Former Blades Manager in Premiership

[Bladesway]

Always said he was good at Championship level but cack in the top league. In spite of bottomless pits of money QPR find themselves down in the relegation dogfight. Be interesting to see who he brings in and if he comes knocking for any of our players (Monty!!!).

Also, its been interesting to see the difference from the man who was nice and smiley when they were mid-table and the gnashing/snarling hatefest that is starting to go on every time QPR lose a match.

Wonder if he will actually last January out at this rate? I would laugh like a drain if they binned him off.

 

[stannyblade]

Dont like him then Bladesway?

 

[Bladesway]

Dont like him then Bladesway?

How much I do (or don't) like him doesn't really matter. My opinion is he can't cut it at the top level and no matter how much money he does or doesn't spend all you will see are more pictures of Warnock in the paper with his head on fire, more referees coming under fire from him and more "it isn't fair" bollocks.

But no, I am not a fan.

 

[SwissBlade]

To be fair Barton didn't deserve a red

 

[JohnDenver]

To be fair Barton didn't deserve a red

In a karmic sense, he deserved it.

 

[Billyblade]

Said it loads of times that 2 of the biggest mistakes we have made in recent times have been not getting rid of Mr W as soon as we got promoted to the Premier League, and then not keeping him when we got relegated.

 

[Bladesman]

I agree he does seem to be struggling a bit now.

He still seems rather one dimensional with his squad setup.

I still don't think he will do enough to stay up.

 

[davidpinder]

I have to say i think he may get the sack. The owners will question Norwich and Swansea doing well and they haven't spent as much (at least i don't think they have) so Mr W has to be questioned.

 

[Bergen Blade]

Said it loads of times that 2 of the biggest mistakes we have made in recent times have been not getting rid of Mr W as soon as we got promoted to the Premier League, and then not keeping him when we got relegated.

Are you confident Bryan Robson would have got us safe?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

He's still got the fans' backing according to those Rs fans I speak to regularly, and a decent understanding with the owner. He'll be allowed to invest, won't be sacked, and I'd be surprised to see them go down. They need a decent defender and better options up front - they can't pin their survival hopes on Heidar Helgusson (though he has been surprisingly effective this season).

 

[Billyblade]

Are you confident Bryan Robson would have got us safe?

No. Neil Warnock kept the job as long as he did due to hearts ruling heads. If another manager had been appointed at the beginning of the season, more would have been expected of him and if that wasn't delivered it would have been bye-bye. That manager would not necessarily have been Bryan Robson.
Bryan Robson would have got us into the relegation zone, been sacked and someone better than Blackwell would have taken the job and kept us safe.

 

[oldblade]

Always said he was good at Championship level but cack in the top league. In spite of bottomless pits of money QPR find themselves down in the relegation dogfight. Be interesting to see who he brings in and if he comes knocking for any of our players (Monty!!!).

Also, its been interesting to see the difference from the man who was nice and smiley when they were mid-table and the gnashing/snarling hatefest that is starting to go on every time QPR lose a match.

Wonder if he will actually last January out at this rate? I would laugh like a drain if they binned him off.

Bit early to gloat. The season is only at the halfway point.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

Funnily enough I was reading an article written by a QPR fan this morning and the general feeling was that Warnock's transfer strategy of looking at young out-of-favour players such as Macheda rather than tried and tested players wasn't giving fans much hope. If you look at their fixtures, they have a horrendous run-in and the fans are basically saying that if he doesn't get it right in the next couple of months they'll be doomed.

 

[oldblade]

They might not need a very high points total to stay up. Looking at how poor some of the teams around them seem to be at the moment, the points total for safety may end up being very low.

 

[Bladesway]

To be honest OB, I'm not so much gloating as pointing out the mans manners. Its uncanny how brilliant he was at the start of the season, and now how crap the referees are and how his team gets all the bad decisions. Also interesting how he gets an out of favour bad boy (Brownie anyone?) and turns him around, although with this bad boy I don't believe he will/can. Also how he starts pinning his hopes on a lump it up hit man like Helgusson (who I am guessing he always wanted to manage). You couldn't get him off the radio earlier in the season yet you watch him drop off the map when things start going tits up.

