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I didn't see the game today, but the extreme polarity between the relaxed interviews with the manager and Smyth on the Offish and the verdicts of some of those on here (i.e. us fantatics, reactionaries, and non-experts posing as experts) is noteworthy to say the least.
That said, the manager's bland segue in the same breath from 'we didn't show the difference in quality' to 'we can take a lot of positives' I find faintly alarming. The whole interview looks staged to me, as if the 'upbeat' narrative were prescribed in advance. The interviewer couldn't be less probing if were a decommissioned lunar module!
It's also bizarre the way some say neither results nor performances matter a jot in these games, and it's just about getting 'minutes in the legs'. Why not just go for a run round Battersea Park with a ball for the afternoon if that's the case?
Some people might look happy, but a-clappy I am not!
1. Tony Currie 2. Mark Falco 3. John Spencer 4. Loic Remy 5. Djibril Cisse
The feelgood factor's back, so, feck FFP - don't you agree it's time for another? And, if so, who would you consider (unrealistically but tearing-up the-Champishly)?
Food for thought, especially with regard to their targets for Academy graduates in and/or about the first team squad on matchdays. It made me wonder what we are doing in terms of trying to emulate their model going forwards, e.g. by looking at what other clubs are doing so much more successfully than we have been (which is probably just about all of them).
Definitely a good question for Marti at the next Fans Forum, methinks, as to how he sees the current set-up and how it can be improved.
Just what was going on with him (not that we're not delighted of course)? That howler was sub-schoolboy stuff - if I didn't know better, I'd say he'd taken a bung or been on the wacky baccy. He dropped another clanger in his box later too which could easily have led to a second, and generally performed like a bag of cats on a hot tin roof.
Without him, we'd have been staring down the barrel of another 0-0, and it'd be touch and go-ville. Decent team performance and all that, but we still got lucky.
It's the thing Gerry F. used to preach, but the thing only the top teams, by definition, ever deliver, so it makes me laugh when fans here revile our team for their lack of it, as it's precisely what teams in our position display. If you want consistency, don't follow QPR (or most clubs), or just try to get your head round the fact we are where we are because we don't string more than a couple of good performances together right now. That's the maddening beauty of sport. If you don't like it, take up stamp-collecting.
1. The players are/always were (more than) good enough - they needed a plan/organisation/training/trust in each other, and a commitment to applying it on the pitch.
2. Marti (I had the odd misgiving) has been/is a complete and utter tonic to our troops.
Hopefully this is front and centre in the match report. Either way, we should all acknowledge (1) and (2) now, and draw a line under previous hyperbolic nonsense. I see us not just staving off relegation, but able and needing to aim at mid-table. For all their possession, and the help of the referee, we made Leicester look ordinary, and our goals were away team triumphs.
That's 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat from our last 5 games: 10 points out of a possible 15, or, if you prefer, 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat from our last 7 games. 2 points a game is promotion-winning form - keep up that record and we finish with 61 points. Realistically, though, 4 wins and a couple of draws should be enough, and we have 3 home games to come next month.
Check my maths/temperature, but I'm feeling we'll do it.
If Luke Amos were a cat, (OK, throw me a bone), he'd have been an Egyptian Mau - stylish, good-looking, but lacking resilience and with an ineluctably worried expression on their faces.
An Egyptian Mau
Luke Amos
Tricky made me think of an electric eel (with dreadlocks).
Alan McDonald was a warhorse.
Super Ray was a bit unfairly labelled a crab, but he wasn't crap, and probably played more forward passes in a game than Field does in a season. He had pincers.
Do any other posters have amusing/tedious Daphne du Maurier-esque likenesses for Rs past and present to pass the time?
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