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If I may quote from another message board
Well done Mark Warburton
Finally a manager that makes Holloway look like a tactical genius

Absolutely brilliant and sums him up.

Even the most diehard Warburton Supporters must be wondering WHY after yet another awful performance yesterday.

Warburton has managed to...

Make a good team which scored goals earlier in the season into one which doesn't score or have any shape or movement.
Managed to weaken the team in January with the addition of Sanderson and Hendrick and failed to get a goalscoring forward when given the chance.
Made faffing around at the back an art form and has made Dickie now a very ordinary looking player.Even at 1-3 down we were still passing back and sideways.
Play the bottom club three times in a season and lose three times conceding seven and scoring two. That is tactical skill.

The players look without ideas and yesterday the writing was on the wall even before our goal as we twice narrowly escaped during the first few minutes so we should have realised they were pressing us.
Why take off Amos who not only scored the goal but looked our best player on the pitch As Steve R said to me that would have crucified him. Why put on Hendrick and Austin who are both doing very little now after long careers and do not contribute much or improve the play. Thomas may run around like a headless chicken but he does not understand the concept of scoring a goal.
I noticed that Westwood was trying to organise the defence several times in the game that should be sorted by the Manager.
We had one shot on target and that was our goal. The scorer gets taken off as a reward. They had eight shots on target and scored three and possibly should have had a couple more. I didn't hear it on the awful red Button coverage but the Peterborough fans must have sung can we play you every week!
They seem to and win every time as well.

We were warned by Brentford and Rangers supporters the way it would go and the Management should have listened. Maybe they will listen now as with some difficult games coming up I just can't see this awful run ending. If we continue to plummet we need someone new in now not in the close season to assess the squad and at least inject fresh ideas, you never know we may sneak into the top six, but I'm not holding my breath.

ESSEXURs wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 9:40 am Play the bottom club three times in a season and lose three times conceding seven and scoring two. That is tactical skill.

No, that's Rangers through & through; we always do the underdogs a favour!
And it's been that way for years - it's in our DNA.
I always dread playing teams in the bottom 3, and I'm usually right to.
A few days ago, I was talking to a (non-Rs) friend; he said that we'd win by a rugby score.
I said (only half in jest) we'd probably score first, then go on to lose 2-1 or 3-1.
If only I'd had a fiver on that....

But I take ESSEX's points on our overall & individual performances.
Why HAVE we started to concede the game after scoring first?
That's 3 times in the last 4 games - Reading are notorious for doing that,
we don't want to go the same way.
And, once we've conceded the lead, why are so many players reluctant to go forward
& try to score?? 2-1, 3-1 down & we were doing lots of nice triangles, lovely tippy-tappy stuff,
passing back to the goalie....but nothing that was getting us any closer to scoring.
Very frustrating.

His substitutions yesterday provoked a furious response from many R's fans...

Why would you take Luke Amos, Andre Gray off, etc etc etc, ridiculous,

We all know that he doesn't have a plan 'b', & he has clearly taken us as far as he can.

Yes, there were loud boos for the substitutions.
No Plan B? Even Plan A isn't working.....

One stat from yesterday, apart from the usual high proportion of 'going nowhere' possession...
......ONE shot on target

As far as Warburton is concerned I have still not forgotten the disaster of his first 16 months in charge at QPR FC. Some clubs would have sacked him then. Yes thereafter there was definite improvement but now we are going backwards.

Play off hopes have surely gone. A massive end of the season let down. Fulham Home. Sheffield Utd twice and Huddersfield away.....What Chance We will need a miracle of Biblical Proportions to get even one point from those 4 games.

Kerrins wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 11:35 am Play off hopes have surely gone. A massive end of the season let down. Fulham Home. Sheffield Utd twice and Huddersfield away.....What Chance We will need a miracle of Biblical Proportions to get even one point from those 4 games.

Don't go all Biblical on us, Bernard!
To return to my point about us always doing badly against lower-placed teams -
and you can accuse me of clutching at straws here -
the opposite is also true; we usually do better against the higher-placed teams.
So a decent return from those 4 games is by no means impossible.
Although that would require a massive improvement on both an individual and team basis,
so maybe not.
Mind you, does anybody want us to go up, with this squad & this manager??

The only good thing produced by going up would be the size of tv money we would receive and at least we would get our finances in order. Also we would get subsequent payments each season again.
I would accept a record low points haul for that!

You say that now, Colin; but I reckon you'd sing a different song when we're being spanked on a weekly basis!

Speaking on a personal basis I have always wanted QPR FC my club to progress upwards and have on field success no matter what the probable aftermath may be.

Ever since I was a kid at the R's from 1957 and onwards and at all levels I have often heard people say (and in some respects its understandable)....Its no use Rangers going up they are not ready.

That Philosophy is something I have never believed in. Not for me. Take Promotion from any division if and when you can is what I say.