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Does anyone know what time the players generally arrive on a matchday, and if they still park at the Jack Tizard school and walk down?
My Dad has had a long awaited op this week for a bowel tumour and is likely to miss at least the next few months in recovery. Happily, and touch wood, everything so far seems to have gone well with minimal complications.
I was thinking of going down tomorrow with a Get Well Soon card and see if I could get any players arriving to sign it to send to him, but not sure how early I'd need to be if I did.
I contacted the Supporter Services about it a few weeks ago and he got a very nice letter from Andy Sinton wishing him all the best which he was really chuffed about.
What's also notable is reading stories (OK, apocryphal sure) of people trying to cash in for house deposits etc then setting off all sorts of anti-fraud alarms with banks who don't want to touch it and putting in blocks / CIFAS markers etc.
The pro-crowd would no doubt see it as a way that the banks are running terrified of the new future, the anti-crowd probably see it the other way given the amount of money laundering risks there are with it.
Without wishing to start the crypto argument (although at least Russian Bot / Sakura isn't around anymore, unless he pops up with a new registration) I think on the whole I fall in line with your view. Haven't got any myself, quite happy with that, don't feel I am particularly missing out in life as a result. If other people have and have made money - well fair play to you. I think a lot of people are clueless on the risks though, I do see quite a few stories of people who have their entire savings in it which is just mental.
"An update on our injured lads 🤕 During this international break, the club would like to provide supporters with an update on our injured players.
Over the course of recent weeks, the team have endured a number of injury challenges. Liam Morrison and Harrison Ashby have already made successful returns and the club are pleased to confirm, subject to continuing on their current rehabilitation path, Joe Walsh, Morgan Fox and Kenneth Paal are set to be available for selection when QPR host Stoke City at MATRADE Loftus Road this Saturday.
Jack Colback is on course to be available for selection in November while Michael Frey is anticipated to be available within two weeks.
Jake Clarke-Salter is anticipated to return to the first team in the first half of December. Ilias Chair, who came off during our home fixture against Middlesbrough with a knee injury, is also expected to be available for selection in the first half of December.
Kader Dembele, however, faces a period of time on the sidelines following knee surgery. Subject to a successful rehabilitation, the club is hopeful he will be in a position to return to the pitch in February 2025.
The 21-year-old hasn’t featured since our 1-1 home draw with Coventry City on October 22nd.
Director of Performance Ben Williams said: “There is no doubt this is a challenging period.
“This season, very unusually, 70% of our time-loss injuries have been due to non-preventable impact and contact injuries.
"The performance team we have built continue to work incredibly hard at our elite training ground to provide the best player availability possible.
“As previously reported elsewhere, due to a change in my personal circumstances, I am continuing my role with the club on a more remote basis but remain committed in helping deliver long-term success for QPR.
“This is being achieved with the support of Michael Main, our Head of Performance Services, and a team I have worked closely with over a number of months.
“They are based at the training ground on a daily basis and implementing the key strategies which helped the club achieve such high player availability last season.”
Whilst the platform itself can be a nightmare in its own right, the Championship forum on Reddit is actually a pretty good laugh and is always full of Simpsons and apple crumble memes (for when teams at the top lose and are "crumbling") and actually on the whole has good discussion from fans of all the clubs in the league without it resorting to stupid tribalism that you see on the likes of Facebook.
Currently in the international breaks this year people have been trying to outdo each other in posting Championship tables in a variety of formats and its actually quite funny.
I was talking about this at work with my MD who's a big Leicester fan.
By all company metrics, our company is much bigger than QPR, although of course being in the construction industry has nowhere near the same public profile or thousands of fans turning up to shout every two weeks.
He was staggered at the idea of a 26 year old being put in charge of the club. The closest I can think of in comparison is Karen Brady being 23 when she was in charge at Birmingham, although of course she also had Gold/Sullivan as owners and closely involved on a day-to-day basis who no doubt steered the ship and gave all sorts of support in the early years.
Here we have a kid, who lets say at best is inexperienced (I am with Nico/Hunter/Northern etc in thinking it far worse) and an absentee ownership who therefore aren't there for any mentoring - its only going to lead to disaster.
I'd repeat London Scot. Sadly much younger in my mid-30s but I've had tendonitis in my right ankle a couple of times from my running, my most recent flare up was this summer, and its the strengthening (and frustrating rest) that gets rid of it as much as just stretching.
See a good sports physio/massage therapist to help work the muscles and tie out knots/get blood flow going.
But exercise/strengthening wise its a lot of calf raises, raised calf raises, sitting wall squats doing calf raises, both constant moving and doing them where you hold for 10 seconds. Single leg and double leg. Walking around on tiptoes, oh and did I mention doing calf raises?
I'm with most posts here, if we went down it won't be like last time, we'll be there for a long time, and potentially getting even worse with League Two.
In 2001 we still had one of the biggest stadiums and were one of the biggest names in the league. We won't be anymore, football has truly moved on these past 25 years.
What seems quite clear to me is how weak most top-flight leagues in Europe now are in this money dominated era where the most money and best talent has flooded into a handful of European leagues.
These guys have played top flight football in the countries they've been signed from, and even in European competition, yet are showing themselves to be badly out of their depth in the Championship.
Ignoring our fixture congestion aside, I think you could put a good Championship side (ie not us) into most European leagues and find man for man they'd be one of, if not the, best team in it.
I've always had a soft spot for Dundee ever since 10 year old me chose to play as them in the Scottish league on FIFA 2000 and I've always followed them from afar ever since. I really do want to try and get to Dens Park one day, particularly since this new stadium move might become a reality in X years (no new stadiums ever likely down here...)
Really sad news with Fabian Caballero recently too, that 2001-2004 Dundee period was a bit mad.
However, the concept of last minute home winners, opposing defences in despair and fans going wild in the background is all a bit of an alien concept to us down here at the moment. We're just used to everyone in the away end having a jolly old time all afternoon whilst we go home and grumble about another wasted afternoon of our lives on the internet.
I find it best not to think too deeply about it as it actually makes you feel a bit ill and wonder if you're just wasting your life away with a season ticket.
13 wins in 56 now with the stats that Northern keeps. That said, if its 8 from 45 in the last two years, that means the 11 games before that yielded 5 wins. So that was decent, at the time.
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