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Thread | Marti on Leeds
at 13:12 8 Nov 2024
https://www.qpr.co.uk/videos/0_tpes0dj1
Same futile cliches - working harder, understanding the basics etc., then nothing changes on the pitch. Either he/the club think we're stupid or are embracing the defintion of insanity about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results (or both).
Mind you, with this inept, powder-puff, and crying-off squad, what are his options? The players (those who are semi-fit) don't look up to it, and the manager demoralised and out of ideas.
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Thread | Last night's attendance
at 18:46 6 Nov 2024
Given as 14,054 on the BBC. Watching on my stream, and judging by the huge gaps in SAR etc, it looked more like 11k to me. (Though Boro seemed to have a good following in the top of the School End - for a mid-week game especially.)
It might be a small point, but it hacks me off if the club is doing its smoke and mirrors thing with the crowd too. Though I guess it shouldn't surprise us. [Post edited 6 Nov 18:50]
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Thread | 2 keepers on bench today
at 18:11 26 Oct 2024
Personally, I found that completely bewildering and professionally unacceptable from Cifuentes. Assuming Dembele, Fox and Kolli weren't all injured - though who knows these days when a reported blackhead could keep any one of our players out for weeks - if I were the board, I'd be having a word on Monday morning. That was a load of turd!
Edit: https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/2024/october/26/cifuentes-post-burnley/
OK - perhaps I jumped the gun a bit! But these minor injuries and twinges are getting ridiculous, it seems to me. [Post edited 26 Oct 18:22]
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Thread | Team for Coventry
at 23:30 19 Oct 2024
Fox, Madsen and Ashby all need to come out, obviously. If Marti plays Madsen again, he should be kicked in the balls!
Nardi
Dunne Cooke JCS Paal
Field Dembele Morgan/Varane
Chair
Alfie Frey
Subs, Saito, Bennie, Smyth, Kolli, Walsh, Smyth
Don't see that team getting 3 points anyway, but it's the best of a bad bunch right now. [Post edited 19 Oct 23:32]
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Thread | MC, Steve Cook, and the idiocies of football speak
at 23:11 19 Oct 2024
So our captain gives, what, a woebegone 7-minute interview to tell us, apparently in all seriousness, that there's no lack of effort or endeavour, what we're missing is quality, but then the answer is just to work ever harder, as echoed by our insightful manager.
Have neither of them never heard the idea that clever people don't necessarily work harder, they work smarter? Either way, the concept seems to be extra-terrestrial to our lot!
Are these people stupid, do they think we are, or is it a bit of both? [Post edited 19 Oct 23:12]
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Thread | Alfie Lloyd
at 21:13 19 Oct 2024
Where the f*ck is he? Another one of our epoch-lasting 'minor' injuries, or just more mismanagement by Marti the Messiah? At least he gives it a bit of heart, or is the idea to field a team that sucks it out of you? [Post edited 20 Oct 22:44]
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Thread | How many of our players are keepers?
at 00:40 18 Oct 2024
Nardi (who is actually a keeper)
JCS
Chair
Saito
Dembele
Jimmy D.
After that, I'm struggling. [Post edited 18 Oct 0:41]
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Thread | From the Derby messageboard
at 02:42 6 Oct 2024
'Both teams are like two boxers who dance around the ring and go through the motions without ever really laying a glove on the opponent.'
'QPR are absolute garbage. We played against better L1 sides last season.'
'QPR are absolute tosh. We really have to put these to the sword.'
'QPR don't look good on the break.'
'OH BOBBY ZAMORRRRRRA . . .'
Not exactly 1975 revisited, was it?
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Thread | How many players is this squad short?
at 19:37 3 Oct 2024
I'll raise you five - a RB, a no. 8, a governor, a CF, and a RW.
Even if we sold Chair, I'm not sure we'd get two or three of them, however.
We have two or three injuries, and we look half-shot.
Worrying! |
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Thread | Hevertton Santos
at 23:04 1 Oct 2024
Why do our Offish team sheets insist on giving him both his names? It doesn't make him a better player. Reminds me of Nick London and his annoying 'Mac Bonne' schtick.
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Thread | I know we're only just into October, but . . .
at 22:50 1 Oct 2024
it's not looking very good, is it?
20th in the table (we could be in the bottom three after tomorrow night's games), still only 1 win in 8, and only Cardiff have conceded more.
The irritating absence of JCS, who, like Colback, seems to have picked up one of those 'minor' knocks that then keeps our players indefinitely, certainly isn't helping, but some of our defending tonight bordered on professional incompetence.
Dembele faded badly again, Frey never got into the game in the first place, Santos looked like an amateur, Celar mostly played like he's forgotten everything he ever learned about being a CF, and even Ilias' cameo was a non-event.
So, apart from the fact that our defence seems to have gone AWOL, our midfield can be played through like Moses and the Red Sea, and we can't score from open play, everything in Marti's garden is rosy.
For me, only Saito and Nardi came out of that with a modicum of credit, and looked like professional players. And don't get me started on Sam 'Teflon' Field!
And this was Hull! Hull!
