Gutted for Cousins, got to try and look at the cause of it and will have to wait a while to see the best of him.
We’re not in Neymar or Lukaku but we need to get ourselves right rather than worry about how many signings we are going to make, more about getting best from this squad.
We created some very good chances at the weekend which was pleasing but also need to improve on some areas of what we did on Saturday.
Have a meeting with club today about transfers etc but it’s not about who we sign, all about who we’ve got.
We’ve got a Polish international who struggled last year but is in a much better place now, Massimo and Pavel also have a world Cup they want to be at next summer so a lot of talent and hunger in the squad that we need to get the best out of.
We’ve tried a few different things in pre season but have now settled on how we are going to play and we’ll get better and better at it the more we do it. Pre season have to mix the team up and make sure everyone gets game and gets fits. Saturday first time he was able to play Lunogo, Freeman and Scowen in the team together and they’ll get better the more they play together as will Ariel. Need to understand when to press, when to break etc, did it well at times but needs a lot of work. Believe that we’ll get stronger the more we play.
The fans at the weekend saw the team work hard and chase all game, wasn’t always at the right times but can’t fault their efforts and he wants that from the team every week.
On it being a tough start he said he's been told in the past he wouldn’t get 10 points in a season so not worrying about it, We're trying to change things, going to be a long hard season but can’t wait to get started and prove everyone wrong
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 12:17 - Jul 31 with 3594 views | BklynRanger |
Thanks for that Dave. This talk of a settled team and formation is encouraging. |  | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 12:28 - Jul 31 with 3554 views | bob566 |
thanks Dave.
Sounds like he's a bit worried about who will put the ball in the net with the neymar and lukaku reference.
Good to see he's happy with the fitness. |  | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 12:45 - Jul 31 with 3480 views | simmo |
Cheers Dave, some mostly positive points there, especially reinforcing the facts that we have to concentrate on the existing squad rather than just replace with transfers.
"Still work to do on the shape of the team as some players been unable to train but after trying several ways of playing out have settled on one way which he feels will get best out of this squad. Tried to play as he did at Blackpool and palace but that doesn’t suit these players"
- Pleased this has finally been addressed (potentially anyway), but a little annoying it's taken this long to work it out and that we've only played 1 pre-season game with the preferred system. Especially as we essentially wrote off a lot of the end of last season with experimentation.
- Happy with Scowen, Luongo and Freeman as a midfield 3, perhaps this means Manning won't be first choice but also good that he can cover CM and the left side of the pitch. Wouldn't be surprised if young Ryan is 1st choice LWB before too long |  |
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 12:51 - Jul 31 with 3458 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 12:28 - Jul 31 by bob566 |
thanks Dave.
Sounds like he's a bit worried about who will put the ball in the net with the neymar and lukaku reference.
Good to see he's happy with the fitness. |
As they say, you snooze, you lose.
If he hadn't been pissing around in Portugal, he could have got Lukaku in, settled, scoring and all for only £75m as well.
Now, because of his procrastination, we're in a fight with PSG and it looks like we're going to have to pay north of £180m for Neymar - probably more if the pound keeps heading south.
Honestly, at times I really do think he's the most frustrating idiot known to man. No apologies from me Ollie, you've got no one else to blame, but yourself for not tying down one of our main summer targets before now. |  |
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 12:52 - Jul 31 with 3455 views | TheChef |
"Have a meeting with club today about transfers etc but it’s not about who we sign, all about who we’ve got. "
I like this too - working with and improving on what we have, rather than the usual recent QPR method of 'sign another bunch of players' which to be honest has not worked. |  |
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 13:04 - Jul 31 with 3414 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 12:52 - Jul 31 by TheChef |
"Have a meeting with club today about transfers etc but it’s not about who we sign, all about who we’ve got. "
I like this too - working with and improving on what we have, rather than the usual recent QPR method of 'sign another bunch of players' which to be honest has not worked. |
If, and it's such a bloody big if, Caulker were to get his fundamentals sorted and returned to the team, then that could really make a difference at the back. As I say, big bloody if.
