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Reply | Meanwhile at Man Utd
at 11:10 25 Feb 2025
Without wanting to stray into any modern shouting match about politics on the internet, just because someone is very good at running one business does not mean they are therefore good at running all businesses, football clubs, or government agencies (cough cough).
Find it amusing that people are able to see this easily with Ratcliffe and not with others. What % of football club owners run their club in a sustainable, successful way? 10%? Less? They’re egotistical billionaires, exploiting the common man is basically their MO |
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Reply | QPR finances released
at 16:53 24 Feb 2025
Surprised at the surprise on here to the cost of some of the outlays this summer.
A) There are quite a lot of sources at the time saying almost bang on what the figures were (based on the analysis in this thread).
B) Signing u25s is always a more expensive strategy in terms of fees because you’re buying based on potential. For argument sake let’s say Varane and Colback are the same level; Varane is obviously going to cost you far more than colback in transfer fees because you’re paying for the potential upside (a ~10-15£m move to the Prem).
C) Most compellingly, it’s QPR. We always sign players and the expensive ones never turn out to be the best. |
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Reply | The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield
at 15:50 24 Feb 2025
And while I think we all (mostly) love Koki/Illy and the merry gang of midgets they lead, they’re not exactly 2010/11 Adel.
I think it is quite clear, as other have said, that Marti’s trying to get closer to his ideal approach, using this stretch to try things when we’re neither in a troubled position nor would there be any pressure from above for falling away from an unlikely play off hunt.
Before anyone jumps on my back about ambition, pride yadda yadda. Managers don’t get these situations very often, where they can genuinely experiment in real competitive football and learn more about their team tactically.
I know we think we know it doesn’t work, but the manager obviously has an idea he wants to try and i understand why hes doing it now, especially after our start when it went so wrong. Call me cynical but finishing 11th or 15th is a bit irrelevant (and 15th would be an improvement regardless!
I back mixing things up now while we have the space to (watch the 3 return against SU now) |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 15:24 23 Feb 2025
My 2 cents would be that they stopped doing all the things that got them to the premier league. Look at the signings they made 2021-2024 and then look at the players they bought last summer with the prem money.
As we well know, the poisoned chalice of prem recruitment can hurt you for years if you get it wrong. [Post edited 23 Feb 15:26]
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 14:00 23 Feb 2025
Couldn’t get my head around a club in receipt of parachute payments hiring a relatively untried manager who has had a good half of a season in league 1. Looked a bad decision at the time and clearly isn’t working. They’re gone.
Them and Edwards a good reminder that sometimes problems are far deeper/essential than a single manager. |
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Reply | Marti - Glasgow Rangers.
at 15:21 17 Feb 2025
Fancying is different to paying the compo though. If Ipswich come down and McKenna goes I’d be with you, he’d be mad not to take a job like that. Same with any of the current top 3 (if they don’t all go up, and it increasingly feels like they will).
Can’t see any of the other top 6 chasing sides paying in the millions for a manager mind, WBA bring in a few mil for Corberan and get Mowbray for nothing. Watch Blackburn appoint someone on the cheap. You don’t spend millions on a manager when you can’t spend millions on players. |
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Reply | Top 10 Championship players 24/25
at 14:43 17 Feb 2025
Despite them not beating us, Watford’s Georgian lad and Baah were stand outs for me (no way they both stick around in this league much longer).
Tom Fellows at WBA essentially won them the opening game on his own with his delivery from wide. Proper winger.
Unfortunately, Bannon (always and forever Bannon).
Ben Doak - ended Santos’ career in English football.
I thought Knight and Bird for BC are premier league players in waiting.
Finally, I’d agree with Johanssen for Stoke and add Conor Hazard to the mix for their shot stopping.
Not going to suggest top 4 players out of spite for the financial disparities / the fact Sunderland just weren’t that good when we played them (and neither were we) |
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Reply | Rumours about Marti going
at 13:56 17 Feb 2025
First two bits here bang on. We’ve seen time and time again, most clubs don’t want to spend millions to pay comp for a manager who, more than likely in the modern world, they will
then need to fire at some point when it all goes to sh**. Hell even Southampton with all the premier league money didn’t want to fork out a few mil for Rohl. We payed half a mil or so (from memory) for Marti and that was funded by a garage sale of sponsorship deals.
