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Reply | A decent season then go all in for next season
at 08:08 13 Feb 2025
Agree with virtually every word.
You would hope a solid finish will lead us to doing next season what we all thought what would happen this season. You would presume Nardi and Walsh are still here and that is solid enough keeping stock, with Salomon in the background.
Up front, still think we lack a bit to be real top half contenders. Alfie and Rayan are the young guns and you would hope at least one will kick on nicely, Frey is a solid enough option. Don't hold out much hope for Celar, so I am sure we'll be looking for one more here.
Midfield, finally I think we are in good shape. Varane I really hope will be great next season, Morgan has to avoid the second season syndrome, Sam is ever reliable. We'll lose Colback and Marti doesn't fancy EDB so perhaps one more needed.
For invention and tricky wingers, Smyth, Chair, Saito (if we keep him), Dembele....no issues what that.
Which leaves the defence as a major worry. We have to keep one of Dunne and Cook. Paal I think many can take or leave, Morrison should be good next season, JCS can't be relied on, so I don't see how we can lose both Dunne and Cook. Worst thing is we are unlikely to be starting next season with a reliable defence that has played together a lot. Doesn't usually lead to a flying start.
But, as long as we have Marti, plenty of hope there. |
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Reply | Did Nardi Cost us the point?
at 13:46 12 Feb 2025
I so agree with this. Keeping posession wastes time, all the other rubbish just encourages more injury time. |
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Thread | Modern stats and terminology
at 11:28 12 Feb 2025
Being the wrong side of 50 I can't stand any of it and have absolutely no interest in
> duels (tackling, in my day)
> xG (sitters, gilt-edged chances, half chances)
> low block (parking the bus)
> high press (closing down)
> expected saves (keeping 'em out)
> completed passes (finding your man)
and I have probably shown that by misunderstanding the above.
But it has got me wondering, what would have some of our fab players and teams of the 80s and 90s looked like on a modern stats basis?
I mean. what sort of xG would Gerry's side in its pomp have racked up? Always remember that game against Liverpool at home where we absolutely battered them, couldn't score and Rosenthal stole it in the last second?
What would Super Ray's season pass completion rate have been? Assists?
What would Macca's "duels" have looked like?
Off the scale, surely.
Or, on the other hand, Tony Roberts' expected saves, Steve Yates duels, etc etc.
Can't AI go over the old matches? |
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Reply | Steve Cook on tonight's loss
at 08:58 12 Feb 2025
Not with the same enthusiasm as when he makes a minor error, sir!
Cook surely better than Dunne (in the form of his life, but how long will that continue?) Cook's been doing it for years and years. He also, unlike JCS, turns up now and again, even after a major injury.
Edwards I couldn't care less about unless we sign him permanently. Morrison I have high hopes for, but being kept out of the side for a Southampton player isn't helping! [Post edited 12 Feb 9:07]
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Reply | Kolli Injury?????
at 08:55 12 Feb 2025
Bang on. I understand from Marti's point of view why he wants the best available players in his team short-term, that's cos he knows he's only ever a bad run away from the sack or a good run from moving on to a bigger job.
Which is where Director of Football / CEO / manchilds come in and say no, we don't need to teach some Spurs starlet on our own time when we want to get Kolli firing for next season.
I get the Edwards loan, it has worked. But lose against Derby, then for me once we get 50 points there is absolutely zero gain to us in not playing Morrison or whoever rather than playing the loanees.
I am starting to get nervous about the planning for next season as a result - no contracts for almost all the defence. Making a Southampton player a lynchpin of the back four. Surely if Morrison is fit.....he's ours and he was playing so well before....I just don't get it. Maybe I should just live for today! |
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Reply | Steve Cook on tonight's loss
at 08:46 12 Feb 2025
Of course not, but you don't seem to find it necessary to mention the 7/8/9 out of 10 performances Cook has made over his last 50 odd appearances for us. Literally one (highly arguable) mistake and you are running on here to highlight it.
Fair enough, but when he is the only one keeping them out against Sheff Utd / Leeds / Burnley / somewhere a long way up north - I look forward to seeing you highlight that as well. |
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Reply | Kakay Departs
at 08:44 12 Feb 2025
It's a very valid point, Ned, but does it absolutely follow that playing nigh on 100 games in the Championship means you are a decent player? I mean Gus Ceasar racked up a few in the Premier League, as did Steve Yates, Karl Ready - and even their own families would surely not believe they were PL standard.
Good luck to Ossie, but in my mind he was a woeful defender and fair fckus if he has got that gig. |
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Reply | Steve Cook on tonight's loss
at 08:39 12 Feb 2025
Your anti-Cook bias is becoming almost as extraordinary as your pro-Dykes bias, and I defended you quite a lot then.
