Sacking Warburton may not be the answer – and QPR players need to take responsibility
West London Sport’s Dan Bennett and Ian McCullough discuss the worrying situation at QPR, where Mark Warburton’s future as manager is in doubt following a run of eight matches without a win.
They discuss whether changing the manager would be a good move for Rangers – and the options Warburton has as he looks to turn things around.
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29/12/2020 @ 2:15 pm
until warburton still in as team manger qpr will be in free fall i think the players are un rest in the way he have them playing league one will be at the club until the owners have the bottle to sack him may be Tuesday night this is last game get Nigel Pearson in
29/12/2020 @ 11:20 am
THERES ONLY ONE MAN TO SAVE US AND PUT THE CLUB BACK TO HOW ITS SUPPOSED AND NEEDS TO BE. BUT SADLY HE’S NOW THE MIDDLESBOROUGH MANAGER.
29/12/2020 @ 10:51 am
You need stability in the team,keep the manager,with money that’s available to him hes doing his best,the fault lies with the players they need to take responsibility on the field and have pride in wearing a club shirt.
29/12/2020 @ 9:25 am
Yes, the buck stops at the manager, but it should also extend much further upwards to the board. The current batch of players, are, in my view only 1st Div players at best (with a few exceptions). The latest crop of newbies efforts supports my theory admirably, Some call them carthorses, but the only carthorses here are the manager & above, we can all see it, why cant they. A score line of 6-0 is forecast but I think it could well be far greater than that.
29/12/2020 @ 12:26 am
Chris Buckley is correct that all the budget should have been spent on a defensive midfielder enforcer, and left and right backs, but it is Warburton who is at fault as his strategy has always been based on out scoring the opposition rather than win ugly and park the bus. Kevin Keegan famously used the same method at Newcastle United and was unapologetic about it. The issue is being able to get the maximum out of the players you have rather than attempt to mould them into something they aren’t. The team are not capable as results and performances show to WIN.
And when Plan A doesn’t work, have a credible Plan B and C that the team know and can switch to when a game is going the wrong way. That is game management and something that QPR managers have failed dismally on, Warburton, McLaren, & Holloway have all struggled with adapting to a changing game. Nigel Pearson won’t come, we can’t afford him and why the hell would he want to !!
28/12/2020 @ 11:52 pm
He has lost the players,it is easy to see that;he has to go asap
28/12/2020 @ 11:10 pm
We need to go out and get defenders who know how to defend,it’s not all warburton’s fault the talent has to be there in the first place and it is not at the moment.no point scoring 2 if your letting in 3 or 4
28/12/2020 @ 10:01 pm
I listened to Dan Bennett and Ian McCullough’s chat, and whilst it was professional and balanced from a journalistic perspective, it wasn’t an accurate reflection on where QPR are. I also watched the Swansea game and QPR were not good in spells gents.
Playing keep ball and shifting it side to side does nothing more than make the half time stats look pretty ! ONE shot on target is the only stat or observation that is needed.
Acsrjjp is correct. The buck stops with the manager. Whether it’s tactics, motivation, stubbornness, player power, contract negotiations etc etc, a manager manages. Or in the case of Mark McWarburton his abject mismanagement. An ill judged and stubborn belief in the Scottish element of the team. Kelly, Wallace & Dykes The Carthorse have all been found wanting and only by default rather than good management have we found a keeper in Dieng who actually seems to care and enjoys playing. I had hoped that the Swansea result would force the issue, but no, so now The Loftus Road Faithful await another tanking from Norwich tomorrow to affect change.
28/12/2020 @ 9:55 pm
Every manager has strengths and weaknesses and it is difficult to spot anyone else who is available and ticks the boxes just now. Warburton seems to be doing an ok job of coping with a shrinking wage bill. The team can play entertaining football in a style which supports a ‘develop and sell’ strategy but which seems to fail in the crucial matter of gathering points. He is no fool, whatever the real half wits on twitter think. But it doesn’t matter what else he achieves if R’s end up getting relegated.
28/12/2020 @ 9:44 pm
The Norwich game will be a 6-0 loss and will lead to replacement of the Manager. Mark my words.
28/12/2020 @ 8:01 pm
The Buck stops in only one place with one person, Warburton has failed in every aspect of his managerial duty, the team are only as good as the man driving them on, coaching is non existent,motivation is not present, basically he couldn’t manage a good fart,SACK HIM or the only answer we will have is Division one!