Saturday 11 February 2012

Bring Back Warnock - QPR 0 Relegation Rivals 12

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, two crucial six pointer games played and no points returned. Half time against Villa seems a long, long time ago now. Had the Hoops held on to a victory there, they would have expected victories over relegation rivals Wolves and Blackburn. But instead of nine crucial points, lifting them to the threshold of safety, they have netted just one, and sit on level points with third from bottom Blackburn and just two points above bottom of the table Wigan.

What the hell happened at Ewood Park? How can any side ship three goals in 45 minutes against Blackburn? Well, any team with Ferdinand and Nedam at centre back and with Kenny in goal. I warned that QPR were ignoring defence at their peril when spending the big money on two strikers, and so it is proving sadly. Mind you, questions have to be asked of the offensive players too. The shot count stood at an incredible 25 to 7 in QPR's favour, yet they still contrived to lose the game! 13 of those QPR shots were on target but only 2 goals resulted; Blackburn netted 3 from 5, although I'm not sure if Nedum's goal counts in those shots statistics!

Meanwhile, Fulham's victory has pulled them 9 points clear of Hughes' charges, and the next game against another club he walked out on now becomes absolutely crucial, as is the clash between Wolves and West Brom tomorrow. The Rs must be praying for a draw there, otherwise Wolves will open up a gap or West Brom will pull clear. Three from six are reasonable odds, three from five really is squeaky bum time!

The Hughes honeymoon is well and truly over. He was appointed with a run of winnable games in mind but after a promising start with a narrow defeat at Newcastle and a win over bottom placed Wigan, the wheels have come off horribly. Back in October, I warned that the home draw against Blackburn was a warning that QPR were in for a season long struggle and the gRs growled with a vengeance. No chance with SWP, Barton and Traore, they insisted, and just wait for the January transfer window! Well who was right guys?

Of course, gRs will bemoan their luck and insist that Blackburn were outplayed. But as we discovered under Roeder, it's not always the three weakest teams that go down. And do you know, I reckon that with Warnock in charge, QPR would have won against Wolves and got a result at Blackburn too. Stick with a manager or twist, it's a difficult question. Who knows, even Wigan might make a fight of it now!

13 comments:

Phillip W said...

Fair comments, it's hard to watch at the moment. Tarabat still hasn't scored a goal in the Premiership either and has had something like 50 shots on goal this season, that's unbelievable after the season he had last year.

Anonymous said...

They just don't bite any more... think it's time to move on

Anonymous said...

knew you would go back to your qpr fix.when i heard they were 3 down why dont you let it go,true hammers fans dont care.after all we have our own team to worry about

Hammersfan said...

They are not biting because they know I am right and was right all along. What are they going to do, come on here and apologise?

Anonymous said...

If u rite enough shit your going to get lucky some where along the line we don't here much from u when your wrong u prick do we

Anonymous said...

Judging from MOTD, even when Mackie got his 2nd goal, none of his team mates celebrated. They look adisjointed & demoralised side.

Anonymous said...

seriously stop writing about QPR....i just shake my head at how sad you really must be

Anonymous said...

23.45 Saw that too! Dont remember ever seeing that kind of reaction. Its obvious a lot of those players knew this was a winnable game that was there for the taking but they have nothing left mentall. This is the first time all season I think we will get relegated.
Also, thought Orr's celebrations were sickening, he was all over the yak and the first to celebrate with him. Same for second. Absolute total disrespect to a club that took him out of bristol city and gave him his opportunity.
HF , dont agree with your comments above simply because if you write enough, its acceptable you will get parts correct. We are not west ham neither, nor have we similarities, very vague your comparisons over the last few months and could be done with most clubs.
Irish R Galway

Anonymous said...

Onuoha played right back you ignoramous! Problem is the lack of Passion from #clubcaptain barton et al. We need more Jamie mackies and less prima donnas.

Hammersfan said...

Yes, I appreciate that 1428 and talk about it in my article today. Must admit that I assumed, having bought the guy, that Hughes would play him in his proper position. Avram buggered around putting square pegs in round holes and boy did that cost us! Mess around like that, and it is a passport for relegation. Your players are barely good enough in the roles that they specialise in, play them out of position annd you are asking for trouble! But if you only have EIGHT defenders to cover four positions, there will be times when triangular and square pegs are in round holes.

Anonymous said...

I'm rather flattered that you spend so much time writing about us. I mean, i don't agree with anything you say because most of the time you talk utter bull and is occasionally 'cringingly' badly written. Not that i expect anymore from a west ham fan, or are you? Closet ranger? I think so

Anonymous said...

Hi 16.55, I'm a West Ham fan and I go to Cambridge. Would you expect anymore from myself? What a very uneducated little man you are

qpr-59yrs said...

qpr the truth.. if you do not concede you donot lose. unfortunalty we have a second class defence and what does barton give us? hes not the same player who would run through a wall for newcastle i would rather see derry play than philips or barton at least he gives 100 percent plus we dont have to read about the twitter crap!!