Cook is the epitome of a "dominant centre-half" and has been all season. Even dominant centre-halves are going to miss the odd crucial header over a certain number of games.
Regardless of age, I believe it would be more important for Cook to sign for a couple of more years than Dunne. I think he is so important to us. |
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Reply | Consistently inconsistent
at 08:36 12 Feb 2025
Excellent post - I totally agree. Coventry are a decent side in decent form and we went there and looked like a pretty solid mid-table team. Literally just over two months ago we would have grabbed at that very happily.
Game could clearly have gone either way, what Frey was doing on his chance I am not so sure, wasn't the time for him of all people to finesse it into the net. Just belt it home, mate, it is what you are about. Would be lovely to see more of the bull approach he showed at Luton a bit more often. |
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Reply | Donny Lose a 4th Round Tie to a top flight team…..
at 07:53 11 Feb 2025
Good for Palace in going with strong sides in the cups and rewarded with a hugely winnable 5th round tie against Millwall.
Forgetting our own QPR cup debate, I still can't get my head round Brentford not trying in the cups in their position (even in quarter finals) so I for one hope that Palace go all the way. Maybe it will take a non top 6 side winning the FA Cup again to make clubs realise what an opportunity it is. |
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Reply | Sinclair Armstrong
at 08:31 10 Feb 2025
Fair points, but I am pretty sure we only sold him because he refused to sign a new contract? So you could argue he didn't really show us much loyalty, so why should we continue to support him?
And yes, of course, players need their independence and fans are fickle. But as a QPR fan, aside from the sell on, I now don't particularly want him to turn into a top striker. Isn't that natural?
Even when playing for us. many thought he was rubbish. I didn't - I was gutted when he left and I still believe he will come good one day. I don't know how anyone could genuinely watch his appearance yesterday and not think that he looked very dangerous indeed. But - he did do that for us, flattered to deceive. |
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Reply | Sinclair Armstrong
at 20:06 9 Feb 2025
Ah I didn't know there was any other narrative other than that he refused to sign a new contract so we had to sell? |
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Reply | Sinclair Armstrong
at 19:21 9 Feb 2025
Perhaps a poor choice of words, but he chose to leave, so I don't hold any desire to see him do well (aside from sell on clause),
But I disagree with the posters above, he was pretty good today. |
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Reply | Plymouth
at 17:21 9 Feb 2025
So did I mate, and for me it pales into insignificance compared to when we drew 2-2 with them in the FA Cup quarter final or beating them in the 86 Milk Cup That Was Sadly Abandoned
Get your point about the owners - although the chairman looked pretty happy :-) |
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Reply | Plymouth
at 17:17 9 Feb 2025
Why's it boring to debate what quite a few of us think is a really important flaw in the club's thinking? I think it should be raised at every opportunity.
Also, the anti-cuppers had their moment when we won the next two games. Now those of us who like the cup get our moment to remind people that getting past the 3rd round can actually lead to lifetime-excitement moments. |
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Reply | Plymouth
at 17:15 9 Feb 2025
A problem for who? Give them a vote now, I bet they would take beating Liverpool over staying up? What if they win the 5th round too? They've got a lifetime memory. That's what it is all about.
Who the heck remembers league games in the championship a couple of years later?
And, as we always say, why can't you do both? Why can't you put your full side out in the cup and then play the same full side in the league game the following week? It's just trendy sports science drivel and gives managers the excuse to throw the cup.
Or Jimmy Dunne the case in point. We rested a bloke we tried to flog 2 weeks later.
And yes, I am still bitter. |
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Reply | Plymouth
at 17:08 9 Feb 2025
Well said. I already had to look up who we beat in the two games after Leicester. If we had got to Old Trafford and won that.....pie in the sky maybe but it will always will be UNLESS WE ACTUALLY TRY OUR HARDEST! [Post edited 9 Feb 17:09]
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Thread | Plymouth
at 17:00 9 Feb 2025
Well done chaps, thoroughly deserved. Up yours Liverpool for disrespecting the cup.
Nice to see nothing changes, 9 minutes of injury time invented from nowhere to give them every chance.
Looks awfully dull this winning in the cup business, doesn't it?
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Reply | Sinclair Armstrong
at 13:52 9 Feb 2025
Well I would love him to sink without trace, but I don't share that opinion at all. I think he's looked extremely dangerous - but I guess as a sub he always used to with us as well - and he actually hasn't scored or made an assist and again has got frustrated and is throwing his arms around. |
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Reply | Charlie Kelman’s Leyton Orient
at 13:43 8 Feb 2025
I honestly don't understand what Pep has done to Grealish. He used to be so direct and energetic, now he seems obsessed with not losing that ball, however dangerous a position he is in. |
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