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How pleasing to see GA ditch the passing backwards and sideways and be more direct.Some May call it long ball but it suits our boys much more.If we are going to lose the ball better to do it in their half than ours.Great performance,LR was rocking.
Bizarre opinions on this thread here's where I am after 45 years supporting this mad house: I'm fed up with us losing football matches, surrendering in cups, being bullied on the field, having mates offer commiserations when I say who I support. I'm fed up with losing London Derbies, staying up till 4am seeing us lose pathetically again. I'm fed up with backwards passing, sideways passing. Zero effort from players who wear our cherished shirt. I'm 50 now and hopefully my marbles stay intact for another 30 years. So in that 30 years if we kick teams in the air, play long ball, cross to 2 X big men I really don't give a rat's.....just give me something to smile about Gareth.
Never had the pleasure of seeing the great man in the flesh, unfortunately. I'm sure my tolerance would have crumbled if I had seen SWP at City or Ch*ls** too.
Huge win Saturday in fact It was ridiculously massive and as I see It If we 'stank the place out' with our tactics then f ucking good and another thing If we 'stink the place out' tomorrow night at Blackpool and win playing 'stinking the place out' football then f ucking good because another three points will virtually ensure Championship football next season which is vital for our clubs future.
When the new season starts In August of this Year the eleven QPR players that start for us will all be Ainsworths players and we go again, tactics will be different then I would Imagine and we'll go through the whole goddam bullshit thing again.
Anyway.
On another matter If you support a football club be It with a ST or not you are taking a risk, a financial risk and a happiness or misery risk, there Is no escape from It even when you say to yourself I'm never going again. Every Saturday afternoon or Tuesday/Wednesday evening there they are, your football club either bringing you happiness or misery from the depths of your laptop or pox ridden bloody phone, you can't escape from It you just can't they wont leave you alone.
Apart from that have a nice day.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
I thought first half our style of play was very much Klopp early days at Liverpool, blood and thunder, pressing all over the pitch and using the ball well when we had it. No 25 passes and go nowhere get shots on goal and force mistakes. It was very good to watch.
Second half thought we we looked like what we are, a team who haven't won in months and just did everything they could to run the clock down and get over the line. We needed that win so badly any arguments about style of play feel a bit mad to me.
I think there's also a bit of a misconception about what 'The QPR Way' actually is (if it is anything at all). For all of my lifetime - and looking back at teams that my parents & grandparents watched - the best QPR teams played with wingers. Pace. Dribbling. Crossing. Tormenting full backs. The Morgans and Lazarus. Thomas. Fereday. Sinton. Sinclair, Impey. Cook. Ainsworth himself. And our own FBs complementing that. Gillard & Clement. Neil and Dawes. Bardsley and Wilson. Walker. Getting the crowd going, building an atmosphere. Even the 2010/11 team, although set up with 3 off the CF, still played players with pace and good crossing out wide.
If you asked me to design a QPR team, that's what I want. What I expect. And, once he's got his feet under the table, it's what I think Ainsworth will be aiming for.
As so often in life it's not really either or, it's both and.
I want aggression, hard work, high energy, team spirit, playing with purpose, getting forward quickly, crosses. AND I want triangles, pass and move, passing through the thirds, individual flair, and game control.
ALSO:
The idea behind emphasising the latter over the last few years, as I understand it, was so that: 1. We create players that are more sellable to the premier league. 2. We're more likely to get good loans from the premier league, or pick up their 19 year old drop outs, and for them to easily slot in to what we do. 3. If we got lucky and promoted we have more chance of staying up (debatable). 4. It's pleasing on the eye, when it works. The fact that we've done it badly doesn't in itself mean it's a bad idea.
Yeah, Lyndon improved Martin massively, because this week, unlike v Blackburn, we had the pace and numbers to press their defence. That obviously dropped off a bit when Dykes went off, and the team tired, although Uncs and Sinclair both did decent jobs too.
How many times even just this season have we been on the receiving end of what we just did to Watford? Feels good for the boot to be on the other foot for a change. It's an attritional division and unless you're capable of outplaying the opposition every game you'll get turned over by less capable teams if you can't match the attrition.
You brought these topics up and made a pretty strong statement. So I explained myself in response to you throwing a tantrum. For you to respond as you have there is pretty pathetic
Are you honestly disputing that people aren't influenced by what they read. Explains how far apart we are on this
Your knickers may have got in a twist because you misinterpreted the extent to which I saw it these articles as a factor in this instance
I see it as a small factor (without explicitly defining what I mean by that) but seems your thinking is so binary that you can't pick up on nuance and you have got upset and taken the extreme view that it has no influence absolutely zero. But that just isn’t true
It literally is a fact that people are influenced by what they read so it really is an odd over reaction from you
This. Ainsworth playing with what he has fit. What do we have? We've got Dykes and Martin, two physical forwards who don't mind elbowing a centre half out the way. Great - so for now let them do it and stay in the league through muck and nettles rather than being idealistic over it and trying to be Brazil 1970.
I'd rather QPR be competitive playing with what works than us finishing 22nd trying to pass the death out of the ball for no good reason.
On the subject of the sort of players we need to develop, with a view to selling them on, of course they should ideally be technically proficient and comfortable on the ball and able to pass and move quickly, but they also need to be players who have been part of a reasonably successful QPR team.
A player of ours could be the most technically gifted in the world - I wish - but if the QPR teams he has played in keeps getting poor results, I would have thought coaches potentially interested in signing him would wonder if there are shortcomings when it comes to their mentality, so, not enough will to win, a lack of grit, determination and killer instinct, professionalism even. Perhaps, I don't know.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
On the subject of creative players, Gaz did recently take a lump of prime academy youngster (via a few months playing non-league) in Anis Mehmeti and turn him into a million pound attacking midfielder who thrived in the Wycombe system. So I think he'll have a place for players like Chair and finally Richards when everyone is fully up to speed. Needs must this weekend and to be honest, I really enjoyed that first half at least.
Our defenders are (were?) clearly shot to pieces. Needed to get them back to simply defending and keep the ball down the other end. Exactly what we were crying out for.
Not saying it’s what I want every week, but confidence and momentum are what we need desperately. No way were we playing our way out of this.
"They don’t like it up em these fancy footballers. I want to see Rangers piss off teams. I want them to hate playing us. To hate coming to Loftus road".
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