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Reply | John Eustace - Blackburn to Derby
at 16:16 13 Feb 2025
Blackburn comms team obviously had a quiet word with the CEO/Chair to water down the bitter fire from the first statement…Departure article is a bit less 14 year old boy dumped for the first time.
5th in league and a win at WBA makes it a bit easier I suppose. Still getting my head round this one. Hope we smash them tomorrow regardless, they’re crap. |
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Reply | Leeds H - moves to 12.30
at 16:05 13 Feb 2025
I take that means we’ve been spared for Sheff U and WBA away? Is this Sky’s way of saying we’re a dead cert to be mid table, have they been chatting to Jim… |
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match thread
at 11:42 12 Feb 2025
Yeah that’s fair, and maybe I’m being overly harsh on our lot / see Cov with some rose tinted glasses (as player for player I think they’re up there with Boro for best of the rest). Ultimately it was a game of fine margins to quote Warbs Warburton, and all three results can be argued - but personally just felt they looked slightly better than us across the pitch (except for Nardi).
Amazing to think last time we played both teams were in and around bottom 3, based on yesterday [Post edited 12 Feb 11:43]
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match threads
at 11:37 12 Feb 2025
Ah apologies - I’ll blame it on my priors thinking we looked a bit weak on the eye!
Personally feel that away from home Varane is needed as we can look a bit fragile/slow in middle of park, though I get the resting given his outlay over winter. |
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match thread
at 10:24 12 Feb 2025
Contrary to most on here, I thought they were comfortably the better team and deserved to edge it. Thought their midfield was far superior off the ball - by FotMob not a single one of our starting midfielders made a tackle - and on it. Rudoni and Sakamoto bossed much of the game, and it always felt like if someone was going to win it it’d be them.
Baffled at the opinion Nardi was poor. Handling from crosses aside, bit of a theme for him, was excellent.
We’ve got two games coming up now against much worse opposition, and should be able to get more points on the board to trickle up towards 50 |
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Reply | John Eustace - Blackburn to Derby
at 10:27 11 Feb 2025
In fairness to him, would you really want to work for the Venkies and be travelling to Blackburn everyday?
Personally fall more on the side that this shows just how much of a basket case Blackburn must be upstairs than Eustace being a Beale-esque figure. You don’t go from chasing play offs to fighting relegation lightly. |
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Reply | millwall match tread ?
at 16:56 1 Feb 2025
Better second half. Saito and Yang much more threatening than Chair and Smyth today. Massive issues in the defensive line now Dunne is presumably off. If they don’t sign a proper RB in next couple days, wouldn’t be comfortable going into rest of season.
Hope the new LB (if true) comes in and replaces Paal quickly. His set piece delivery is so so so poor. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 20:51 22 Jan 2025
As have the owners. Selling your best player on the (relative) cheap while rock bottom. Think one spot is locked in down there |
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Reply | Alfie Lloyd & Paul Smyth - Captains of Chaos
at 15:33 22 Jan 2025
Said it tongue in cheek last night, but if Lloyd keeps developing like we’ve seen this season he will be much more useful than Armstrong ever will be - despite the superior physical attributes Armstrong has. If he can consistently receive the ball up top, hold it, bring it down etc while also being able to run channels and make defenders run towards their own goal, we have a proper striker for the level.
Armstrong only ever had the physical qualities and BC fans I know are already saying that he doesn’t offer anything besides that. Lloyd will still need to improve his game in the box but those technical improvements alone in his touch and hold up make him a much more threatening player than Armstrong will be, because teams will know he can do both sides of the game (whereas Sincs just gets read easily and teams know what’s going to do before he does it).
Lloyd has really really impressed me these last few outings, and the coaching of him is top notch. |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 22:12 21 Jan 2025
Captain Chaos v2.0 with new and improved first touch, hold up and link play - beware Championship.
Clear MOTM for me. He just feels like a QPR player, bit mad, bit raw, all heart |
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Reply | If a miracle happened and we went up via the playoffs
at 19:35 20 Jan 2025
All very well having the best stadium in league 1 mind.
