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Reply | QPR v Oxfoooooord match thread
at 20:43 11 Dec 2024
Utterly, scarily inept whichever way you cut the cake - but even against a team as poor as Oxford, we still are returning only 40% possession, which is pitful on our own patch.
Ashby has been every shade of terrible, Field seems to be satisfied to stand 30 yards in front of Nardi and passing it back to him every time he gets it, while our apparently undroppable Swedish pansy Madsen, being Madsen, has flitted like a butterfly and stung like one, so no change there. Meanwhile, save one plausible shot from the latter, Saito and Kolli have seen so little of the ball they may as well go home at h/t.
Considering Marti's supposed to be fashioning a possession-based, passing, front foot team, you have to wonder what he and his team are playing at. (Or should I say, not playing at.)
Get Chair on and hope he can spark something without getting injured for another 6 weeks! Other than that, I think my brain's turned to mush. [Post edited 11 Dec 20:45]
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Reply | Chair
at 13:08 11 Dec 2024
Dembele is hardly a 'ready-made' placement for Chair or anyone - he's a promising kid who's shown brief flashes of talent before getting what's apparently a bad/worrying injury. If Chair doesn't sign a new contract (he still may well do) anytime soon, and we end up selling in January (assuming we get a credible buyer payiong a sensible fee), we will need to reinvest at least some of that money on a playmaker. |
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Reply | Another Injury Update
at 20:43 10 Dec 2024
They ARE important, though - as Marti himself has recently been underlining, albeit so vaguely/generally as to be more frustrating than illuminating (and probably to take the heat off himself as much as anything by making little more than a symbolic statement).
If only football clubs like ours would wash at least a little of their dirty linen in public (arguments, disagreements, proposals/counter-proposals on how things are being done/shouldn't be done/should be done etc.), everything would be so much more healthily ventilated, and we fans would feel engaged and informed rather than snarled up in snippy exchanges between the ITKers and the mystified majority.
Agreed, though, these injury updates feel like counter-cultural manna from heaven, so I'm pathetically grateful for small mercies! |
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Reply | Chair
at 20:32 9 Dec 2024
Agree with that. Madsen gives way, who still isn't doing well enough to start imo, just like Smyth. Hopefully Chair as our best 10 forms the same kind of nifty partnership with Saito he had with Willock. Though I've got this gnawing feeling he (Ilias) may not like playing with him as much and may even be a little envious of how well he's been doing. Hope my hunch is wrong. [Post edited 9 Dec 20:34]
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Reply | QPR v Oxfoooooord match thread
at 20:27 9 Dec 2024
After 36 years, I'm still steaming about *that* Wembley debacle, and Jim f*cking Smith!
3-0 will do me just fine! |
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Reply | Chair
at 19:53 9 Dec 2024
Didn't notice that - to me, he just seemed to be physically struggling a bit and not up to speed, unsurprisingly. Otherwise, we can all echo your last sentiment of course, though I worry about his likely lack of match fitness. |
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Reply | Cook.
at 16:21 9 Dec 2024
Those are stunning stats all right! Argument over, surely?
Did someone recently post something similar for our points return with/without Colback to show how much more successful we are when he plays? |
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Reply | Rs boo-boys
at 11:54 9 Dec 2024
Wow - anyone else remember that, and how did he react? What was the red for? |
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Thread | Gunn
at 11:44 9 Dec 2024
Schadenfreude, I know, but how cr*p was he on Saturday! Some here talk about Nardy not commanding his area, but he's 6'5" and was still as the night in misjudging (or not judging) Paal's cross for Kolli's header, and for his second, easily beaten on his near post. Throw in that bit of amateur theatrics after our very own Hair Bear left his foot in, and he couldn't have played into our hands better if he'd tried!
A classic advert for 1970s Scottish goalies in the 2020s. Tee hee! [Post edited 9 Dec 11:45]
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Reply | Norwich losing heads, ref good and Morrisson lucky
at 11:24 9 Dec 2024
Norwich were worse than Cardiff for me - crap at the back, created very little up front, all over the shop temperamentally, and astonishingly lucky not to get at least as many yellows as us (and probably at least one red). Re their two offside goals, the first one was off; the second was very, very tight. The handball appeal for the pen (Ashby?) would have been damn harsh but could have been given on another day, so you could say we got a bit of the rub of the green, but I don't think they deserved anything much from the game. We out- fought, out-thought, out-tackled and comprehensively out-scored them without playing a ton of football, and Kolli was (literally) head and shoulders above the rest.
