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Reply | LFW Message Board Glossary
at 00:02 14 Dec 2024
"We should sell x player to raise funds to buy a proven striker in January."
X player was typically signed on a free transfer, 34 pushing 35, with three cruciate ligament operations behind them, and on the rare occasions when fit, unable to get into the side. |
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Reply | QPR v Oxfoooooord match thread
at 16:27 10 Dec 2024
Its also received wisdom that we never do well if we play too much.
Seems to be a pattern here. Can't quite put my finger on it... |
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Reply | Neil Harris on his way out at Millwall
at 16:24 10 Dec 2024
I recall clambering on a tube after a home fixture and being surrounded by about 30 men who all looked and somehow even smelt like Grant Mitchell. Who maybe when older would start to look like Greg Wallace, perhaps with similar views. One of them lent into me and I was already anticipating the dental work when he smiled and said "your lot played quite well tonight." I wasn't wearing a scarf btw, but maybe I just didn't look like Grant Mitchell. It was one of those many reminders I've had over the years never to assume... |
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Reply | Who had the better brace?
at 16:08 10 Dec 2024
Hahaha, good point, nicely expressed.
Disingenuous? I'd prefer to call it modesty, but yes, for sure, a lot more to it than turning up for Jack. Turning up does help, tho, as our recent experiences show.
When I was a teenager I was absolutely terrified of asking girls out, because I feared rejection even more than I craved the acceptance (and as a hormone-driven boy, you really DO crave acceptance). I was far older than I should have been when I realised you simply had to pose the question. Sure, you would get a certain number of knock backs. But the knock backs were rarely brutal, and you also blagged some acceptances. The older I get the more I realise I was quite stupendously stupid as a young man, all the while imagining myself to be mildly intelligent.
Anyway, this is drifting WAY off topic, for which apologies... |
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Reply | Another Injury Update
at 13:26 10 Dec 2024
Unfortunately their service appears to have been experiencing technical difficulties all season. What with the brains of the operation in Dubai an' all... |
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Reply | Neil Harris on his way out at Millwall
at 13:24 10 Dec 2024
Preferably somebody of colour, who requires a translator and wears a snood, even in summer. If he were also LGBT+ it would be Netflix fly-on-the-wall documentary of the year. |
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Reply | Who had the better brace?
at 13:21 10 Dec 2024
Kolli's goals packed more emotional punch somehow, but on a technical level Cellar's were in a different league. And scored under intense pressure, given his stock with fans at the time. I loved Kolli's aggressive header and also the tackle followed by driving run, but come on - on a normal day, with a functioning goalkeeper, both would have drawn fairly comfortable saves. Am still puzzled by Gunn's positioning for the header. Its not like he was a foot or two wrong. He was so far north of the centre of goal he was virtually in Neasden.
Not to take anything away from Kolli - he played with freedom and lightness when others in hoops this season have played as if lugging a bag of cement on their backs. He attacked the ball with belief, aggression and purpose, which we so rarely manage. Just asking the goalkeeper questions can garner rewards.
Jack Nicholson was once asked to explain his success with women. He pondered for a moment, then replied: "I turn up." I have often thought he should give a motivational talk to our strikers... |
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Reply | Chair
at 13:03 10 Dec 2024
Genuinely baffled that anyone would play Smyth over Chair. To a lesser extent am also surprised by other comments saying they would play Saito over Chair (and I really like and rate Saito).
Agree Chair was very poor when he played this season, and should only come back when he is genuinely match-fit, but last season pre-injury he scored (from memory) 7 goals and got 7 assists. How many goals and assists has Smyth got despite being first choice for most of this season so far?
Even the beloved Saito has only actually got about one assist and no goals all season - so its a bit much to use the "no end product" stick to beat Chair with.
Smyth has looked better the last two or three games so deserves credit. His work rate is certainly admirable. And his pace does seem to worry defenders. But where is the end product? Other than the penalty he "earned" the previous game, how many of those great runs result in anything? That penalty award served to remind me what he SHOULD be achieving on a regular basis, but its more like once or twice a season.
The familiar Smyth play is battle, run well, lose possession or sky ball over the bar and slap his thigh in frustration like he can't believe he has just wasted that opportunity. Surely you are a bit used to it by now son?
He gets in the team currently because of injuries but I would be disappointed and surprised if he were anywhere near the starting 11 with Chair, Dembele and Saito all fit and in form.
When properly fit Chair is easily our best offensive player. Yes he is frustrating, but "frustrating" could be the middle name of Paul Smyth.
Look at it this way: what would be their respective transfer values?
Totally accept Chair was way below his usual high standards when he has played this season. But my hunch (no proof I accept) is that this has more to do with the cluster-f*ck that has become our fitness/ conditioning programme this season. He looked absolutely way off the pace, with one injury quickly following another - when he has previously hardly missed a game through injury in several years. |
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Reply | Paal
at 14:50 9 Dec 2024
If his contract expires in the summer, very hard to see anyone buying him in Jan. Unless another club is desperate they will just agree pre-contract terms to sign in the summer. Its the Manning Way for QPR left backs, and for the new club they get a v decent Championship player for free.
So assuming we have to pay his wages till the summer, we might not have the budget to replace him. The alternative is Fox or Ashby, neither of whom I'd see as an improvement.
Personally I'd like to see him offered new terms. But maybe his demands are unreasonable. In theory I agree with the new club strategy of freezing out players who won't re-sign to avoid more Manning/ Bright situations, but as we saw with Kolli, sometimes for a club in our predicament it is smarter to be pragmatic. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 14:43 9 Dec 2024
Really hope he signs a contract extension.
