Inside The Boardroom

We need a new CEO first to make those difficult decisions, as has been suggested already Mark Devlin is an ideal candidate imo.

I know it’s your hobby to disagree with my posts but how can you say Beale didn’t lose interest? That’s exactly what he did after the Wolves thing and when he got wind of a chance at G Rangers. We’ll never know if he came into a shitshow that he didn’t expect to be so bad but it does look that way, and you’ve posted on the Stats thread how we were top with 30 from 16 which was a massive achievement as things have turned out. Talking of being unprofessional, I give you Warburton losing interest after January. And we were definitely worked out then.

Possibly the time he was told his contract wasn’t going to be renewed…?

over a whole calendar year we showed promotion form - unfortunately over the two seasons that encompasses there were two half seasons where we showed relegation form. MW fans conveniently forget all the posts about one trick pony, found out wherever he’s been, out thought tactically in a game with no plan B. The problem isn’t that we got rid of him (and who’s to say he wanted to stay with WHU sniffing?) the problem is the awful mess they made of replacing him. Nothing to do with our youngsters being poor, he wouldn’t have taken us further because he only delivered for half a season and teams worked us out easily.

I don’t think it’s going well, I think it’s a dreadful appointment. That’s my point. We needed to do better than Warburton. I know we hate him, rightly, but Beale played the possession game but quicker - that was taking Warburton’s game forward.

Agree with you and there was a sweet spot under Beale - but only for about six games - when he did seem to take Warbsball to a new level. Have never claimed Warbs was Pep. We all got frustrated with the passing it along the back line and then to the midfielder always facing his own goal who just knocked it back to the centre half. Beale made us play quicker, sometimes we lost it as a result but we also got it forward faster with purpose.

All that conceded.

BUT a) at our best under Warbs I think we looked better than at our best under Warty, as we were so free flowing and always looked like scoring, and b) yes I concede that warty was v gd and if he stayed he probably would longer term have made us better - but he didn’t stay. He was a cunt: and being a cunt was always in his DNA. Obvs we don’t know what goes on behind the scenes but I think if the owners had taken responsibility that Jan, sacked Les, and said to Warbs “you don’t have to play youngsters, we can abolish the youth team if it is not productive - but equally you can’t sign any more 32-year-old crocks and instead we are going to get you a bloody good data analyst and you have to pick up some rough diamonds from Prem academies etc - that is your brief now do it” I personally believe he wd have stuck with us and we would now look like a highly attractive club on the up: now we just look like Stevenage

Suppose where I take issue with you Alan is we are not Man City. Yes if there was a more experienced, more loyal Mick Beale out there who wanted to manage qpr then yes oc that would be a v great appointment. But we are qpr in 2023 - who was that manager?

Warbs at our level was a good manager. Am not sure who your candidate is? Maybe if we had emulated Coventry and stuck with our manager we would now regard Warbs more highly? No one was hailing Mark Robbins a genius when a Warbs teams played Coventry off the park and beat them 3-0 (and narrowly beat them away)

To be fair Stains, that "if" is SO hypothetical it goes way beyond the realms of reality. The scenario you paint would simply never have happened with these present owners, therefore too unrealistic to even warrant hypothesising over. 

Top of the league 30 from 16. 60 from 32 would have been an interesting position.

I can’t answer your question ‘who would be my candidate’, I’m not paid £600k or whatever it is to keep my finger on the pulse. I’d never heard of De Zerbi and he’s a revelation so there will be people out there not on fans’ radar but known in the trade. If you know what you’re doing of course😁

you might want read your messages back then Al as they sure read like you are.

Let's take Beale's character out of the equation and just examine the football we played under him at the time. I think most objectively-minded people would say it was mixed on balance. Yes he got us top of the league but there were some poor performances under him too. The fact is he just wasn't with us long enough to really judge comprehensively. Unlike Warbs who was with us long enough to build a clearer picture. So really it's a pointless comparison IMO.

Your last para applies equally to Beale and Critchley. One decided he wasn’t having it and the other got shat on.

Given that our board and director of football are useless and they are the ones making the appointment it is hardly surprising it has gone tits up since Warbs left. He had his faults but as others have said, he was not the problem. We got rid of the one genuinely professional, experienced person at the club who seemed to know what he was doing and left us with the clowns. The results are there for all to see: criticise Warbs record - fine - but can you honestly say that the season without him has been an improvement overall on the preceding seasons with him? And as for this season coming, I’m bloody terrified, and i expect as a long standing fan, so are you. Simple question: if you could have MW as manager now or GA, who would you choose (the next Pep that you expect Les to find is not in the list of options)?