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Reply | Mark Robins sacked
at 21:07 7 Nov 2024
You may be jesting in your last sentence but on Faceache there were some Coventry fans wanting him out after our game. It appears many of their fans expected them to be top 6 this season. Expectations eh? |
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Reply | MC has got to go
at 20:23 6 Nov 2024
Trust me you are not the only one who has recognised we have been on the slide for many years. I have been harping on about it for a very long time but feel on here that I am in the minority. Sadly it is money that has poisoned the game and if you haven't got it then you will slowly sink as other clubs investing in their squads pass you by.
We had money and blew it and then got fined and since then it has been a case of cutting our cloth. We had to reduce the wage bill so you bring in bargain basement players as even a couple of million is too much for us to pay in transfer fees. This gives other clubs a way of dumping their rubbish on us so we end up with weak characters and players who can kick a ball but can't do the basics. We don't seem capable of producing our own players. This club feels like it is slowly dying and who is out there who will take us on and invest in it and the playing squad?
Right now we are getting to the levels of budgeting that Wycombe and Rotherham operate on. If you pay peanuts then you will struggle in the Championship as this league and the Premiership are money leagues. Generally the clubs with the bigger budgets are in the top half of each division. Wycombe and Rotherham don't stay in the Championship with small budgets so if we think we can slash ours and remain in this league then we are seriously deluded. One win in the last 14 against teams who came up from league 1 highlights that cutbacks to the finances is leaving us with a league 1 squad. |
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Reply | The Bob Mortimer Match Thread: QPR v Boro
at 23:17 5 Nov 2024
Sadly I have felt for a long time that to balance the books we can't afford transfer fees and reduce the player salaries each season. Like with cutting public services, the only outcome is an ever worsening product or in this case, a football team progressively getting worse from cutbacks.
We offload Dykes and Armstrong for players like Celar and Smyth who are even less likely to score than the guys who left. If you pay peanuts then it is no surprise the squad has no quality and this plays a big part in why we are hopeless at home. The players are simply not good enough at this level. This will continue season after season unless new owners come in and invest in the squad like Birmingham and Wrexham are doing in league 1. If we go down and continue to be spend thrift then we could be in the lower leagues for many years to come. |
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Reply | Tonight's lowlights
at 22:41 5 Nov 2024
More pathetic garbage from this club. Yet another unwanted record this time it is the first time in our history we haven't won in any of the first 8 home fixtures to a season. Every season we come up with another damning statistic. |
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Reply | Patient stabilised but home win still proves elusive - Report
at 15:52 4 Nov 2024
I don't know how many watched Millwall v Burnley but the winning goal was a cracking header into the top corner. It was a more difficult header than Cook and Dunne had and both headed straight at the Sunderland keeper. It makes you want to bloody weep. We are now 9 points adrift of the Lions.
I know I put most to sleep here with my analytical take on this pitiful football club so for the benefit of the one person who is still reading this I am drawing parallels to our brief stays in the Premiership.
Back in 2012 I thought it was a miracle we stayed up. In the run in we lost the last 6 away games but incredibly won all 5 at home against the likes of Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool. If onè of those five at home had been a draw then Bolton would have stayed up. This miracle then saw us make a dreadful start the following season and by mid December we had mustered one win so in effect we were doomed well before the season ended. Our tally of 4 wins in 2012-13 equalled the abject failure of 4 wins in 1968-69.
Last season was another miracle escape which I didn't think we would manage. But like in 2012, the great escape has been followed up by another awful start. We are only a month now from December and if we still only have one lousy win on the board, like in 2012, I fear we will be as good as down. There is a similarity in the way this season is panning out with 2012-13.
Whilst I accept people don't like my realistic negativity I do have to point out the stats as to why I feel this club is slowly dying without investment. You pay peanuts and you scrape the barrel as cutting back to pay off a FFP fine does weaken the playing squad each season. This is why we cannot buy a striker semi decent.
Yes two points against two of the pace setters seems OK, but bearing in mind we blew winnable games against Plymouth, Hull, Portsmouth, Coventry, Derby and Sheffield Wednesday, really means those draws are not good enough. If we had picked up three wins from those six easier games then Burnley and Sunderland would have been great results.
When we played Coventry we were both in the drop zone, we then get two 0-0 draws, all well and good but Coventry won both their games scoring 6 and moved 4 points further ahead of us. My blood boils when I see Plymouth with only one away point and Portsmouth with one win graciously donated by us. Stats like that tell me we are not getting a miracle this time if you cannot beat them at home. [Post edited 4 Nov 15:55]
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Reply | Home form
at 16:46 3 Nov 2024
If we are truly cursed at Loftus Road then the only way to break it is to move to a new home where the land has not been cursed. Simple solution to end it but how many of us truly want to move? |
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Reply | Sunderland fans.
at 15:59 3 Nov 2024
Why would Sunderland fans, great as they are, think they would lose to us? We can't beat them when in league 1, we can't beat them at home, we can't beat them when they are on the beach, we can't beat them when they have 10 men. Sunderland, like a host of clubs like Norwich, West Brom, Plymouth, Blackburn amongst others are just clubs we invariably fail to beat which is why we will always languish at the wrong end of the Championship.
