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Averaged nearly 1 in 3 for us, actually, depsite copping it from some hostile and possibly racist boo boys on the Loft. How we could use a Tony Sealy now!
'Not quite out of it yet' is an interesting spin on our current predicament - we're 5 points from fourth bottom with a princely 13 goals from 16 games. Are you doing a YTS with Nourry, out of interest?
You sound like Marti after pretty much every/any match!
For me, though we had some spells of sorts, and Saito was a constant thorn, It was a very fits-and-starts showing, and Stoke could easily have won it, what with the superb and questionably/belatedly disallowed goal (for which Ward was seemingly working hard to get back in our good books) and Cannon, the kind of real striker we can apparently only dream of, brilliantly denied by Nardi. Alfie was a bit unlucky at the end with the best chance of the game, though between them him and Andersen should have finished it, which kinds of sums up our season.
Though we weren't as bad as we have been, I don't know how Marti pulls this around and have little confidence he can, even with JCS, a half-fit Chair and a surly Colback back in the team. With or without them, we cannot score goals of our own, and we are always likely to concede one or two. Others could probably add more names, but the likes of Celar, Madsen, Santos, Lloyd, Varane, and Smyth, despite the fact that I like him in some ways and his winning a 50-50 pen today (not that that helped us) gave us a glimmer until our unlovable Slovenian stepped up, are just not good enough.
The club has recruited for relegation and, frankly, it deserves all it gets. If I were Marti, and I cared about my career if nothing else, I'd walk!
We're NOT 'unlucky', though - what are you watching? We're inept up front to the point of excruciating and architects of our own downfall at the back. Again and again.
As Marti says himself (and what does that say for him?), we're bottom and deserve to be.
Sounds a bit more buoyant/defiant than of late, but, to quote Prince Hamlet, it's 'words, words, words'. Will be interesting tomorrow to see if there's any translation in any part of the team of all this 'training at a very high level'. I'm not holding my breath.
What I'd like for Xmas is a grown-up interviewer with the balls to ask why we haven't seen it yet, but I suppose that's as likely as Santa desending the club chimney with a competent striker under his arm.
I'm not sure I need to hear anymore about our current predicament, as it's all been said, and I know how I feel about most of it most of the time. I don't think football clubs care about their fans - as I've said many times, we're little more than a kind of sideshow, really. It's quite quaint to me when people here 'expect' this or that dialogue with the club. I think the last Fans Forum told us all we need to know here.
That's professional football in our decaying century, and we're kind of stuck with it, I'm afraid. What counts is to do some other more important things that keep one on the edge and in the swim in life (writing for stage, dream analysis, paranormal research, gardening, and cat love in my own case).
That said, this message board remains, despite the clutter of stupid and scapeogating suspects, an often entertaining expitation of sorts. Hopefully, its virtual platform will persist, even if QPR can't play football.
It's a broken record already, and I know that Celar has been unfeasibly bad, but whoever thought that Frey and Celar, plus a runaround Alfie Lloyd, were going to score us the goals to be competitive this season, has absolutely f*cked us! Right now, it wouldn't surprise me if they don't make 10 goals all season between the three of them!"
This when I start to think it's perhaps not such a far-flung conspiracy theory that the aim this season has been relegation all along, with a reboot/sell-up in League One.
I hold them ALL responsible (let's name them, in no particular order) : Nourry, Belk, Cifuentes, Ruben, Amit, Calm, Reilly, and Hoos. They all have positions in the club, and they're all failing the club. F*ck it - I'll throw Jude the Cat under the bus while I'm there just in case, and even though I generally prefer cats to people.
And who's to say it won't get (even) worse before it gets any better?
Others have apparently seen it differently, but for me Marti's been looking scarily resigned, disspirited and/or depressed in the last two or three post-match interviews, almost as if he's anticipating the axe falling or feels unable to change things with the resources he has/doesn't have. Of course, in a club where no knows , or is allowed to know, what's in the offing, this might well be the big bad news in the offing we don't know about either.
Hope my intuition is askew on this occasion, but it quite often isn't.
We get that twice-struck lightning vs Stoke this weekend, and things start to look up a little. Another ropey showing and home defeat, a knife or two will be glinting, and I'll fear for him.
Jesus Christ, the guy's dead - give him/his family/us a break! There'd have been blue murder on here if you'd come on with sh*t-stirring stories about Ray Jones' bad driving etc., so what's the difference? He was a politician, so could be a bit of a tw*t - and in other news, bears defaecate in the woods!
(He does seem to have been a bit of a buffoon, but I quite liked it when he gave that egg-throwing bloke (was it?) a slap a la Brian Clough.)
Sinton looks tired and fed-up and seems to have aged about 10 years in the last few months. Resembles a man who's been locked up in Wormwood Scrubs for a stretch. Guess we've QPRed him too.
Good, honest interview with Cook, who tells it as it is. Interesting, and also curious, he speaks so much of 'getting the fans back onside' and winning our 'respect', especially as the last thing, I think, has been the fans not supporting the team.
The Stoke game is strangely almost exactly a year to the day when Cifuentes got his first win in charge against the same opposition. Do I expect lightning to strike twice? More hope than expectation, I'm afraid, and not much of that either.
Makes sense re his level. Soulless, money-macerated, and doubtless corrupt. Obviously, Gerrard doesn't care too much about the company he keeps either.
At least he's tolerably far away from LR these days.
Madsen appears to be the Scandinavian proof of the theory. His imponderable capacity to be both present and absent at the same time on a football pitch surely requires some kind of quantum interpretation.
v Derby (H), 1-1, 76/77 (my first Rs game) v Watford (A), 1-2, 79/80 (sensational winner from Glenn Roeder, dribbled 50 yds, I think) v Fulham (A), 1-1, 1982/83 (scorcher from Lewington if memory serves) v Stoke (H), 6-0, 83/84 (I think Stewart scored the 5th or 6th from virtually the halfway line)
There's something about remembering untelevised games from years past that feels like recalling dreams.
Absolutely, but the longer this goes on, the more embarrassing it is (or should be) for the coach too - that's my point! Unless he's being forced to play him (bizarre/scary) or he genuinely feels we have no one better (unfathomable, also scary).
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