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Comment | Watch me rise up and leave, all the ashes you made out of me – Report
at 18:02:11
A la recherche du temps perdu is the QPR burden we carry with only the occasional Madeleine to reignite the appetite.
As with each of the few reaffirming lifetime QPR moments it takes a couple of days to sink in, then there’s the realisation that Friday is right up there in the pantheon of those oh, so few but precious moments.
It wasn’t just the win
It wasn’t just the four goals.
It wasn’t just the clean sheet.
It wasn’t just because it was Leeds
It wasn’t just a performance against a likely Premier League team
It wasn’t just because it was under the lights
It was because when it really mattered, they finished the job “ in the QPR way” (Cifuentes™️)
The superstitious Gerry Francis always attributed the 1999 6-0 Palace escape act to the reappearance of the real life Jude the cat who had been missing during our terrible run in to that point.
I swear I saw him lurking around FL block on Friday…
This time, I don’t think it will simply be a stay of execution
No more Ashes, let’s Embrace the new era.
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Comment | When you do good, I use the green pen – Preview
at 13:50:03
We all know that cynicism is the default setting for the QPR mindset but don’t let’s bury a Good News Story as ‘overhyped’ . Too easy that.
The lad Hodge’s determination to be immediately involved on Matchday by driving south at dead of night was worthy enough in itself. Crown that with a composed finish at the Ewood Park graveyard for 3 points that put us back in the hunt may be seen in May - and thereafter - as one of those rare QPR Moments.
Incidentally, let’s not forget someone else once tried this but it didn’t work out
Q1. January transfer window
Hodge v Odembingwie
Midlands to W12
Compare and contrast,
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Comment | A long time between drinks - Preview
at 18:34:32
It doesn’t need repeating that the matchday experience is every bit as important as the match itself.
Similarly the beer has to match it although for me the pint of London Pride at the C&S is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
I’ve seen Marsh and I’ve seen Bowles.
I’ve seen losing streaks I thought would never end
6 nil demolitions of Chelsea
Allen and Fenwick in the 82 cup
Bannister’s 6th surfing on a bow wave against Partizan
Michelwhite’s late goal, the 10th in game against Newcastle
The return of the Black cat to save us against Palace
But there’s just something about that Oldham game… |
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Comment | End of Term Report 22/23 — Attack
at 23:41:12
Hard reads, all of them Clive. But good job; beats me how you have the mental strength to do it Hope you never have to repeat this season.
Now how about End Of Term Report - 22/23 Managers. Add Warbs for compare and contrast... |
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Comment | Bittersweet symphony — Report
at 19:00:23
Clive, Clive! 17.00 Sunday and it’s time to log on to check out the latest CW match report. Always the best QPR read of the week and always more than just a report. The anger and frustration of the last six months now manifestly evident in the famous pin sharp wit increasingly acerbic and the conclusions increasingly distilled down into cold irrefutable Truths.
This time yesterday I was all smiles. Now I’m puffing my cheeks
Jack’s right - sometimes, we can’t handle the Truth
Or maybe, better to handle the Truth a wee bit later. A wee bit later after Bristol City perhaps. End of term report?
You’ve repeatedly reminded us of revelling in the QPR Moments, the rare Moments of unrestrained joy in a lifetime’s journey of QPR disappointments. Reminded us that this is why we don’t support Chelsea or Man U.
Yesterday may not have been up there with Lazarus 67, Rodnee! Stanlee! Fenwick 82, Partizan Highbury, Bailey’s Old Trafford, Sinclair, Holloway’s Hillsborough, Mackie at Derby, Adel at Cardiff, Zamora! Even Charlie v Brentford more recently..
Yesterday was not them, but it was a Moment. 7 days after the last Moment.
Let us at least embrace these rare moments.
Of course it was an awful game. Of course, this whole collapse should never have happened. The war should never have happened but my parents celebrated 8 May 45. The reckoning came soon after.
Time enough for counting, when the dealings done.
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Comment | It’s about ownership — Preview
at 14:50:45
The truth often hurts, and this hurts. I see there’s already rumours of a replacement
I’ve been consistent in my view that Gareth should never have taken the job. Wrong job, wrong time.
Loved him as a QPR player, loved his loyalty to the club, loved what he continued to achieve at Wycombe.
Trouble is, his brand of gung-ho optimism is never going to work with disgruntled and demoralised Beale loanees and picks. Frankly, hard to grab respect when you’re seen as a lower league rock ‘n’ roll cheerleader. Too much like “one of the lads.â€
His pre-and post match comments just ring hollow and almost sound delusional – but what else can he say? I feel sorry for him right now.
Half of me, hopes Wycombe will quietly offer him his job back and QPR quietly say okay.
We probably need the stern heel of a Teutonic iron disciplined task master to dismantle this lot and build something new.
