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This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season 11:37 - Mar 9 with 2426 views

Sort of feel that this season has fallen into a trough of where we were with Steve McLaren in 2018/19 season, poor start good mid point and drastic fall away in late winter/early spring. I hope like McLaren's contract there is an option to review and part ways with Stephan at the end of the season. To be honest I never really felt we should have let Warburton & Eustace go in 2022, they could have built something, but no the politics always gets in the way. Another thing there must be more to these injuries especially Chair, Poku and the new Coventry signing that they are just always injured?

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 17:04 - Mar 9 with 685 views

StrawberryHillR

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 16:57 - Mar 9 by Northernr
On the left back thing, the idea of Larkeche being your starting 40 game left back at this level covered by Esquerdinha was already mental before he got injured. It's not been good, but it's been a lot better than it would have been if they'd tried that.

Oh yeah, obvs, disaster waiting to happen, but it ended up being a different kind of disaster!

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 17:20 - Mar 9 with 619 views

nick_hammersmith

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 16:57 - Mar 9 by Northernr
On the left back thing, the idea of Larkeche being your starting 40 game left back at this level covered by Esquerdinha was already mental before he got injured. It's not been good, but it's been a lot better than it would have been if they'd tried that.

We've seen a few threads where RND is described as a steady Eddy 7/10 left back (when he plays)

I disagree.

I think 7/10 is his high ceiling not his median.

I assume he's on ex PL wages and would be at the top of our pay scale. The Championship has got better to offer, for a lot less.
-- More than half the teams we've played have had a better left back, and I guarantee most of them were cheaper

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 17:27 - Mar 9 with 556 views

nick_hammersmith

I just found a behind the scenes photo from CN's job interview

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 17:47 - Mar 9 with 483 views

daveB

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 16:59 - Mar 9 by terryb

TK1 posted this list on a different thread.

Physical performance coach
Performance scientist
Head of Analysis
Operation Analyst
Performance Therapist
Recruitment Analyst
Head of Recruitment
Director of Sporting Operations
Performance Physiotherapist x 2
Analyst
Head of Goalkeeping
Performance Therapist
Head of Methodology
Nutritionist
Performance logistics & Player Care Lead
Individual Development Coach
Head of Performance Services (ooh la la!)
Head of Integrated Services

Head of Defensive Coaching
Head Coach
First Team Coach

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Methodology Lead U17- U21
Academy Methodology Manager
Player Pathways Manager

I struggle to understand how any Championship club (especially one not receiving monies from the Premier League) can employ this amount of non playing staff. And 20 positions are listed above Head Coach! I do understand that might not reflect where the postion sits in the club hierarchy, but it feels that way at the moment! Every few years a club is relegated that was comfortably clear of problems & then stopped playing/trying. That shouldn't apply to us this year, but it's not easy to envisage where another win (or even a couple of draws) will come from.

Yesterday I made the decision to stay at home & watch on Sky rather than face bus replacement on Greater Anglia. A decision I never expected myself to make, but I'm pleased that I did! I think that shows my apathetic attitude to what is happening at Rangers currently & my lack of faith in our off the pitch management. Not that onfield management is inspiting me either!

I'm intrigued as to what the attitude of fans is at Birmingham & Leicester if we serve up the same as the last three matches. I suspect it wouldn't be accepted as readily as earlier this season.

Performance Therapist ha ha ha

I could do with a Therapist after watching recent performances

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 11:51 - Mar 10 with 209 views

PlanetHonneywood

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 16:59 - Mar 9 by terryb

That looks like film credits that run on for ages and leaves you wondering: do they really need all these people?

Next year we'll see a few more added to that list: Best Boy, Key Grip, and a position filled by Consuela Delos Santos from Manila, as our Executive Relief Officer.

I'd like to know what the likes of the performance scientist, performance therapist and head of integrated services (whatever the fook that is) make of it all?

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This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 12:46 - Mar 10 with 163 views

BAWHoops

Like the McLaren season there are some 'winnable' home games coming up

Pompey, Watford and Bristol City.

If JS doesn't win a couple of those I suspect Nourry will pull the trigger

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This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 13:13 - Mar 10 with 130 views

TK1

This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season on 16:19 - Mar 9 by Northernr

Yeh, I think both things can be true can't they?

Managers matter, and we saw that when we had Ainsworth versus when we had Cifuentes. Stephan is not covering himself in glory at the moment. There's some mystifying calls being made and his pre- and post-match comments are concerning. Would Kim Hellberg be doing a better job here? Probably yes. Would Cifuentes have done better this season with this squad and these strikers? I think probably yes too. Am I bothered whether he stays or goes for next season, at the moment not really. But I don't blame him, think it's his fault, or think it will get much better if and when he goes. I don't envy any manager working in this set up.

McLaren followed Ian Holloway and Marc Bircham here and I said at the time you were sacking a manager there who was parring the course and doing what was asked of him - shifting out big earners and bringing the wage bill down while retaining Championship status and getting some games into Bright, Manning, Eze, Chair etc. I said at the time you might realise what a good job he was doing in a year's time, and it's exactly the same with Cifuentes who performed an absolute miracle keeping this team up last season with the players available to him.

A better manager will move the needle for you, but ultimately while Christian is running the club that's your main issue, and will also mean a new manager really wouldn't be a lot different in style, profile or approach to the one we've got now. It would be another head coach rather than a manager, almost certainly French or from the French market, and the absolute litany of performance staff, methodology leads, sports science guys etc who have presided over this absolute sht show will still be here.

The change that should be made, and should have been made last summer, is an experienced director of football like Steve Gallen working alongside an experienced CEO/COO like Jim Frayling, like Mark Devlin, like the guy at Stevenage who was here before and has done good things there and at Orient. Streamline the organisation, strip out the reams and reams and reams of nonsense and poncy Jake Humphries job titles, get an experienced brains trust who know what they're doing and build out from there with their manager choice. One of the constants over the last ten years is, whether it was Les or whether it's Christian, is you've got somebody in that role who's never done it before.

Sign players and build a team whose first and foremost aim is to play well and compete for QPR. If they end up going somewhere else for big money, fantastic, and of course we need that to happen regularly, but the primary aim should be putting a competitive team on the pitch for QPR each week of players who want to be here. As soon as you start describing yourself as a development club, a stepping stone, "don't want players for whom this is their final destination", then that's how everybody sees it. Like some poxy little club you have to do some time at before you get to go and play for somebody proper. That's why we get to this point every season and it looks like this - half the squad missing, the other half on the beach, not going up and not going down but not enough of them arsed about QPR enough to want to get the result anyway and so they get beat every week.

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I'd copy and paste this and send it to the board, Ruben, sign it on behalf of LFW. I can't see a word of it that can be contradicted, a suggestion that would not improve QPR 26/27. And 26/27 needs radical improvement because a traumatic season feels in the post right now.

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