| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 07:41 - Sep 4 with 6513 views | westberksr |
I'm upvoting this before I've even read it..... feeling slightly giddy  |  | |  |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 07:52 - Sep 4 with 6436 views | westberksr |
last sentence is a 10/10; properly laughed at that | | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:07 - Sep 4 with 6361 views | distortR |
Funnily enough, we were saying that trying to gauge the flight of the ball with Kolli jumping in front of you must be a bit of a bastard! |  | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:24 - Sep 4 with 6265 views | thehat |
Another masterpiece Clive which had me spitting out my morning tea with laughter at the breakfast table. Reading your articles brings so much joy and a perfect way to start the week.
I do feel we can be at our best when our backs are to the wall and with Gareth leading the boys and the free signings he has made you can already see the improvement in what was a very toxic dressing room.
Another expensive loan signing for a forward would only block our boys progress which would be a shame as I am really starting to enjoy seeing our young boys come through. | | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:24 - Sep 4 with 6262 views | PerthRs |
Laughed by balls off with that statement total quality,
"Difficult to tell under there. Pray for Darragh Lenihan, one minute expecting to win a routine ball in the air the next trapped in a Tina Turner video"
Once again other great write up Clive and you got to see us get 3 points away now let's do it at home. |  | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:26 - Sep 4 with 6252 views | Northernr |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:24 - Sep 4 by thehat |
Another masterpiece Clive which had me spitting out my morning tea with laughter at the breakfast table. Reading your articles brings so much joy and a perfect way to start the week.
I do feel we can be at our best when our backs are to the wall and with Gareth leading the boys and the free signings he has made you can already see the improvement in what was a very toxic dressing room.
Another expensive loan signing for a forward would only block our boys progress which would be a shame as I am really starting to enjoy seeing our young boys come through. |
Well I still think we're miles short depth and quality wise and it'll cost us through a long winter, but you've got to admire the turn around in the last few weeks from Watford, in every regard. |  | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:57 - Sep 4 with 6086 views | Hunterhoop |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:26 - Sep 4 by Northernr |
Well I still think we're miles short depth and quality wise and it'll cost us through a long winter, but you've got to admire the turn around in the last few weeks from Watford, in every regard. |
Very fair opinion, Clive, and will probably be proven a correct one too.
However, the depth and quality of the squad isn’t Ainsworth’s fault (in any way). He has had little to nothing to work with in the market, as you’ve explained countless times. So, in that sense, he deserves credit. What he can control, he is positively impacting.
The lack of depth and quality is down to us massively overspending in Warburton’s last season (and not selling anyone for big money since). The likes of Johansen, Austin, Gray (amongst many others)…those salaries with no resale value, have put us into this position, which Ainsworth is fighting back from.
Some people may not like Ainsworth’s style, and it’s clearly far from football utopia, I grant, but he’s trying to build something bottom up from scratch (arguably worse as he had a toxic dressing room and rudderless club) and you start with the foundations. Work hard. Give everything. Be organised.
There’s loads I’d like to see improved (player fitness for one!) and done better (half time warm ups), but, on the former, at least Ainsworth did act to appoint that new fella so he sees it too.
It’s still going to be a very tough year; I just think the fans need to get behind Ainsworth a little more. A home win against Sunderland would be huge for him. |  | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:01 - Sep 4 with 6068 views | Paddyhoops |
Dozell , “ so that’s what he’s here for”Brilliant, as he was Saturday. | | | |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:12 - Sep 4 with 5999 views | Northernr |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:57 - Sep 4 by Hunterhoop |
Very fair opinion, Clive, and will probably be proven a correct one too.
However, the depth and quality of the squad isn’t Ainsworth’s fault (in any way). He has had little to nothing to work with in the market, as you’ve explained countless times. So, in that sense, he deserves credit. What he can control, he is positively impacting.
