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Reply | Non alcoholic beer/lager......
at 20:38 20 Jul 2023
Athletic Brewing, tried loads when had to be off the beer, still drink now to keep it healthy and tastes better than many alcoholic beers.
There’s a lager and IPA’s |
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Reply | London Parks....
at 17:07 24 Apr 2023
Battersea Park.
It's one of the most diverse (activity-wise) of all the parks, with the choice of big green open spaces, Go Ape, an Adventure Playground and a Zoo for the kids, plus a Boating Lake, tennis courts, sports centre and running track in the middle, and numerous all-weather football & hockey pitches and and cricket in the summer.
There's a 5km pedestrian/ cycling path circumnavigating it and you can hire bikes too. A couple of cafes and you are also on the edge of the river where, I think, is central London's only Pagoda in a park. The Peace Pagodas, there are 80 around the World, including the site in Battersea, were built as part of Buddhist monk Nichidatsu Fujii’s (1885—1985) advocacy for world peace and non-violence.
It's also next door to the recently opened and revamped Battersea Power Station, which is great.
Always a favourite of ours and our Canadian relatives when they come to visit. |
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Reply | Getting relegated with Willock on the bench
at 09:29 20 Apr 2023
Which Manager? We’ve tried 4 and the result has been the same, so either Warburton, Beale, Critchley and Ainsworth are all rubbish (and previous performances would suggest not) or there is something deeply wrong with what has been (despite injuries) a pretty constant group of players throughout their times in charge…. |
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Reply | Saturday's referee
at 14:36 12 Apr 2023
But they don’t care and there are no repercussions anyway, so they’ll basically carry on doing what they want, sh!t or not… |
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Thread | Talent x Form x Effort = Performance
at 17:41 27 Feb 2023
So, having read thread after thread and Clive's brilliant analysis of what's going on at QPR these dark days, I thought I'd have a bit of a focus on the players, just for shits and giggles, because I want to rationalise how we can have plummeted from top of the league to proper relegation form.
Is it because we are crap? Is it because nobody cares; is it because of a serious loss of form.
I genuinely don't believe that the vast majority of players want to play badly, but performances can suggest that, so how do we assess a player more than "he was shite". For me it's down to 3 things:
1 Are they TALENTED. Broadly this is pretty constant, albeit younger players talent will develop more than seasoned one's
2. How's their FORM. Are they playing to the best of their ability (talent). Form is, obviously a sine wave, capturing and maintaining it are key
3. Are they making an EFFORT. Are they trying, physically and mentally
So elite performance requires talent, form and effort, but good form and great effort can make up for lesser talent. Loads of talent with no form and no effort isn't going to end well.
Ossie & Tim are great examples of this, Ossie not that talented (not his fault, we hired him) but works hard on form and gives great effort, so gets MoM vs Blackburn. Tim, obviously talented but terrible form and effort means he may as well have been wearing a Blackburn shirt...
This is how I feel the team (players we see most of and judging some pre-injury/ illness) are currently, with talent based on Championship standards. Just my opinions, don't shoot me for it!!!
Talent Form Effort
Dieng 7 6 6
Dickie 6 3 5
Dunne 7 5 8
Laird 8 4 5
Paal 7 6 6
Kakay 5 7 8
Johansen 8 6 7
Field 7 7 8
Iroegbunam 8 3 3
Chair 9 6 9
Willock 9 4 6
Dozzell 5 5 5
Adomah 6 4 6
Richards ? ? ?
Roberts 7 4 4
Lowe 7 4 4
Martin 8 6 5
Dykes 6 4 8
So my conclusion, for what it's worth, is that we have a team that is "talented enough" for the top half of this league - they aren't crap.
Our individual form is patchy, which is going to drag our team form down a lot.
Effort is also patchy. Even with poor form with the talent we have and 100% effort from every player, as a team we could and should be winning games. I guess I draw some hope from that and GA's challenge is to fix the mental and physical effort levels to start getting any kind of results.
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Reply | The Manager, the DoF and the Board
at 15:14 17 Feb 2023
A really pragmatic assessment amongst the feeding frenzy around Manager/ DoF and Board right now, thanks!
I tend to agree with all you have said, especially re the owners - and certainly better the devil you know. Whether they have been right or wrong, they have always come across as having the club's best interests at heart.
I fear it is too late for NC, especially if tomorrow goes really badly, and if he hasn't lost [all] of the fans, he certainly appears to have lost the players, whether his fault or theirs doesn't really matter, outcome is the same... |
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Reply | QPR B v Cardiff B
at 08:26 1 Feb 2023
See what you did there, very nice 😂😂 |
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Reply | Dykes in hospital?
at 10:50 28 Jan 2023
Regardless of form/ ability, for all those writing players like Dykes off for “not caring or trying” read this…. |
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Reply | Early Hull Match Thread
at 15:38 27 Jan 2023
Hull are making a last minute loan signing of Jeff Hendrick.
He will then be joining Huddersfield mid-next week... |
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Reply | Ever randomly walked past a celebrity
at 19:44 12 Jan 2023
Lorenzo Insigne in Galleries Lafayette in Paris just before Christmas. He was trying to get a tax refund but didn't have the right ID!
He's very small. |
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Reply | Glutton for punishment...
at 17:29 1 Jan 2023
Yeah, was thinking about not after Luton, which was so depressing and the first game in years I have left early.
But, the payers stand more chance with the crowd behind them than not - or so I like to think... |
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