Rovers v QPR

I don't know whether if I type another celebration comment, we'll score again...

...making it longer...

nice to seeya RRP - whats your feelings on whether 'Arry will hang around.

For me - idceal would be give him the job for the Euros (keeping his Spurs contract) and then decide at leisure afterwards. You guys don't want your season derailed and he can decide if he wants another crack at the Champs League or taking you onwards.

Rover

Harry? I was SURE he would either turn the job down, but recent comments have made it quite clear he will go for it, unless his health stops him, which of course i hope it doesn't

He deserves his chance but he will finish the season with us for sure. The only saving grace is that the FA will have to hand over around £15-20 million to us in compensation, that could stop any move

Rover

A good appointment for me as I think he will meld together a team that will look to play in the Spurs mold - high-tempo attacking football although he will need some special skill to get Bale to pretend he's English...

Risky though - for both sides. Not too sure there'll be enough in the job for him and who is actually responsible for transfer dealings that are one of the best (getting good players, returning value for money) - is it Levy or Redknapp?

Reason I ask is it looked like last window (Pav off, Nelsen, Saha in looked like classic Harry dealing). The successes he's had at Spurs of having a settled team, being some good kids through (Livermore looks good) - is that partly down to Levy - and will Redknapp be able to resist the lure of all th big names he would have loved to have worked with earlier in his career (Gerrard, Beckham etc) who we should prob'ly be thinking to move on.

Captain Scotty Parker, I'd be happy with though...

We must have scored twice more by now...

Problem is for me, i really am not a fan of International Football so its a double blow for me if Harry does get the job, but no doubt he will have a good effect on the team, there is only so much a manager can do, you need the players as well

Good point there, Harry likes to be involved every day and that wont be the case in the England job! He likes to keep busy but maybe he wants to take it easy especially with his heart problems....just gutted if he takes it, he has had 3 amazing years with us

IMO Harry doesn't work on our transfers its all Levy and our board, well thats how it seems to me, but Harry keeps the players happy and im worried what Modric will do if he leaves, we need a big name to come in to keep everyone at Spurs and also attract some big names

3-0

If Harry leaves, you'd need a big name to keep you moving onwards. You've done well to keep so tight to the top two (much better than anyone really expected and better than the other 'contenders' but would need a Mourinho or similar to really take the challenge on and make that final 2-3 steps which might be the most difficult to take.

Its hard because you look at your team and its generally good with some useful backup and so may be hard to see individually how to make that difference. It may be like "van de Vaart was good to carry us to third but we need a Wes Sneijder for the title" - with that 'difference' costing £25-30m more for that one position.

Rambling really - seem to be delirious.

3-0?? Lets not stop there, lets get 7....

Yes BIG NAME

Mourinho wont join us though, we dont have the money to spend, we have spent less than anyone in 2011, just £6 million and we are using loan deals etc, maybe we are saving funds for the new manager?

We do have a big weakness in attack, our strikers are pants to be honest, i would like some big investment in there and maybe a big name manager can attract us the big players (on small wages )

Who knows what will happen..but one thing is for sure...Blackburn will easily stay up

Things we still know:

- Pedersen is the worst footballer in the Premier League
- Yakubu is probably signing of the season

- Pedersen is our highest scoring midfielder (joint with Formica who has played more advanced). Since you witter on about the differce Rochina and Fromica have made vs EHD and Emerton based on assists and goals, obviously consistency of comparison does not extend to other midfielders....
- Th Yak has been brilliant. Particularly since we are re-engaging the long ball and not seeing route one as bad words His strength, control and shooting are first class. Less so his overall movement but he possesses the ability to make himself space. I can't remember a forward that appears to work less but using him up top with more energetic partners and the long balls provided by Pedersen (not the dodgy shot) and robinson pays off with Yak up top. Good bit of business by Kean - even if he wasn't his first choice.
- We still can't keep a clean sheet.
- Kean doesn't seem to have a plan with substitutions and seems to only be able to change a game for the worse at half time.
- Orr needs some game tiome to get up to speed. shame we're in relegation fight. Good to see Lowe in midfield. That helped a lot - not having converted strikers/forwards in midfield/defence.
- W move as many places when we don't play....

Weekend was a win. It wasn't a good win given the capitulation in second half and owed as much to Robinson as to the goals we scored. This should be a minimum win - we have to beta QPR at home and whilst it is nice to be out of the relegation zone, it shouldn't be an indication that all is well at Ewood. we're in a relegation dogfight and the teams around us generally have better managers - although worse squads.

Please re watch the QPR match, Pedersen was simply shocking.

Also, Pedersen effectively plays virtually every minute of every match and takes every single set piece, long throw and corner. Which has produced 5 assists. If you looked at that 5 as a percentage of the number of attempts from dead balls it would be embarrassingly small.

Samba, Olsson and N'Zonzi equal him on assists when the ball is in open play and all 3 of these play in more defensive positions.

With a fraction of the playing time Rochina and Vuckvevic are chomping on his heels with goals and assists.

Formica is a much better option to be played wide right and will offer much more during open play. As for having players to take free kicks and corners:

-Dunn
-Olsson
-Hoilett
-Formica
-Rochina
-Robinson