If leaking goals is a concern, so is scoring them. Here, Rs will need to do a lot of work getting the midfield able to defend one second, break with purpose the next. Tough ask all season on that front; nothing really suggests MS/CW will plunder goals at will, and I'm not sure Ollie likes IS/YN.
I've just read the Stan programme from Saturday. We have 30 players listed in our First XI squad, which was more than AFCB, but in our division and our situation, 30 is surely way too much?
So yup fella you're right, it's going to come down to coachin' and poachin'. | |
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 13:08 - Jul 31 with 3384 views | Northernr |
I suspect Caulker, as he did 12 months ago, will come back looking like a million dollars and playing out of his skin. If so, let's see what happens after the transfer window closes if he's still here.
Much more encouraging words from Ollie today, suspect Ian Taylor has had a work in his shell about certain comments that don't 'play well'. |  | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 13:17 - Jul 31 with 3334 views | Phildo |
Definitely think Manning can do a job on the left and is versatile if you need to re jig during a match. |  | | |
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 14:30 - Jul 31 with 3139 views | DejR_vu |
Still sceptical, but let's hope he proves all us doubters wrong. We start with low expectations for once, hopefully come May we can look back on a good season and some positive progress. | |
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 14:55 - Jul 31 with 3071 views | vegasranger |
So the clubs ethos of all the teams from first team through the youth teams playing the same system has been laid to rest? With one week to go he has now found the system for the group of players. This is the same group of players ( bar Scowen ) that he has had since January !! | | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:04 - Jul 31 with 3052 views | Northernr |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 14:55 - Jul 31 by vegasranger |
So the clubs ethos of all the teams from first team through the youth teams playing the same system has been laid to rest? With one week to go he has now found the system for the group of players. This is the same group of players ( bar Scowen ) that he has had since January !! |
Don't get too attached to it, probably have changed by this time Saturday. | | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:15 - Jul 31 with 2989 views | BklynRanger |
We seem to have some genuine cause for hope as far as the midfield goes, as long as we're not trying to play with loads of width all the time. We'd need to get a left winger for that wouldn't we?
But the idea of relying on Caulker would never work - he can't even rely on himself. And we desperately need another forward.
I do think it's possible we might surprise ourselves to some extent, be a bit more cohesive and competitive than we've had reason to expect. | | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:21 - Jul 31 with 2955 views | SimonJames |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:04 - Jul 31 by Northernr |
Don't get too attached to it, probably have changed by this time Saturday. |
and then again the following week. |  |
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:30 - Jul 31 with 2900 views | daveB |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 14:55 - Jul 31 by vegasranger |
So the clubs ethos of all the teams from first team through the youth teams playing the same system has been laid to rest? With one week to go he has now found the system for the group of players. This is the same group of players ( bar Scowen ) that he has had since January !! |
It's also the system they played from January to March until Hall got injured | | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:34 - Jul 31 with 2882 views | BostonR |
I bet the new system is based loosely on hoofing the ball up to Matt Smith and see what happens next! God help us. |  | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:56 - Jul 31 with 2828 views | paulparker |
why are playing a system we don't have the players for ?
if we are going the trendy 3-5-2 route surely we need a specialist left wing back and a specialist right wing back , if anything the last couple of seasons as shown us is that perch and bidwell are not those players , Robinson is never fit and furlong is just starting out and learning his trade , I love olly but I get this horrible foreboding feeling that we are going to waste Manning by playing him as a left back |  |
| 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
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| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:58 - Jul 31 with 2828 views | robith |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 12:28 - Jul 31 by bob566 |
thanks Dave.
Sounds like he's a bit worried about who will put the ball in the net with the neymar and lukaku reference.
Good to see he's happy with the fitness. |
That's quite a stretch |  | | |
| Holloway Press Confrence on 15:58 - Jul 31 with 2822 views | enfieldargh |
Nice to see Olly looking well and not drawn and haggered. |  |
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