da casino： Robert Green believes that QPR’s current side has more spirit and “heart” than the star-studded one he was a part of in the 2012-13 campaign, which ended in relegation.
da 888： The Super Hoops bounced straight back up to the top tier last season via the play-offs after sliding out of the division on the back of some limp showings.
QPR’s relegation season was one in which the club were criticised for possessing a number of overpaid and under-motivated players, with big names such as Julio Cesar, Jose Bosingwa, Djibril Cisse and Park Ji-Sung – who all had Champions League winners medals in their possession – in the squad
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Nowadays the Londoners boast a set-up with less glamorous names in the starting XI on a weekly basis.
And Green – a regular this term – believes that the new attitude makes this side a tougher proposition than the one he used to be in:
“In terms of what people have done, there were more medals in that 2012-13 squad, but there is undoubtedly more heart in this team. I know which camp I’d rather be in.” he told the London Evening Standard.
“The caring and the willingness to do well for each other, the club and yourself is there. You can’t buy that as proved by a couple of years ago. When you’ve got a group of 20 lads, inevitably over the year people will fall by the wayside sporadically. But if you have the majority all pushing in the same direction, like we are now, you need that movement to keep pulling everyone along.
“When you’ve got 20 lads and just five or six pulling in one direction and 14 in other, it’s nigh on impossible. It’s like herding cats. You can’t get everyone in the same place let alone in the same direction. It sounds simple, but when it goes wrong like it did back then, it’s very hard to drag back.
“We had such an awful start last time (it took a Premier League record 17 games to record their first victory), we never recovered from it.
“On paper the team was good. We fell under the impression that ‘of course we are going to win games’. It hardly happened. Credit to the manager (Harry Redknapp) it was recognised and through a lot of hard work, fire-fighting and transfer windows, it’s been turned around.”
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