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Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 15:06 - Nov 21 by GaryT
Stoke have only had 1 defeat in the last 8 and that was away to joint leaders Sheff Utd. If the grand fromages are intent on pulling the trigger then they might as well wait until we lose at home to Oxford (who haven't won away all season). If things haven't picked up by then and we do lose, hard to argue against it but would still prefer to see Nourry pack his bags first.
With what we have to play with and Stoke's recent form, can't see past this finishing 1-2.
A very reasoned view, but will the owners see it as you do?
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Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 16:55 - Nov 21 with 2798 views
Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 16:18 - Nov 21 by NorthantsHoop
Don't think that this is a game defining season. We are just a poor team, the players are just not good enough for the Championship. Don't want Marti sacked think we just run with it see where we end up and if it is League 1, so be it. We have to face facts that relegation has been staring us in the face for the last 2 seasons and the sword may now be coming down and cutting our Championship head off. I just don't feel our players are good enough, but you never know something might spark. Marti more at risk if we get soundly beaten in the next 3 games, especially at Cardiff and a drubbing at Watford like last season probably curtains for him, but we live in hope we can keep drawing and stay within 5 or 6 points of safety, start heading to 9 or 10 points adrift then we are likely to go down.
I don't want Marti sacked either, but I am considering the possibility that another loss could be the end for him. I think this is the worse we've been since we've come back down from the PL? We all know the context, but as I've mentioned in my previous replies - do the decision makers see it as we do?
You could be right regarding the next three games, but I suppose it depends how other results go? If we win and the teams around us lose, great. If we lose and they win, then we're really starting to look cut adrift.
I think Marti being sacked would be the season defining action, I just wonder if this game is the decider for him?
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Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 17:27 - Nov 21 with 2669 views
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.
Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 17:27 - Nov 21 by stainrods_elbow
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.
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I agree, it looks and feels like a matter of time to me. Hope I'm wrong.
Stoke aren't much cop but look what they're bringing up front - Million Manhoef, Tom Cannon and Sam Gallagher. Our striking options in comparison are absolutely hilarious.
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Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 18:55 - Nov 21 with 2558 views
Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 17:37 - Nov 21 by Northernr
I agree, it looks and feels like a matter of time to me. Hope I'm wrong.
Stoke aren't much cop but look what they're bringing up front - Million Manhoef, Tom Cannon and Sam Gallagher. Our striking options in comparison are absolutely hilarious.
Or blackly comic!
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?
Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 17:27 - Nov 21 by stainrods_elbow
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.
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Marti at 14:57 on Saturday ...
... 1 - 1
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Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 23:19 - Nov 21 with 2435 views
Love to be proved wrong, but I can't see us getting many more points before January. My glass is only ever half empty when it comes to QPR😉...but this team has drained even those meagre dregs. Come on U R'ssss 😁
Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 21:31 - Nov 22 by Damo1962
Love to be proved wrong, but I can't see us getting many more points before January. My glass is only ever half empty when it comes to QPR😉...but this team has drained even those meagre dregs. Come on U R'ssss 😁
As depressing as it is I must say I agree with you. This squad has no fight, no spirit and no soul. League One beckons I’m afraid. So sick of people not knowing who we even are. Relegation will make it even worse.I’m fast losing interest despite following our silly little club for nearly 50 years 😕
Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 12:46 - Nov 21 by thehat
I would go 3,5,2
3 - Dunne, Cook, Morrison
5 - Smyth, Morgan, Field, Varone, Saito
2- Celar, Lloyd
Stop pissing about playing out from the back, get the ball wide and some early crosses into the box. We also have a bit of pace up top with Alfie and it's his natural position.
Yup the biggest issue is we can't score goals so we need to try something different, Celar is struggling as a lone striker so the 3-5-2 formation would give him support.
As mentioned elsewhere the forward options are not good so we need to defend well and make sure we don't lose the midfield battle, giving Celar a bit of support may be a game changer, we need to try something he's struggling massively as the lone striker.
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Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 10:14 - Nov 23 with 1686 views
Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 09:47 - Nov 23 by Northolt_Rs
Nope. Today is our day. Today we win to start the fight back! COYRsssss!!!
Yes, scrappy 1 nil win. Steve Cook falls over the goaline with the ball.
"a diseased bunch of mofos if there ever was one, their beauty is so awesome that listening to them at their best is like being in some vast dream cathedral decorated with a thousand gleaming American pop culture icons."
- Lester Bangs on The Beach Boys
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Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 10:15 - Nov 23 with 1680 views
Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 10:10 - Nov 23 by Blue_Castello
Yup the biggest issue is we can't score goals so we need to try something different, Celar is struggling as a lone striker so the 3-5-2 formation would give him support.
As mentioned elsewhere the forward options are not good so we need to defend well and make sure we don't lose the midfield battle, giving Celar a bit of support may be a game changer, we need to try something he's struggling massively as the lone striker.
As if I needed reminding, I was watching the Slovenia Norway game during the International break. Celar came on for Slovenia with them 1-3 down and about 20 minutes to go. He got played in behind the Norwegian defenders bang in front of goal, with good movement to give him some credit, but with only the Keeper to beat he totally missed the ball trying to control it when a confident striker would have put it away first time on the volley. He then got beaten to a ball played into the box by 2 defenders and that was it from him.
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Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread on 10:56 - Nov 23 with 1578 views
Currently worse than the Ainsworth season, pretty much across the board , statisticly.
Marti cannot do right with this team, and thats not his fault. However, it's a game of points, and what to they make????....... survival, thats what. Ergo, come 5pm today, we will be in the crapper even more, and Marti etc will probably get the spanish archer.
This will lead to our physio getting a huge contract not to be 'in country', and more subbuteo rubbish from the team, and those 'just out of their teens' peeps who dont have a scooby!
Heart says 1-1, but bugger it........ 5-0 to the supa hoopsa!
With no recognisable striker and only one relatively creative midfielder we'll be lucky to scrape a draw. The situation with so many key players still out looks dire. Our only strength lies in set-pieces, where Cook, Dunne and Field can be dangerous. Apart from that it has to be a backs-to-the-wall effort not to concede. Heart says 0-0, head says heartbreaking loss.
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