Hand on heart, even if some players 'bed in' a bit better, do you really feel this squad is strong, coherent and 'tight' enough to be consistently competitive in this league this season?
In the words of Nick Cave,'where's my nurse? I need some healing!' [Post edited 1 Oct 22:58]
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Thread | Smyth's goal
at 21:50 29 Sep 2024
Can't understand why everyone isn't up in arms about this. If anything, for me, that decision was so rank it looked like corruption and was even worse than the red card. The fact that Smyth also made his outrage felt as loudly as he did also makes Cook's and his team-mates' lack of support look awful, and Marti didn't even mention it after in that hard-hitting club interview by our resident teenager, inexplicably. At 2-1, I wouldn't have bet against us snatching a draw.
Would anyone on this board seriously claim it was a foul at any level of football? Though I don't think I'll feel any less sick today about yesterday's utter charade, whatever anyone says. [Post edited 29 Sep 22:12]
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Thread | Pep on the EFL Cup
at 23:30 24 Sep 2024
“The next round, I announce you, I play the second team,” said Guardiola. “We are not going to waste energy, for sure.”
What an utter c*nt!
Does the EFL really have such contempt for their own competition that they're happy to allow this public cynicism to be amplified without censure?
Let's hope the PL find that horrible pseudo-club guilty of all 115+ charges and dump them out of professional competition pdq!
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Thread | Our wingers/no.10(s) conundrum
at 00:02 22 Sep 2024
When Chair's back, we'll have four of 'em: Smyth, Saito, Dembele and our little electric piece of furniture. Four into two, or three at most, won't go. Will Madsen need to be one who makes way? Put it another way, and after today's non-event, is this going to be our strongest team/shape?
Nardi
Santos Dunne JCS Paal
Field Colback
Smyth Chair/Dembele Saito
Frey
Subs Jaysus, Madsen, Alfie, Varane, Kolli, Walsh et al. [Post edited 22 Sep 0:05]
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Thread | Intensity
at 20:58 21 Sep 2024
Why don't we have (enough of) it?
Who'll supply it?
Can we develop it?
Will we have to buy it in?
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Thread | Their goal today
at 20:29 21 Sep 2024
No one, including Marti, seemed to pick up on it - why? Watmore had the f*cking freedom of Shepherds Bush Green to get his shot away. The defence has been solid, but that was handed to him on a plate.
Scapegoats on a postcard please! [Post edited 21 Sep 20:30]
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Thread | Blackburn
at 17:56 21 Sep 2024
After today's slim pickings, who's feeling confident? And how should Marti change it?Personally, I feel a gloopy gulp forming and fear the wheels may come off up there, so I'm hoping to be a false prophet. Hindsight is a many-splendoured thing, but all those posters who were predicting nice comfy wins against Wednesday and our Wailing Wall have a smidgen of egg on their chops now. (I foresaw draws at best in both and was wearyingly correct.)
Despite my reputation for a certain asperity, and notwithstanding the above, I'll do a little damage to it and say, even if the glass isn't quite half-full, it could still be tipping that way. Today, it felt like we missed our resident 'axis of evil' dirty Jack Colback, as well as an electric Chair, like the heavens miss the rain. Those two, fit, firing and sensibly fierce, can, and hopefully will, give us our screen/pivot and playmaking vision. It feels like Chair has been out for an eternity, though, and we have to hope he'll hit the ground running rather than be hitting it in frustration. Dembele has to be a 10 for me, but in my view so does Ilias, so we may have a problem, Houston, when the latter returns. (For me, the jury's a worryingly long way out as to how well they will, or will want to.)
I agree that, on current form, and perhaps any form, Madsen and Andersen shouldn't be starting together. The former, in particular, is already tending toward the peripheries, though he can thread a pass and fashion a cross, and may pop up with a sprinkling of goals. Both of them, while decently skilled, look too lightweight and languid for this league. If our hopes rest on Danish shoulders, I fear we're going to be found wanting, however, especially while, for me, Varane continues to blow hot and cold. Apart from our delectable Dembele (even if it feels like he's still feeling his way into things), Saito looks to me the pick of the incomers, and very much in a QPR mould, if we can get him on the ball and cutting in creatively. I also rate him as cleverer than Smyth, though the latter is doing (a bit) better and gives his all.
On a further positive note, even with the limited service so far, Frey looks likely to comfortably hit double figures, while Cook (I'm crossing everything that nothing happens to him - perhaps Andersen could send up a prayer) and Dunne have been rocks in defence so far. Our goalkeeper is also a keeper. So while not everything in ther garden is coming up roses yet, we've planted a few features.
As for Marti, now we're agreed he's not the Messiah and is as much a work in progress as our team, it's a big year for him. He has plenty to prove and a lot to do, but he's said that and knows it, I think, so I guess we have to trust the process, even if the parts are still finding their whole. Our slo-mo first halves do worry me, though, and he's starting to seem a lot better at talking about other teams than devising effective strategies to deal with them and get at them from the start. He looked quite flat to me post-match, which is hopefully a paradoxically good sign. In the end, though, it's only the players who can do it on the pitch.
In the words of The Killers, 'Can we climb this mountain? I don't know.' Back to a week of worrying about it, I guess.
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