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A big part of the problem is those idiots who go on wilfully conflating Judaism and Zionism, as if critique of the latter is automatically an anti-Semitic attack on the former. (And as if all Jews supported the actions of their totalitarian/genocidal government, or even the State of Israel, which many don't.) If anyone should be de-platformed it's goons like them.
As for our owner, I'd say it's a pretty reasonable political opinion he's amplifying when you look at what's been done to Gaza and its people (and it's clearly not stopping there for Netanyahu's war machine in the Middle East).
So United win it at the death with a blatantly offside goal from Slaphead that, the comms reminded us, would have been chalked off by VAR. Because, of course, (i) it's Old Trafford, and (ii) it's too much to expect the officials to do their jobs without it.
Bent, incompetent, or quite possibly both!
What a sh*tshow! Maybe it's a good thing we don't do cup competitions after all.
I tedn to agree, though I gather the team's stats when he was involved were great last season. However, we now have a stronger and more cohesive squad, with more competition for places, so his race may well be run. When the club has an option, does this mean they can reserve the right to vary the terms of the player's original deal? In Colback's case, I'd offer him a fair basic with a heavily weighted appearance bonus, given his injury record.
Just out of interest, does any bright spark know when (i) 'simulation' was recognised as a thing in football and (ii) it became bookable? I'm wondering whether this may have occurred with the philosophical paradigm shift of Baudrillard's 1981 text 'Simulacra and Simulation'.
I'm ambivalent about Colback. He gives great glue, as I've said, when he's up for it, we do need one or two older heads (as long as they don't lose their heads), but he can be a disciplinary liability (see above), and his fitness record is easily the poorest in the squad. It's also worried me how long it's taken him to come back from his last injury at his age.
* Edit - Just checked the Offish and realised we have an extra year's option on him. *
What price we sneak up in the playoffs and end up buying Edwards from Southampton after all? Longish, I'm guessing, but I might lob a fiver on just for a giggle.
it's funny how we see things in different, or more complex, ways. While I recognise Frey's reasonable goal prowess, hard-working style, and flashes of skill, for me he can also be ineffective at times and needing to be pulled off (not like that) - I think the Sheff Wed game was one instance, but there've been others. So, I've mixed feelings about him overall.
Kolli is very talented, has done very well this season at times, and will hopefully get even better with us.
Alfie I'm less sure about, but it's hard not to love him.
I really want to see Celar come back and pick up half a dozen goals before the end of the season so he can properly make his mark.
Once again, they aren't just 'Nourry's signings'! As both men have told us (and as common sense should advise), Marti has a big input, along with all the coaching/management staff.
I'd really like to know MC's views on that Madsen transfer in that context, but, as you say, the club is looking like it's not doing too badly wth how they're working out - though I still want to see Celar coming back and showing us he can really do, having raised his own bar just before he got injured.
It's something I've been calling for for some time, and Marti needs to see it. He's not a winger; he's a creative playmaker behind the centre forward. Saito and Smyth need to play as the wingers they are.
If that's true, the club is really shooting itself in the foot imo. He's 27 - not 30 or 32! He's committed (and wants to commit). He loves playing for QPR and tells us he does. A player like Jimmy, who's never had any pace to lose, could easily go on playing till he's 33-35 at this level, and possibly at Prem level. Considering that we gave the likes of Madsen 4 years, I think, they should give him what he wants and be grateful for his loyalty.
If he and we do well, his market value will only rise, and if he wants to move later, the club could also cash in, therefore, when he's under contract. For me, it's a no-brainer.
Sparked by the poster on the post-Millwall thread who made some allusion to the self-evident superiority of the live experience, and since I have little choice as an Irish R than to watch my club via online media and/or TV, I was interested to solicit the views of fellow fans. Someone said here that you get 'nothing' from watching on a stream, which struck me as rather ridiculously extreme at the time (and I'm sure the likes of Andy Sinton for one would have something to say about it), and I certainly don't think so. If that were the case, rather obviously, these legal/illegal platforms wouldn't be sprouting up here, there and everywhere, and nor would the likes of Match of the Day or Sky be in business (which many of us might think would be a good thing).
Although the point that at a live game you usually see the entire spectacle (apart from e.g. in our School End corner seats!) is rather strong, I actually enjoy watching streamed/TV coverage, as I think what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts in terms of close-ups of the important action, replays, and (good) commentaries. Re the Leicester game, interestingly, while just about everyone who was there was apparently struggling to see through the murk, the stream I watched actually gave pretty clear reception (maybe the cameras have a fog-filtering mechanism someone 'teccy' might know about), so I was laughing (even though I wasn't laughing). On top of which, I certainly didn't feel (doubly) cheated - by the weather and the line-up - in the way I would have as a paying customer!
It's intriguing to compare this with, say, watching live theatre vs cinematic presentations/ beambacks of drama. In the first, while you get to choose where you tilt your head and literally 'breathe in' the whole experience, that certainly didn't stop theatre-makers (who often tell us how vital live audiences are) making shows during Covid that were broadcast without them. Again, being able to e.g. scrutinise actors' faces on screen can actually give you insights into the performances most seats won't afford (as well as not having to deal with idiots who can't switch off their phones or make more noise with their f*cking peanuts than the actors).
In football, the crowd feels, I think, more intrinsic to the action, so if you're not part of that, you might have the feeling of missing out in a certain way by not being with your 'tribe', but, as I say, these things are no more black and white than people are (and writing on LfW for some time certainly brings home to me how we Rs are like any other human tribe, i.e. composed of one or two people you might quite like to have a drink with, and quite a lot you wouldn't). A bad seat in a crap ground, for instance, can curtail the live game experience massively, in just the same way as being stuck up in the gods at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin (or behind a group of chattery Chinese tourists) might make you wish you'd watched it on DVD.
What do others think?
*Edit - I know there are noisy eaters in cinemas too *
Sorry to burst your and one or two others' bubbles, but, even if after losing at Millwall, we're still 8th in the Away form table, so our away kit presumably can't be that much of a curse.
I'll probably be accused of being a 'contrarian' again by the usual suspects, but I actually don't mind it, even though I agree that hoops should be de rigueur both at HQ and on our travels. (Would we then even need a 3rd kit?)
In the history of ghastly football shirts, among a variety of offences to taste, we're not even in the same league as the likes of this Athletic Bilbao iteration.
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