| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance 06:51 - May 16 with 4260 views | macclesfieldman |
He is a Rs legend, is loyal to the club, knows our youngsters, won't cost compensation and shows career progression within the club is possible.
Would prefer us to back Paul than any of the other names being linked. |  |
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 07:49 - May 16 with 3041 views | BrianMcCarthy |
...I mean...I know we're stuck for a striker...but.... [Post edited 16 May 7:49]
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:04 - May 16 with 2951 views | Lblock |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 07:49 - May 16 by BrianMcCarthy |
...I mean...I know we're stuck for a striker...but.... [Post edited 16 May 7:49]
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I'd back him to bag more a season than Celar |  |
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:05 - May 16 with 2950 views | thehat |
I wouldn't be disappointed if that was the route we went down.
My only concern is a bit like Wild Thing - It would be horrible if it all turned sour and ruined his status with the fans.
But I am all for promoting within as as you say there is a lot of expensive dross out there and who knows it might just work. |  | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:05 - May 16 with 2944 views | JamesB1979 |
Now the youth setup seems to be working well, not sure changing it is the best idea! | | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:08 - May 16 with 2928 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
I like the idea of producing our own staff as well as players but I don’t want to demonise another club hero. |  | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:14 - May 16 with 2877 views | paulhoop2 |
Make him assistant couldn’t bear to see furs get barracked | |
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:30 - May 16 with 2773 views | bosh67 |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:08 - May 16 by BazzaInTheLoft |
I like the idea of producing our own staff as well as players but I don’t want to demonise another club hero. |
I agree. I think Furs is doing a fantastic job but as we have seen even club legends can get turned on. I think it would be too riskier step but I would very much like his role to be expanded to striker coach for the first team as well as his current dev role. |  |
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:45 - May 16 with 2685 views | MickB |
After yesterday evening, the big question about Paul Furlong has to be, does he polish his head? It was positively gleaming. |  | | |
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:48 - May 16 with 2650 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:30 - May 16 by bosh67 |
I agree. I think Furs is doing a fantastic job but as we have seen even club legends can get turned on. I think it would be too riskier step but I would very much like his role to be expanded to striker coach for the first team as well as his current dev role. |
You’d hope they do this anyway.
Matt Smith said Les coached him personally when he was DoF. Holloway got Penrice involved in striker training while he was a scout. | | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:48 - May 16 with 2641 views | aston_hoop |
Sometimes its a good idea to let youth coaches doing a good job remain in that job. He'd be the oldest manager in the league next season with Wilder promoted but also the least experienced. I don't think this is the route the club will go down. |  |
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:49 - May 16 with 2637 views | Loftgirl |
I'm still hoping for Cristian Titz. |  | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 08:50 - May 16 with 2615 views | baz_qpr |
I'd say no not yet. One thing managing and developing the youth another the first team in the championship, and we all know where employing club legends as a manager gets you, its always going to go south at some point |  | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 09:06 - May 16 with 2516 views | daveB |
problem is even if it goes well in the next 2/3 years he won't be at the club anymore either moving upwards as manager or more likely sacked. I'd rather he stayed at the club as he's clearly doing a good job |  | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 09:22 - May 16 with 2423 views | Jimboqpr |
Does he even have aspirations of becoming a first team manager? He's been coaching here for a long time now (maybe over 10 years?) and must've had offers to either manage or be an assistant manager for lower league teams during that time. Maybe he just enjoys developing younger players and avoiding all the bulls*it and politics that comes with first team management. Especially at our club. I say stay where you are Furs! [Post edited 16 May 9:24]
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 09:36 - May 16 with 2331 views | TK1 |
Depends on Furlong, too, though. What's his ambition? He's moved up through each age group at the club, over a decade's steady work and progress. If this is the ceiling of his coaching ambition, then great. Aren't both club and coach lucky...
But if he has an ambition to keep progressing, to become a first team head coach, puts himself in the picture for the QPR job and doesn't get it. Well, that's a problem. Someone else may well give this successful development coach a job.
Does he want to usher another set of U21s through, or does he need a new challenge - one crack at a top job? Making assumptions on his behalf seems unwise. | | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 10:13 - May 16 with 2154 views | FDC |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 09:36 - May 16 by TK1 |
Depends on Furlong, too, though. What's his ambition? He's moved up through each age group at the club, over a decade's steady work and progress. If this is the ceiling of his coaching ambition, then great. Aren't both club and coach lucky...
But if he has an ambition to keep progressing, to become a first team head coach, puts himself in the picture for the QPR job and doesn't get it. Well, that's a problem. Someone else may well give this successful development coach a job.
