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We are such a painful watch at home. We have been very poor at home for a few seasons, just wondering are we the worst home team in the entire league of 92?
Can we do something about it? I mean how can we break this curse that has afflicted us for years once and for all?
We tried a new coach and signed some players, even a prodigious man-child CEO but nothing’s working at the moment.
Just caught the last episode of the Rangers Report on the official site.
Great mention of the trademark “Andy Sinton Scream”, love it every time a rangers goal is scored.
Not too many last season, but the last 3 games we had 7 Sinton screams, incredible to end the season on a high with 3 consecutive wins!
Picked second Millwall winning goal by Armstrong (his headphones came off and flew off celebrating on the gantry) and the unforgettable Jimmy Dunne volley for the injury-time winner against Birmingham as his most memorable
- Moved out of the relegation zone first time since Sep 23 - Won at home, a place we don’t get much - Willock scoring, playing like a Willock we knew a couple of seasons back - come from behind after starting the match badly
- Most importantly, this win is a great confidence boost. We always wondered which rangers will turn up, especially after a good performance at Bristol City. We were there before, the Stoke game. The Huddersfield game. We find it hard to get some consistency after a very good performance. The more I looked at it, I think it is a confidence thing. - need to win a must win game, a relegation 6 pointer - playing in front of a sell out home crowd - 5 or 6th time to get out of the relegation bottom 3 we lost count, hope against all hopes We started 10-15 minutes in a “I told you so” fashion. Conceded a goal under 10 minutes. Bloody Rotherham! Bottom, not won in 5 consecutive games. Charity Park Rangers all over, again. What do we not know, that we already knew about the “typical” QPR
How important is that win, then. It is massive, just massive. A real confidence kick, which I think was the mental side of our game, we knew we could perform, past matches played testament to that. But when the burden was so immense, we didn’t fall apart, we just didn’t turn up. So this win, this win against all odds against a relegation rival which we always lose, is so so massive.
Points and Position gained by QPR since Cifuentes as Head Coach Note Cifuentes QPR P6 W3 D2 L1
Current position / club / Pts after 14 games / Pts after 20 games / Pts attained after 6 games / Pts gained by QPR against opponent / League position + or -
Over 6 games; - QPR gained points against all opponents on the current table from position 14th - 24th - Largest gain vs Stoke (+9), smallest vs Coventry (+1 still a gain) - QPR moved one place up the table from 23rd to 22nd - only top 4 teams in the championship has more points gained through this period - Leeds +16 (2nd), Leicester +15 (1st), Ipswich and Southampton +14 (2nd and 4th respectively). Only Watford has same points gained (+11) with current position at 11th - average points gained during this 6 games period by all 24 clubs = 8.58 - average points gained during this 6 games period by clubs 14-24th positions = 3 (including QPR +11)
Early days, but signs and table evidence are very very encouraging especially winning the last 3 games, which included Cifuentes first win, first home win, goals at the loft, against 2 opponents much higher up the league table.
We are definitely moving in the right direction, onwards and upwards!
Before he arrive from Hammarby to form a decent picture or due diligence of the kind of players we have here?
- Last few games before Rotherham?
- From our preseason (including the famous clip of a goal scored against Wimbledon)?
- Since the famous burnley win last season?
- Or everything onwards from Beale’s time as he was known to be one in the shortlist (was he given a team profile and dossier on each player during the initial interview?)
He seems to know from the off who our star and key players are, which talented players he can relied on to build his team around. And he alluded to chair, Willock before the first training session, and versus Rotherham we could see immediately Chair, Willock, cannon, Dixon-Bonner, Richards featuring
I mean Willock who has not been the same for over a year? Richards and Dixon-Bonner not featuring much during GA time, and even if all those did their performances were nothing but ordinary?
So he must have been tracking the team for at least a year or so to know this much, can’t be just only watching videos from since our Blackburn 4-0 drubbing say or the few sessions he had with the team.
Nonetheless, everything points towards a very intelligent coach who knows what he wants and how he wants to play using the available players to achieve his goals.
For once, after so long, I think we are moving on the right track (or back on track) to where we want to go and be as a club on the playing side.
We are mental - 5 consecutive losses - no home win yet - and yet Loftus Road was 94% full (17,385) to see us lose 6 in succession and rooted currently second from bottom
Big, big applause for the fans
It is crazy just as it is amazing - just imagine if we were doing well then the stadium is far too small for all!
All 8 wins out of the 9 wins this weekend home or away in the championship are by teams having less possessions than their opponents
Bristol City (2-1 away to Swansea) - 39% (4 shots on target to 4) Sunderland (5-0 home to Southampton) - 31% (9-2) Huddersfield (2-1 away to WBA) - 38% (4-5) Preston (2-0 away to Stoke) - 30% (3-1) Rotherham (2-1 home to Norwich) - 38% (3-5) Plymouth (3-0 home to Blackburn) - 42% (9-4) Hull (1-0 away to Leicester) - 35% (4-1) AND QPR (2-0 away to Middlesbrough) - 39% (3-9)
Ipswich only team that won with more possession 3-2 v Cardiff at home (55% 7-5 shots)
Possession can do one? It is not just us if you wonder having less possessions in matches. We certainly are not lucky to win. We played well and are competitive. Statistics is a funny game.
It is what you do to the football when you have it that counts
Too early to tell, but I am thinking Armstrong maturity in the Cardiff game, a goal and an assist, could be attributed to the work Ainsworth and Dobson did during preseason?
Eze had a breakthrough season after a successful loan at Wycombe.
Ainsworth is not adverse to having academy players training with the first team - Gubbins, Woodman, Hawkins, Aoraha, Pedder and even Kolli appeared in the substitute bench
I get it we are skint on squad members with championship level and had no choice but to look deep in the development squad, but we had past managers refusing to name academy players in match day squads to prove a point - two goalkeepers and leaving empty slots for substitutes etc.
Warburton, Beale gave no confidence in our academy players at all
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