The lack of depth and quality is down to us massively overspending in Warburton’s last season (and not selling anyone for big money since). The likes of Johansen, Austin, Gray (amongst many others)…those salaries with no resale value, have put us into this position, which Ainsworth is fighting back from.
Some people may not like Ainsworth’s style, and it’s clearly far from football utopia, I grant, but he’s trying to build something bottom up from scratch (arguably worse as he had a toxic dressing room and rudderless club) and you start with the foundations. Work hard. Give everything. Be organised.
There’s loads I’d like to see improved (player fitness for one!) and done better (half time warm ups), but, on the former, at least Ainsworth did act to appoint that new fella so he sees it too.
It’s still going to be a very tough year; I just think the fans need to get behind Ainsworth a little more. A home win against Sunderland would be huge for him. |
I agree with all of that.
This line is the bit for me "Some people may not like Ainsworth’s style, and it’s clearly far from football utopia"...
When he came here I said the idea that there is a "QPR way", and indeed a correct and incorrect way to play football, is a bit of a sanctimonious delusion. Russell Martin football is every bit as tough and boring to watch as Tony Pulis football, for me. A little bit more directness, width, attacking as opposed to pising about at the back, I would have welcomed by the time Gareth arrived.
Initially what he produced was unwatchable, for me. I know it got us a couple of results at Burnley and Stoke but my God it was bleak. And it didn't work at home at all. That continued against watford and if we'd kept playing like that I'd have had no time for it, or him.
What we've got now is what I thought and hoped Ainsworth's QPR might look like. Wingers getting at full backs, time spent in the oppo half, no nonsense further back. I could quite happily watch us play as we have against Ipswich, Saints and Boro all day, no problem at all.
Like you say, really interesting to see if it can yield home wins, three games coming up. | | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:16 - Sep 4 with 5958 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Excellent stuff. Where do you find the time? |  |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:17 - Sep 4 with 5962 views | enfieldargh |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 08:57 - Sep 4 by Hunterhoop |
Very fair opinion, Clive, and will probably be proven a correct one too.
However, the depth and quality of the squad isn’t Ainsworth’s fault (in any way). He has had little to nothing to work with in the market, as you’ve explained countless times. So, in that sense, he deserves credit. What he can control, he is positively impacting.
The lack of depth and quality is down to us massively overspending in Warburton’s last season (and not selling anyone for big money since). The likes of Johansen, Austin, Gray (amongst many others)…those salaries with no resale value, have put us into this position, which Ainsworth is fighting back from.
Some people may not like Ainsworth’s style, and it’s clearly far from football utopia, I grant, but he’s trying to build something bottom up from scratch (arguably worse as he had a toxic dressing room and rudderless club) and you start with the foundations. Work hard. Give everything. Be organised.
There’s loads I’d like to see improved (player fitness for one!) and done better (half time warm ups), but, on the former, at least Ainsworth did act to appoint that new fella so he sees it too.
It’s still going to be a very tough year; I just think the fans need to get behind Ainsworth a little more. A home win against Sunderland would be huge for him. |
Wonderful report to match a great result.
Enjoyed our boys looking calm and unflustered for a change unlike McNair who kept placing passes out for throw ins.
Nice also to see we didnt run completely out of DIESEL towards the end
As you say we probably do need a few extra recruits but lets look in the area at the back of the recylcing centre for unemployed fotballers (not the bin with Todd Kane in it) who want to fight for an extended contract.
THankyou again and a super way to round off your trip up norf norf. |  |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:24 - Sep 4 with 5908 views | Lblock |
Tina Turner video…… pure quality |  |
| Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:47 - Sep 4 with 5784 views | E17hoop |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:12 - Sep 4 by Northernr |
I agree with all of that.
This line is the bit for me "Some people may not like Ainsworth’s style, and it’s clearly far from football utopia"...
When he came here I said the idea that there is a "QPR way", and indeed a correct and incorrect way to play football, is a bit of a sanctimonious delusion. Russell Martin football is every bit as tough and boring to watch as Tony Pulis football, for me. A little bit more directness, width, attacking as opposed to pising about at the back, I would have welcomed by the time Gareth arrived.
