Warburton Gone - Official

Had one of those QPR crisis nights last night where I just couldn’t sleep for hours and then the alarm goes off and I realise I’ve had next to no sleep worrying about my football club again.

Couple of thoughts on it all

From the boards point of view they heavily backed Warburton last summer, as they did the year before in truth and safe to say not every transfer has worked. Good money spent on Bonne who was loaned out within a year after hardly ever playing. Last summer they pushed the boat out for Austin, De Wijs, Field and Johansen and from that Field has done well, Austin rarely starts games and has been poor, Johansen has been injured all season, De Wijs was injured and replaced by another player who has hardly featured and when he has been rubbish. Dozzell signed last summer as one for the future and replaced by Hendrick in January who offered no real improvement and replaced by Dozzell within 2 months leaving you thinking what was the point of that.
Even in an injury crisis where you have no right backs we still went with a loan player out of position ahead of one of our own in Kakay last week which is well away from what we’re supposed to be doing. Amos, Ball and Thomas off the bench and excellent against Blackpool to win us the game then not seen again for weeks or in Ball’s case ever again. The only striker we have scoring goals in Gray has sat on the bench for the last 4 games when we needed to win. He’s made some baffling decisions since February and as much as we want to dress it up we’ve not put in many good 90 minute performances all season. For all the stick the club are getting I don’t think it’s a bad decision to go for a fresh start in the summer. I’m so torn on it all I can see why they have done it but also think he’s done enough for another year. Still however you dress it up we’ve lost 8 of our last 11 games, no many managers survive that let alone get to leave with a handshake and the fans backing them.

The problem is of course who you go for and that list from the skybet page is terrifying. Some good managers out there who could build on what we have and do a good job for us but a lot more Steve McClarens who could have us back down the bottom of the table very quickly. I don’t really know who I want as manager next, always liked Karl Robinson and think Neil Critchley is a good manager and both fit in with the talk of wanting the same style of football. The fella at Huddersfield has done a really good job so might be an option if they don’t go up. It’s certainly a more attractive job for managers than it was 3 years ago.

This is very good, not only because he uses one of our graphs for analysis!

I had put it on Twitter, here it is:



I still think it shows how he took the club forward more than anything. Holloway and McClaren stumbled around 15th to 19th primarily. Aside from one good 10 game spell under McClaren (in the middle of the red section) we were barely in the top half for 2 years. Now the manager gets the boot for being 10th.

Yes Warburton has spent more, but that only because of players he's gained funds from losing players like Freeman and Furlong when he first joined, Eze the second summer etc.

Up until the very, very end of that green section under Warburton we were on an upwards trajectory. 

nobody is saying MW did a bad job in general during his years here

but you cannot get away with the mess he created at the end of the season

i will remember fondly the good football he had us playing but if it carried on he would have been hated massivley

he lost the dressing room and the powers that be saw what i saw

end of discussion

i can see the reasons the fans arent happy.....in general the job MW did has been very very good

but i can also see why the board are not happy (the exacts same reason i am unhappy)

i agree with the board

lets face it the end of season has cost him dearly was too alarming a drop in form (he lost the dressing room)

i know this for a fact

it will all come out in the open

Pretty much the same source that told me MW is a huge fan of Josh Windass yes

Quite an eye opening article from Dave Mc.

www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/behind-the-scenes-tensions-meant-warburton-was-finished-at-qpr-once-results-went-against-him?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

It seems Warburton and the powers that be haven't seen eye to eye for a while.

Whilst Warburton has made mistakes, I think he is right that the youth players aren't good enough.

The article insinuates that Les and co think Kakay and Hamalainen and Bettache are good enough, and didn't agree with Warburton that Barbet is a key man. That is concerning because I'm with Warburton on this one!