| Gaffer on tomorrow preview 23:33 - Feb 17 with 1737 views | bosh67 |
https://www.qpr.co.uk/videos/i
The one thing I like about Critchley is that he is crushingly honest. He doesn't give any excuses at all, unlike others. The injury situation is now critical. If he gets fired it will be more about what he didn't have to work with than what he actually had. He's a very likeable person and I wish they had got in someone like Gallen alongside him to actually be the loud voice because that is what is missing with him. He is a very quiet humble man and right now that isn't what's needed.
That said the Boro game will go 2 ways. We are expecting a hammering, particularly with the increasing injuries to the squad, but this is QPR so I am really hoping that we really surprise Boro, get the points and give Critchley and the rest of us something to hang on to. |  |
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| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 23:40 - Feb 17 with 1713 views | Rangersw12 |
100% agree. He seems a very decent person and been given an awful situation
Problem is if what Clive said in the preview is true then he's fighting a losing battle already [Post edited 17 Feb 2023 23:41]
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| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 00:21 - Feb 18 with 1627 views | stainrods_elbow |
| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 23:40 - Feb 17 by Rangersw12 |
100% agree. He seems a very decent person and been given an awful situation
Problem is if what Clive said in the preview is true then he's fighting a losing battle already [Post edited 17 Feb 2023 23:41]
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He may well be a 'decent person ' you'd have a cup of cocoa with - many people are - but that pre-match interview I found about as likely to help us win on Teeside as quicken the pulse of a corpse. Talking about drawing the 'positives' from Sunderland, it veers from purblind cliche to facile football formulae to state-the-bleedin' obvious before we kick a ball up there in, if not anger, our usual brand of straggly-legged commitment. WIth more excruciating silences than a Beckett play, it made me think of Sam's Endgame!
How long does he think a bad 'moment' lasts - one of those intensely irritating Italian/Spanish managerial imports to the English pro football lexicon - before it really ceases to be a moment? As our 'moment' has lasted umpteen games since, what, October, I'd say it's more like a bloody saga!
That said, now watch us go and put on a defiant reargard action and win 0-1 off Dunne's arse cheek! [Post edited 18 Feb 2023 2:36]
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| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 06:05 - Feb 18 with 1475 views | QPROslo |
Thing is as someone else said he very likely isn't using his media presentation demeanour with the players. Unless someone here is able to watch training sessions nobody knows what he's like. I suspect there is a lot more steel and passion to him than we see on the sidelines or in interviews, and expect his assistants have the same. As I've said on other threads there is no sane or logical reason for the Board/ Club Management to reverse a sane considered long contract award to Crtichley after just 10/11 games in the turmoil he inherited, a large injury list and little scope to add to or improve the squad. | | | |
| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 09:29 - Feb 18 with 1304 views | Kensal_Ranger |
| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 06:05 - Feb 18 by QPROslo |
Thing is as someone else said he very likely isn't using his media presentation demeanour with the players. Unless someone here is able to watch training sessions nobody knows what he's like. I suspect there is a lot more steel and passion to him than we see on the sidelines or in interviews, and expect his assistants have the same. As I've said on other threads there is no sane or logical reason for the Board/ Club Management to reverse a sane considered long contract award to Crtichley after just 10/11 games in the turmoil he inherited, a large injury list and little scope to add to or improve the squad. |
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| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 11:07 - Feb 18 with 1211 views | Lblock |
The only reason for keeping Critchley in place is what difference would it make trap dooring him?
We’d be left with the ClownMafia choosing another Manager and their record is abysmal
The on and only reason anyone would want it is money and it’s no surprise to me that Critch’s appointment was delayed whilst he negotiated a longer deal with more dosh if sacked.
Personally I thought it was wrong to appoint someone so closely affiliated with Beale and who, apparently, nearly got the job before Beale….. second choice syndrome and all that.
Having watched his latest interview he looks completely and utterly lost. Do I blame him? Not totally but he appears to have given up on these players as an impossible task to galvanise them. He may inspire his pigeons to fly in a straight line but he comes across as someone who couldn’t inspire a cow to have a shit in a field.
