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Marti himself doesn't like kneejerk responses, whether that's getting carried away with imminent promotion when we win or throwing in the towel when we lose.
I realise I'm prone to be overly optimistic and am trying to curb that with a bit of realism . But FFS these injuries would affect most squads in the Championship. Just look what's happened to Man City with their embarrassment of riches with just a couple of players having past their best.
We can't afford to go on another terrible run but this only one match.
I bet Brian and Konk for instance would beat me on many of these factors.
I don't really think these generally positive qualities are so gender specific. I do think socialisation plays a big part though. We shouldn't put people into gender straitjackets.
I'm just a bit concerned that Norwich are going to be particularly galvinised for our match there. We made them look very average in the second half at LR and they blame us seemingly for their ill-discipline against us (Gunn and McLean both got retrospective bans - with the latter back just in time to play against us - sigh). I think they may have to change how they deal with Smyth as he ran their leftback ragged and Sainz provided zero cover.
I'm more optimistic about Swansea. We did well against them last season.
Deffo some mistakes - unbalanced squad agreed. But not all bad. I'm impressed with the age of players coming in - having a couple of 18 year olds good enough to play in the first team plus a 21 year old CB, a good goalie, an excellent DCM who's only 23 all positives. Finding a decent striker is a perennial issue and not just for QPR.
Personally I like Saito and think Dembele shows promise. Fullbacks an issue but when did we last have two excellent FBs who we owned playing regularly?
Still has to prove himself more but has he really recruited that badly compared to previous execs
Interesting analysis from Leroy Rosenior and Tony Thorpe on City that I think our forward line could learn from, particularly the bit about movement in the box.
Kolli not scapegoat - he asked Marti to come off - had been ill midweek. His stats show this : 7 touches in 45 mins ; won zero duels ; no shots; one pass to a teammate. Alfie while not perfect made 27 touches and just caused more havoc to the City defence. Koki was nowhere near his best, Andersen poor, Kolli not his best. No wonder our midfiield was struggling: they had to keep winning the ball back / often had no outlet to pass to.
I agree about corners. Love Illy but baffled at how a generally good player technically is often so poor at corners.
Fair enough but I do think he's doing more off the ball work than we had earlier in the season. Also Varane is winning more ball in midfield. My main point is when we let in goals it's not just down to the defence and nor is it when we keep clean sheets.
As I always say you defend as a team . Our midfield has been much improved and we're playing three rather than two which makes us much less open through the middle. Saito and Smyth are doing a much better press than earlier in the season so our fullbacks rarely deal with wingers on their own which means the CBs are not having to deal with so many quality crosses. Also we've started scoring so the defence aren't having to constantly defend a nil scoreline.
That's exactly what I thought. We've never been great at managing the high press and that was the high press on steroids. Also they did play a lot of heading it up in the air which we got involwed in too and we tried to hoof it up the field and Kolli just doesn't have the physicality of Frey to win those battles so the ball kept pinging back. When we did best their high press they just fouled.
Those kind of tactics are anti-football and lead to a very boring spectacle. But they tired, we dealt with it better then once we scored they had to abandon it as it's a bit pointless when you're trying to score yourself.
Jack Nicholson was once asked to explain his success with women. He pondered for a moment, then replied: "I turn up."
Off topic but disingenuous from Jack. He was a beautiful man with a sexy as hell voiice, a stunning smile, a great sense of humour and he seemed like he actually liked women. Can't see him loading the dishwasher though so not perfect husband material.
Seems odd given he took over when they were a point above the drop zone and finished in 13th comfortably mid table.
Surprising they're not waiting until the end of the season. Wondering if they'll be the recipient of this year's annual Championship Birmingham City memorial trophy for shooting yourselves in the foot. Oh dear, never mind.
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