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Ale read your message. I sent him a few from here.
This is what he said:
"Seba muy lindo los mensajes de los hinchas!! El cariño y el reconocimiento y sobre todo que se recuerde a la persona y la integridad de uno eso por sobre todo. (....) Yo a lo mÃo Seba espero conseguir algo bueno y seguir con lo mÃo que la verdad tengo muchas ganas de jugar ahora más que nunca... Abrazo"
"Seba...it's very nice to read the messages from the fans! The love and recognition and above all, that they remember the person and his integrity (...) I have to mind my own business now and I hope I can find something good and continue doing my thing, because to tell you the truth, I want to play football more than ever before."
And then he sends me a manly hug, which I send to you all.
It's a sad day for me. No matter how many times the club has shown me how they treat their best representatives, they can still outdo themselves and surprise us all.
I sincerely hope this ticking bomb Jimmy has just activated, don't explode in his face soon after next season starts.
We'll always be here. Long after Jimmy, Tony and the rest of them are gone. And so will the memories Ale (and Clint) gave us all.
So great to see a thread like this for a man who deserves it more than anybody else does.
He's undoubtedly getting the love he deserves for all the pain and sacrifices he went through.
That tackle scared the hell out of me and I found myself shouting at the TV and standing in front of it.
I couldn't watch the first half, only arrived home for the 2nd and I think he didn't put a foot wrong for the duration. Not a single mistake. Every pass had a meaning behind it, every move when he was off the ball. And this is something he has done consistently throughout his career.
The set-piece impact is there for all to see. He does it so naturally. I still shake my head when I remember Barton taking horrible set-pieces and thinking he was Andrea Pirlo or something. Man...just how much control we let him have! Anyway...he's gone and Ale is back.
One more thing that was very clear at the start of the season -when we were winning every game he started and losing/not winning every game in which he didn't play- and it's starting to look very clear again is how he impacts the results of our matches.
He started our last 7 matches (3 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats). Out of those 2 defeats, one was a narrow one at Derby (clearly a better side than ours, at the moment) and the other was at Boro -and we conceded the only goal of the game when he was already subbed-.
Some (many) of the points we got in that 7-game run saw him directly involved, too (Nedum's winner at Reading, Charlie's 2nd on Tuesday and I'm sure I'm missing at least one more).
To me, this is not a coincidence.
Just like it was no coincidence we got promoted the last two times when he had some contribution to our seasons and we got relegated the last two times when he didn't.
Would love to see things under the same light as you, but there have been plenty of evidence of mid-season managerial changes that worked. Even Chelsea won the UCL with an interim manager.
Stability is overrated when you see what you have is not working.
A far bigger problem for QPR has been to make poor choices when it comes to managers. And then stick with them for far too long.
Ramsey suffered the fact we spent too much time before getting rid of Harry (we're still feeling the aftermath of the disaster he's done at W12 and I dare you to make a point of the contrary).
I've read several comments about how the problem doesn't lie on the manager (agree the biggest problem is Tony), but I'm yet to see a solid managerial appointment since we got promoted in 2011.
We failed to see what other clubs have seen when we were in the Premier League. We looked the opposite way to what most medium-sized and small clubs have been doing: appointing a good, young, solid European/International manager to manage at the most International league there is in the world.
See how Bilic, Koeman, Sanchez Flores are doing at their clubs.
Now we are in a different league. Warnock has plenty of experience (and success) at this level.
Jumping in. Haven't before because lack of time rather than for having a sing-when-your-winning attitude!
I'm very pleased to read so many positive posts about Los Pumas. Rugby was never very popular (it's getting there) here in my country, but Los Pumas were always praised for their hearts and determination.
It took a very long time for the sport to take itself seriously in Argentina, because the big wigs did everything in their power to keep it amateur. It still is.
Thing is...through the progress by many of the national team players, they were able to wrestle the old farts and have them accept professional players representing the national team.
That made a hell of a lot more for Los Pumas than competing every year, home and away, against the Sanzar nations. Don't get me wrong, this also helped them take another huge step in the right direction. But the real difference is that the guys mauling, racking and scrumming are not bank managers or admin staff at a company who play rugby part-time.
Coupled with great coaching and a few good performances at previous World Cup (remember 2007, reaching semis and beating France twice. IN FRANCE), this new generation is even better than the predecessors.
Our backs now have elite speed and they don't make the silly handling mistakes that were common in the past. We don't just have plucky fat guys and a good kicker. We've never arrived at a World Cup as prepared and as in good shape as this year.
I still think we're the underdogs against Australia next Sunday. And the other three from the Southern Hemisphere are still head and shoulders above us, but today was a great day to be an Argie (makes you wonder whether we would stand a chance had we joined the Six Nations scene instead of the Tri Nations, but that's another matter).
If we only come this far, it's been well worth it. Hopefully there's more to come.
And hey...we all here want to see a team in hoops play with their hearts and win! Don't we?
1 month without Charlie Austin 2 months without Lionel Messi* 3 months without Jamie Mackie
*That's 4 (FOUR) World Cup Qualifiers without him (including at home to Ecuador and Brazil -when I was planning on taking my son to see him live for the first time in his life-)
This has been a terrible weekend for me. And SWP is still perfectly healthy!
Now that you mentioned, I've noticed he was alone sitting on the bench just before the 2nd half started. Already showered. The cameras showed him. This was when the team was still in the dressing room.
I didn't think that was too bad because I've missed his initial reaction.
So, in a way, this is a sub that was going to expose Chery (on paper) but ended up exposing both men (him and Ramsey).
As I said on my original post, Chery was anonymous. At 0-3 (so early into the game) you have to change something. Maybe this, in itself, doesn't necessarily means the player you're subbing is being exposed (or blamed).
It could be that him and Mackie play in the same position, but it could be that by bringing Jamie on, QPR could have shifted to a different formation. We won't know because: a) Jamie lasted very little out there. b) We had no shape before, during or after Jamie was playing.
I've watched the game on a perfectly (?) legal (?) internet stream connected to my TV. It had a lot of pixels but it was fluid. That said...it froze when Chery was subbed and then I heard about a reaction he had.
Now Ramsey told a reporter he thinks the reaction was appalling and it will be dealt with internally.
What did he do?
Was it that bad?
Gotta say I didn't notice he was on the pitch before he got subbed.
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