Initially what he produced was unwatchable, for me. I know it got us a couple of results at Burnley and Stoke but my God it was bleak. And it didn't work at home at all. That continued against watford and if we'd kept playing like that I'd have had no time for it, or him.
What we've got now is what I thought and hoped Ainsworth's QPR might look like. Wingers getting at full backs, time spent in the oppo half, no nonsense further back. I could quite happily watch us play as we have against Ipswich, Saints and Boro all day, no problem at all.
Like you say, really interesting to see if it can yield home wins, three games coming up. |
At the kit sponsors' evening he acknowledged the Burnley and Stoke performances were one offs, designed to get us the points to stay up. They were never the plan and were managed because that was the only way he thought the players he had could play. It was always going to be different this year and after the Watford debacle, he's also realised he has to flex as needed.
We're beginning to see the benefits of his coaching, as well as his ability to compromise. I thought he was out of his depth at the start but feel a lot more confident now. |  |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:54 - Sep 4 with 5756 views | EastR |
4 wins out 6, this probably belongs on the Corny Jokes thread, but anyway
Why are Gareth Ainsworth teams like an adulterous husband? They're much prefer playing away | |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 10:05 - Sep 4 with 5702 views | Northernr |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:47 - Sep 4 by E17hoop |
At the kit sponsors' evening he acknowledged the Burnley and Stoke performances were one offs, designed to get us the points to stay up. They were never the plan and were managed because that was the only way he thought the players he had could play. It was always going to be different this year and after the Watford debacle, he's also realised he has to flex as needed.
We're beginning to see the benefits of his coaching, as well as his ability to compromise. I thought he was out of his depth at the start but feel a lot more confident now. |
I think he deserves credit for not doubling down after Watford, and for going a new way.
Must have tossed that over in his mind a bit because one of the things he was meant to be coming here to sort out was a broken dressing room, downing tools on a manager, tail wagging the dog etc so must have been a part of him when the players spoke up after Watford that thought "fck em, my way or the high way".
I'm not as convinced as you that those Burnley and Stoke performances were never part of the plan because I saw him do the same thing in his previous job plenty - second leg of their play off semi-final at MK Dons was ludicrous, basically played a flat back ten on the goal line and prayed Scott Twine didn't top bins one. | | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 10:14 - Sep 4 with 5635 views | Andybrat |
Great report Clive, must have been great to be up there. Still early days but I see a balance in the team with youth and experience and particularly experienced guys who, despite their age, are still fit and hungry. The whole Charlie and JoJo thing was that for some reason their legs and engines starting going earlier than would suggest Colback or Cook ( easier at CB as reading the game is key). Mind you no news on Cook injury which wasn’t an impact one I hear. As you suggested having no money and no loans makes the whole team ethos and development of younger players a no choice situation. This is where I think GA is perfect. Paul Smyth …. wow, Andre needs confidence as obviously has a sweet left foot ( we will know that) and an automatic 1st choice. Long way to go but I did say we would be a surprise package this year, more about me being an eternal optimist but might actually be right. Need a home win for the rest of us who can’t travel. | | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 10:22 - Sep 4 with 5581 views | Stanisgod |
Never seen anybody so unhappy at scoring a goal?! |  |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 10:27 - Sep 4 with 5557 views | bosh67 |
How nice to be able to write about a great win before the international break. Brilliant article as always.
If we have to move out of Loftus Road perhaps we should move into the Riverside. We’d win the league if we played our home games there! |  |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 10:27 - Sep 4 with 5550 views | BklynRanger |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 07:52 - Sep 4 by westberksr |
last sentence is a 10/10; properly laughed at that |
Yeah by the looks of things on Saturday, Gareth needs to get to pay day and bite the bullet on investing in a few reliable fashion items that are one size up from what he had on.
