Iain Dowie's QPR job tougher than Coventry City role, says Marcus Hall
MARCUS Hall believes that life at Coventry City was easy for Iain Dowie - compared to the tough job he faces at loaded QPR.
Dowie returns to the Ricoh Arena on Saturday for the first time since Ray Ranson showed him the exit door at the Sky Blues in February.
Having been forced to watch the pennies at Cov, Dowie finds himself in a completely opposite situation at his new cash-laden club QPR.
The Rs, owned by mega-rich F1 tycoons Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal,were dubbed the world's richest club before the recent takeover at Manchester City.
The West London club, who snapped up ex-Italy midfielder Damiano Tommasi on Wednesday, are one of the favourites to lift the Championship title this season and expectations at Loftus Road are sky high.
Coventry veteran Hall, 32, believes that his former gaffer Dowie faces an uphill struggle to be viewed as a success at QPR because of the incredible cash injection.
It's been suggested that Dowie will still be given the heave-ho with a golden handshake even if QPR are promoted at the end of this season.
Hall believes that bottomless pockets don't bring instant success and because of that Dowie has taken on a much harder job than he had at the Ricoh.
"It seems that Iain Dowie has got a harder job now," said Hall, a born-and-bred Coventrian.
"They've got a lot of money at QPR and as a result there's a lot of pressure to get to a play-off place or into those automatic promotion spots.
"The backers are showing some big money and it does create unrealistic pressure because it's easy to presume that money brings success because you can go out and get the best players.
"But you have to be able to make them gel together and having a lot of money doesn't always mean that every player will come to your club anyway.
"That makes your job as a manager harder because expectations rise to an unrealistic level. The fans do want to see that success and there's no excuses when you've got the money .
"But you've got to get the right balance of people and you don't want people coming just for the money."
Dowie was unveiled as Coventry boss in February 2007 following the sacking of Micky Adams and he made a mixed start to life with the Sky Blues.
At the start of the following season, Dowie was forced to fend off speculation linking him to Leicester City but he stayed loyal to Coventry despite the threat of administration hanging over the club.
Things started to look up for Dowie and Cov when Ranson completed his long-awaited takeover in December but the new chairman had booted out the ex-Northern Ireland international within two months
following a difference of opinion with the board.
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