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Reply | Is this on Nourry?
at 10:51 21 Oct 2024
Nourry must take primary responsibility for recruitment. Some of those signings were actually pretty good such as Nardi, Dembele, Saito. But Madsen the worst signing since Ned Zellic and highlights a major flaw in our recruitment strategy - statistics are the starting point, but fairly meaningless if you don't factor in that he played in a much less physical league.
Marti must take responsibility for motivation. While he was incredibly lucky last season with injuries he has been equally unlucky this. But ever since pre-season there has been a torpor, a lazy complacency which has quickly morphed into resignation and despair. Many thought he would "get a reaction" during the international break, but he hasn't. Injuries aside, he has made some odd selections. Ashby would not be anywhere near my team, and I would play almost anyone above Madsen. He needs to find players with cajones. My question to Marti is: are you telling players this, or are your training sessions still all about passing out from the back and tippy tappy?
Marti needs to select the hardest nuts he has available and hope that gets us through to Jan.
Then Nourry needs to eat some humble pie, risk our FFP budget, and bring in Hayden Jan 1. Then we at least stand a chance of surviving. |
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Reply | Fans Forum 30/09/24
at 15:53 25 Sep 2024
Agree the facilities are crap and there are questions to ask about that - eg "have you ever conducted a survey to ask what fans would be prepared to spend in the ground?" or "could it make commercial sense to open a quick turn over restaurant in the ground, such as by building out in the dead space about the Loftus Rd entrance?", or perhaps most sensibly "Could we have a fans meeting with a director of operations/ COO to discuss facilities in the ground and money making opportunities there the club are missing out on?"
But I have seen one or two forums where a fan has just gone on and on and on about one in itself very trivial point to the CEO.
The art of asking a good question is to a) elicit information or b) bring about change.
When one fan is complaining about the price of beer after another fan has been complaining that the club don't seem to have enough money to "buy a f*cking striker", the CEO is just inwardly rolling his eyes and not taking the question or the questioner seriously. |
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Reply | West London Sport
at 12:30 25 Sep 2024
They probably have virtually no budget so they can't find anyone who will provide useable content, virtually for free, that enough people will read to get any advertising revenue.
If it were otherwise am sure they would continue. |
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Reply | Fans Forum 30/09/24
at 12:24 25 Sep 2024
Most things about the club now seem on a strong upward trajectory. Lack of club engagement and communication one of the few negatives. That said SOME fans don't do themselves any favours when they have had every key decision maker there and have asked about the urinals or the price of beer, which is just embarrassing.
Questions I would like answered:
Why no plan b seeing as we are no closer to being able to pass out from the back?
When will Chair be back?
We were told a couple of years ago that the plan was to re-develop Loftus Rd rather than move - how's that going?
Is there any prospect of additional outside investment?
Are Saito and Dembele on loan with options to buy on both, or just Dembele? |
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Reply | West London Sport
at 12:15 25 Sep 2024
Anyone complaining about WLS not covering us - or the Standard for that matter, which gave up on us some years ago - I would politely ask "do you ever pay for news content?" |
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Reply | Frey’s big start, Madsen’s quiet wins, Field’s conundrum - Column
at 19:20 11 Sep 2024
Agree Varane is a 6 and clearly has potential but yet to be convinced he has the physicality to do the job of one hard as nails Championship number 6, let alone two if he is going to be playing alongside Madsen. At least as things stand, he might develop. |
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Reply | Frey’s big start, Madsen’s quiet wins, Field’s conundrum - Column
at 18:23 11 Sep 2024
Good column.
The only point I would question Alex is your suggestion that Field doesn't fit this new-look Marti-balls team. Surely he is more essential than ever as the weakness so far this season has been teams carving through our midfield? A pairing of Varane and Madsen - on current showing - brings me out in cold sweats as I fear it would leave our defence exposed. Hayden is an unavoidable loss, but a big one nonetheless. Coleback is too wild, his loss of pace provoking him into desperate lunges. Whilst I absolutely share your exasperation with defensive midfielders with a turning speed of a mobility scooter on low charge - it was probably the single quality I hated most about Andre Dozzell, more even than the immaculately gelled hair and unearned arrogance - I think every successful Championship side needs someone to be ugly (in a footballing sense). Chair, Dembele, Saito, Andersen, Madsen and Varane all look pretty on the ball, but who is going to win it to allow them to play? We now have enough depth to replace every single flair player (even Chair, amazingly), but who replaces Field? |
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Reply | One Game at a Time. Pasoti preview
at 17:39 22 Aug 2024
Thank you, lots of amusing lines.
Particularly liked the jibes at Dykes and this:
Scoring goals was an issue, with their leading marksmen being putative fugitive from the Belgian Courts Ilias “Electric” Chair, and long-term fugitive from trapping and close control drills, Lyndon Dykes, who between them managed five less than Morgan. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 16:43 22 Aug 2024
Unless I have missed something Reggie Cannon is personally liable, not QPR?
Tho if we are still having to pay his wages and he isn't available for selection that is a big cost, although we could presumably also sue him after his other club. |
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Reply | Chair - what's the story?
at 13:45 17 Aug 2024
Does anyone have a link to an excellent piece of analysis by Clive, I think in his end of season review of our attacking performance? It spelt out in numbers what Chair’s contribution to the team was and made clear why he was not just a bit better than Willock, Dykes etc last season but off the scale our most effective attacking player across a lot of metrics. |
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Reply | Kolli online abuse
at 17:56 7 Aug 2024
Oh god seems I was being way too optimistic about the reaction on here, or to be exact one poster hell bent on fighting a culture war and telling black footballers to ignore vile racist abuse.