My final question about Critchley is - how long did he spend in League One and does he know the ropes down there? Let’s hope so….. |  |
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| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 12:17 - Feb 18 with 1084 views | kernowhoop |
| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 00:21 - Feb 18 by stainrods_elbow |
He may well be a 'decent person ' you'd have a cup of cocoa with - many people are - but that pre-match interview I found about as likely to help us win on Teeside as quicken the pulse of a corpse. Talking about drawing the 'positives' from Sunderland, it veers from purblind cliche to facile football formulae to state-the-bleedin' obvious before we kick a ball up there in, if not anger, our usual brand of straggly-legged commitment. WIth more excruciating silences than a Beckett play, it made me think of Sam's Endgame!
How long does he think a bad 'moment' lasts - one of those intensely irritating Italian/Spanish managerial imports to the English pro football lexicon - before it really ceases to be a moment? As our 'moment' has lasted umpteen games since, what, October, I'd say it's more like a bloody saga!
That said, now watch us go and put on a defiant reargard action and win 0-1 off Dunne's arse cheek! [Post edited 18 Feb 2023 2:36]
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Moment by kernowhoop 17 Feb 2023 10:22The word is often mis-used these days, especially in football.
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| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 13:58 - Feb 18 with 966 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 06:05 - Feb 18 by QPROslo |
Thing is as someone else said he very likely isn't using his media presentation demeanour with the players. Unless someone here is able to watch training sessions nobody knows what he's like. I suspect there is a lot more steel and passion to him than we see on the sidelines or in interviews, and expect his assistants have the same. As I've said on other threads there is no sane or logical reason for the Board/ Club Management to reverse a sane considered long contract award to Crtichley after just 10/11 games in the turmoil he inherited, a large injury list and little scope to add to or improve the squad. |
There are many sane and logical reasons if you look at how he sets his teams up, how he has completely failed to inspire them, how the players seem confused by their roles, how he's unable to change a match at all once it has started. It felt like a logical appointment, but Tuesday night turned me - I have absolutely no faith he has the character to turn this around and lead this group of players (who of course also deserve plenty of criticism). |  |
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| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 14:23 - Feb 18 with 923 views | bosh67 |
| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 13:58 - Feb 18 by Antti_Heinola |
There are many sane and logical reasons if you look at how he sets his teams up, how he has completely failed to inspire them, how the players seem confused by their roles, how he's unable to change a match at all once it has started. It felt like a logical appointment, but Tuesday night turned me - I have absolutely no faith he has the character to turn this around and lead this group of players (who of course also deserve plenty of criticism). |
Hard to argue much. I also came away from that game having watched the bench and thought, there is so little going on here. I came out of that game thinking he's got to go. But then after a few days I have been thinking who replaces him and would they get more out of the bare bones we have? If we lose today and he goes, who actually comes in and changes it? | |
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| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 15:13 - Feb 18 with 869 views | R_from_afar |
| Gaffer on tomorrow preview on 11:07 - Feb 18 by Lblock |
The only reason for keeping Critchley in place is what difference would it make trap dooring him?
We’d be left with the ClownMafia choosing another Manager and their record is abysmal
The on and only reason anyone would want it is money and it’s no surprise to me that Critch’s appointment was delayed whilst he negotiated a longer deal with more dosh if sacked.
Personally I thought it was wrong to appoint someone so closely affiliated with Beale and who, apparently, nearly got the job before Beale….. second choice syndrome and all that.
Having watched his latest interview he looks completely and utterly lost. Do I blame him? Not totally but he appears to have given up on these players as an impossible task to galvanise them. He may inspire his pigeons to fly in a straight line but he comes across as someone who couldn’t inspire a cow to have a shit in a field.
My final question about Critchley is - how long did he spend in League One and does he know the ropes down there? Let’s hope so….. |
“it’s no surprise to me that Critch’s appointment was delayed whilst he negotiated a longer deal with more dosh if sacked”.
How do you know this? Wasn’t it because contracts needed to be negotiated for both Critchley and his two coaches?
More importantly, how do you know he keeps pigeons?  |  |
| "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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