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Reply | Kolli Dad Interview
at 21:55 31 Oct 2024
I was speaking to a Bristol City supporter and he was saying how good their youth players were because Pearson would give them first team opportunities and trust them. Anyway they also bomb them out if they're not going to commit to the club, why bother continuing with their development.
Sounds like it's a common practice and one we've picked up from clubs with a better track record. |
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Reply | QPR's 'Fan Engagement Plan'
at 09:25 30 Oct 2024
I read it like that too at first but I don't know enough about the subject. If the EFL are asking clubs to do this presumably it's for questions to be asked about the management of the club not the team. If that is the intention, I imagine the EFL wouldn't be too happy if we said that our plan was to have a meet and greet with the manager once a season, that's not going to get the water pressure sorted.
I also don't think it excludes the manager attending, it just commits the decision makers at club level to attend.
Like I said, I don't know. I've been reading a lot on here about nourry and it has me worried. |
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Reply | Gallen Speaks
at 13:57 9 Oct 2024
I don't suppose there is a hard and fast rule for how a player is going to adapt to the Championship, I suspect that it varies from position to position. Goalkeeper, I can't see it being much of a difference. I also imagine that the plan was to introduce the players more gradually but have had our hands forced by injury, a risk of the strategy employed but even with injuries you'd be pessimistic to have planned for having as many of our experienced players injured as we have. I also think the plan of buying players that were already playing abroad was intended to avoid issues with player settling abroad. So to me it all makes sense, it's just not worked how we would have liked.
The issue with picking up players like Browne on a free at 29 years old is that he'll have no sell on. We might be better in the short term but if we're going to get good championship players we need to increase our budget and buying players with potential is the only way to really effect that. So again, I think the strategy makes sense, they're not all going to be winners but we only need to sell 1 or 2 for it to cover the costs and improve our FFP situation in the future. |
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Reply | The no ones bothered Blackburn match thingy
at 13:25 28 Sep 2024
Yeah judging by Travis's reaction I was expecting to see Batths foot severed clean off, as it is he's fine to continue.
That said it was a stupid challenge, easily a red.
I expect Ashby for Santos to avoid another player lost and maybe one of the attacking 3 off for Dixon Bonner or Madsen. Maybe bring on Lloyd for Frey to add pace if we set up to counter attack. |
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Reply | Prolific striker
at 20:52 10 Sep 2024
That's ok, I wasn't writing 200 words about Bonne, I was writing 200 words about why my more succinct post wasn't spiteful. |
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Reply | Prolific striker
at 19:26 10 Sep 2024
Yeah I'd probably be on my best behaviour if I'd just crashed through someone's front wall as well. 
He was trying to show off in his flash car (that we probably paid for) in front of his league 2 team mates. Poor judgement that he'd do it in a residential street, luckily only damaged property (I believe some of the players had to miss a few fixtures too) but shows you enough about his mentality to see why he never kicked on.
I also don't care about him either but I have friends who are gills season ticket holders and he wasn't prolific for them either and they didn't think he was good enough for league 2 level. So let's not pretend he was better than he was. |
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Reply | Loftus Road renovation/revamp
at 18:29 8 Sep 2024
The school said they need to move to a bigger site, so we could assist them if it's mutually beneficial. |
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Reply | Dynamic Pricing
at 10:16 3 Sep 2024
They've been doing it for years. Tickets are first come first serve so you'd better get early access, £50 please. Ah you've got early access but there's still a massive queue and while our system mucks about holding you we're going to increase the price by £100 every hour because the person who logged in a second before you is more loyal so you're going to get charged more. Actually our systems going to boot you off so you have to rejoin so that will be £200 more than the base price you Johnny come lately piece of shite.
