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If you take most of the parts of an engine out of a car - and the steering wheel, you can push the car down a hill and for a short while it will look like a car until it inevitably hits a wall.
That's what's happened to our team with all the injuries.
I didn't realise he'd only managed 11 games this season after only 28 last term. It's very unfortunate that he's had so many injuries over the last 2 seasons and it seems to be getting worse and more regular. No doubt, a fully match fit Chair would have given us more points this season.
If you go to a ground dressed as a Bassett's Allsort you get what you deserve!
Please club and Errea 26/27 traditional blue and white hooped home kit with hooped sleeves and blue hoop on shoulders and Denise the Menace away kit, again with hooped sleeves.
Some of this is also down to the seemingly Jekyll and Hyde performances the team puts in. Is that Stephan's fault? Probably no more than his predecessors. There is no particular reason why the same starting 11 that beat Hull couldn't go and get something at Southampton. He had a very limited ability to change much and as Monkey Roots said, we weren't that bad first half, but mistakes and bad luck with Madsen cost us dearly. Mistakes and injuries are not really the managers fault in game. Did he do the right thing second half bringing a few key players off? The morning after, perhaps he did. Kone has been running on empty but is the 'senior' striker at the moment.
Being QPR manager is a tough gig, particularly as we seem to be this Jekyll and Hyde type outfit week to week. The only one who seemed to have a handle on it was Warburton, but he had far more to work with than any that followed him. Also, we dip have dips under Warburton as well. Beale only got lucky for a bit. Ainsworth couldn't turn it around, Critchley couldn't turn it around, Cifuentes was good at keeping us up but had horrendous losing streaks and that brings us to Stephan. He had a full squad 2 months ago and now he's got dev squad players on the bench and one out and out fit striker, whose running on fumes.
Overall, I agree with Monkey Roots. Bar last night and a handful of other heavy defeats, I think he's done okay given what we have here. Although he has to find a way of changing the season upon season Jekyll and Hyde game to game mentality we seem to be afflicted with - but that seems to have been a thing for ages, and doesn't seem easy to solve.
He gets a great result on Saturday and names the same 11 for the next game. From Saturday afternoon he would have been asking that starting 11 if they felt good enough to start again last night, and consulting with his physios/conditioning staff as well. His players obviously said yes, they were ready to go.
Let's face it, if he's tweaked the line up and we lost we would have been throwing our toys out the pram that he didn't leave it alone. So he leaves it alone and gets dogs abuse. I looked at the team last night before we started and thought, well the players obviously feel good to go again so why change it. The problem is they were very leggy and going to Hull and back and then down to Southampton hasn't given then time to fully recover.
Also the injury list is now beyond ridiculous compared with 2 months ago. You look at the bench and it's really limited in terms of changing a game from an attacking perspective. I am sure Stephan would have liked to rest Kone for a game or so if Burrell was available and the new lad hadn't knackered himself on the first day of training. He also lost Madsen last night and that is a massive blow because realistically he now only has Vale available as a playmaker. No sign of Chair, Poku could still be a few weeks away from a start, Dembele out till next season, Smyth injured, Burrell obviously a way off and the new lad crocked. The decision to let Field go is coming back to bite us in midfield too.
It's fine turning heat on Stephan but he's running out of troops. My bigger concern is Steve Bould. The erratic abilities and inabilities of the defence and defensive performances must to a large degree be down to what he's doing and not doing with them in training.
At least Stephan opened with an apology to the fans. It was much needed but he did that. Apart from that, I'd hate to be a football manager. Especially here, because you win a game and all is well and you lose one and you're chased out of town by angry torch carrying villagers.
Walsh is 6 foot 3. Nardi is actually only 6 foot 1 and Hamer is 6 foot 4.
I feel for the kid to be honest. He's like the rest of the team in that he can be wildly inconsistent. He is, like many keepers, capable of fantastic saves and has on occasion looked good at crosses. I think he suffers perhaps with nerves and concentration. Murphy Cooper is also 6 foot 1 but to be honest, of the keepers we have he seems to be the most consistent, but he's on loan, is he not?
I think Walsh perhaps needs a season in League 1 but it's a difficult choice. He's had bad games and then been trusted to bounce back in the next one, and generally has.
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