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Thread | VPN advice
at 18:45 22 Jun 2024
Off abroad before end of the Euros and like to watch with English comms, plus get cricket on Sky. Anyone got any advice on the most likely one to work around the Beeb and Sky abroad? I've tried a couple in the past, but they were quite hit and miss...
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Thread | England QPR XI
at 20:28 17 Jun 2024
Wondering whether you can get a decent England XI of QPR players. Rule is they must’ve got England caps while playing for us.
So far…
Seaman
Bardsley Parker Fenwick
Thomas Francis (c) Venables (i think?) Sinton
Ferdinand Bowles
Missing a left back. Any ideas? Sansom not eligible. |
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Thread | Textor - Palace
at 20:42 24 May 2024
Apparently Textor is getting out of Palace and is looking at investing in either Everton or a Championship club.
Given Richard Reilly is on the board, I wonder if he's looking at us. |
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Thread | Irish Cafu
at 15:53 7 May 2024
Ain't going nowhere |
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Thread | Most Important Goal of the Season
at 18:19 27 Apr 2024
Got to say I'm surprised Dozzell came second in GOTS - great goal, but I couldn't bring myself to vote for him. I think Dunne's must have got about 95% of the vote, surely.
BUT, different award. What was the most *important* goal of the season? I think there's a few candidates:
1. Dykes v Stoke. 2-1 down, Stoke with 10 men, atmosphere flat. Out of nowhere Dykes chests and volleys in and brings us back from the brink.
2. Goblin boy og v Stoke. It's now 2-2 and the crowd is remiscent of the famous 3-2 v Liverpool. Larkeche, in his biggest contribution of the season, chases a ball down like a man possessed and forces the winner. Willock the cherry on top soon after, which signalled the start of his own renaissance.
3. Paal v Huddersfield. 1-0 down. A deeply depressing game and a horrible performance. Paal, I think at the time our top scorer, knees one in and rescues a point. Felt like not much at the time but a few said how important it might be. Looking at the table today, it was absolutely crucial.
4. Field v WBA. 2-1 down despite absolutely destroying WBA for the entire match. Penalty missed, shots cleared off the line by bodies and fists. Had we lost that, what effect might it have had? Playing really as well as we can (at least until last night) and still losing. But Fieldy forced a vital and richly deserved equaliser.
5. Dunne v Birmingham. Probably it's a double for Dunney. Not quite a must win game, certainly a mustn't lose, but this goal of the season was huge for more than one reason. Scary to look at the table without this goal.
6. Dykes v Preston. Our forwards hadn't scored for weeks. We'd picked the wrong time to lose a bit of form. We'd just lost 3-0. Someone had to step up, and Dykes did it, with an assist from Woodman. A big, big goal in a game we had to win.
I guess Dunne will win this, but how about your top 3? |
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Thread | Saturday - forget the negativity, let's just turn up and roar
at 13:37 14 Apr 2024
We know all the issues, we know the problems, we know what is and isn't working.
All of that, though, is irrelevant. It's a great KO time. Get together early. Have one or two drinks. Then get to the ground and we as fans need to put everything into it. We can create that atmosphere and transfer it to the players and help them put everything on the line.
There's a lot of stuff about the fragility and so on about this team, but, one or two games apart, they have been pretty mid-table decent for the last 4 months or so. They're decent lads. We can do this, but we need to do it together. Bloke behind me who moans throughout the whole game, put it away for one b'stard match. Let's blow Preston away with our noise. Let's push them on, like in the WBA game, and we can do this and put this bloody season to bed. No recriminations, no arguments. JUST NOISE. |
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Thread | Goals - Hitting Targets
at 09:54 11 Apr 2024
I was thinking the other day, purely in terms of goals, who has hit their 'mark' this season?
Paal, with 4 from left back, is a slight over-achiever.
Cook, with a couple, given his general record in scoring, is not bad.
