Quote Originally Posted by tforturton View Post
I've been quite astonished at the progress made under McCarthy. In just six games, he's changed our formation, style of play, and fortunes - all for the better. He's done this without recruiting, with players that were not his purchases, and is also actively looking to use youth players developed at Cardiff. Unless he messes up completely between now and May, he gets my vote to stay on.
How much is it that down to what MM has done, how much is that Harris was a desperate man and change to anything was going to improve things and how much was it down to the teams we've played at end of Harris' run and start of MM?

QPR are now 5th best over the last 8 games (we are game 4 in that run) and 2nd best in the league over the past 6 games. During that longer period of time they have drawn with Norwich, beaten Watford and now beaten Brentford. We also lost to Brentford and Swansea (best form sides when we played them) and Norwich (top of the league) to make up 5 of our other 7 losses over that horrible spell.

Since MM has arrived we've faced the in form Rotherham (think they were missing their first choice keeper), an improving Millwall side and a series of teams heading the wrong direction.

Preston will be an interesting game considering their good away form, our relatively poor home form and that MM hasn't really rotated his starting eleven but we still start as favourites. After that we've got 6 pointers against Bournemouth and Boro, what is currently an in form Derby, a weak Huddersfield (the outlier), and further 6 pointers against Watford, Stoke and Swansea to finish off March. This is when we find out how much progress has been made.