By the way I'm not having a go at you for what Sunderland fans think but as they haven't lost any of the last seven meetings with us I cannot see how they think we would win. |
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Reply | Nottingham Forest
at 23:32 2 Nov 2024
Pretty galling how well they are doing and Villa in the Champions league. Doesn't seem that long ago we could match them on the pitch but as each year passes we gradually get worse and they get better. But then I don't think clubs like that stagnate compared to us. [Post edited 2 Nov 23:33]
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Reply | No disrespect but... Sunderland match threað
at 17:43 2 Nov 2024
Well another clean sheet against a top team is something to behold as a positive.
Trouble is it's another home game we haven't won and another game where we couldn't beat Sunderland which started when they knocked us out of the League cup as a league 1 side. We should have won in Sunderland last season but failed to score against a team on the beach and we just needed a goal today against 10 men but we were even more inept in front of goal.
If we continue the rest of the season winning one in 12 we will be relegated with just 4 wins all season reminiscent of our first ever season in division 1. I just cannot see a goal in us and by the next window it may be too late. |
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Reply | Cook rolls back the years as QPR stand firm for first clean sheet – Report
at 21:32 28 Oct 2024
Excellent report as always. To be fair to Burnley they may have only drawn at Oxford but we have to acknowledge that Oxford have played 5 at home, won 3 and drawn two. The other draw was against West Brom so decent results for a newly promoted club with no defeats compared to the home debacles we endure. West Brom won comfortably against us but have now gone 6 without a win so perhaps they really aren't that good.
We have had three great results away to the relegated sides but I still fear we will lose against two of them when we meet again at home. When we won 2-1 at Burnley previously it shouldn't be forgotten they thumped us 3-0 at Loftus Road in front of the Sky camera's. I just don't trust us to beat anyone at home.
Perhaps playing better sides in the coming weeks will see more fight from us and help gloss over the fact we are the only team to lose to Portsmouth and the only team to hand Plymouth an away point. The charitable nature of this club never fades and is always a given like an England batting collapse in the cricket. |
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Reply | Turfed over once Moor - Burnley Match Fred
at 17:59 26 Oct 2024
This club is so damn infuriating. They keep losing to teams who come up from league 1. Yet they play away to three relegated teams from the top league with their parachute money and don't lose. We should ask the EFL if we can play all 46 games away, we might stay up then. They really get on my bloody nerves...and yes a great point and at last a clean sheet but still only one lousy win to date. |
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Reply | Sent to Coventry match thread.
at 22:38 22 Oct 2024
The reality is we haven't won at home again and still cannot keep a clean sheet. Two home games against sides now in the bottom 3 and we muster one point. By contrast three home wins for Cardiff in a row, who were in the bottom 3, without conceding a goal, against three teams we couldn't beat at home. [Post edited 22 Oct 22:39]
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Reply | Sent to Coventry match thread.
at 16:05 22 Oct 2024
I won't even bother watching it on the TV tonight. It always seems like when we are on Sky that the commentators want the other team to win worsening my mood.
I thought Cardiff and Portsmouth were the two worst teams but I now realise I was wrong. We lose to Portsmouth at home for the first time since before I was born and Cardiff win two on the bounce at home without conceding a goal. To make it worse they beat two teams we couldn't beat at home.
Plymouth, Hull, Millwall, Portsmouth all winnable games tossed away and tonight another opponent in the same category. I have never seen such a weak home team anywhere in my life until covid came along and step forward QPR who seem to have become diseased playing on their own turf. Yet despite this and our pitiful displays, some still believe we will win tonight. I must be living in a parallel universe for the last 3 years... |
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Reply | Sent to Coventry match thread.
at 23:38 21 Oct 2024
That is what I said yes. A home game and on Sky a recipe for not ending well. Add to that Cov have stuffed us 6-1 on aggregate at Loftus Road in the last two meetings and our defence looks even weaker this season. We have been frittering away all these winnable games this season and now we are approaching sterner tests. |
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Reply | It is like giving up smoking....
at 14:50 20 Oct 2024
If I had my time again and had a son, I would let him decide on a football club to follow and if he chose a club as pony as us it would be his decision. I don't think I could ever forgive myself if I made him watch this Rangers slop year after year and he suffered decades of anguish in torment like we have endured. This is just going to keep on happening unless we get people who know what they are doing with proper investment in the squad. It is clear that cutting the wage bill every season makes the squad weaker.
Right now we must be right up there with the worst home record of all teams in the EFL in the last 3 years. I wouldn't trust us to beat Harrogate Town at home right now. |
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Reply | We're just circling the drain, aren't we?
at 17:48 19 Oct 2024
Our home form is still garbage so if our away form becomes half as good as the previous two seasons then we will drop this time. The players who have come in have seemingly made the team a bit weaker so we will have to wait until January to change it which is probably wishful thinking. |
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Reply | Sick of it
at 17:42 19 Oct 2024
Not only am I sick of this club continually losing at home but equally sick of us being turned over by teams that come up from league one. Now one win in 14 which is absolutely pathetic. Losing at home to a side that conceded six in their previous away game. Already it looks like we need a bigger miracle than last season... |
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