Fieldy is over-achieving compared with his historic stats, but under-achieving when you think a number 8 should be getting 5 or 6.
Obviously, all our forwards are under-achieving, as are all our midfielders, and really our defenders too except the above. Jimmy Dunne, big improvements aside, should be looking for 3 or 4 a season.
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Thread | Rowlands, Di Carmine, Dunne
at 11:32 1 Apr 2024
What do they have in common?
All scored unexpected barnstormers at the Loft End to get us 3 much-needed points v Birmingham: for two of them, it was probably the greatest goal of their career.
Anyone else present for all three? |
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Thread | Rotherham in front...
at 14:22 1 May 2023
Reading look to be all but down. They'll need Hudd to lose on Thur and THEN beat Huddersfield to survive. |
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Thread | The Manager, the DoF and the Board
at 10:34 17 Feb 2023
I see the socials (which I've now almost abandoned - someone texted me some screengrabs) are spamming QPR posts calling for the manager, the DoF and the Board to go.
Interested to get opinions on all three here.
Manager: I think Critchley, if given the job at the start of last summer, with no pressure, able to bring in his own players etc, probably would have been fine. But mid-season at a club with higher expectations than Blackpool, is a different proposition. He seems unable to change direction and as the weeks go by his tactics look more confused, the players look more confused and are clearly either terrified or can't be bothered or both. When we looked at Cifuentes, Clive said the release clause precluded us from taking him. Well, if he was first choice (I don't think he was) but they went for second choice then it's turned out to be a false economy.
I don't buy into Dave Mc's theory that a QPR manager needs to be a big personality. - but I do think as a manager generally you need an infectious personality. As a coach, there probably isn't much between Critch and Beale, but Beale, putting aside personal feelings, has that ability to lead and inspire. I have no confidence now that Critchley has that and I think he has max three games to save his job (we'll lose tomorrow and v Blackburn, and if he hasn't gone then, I can't see how he clings on if we lose at Rotherham).
DoF: IMO, the direction Les has taken us in and the plans and ideas he has had are all correct. 12 months ago, when we smashed Reading, it looked like it was all paying off, and people wanted to give Warbs a job for life. A young exciting team then imploded and we only recovered briefly under Beale. However. After backing Les throughout the whole time he's been at the club, my feeling is it's time for a change and some fresh ideas and impetus. The pressure on him is building and it would probably be better for all parties if we moved on and built on what he's done, because we now look stagnant.
THE BOARD: This is the one I find hardest to credit. As a fanbase, we need to move on from the mistakes made in their first three years. That's gone. Since then, TF seemingly made some poor appointments (JFH, McClaren). But Warbs brought us stability and some exciting football, and I think regardless of what happened, Beale was a really exciting and forward-thinking appointment that unfortunately blew up in their and our faces. I'm not totally sure what the fans calling for Amit to go want (they also don't know anything about who controls things at the club, clearly). A new owner can't put more money in for funds. A new owner can't magic a new stadium. These owners are building a new training ground. They're pouring money in every month and if they could they'd have given Critchley £5m in January to pep up the squad. Other than some bad managerial appointments, I don't have any major recent issues with them at all. |
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Thread | Nathan Jones gone!
at 09:53 12 Feb 2023
Well, that went well.
Bizarre to sack one of the best coaches in Europe.
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Thread | New Signing
at 15:51 6 Feb 2023
Club just teasing a new signing on twitter...
must be an out of contract player? |
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Thread | Scurrilous Les Thoughts
at 16:34 25 Jan 2023
I may be very wide of the mark, and perhaps I missed it before: Sir Les seems to be doing an increasing amount of punditry on Sky recently. May partly be due to Newcastle doing well and his history with them. But - I tried to book Les for something last summer and was told he turns down pretty much everything because he's completely focused on QPR.
I'm not doubting his focus. However, I just wonder if he's tentatively exploring other options. Or could just be he can combine a bit of punditry with a bit of scouting. |
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