Maybe Reizinger is the right singer to get a tune out of the Tune Group QPR |
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Comment | Luton humbling highlights scale of Critchley’s task — Report
at 19:24:22
No conspiracy, Clive, it's becoming very clear very quickly; Beale's betrayal has poisoned the dressing room well and Uncle Critchley's post match "er.." meanderings I'm afraid don't carry any conviction, authority or even parallels with reality. It would be wrong to say he's lost the dressing room; of course not. He's just not been able to get his hands on the poisoned chalice in the first place.
To say that post Wolves-gate we are relegation form is no knee jerk reaction, it's an incontrovertible and very uncomfortable truth.
At the start of the season my FL- Block group laughed about the prospects of finishing 16th.
We're not laughing now.
Monday's attendance will be diminished; ordinarily, I would relish the challenge of defeating the 3rd world road and rail systems south of the river even with strikes, congestion charge and ULEZ. Anything to get to W12
Not now, not with all that, not in midwinter, not to watch this slop and not with this squad who give us nothing to cheer.
I'll return in the end of course, we all do
Call me out by all means, but next Monday, it's Rajput and Sky at Ron's place - and that's it.
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Comment | Savage amusement - Report
at 01:53:52
Scatitori te salutant
No words can adequately extol the vertues - yes, the vertues = of this Tour de Force.
This, THIS - is a Meisterwerk. Among 20 years of consistently peerless hooped reportage, this is surely Primus Inter Pares. It seems the more frustrating the performance, the more incisive the Whittingham wit, the more sinuous the journey to the ultimate gut-wrenching analogy. Gut Wrenching in this case in every sense of the word
Scatology of the first order
Is that a word? It is now.. |
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Comment | End of Term Report 21/22 — Attack
at 13:37:14
Always love your insightful and comprehensive reviews of all the playing staff. Your total and relentless commitment to QPR journalism over the season is at turns, exemplary and at the same time almost baffling beyond belief. We all suffer the pain of supporting QPR, both emotional and financial: Expending emotional energy and substantial dosh is one thing but your dedication to the cause seems to come close to both a death wish and bankruptcy. Don't know how you keep it up, but it deserves some kind of QPR medal for mental fortitude above and beyond the call of duty.
Other teams' season end reviews seem amateur by comparison; you are undoubtedly in a class of your own
Whilst writing, (so old-school, 'whilst')
Whilst writing are you planning to review the season's performance of either or both of
a) the Manager and senior coaching staff
b) the Executive and the Board?
Nah, unfair, shouldn't have asked.. |
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Comment | Adomah and Ball reach into the fire to grasp unlikely point - Report
at 18:40:20
It seemed to me that Barnsley had played all their 100 mph, high-press, 2/3 on 1 cards in the first half.
2-0 up away from home, normally that would have been enough but full marks to this Warburton team who found a way back and never gave up.
Full marks to the Rangers faithful too; they kept the faith - long time since we experienced that level of relentless home crowd commitment |
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Comment | Dickie's brilliance soothes QPR's opening night nerves - Report
at 21:10:00
Glad to get Millwall out the way early on; despite our home record against them somehow it always seems hard work.
Unquestionably a tricky opening 3 fixtures; 3 or 4 points from those will provide a kick-off platform for the playoff challenge
Electric atmosphere for first day of term, but the FlavioBernie makeover now looking shabby with matchday organisation to match. Club could do worse than take advice from Harry who had the C&S running sweet as a nut on full capacity. |
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Comment | Hoop dreams - Preview
at 00:55:44
Barry Davies commentator on World Stareout
Priceless
Try not to sing... |
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Comment | Daring to look ahead - Preview
at 14:06:36
Well Clive, FYI I am the older among our support base (72), live out of town (Colchester or Great Bookham, depending), feel frankly TOO safe and have a burning desire to travel on trains and tubes again, but I wont sit in football crowds again, at least at the KPFS Why? Because my seat on the back row of FL Block means I can stand. For every home game. I don't care about the all manner of protocols, masks, social distancing, and hassle. It might damage the experience but - considering the alternative? Personally I don't care if I have to travel in a hazmat suit and watch the game attached to a socially distanced iron lung. How many will come back? Well certainly all of FL Block WhatsApp. And the same will go for every other QPR WhatsApp. In fact FLBlock WhatsApp is coming back to the C&S on 22nd May just because we can. No game but a seasonal post-mortem, anticipation for next season and maximum fellowship .
And that's the whole point |
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Comment | Forest flop leaves QPR nursing unwanted record - Report
at 21:03:40
What's clear now - after the embarrassment of the 'lap of honour' to the empty stadium - is that the new manager has to do more than just save money and bring the kids on - his priority will be to reconnect the club with the supporters.
None of the shortlist have that Ollie affinity - owners should start over and consider Ainsworth and Bircham as a 2 man team. Closest we'll get to the best fit. |
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Comment | Forest flop leaves QPR nursing unwanted record - Report
at 21:03:40
What's clear now - after the embarrassment of the 'lap of honour' to the empty stadium - is that the new manager has to do more than just save money and bring the kids on - his priority will be to reconnect the club with the supporters.
None of the shortlist have that Ollie affinity - owners should start over and consider Ainsworth and Bircham as a 2 man team. Closest we'll get to the best fit. |
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