It's basically capitalism though isn't it, so can't complain too much. A system so fool proof we need checks and measures to stop monopolies extorting the general public. |
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Reply | Loftus Road renovation/revamp
at 13:38 30 Aug 2024
I think the houses in imre close are council owned. If we got the school site (big if) a better solution would be to provide council flats on the west side of the site, decant residents to the new flats then demolish the one's in the way. Bit of a faff for the council so sweeten the deal by providing more units and building them to be efficient and low maintenance. |
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Reply | Our Transfers So Far - From Far and Wide
at 07:37 27 Aug 2024
People have been joking about the fact that all of the players are from a different country to the one we signed them from. I guess in analytical terms they have proven that they can perform in a foreign country and don't get homesick etc.
I don't think we can afford high quality championship players from our competitors and buying from League 1 isn't guaranteed either, so it's a reasonable approach. |
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Reply | Chair going going.......
at 10:01 25 Aug 2024
We had the same discussion around Willock with people wanting to keep him after everything because nobody else could possibly do what Willock did. Then Dembele turns up....
If he goes, hopefully it's for good money, we thank him for his efforts and we move on. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 12:52 22 Aug 2024
How would an agent know what we want for his player?
I get it's in the agents interest for his player to move but if they've signed a 3 year deal, they know he won't be moving for at least 1 or 2 seasons. Unless you're Beales agent but of course he doesn't have one... |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 07:14 22 Aug 2024
Personally I think it is all about FFP.
I'd be shocked if other teams weren't trying to estimate our position with FFP before bidding for our players. The less information they have the less certainty they will have. If they know we're close to FFP limit and need a sale, their offer will reflect that but if uncertain it would be a risk to annoy us with low offers.
While I'm sure all agents will try and work to get a higher offer when their player is signing a contract, once it's done what benefit is there for the agents to provide the duration of contract after they have signed?
I know other clubs do this and we've often looked at other clubs getting better money for their players, not sure if there is a correlation there but it wouldn't surprise me if that was part of the reason. |
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Reply | Non Standard Construction
at 15:40 7 Aug 2024
To fully understand the risks you'll need to know what system it is.
If you search BRE non-traditional housing in the UK you should be able to get a document that has some history to it. There may also be photos of similar looking houses that say who the manufacturer was. Once you know that you can assess the risks and should be able to look out for any signs of recurring defects with the specific type of structure. |
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Reply | QPR bolster midfield with Varane capture – Signing
at 11:45 5 Aug 2024
Is he that much cheaper? We've had to pay a lump to sign him whereas Hayden would have been free and sounded like he was willing to cut his wages to a suitable level.
I think it was more a case of we need a Hayden type player, what's the best investment for the club. Hayden was great but there's little sell on potential. He's probably at or past his peak so possibly not going to maintain that level of performance for too many years. We've instead used the money, (possibly very similar money when his fee and wages are considered*) on someone who may improve to a level where we can sell him for a profit.
Hopefully that's it for CM now, we have 4 good options, we need to use our remaining resources strengthening other areas of the squad I think.
*Not knowing the length of the contract makes this hard to work out but assuming the rumored fee of £825k is spread over 3 years, it is equivalent to just over 5k a week in wages. Is this why we hide contract lengths so other clubs find it harder to work out how close to FFP limit we are? |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 23:37 1 Aug 2024
While we're discussing reporting standards, what of the social media personalities and news sources that claimed he was an asylum seeker and "fresh off a boat"? Unverified information from alternative media that incited a completely pointless riot in a community that had just undergone a massive tragedy?
Completely sick that people are allowed to do that to boost their online profile with the end game to presumably monetise it. They seem to have a following eager/well trained to trust them over "legacy media". |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 07:50 31 Jul 2024
Three young girls have been murdered and his response on that specific issue is - "I doubt any of the LFW Libs will have the chutzpah to go down the "And here's why it's a good thing:" route." - How else is that supposed to be taken other than people who have different politics to him think 3 young girls dead is a good thing but won't say so? 6 up votes for that, nice.
But you want to have a go at Clive because the real nasty stuff is calling people names (nutjobs, trolls, weirdos, racists etc)? Doesn't seem correct to me.
For what it's worth I think a decent discussion is to be had, SheffieldHoop has made some interesting comments on capitalism being common sense and who's really holds power above our elected officials which could be discussed but it's never going to work on an internet forum. |
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