Steve McClaren

[DennisNedry]

Can anyone explain to me how this joke of a manager still finds himself getting employed? His latest trick is rooting QPR to the bottom of the Championship table with -11 goal difference after 4 games. He's been an abject failure everywhere he's been for the past 10 years or so!

[Fox92]

I do agree but QPR are an absolute mess. Paying the price for heavy investment the other year.

[Corky]

4 minutes ago, DennisNedry said:

Can anyone explain to me how this joke of a manager still finds himself getting employed? His latest trick is rooting QPR to the bottom of the Championship table with -11 goal difference after 4 games. He's been an abject failure everywhere he's been for the past 10 years or so!

Not really, he's won a league title and taken Derby from mid-table to a play-off final in that time. His last three years haven't been good.

[Max Wall]

Redknapp's time there is as much the cause of their current state as employing McClaren.

[Brainy]

He is or was regarded as a very good coach and has done very well at certain clubs. He's a joke figure now though, could probably do with being at a high end League One club where he is more out of the spotlight

[Corky]

1 minute ago, Walkers said:

He is or was regarded as a very good coach and has done very well at certain clubs. He's a joke figure now though, could probably do with being at a high end League One club where he is more out of the spotlight

A year from now and that could be QPR

[Brainy]

1 minute ago, Corky said:

A year from now and that could be QPR

I wouldn't back them to come straight back up. Long shot could have been him ending up back at FC Twente at the start of this season following their relegation

[Finnegan]

[inckley fox]

17 minutes ago, DennisNedry said:

Can anyone explain to me how this joke of a manager still finds himself getting employed? His latest trick is rooting QPR to the bottom of the Championship table with -11 goal difference after 4 games. He's been an abject failure everywhere he's been for the past 10 years or so!

I know a fairly well-known 'football person', in Leicester circles at least, who swears to god that he's a freemason, and that (rather like a certain silver-haired manager who has a habit of befriending chairmen in upper-class establishments, and being appointed partly on that basis) is the reason why he commands such respect in some circles. Certainly if you look at England manager appointments historically (Alf, Joe Mercer etc.) it's not necessarily worked against you.

I'm aware that it sounds like I've been hanging out on David Icke forums, which I haven't, and I'm not sure why such a thing should have a bearing on anything (it's more likely connected with being a highly-rated coach, a fairly solid Boro boss, or his time in Holland) but when you look at his FLC credentials to date, you have to wonder why anyone would think he could do a job at that level. Just seems very out-dated these days.

[AjcW]

9 minutes ago, inckley fox said:

I know a fairly well-known 'football person', in Leicester circles at least, who swears to god that he's a freemason, and that (rather like a certain silver-haired manager who has a habit of befriending chairmen in upper-class establishments, and being appointed partly on that basis) is the reason why he commands such respect in some circles. Certainly if you look at England manager appointments historically (Alf, Joe Mercer etc.) it's not necessarily worked against you.

I'm aware that it sounds like I've been hanging out on David Icke forums, which I haven't, and I'm not sure why such a thing should have a bearing on anything (it's more likely connected with being a highly-rated coach, a fairly solid Boro boss, or his time in Holland) but when you look at his FLC credentials to date, you have to wonder why anyone would think he could do a job at that level. Just seems very out-dated these days.

I do like your reasoning, however Pardew got the Newcastle job to repay gambling debt and got the West Brom job because his best mate was the DoF so not sure he's quite along the same lines...

[oohaahmustafa]

 

[urban.spaceman]

[Guest Col city fan]

[Footballwipe]

In terms of QPR, look no further than their Chief Executive...

[CosbehFox]

I am no huge fan of Holloway, but you’d be pissed off if you were him. QPR decided to close up the finances last season and he did an okay job in working with it. 

[Mr Mister]

He is stealing a living as a manager.

[surrifox]

The Frank Spencer of football management 

[The Horse's Mouth]

love stevie me 

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

13 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

 

I wondered who that bellend is who keeps calling me then hanging up

[Matt]

Whilst the likes of Peter Taylor still manages to get jobs there is hope for anyone.

[Fox92]

11 hours ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

I am no huge fan of Holloway, but you’d be pissed off if you were him. QPR decided to close up the finances last season and he did an okay job in working with it. 

Yeah, Holloway said other day that he was told to get rid of the more experience players (I imagine who are the bigger wages).

[RODNEY FERNIO]

In fairness he's got a pretty impossible job … bit like Chris Coleman at Sunderland...… silk purse sow's ear and all that.

Still if the lunatics that run QPR are prepared to pay him a decent wage …. who is the mug ?

[Leicesterpool]

The only club he's considered a legend at is FC Twente. Would anyone agree he was a decent manager before the England job or as he always been suspect? 

[Mr Mister]

23 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

The only club he's considered a legend at is FC Twente. Would anyone agree he was a decent manager before the England job or as he always been suspect? 

I think he was good at Middlesbrough and Twente, but rubbish at the other clubs, as well as England.

[The Horse's Mouth]

He did a great job at boro tbf, bit of silverware and a European final, think going Wolfsburg really ruined any hope of resurrecting his career, if he'd lasted out at twente he could've maybe been able to have land a prem job. His choice in clubs has been his biggest issue really