Can’t be bothered with such views - a tiny minority on here admittedly with many, many other excellent posters and a first class writer in Clive - so think I will stay off here for a while |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 15:27 7 Aug 2024
Surely Celar was bought as first choice centre forward?
Agree with Padula that service as much a problem as the centre forward himself. Michael Owen in his pomp would struggle to score many for us at present.
Not sure I buy the comment about Dykes getting manhandled especially - all strikers do. For a big man with all those tattoos he gets bullied off the ball more than he should. I have reservations about Frey but you saw how he battled when he came on against Brighton. Dykes, in contrast, mainly just ambles about IMHO.
Finally I get that Chair is probably out for this weekend but unless I've missed it I haven't read even any rumours of interest in him? |
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Reply | Kolli online abuse
at 15:18 7 Aug 2024
What disgusting views. What a disgusting way to behave. What a "fan".
I am confident that all fans on here - including those who do occasionally express some quite hard line opinions (though to be clear nothing along the line of this idiot's posts thankfully) - will join the club in condemning such behaviour. |
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Reply | QPR bolster midfield with Varane capture – Signing
at 12:08 5 Aug 2024
With Hayden I guess there is free and there is "free". We don't know if Newcastle were prepared to buy him out entirely of his contract - if they were he should have been open to a very big reduction in wages. But hypothetically if they offered to pay him only a percentage of his contract - and frankly, who could blame them? - then Hayden might be looking for much higher wages than we were prepared to offer. Its why I think whatever happens to Hayden - whether he comes here on loan, goes elsewhere either on loan or permanently, or stays in Newcastle reserves - it probably comes down to a calculation on the final day of the window: what is the highest wage offer open to Hayden, and if Hayden wants Newcastle to cover the shortfall, whether Newcastle are prepared to pay that much to get him off their books.
Agree Varane the clear winner in likely future value. Downside oc is he is far less proven. Clive produced some stats (think in his end of season report) showing Hayden's contribution and it was incredibly impressive. One of those players who, to employ the cliche, does all the stuff fans don't notice. But guess our finances dictate we have to go for potential. Plus getting older players is not entirely risk free either, as Stefan and Charlie second time around proved - albeit Hayden is considerably younger than both of those. |
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Reply | QPR bolster midfield with Varane capture – Signing
at 11:16 5 Aug 2024
Read elsewhere that the player his stats most resemble in world football is - Isaac Hayden. Hopefully there was a bit more due diligence than that but it does slightly suggest the word came down "we can't afford Hayden, find me a cheaper, younger version."
I like the height aspect - Dunne's aerial ability made a big difference and so should Varane.
Whist attack remains a massive problem its tried and trusted football management to sort the defensive side first.
In the absence of further recruits I hope we line up with Field and Varane holding with EDB further advanced.
Varane seems a positive signings - my only reservations are he couldn't get in his team towards the back end of last season, and he has about the same experience as EDB, so we are not buying the finished article here. And if we can't get Hayden on loan in a cut-price deal at the end of the window it means a lot will rest on Varane seeing as Colback looks spent. |
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Reply | Announcement at Brighton Friendly
at 09:50 2 Aug 2024
Absolutely.
For weeks now the general election thread has been far more active than the transfer window one.
Even though last time I checked the general election was settled.
There seem to be a minority of posters keen to contest a culture war.
Arguably its a good thing if people get out of their silos and debate with people of very different opinion.
But some seem far more animated on here about their political opinion than they are about their football club.
Perfectly legitimate - indeed sensible - to regard politics as more important than football, but as Clive says this is actually a football forum. As a liberal I should report that not a word written on this board by the Faragists has changed my mind on anything; and it would be arrogant in the extreme to imagine anything written by a liberal on here has changed the minds of the Faragists.
To get it back on subject, I'm fairly indifferent about the Italian and don't think its imminent. But I am curiously excited by the Varane potential signing. Even though I have never seen him play, nor had I heard of him until we were linked to him. Which probably makes me the worst kind of football fan just getting excited about players for the sake of it, who Clive has quite rightly satirised on here many times. But such a relief we seem to have moved on from the Jeff Hendrix years and are trying to develop young, skilful, technical players. Until he turns out to be the next Andre Dozzell... |
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Reply | Orange wine
at 23:09 30 Jul 2024
This is one of the many reasons why I love our club.
My daughter just back from one of her first adult holidays and was going on about orange wine in Italy. I told her she was a stuck up cow (mildly affectionately). My wife went out and bought a bottle and said stop being a boring old sod. Now I’m reading a wine expert’s take on a QPR forum.
Not many football forums I suspect would offer that.
Such a diverse fan base but if we can stay off politics we seem to rub along ok |
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Reply | On the basis of pre-season/the current squad, where will we finish this season?
at 21:51 27 Jul 2024
This game certainly a reality check and tempered my expectations.
But just so many variables its impossible to predict.
With the team that played Reading? Bottom six at best as zero creativity or ability to drive forward.
With Chair, Celar, EDB and Koli playing from the start? Just about mid-table.
With the above plus a box to box midfielder who can turn and move forward, plus either a good right winger or number 10 and a season with few injuries? 14th-9th maybe. |
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