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Reply | And breathe... - Simon Dorset's annual deep dive into the accounts
at 20:33 26 Feb 2025
I think with Brentford, it was a case of right strategy at the right time. It's not really been like that so much for any of the Championship teams since Covid, other than those teams who've been relegated out of the Prem.
For sure, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be trying to buy young and cheap and develop. But I don't think the market is really there to rely on selling 2 players a year for £5m or more. |
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Reply | Squad depth
at 16:22 15 Feb 2025
Frey is the only one we can't afford to lose to injury. We can shuffle the pack to cover anyone else, but no one else gives us what he does. |
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match thread
at 22:16 11 Feb 2025
Look, there's decisions that go your way because they are marginal, or so quick and obscure that they don't get spotted, and I'm sure they all even themselves out over a season. Then there are decisions like tonight's where the officials get it wrong despite them being clear and obvious.
That footage from the camera at the other end CLEARLY shows the ref looking at the foul. His head isn't pointed towards the flight of the ball, it's pointed right at the foul.
The result of Frey/Lloyd's actions may not have been different, but they are not examples of the same thing. |
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match thread
at 21:56 11 Feb 2025
It's a heavy enough push to knock over a very experienced centre half who isn't going to be sitting down when there's a corner to defend, and it's straight in front of the ref who has a completely unobstructed view from ten yards away.
I can understand when you have incidents like Frey's handball where almost no one realised it had happened, but this really wasn't a tough decision to get right, was it? |
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Reply | Frey
at 14:06 5 Feb 2025
There isn't anyone in the squad that can't be improved upon. But he's the one who cannot be adequately deputised for if injured.
If he stays fit for the rest of the season, I think we'll get close to making the play offs. |
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Reply | Four Wins
at 00:08 5 Feb 2025
I mean it's a bit "if my aunt had bolx", but had we beaten Wensday and Wawll, we'd now be two points clear in fifth! Mental really. |
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Reply | 3 points off the play offs
at 23:45 4 Feb 2025
I thought that was a brave and aggressive team selection and formation from Marti tonight. Back when Saito and Dembele were signed, I thought that we'd have Chair in with them when fit. It's taken a long long time to get the rest of the team working well enough around them to make it possible.
I said back in the early days of December, I felt we'd finish closer to the play offs than relegation, and I'm beginning to feel that we may actually have a shot at being in the top six. Probably the only player we don't have a direct replacement for atm is Frey, but if he stays fit, I think no one is going to fancy playing us. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 14:47 2 Feb 2025
£2m+ for someone who has less than 6 months less on their contract just seems pricey to me, and I'm a little surprised that if we've been offered £2m in those circumstances, we haven't taken it. Guess I'm looking at the £2.5m we took for Sincs who is much younger, a goalscorer and had a year left.
Just feel there's something here that we aren't party to. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 20:14 31 Jan 2025
I think I disagree with that. I'd say if you're comparing Postecoglu's credentials with either of them, they'd probably have a bigger shout for the Spurs job for example. Depends on what you consider next level I suppose. Everton? West Ham? Villa? Maybe even Newcastle?
I don't think it's a coincidence that by and large it's clubs "down South" that have broken through in the Prem, Bournemouth and Brighton with Brentford and Fulham. If the money's good for players, wouldn't they prefer to play down South than go to the likes of Burnley or SheffU.
Maybe I'm just looking at this through slightly rose tinted specs, but you know you had Bielsa at Leeds and he couldn't move them to the level of the four southern clubs I mention above. [Post edited 31 Jan 20:22]
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 20:00 31 Jan 2025
I've wondered about this. Obviously, we are not currently at the level of Fulham or Brentford. But neither Frank nor Silva seem to have been desperate to move on to a "bigger club".
Are they not being approached for some reason? Or is being manager at a London club more of an allure than we might imagine? Or am I missing something else? |
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Reply | Oh well.
at 20:28 25 Jan 2025
Wednesday played in Leeds (Yorkshire) last weekend, then at home midweek.
We travelled from London to Plymouth, to London, to Hull then back to London in the same period. Think it's a bit disingenuous to describe that as the same schedule. |
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Reply | Marti's remarks on the ref
at 20:23 25 Jan 2025
Dreadful performance from the ref. Wednesday clearly knew about Dunne's threat from throw ins and set pieces, and he was held around the waist at every set piece from minute one. If you're booking Smyth for his challenge out on the wing, you have GOT to be booking their fella for taking Smyth out on the edge of the area. It's a yellow card all day every day.
As I said elsewhere, if one of our players moved, he was held, wrestled or taken down all bloody afternoon, most of the time without a free kick being awarded, let alone a card being shown.
I don't think he was biased, just inept. Bloke looked out of his depth to me. |
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Reply | Oh well.
at 20:15 25 Jan 2025
I felt we kept them pretty quiet for the first 40 minutes, created a few chances and were generally the better team. Quite simply we ran out of steam thereafter , and they deserved the win in the second half. No matter how sniffy some people choose to be about professional footballers being too tired to play, its a fact that we will have spent the large part of this week on the road from one end of the country to the other, and the opposition haven't, so that worked to their advantage ultimately.
I'd also add that when both sets of fans are telling the ref he doesn't know what he's doing. it's probably a fair indication that he is crap. But his ineptitude generally suited the opposition more than us. If it moved, they held it, wrestled it or kicked it without fear of consequence. Worst we've had at HQ this season I think. |
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