| Forum Reply | Madsen at 20:46 4 Oct 2024
Hope. And that their statistics at their respective clubs indicated they were good, if not exceptional, performers in their respective leagues. This, however, is the Championship. Let’s at least give them this season before vilifying them as useless. For me, only Celar is of major concern, but he needs to get at least 20 games under his belt before any sort of opinion is proffered to his true capabilities. |
| Forum Reply | Eze not in the England squad at 21:20 3 Oct 2024
Massive fan, but he played it too safe playing for England. Needs to impose himself more and take some risks. One of the best dribblers in the league, but never really showed it. Seemed a bit overawed which is a shame. |
| Forum Reply | Varane’s red sets Rangers on road to Rovers ruin – Report at 22:50 30 Sep 2024
Whatever type they are, it isn’t working. They don’t dominate the midfield and they don’t provide the service required for the likes of Frey and Dembele. We have a better keeper and striker than last season and our defence is sound. Unfortunately, the midfield is not functioning in any way shape or form. At the moment it is a confused mess and needs significant work. The return of Chair is critical and if Dembele is better in the n-10 role ( no evidence to suggest he is after Saturday’s performance) then we have only Smyth or Anderson as options on the right, neither of whom can defend for toffee. Be interesting to see the line up tomorrow as the tombola is in full swing, but Hull are no mugs and have a deeper squad than we do. It could be a seriously bumpy ride for a good few weeks yet. |
| Forum Reply | Varane’s red sets Rangers on road to Rovers ruin – Report at 19:57 30 Sep 2024
The “red mist” hangs around Colback like a bad smell and always will. He is unable to control his anger or temper during games when the Adrenalin is flowing. It’s his nature and he/we will have to live with it as no amount of yellow cards or suspensions will ever change who he is. |
| Forum Reply | The no ones bothered Blackburn match thingy at 14:31 28 Sep 2024
Men against boys. Our newbies, with exception of Nardi and maybe Harrison are too lightweight in this league. Beginning to doubt the footballing ability of some of them as well. Long season ahead, with very few grass roots showing so far. |
| Forum Reply | The no ones bothered Blackburn match thingy at 13:28 28 Sep 2024
Competent at what exactly. Everyone just wants to give the ball back to Cook. That was horrible. One cross from Saito the sum of our attacking threat from the 3 AM’s. Varane and Field just go back with it every time. As a team we are going backwards. A long road ahead for Marti with this lot. |
| Forum Reply | 6 games in at 13:21 24 Sep 2024
When Marti finally decides on his strongest eleven and preferred formation with the inclusion of Chair, then and only then, will we start to kick on a bit. Bit of a mish mash at the moment, but only one loss from 6 is not bad going all things considered. |
| Forum Reply | Frey and Nardi drag QPR through clunky Millwall show - Report at 19:23 23 Sep 2024
Spot on as usual. We simply cannot continue to accommodate Anderson and Madsen playing together. It’s one or the other with Varane accompanying Field/Colback. Dembele is not a winger. He plays at 10 or Smyth takes the right wing spot. Saiito is cover for Chair only. We have five players at 5”6 or under and are getting bullied. This will continue unabated unless our movement and available pace is used more effectively. We can expect more rough house tactics up at Blackburn this weekend and should plan accordingly. Back to the drawing board titled pragmatic. |
| Forum Reply | Anderson at 16:00 22 Sep 2024
All of this kind of makes a mockery of the argument surrounding the selection against Palace. I’m not even sure Marti knows our best eleven or formation and the side looks and feels unbalanced and lightweight, not to mention players getting selected that are not in form. I do worry that our attacking midfielders and ball players are too lightweight for this league. Dembele, Smyth, Saito and Anderson get flattened constantly and really look to be struggling. Madsen looks useful, but the hurly burly of this league is a bit of a culture shock to him and his style is similar to Anderson. Marti has his work cut out and needs to return to the pragmatism that served him well last season. The team selection for Blackburn needs to reflect the challenge it represents. |
| Forum Reply | Everyone Likes Us vs No One Likes Them Match Thread at 15:21 21 Sep 2024
Form is temporary, class is permanent. Had a poor start to the season, but suspect he will come good again. Poor today though. Only Frey and the keeper had decent games for me. |
| Forum Reply | Kenneth "Present!" Paal at 20:45 19 Sep 2024
Consistent and dependable. No problem with Paal and think we would miss him if injured/ suspended with no adequate back up. |
| Forum Reply | Genius Eze inevitably wraps return narrative – Report at 20:28 19 Sep 2024
I’ve been watching QPR for over 40 years and by and large we have always been guilty of playing within ourselves (passive now the term) until we concede and then voila, we pick it up and have a go. Not often we go for the throat right from the off. It wasn’t likely to happen last night with a bunch of relative strangers playing together against a team from the premiership full of multi million pound and international capped players. We had a decent go and the majority of the fans in the stadium appreciated the effort. Vauxhall motors it was not. |
| Forum Reply | Genius Eze inevitably wraps return narrative – Report at 20:12 19 Sep 2024
At 1-1 we were in the ascendancy and Eze scored against the run of play. We then had them on the rack and they were shithousing for the last 15 minutes trying to see the game out. We almost scored twice in the dying minutes with Henderson pulling off a great save from Smyth following a great move. That for me, was not us tossing the game off in favour of putting Colback back in to save the day against Millwall. Passive in the first half, but had a go in the second. Just like every game this season bar West Brom. |
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