Chris Ramsey appointed head coach - NOW its official

[Stanley]

Not knocking the fella. I like what I see. And am backing him 100 percent. But he would've been on no one's shortlist for a manager's job in the PL or the championship three weeks ago. That old b astard dinosaur has so f acked things up (TF, too, for not firing him after WHU away) we've had to appoint him. What brilliant coach has ever succeeded in the PL without managerial experience.....? But, as I say, we're all behind the fella. I'm simply happy Redcrapp's gone.

I take your point, just saying its not true to say he has no managerial experience. By that yardstick, neither has Paul Clement.

[Rangers77]

Hes got to target out games so Hull, Palace, Everton and WBA, Villa West Ham and Newcastle we need to be looking to come away undefeated from all of them

Great post. It ought be printed out and put up on the wall of the changing room.

[Rangers77]

I take your point, just saying its not true to say he has no managerial experience. By that yardstick, neither has Paul Clement.

Er worked at Chelsea? Real Madrid? Come on.....

[Stanley]

Er Chelsea? Real Madrid? Come on.....

Ok so lets establish our terms. Are we referring to 'coaching' or 'managing'?

If you mean no managing experience in the PL then of course that's true. Not true to say CR has never managed or coached elsewhere though.

[Rangers77]

Ok so lets establish our terms. Are we referring to 'coaching' or 'managing'?

If you mean no managing experience in the PL then of course that's true. Not true to say CR has never managed or coached elsewhere though.

Splitting hairs. No one- no one- would have appointed Chris as a manager in the PL or the championship (or perhaps in the entire league......) two weeks ago. He's got the Rs job because of that old b astard. Plus only and solely because he was employed by the club when the dinosaur upped sticks. That's the point I'm making. But know hope.

[LoftusRoadLad]

Great stabilize-ing appointment

[zuluop]

Well now that we know that they would not appoint the dream manager now because of bad timing it could be all the following as far as I can see:
Warburton - as he will now leave at the end of the season.
Clement - possible for him to leave at the end of the season.
Big Sam - Still has not signed a new contract with WH and can leave at the end of the season. (Wonder if Aston Villa is interested).
Laudrup - He has and will never leave (by himself) a club midseason. He could join after his contract runs out at the end of the season.

Tim Sherwood seems to be out of scope because he is too greedy and also wants a large transfer kitty. I could be wrong but why wouldn't TF have appointed him already if not.

[Stanley]

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[West Mids QPR]

Hmmm. A manager, but not, apparently, a dream manager. The old dinosaur has left us in such a mess we're happy to have a replacement with zero experience overseen by a director of football with zero experience. Heres hoping. Fella has my support.

Absolutely bang on.

Maybe it'll work, maybe not. Commonsense and history would tell us 'not'.

But we were down anyway under Kneecap, that much is true. It's strange that we have all warmed to CR, in a way we never did to HR, simply becuase of his gentle honesty.

And it's also strange, that not one single player hs come out and lamented the great HR...

[dsqpr]

I don't place much emphasis on this "dream manager" thing. To be fair, I don't think Tony has the skill to spot his dream manager even if he tripped over him. That's just twitter-talk, it doesn't mean much.

I think this appointment makes a lot of sense. We certainly looked like a different team against Sunderland, winning tackles, getting players forward, and often confident in possession. After that performance and result it is definitely worth taking a chance on CR. Well done Tony. I think he is learning that the way forward for QPR does not lie along the path of the big clubs' "big names".

[Kevin Mcleod]

TonyFernandes We found a great guy to manage us form next season a dream manager but actually we had a dream candidate right in front of us Chris Ramsey.

So we the board decided to give Chris a chance and he certainly has been a dream in such a short period. First away win. Happy players.

He almost works 24hrs. After first team he takes eds and even under 14. He's modest, gets on with the job is organised, passionate and loyal


There are no guarantees in football. But Chris Ramsey has every chance to build a long term and huge managerial future at qpr. We are lucky

[nasser95]

I think people forget that the main issue under HR was the lack of tactics and direction. A style of play was missing because it didn't take precedence in discussion. We always had the players i feel, but we tried to win with just the players and not the style of play to support them. Arguably, the best thing was for us to have a coach take over as he would drill them properly, more so than a manager.

[QPRDave]

I do think it's strange that we're happy to appoint a man who was a youth coach at Spurs, and here. Yet mention managers in work and who have been
for years like Robinson, (MKD) or say Parkinson (Bradford) and there'd be uproar they're not good enough.
Having said that I think the style of play, the emphasis on attack, and the workrate the players have shown under CR, pushes him to the top of the list
and makes sense till the end of the season.
It is a risk though.

[Stanley]

I do think it's strange that we're happy to appoint a man who was a youth coach at Spurs, and here. Yet mention managers in work and who have been
for years like Robinson, (MKD) or say Parkinson (Bradford) and there'd be uproar they're not good enough.
Having said that I think the style of play, the emphasis on attack, and the workrate the players have shown under CR, pushes him to the top of the list
and makes sense till the end of the season.
It is a risk though.

And England, don't forget, where he was head-coach of the U20s for 2 years. He also won a top-tier league title in the US as manager.

[klonk]

I do think it's strange that we're happy to appoint a man who was a youth coach at Spurs, and here. Yet mention managers in work and who have been
for years like Robinson, (MKD) or say Parkinson (Bradford) and there'd be uproar they're not good enough.
Having said that I think the style of play, the emphasis on attack, and the workrate the players have shown under CR, pushes him to the top of the list
and makes sense till the end of the season.
It is a risk though.

that's true about the other managers, but having looked at the two games he's taken charge of, i think he's got us playing well and the players seem to be performing for him. he's probably the right man for now (and possibly for the longer term), although i wouldn't have minded leaving him as caretaker for the next match just to see how that one panned out - not sure why we needed to rush things so much.

not really sure how many managers would jump ship to join us at the moment with all the ffp stuff going on. no one knows what'll happen if we do go down... so on that basis we maybe didn't have too much choice anyways.