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Comment | Hughes hails Taarabt’s new maturity despite red card — Tuesday diary
at 14:31:42
That Genoa manager was the 18th club (out of 20) in Serie A to sack their manager this season.
Apparently in Italy, when a manager is sacked, he's put on gardening leave in case the new manager gets sacked too, the other manager comes back and has a second chance. Crazy.
And as for the John Terry comments, so say we all! |
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Comment | Time for some home truths — guest column
at 10:49:40
Good article, I've been saying all the same things for the past month.
However, I've also looked on the other side of the fence too and tried to see how, if possible, Neil Warnock not had an easy job.
I think it goes all the way back to his appointment at the back end of the 2009/2010 season, he was able to get rid of all the loan signings and sign some trusted professionals who boosted the squad (Kenny,Hill,Derry,Smith) and was able to get the best out of Adel Taarabt and Jamie Mackie.
Despite dominating the Championship last season, I believe that we had an enormous amount of luck during the course of the season. But I do believe in the saying that you make your own luck and whilst the likes of Taarabt gets all the praise for last seasons victories, I think more credit goes to our defense who kept 24 clean sheets during the course of the season (which is incredibly impressive).
I've not been quiet about this point since the summer, when Kaspers Gorkks was sold and Matthew Connolly was seemingly being replaced by the likes of Danny 'injury prone and recently relegated' Gabbidon and Fitz 'I've lost my ability to defend' Hall.
It always seemed strange why Gorkks was sold, with him and Connolly making the most appearances at the heart of our defence last season but I only suspect that it may of been over Warnock's head that he was sold rather than the manager not rating him for the Premier League.
However, it was clear that we needed to strengthen the squad in pre-season and Warnock had to do so on a shoe string budget whilst dealing with the uncertainties and terrible organisation by the owners at the time.
Our pre-season wasn't the best of preparation but NW got lucky with Fernandes coming in to take over the club just in time for some last minute signings.
It's no doubt the famous 5 that came in at this time were all quality players compared to those we already had but in a sense, it also shot NW in the foot with having to blend 5 new personalities into a squad that had just won promotion.
Since then it's clear that NW is still trying to work out a formula/formation/game plan with this new/changing squad of players, whilst also trying to get results.
It's a tough job to do this during a season, nevermind a season in the top flight, a league that NW has only ever had 1 season in before.
However, saying that, NW was able to blend new signings made in the summer of 2010 into a Championship winning team, so perhaps we need to have more faith?
It's clear that there are ego's in the dressing room that has disrupted the apple cart. Joey Barton and Adel Taarabt for one, there's something there that does not seem right but how great for the squad will it be for these two players to work in unison.
When the new signings came in, we actually looked like a very decent attacking outfit with games against Wolves, Newcastle and Villa but have since dramatically lost this enthusiasm.
What Warnock needs right now is personalities as well as abilities. Someone who has the professionalism of a Derry, Kenny and Hill, but also has the ability to compete in the EPL.
As much as I criticize Warnock, yes he deserves it, I also feel he deserves the benefit of the doubt considering what he's had to deal with.
Paul Lambert at Norwich is still riding high on the momentum of two back to back promotions.
Brendan Rodgers joined Swansea who already had a good and steady set up under previous managers like Martinez and Sousa.
Warnock's had a turmoil of a time here at Rangers, different owners, different leagues. It's never been settled.
I feel that we're going to have to scrap our way to survival this season and finally once the storm settles in pre-season, Warnock can actually take a breather and start putting together a TEAM. |
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