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Back where we started again – Preview 29th Dec 2023 10:07
QPR's desperately poor showing at Millwall on Boxing Day brought up a third defeat in a row and left them right back where they were when Marti Cifuentes first arrived – five points adrift of safety and bereft of hope.

Back where we started again – Preview on 11:04 - Dec 29 with 2967 views

terryb

Cheers Clive.

My local game of the season & I'm not feeling well enough to attend! I think I might be the lucky one!

Best wishes to all of you that are going tonight. I can't see how we will avoid defeat, but here's hoping.

I've only returned to being able to look at this site (or anything else for that matter) yesterday. I assume that we never looked as if we would score against Southampton or Millwall?

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BrianMcCarthy

Thanks Clive. Can't have been easy to write!

	"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Poll:	Player of the Year (so far)

Back where we started again – Preview on 11:31 - Dec 29 with 2845 views

knocker

Pretty sure Field is 2 bookings away from ban. On 9 but 1 was in carabao cup.

Back where we started again – Preview on 11:34 - Dec 29 with 2820 views

Wegerles_Stairs

That first goal, particularly given the context (added-on time in a relegation six-pointer) really is something even by our calamitous standards. Bloody hilarious in a way though - literally no one on the right-hand side as they swarm forwards.

Back where we started again – Preview on 11:43 - Dec 29 with 2802 views

RamseyR

The defending for that first goal reminded me (for those of you old enough to remember) of the Keystone Cops

Back where we started again – Preview on 11:48 - Dec 29 with 2790 views

Northernr

Back where we started again – Preview on 11:31 - Dec 29 by knocker
Pretty sure Field is 2 bookings away from ban. On 9 but 1 was in carabao cup.

Correct. Apols.

Back where we started again – Preview on 11:53 - Dec 29 with 2767 views

Noelmc

Spot on assessment of our current team.

Thanks for the preview.

Back where we started again – Preview on 11:59 - Dec 29 with 2740 views

colinallcars

Scathingly brilliant.

Back where we started again – Preview on 12:11 - Dec 29 with 2690 views

mart_Goblin

Yes, absolutely spot on. Scathing, but complete truth.

I agree with the bit about the fans fighting for their favourite players and blaming the ones they don’t like etc etc . It’s going to happen when the squad is as weak as ours .
Unfortunately the ones that have been here a while will take the brunt because of how long we’ve been utter shit.

I say unfortunately….not really . Most deserve it .
I wonder if the downward spiral continues again if the fans will be general apathetic with the players as they were in Ainsworth’s darkest days ?
About time some got it in the neck but unfortunately that does damage players like EDB who have come in and been ok

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Back where we started again – Preview on 12:21 - Dec 29 with 2647 views

Dorse

You can tell it's a good one when ballsack gargling gets an early mention.

'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'

Back where we started again – Preview on 12:29 - Dec 29 with 2623 views

Wilkinswatercarrier

Christ in a crucifix shop. 🤣 very seasonal.

Great write-up. I've tried to stay engaged with this lot, but the Millwall game was the last straw for me. When you start laughing at your own team, as I did at Millwall, then you know its time to stop defending them.
The lot of them need to be put out of their misery, along with us.

Back where we started again – Preview on 12:40 - Dec 29 with 2574 views

thehat

Thanks Clive - Can't argue with anything in that preview. All that hope right up to the 86th minute at Hillsborough now vanished.

We should not be surprised the majority of this team are woefully short of everything to be playing at this level and the reason no other clubs want any of them. They have been poor under 4 different managers.

I have resigned myself to relegation now as it helps my mental health in doing so.

I must say though the fans have been magnificent over the last 2 years we always turn up in numbers and back the team. Best of luck and safe travels to everyone heading for sleepy Suffolk this evening - We desrve so much better.

Back where we started again – Preview on 12:59 - Dec 29 with 2476 views

Paddyhoops

Great preview . That stat about falling behind in games is startling. Often think when we fall behind at Loftus road that we might as well piss off home.
We had a brilliant set of figures under the same scenario with Warburton.
Having said that we had far better players back then which is not the case with our mentality mice we now have.
Safe journey tonight.

Back where we started again – Preview on 13:11 - Dec 29 with 2428 views

slmrstid

Completely agree with you on the state of our team.

Far too many people on the internet who seem to believe Football Manager is real life and just one different tactic will see this team flying up the table.

Real Life is not Championship Manager 01-02, you can't just whack your team to iodine CF and WIB-WOB your way to glory.

Back where we started again – Preview on 14:19 - Dec 29 with 2239 views

R_from_afar

Spot on. The players and staff should be made to read that every day. Grim, grim, grim.

I honestly believe this squad thinks it's still October 2022, when we were briefly top of the division. They think they are the best and that if results are poor, it's someone else's fault because they are the Championship's finest footballers.

This club!

This really should be our new club badge. It's Sisyphus and no, he doesn't manage to complete the task. Ever. Sound familiar?

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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stainrods_elbow

The truth is we also had good, clinical and spirited performances overall against Hull, Stoke and Preston, and should have beaten Plymouth. As I've pointed out, we're rarely as good or as bad as fans say, even if Millwall was indisputably poor. The manager is less excitable/volatile, however, and, especially if we're agreeing he's the best thing about the club right now, people need to listen to him more and Loft for Worders less. If he's saying we have good players who are improving, are those same posters also going to call him a liar and/or delusional? Most fans want to have their cake and eat it (OK, myself included) and are mired in contradictions, which would be OK, if they had the humility to admit it.

I might be a jinx, but I suspect there'll be a (positive) response tonight, and we might well get a result. If there is and we do, it won't be because we're basically shit and flattering to deceive, however - it'll be because we 're capable of doing well, but very inconsistent and prone to implosions. We're up; we're down; but we're somewhere in the middle.

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Poll:

What should the club do now (assuming no imminent change of owners)?

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NorthantsHoop

Back where we started again – Preview on 16:44 - Dec 29 by stainrods_elbow

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In a way a bit of a crunch game tonight to see if we actually are able to step up to the challenge and get a result. I actually felt we played well against Plymouth but against Millwall went backwards literally far too much negativity in that game. Who knows what Rangers will turn up tonight will it be the charitable one or the majestic one that reflects our name.

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