| Most dramatic fall 07:00 - Dec 18 with 7019 views | hoops_legend |
Which QPR player had the most dramatic fall from grace in your experience. What I mean by that who started absolutely great and ended up as one of the worst and how can we explain it all? Seems to happen to quite a few QPR players
Samba diakete was absolutely set to become a qpr favourite. He was absolutely mental - his Fulham display saw him chop down their opponents and get two yellow cards quickly and we all thought we had a head case. Then he really kicked on and his displays the rest of the season were immense. Loved him. He worked well with Taarabt, cisse etc
Then we signed him permanently I think and he just lost it. Does anyone know what happened and why? Was this mark hughes influence?
Who else have we got? Stuart wardley perhaps
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| Most dramatic fall on 09:18 - Dec 19 with 1994 views | TheChef |
| Most dramatic fall on 09:17 - Dec 18 by Bluce_Ree |
He was only good for a minute though.
Stuart Wardley is a good shout.
Jon Spencer maybe? First season he was on fire. Next season he was an aggy little prick who couldn't score. |
Yeah Wardley has to be up there.
One excellent season for us and then he basically disappeared. Can't even remember who he went to after us! |  |
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| Most dramatic fall on 09:35 - Dec 19 with 1947 views | qprninja |
| Most dramatic fall on 09:55 - Dec 18 by connell10 |
Richards surely . |
No decline with that guy though, started badly, kept on going. |  | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 09:37 - Dec 19 with 1944 views | qprninja |
| Most dramatic fall on 09:12 - Dec 18 by eastside_r |
SWP |
First match he looked a world beater. After that he either wasn't playing or if he was he was absolutely useless. the one highlight being the Chelsea goal, which he didn't even celebrate. | | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 09:39 - Dec 19 with 1940 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Most dramatic fall on 14:36 - Dec 18 by TacticalR |
Some recency bias here, but one of the worst things about the season before last (the Beale/Critchley/Ainsworth season) wasn't so much the non-performance of Beale's cohort, as the loss of form of formerly reliable players like Johansen and Dickie. |
Good shout. |  |
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| Most dramatic fall on 09:43 - Dec 19 with 1904 views | TheChef |
| Most dramatic fall on 09:18 - Dec 19 by TheChef |
Yeah Wardley has to be up there.
One excellent season for us and then he basically disappeared. Can't even remember who he went to after us! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Wardley
To refresh my memory (or anyone else's)...
Serious knee injury did for him. | |
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| Most dramatic fall on 15:48 - Dec 20 with 1488 views | TK1 |
Karl Ready won the player of the year 97-98 (in an admittedly dreadful squad). He played another 100 games or so for us after that and it's hard to think of good one. |  | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 15:51 - Dec 20 with 1477 views | NewYorkRanger |
Eduardo Vargas perhaps? Looked pretty decent at first and then........
Could throw Loic Remy into the mix as well.
One who started shockingly and never improved would be Chris Samba. Even though I believe we recouped the £12m transfer fee when we sold him that has to be right up there in the worst deals we've done as a club |  |
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| Most dramatic fall on 15:54 - Dec 20 with 1472 views | Logman |
I'd say Johansen and Austin rather than Johansen and Dickie. Dickie and Dunne were the only players who put in creditable performances when we started sliding at the end of that season and Austin just looked like a frustrated Sunday morning League footballer when he couldn't even get in ahead of Andre Grey. | | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 16:15 - Dec 20 with 1414 views | stowmarketrange |
| Most dramatic fall on 15:51 - Dec 20 by NewYorkRanger |
Eduardo Vargas perhaps? Looked pretty decent at first and then........
Could throw Loic Remy into the mix as well.
