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CLINT HILL has fired a brutal warning to QPR’s Fancy Dan foreigners: If you are not willing to sweat blood for the club, then GET OUT!
Rock-bottom Rangers welcome Liverpool to Loftus Road this afternoon having won just one of their 19 top-flight games this season.
If that was not bad enough, new Rs boss Harry Redknapp last week accused some of his stars of being overpaid and not giving enough for the cause.
It followed SunSport’s exclusive story that he had fined and axed Portuguese full-back Jose Bosingwa for refusing to sit on the Rangers bench in their 2-1 win over Fulham earlier this month.
Honest Hoops defender Hill says his side’s showing this term has left him hurting like hell — but he wonders how many of his high-earning overseas team-mates feel the same.
The straight-talking Scouser said: “I hope they’re hurting because if not they shouldn’t be here.
“If you speak to people like me and Shaun Derry, we spent most our career in the lower leagues and have had a different kind of upbringing.
“But some of the foreign players have different cultures and different ways.
“Do they get taught that losing is hard to accept? I don’t know. It’s a different mentality but it should hurt everyone, no matter what country you come from.”
Bad-boy Bosingwa was fined two weeks’ wages — worth £130,000 — for his bench boycott. He is also unlikely to ever play for Redknapp again.
Former Tranmere, Stoke and Crystal Palace star Hill said: “I think the gaffer is right, there is no beating around the bush.
“If you don’t want to go on the bench, then do you want to be here? Do you want to fight?
“When we see things like this it hurts as a group. We’ve all been dropped before, all of us have been told by a club we can leave.
“But at the end of the day we’re professionals and we earn good money. So you have to behave the right way.
“It can be hard to see someone like that at work the next day. You want to be together fighting for the cause and if you can’t sit on the bench and support the
lads, then why are you here?
“We have undoubted quality but we are in a dogfight and if people don’t realise that now, then we are in trouble.
“We also have to look at it that we are just a couple of games from safety.
“It can be done, other teams are struggling, but the message is simple — you have to be up for it.”
Rangers survived relegation on the final day of last season despite losing 3-2 at Manchester City.
The ambitious Hoops were expected to do better this term but previous boss Mark Hughes was axed last month after his 12 close-season signings failed to gel.
Hill, who almost joined former boss Neil Warnock at Leeds last summer, is one of the few remaining QPR players who romped to the Championship title under Warnock two seasons ago.
The veteran defender admitted: “At the start of the season, I thought I wouldn’t be here now. That’s the simple truth.
“Did things happen too quickly here? Who knows? Other teams did things gradually and brought in big players when they needed them.
“Did our Championship players get enough trust? I don’t think so. I think they could have done a job in this league but all managers have their own policies.
“Look at Stoke, they are a great business model. And they did things gradually.
“I was told up until five weeks ago I could leave. So to find myself in this position is strange.
“It probably would have been a move back to the Championship. But I got into this division a year ago and I don’t want to leave yet.”
Former Koppite Hill is confident his strugglers can get one over his boyhood idols and pull off a second successive Great Escape.
He said: “You only have to look at last season — Liverpool was a bit of a turning point.
“We were 2-0 down and somehow managed to nick a 3-2 win.
“Everything then just clicked. Confidence is a massive thing.
“It’s been pretty horrendous to win one game from the first half of the season. We need to have a hard look at ourselves and try to show more pride.”
source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz2GUg8xyoz
How are we going to stay up with a split dressing room?
Rock-bottom Rangers welcome Liverpool to Loftus Road this afternoon having won just one of their 19 top-flight games this season.
If that was not bad enough, new Rs boss Harry Redknapp last week accused some of his stars of being overpaid and not giving enough for the cause.
It followed SunSport’s exclusive story that he had fined and axed Portuguese full-back Jose Bosingwa for refusing to sit on the Rangers bench in their 2-1 win over Fulham earlier this month.
Honest Hoops defender Hill says his side’s showing this term has left him hurting like hell — but he wonders how many of his high-earning overseas team-mates feel the same.
The straight-talking Scouser said: “I hope they’re hurting because if not they shouldn’t be here.
“If you speak to people like me and Shaun Derry, we spent most our career in the lower leagues and have had a different kind of upbringing.
“But some of the foreign players have different cultures and different ways.
“Do they get taught that losing is hard to accept? I don’t know. It’s a different mentality but it should hurt everyone, no matter what country you come from.”
Bad-boy Bosingwa was fined two weeks’ wages — worth £130,000 — for his bench boycott. He is also unlikely to ever play for Redknapp again.
Former Tranmere, Stoke and Crystal Palace star Hill said: “I think the gaffer is right, there is no beating around the bush.
“If you don’t want to go on the bench, then do you want to be here? Do you want to fight?
“When we see things like this it hurts as a group. We’ve all been dropped before, all of us have been told by a club we can leave.
“But at the end of the day we’re professionals and we earn good money. So you have to behave the right way.
“It can be hard to see someone like that at work the next day. You want to be together fighting for the cause and if you can’t sit on the bench and support the
lads, then why are you here?
“We have undoubted quality but we are in a dogfight and if people don’t realise that now, then we are in trouble.
“We also have to look at it that we are just a couple of games from safety.
“It can be done, other teams are struggling, but the message is simple — you have to be up for it.”
Rangers survived relegation on the final day of last season despite losing 3-2 at Manchester City.
The ambitious Hoops were expected to do better this term but previous boss Mark Hughes was axed last month after his 12 close-season signings failed to gel.
Hill, who almost joined former boss Neil Warnock at Leeds last summer, is one of the few remaining QPR players who romped to the Championship title under Warnock two seasons ago.
The veteran defender admitted: “At the start of the season, I thought I wouldn’t be here now. That’s the simple truth.
“Did things happen too quickly here? Who knows? Other teams did things gradually and brought in big players when they needed them.
“Did our Championship players get enough trust? I don’t think so. I think they could have done a job in this league but all managers have their own policies.
“Look at Stoke, they are a great business model. And they did things gradually.
“I was told up until five weeks ago I could leave. So to find myself in this position is strange.
“It probably would have been a move back to the Championship. But I got into this division a year ago and I don’t want to leave yet.”
Former Koppite Hill is confident his strugglers can get one over his boyhood idols and pull off a second successive Great Escape.
He said: “You only have to look at last season — Liverpool was a bit of a turning point.
“We were 2-0 down and somehow managed to nick a 3-2 win.
“Everything then just clicked. Confidence is a massive thing.
“It’s been pretty horrendous to win one game from the first half of the season. We need to have a hard look at ourselves and try to show more pride.”
source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz2GUg8xyoz
How are we going to stay up with a split dressing room?
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