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Like most of us I really like the lad but his touch and control are far too inconsistent for this level. Sadly at 22 they are unlikely to improve enough for him to have a career this high up the league ladder. I really hope he makes it but the Championship is getting more and more technical. The battering ram sub is fun on occasion but it's probably not enough.
Got to see him once in the early 90's at a Jazz Bop in Brighton in a fairly intimate venue. The Roots played before him then they all came on the floor and piled into the front where we were to watch Roy, flinging themselves about like the rest of us. He got everyone to sing the chorus to "Sunshine" along with him. I'll never forget that moment. Beautiful.
Couldn't agree more with the sentiments. No ism or system or voting in one particular leader will give us the world we would all claim we want. It has to be a revolution of consciousness.
Love a bit Eckhart Tolle me. His humourous but spot on observations of the ego and it's machinations are brilliant.
Also his pointers on what we can experience and achieve individually and thus collectively if we move out of operating and viewing the world solely from the point of the Conditioned Self and it's programmed thoughts are beautiful.
Read this the other day. Quite amazing what they spend looking for data driven advantages even in fitness etc. This is separate from the player data analysis used by Bentham that gives them such an edge in the recruitment stakes.
'Brentford have spent about £16m on their research department over the past two years, leading to the publication of several academic papers on a range of subjects, including training loads, running intensity and positional play.' 'The club recruits about half a dozen PhD students every year to conduct research, with the results published and fed back to the football department.'
I often think about the "The first is simple, old fashioned joy. Something we used to experience at the football a lot when it was a sport but find more difficult now it’s been turned into a media" thing.
When I first started standing in the loft in the 80's if we won that was all that mattered. I'd go home, dreamily happy, joyfully move the cardboard QPR tab up the table in my Shoot Magazine league ladder (brilliant invention), watch all the news shows that evening just in case the QPR game was the one they showed the goals from in the, occasionally successful, hope of catching a 0.75 second of glimpse of me jumping up and down behind the goal in my green bomber jacket, pray that we were on Match of the Day or The Big match and spend the rest of the week chucking a tennis ball at my bedroom wall ('pack it in for fu*ks sake', 'sorry mum') and recreating Stevie Wick's thumping headed winner.
These days I am often guilty after a narrow/lucky win (not last Friday mind, that was old fashioned joy) of mulling over things like the long term unsustainablility of Sammy Field's technique in a league with ever increasing technical demands, the frequency of playing out from the back turning into play it back hurriedly all the way to Nardi to punt anyway or ...or....or...
In life I very much try to live by focusing on the Present Moment, I'm going to try and apply that more to QPR wins.
Cue me back on here at 7pm tonight saying how I won't sleep again until Paal's corners improve even though we won 3-0.
Watching him take the ball at the back and decide, sometimes quickly, sometimes after some deliberation, just what he's going to do with it and just how he is personally going to start our next attack is a thing of bittersweet beauty.
There's only so much attachment I will allow myself. The exquisite pain takes me back to a glorious fling in my youth with a Swedish beauty (out my league, like Ronnie) in Thailand. It could only ever last for a fleeting, stars temporarily aligned god given moment. The universe reminding you that events of pure joy can happen but you must always accept and prepare for the Impermanence Of All Things. That's me with Ronnie.
I guess he has to play, in this form, whilst we are still in touch with the crazy pipe dream of the playoffs. You have to play your best team at this stage, loans or not.
But I was already playing this tune in my head yesterday thinking of May's inevitable parting.
1) Koki's 1st touch for his goal. Oooh, World class! 49 times out of 50, even at the top level of football, the player would just smash it and more than likely hit one of the 3 defenders or keeper stood in front of him. Not our Koki. That simple, perfectly executed, cool as absolute f**k, precisely controlled half a yard touch sidewards took out all 4 of the oppo and left him an empty net to thunder it into. Beautiful. Honourable mentions also for his gravity defying leap and stay in mid air to win the header and Yang's 1st touch in the lead up to Chair's 2nd.
2) The press in the 4141 formation, particularly 2nd half. Terrorised Derby as they tried to play out from the back. Field moved up to flank Frey with Chair and they pressed brilliantly as a unit whilst Varane owned the space behind them. Glorious front foot defending. Our number 1 strength right now.
3) Varane's little flashes with the ball. He actually has the ball control and physicality to be able beat the 1st man or 2 and move away up the pitch just with his big stride, without needing any particular tricks or moves. Showed that more than once yesterday. Pinged a couple of nice longer passes too.
I'm hoping that we are seeing the gradual chipping away of his fear based hiding, backwards, sidewards stuff as he clearly as some ability on the ball. Feels like a confidence/mentality thing but there is a lot more potential growth there. Already nailing the defensive side of the game for me.
4) Chair 'arriving' in the box. That lung bursting, get in there ahead of your marker and expect the ball type. Seems to rarely do it much when playing out wide. Delightful to see him do it yesterday for his 2nd. More please.
5) Morrison getting back on the pitch. He's ours, he's 21, he never loses, he has huge potential and he's 1 of only 2 defenders definitely here next year. He needs to be playing.
Morrison, brutal efficency, no talking, no fuss, job done. "Call that a fight?'
Michi Frey, stands sipping his two pints whilst a chair is smashed over his head. Doesn't spill a drop, quietly hands Kieren Morgan his drinks and calmly goes off to end things quickly.
No tunes at our 'in and out' affair at Kingston registry office but if we were to have one it would be this one. Might be bit corny but it is genuinely how I/we both felt not that long after meeting each other. We both considered each other as our 'prize' for all that we'd endured before. It was a blessing from the universe to finally find 'my person'.
Have a great day when it happens and a beautiful life you two. X
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