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Reply | Tonight's highlights QPR 2 Oxford 0
at 00:25 12 Dec 2024
They have done well to stretch that out.
Has a side ever had zero highlights? Well done, Oxford. Back from whence you came. Sorry, lads. |
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Reply | Sam "Humble" Field on tonight's win
at 00:18 12 Dec 2024
He is also basically saying the new lads did not work hard enough to begin with and were a soft touch, which would be accurate. |
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Reply | Oxford Utd
at 21:58 11 Dec 2024
The worst side i have seen at this level since we returned a decade ago. Confident in that. One of the worst sides I have ever seen at this level. We were miles below par and won comfortably…and we’re us. |
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Reply | Another Injury Update
at 14:19 10 Dec 2024
It’s definitely positive if this becomes a regular thing (weekly). I’d like them to specify games players are likely to return for so the fans know who to expect in the team and can tailor their own expectations accordingly pre-kick off; helps with the atmosphere.
But this is definitely a step in the right direction. Hopefully signs of a broader change in comms strategy. Let’s see.
Personally, I think they might want to be a little less earnest about this whole “Performance Department” stuff; it’s the fitness coaches, physio, and club doctor with a fancy 3rd party platform and data from the sports bras they wear. It’s ripe (and right) for p*ss taking and makes them all sound like they believe in their own importance.
Pretty sure Cifuentes and the players are responsible for the first team’s “Performance”. |
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Reply | Sam Field or no Sam Field?
at 12:36 9 Dec 2024
Conversely, the best way to start attacks is to win the ball back off the opposition. To do that you need to tackle. If you just wait for their attack to peter out with a bad shot/cross, you’re starting from your box. If you win the ball off them in open play the oppo might not be set to defend, and it’s the best time to attack. See Celar’ 2nd goal as an example.
Tackling has been our weakest suit all season. You pick the best tackler in the side. Madness not to.
Cook, JCS, and Field are the first 3 names on the team sheet when available. Those 3 played the last 10 games of last season when we picked up 19 points or whatever it was. And Field scored 4 goals in those games.
If you think not selecting Field is the solution, you’re misdiagnosing the problem. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 16:51 4 Dec 2024
I’ve been ignoring them down the bottom. I think they’ll get out easily. They ballsed up sacking Rosenior and then appointing a bloke who seemed destined to fail. The temp guy is useless too. Now they can move on, I’m sure that pretty much any new appointment will help them rise up the league. |
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Reply | Jimmy D on today's game
at 13:51 3 Dec 2024
I am sure part of the reason Dunne has improved and been good at right back since Jan/Feb is because he is playing with Cook? His performances with Dickie in the previous season at centre half were often woeful. Cook improves those defenders around him whilst also doing his job competently, which is a rarity for defenders at QPR over the years.
I still think our challenges this season have been nothing really to do with Cook, JCS, Dunne or Morrison. Obviously Fox had is brain fart game and cost us 3 points. And Paal has been going through the motions a bit and got done against WBA.
The problem is the 5/6 in front of them. Field apart, that group have not made enough tackles, not competed well enough, nor tracked runners properly, often leaving the defence overrun. |
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Reply | FA cup 3rd round draw
at 09:49 2 Dec 2024
It’ll be someone like Blackburn or Peterborough. It always is. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 16:46 28 Nov 2024
But surely the point is that points deductions are becoming fairly commonplace, and part of life in the Championship? You can’t remove them to make a point if they have impacted relegation/survival in prior seasons.
Personally I don’t recall anyone bandying around points totals in the high 50s to stay up last season. I recall people saying 50-53, which seems entirely reasonable.
My guess will be 46 will keep you up this year. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 14:24 28 Nov 2024
Over the last 10 years you needed the following to stay up (ignoring GD)
2023/24 - 51 points
2022/23 - 45 (although Cardiff were 21st on 49)
2021/22 - 38 !! (although Reading were 21st on 41)
2020/21 - 44
2019/20 - 49
2018/19 - 41 (although Millwall were 21st on 44)
2017/18 - 42
2016/17 - 52 (although Forest were 21st and stayed up on GD (2 goals) on 51 points.
2015/16 - 41 (although Rotherham were 21st and stayed up on 49)
2014/15 - 42 (although Rotherham were 21st and stayed up on 46)
So over the last decade, you have only needed to reach 50 points twice, one of which was last year, so last season was undeniably the correct year to worry about the survival target. 7/10 years you would have stayed up with under 46 points, so less than a point per game.
Basically, usually you have to be very sh*t to get relegated. It’s quite an achievement. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 14:12 28 Nov 2024
Well, I disagree. Last year there was just logic in forecasting a high amount needed to survive.
This year? Looking at the league, it would not surprise me if it could be a year where you stay up on a low total like 44. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 12:33 28 Nov 2024
Who do we think will be involved in the relegation fight come March/April then?
I suspect it’ll be the following:
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Oxford
Us
Derby
Preston
At a push, maybe Stoke.
I think the top two will drop. I think the 3rd spot will probably between us and Oxford.
If we stay up would love to see Preston drop. Bored and tired of them. Sod’s Law if we go down they’ll come with us! |
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Reply | Fat Frank
at 10:37 28 Nov 2024
How does Lampard keep getting jobs in the top two divisions?! |
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