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Comment | However, the radio still works, and it's clear as a bell - Preview
at 14:53:56
Thanks Clive.
The last report and this preview are true works of art.
Real deep dives into your creative well and I'm thankful for the end of season and hope it does that regenerative thing that ensures you can keep going, never mind reaching these ridiculously high standards.
Came away from this piece feeling slightly less in Warburton's corner over the whole of this. As if maybe he thought he'd be bringing the Academy/model around to his thinking on players and coaching staff.
Rest well in the off-season Clive and I'll see you on Patreon.
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Comment | ‘Good January’ — Preview
at 15:32:49
Some absolute corkers in there. Glorious reading!
"and gave Reading the gob bumming they’ve so sorely deserved for many years."
How long I've waited for a line like this. |
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Comment | One year on - Preview
at 12:45:47
Clive, I frequently see things on the pitch a little differently to you, but that in no way lessens the high regard I hold this site and all of the various contributors opinions in.
Your previews and the reports are compulsive viewing for tube journeys in to work.
Hope you have a great new year and prosperous 2019.
Now, about that Scowen booking... |
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Comment | Hillsborough-bound QPR eye further improvements - Preview
at 11:29:27
"Hopefully Neil Warnock and Kenny Jackett no longer being freely available will calm the rabid hunger of some for yet more sweeping change, though I suspect when the results inevitably take a dip again – potentially starting tomorrow – we’ll just have that weird thing where QPR fans delight in the results of Cardiff and Rotherham making us look bad (and, presumably, them right, which one suspects is what really matters)."
Objectivity!?
Self-awareness!!??
BALANCE!!!???
I'm a full-time working football supporter mate!
Ain't got time for the rest of that stuff!
Another fantastic preview.
Keep fighting the good fight. |
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Comment | Green haunted by long standing faults - knee jerks
at 22:06:20
Very good piece Antti and much like with Andy's report I agree with everything you've written. Maybe I'm old school as well as having something wrong with me, as Andy suggested, but part of me really wishes Fabregas had lost his good eye getting so close to the home end as he did. He wouldn't do it at countless grounds. Christ, they still throw bananas onto the pitch where he comes from! To suggest that running towards the noisiest, most viscerally atmospheric part of the ground after scoring is part of the game is a bit utopian. It was an arrogance fuelled act of defiance that he (and us?) was lucky to get away with.
You stir a "Cauldron of Hate" at your peril, you never know what it will spit back at you. You RRRR'SSSS. |
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Comment | Warnock’s unhappy last hurrah leaves Palace unenviable options - opposition profile
at 11:40:30
Fantastic article Clive, quite how you articulate a thought-provoking and contentious period in the club's recent history, at the busiest time of year is beyond me.
As disappointed at the time of his sacking as I was, I still think it was the right decision. He'd have taken us down and having alienated Tarraabt obviously wouldn't have been able to do what he did the season previous. Darius Henderson anyone?
My dislike for him as a man has only ever been tempered by what he did for us in those two seasons worth and by his predictability. |
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Comment | QPR hit six to complete great escape — history
at 10:37:19
Oh? For all these years I'd thought the ref was Rob Styles, and that he somehow blamed us for his poor officiating that day, resulting in what seemed like a personal vendetta against us every game we had him.
Christ, what could've been the real reason he seemed to hate us so much? |
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Comment | Last-gasp Maloney strike devastates QPR — full match report
at 04:10:45
Thanks Colin, a really good write-up and judging from the players ratings I think I saw the game as you did although I left feeling positive about the performance - possibly because of it being my first game since Norwich.
Wigan were tidy and functional at best, only coming into the game after the sending off and only opening us up the two occassions you mentioned. I was quite underwhelmed with them. They've got quite a tough run-in and I can see them being still being on the same points in 3 games time, hhmmmm.
Sorry am I straw clutching.
It could be me, but there is something of the Rob Styles about Dowd. His body language just seems a little nuanced against us, nothing obvious, it just seems... And where did he get 4 mins injury time from? He gave 2 in the 1st half when he was pissing around with the red card for 3. Carry over?
Come on R'S. |
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Comment | Harry’s game
at 14:13:46
Really good article, one that provides me and other straw clutchers with a means to part the water.
Keep the faith everyone as we speak, Harry's thumbing through his full and weighty 'Man Management' dossier.
It can be done.
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Comment | Hung by his own players, Hughes now in untenable position — full match report
at 02:12:32
A tad harsh on Cisse imho - a weapon we can't seem to load this season - and a little generous to Hoillet who looked very "caught in the headlights".
Traore is not very good at defending, but can run and cross a ball which on occasion I thought he tried to do, so (feel free to gather rocks and stones at this point) how can we expect much from him when, for the last half hour, he had no support from Adel, who was 25 yards upfield blowing out of his arse? Not to say Adel shouldn't be the first name on the team sheet, but I do wonder sometimes if he has 90 mins in him.
Hughes has probably got the next 3 games to save his job and our season, I for one wish him luck. We'll need another forward, probably a loanee, with the news of Zamora's injury, which might help take the pressure off Djibril. I really don't fancy HR.
Shaun Derry for skipper, scoring the point earning goal this saturday. |
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Comment | Sunderland bring QPR right back to reality — full match report
at 01:08:59
Great report Clive.
The negatives are there for us all to see. Why can't the players see them?
What is happening to the basics of team play that the coaching team can't correct?
