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First time I have taken a nosey at this thread and I am delighted to see the eclectic nature of it. Think I will start adding in one a week from my record collection.
Some good points here. I have had a small amount of exposure to training at a couple of clubs I did placements at for a degree I did recently.
I think it can be broken down fairly easily, but is always made more complicated than it ever needs to be, usually by modern day know-all social media 'pundits'.
1) Coach has tactical belief system he wants to implement, pre-season and early season you are working on the principles of that and small variations of your chosen system.
2) As someone above mentioned, once you get to a certain point of the season, everyone should have an understanding of what you are trying to do. Those that don't usually get frozen out or ride the bench. At this point you are just ticking over your fitness, preparing properly, being professional, stretching etc.
3) When clubs do have short turnarounds, clubs will generally pick out one defensive drill that they feel they need to work on to negate the next oppo and one attacking threat (i.e.; every man and their dog planning drills to exploit QPRs left side).
*I know I have essentially repeated a lot of what's been said above, but bare with me.
So in those 6 weeks of pre season and the first 4 weeks of the season, the coach has to be good at passing his idea's on, as OldChap points out a lot better than I am right now.
Who would have thought pre-season was so key. The other thing I noticed was we are in a battle of era's. The old school should still work (pre-season = Build fitness) but we are now in this buzzword era, data nerds will say, pre-season = Optimise performance.
Personally, I think data is just another in for companies to sell their services within the massive industry of football. It can tell you whatever you want it to, based on who you might be selling to. It's heavily flawed.
Bit of a tangent there on those last two paragraphs, but feeding back to QPR. What happened last pre season and first few weeks of the season?
1) Nourry told us in January at the fans meeting that the club were caught off guard how JS was running pre-season and how early they had the balls out. He also said it's something that will look at for next season.
*This tells you that communication at the club was poor. How is that something that can catch you off guard?
2) Pre-season was dire, including a 6-0 dogging by Castellon. Start of the season was dire, JS had to change the system and rip it up, 4 games into the season.
*So did he rip up the club model and go his own way? Or did he just struggle to communicate his ideas? Or both?
Finally, my opinion is, that its obvious from this stuff why man-managers have always kept it simple. Because it's a simple game made complicated nerds.
What I found interesting was that Dave mentioned that it "wasn't the right time", to talk about the leadership of the club, at the start of the pod.
He is acutely aware of what is going on, but if he talks about it openly, he will just get blackballed by Nourry.
I know for a fact that the club (Nourry) have banned some journalists from talking to players already, so it will be interesting if Dave ever follows up on this.
If Varane and Saito both play then you have to start truly believing that Nourry is influencing team selection because he wants to develop and sell these players.
My mate Jim F posted this on the old QPR e-mail list and it's very apt and follows up on what you have just said.....
Someone in our whatsapp was wondering what the hell was going on with our team spirit, standards and culture.
So I thought about our senior pros at the start of the season and itemised it like this:
Cook - extended contract with the most begrudging statement I've ever seen on official comms, then mucked around over some kind of contract bonus at 30 games
Field - given two contract rises in quick succession, given cold shoulder and pushed out the club
Frey - last season recovery messed up so badly he got his own treatment, given two contract rises in quick succession, given cold shoulder and pushed off out the club
Chair - recovery messed up so badly he's getting his own treatment
Dunne - somehow still standing.
Is it any wonder the rest of them are dialing it in a bit? Culture is about how you treat people. The little things and the big things. We're getting none of it right.
And that's before you get to how Morgan and Kolli have been treated. How the young kids like Tuck were starved of loans when we just didn't bother with them.
Also doesn't help when you are recruiting to play a certain way (apparently), have told the fanbase you recruit in a certain way. Then get humped 7 and have to completely change the way you play and end up with a lop sided squad.
I have seen at least 10 Sam Field games for QPR, where he has been our best player. I have seen maybe 1 (Leicester away in the cup, still lost), where Varane was our best player.
He was the answer to our problems in two different seasons where we nearly got relegated, he was one of the few who lead with distinction, gave a toss and chipped in from midfield with the odd goal.
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