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Reply | A bit of perspective please!
at 09:11 12 Jan 2025
Strange how I can remember precise details of every cup final from 1977 to about 1993 (82 most of all obvs). Since about 1994 they all merge into one. Couldn't really recall one 21st century cup final, save Liverpool-West Ham 2006? Says it all probably. |
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Reply | What's your view of today's F A Cup exit?
at 19:28 11 Jan 2025
Got to say, good question- the question tonight.
I'm totally torn here . I want to feel more angry and depressed than I actually am tonight - which I think speaks volumes, having been hit for six. Probably a clear divide between the 4500 who soldiered to the East Midlands and those of us that didnt.
A shame, and something to reflect on. But a 1-0 win courtesy of a Plymouth own goal next week would wipe this completely, sadly. Back on the horse please, Marti - no 'Olly-style spirals, thank you.
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Reply | Dyches sacked
at 18:21 9 Jan 2025
Good to hear - I'm sure you're right. It just strikes me that Everton are in that 'zone' where they might look at Marti or hopefully Rohl - both exceptional head coaches IMHO. We won't keep our secret for long... |
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Reply | Dyches sacked
at 18:07 9 Jan 2025
Unlike the West Ham and Luton (obvs) situations, I'm just ever-so-slightly worried about this.
I would... |
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Reply | Frey Goal
at 10:49 7 Jan 2025
This is why VAR and technology is killing - has killed - football.
It's this thing called - drum roll, drum roll - luck. Blind pure luck.
Yes, luck. The thing that happens on every football field from school yard to local rec to national stadium and (used to) makes football such a great, enticing, emotional gloriously-irrational game.
Who can forget Marcus Bean's wonder goal against Gillingham in 2004? I remember few other goals around that time (Matty Rose maybe) being recalled so fondly. An Azeri linesman in 1966. Maradona in 1986. Totemic moments that make football what it is. And all glorious precisely because a team got lucky, adding to the irrational joy of it all.
Without luck, football is nothing. Sad that those with vast sums of money, who institute the ridiculously-sanitised VAR because they cannot countenance the excitement that unpredictability and jepordy bring, can never see it that way. |
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Reply | Your best and worst ever QPR moment witnessed as a fan and as an armchair fan !!
at 17:18 6 Jan 2025
Great story there (!), but I recall the famous 'Spencer f**king man' game being the season before when we lost 2-1 at Elm Park having been 1-0 up (Nov 96 when Spenny and Peacock joined)? Could be wrong, too long ago.
All my entries have long since been taken on this thread - save for a Wayne Fereday piledriver in a 2-1 home win over Spurs in Apr(?) 84 just after we'd missed a penalty. That felt good. [Post edited 6 Jan 17:20]
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Reply | Champ Survival
at 09:10 6 Jan 2025
Yes, I share your sensible caution on this.
But, if not mentioned elsewhere, the specific managerial chaos at Brum across last season (the ridiculous Eustace decision, Rooney, Mowbray, Rowett) made them a special case, no?
Presumably, this managerial instability will not inflict us from here on in - this season... [Post edited 6 Jan 9:11]
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Reply | Hoops vs Hornets Match Thread
at 14:35 1 Jan 2025
Superb. Terrific result and a massively unexpected New Year boost. A sort of nice team payback for the 700 who ventured to Swansea on Boxing Day. This is for them more than any imho. Happy 2025 all. [Post edited 1 Jan 14:39]
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Reply | Rooney
at 10:26 31 Dec 2024
Inevitable - but damn! |
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Reply | The King's speech?
at 13:16 28 Dec 2024
Crikey, was it 332 or 341 (that may have been the cricket)? Too long ago. |
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Reply | Carlos Corberan to valencia
at 16:02 24 Dec 2024
Yep, this. I get the obvious concern, but ( famous last words) I'm personally not too worried about this one. West Brom are post-parachute, on a reportedly parlous financial trajectory and come across as a busted flush. Can't see the attraction for Marti/Zavi here. And, as said, as long as the rest of the football world doesn't look too closely, we're hardly flying ourselves in recent times. [Post edited 24 Dec 2024 16:04]
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Reply | Cifuentes Leaving the Club
at 08:55 16 Dec 2024
I'm just about confident that vastly-monied football ownerships never bother to look beyond their noses.
Because if they had any footballing nous they would (and should) go for Marti/Zavi in a heartbeat. IMHO.
Let's just keep it quiet and hope Danny Rohl and Mark Robins remain (wrongly imho) ahead in the pecking order. [Post edited 16 Dec 2024 10:00]
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Reply | QPR v Oxfoooooord match thread
at 22:50 11 Dec 2024
Well Done Rangers - again. 1st half was just strange by both sides, 2nd a lot better. Oxford were weirdly awful.
Geographically speaking, we seem strong in the South this season don't we (Portsmouth excepted)? A shame that the Championship is (still) such a Northern league really... [Post edited 11 Dec 2024 22:50]
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Reply | QPR v Oxfoooooord match thread
at 11:05 10 Dec 2024
Might have already been mentioned, but worth noting that Oxford have had 11 days with 'feet up' since they last played, while we toiled valiantly to victory on Saturday. Will they be nicely rested or over-rested and, by contrast, will we be fatigued or happily energised? On this, I suspect everything depends.
1-1. |
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Reply | QPR v Naaaarwich Match Thread
at 17:10 7 Dec 2024
I want 16th! I demand 16th! The Holy Grail...
Well Done Rangers - top performance, partic first half. Now let's build. |
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