He was doing a hell of a lot of adjusting and pulling in between clapping and yelling. I do the same thing but am rarely on the television. |  | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 10:31 - Sep 4 with 5530 views | terryb |
"Is Rayan Kolli ready for this? Probably not. Is he going on now with 20 minutes left to play away at Middlesbrough? Yes he is. And so he should. Did he do fine? He did more than fine. And just look at that barnet."
I understand how you & others feel about our "lack of depth", but I would much prefer to see Kolli, Dixon-Bonner etc come on rather than proven Championship players like Lowe, Johansen, Amos (and I liked Luke), Adomah etc. Or have loanees taking up their playing time!
When was the last time we didn't have any players on loan at Rangers? It gives me a warm feeling that we can & will manage without. And no signing of out of contract players please!
It was wonderful watching Soccer Saturday, Flash Live scores & Brian McCarthy updates feeling quite relaxed, but I was so pleased for all of you at 'boro. All of you should be given a free ticket for the visit to Sunderland!
It is strange how in recent seasons we have managed so many victories at Middlesbrough, Cardiff, Bristol City, Stoke & (maybe) Swansea. It would be nice to add the East Anglian & Yorkshire clubs to this list! | | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 11:01 - Sep 4 with 5360 views | HAYESBOY |
On squad depth, hope everyone is fit when we come back as we have 3 games in 6 days.
Also noticed Armstrong seemed to try and tone down his chasing the ball around their back 4. |  |
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| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 11:30 - Sep 4 with 5209 views | Burnleyhoop |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 10:22 - Sep 4 by Stanisgod |
Never seen anybody so unhappy at scoring a goal?! |
I think Dozzell had forgotten how to smile. Has had a face like a slapped arse since he came which is hardly surprising with all the stick he has taken.
The turnaround in attitude and performance is truly remarkable and I for one am flabbergasted, but Kudos to him and Ainsworth for putting the work in to get him here. Long may it continue. | | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 11:41 - Sep 4 with 5133 views | Silverfoxqpr |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 09:12 - Sep 4 by Northernr |
I agree with all of that.
This line is the bit for me "Some people may not like Ainsworth’s style, and it’s clearly far from football utopia"...
When he came here I said the idea that there is a "QPR way", and indeed a correct and incorrect way to play football, is a bit of a sanctimonious delusion. Russell Martin football is every bit as tough and boring to watch as Tony Pulis football, for me. A little bit more directness, width, attacking as opposed to pising about at the back, I would have welcomed by the time Gareth arrived.
Initially what he produced was unwatchable, for me. I know it got us a couple of results at Burnley and Stoke but my God it was bleak. And it didn't work at home at all. That continued against watford and if we'd kept playing like that I'd have had no time for it, or him.
What we've got now is what I thought and hoped Ainsworth's QPR might look like. Wingers getting at full backs, time spent in the oppo half, no nonsense further back. I could quite happily watch us play as we have against Ipswich, Saints and Boro all day, no problem at all.
Like you say, really interesting to see if it can yield home wins, three games coming up. |
Glad someone mentioned that, thought it was just me but quite honestly I was bored stiff sitting in the stand at Southampton last week watching the tippy tappy shenanigans in front of me. No idea or context of their 5-0 loss at the weekend but the score line did make me laugh. |  | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 11:43 - Sep 4 with 5111 views | CateLeBonR |
Thanks Clive. I was with a mate yesterday who watched the goals and he was well impressed with Paul Smyth’s de facto assist for the second. I think he’s been brilliant since returning and If only Armstrong had finished off that run and cross in the first half. |  | | |
| Dozzell spectacular arrival drives QPR's latest Riverside wonder - Report on 12:22 - Sep 4 with 4929 views | Noelmc |
Completely brightened up my morning reading that and the comments so far. Thanks Clive & all.
As WestberksR mentioned the last sentence was brilliant and I also loved 'you don’t expend much energy watching and scratching your head'.
Another addition to the 'Classic LFW match reports' folder. |  | | |
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