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Reply | Angus Gunn charged by FA
at 22:45 17 Dec 2024
I thought Gunn was a bit of an embarrassment with his dive to try and get Kolli in trouble. Don't know what he did in the tunnel but the whole team had clearly lost their heads.
After the McLean suspension the manager came out with a load of tosh about retrospective punishments being a new thing invented for Norwich, so you can see who their enabler is. It's embarrassing given the resources they have available to them and we're forced to play Kolli and Morgan who they decided to deal with by hitting them and diving. |
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Reply | McLean suspended for 4 matches
at 19:26 12 Dec 2024
I can't believe your manager doesn't know that if an incident is missed by the referee and not punished then they will review it after the game. If he'd have booked him, it wouldn't have been reviewed even if it should have been a red. Think the rules have been like that for years.
Referee probably has it in his notes that Morgan claimed he'd been hit in the head, so that's why they reviewed it.
The timing I agree is poor but I imagine the club knew about it earlier if they appealed it. So might be worth clarifying when the initial decision was made. The club should have been aware sooner and planned for the appeal failing.
I don't know anything about your manager but the teams mentality Saturday and his comments on this suggests his trying to create an "us against the world" attitude with the team, which given the resources at his disposal seems odd. That said it worked well for Neil Warnock at various clubs back in the day. |
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Reply | Last night’s ref
at 14:02 12 Dec 2024
On top of the other items mentioned I thought it was poor to give the shanked shot as a corner in the first half, it went nowhere near our players and could have resulted in a goal.
I'm not sure how he managed to not book their player who fell over and grabbed the ball either.
Seemed to make judgements about what is and isn't a booking based on whether your team was winning or not rather than the offense. |
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Reply | Varanne
at 09:53 12 Dec 2024
At times last night it felt like he was the more developed kid dominating a youth game. Seemed to be nobody on the Oxford team who could match his physicality but he was controlled with it too.
After the second goal I noticed Cook had a quick word to refocus him, feel like the defensive unit (including Varane) take pride in clean sheets, which is good to see. |
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Reply | Sam Field or no Sam Field?
at 09:48 12 Dec 2024
I was going to say that he reads danger really well, showed that against Watford with some great interceptions. But he also showed last night that when the opposition is weaker and we're on the front foot he can be an asset in attack as well. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 15:50 8 Dec 2024
I know he scored 2 goals but my favourite moment from him was just after Morgans shot he followed in looking for his third goal. He challenged for the ball in the box, shoulder to shoulder and sent the defender off the pitch while retaining the ball. Great strength. |
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Reply | QPR v Naaaarwich Match Thread
at 15:01 8 Dec 2024
From where I was sitting it looked like some of the decisions he gave our way were due to prompting from the lino rather than his own judgement but I could be wrong. |
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Reply | Nourry
at 14:46 8 Dec 2024
https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/christian-nourry-on-being-a-sports-minded-c
Here's some more from Nourry on the transfer dealings.
“If there is a specific hot button issue where there’s a level of disagreement on a certain player then I will spend more time looking at a player myself. But generally speaking, I’m not sitting there watching hundreds of games a day.”
Sounds like he has a final say if there's disagreement otherwise what's the point in looking closer.
He will have also signed off Williams continuing in his role remotely as he's covering both CEO and DoF roles. |
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Reply | Nourry
at 09:53 8 Dec 2024
In his own words recruitment is a joint decision between bell, Marti and Nourry. Fine. But he also said if it's undecided he takes a closer look at the player and makes the decision, not sure what qualifies him for that.
Also fairly obvious that if he can hire and fire the manager he can hire or fire the head of performance who's half way around the world. Two more suspected muscle injuries yesterday, but we're to believe him being remote is not effecting his ability to do the job. |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 21:59 26 Nov 2024
Didn't Isaac Hayden outright say it in a podcast? Not really ITK is it, just listening to what's being said and remembering it.  |
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Reply | Celar's deepening nightmare leaves QPR well adrift – Report
at 14:24 25 Nov 2024
The irony of your comment is that you think that the people advocating for Nourry to be replaced or removed from involvement with the first team are emotive. Yet it's only you saying that they hate Nourry. Plenty of logically put together arguments for Nourry to carry the can rather than Marti is boiled down to "hatred".
Again ironic that you seem to subscribe to the black and white thinking that if you think that Nourry is the biggest issue and should be sorted first, that means you hate him and Marti is perfect! It doesn't. Nobody is saying he's a perfect manager, plenty think he's a good manager and we either won't get a better one or that even if we did they'd still be hamstrung by the squad and injuries.