But lets not assume the club has messed up. I mean, it is perfectly capable of having done so, but we don't know the contract demands or if there are any other off-field issues.
He seems very likeable and a great prospect (the best to emerge here since Chair). But so did Ledesma when we printed all those commemorative t-shirts... [Post edited 9 Dec 14:52]
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Reply | Cifuentes gone?
at 12:23 26 Nov 2024
A crucial difference tho: Curaton - from memory - cost £50,000, Celar was rumoured (stand to be corrected) to have cost about £2m. We must have paid that believing we had bought a proven, ready made, high scoring striker. |
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Reply | Is this on Nourry?
at 10:51 21 Oct 2024
Nourry must take primary responsibility for recruitment. Some of those signings were actually pretty good such as Nardi, Dembele, Saito. But Madsen the worst signing since Ned Zellic and highlights a major flaw in our recruitment strategy - statistics are the starting point, but fairly meaningless if you don't factor in that he played in a much less physical league.
Marti must take responsibility for motivation. While he was incredibly lucky last season with injuries he has been equally unlucky this. But ever since pre-season there has been a torpor, a lazy complacency which has quickly morphed into resignation and despair. Many thought he would "get a reaction" during the international break, but he hasn't. Injuries aside, he has made some odd selections. Ashby would not be anywhere near my team, and I would play almost anyone above Madsen. He needs to find players with cajones. My question to Marti is: are you telling players this, or are your training sessions still all about passing out from the back and tippy tappy?
Marti needs to select the hardest nuts he has available and hope that gets us through to Jan.
Then Nourry needs to eat some humble pie, risk our FFP budget, and bring in Hayden Jan 1. Then we at least stand a chance of surviving. |
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Reply | Fans Forum 30/09/24
at 15:53 25 Sep 2024
Agree the facilities are crap and there are questions to ask about that - eg "have you ever conducted a survey to ask what fans would be prepared to spend in the ground?" or "could it make commercial sense to open a quick turn over restaurant in the ground, such as by building out in the dead space about the Loftus Rd entrance?", or perhaps most sensibly "Could we have a fans meeting with a director of operations/ COO to discuss facilities in the ground and money making opportunities there the club are missing out on?"
But I have seen one or two forums where a fan has just gone on and on and on about one in itself very trivial point to the CEO.
The art of asking a good question is to a) elicit information or b) bring about change.
When one fan is complaining about the price of beer after another fan has been complaining that the club don't seem to have enough money to "buy a f*cking striker", the CEO is just inwardly rolling his eyes and not taking the question or the questioner seriously. |
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Reply | West London Sport
at 12:30 25 Sep 2024
They probably have virtually no budget so they can't find anyone who will provide useable content, virtually for free, that enough people will read to get any advertising revenue.
If it were otherwise am sure they would continue. |
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Reply | Fans Forum 30/09/24
at 12:24 25 Sep 2024
Most things about the club now seem on a strong upward trajectory. Lack of club engagement and communication one of the few negatives. That said SOME fans don't do themselves any favours when they have had every key decision maker there and have asked about the urinals or the price of beer, which is just embarrassing.
Questions I would like answered:
Why no plan b seeing as we are no closer to being able to pass out from the back?
When will Chair be back?
We were told a couple of years ago that the plan was to re-develop Loftus Rd rather than move - how's that going?
Is there any prospect of additional outside investment?
Are Saito and Dembele on loan with options to buy on both, or just Dembele? |
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Reply | West London Sport
at 12:15 25 Sep 2024
Anyone complaining about WLS not covering us - or the Standard for that matter, which gave up on us some years ago - I would politely ask "do you ever pay for news content?" |
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Reply | Frey’s big start, Madsen’s quiet wins, Field’s conundrum - Column
at 19:20 11 Sep 2024
Agree Varane is a 6 and clearly has potential but yet to be convinced he has the physicality to do the job of one hard as nails Championship number 6, let alone two if he is going to be playing alongside Madsen. At least as things stand, he might develop. |
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Reply | Frey’s big start, Madsen’s quiet wins, Field’s conundrum - Column
at 18:23 11 Sep 2024
Good column.
The only point I would question Alex is your suggestion that Field doesn't fit this new-look Marti-balls team. Surely he is more essential than ever as the weakness so far this season has been teams carving through our midfield? A pairing of Varane and Madsen - on current showing - brings me out in cold sweats as I fear it would leave our defence exposed. Hayden is an unavoidable loss, but a big one nonetheless. Coleback is too wild, his loss of pace provoking him into desperate lunges. Whilst I absolutely share your exasperation with defensive midfielders with a turning speed of a mobility scooter on low charge - it was probably the single quality I hated most about Andre Dozzell, more even than the immaculately gelled hair and unearned arrogance - I think every successful Championship side needs someone to be ugly (in a footballing sense). Chair, Dembele, Saito, Andersen, Madsen and Varane all look pretty on the ball, but who is going to win it to allow them to play? We now have enough depth to replace every single flair player (even Chair, amazingly), but who replaces Field? |
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Reply | One Game at a Time. Pasoti preview
at 17:39 22 Aug 2024
Thank you, lots of amusing lines.
Particularly liked the jibes at Dykes and this:
Scoring goals was an issue, with their leading marksmen being putative fugitive from the Belgian Courts Ilias “Electric” Chair, and long-term fugitive from trapping and close control drills, Lyndon Dykes, who between them managed five less than Morgan. |
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