Does he want to usher another set of U21s through, or does he need a new challenge - one crack at a top job? Making assumptions on his behalf seems unwise. |
Great post, and makes me hope that the club are thinking about this and having that conversation |  | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 10:15 - May 16 with 2140 views | TK1 |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 09:22 - May 16 by Jimboqpr |
Does he even have aspirations of becoming a first team manager? He's been coaching here for a long time now (maybe over 10 years?) and must've had offers to either manage or be an assistant manager for lower league teams during that time. Maybe he just enjoys developing younger players and avoiding all the bulls*it and politics that comes with first team management. Especially at our club. I say stay where you are Furs! [Post edited 16 May 9:24]
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Do you think he's had offers to manage or assist elsewhere? I'm not so sure. How many managers or assistant managers look like Paul Furlong in Britain? (Or anywhere). It's one of the things we should be most proud of at QPR, that we've had such a diverse coaching staff for the last decade, it's definitely not typical. Reading Eze's interview on BBC Sport just now he specifically credits Ferdinand, Impey, Ramsey and Paul Hall for turning his career around, making him the player he is - none of those guys are working together elsewhere.
But when aspiring black coaches and managers say they rarely get even interviewed, the evidence is there for all to see. Does Gary O'Neil - two years into his coaching career, one year as assistant U23 manager, one year as a first team coaching staff member - get parachuted in as a caretaker PL manager if he looks like Paul Furlong? Unlikely, I think.
As I say, it depends on Furlong's own ambitions. But the club needs to at least address them. I'm sure they are. | | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 12:58 - May 16 with 1866 views | QPROslo |
I was just thinking this before I saw this thread. Paul Furlong looks an excellent candidate for the 1st team job to me, if he wants it. | | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 13:20 - May 16 with 1773 views | TK1 |
It does seem odd that Tom Cleverly is now the heavy favourite for new head coach: a guy who retired from playing less than two years ago, was given *an ambassadorial role* at Watford, along with a part-time gig helping with the Under 18s; then spent one year as head coach when he found himself in the seat when the music stopped...and now has been fired after one season.
That's not a risky long shot? What in his CV says he's better than the guy on gardening leave, or the coaches in the building? Apart from all that, is he the right fit for a QPR manager? Not for me, Clive. Too mild-mannered.
But Paul Furlong, who has spent over a decade coaching at every level of the club, and whose team look superbly well-organised and dynamic in winning a cup last night against a vastly better financed Brentford who his team totally out-witted...he's a not a serious choice?
I hope very much he's on the shortlist at least (if he wants it, he might not). | | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 15:58 - May 16 with 1569 views | TK1 |
I mean, listen to this fella!
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 16:54 - May 16 with 1442 views | numptydumpty |
I think its a big risk to offer him the role.
He has clearly done a superb job all told at development level and the skillset to be first team head coach is a slightly different role and is not necessarily a straightforward cross over to the next level.
I think even if when he was younger, he had wished to be a first team coach but no opportunities were forthcoming for him, and as others have said, this could easily have been the case due not been offered equal opportunities due to his ethnicity, I think now he would realise its too late in the day for that step up now.
He seems to be the right man in the right job for me. Probably practiced for the role on his son and he has turned out alright also, so yes keep the great man where he is absolutely. [Post edited 16 May 16:55]
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| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 17:26 - May 16 with 1339 views | DavieQPR |
Worked really well with Chris Ramsey didn't it. |  | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 17:47 - May 16 with 1246 views | QuillPenRiot |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 17:26 - May 16 by DavieQPR |
Worked really well with Chris Ramsey didn't it. |
There are lies, damn lies, and anecdotal data |  | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 17:48 - May 16 with 1246 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 15:58 - May 16 by TK1 |
I mean, listen to this fella!
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Pigbag as well ❤️
Only a small thing, but it’s nice to know those small bits of fan culture drip down to the players. | | | |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 18:28 - May 16 with 1173 views | TK1 |
| Paul Furlong deserves a 1st Team chance on 17:26 - May 16 by DavieQPR |
Worked really well with Chris Ramsey didn't it. |
I hope you're describing promoting youth coaches...
If so, some youth coaches whose promotion was more successful than Chris Ramsey (who still wasn't half as bad as numerous managers he followed/preceded at QPR):
Liam Manning
Graham Potter
Thomas Frank (18 years a youth coach, then a B team manager)
Kieran McKenna
Pep Guardiola (!)
Brendan Rogers
Eddie Howe
Arnie Slot
Daniel Farke
Gary O'Neil
Victor Pereira
Etc etc.
It's not without precedent. No guarantee that any appointment will succeed in the slightest, of course. But the bookies' favourite had been coaching Watford's U18s for six months when promoted to Watford's head coach, a position he held for all of 13 months. More or less qualified than Paul Furlong? | | | |
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