We keep pressing high and competing like that from hereon in, and we'll pick up plenty of home points. No way, all of a sudden, do we look like a relegation team. |
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Reply | Nourry
at 20:37 8 Dec 2024
All very worrying, if so. However, it does at least highlight the real issue, which is who gave Nourry the job (and why). |
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Reply | Nourry
at 20:35 8 Dec 2024
On what exactly? Though perhaps you should! |
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Reply | Sam Field or no Sam Field?
at 17:33 8 Dec 2024
Agree in principle, though whether we have it about us to press as high and energetically in midweek remains to be seen. The poor lambs do get tired playing more than one game a week, don't they?
Predictably, everyone else is behind schedule vis-a-vis the club's recent kind bulletin.
Field seems best-fitted to be a shield, and I agree his lack of forward thinking/passing gets exasperating at times, so he's a player I'm ambivalent about.
Colback seems to be taking forever to get back in shape. He's not a player I much warm to, has obvious disciplinary issues, but he is effective and gives us ballast.
Frey, for me, shouldn't be more than an impact sub, and I don't think has the physical fitness to be a regular starter anyway, annoyingly.
What we get from Chair is likely to be the most pivotal from among our walking wounded, but how fit will he be after his lack of pre-season and limited/stop-start football in recent months? That worries me.
It isn't so much the injuries per se, but the imbalanced resources in the squad that hamper us, I think. Roll on the January sales! [Post edited 8 Dec 17:38]
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Reply | Nourry
at 17:18 8 Dec 2024
Once again.
As I've pointed out several times now, MC declared our summer business 'almost perfect' at the end of August, and has repeatedly underlined his trust in the squad since then, so to say the inadequacies of the players (if inadequate they are) have nothing whatsoever to do with him won't wash. First, he's obviously played a key role in recruitment, and second (and as he's explicitly acknowledged in the same interview), it's his job to coach them into a cohesive unit. That hasn't changed.
Few here would disagree with Dykes' sale, and the fact that he's now a benchwarmer at Birmingham consolidates that view.
If Kolli's performance yesterday is that of a man who's in the CEO's bad books, bring it on! Why not take your cue from what's actually happening in our games rather than amplified suspicions on a messageboard by the usual ITK-ites without any evidential base?
Paal assisted for one goal yesterday, nearly scored himself with a superb effort, and was taken off as a precaution, as confirmed by the manager, with a tight hamstring. Hardly the mark of a player 'picking up injuries and out of form'!
The Hayden saga has been done to death. If we can get back in for him in January, we may well be, but otherwise I'm not convinced he's now needed, personally.
Madsen may or may not 'make it' (whatever that means), but is showing signs of improvement. I agree he has further improvements to make, for what it's worth. Once Chair is back, I suspect he will (rightly) make way.
I would like MC to be more specific about how the club can ameliorate its medical department/strategy, though I don't expect he will be. Certainly, the club should listen to him, though that doesn't mean he will get everything he wants not necessarily ought to. There are doubtless a number of variables in play, though I agree that our senior officer domiciled in the Middle East is not a good look.
As I say, we continue to improve, performances- and results-wise, and a lot of this noise will subside, even if it's right of course that questions continue to be asked. [Post edited 8 Dec 17:20]
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Reply | Nourry
at 15:49 8 Dec 2024
Agreed. While it's of course fitting to ask questions about Nourry's role, credentials and experience etc., the level of hysteria and hearsay about his performance in recent weeks has been off the scale. If the team continues to improve and climb the table, it will doubtless dwindle to a dribble. The CEO has little or nothing to do with our injury list, our poverty of goals, our game plan, or our under-performing players, which are down to Marti and his coaching team. Let's hope we're now really turning a corner on all of them! |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne
at 14:29 8 Dec 2024
He's got guts, commitment and plays with beauty in his own way. Deserves a new contract, and I hope he gets one.
As for prostate cancer, having been through a bit of a palaver with it, guys, do get checked annually - regular PSA tests, biopsy if needed. My grandpa died of it, and it's a serious killer, but usually treatable if caught early. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 14:07 8 Dec 2024
I agree and miss Nick London a lot.
As for Kolli, what a way to open your account! On that performance, he can really make his mark here. Had that shot for his hat-trick curved in at the far post, I think the roof would have come off (if LR had a roof). He looks the hairy business! |
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Reply | QPR v Naaaarwich Match Thread
at 16:59 7 Dec 2024
First one off, the second possibly/probably harsh (on them, tee hee).
Comms saying our goal has led the proverbial charmed life, and he's right, but we've deserved it in spades. |
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