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Thread | Post-match comments (Blackpool)
at 22:43 25 Sep 2018
Disgraceful. Seems to be blaming young players for not being up to it, and after the way he has treated them. |
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Reply | McClaren Agreed Terms?
at 07:28 10 May 2018
Sad for Ollie, but can see where they're coming from. McClaren would be Head Coach under DoF and Carsley, who seems to have a good record developing younger players, would be an upgrade on Bircham. Timing right. Parts of this sound dangerously sensible.
Hope that kills etc etc |
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Reply | Robinson as left wing back?
at 19:26 7 Jan 2018
Agree about Smith. He can't really hold the ball up either which is a big problem for someone in that position. Plus if we start with him the tendency is to take the long ball too often. |
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Reply | Robinson as left wing back?
at 19:25 7 Jan 2018
Yes, forgotten. Not so many games though? , Bidwell has been playing there so long. |
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Reply | Robinson as left wing back?
at 17:02 7 Jan 2018
Well, he used to be an attacking left back before his injury. He has looked sharp. For the right side, I think I heard someone say that Pavel was one of the fastest at the club. Bit of a mystery why Cousins continues to play there. Ollie seems determined to keep playing the system so we need more options. |
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Thread | Robinson as left wing back?
at 16:20 7 Jan 2018
Robinson has had a great season since moving to centre-back and along with Freeman and Luongo is surely a candidate for player of the year. But now we have other centre backs fit again, and if we persist with 3-5-2, could he switch to left wing back with Pavel right wing back? Basic Bidwell is a solid full back with the occasional bit of brilliance (eg interception or goal-line clearance) but is not quick enough for a wing back. Robinson is faster, can cross the ball and knows where the goal is. Could that work, assuming we have Ned, Baptiste and Hall/Lynch available? |
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Reply | Fine Lines
at 16:49 8 May 2017
I'm a bit bewildered by it all. 4-5 weeks ago we were in fine form and looked to be building a squad for next year, with good Jan signings and some young players coming through. Really good away performances at Birmingham, Leeds, Reading and Newcastle. Then, as if 50 points was the target, everything seemed to change and we seemed to lose all direction. Losing Hall seemed to be a particular problem.
That said, I would still stick with Ollie. The worst thing would be to sack him and spend 3-4 weeks with the usual rumour and uncertainty, wasting away pre-season. On the other hand, as others have said, if Monk is able and willing.. |
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Reply | Clement anyone?
at 11:13 7 Nov 2016
Thought the Guardian journalist had sussed out the owner well and Clement comes out of it ok. Not his signings and constantly under pressure from above, but still got them on a good run. Recent evidence suggests foreign managers or managers with let's say wider experience of other European leagues do well, and not only in premiership. He's got that, plus experience here as manager (and No 2) and with apparent commitment to QPR. Seems ideal choice. |
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Reply | Polter
at 11:20 3 Jan 2016
Seems he was in same German U-21 squad as Emre Can and scored a few. Technically, a bit above Conference standard. |
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Reply | JFH to press: 'Not thinking of Play-Offs'
at 09:14 2 Jan 2016
Teams promoted when or after we were (2011 + 2014) eg Swansea, Leicester, Southampton, Crystal Palace, have developed because they had strategy in boardroom on best manager 'fit' every time they made a change, whereas most of our choices were based on whoever impressed Fernandes (who knows little about football) and strategy seemingly changed via twitter. Always short-term. Initially the appointment of Ramsey to rebuild seemed a welcome change and in bringing in likes of Hall, Luongo, Gladwin, Chery, Polter, was doing what he was asked to do. Then 'strategy' changes again, Warnock brought in needlessly and it's one step forward, two steps back. Given JFH was appointed through 'proper' procedures need to stick with him and let him rebuild, and at same time send message to owners to stand back and let him and Les get on with it. |
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Thread | JFH to press: 'Not thinking of Play-Offs'
at 22:43 1 Jan 2016
Could be his most significant contribution to-date if it makes our clueless (about football) owners accept what nearly all the fans already realise - that we are not getting promoted this season. Didn't actually use the word 'consolidation' or 'rebuilding' but seemeed to be implying it. If the owners could now accept this then we could actually start enjoying the season again, move the over-paid failures on, start to build again and give the young players a chance, which is what Les and Ramsey were originally encouraged to do..
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Reply | MATCH THREAD
at 20:27 8 Aug 2015
Can't believe some of the nonsense on here. Already writing off Ramsey and implying 'crisis' after one game. This is a completely new team, with unsatisfactory pre-season that had nothing to do with Ramsey who is already being written off. Most agreed with his signings under new constraints. It was a difficult away fixtiure to start, with a new team, and which apparently could have gone either way. We hear on here that getting off to a good or bad start will shape the season; actually no, there are so many games and lots of evidence in recent seasons of teams beating each other and moving up and down the table. If we beat Cardiff we are already in mid-table and 'crisis over'. Get a grip |
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Reply | 442 not working anymore
at 11:58 24 Jan 2015
We alone seem to play 4-4-2 without wingers. When we were in premiership under Gerry Francis we had perfect 4-4-2 set up with Impey and Sinclair. 4-3-3 would work best when Yun is back as need full-backs to keep width |
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Thread | Redknapp's big failure...
at 18:53 10 Jan 2015
He is unable to build winning formations because he doesn't play players in their best position. It is quite a good squad, though unbalanced because of his pre-season intention of playing 3-5-2 (and got rid of full-backs), and then after he quickly ditched it trying to mould number 10s into 4-4-2, or if he is very radical 4-4-1-1. He says we only have two strikers, but in fact we have four - Zamora, Austin, Vargas and now Zarate. How is it that Vargas scores regularly for Chile but can't score for us? Because he is out of position. Fer is out of position. Isla is out of position. Kranjcar, one of our most composed players on the ball, doesn't fit into 4-4-2. Mutch score goals behind Cardiff's one striker last year. He doesn't fit into HR's formation |
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