My point is that no matter what the wage bill (his fans always said he worked with his hands behind his back) and no matter what the transfer war chest, Warnock will never be able to get the most out of players at that level. He will only ever get out of favour players because no one at the top level wants to play for him unless their shop soiled.

Oh and our biggest mistake wasn't sacking Warnock it was the twazzock we replaced him with.

 

[Darren]

Oh and our biggest mistake wasn't sacking Warnock it was the twazzock we replaced him with.

An interesting question: if when we sacked Warnock, we had appointed Blackwell rather than Robson, would we have gone straight back up? KB's record from Feb 2008 suggests we would have done.

 

[Grecian2000]

An interesting question: if when we sacked Warnock, we had appointed Blackwell rather than Robson, would we have gone straight back up? KB's record from Feb 2008 suggests we would have done.

It is, indeed, an interesting question.

My gut feeling would be that Blackwell only enjoyed his honeymoon period by getting Robsons players fit and through having nothing to lose (i.e. It weren't my fault guv he left me reet in the shit) so his complete lack of bollocks didn't show through imediately.
It's all academic on two fronts though. One, we all know what really happened and two, there would have been no sense in appointing Hoofy as a "like for like" replacement for Colin. McCabe wanted the kudos of a big name (no matter how far he was already flushed down the shitter) and so he would never have been in the running on that basis.

 

[Bladesway]

An interesting question: if when we sacked Warnock, we had appointed Blackwell rather than Robson, would we have gone straight back up? KB's record from Feb 2008 suggests we would have done.

For all his many issues Robson got the names in. Beattie, Naysmith, Hendry, Speed, Ugo etc etc whether they were actually any good or not, would never have touched us with a barge pole had Blackwell been in charge in my opinion. Like Warnock he was always a bits and bobs manager. So its not really a question you will ever be able to answer.

 

[raul]

An interesting question: if when we sacked Warnock, we had appointed Blackwell rather than Robson, would we have gone straight back up? KB's record from Feb 2008 suggests we would have done.

I didn't think Greatest Thing That's Ever Happened To This Club (No1) actually sacked GTTEHTTC (No2) though did he? Wasn't it just non-renewal of/offer of a new contract rather than a dismissal?

 

[Bergen Blade]

An interesting question: if when we sacked Warnock, we had appointed Blackwell rather than Robson, would we have gone straight back up? KB's record from Feb 2008 suggests we would have done.

When Blackwell came in he was a refreshing change from Robson who was boring everybody to sleep. If he'd replaced Warnock instead, I don't think we'd seen the same upturn.

 

[LSF]

Dont like him then Bladesway?

Nay Stanny! You've never felt Bladesway's hatred of all things Neil before? Only he could start a thread like that, he must be bored today or summat?

I think Mrs Bladesway knows (somehow?) that our Neil has a bigger cock than than Mr Bladesway, hence his bitterness towards Sir Neil....

 

[JJ Sefton]

For all his many issues Robson got the names in.

You could have given Dr Josef Venglos the money Robson had to spend and the 'names' would have come.

 

[beightonblade]

Gordon Brown wud have spent the money better than Robson !

 

[Grecian2000]

I think Mrs Bladesway knows (somehow?) that our Neil has a bigger cock than than Mr Bladesway, hence his bitterness towards Sir Neil....

I don't think there's a need for somehow in there. Colin is just one giant cock really isn't he?

 

[mickerz-blade]

Said it loads of times that 2 of the biggest mistakes we have made in recent times have been not getting rid of Mr W as soon as we got promoted to the Premier League, and then not keeping him when we got relegated.

I think your right.

 

[Bladesway]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI1nPd7hezM

You did hear it here first.

 

[sitwell]

Those semis ,play offs ,promotions, big crowds and all the excitement that came with it were thanks to a 'big cock' ? I'd take a big cock anyday for it all again because we have been so great since he left.
I wouldn't change Wilson though , think he is doing a good job.

 

[Rodders]

I'd take a big cock anyday.

Saved for future reference...

 

[Bladesway]

Those semis ,play offs ,promotions, big crowds and all the excitement that came with it were thanks to a 'big cock' ? I'd take a big cock anyday for it all again because we have been so great since he left.
I wouldn't change Wilson though , think he is doing a good job.

More to do with us replacing an average manager with shite though.