Everything furious Neil Harris just said after QPR defeat

Everything furious Neil Harris just said after QPR defeat as he sends Cardiff City stars warning and dubs first half 'worst he has seen'

The Bluebirds manager was fuming after the 3-2 defeat to QPR

Sunday 1st November 2020






Cardiff City manager Neil Harris offered a scathing assessment of his players after the 3-2 defeat by QPR.

Here is everything the manager, who was clearly furious, said after the match





Q. It must have been a sickener after working so hard to get back into it?

Neil Harris: It's a kick in the proverbials, I've got to be honest.

I will be honest, as well, because a lot of our fans will be watching the game. We got what we deserved over the course of the 90 minutes.

First half was the worst I've seen during my time in charge. People might disagree but in my opinion, outfought, outrun, too many first contacts, second balls. Didn't defend the penalty area.

In the first half hour of the game, we can't keep giving teams head-starts.

I praise my players in the second half, outstanding. It might be two penalty kicks we scored but we deserved more, we bossed the game, much better and we looked a real threat.

People will watch that goal [from Ball] and say 'Oh, what a goal, a goal worthy of winning any game' and it was, but it sums us up.

Yes he has a lot to do, he sticks it in the top corner from 30 yards, fair play to him, but it's not acceptable.

I'm gutted tonight, I've got to be honest.





Q. A positive you can take is that you came back so well?

NH: I can look at the positives and talk about the positives over the last X amount of games and how many times we've come from behind.

But I don't want to keep going on about that.

I'm here to win games of football as Cardiff City manager and I expect my players to be the same, I expect the same mentality.

Why are we not getting it at the moment? That's what I've got to look into. Why have we not been the same this season?

I keep sugar-coating it but we've got to be better.

Yeah, I can praise my players for the second half and my disappointment at the winning goal but ultimately I want to win.








Q. A case of picking the players up now. Can they bounce back?

NH: They've got to bounce back, that's their jobs.

It's their jobs to be in the team. It's their jobs to perform. What's asked of them, their duties, what me and my staff work 18-hour days for, to make them better.

It's their jobs to represent this football club to the best of their ability and at the moment they're not doing it.

If they're not going to do it, they're not going to be in my team and I will pick a team accordingly for Barnsley on Tuesday night to win the game.






Q. Harry Wilson, confident he will play against Barnsley?

NH: Yeah, we hope to have more attacking players available. Great to see Lee Tomlin get 28, 29 minutes of football today and we saw his quality at times.

We also saw moments where he is just that half a yard off, but he will get there.

We want Harry Wilson back as soon as possible and Robert Glatzel, who was unwell today.

To have those three players available makes a massive difference to us and changes the way I want to play football and set the team up.









Q. What do you say to your players at half-time after that?

NH: I can't repeat that here. Not until the watershed.

I left them in no uncertain terms where they are falling short, who is falling short and what I expect moving forward.

You can tell from the tone of my voice, I am never this angry talking to you guys [the media] after a game.

I said in my interview on my first day I took the job, at Hensol Castle, and I said it after the play-off semi-final, I've come here to be successful and win games of football.

If my players don't want to do that then they don't play. It's as simple as that.

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Good on him. When I watched it I felt his anger and embarrassment by what the players served up in the first half. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen him angry, and hopefully this sees him make a few changes.

Birmingham away last season was rat shit and the fans let him know at half time.

Neil, You picked the team, you dictate the tactics and gameplan.

You keep on selecting Ralls as an ACM he didn't wander there, even though we have gone from famine to feast in that position. Wilson, Tomlin, Ojo,Murphy, Holliet, Mark Harris and it appears to be Glatzels new position.

Warnock walked when he realised his transfers wasn't going to work and he didn't have time on his side to rectify them and perpetuate his saviour and championship genius tag.

Kudos, you were brave enough to drop Flint for the far more mobile Nelson, but he is a better partner for Morrison not necessarily a top 6 championship centre half

Pack is an adequate Championship centre midfielder, whose career highlight was losing last season championship semi finals. He has great ball retention but is painfully slow and his passing stats although high (by our standards) are generally super safe, unthreatening and sideways. He is not someone you build your team around

The ball needs to get to Wilson/Tomlin (if ever match fit) quicker, however it get there.

After the initial WTF when Harris was announced I thought Warnock lite may be a good fix. Warnocks system works its just was such a pure version of it, it just needed to soften a bit and roll the ball out every now and then, but he obviously had such little faith in the ball retention abilities of the squad we were 100% direct.

I can never recall Harris's Millwall team being sweet on the eye, but if he got the job by promising passing football, he is going to lose his job by implementing a piss poor version of it.

Last summers Warnocks recruits Glatzel,Flint, Pack,Whyte, Vaulks & Nelson were not great (in hindsight).... I wouldn't want to have my managerial career resting upon Packs ability to pick a pass or Vaulks decision making. If we didn't start any of those it wouldn't really hurt us.

Neil, You picked the team, you dictate the tactics and gameplan.

You keep on selecting Ralls as an ACM he didn't wander there, even though we have gone from famine to feast in that position. Wilson, Tomlin, Ojo,Murphy, Holliet, Mark Harris and it appears to be Glatzels new position.

Warnock walked when he realised his transfers wasn't going to work and he didn't have time on his side to rectify them and perpetuate his saviour and championship genius tag.

Kudos, you were brave enough to drop Flint for the far more mobile Nelson, but he is a better partner for Morrison not necessarily a top 6 championship centre half

Pack is an adequate Championship centre midfielder, whose career highlight was losing last season championship semi finals. He has great ball retention but is painfully slow and his passing stats although high (by our standards) are generally super safe, unthreatening and sideways. He is not someone you build your team around

The ball needs to get to Wilson/Tomlin (if ever match fit) quicker, however it get there.

After the initial WTF when Harris was announced I thought Warnock lite may be a good fix. Warnocks system works its just was such a pure version of it, it just needed to soften a bit and roll the ball out every now and then, but he obviously had such little faith in the ball retention abilities of the squad we were 100% direct.

I can never recall Harris's Millwall team being sweet on the eye, but if he got the job by promising passing football, he is going to lose his job by implementing a piss poor version of it.

Last summers Warnocks recruits Glatzel,Flint, Pack,Whyte, Vaulks & Nelson were not great (in hindsight).... I wouldn't want to have my managerial career resting upon Packs ability to pick a pass or Vaulks decision making. If we didn't start any of those it wouldn't really hurt us.

have to correct you here....Kudos....? i dont think Mozza and Flint played together under NH... Mozza was out injured and Flint and Nelson were the pairing.. Mozzas recovery just happened to coincide with the leathering at QPR , so it sort of fell into his lap... had that been a win or draw like the previous 4 games flint and nelson played in...who knows ?