Did captain Joey threaten to beat them all up if they played well without him?
On the subject of our beleaguered leader, QPRFish, within reason I couldn't care less how much he's being paid, as long as he's performing. Simple fact is, the player we're used to seeing on MOTD in past seasons isn't the one we're seeing on the hallowed turf.
If it were down to financial wastage, then players like 'Dave' and Rowan Vine would've been targeted more.
With all that negativity out the way... I'm sorry, I know it's the hope that kills us. But since their resurgence, I never fancied the trip to Sunderland to yield any points. I quite fancied us to get a point against a misfiring Liverpool team. So 3 points from 2 games is a beter return than a lot us could've hoped for.
From the form perspective we'd probably have preferred the consistency of performance a couple of draws might've suggested, but the extra point... Well, you never know.
Talking of draws, the last one was v Everton, probably our most cohesive game in a while, Cisse' omition will force our hand. It would sound like we've - I'm trying not to use the 'H' word here - bottomed out performance-wise. So it's a battling 5 man midfield and two heartening performances to come, leading into two winnable games.
Here's h...
Come on RRR'ssss |
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Comment | With renewed hope, QPR head north — full match preview
at 07:33:39
@double m - In terms of key passes per game (those that lead to goal chances) he is 11th in the league with 2.2 per game - there's a footballing reason for him to start.
@Writtler - I disagree. That's a statistical reason and one that I nearly fell off my chair when reading. I'd like to know your source.
A footballing reason would be that he hasn't had a good game since Everton and performances prior to that game were sketchy at best, culminating in his worst ever performance(his words) on wednesday.
Another footballing reason would be that as captain, he has to be the visual embodiment of the teams characteristics - passion, effort, application, bravery - and those have been decreasingly evident for some time now.
I'll reiterate, I've been to every home game since Sunderland and over the period of those games, in my humble opinion he's been poor.
Come on RRR'sss. |
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Comment | With renewed hope, QPR head north — full match preview
at 01:45:29
Sunderland at home was my first game this season. I've been to every home game since and barring Norwich(started poorly but got into it before you know what) and Everton(had a real tussle with Felaini and pienaar) he's been poor, not average, poor. Bad. Inadequate. Unsatisfactory. Disappointing. Etc... Etc...
Worst of all, after the events of Wednesday night, considering how well we played after his substitution, it's possible his performances were dragging those of his team mates down with him. I'm with Clive on this one - "there are no footballing reasons for him to start tomorrow".
Scott Parker, Steven Gerrard, Gareth Barry, Frank Lampard, Micheal Carrick, James Milner, Jack Wilshere, Owen Hargreaves, wtf throw in Phil Jones. All his contemporaries contesting an England midfield spot, which, up to the start of the season he and supposed others were saying he's worthy of.
Not even close.
He'd probably argue it's us dragging him down.
I think this is where his/our problems lie.
Hopefully, he can come on as sub tomorrow and score to make it 3-0, rubbing salt into the wounds of his hated Makems and we can start afresh.
Come on R'sss! |
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Comment | Twitter rants, train station confrontations and revolting fans
at 22:42:00
@e1337prodigy and @timcocking Don't blame either player for their respective reds. Barton was getting beaten up with no ref protection and Cisse whose had two leg breaks was turning away from his pass with ball 10 yards away and still travelling!
It's the challenges you don't expect that hurt the most. Nothing to do with ego when you've got 14 stone of defender, with both feet off the ground coming through you. I think Johnson should've gone too. Cheers Clattenburg.
Barton is the problem.
He's the big character in the dressing room, the leader with juristiction to point and complain about his team mates mistakes... But he dosen't really care. As long as he can run up and down athletically without thinking about his responsibilities, without concentrating, without tuning in, he's happy with his performance.
Who was the nearest player to Cisse after he'd been fouled by Johnson?.. Had that been Shaun Derry, I like to think he'd have been there between Cisse and Johnson preventing an escalation instead of gesturing to the ref who'd already blown for the foul.
Interesting in that Fulham game, how after getting booed for the umpteenth poorly executed free kick/corner/pass his play perceptably improved.
More of the same I say.
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Comment | QPR’s Premier League pub crawl nears the Last Chance Saloon — full match preview
at 12:18:45
Great preview Clive - like the highlighting of Warnock' sudden change of playing philosophy and its dire consequences for us and him.
Is it me or is there a 'last game of the season at home to Crystal Palace' feel about this one?
Subsequently I'm expecting a little more edge and bite to our player' performances. Or am I hoping?
I really hope we, as a crowd, as home supporters, as custodians of the atmosphere, as one, really go at it. Loud, nasty, scary, spitting(not literally) bile and fury at them, players and fans alike and recreate the hostility we showed the scum earlier in the league. Let them have it!
Come on you RR'SSSS! |
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Comment | Fulham visit brings back Rehman nightmares and 1983 memories - history
at 13:16:56
Agreed with your comments last time out OZ... But quite how anyone can defend his abiblity above that of absolutely shocking is beyond me. Apparently he had a good game (for him) last game of the season 2007/8 against West Brom - maybe that's what your basing judgment on?
Could never really tell if his basic skills i.e ball control, spatial awareness, reading the game, were any good, simply because he made standing up straight look like an effort. A basic lack of natural strength. Subsequently I never saw out muscle any striker, even those of the less physical variety.
If one was ever needed, a real indictment of Paladini's methods.
Come on you RR'ssss |
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