If martis is anywhere in the millions, the biggest threat - as many on here have said time and again - is relegated premier league teams coming in for him who can afford a few mi (ie not Rangers). Lucky for us, Saints/Leicester are both in the bin financially, and if it is Ipswich coming down our risk is only really there if McKenna gets poached (but that feels less likely now than last summer when it was on the brink). |
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Reply | Bits and Pieces I loved yesterday
at 20:14 15 Feb 2025
Really hope we can keep Koki beyond this season. In martis interview with WLS he alluded to how it’s taken him a little while to get used to the league and the coaching staff’s tactics, and if he was to go elsewhere come season end it would feel like he’s left with more to give.
Could be a real player for us next couple of seasons |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 20:01 15 Feb 2025
Oh yeah I’m being very tongue in cheek there mate. Don’t actually think there’s anything wrong with that one incident, but given he’s clearly a wan**** it just fits the narrative. Totally agree if any of our strikers pulled a Di Canio in that situation we’d be fuming. But…he’s clearly a piece of work |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 17:21 15 Feb 2025
His rap sheet of misdemeanours/thuggery grows by the day. Playing on when Cook tore the muscle of his sole is a Good Samaritan act relative to rest of it. Horrible bloke, befitting of PNE |
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Reply | How many points needed for 5th/6th?
at 23:05 14 Feb 2025
And how many points to stay up? Let’s all remember where we were and the doom and gloom being spouted by many on this board (cough cough). It’s a free hit. Enjoy it |
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Reply | QPR v Derby match thread
at 22:21 14 Feb 2025
Derby are, as they were before eustace, absolute garbage. 4-0 because we were clinical and put them away with ease. You can nitpick if you want, I want to enjoy having just watched my team at the bush destroy a crap side like they were a 12 year old straying into the u18s game. If you want to analyse it more be my guest.
Happy f****** valentines you Rs. Great night |
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Reply | John Eustace - Blackburn to Derby
at 16:16 13 Feb 2025
Blackburn comms team obviously had a quiet word with the CEO/Chair to water down the bitter fire from the first statement…Departure article is a bit less 14 year old boy dumped for the first time.
5th in league and a win at WBA makes it a bit easier I suppose. Still getting my head round this one. Hope we smash them tomorrow regardless, they’re crap. |
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Reply | Leeds H - moves to 12.30
at 16:05 13 Feb 2025
I take that means we’ve been spared for Sheff U and WBA away? Is this Sky’s way of saying we’re a dead cert to be mid table, have they been chatting to Jim… |
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match thread
at 11:42 12 Feb 2025
Yeah that’s fair, and maybe I’m being overly harsh on our lot / see Cov with some rose tinted glasses (as player for player I think they’re up there with Boro for best of the rest). Ultimately it was a game of fine margins to quote Warbs Warburton, and all three results can be argued - but personally just felt they looked slightly better than us across the pitch (except for Nardi).
Amazing to think last time we played both teams were in and around bottom 3, based on yesterday [Post edited 12 Feb 11:43]
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match threads
at 11:37 12 Feb 2025
Ah apologies - I’ll blame it on my priors thinking we looked a bit weak on the eye!
Personally feel that away from home Varane is needed as we can look a bit fragile/slow in middle of park, though I get the resting given his outlay over winter. |
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match thread
at 10:24 12 Feb 2025
Contrary to most on here, I thought they were comfortably the better team and deserved to edge it. Thought their midfield was far superior off the ball - by FotMob not a single one of our starting midfielders made a tackle - and on it. Rudoni and Sakamoto bossed much of the game, and it always felt like if someone was going to win it it’d be them.
Baffled at the opinion Nardi was poor. Handling from crosses aside, bit of a theme for him, was excellent.
We’ve got two games coming up now against much worse opposition, and should be able to get more points on the board to trickle up towards 50 |
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Reply | John Eustace - Blackburn to Derby
at 10:27 11 Feb 2025
In fairness to him, would you really want to work for the Venkies and be travelling to Blackburn everyday?
Personally fall more on the side that this shows just how much of a basket case Blackburn must be upstairs than Eustace being a Beale-esque figure. You don’t go from chasing play offs to fighting relegation lightly. |
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Reply | millwall match tread ?
at 16:56 1 Feb 2025
Better second half. Saito and Yang much more threatening than Chair and Smyth today. Massive issues in the defensive line now Dunne is presumably off. If they don’t sign a proper RB in next couple days, wouldn’t be comfortable going into rest of season.
Hope the new LB (if true) comes in and replaces Paal quickly. His set piece delivery is so so so poor. |
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