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Reply | Trent
at 12:23 25 Mar 2025
This.
He's an excellent player whose involvement in games goes way beyond the remit of a full-back. It also serves as a detriment. He was a big miss for Liverpool recently whose over-reliance on three/four (including the goalkeeper) to perform, is a reason why they fell short against Newcastle and PSG in successive games.
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Reply | So player of the season?
at 11:21 21 Mar 2025
The bar must be very low, if not affixed to the ground, if Nardi is deemed as being one of the highest ranked players for this season's award. Poor in commanding his 6 yard box, let alone his penalty area, poor in communicating and has been well and truly found out.
Want-away J Dunne has been average at best. I can't recall him ever overlapping in open play and putting in a telling cross, something I expect to be part of a full-back's armoury. He gets beaten more often than some will admit, wanted to leave in January and will in all likelihood do so in the summer..
Based on the above two players' overall performances being no better than average, I'd give it to Sam Field, as we are now seeing in his absence, how important a role he fulfils in this team and he wants to be here unlike Dunne. [Post edited 21 Mar 11:36]
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Reply | NRL 25 (and Super League if you're desperate)
at 08:15 21 Mar 2025
That was rugby league at its very best. For Penrith to still be that competitive against the very best (one of) the best teams after the number of quality players they have lost since winning their first title, is testament to the quality at their disposal in their reserves and feeder clubs. I thought the full-back, Jenkins, third choice!! had a good game, other than when he failed to get off the ground to contest a high ball.
Penrith may have lost, but the fact that they ran Melbourne so close without Edwards and Cleary, who got injured early in the game, will boost their confidence for the rest of the season.
I don't believe Ivan Cleary gets as much credit as he should after what he has achieved in the salary cap era. Love the NRL, just watched the first-half of Warrior v Roosters and there was so much quality in evidence in that game too. Even Dom Young appears to be playing with greater discipline. [Post edited 21 Mar 8:18]
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 16:14 17 Mar 2025
Totally agree in every respect.
Whisper it quietly, but his back-post clearances (x2) in the second-half, bailed out Jimmy "beyond reproach" Dunne, after dangerous crosses were delivered from the latter's side. Both would have led to goals being conceded without Paal's interventions. |
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Reply | A turn of Frey's
at 15:06 17 Mar 2025
I'd have to respectfully disagree.
Frey is no prolific marksman, but to suggest that he's division two at best, is you stating that in jest. He's got 7 league goals in 25 games, 8 in 26 in total, which would suggest that he's scoring at a rate that is ahead of his peers currently on 8 goals. Even Cannon only has two more (9) in 30 games.
If he's division two at best, so must they be too.
He's an upgrade on his predecessor, whom we had to endure for four years and got progessively worse year-on-year.
I thought that his efforts on Saturday, against the best team in the league in my view, were highly commendable. Of course, in the ideal world, we would like to have better than him, but for the foreseeable, that's unlikely to happen. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:17]
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Reply | Chair's hammy
at 16:37 13 Mar 2025
This.
But yeah, we've got the likes of Andersen, Madsen, Smyth, Saito, Bennie and of course the irreplaceable Yang. Chair's superfluous to our requirements. [Post edited 13 Mar 17:02]
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Reply | Dixon-Bonner loaned out for the rest of the season
at 15:32 12 Mar 2025
I agree. Low bar indeed, however I'd rather persevere with him than Madsen.
2nd tier Swedish league football doesn't bode well for his future prospects at QPR. [Post edited 12 Mar 15:45]
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Reply | The Boro Match thread.
at 14:29 12 Mar 2025
Totally agree.
In what has been a hugely interrupted season for him, he's still managed 6 goal assists and 2 goals in just 25 games. At this stage, the average is about 6 goal assists amongst his peers in this league, which he has achieved in far fewer games.
For somebody who's viewed by some as underperforming this season, his numbers still compare very favourably and it is a measure of how high a standard that he has set himself, that he is perceived as being less effective/not contributing. Had he played in the majority of league games, his goal assists would be on a par with those players currently heading this particular list.
I'd rather he were around for the remainder of the season, as he is proven at this level, as evidenced by his numbers to date even in an injury-plagued season. Perhaps the focus needs to be directed towards others fulfilling a similar role in the team and have played many more games than Chair this season, yet contributed a lot less and flattered to deceive. [Post edited 12 Mar 14:49]
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Reply | The three games after Leeds
at 11:04 12 Mar 2025
And that's the concern. Those injuries, many long-term, mean that the spectre of the likes of Anderson, Madsen and probably Ashby getting more game time, is a clear indicator for me that we are regressing to the players that figured and started this season so abjectly.
Along with the dubious attacking/creative combination of Dembele, Saito and P'tang Yang, who will seemingly be selected regardless of his poor performances, I'm not at all confident that we can win any of those games post-Leeds.
