| Season s Expectations 22:15 - May 30 with 12812 views | numptydumpty |
Lot more competitive league next season.
And in all reality, we are competing to be top of the bottom six.
Sixteenth this season would be a success, given our current state.
This season ahead, personally not expecting much at all.
A better home record would not go amiss.
And a few more goals would be well received.
If we end up top half that's a solid season and top six would be near on orgasmic given recent performances
Anyone more hopeful and if you are, what gives you these beliefs !!!! |  |
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| Season s Expectations on 22:17 - May 30 with 6141 views | Hastings_Hoops |
Top half… because it’s QPR and QPR always beat the odds. |  | | |
| Season s Expectations on 22:47 - May 30 with 6041 views | HAMRanger |
It's the hope that kills you... so I'm looking forward to this season  |  | | |
| Season s Expectations on 22:50 - May 30 with 6019 views | Dorse |
A few more occasions of being the gob-bummer rather than the gob-bumee would be nice. |  |
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| Season s Expectations on 23:15 - May 30 with 5991 views | QPRConor2000 |
it will come down to our recruitment, if we recruit well then mid table, if not then its going to be a long old season for us.
I think we need at least six or seven additions, and thats not including the players who could be sold on. |  | | |
| Season s Expectations on 23:37 - May 30 with 5965 views | kensalriser |
Championship's definitely going to be tougher next year.
Three big teams are coming down from the PL and three good teams are coming up from L1 and that's never happened before. |  |
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| Season s Expectations on 00:33 - May 31 with 5914 views | SydneyRs |
How much of this stuff about it being tougher is perception because the clubs coming up and down have good fan bases? Didn't stop the ones coming up going into league one in the first place and other big clubs such as Forest and Sunderland have also been there in recent times.
Everyone thought Watford, Norwich and WBA would do well also. Swansea, once roundly praised for having a long term system new managers could seamlessly fit into are now languishing.
Obvs the prem teams bring parachute payments with them but its not always that simple. They will lose players and have to rebuild.
Every year lower budget teams manage to compete. Whether we can very much depends on transfer movements in the next few weeks. We've just watched two teams who were completely broke contest the playoff final. | | | |
| Season s Expectations on 01:06 - May 31 with 5877 views | Boston |
Top half finish will do me.
Go Gareth go...repeat | |
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| Season s Expectations on 08:14 - May 31 with 5695 views | stevec |
Totally dependent on who we bring in and who chooses them.
Hard to place any trust in the DOF after last season and I suspect GA will find himself burdened with another bunch of wasters. |  | | |
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| Season s Expectations on 08:46 - May 31 with 5649 views | dmm |
It's difficult to know how next season will pan out other than it being a difficult one. We know so little about what's going on at the club.
As people have mentioned elsewhere, we need straightforward statements from the club on what the changes Ainsworth is bringing are and what is the longer term vision for QPR. [Post edited 31 May 2023 8:48]
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| Season s Expectations on 09:17 - May 31 with 5572 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| Season s Expectations on 08:14 - May 31 by stevec |
Totally dependent on who we bring in and who chooses them.
Hard to place any trust in the DOF after last season and I suspect GA will find himself burdened with another bunch of wasters. |
Yep. You can make a case for appointing Ainsworth and letting him get on with it but if he's having to rely on Les for signings then what's the point? Incredible to see that stat about how little the Luton side cost. Anyway, I'm sure Les will have spotted some gems on his Hong Kong jolly.  | | | |
| Season s Expectations on 09:44 - May 31 with 5530 views | TheChef |
I'll take 16th  |  |
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| Season s Expectations on 09:45 - May 31 with 5531 views | Logman |
I don't think there is any way that GA and the backroom staff will be able to recruit to the extent that is needed to get us playing the type of football that we saw from many of the teams that visited us last season, e.g. Burnley, Preston, Coventry, Luton etc.
I think the playing style may well be similar to what we saw in the last few games.
The days of free flowing Warb-ball are long gone. | | | |
| Season s Expectations on 10:02 - May 31 with 5493 views | Silverfoxqpr |
Relegation battle. Hopeful and positive by nature but think we're in for a terrible time given the myriad of problems already discussed on other threads a million times over. |  | | |
| Season s Expectations on 10:07 - May 31 with 5471 views | Antti_Heinola |
Relegation is my expectation. |  |
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| Season s Expectations on 10:11 - May 31 with 5453 views | Gloucs_R |
Depends on what our recruitment is like. If the likes of Millwall and Preston can compete every year then there is no reason we cannot.
