Genuine replacements then

[ragr]

I don’t think this is about players other than the inexplicable Willock situation. Yesterday felt like management froze at 0-2 when obvious changes were needed. No changes at half time. Team selection seemed to be more based on noisy fan and WLS posts than logic. Tactic of sticking. Chair wide left all game wasted what he’s good at. Only regular chance creator on the team. 4 at the back with personnel changes made no sense. Even WLS lost the plot on their marks with JCS getting a 7 in a defence that let in 4. GA just talking about work rate blah blah didn’t address the formation was wrong and the some players roles in it also wrong.

Those WLS ratings were very odd.

[ConorQPR2000]

Waiting until the 71st min to even make a sub yesterday was utterly shocking management.

I personally feel the only option is to get Warnock back until the EOS, get some stability, and then get a young manager in who can at least get this squad playing some decent football in the summer.

It does help that the season we spend a lot with transfers is wiped from our FFP calculations and we have 14 players out of contract at the EOS, so there is scope for a major rebuild next season.

Ainsworth needs to be moved on.

[Stanfan]

I don’t think this is about players other than the inexplicable Willock situation. Yesterday felt like management froze at 0-2 when obvious changes were needed. No changes at half time. Team selection seemed to be more based on noisy fan and WLS posts than logic. Tactic of sticking. Chair wide left all game wasted what he’s good at. Only regular chance creator on the team. 4 at the back with personnel changes made no sense. Even WLS lost the plot on their marks with JCS getting a 7 in a defence that let in 4. GA just talking about work rate blah blah didn’t address the formation was wrong and the some players roles in it also wrong.

[Undecided]

I think Eustace will tell us to sod off and I wouldn't blame him

Absolutely.

[topperharley]

Getting rid of those two has proved to be fatal. OK, didn't know Beale was going to leave, but imagine if he we still had Warbs and Eustace? They had us playing good football, plus Warburton had the football brain Ainsworth doesn't seem to have. OK, he was a bit stubborn, but if we had the perfect manager he wouldn't have been at QPR.

Warbs stubborness cost this club, if he'd been a bit more pragmatic we'd be building for promotion pushes by now the way things were going.

If we'd gone down last year, I wonder how we would look now. I said that staying up would just be a longer drawn out death, it's happening.

[Hoopsah]

Great shout .
How lucky we was to have him and warburton
together.

Getting rid of those two has proved to be fatal. OK, didn't know Beale was going to leave, but imagine if he we still had Warbs and Eustace? They had us playing good football, plus Warburton had the football brain Ainsworth doesn't seem to have. OK, he was a bit stubborn, but if we had the perfect manager he wouldn't have been at QPR.

[shaggy24]

I think Eustace will tell us to sod off and I wouldn't blame him

I still don't think GA will go I dont think the owners are that bothered if we do drop

[Kingaustin]

John Eustace? Almost certainly wouldn't come, but Birmingham are apparently, inexplicably, getting rid of him for Rooney, because the owners want a bigger name in charge.

Great shout .
How lucky we was to have him and warburton
together.

[Hoopsah]

John Eustace? Almost certainly wouldn't come, but Birmingham are apparently, inexplicably, getting rid of him for Rooney, because the owners want a bigger name in charge.

[Kingaustin]

IMO we need someone till the end of the season to keep us up then see who’s about at the end of the season .
My choice would be either warnock or big Sam
both dinosaurs but either will keep us in this league give them contract till end of season then we go from there instead of another rush appointment and handing out 3/4 year contracts

[ArcticHoop]

we all want attractive attacking football,but nowadays "attractive football" usually means keeping the ball just sake of it, slow building from the back etc. That´s not attractive to me, so if GA goes i really hope next man is a man of his word about attractive football

[Kingaustin]

Marti Cifuentes.
He wanted the job when Beale left last year.

We should have given him the job.
Speaks good English and plays attractive football.
Spanish coach who has coached in the UK and Holland.

Go and get him now.
Or give it to Warnock until the summer.
The trigger must be pulled on Ainsworth this weekend.

Cheers springbok

[Herts hoops]

I haven't been impressed with any manager since luigi de canio thing we need to go down the same sort of route

[Acton Stations]

I know some on here have positive things to say about Critchley, but to me it almost feels like we've been managerless since Beale left.

[ragr]

Do we have to take a run at a relative unknown?

Yes to that. The problem is that this isn't a great situation for an unknown to be in because of the complete uncertainty. Ipswich are obviously the great example of this with Kieran McKenna but they'd already had a few stabilising years in League One to rebuild and provide a platform that McKenna could use to construct the team and ethos he wanted. I guess that was our plan too with Beale but we still had that enormous financial shadow over us. One of the problems with having a few "old timers" in the team is how professional they are in ceding authority to a less experienced coach - you'd hope they'd be good with it, but.....

I agree with an unknown, but I suspect we need a custodian to get us to the end of the season because we're in a hanging on tooth and nail scenario and then appoint a more forward looking successor.