Two more victories, if needed, with that squad now shorn of some of its mainstays/stalwarts, won't be easy to achieve. [Post edited 12 Mar 11:42]
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Reply | The 58 years ago this week WBA v QPR match thread
at 20:10 8 Mar 2025
He's allegedly carrying a groin strain and we give him 45 minutes' playing time. Sorry, not believing that. He was dire and couldn't control the ball when it was played into him. Yanf too, who was supposedly brought in to improve us as a team, but was inconspicuous for the entire game.
As for the low block being some kind of impediment, sorry that's a feeble excuse. All teams have to contend with such a situation when the opponent is at least a player down, and most have the capacity to adapt/adjust accordingly. We may have had the numerical advantage but Yang, for the duration he was on, and Lloyd in the second-half, rendered that meaningless. [Post edited 8 Mar 20:24]
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Reply | Blades' cutting edge too sharp for Rangers' toil and chug - Report
at 13:20 4 Mar 2025
The blame is fully on Nardi. He has to claim that rather innocuous floated delivery from Souza which landed in his 6 yard area. Similar goal concession against Sheffield Wednesday for their first against us in the defeat at home. Contrast that with Sheffield United's keeper, who it must be noted is of similar stature to Nardi, but was impeccable and came out to defuse similar deliveries from us on at least three occasions.
He also very adroitly kept out a dangerous Paal corner in the first-half, when under the kind of pressure that seems to disorientate our keeper.
Having the ability to judge when to come out to claim a cross is a basic goalkeeping requirement, regardless of country in which you may have played football previously. His counterpart on Saturday is only into his second season at this level, but possesses all the prerequisites that I expect in a goalkeeper playing at championship level. I would also say the same of Millwall's first-choice keeper too, signed from Lincoln. Not the 10th dan martial arts expert who played for them on Saturday. [Post edited 4 Mar 15:13]
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Reply | Forever R's - Les Ferdinand
at 11:19 27 Feb 2025
Undoubtedly so.
That's further reinforced by the fact that he then went to Newcastle and scored a mere 41 goals in just 68 games, again in the Premier League. 50 goals in 80 games in all competitions, which is why he's more revered up there, in my view, than he is at our place.
The fact that he elected not to go onto the pitch with his fellow players who were being inducted/recognised for what they achieved during their time at QPR, for fear of the reaction he would receive, is a disgrace to our club and certain sections of our support base. [Post edited 27 Feb 12:09]
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Reply | Don't get carried away
at 10:27 15 Feb 2025
Totally agree. There appears to be a disgusting undercurrent to this which isn't based on overall performances and measurable contributions. Kudos to those for highlighting the seemingly constant, baseless pillorying of Paal by some on here, as it is largely without foundation.
Happy to be corrected, but from what I can see, only the left-backs at Leeds (Firpo) Sunderland (Cirkin) and Sheffield United (Burrows) have better assists and contributions than Paal. He's ahead of Pires at Burnley in that regard. His numbers are identical to Smyth this season, which dismisses the lazy and baseless allegation that he's "not committed/phoning it in/will put his feet up by March". His numbers from last season are identical to Dunne's of this. The much-mentioned Owen Beck, deemed as being better than Paal: 1 goal.
All achieved after the club hung him out to dry before the start of this season, with no statement thereafter in support of the player, which contrasts starkly to the announcement made with Dunne when it was clear that he was going to stay for the rest of this season. Both players are in identical contractual situations.
Well Done KP and the entire team for turning this season around and some. It would appear that he's not bad at all. [Post edited 15 Feb 11:07]
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match thread
at 13:10 10 Feb 2025
Ditto. The ground location aside, I've always found them to be a decent and friendly fan base. It was so much easier wanting them to do well under Mark Robins as opposed to Lumplard.
Please keep Chair playing centrally, they will not be able to deal with him and we will pose them some problems. [Post edited 10 Feb 15:17]
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Reply | Just when it all seemed to be gong.so well
at 14:42 8 Feb 2025
Indeed. That's not accounting for "indirect deaths" from diseases and starvation, with estimates taking the toll into the hundreds of thousands, as per the Lancet medical journal. |
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Reply | Frey
at 13:37 5 Feb 2025
As has been mentioned, he has that knack/gift of getting into the right areas in the 18 yard box. His goal last night, Plymouth goal, Luton and Watford goals typify that. Against Watford, he's in the vicinity to score if Dunne wasn't there just before him.
His goals to games ratio fares very favourably with many others in the league. The much-vaunted, circa £10 million, Cannon only has three more goals than him and has featured in five more games.
If he's given decent game time going forward, he has more goals in him. |
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Reply | Chair finally in the middle long term?
at 12:00 5 Feb 2025
Please keep him in the middle as he was wonderful last night. In that position, he has the ability to terrorise any team in this division. His movement, vision, range of pass and game intelligence make him a natural in that role. The goals will come too. [Post edited 5 Feb 12:02]
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