When I say compete, I'm talking about mid-table mediocrity. |  |
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| Season s Expectations on 11:09 - May 31 with 5372 views | dutch |
| Season s Expectations on 10:07 - May 31 by Antti_Heinola |
Relegation is my expectation. |
A real danger this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. | | | |
| Season s Expectations on 11:38 - May 31 with 5334 views | joe90 |
All depends on recruitment. If we stick with the current squad we’ll be in a relegation battle. If GA can shape the team then I don’t see why couldn’t have a bang average season. |  | | |
| Season s Expectations on 11:39 - May 31 with 5333 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
| Season s Expectations on 10:07 - May 31 by Antti_Heinola |
Relegation is my expectation. |
Agreed. Highly likely we'll not replace Chair, Dieng with the same quality, so we'll be weaker again. | | | |
| Season s Expectations on 11:57 - May 31 with 5275 views | lave16 |
| Season s Expectations on 11:39 - May 31 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
Agreed. Highly likely we'll not replace Chair, Dieng with the same quality, so we'll be weaker again. |
I'm expecting a season of blood sweat and tears ending in 16th place with no cup run and less injuries | |
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| Season s Expectations on 11:58 - May 31 with 5272 views | Rs_Holy |
16th in the League and 4th round of the Cup will be hunky-dory with me! |  | | |
| Season s Expectations on 12:05 - May 31 with 5253 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Season s Expectations on 10:11 - May 31 by Gloucs_R |
Depends on what our recruitment is like. If the likes of Millwall and Preston can compete every year then there is no reason we cannot.
When I say compete, I'm talking about mid-table mediocrity. |
But I can pretty much guarantee you that at some point in the next 10-20 years both Preston and Millwall will spend some time in league one. As will we, as will almost every club roughly our size. Just look at clubs in the last 30 years: 31 of the 44 teams in the top two leagues have been in league one at some stage; the vast majority of them have been in league one in the last 20 years.
In fact, an interesting trend is teams who went to League One and it was there they overhauled and started anew. Most of the current clubs seen as 'models' to follow began their recent journey in League One or even lower: Luton, Brighton, Brentford, Cov - and the last batch of clubs who did similarly had also made successful journeys that started there: Reading, Wigan, Southampton, Swansea.
I think an important point when we blithely talk about 'lower league gems' is that they're not all signed by Championship clubs for cheap fees (look at the fees paid for Twine and Toney, for example), but they are bought by clubs IN League One, and developed AT THAT LEVEL, before they go on to become good players at Champ level or higher IN THE SAME TEAM: the reason Cov and Luton have low wage bills is precisely because they have not recently been in the Prem. They have a structure rooted in lower leagues rather than one polluted by the Prem.
All this is not to say we can't compete, it's not even mitigation for not competing, but I do think there are more factors about than just 'Luton did it, why can't we?' - that is true, but Luton are such a small club that of the 72 clubs in the FL, a good 50 of them could be saying the same things we are. | |
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| Season s Expectations on 12:10 - May 31 with 5242 views | Lblock |
Relegation.
Nailed on.
I won't get drawn in this season even if we are 3rd at the end of October!!!!
I also expect Ainsworth to be sacked in November as another "can carrier" for the clowns above him. We'll appoint Sean Derry (my Lord) as further fan appeasement and he'll take us down.
I also expect Les to moan about clubs stealing our prospects whilst not addressing the issue or, in fact, doing the same to other clubs (relatively speaking).
I expect we'll continue our excellent work in the community and strive for greater equality and we will parade that like some sort of prize.
Apart from that it'll be another great one following the club. |  |
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| Season s Expectations on 12:30 - May 31 with 5180 views | andrew1302 |
I think it depends on who is in charge of bringing players. If it is left to the same team as the last few years certain relegation and then straight thru League 1 to League 2. If we get rid of Les and his cronies and sign players who aren't sick notes and have ambition and desire then mid table. As i constantly say if the owners decide they should actually get involved and start to appreciate the mess we are in then we have a chance of survival. If not and they sit on their hands just sending cheques i see nothing but more doom and gloom. The interesting reaction will come if Les stays and then sacks Gareth after a few games. I really think at that point the fans will openly turn against Les. He is in a tight corner now . | | | |
| Season s Expectations on 12:45 - May 31 with 5125 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Season s Expectations on 12:30 - May 31 by andrew1302 |
I think it depends on who is in charge of bringing players. If it is left to the same team as the last few years certain relegation and then straight thru League 1 to League 2. If we get rid of Les and his cronies and sign players who aren't sick notes and have ambition and desire then mid table. As i constantly say if the owners decide they should actually get involved and start to appreciate the mess we are in then we have a chance of survival. If not and they sit on their hands just sending cheques i see nothing but more doom and gloom. The interesting reaction will come if Les stays and then sacks Gareth after a few games. I really think at that point the fans will openly turn against Les. He is in a tight corner now . |
It's really funny how for decades the idea of owners interfering in team matters was basically seen as the worst thing that could happen, now because of a couple of successes it's seen as the only way to go. | |
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| Season s Expectations on 12:58 - May 31 with 5100 views | numbers912 |
Every reason i talk myself into thinking we might be good. I think i've finally learned my lesson. At this stage i'll take staying up finishing around 16th and winning a few games at home scoring up the Loft end of the ground. I am worried that we are going to end up playing some grim stuff though. Bleakest i've felt for years | | | |
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