It’s not mutually exclusive as you lot have proved. Find the whole debate here a bit misleading, it’s fundamentally about making good decisions (on players, managers, club upgrades etc etc). With more money the stakes on those decisions are higher, so getting them right pays off big time and getting them wrong screws you for, in our case, a decade.
All the clubs that have done it successfully have smart people upstairs who get those calls right (all the bs - Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth).
Nourry might be that smart person, we don’t know yet, but we know our owners are not those smart people. Just have to hope when the time comes we have someone who can get the big decisions right, because if fecking Bournemouth can be 5th then we have to aspire to at least be at the bloody table. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 19:08 20 Jan 2025
This is increasingly giving me PTSD. They’re one Benoit Assou Ekotto away from waking up and it’s 2014. |
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Reply | If a miracle happened and we went up via the playoffs
at 20:53 19 Jan 2025
This. The amount of WhatsApp group chats covering the points gap to 6th on a minute by minute basis 3-5pm Saturday was amusing. Remember when we were all dancing into the early hours after beating Grealish et al under McClaren - ended well!
Personally content to just enjoy the feeling of not being terminally anxious every weekend, and support the team with some optimism [Post edited 19 Jan 20:53]
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Reply | Sam Field
at 19:55 19 Jan 2025
If he could spray 30 yard passes round the gaffe, finish from 12 yards consistently, and kept all of his defensive attributes - he would not be playing in the bloody championship for us.
I don’t really know what anyone on here could want more from Field. He isn’t Faurlin on the ball, fine, but name one player in the league who has Field’s defensive quality and that sort of ball playing ability.
Pie in the sky stuff [Post edited 19 Jan 19:55]
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Reply | Plymouth Match Thread - Post Captain Pugwash !!
at 14:36 18 Jan 2025
Should not have been that nervy. Need to develop into a more clinical side before we can realistically think about troubling the top 6. Not just missed chances but the amount of times we are in really good attacking positions and then mess it up.
Edwards and Fox excellent, but highlight for me was Kolli’s finish - such a natural finisher. Him and Morgan showing all their talent again. Enjoy the good times, and remember where we were in November! |
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Reply | Clive meeting with Nourry
at 08:53 17 Jan 2025
Thanks for writing these up Clive. Without wanting to sound cynical, there’s no tangible shift here beyond letting us know when players are injured. Academy/scouting stuff all looks good as does the approach to loans.
But if anyone is buying the idea not revealing contract lengths maximises revenue please buy my bridge. Morgan going for 5, 10, 15, 20 million will not be dependent on whether we and other clubs know he’s signed a 3/4/5 year deal. For someone who talks so much about the analytics side of football I find this hill he’s dying on so strange.
Clearly not going to change, will irk me for as long as he’s here, but best get used to it. |
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Reply | Morgan new contract
at 10:21 15 Jan 2025
Lovely stuff, and well deserved. Hopefully they can get deals over the line soon for Dunne and Kolli. And even tell us, that’d be nice.
Given where we are now I think these 3 deals would be better than any new signings (maybe LB aside).
Sure there are still plenty “sign a f**** striker” loyalists out there who will explain otherwise, but looking around league at the cost of players moving this month (that lad at Luton, Taylor?, has barely played a game above L1 level has just gone for £3m to Huddersfield) I highly doubt we will see anymore than one in, and that’ll be our final loan spot. |
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Reply | Marti on Leceister in the FA Cup
at 09:15 10 Jan 2025
If there has ever been evidence these wind up merchants are looking for nibbles, claiming a 6-1 loss away at Blackpool (*blackpool*) is equivalent to a 3-0 during a busy Xmas run at a decent Swansea team is it. Don’t bite |
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Reply | FIVE
at 10:12 8 Jan 2025
Some list of gargantuan victories that for the most expensively assembled squad in championship history. Just makes the run Marti has them on even more impressive.
And, as must always be said, f*** the Redknapps. |
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Reply | Alfie Lloyd
at 22:19 6 Jan 2025
Becoming our very own Captain Chaos |
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