And you wonder why people ignore rather than engage. |
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Reply | Cifuentes gone?
at 13:03 25 Nov 2024
I imagine Nourry is more into Dairylea lunchers, maybe baby bell. |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 12:45 25 Nov 2024
Successive owners. As far as I remember we've been treated poorly as fans since Paladini turned up.
Do we have a united fan group or do we still have 3 or 4 different ones? If so, will they ever unite? |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 10:35 24 Nov 2024
I agree, Nourry is the biggest problem at the moment due to his involvement in the football side of things and possibly Hoos too. Why should our Chairman be a part time/semi-retired role FFS.
We've seen before that owners can be distant but the club successful if the right people are involved. The previous owners had their most (only) success by stepping back, installing a Chairman and CEO in Amit and Ishan to manage the day to day. It was manager wants manager gets, but Warnock broke the trend by knowing what to do. I see no reason we couldn't have similar success with a good coach and DoF.
So it can be done with the right appointments while people willing to lose 2m a month are probably harder to find than competent DOF, CEO and Chairman. We have a good coach who's proven his ability, so let's get the other appointments up to a similar level and we could start behaving like a professional club.
I've said before that possibly the most diplomatic approach would be to appoint a DoF and keep Nourry in a CEO role with no football involvement until the end of season. Then I'd be sacking Hoos and Nourry. Nourry may prove to be better in a reduced role. |
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Reply | Andy Belk
at 14:36 22 Nov 2024
I would say being diplomatic rather than lying.
We don't know how happy he was with the transfer window because the correct answer to the question posed is the same if you're happy, or if you're not and the players are being forced on you.
A large part of his job is man management, it would be very poor from him to pass on any doubts or criticisms he had about the transfer dealings on to the players or public. |
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Reply | Andy Belk
at 13:01 22 Nov 2024
“If there is a specific hot button issue where there’s a level of disagreement on a certain player then I will spend more time looking at a player myself. But generally speaking, I’m not sitting there watching hundreds of games a day.” - Sounds a bit like if there's a disagreement he will make the final decision to me, otherwise why is he spending MORE time looking at the player?
What on earth qualifies him to have an opinion? Didn't we have a load of fans moaning that Les didn't have enough experience to be a DoF...now we've got this! |
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Reply | Andy Belk
at 12:51 22 Nov 2024
I'm sure he did, what do you expect him to say publicly? I assume that was through official channels as well because nobody else was allowed to interview him to dig any deeper into that.
We know typically managers are looking for instant success, that's why the DoF system works well with clubs that go through managers as quickly as we do. So while I'm sure they would have spoke to Marti, I think it's naïve to think he would be pushing for the club to be spending money on "projects" instead of players who could make an impact.
The summers transfers seem to be someone trying to be clever and find value everywhere by brining in potential that may come good down the line but without the balance of sufficient players coming into the first team ready to make an impact.
So, I suspect the final say on signings was with Nourry as a "football focused CEO". Ideally the guy setting the transfer and wage budgets would be detached from the transfer decisions. Combining the DoF and CEO role into one seems like a bad decision to me. |
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Reply | Andy Belk
at 12:29 22 Nov 2024
Yeah, not his fault at all. I did think when I first saw him that it was good that he was willing to pass forwards and take a risk with the ball, we always struggle to progress the ball forwards, so thought it might help out a bit. But it doesn't seem to be working out. He's definitely one that would have benefited from a slower introduction to the first team moving to a new country and taking up a new position is a big ask. |
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Reply | Andy Belk
at 10:13 22 Nov 2024
I'm still not sure that he got a free hand this summer, it's still a team effort.
If you take the Madsen transfer as an example, we heard from Gallen that speaking to other scouts they identified that he was weak and non-combative. So we either missed something that everyone else could see or we decided we could develop him to remove that. If it's the first one then fair enough, he's missed what everyone else has seen and should take the criticism. If he's reported back that he's got the strength of a wet cardboard box and the DoF/manager/performance director has stepped in and said we can get him in they gym and beef him up or train it out of him, then it's not really his fault.
It's like signing injury prone players, as a scout you would probably flag it and you might be able to give them some idea of what their injury record is to see if it's one problem they need to solve or if he's breaking down all over the place. But the decision to take the risk and try to fix his injury record should be a conversation between DoF and Physio/medical team, not the scouting team.
Having said that, god knows who was in the room when we signed Santos. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 08:03 21 Nov 2024
Well, he's instincts are pretty poor if he thought a wall of silence was the best way to run the place. Just because he's changed now after months doesn't really change the fact that he's so inept he thought it was a good idea in the first place.
It sits alongside other stupid ideas like the one where he's got enough knowledge and experience to do the DoF role. Would welcome a U-turn on that idea of his too. |
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