One who started shockingly and never improved would be Chris Samba. Even though I believe we recouped the £12m transfer fee when we sold him that has to be right up there in the worst deals we've done as a club |
Vargas was never played in his rightful position though was he?Ledesma was another one who didn’t play his best for us.Nor did Parejo,which considering the career he went on to have was strange,but he was only a youngster when he joined us. |  | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 16:49 - Dec 20 with 1364 views | GaryHaddock |
| Most dramatic fall on 16:15 - Dec 20 by stowmarketrange |
Vargas was never played in his rightful position though was he?Ledesma was another one who didn’t play his best for us.Nor did Parejo,which considering the career he went on to have was strange,but he was only a youngster when he joined us. |
Vargas was done dirty by Redknapp IMO. |  | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 18:23 - Dec 20 with 1268 views | numptydumpty |
The black Andy Gray that we had here - if that's the PC way of describing him here !!!!
I wasn't attending much for a few years around this time but remember him getting two incredible goals in a home win against Man Utd but he wasnt here long.
Anyone know much about him ?? [Post edited 20 Dec 18:27]
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| Most dramatic fall on 18:36 - Dec 20 with 1251 views | bob566 |
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| Most dramatic fall on 18:48 - Dec 20 with 1228 views | dmm |
Ned Zelic maybe. Played in the UEFA cup final with Borussia Dortmund then a couple of seasons later came to QPR where he played 4 games before going back Germany. |  | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 19:11 - Dec 20 with 1174 views | lassel |
| Most dramatic fall on 12:30 - Dec 18 by PhilmyRs |
Esteban Granero. Thought he looked superb in his early games then went a bit rubbish/lost interest. Think he could have done much more. |
Made a fortune from the game while doing his PhD in the evenings. Retired early to found an AI company. | | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 19:12 - Dec 20 with 1174 views | stowmarketrange |
| Most dramatic fall on 18:23 - Dec 20 by numptydumpty |
The black Andy Gray that we had here - if that's the PC way of describing him here !!!!
I wasn't attending much for a few years around this time but remember him getting two incredible goals in a home win against Man Utd but he wasnt here long.
Anyone know much about him ?? [Post edited 20 Dec 18:27]
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He played for palace for 3 years after he left us.Then he played 30 odd games for Spurs and a few other teams and finished his career at Millwall.
He was appointed manager of Corinthian casuals,but left in December 23.
He even won 1 England cap while at palace. [Post edited 20 Dec 19:13]
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| Most dramatic fall on 19:50 - Dec 20 with 1099 views | Logman |
| Most dramatic fall on 18:23 - Dec 20 by numptydumpty |
The black Andy Gray that we had here - if that's the PC way of describing him here !!!!
I wasn't attending much for a few years around this time but remember him getting two incredible goals in a home win against Man Utd but he wasnt here long.
Anyone know much about him ?? [Post edited 20 Dec 18:27]
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He was good. There was a bit of thrust about him plus he knew how to play right mid. A bit like Martin Allen. | | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 20:20 - Dec 20 with 1053 views | numptydumpty |
Another random Ranger from the Andy Gray time...
Paul Wright scored twice in a big win over Liverpool and then I believe disappeared up to his native environment in Scotland never to be seen again. [Post edited 20 Dec 20:21]
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| Most dramatic fall on 20:57 - Dec 20 with 982 views | FredManRave |
Not for a minute saying it was the most dramatic but 8million quid Leroy Fer came along started well, Motm on first home game scored some crucial goals in that first season and then, let's just way he waned the following season.
Queue, "Most waned QPR player" thread. |  |
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| Most dramatic fall on 00:11 - Dec 21 with 838 views | Hugey |
Jerome Thomas looked a world beater at first | | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 00:20 - Dec 21 with 817 views | Boston |
| Most dramatic fall on 17:09 - Dec 20 by GroveR |
Shìt goalkeeper but he was the dapperest player at the club with his chunky knit jumpers and his effortlessly smart but casual wool/cashmere numbers.
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And, environmentally sound. Everything about him was green. | |
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| Most dramatic fall on 19:32 - Dec 21 with 578 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Most dramatic fall on 10:34 - Dec 18 by derbyhoop |
Clark Carlisle.
Serious mental health issues, incl several suicide attempts. |
Carlisle looked like a premiership player in waiting when he played for us up to his injury.
Don't know if he counts or not, since his decline was so much about his mental health. And it largely happened after he'd left us. | | | |
| Most dramatic fall on 19:40 - Dec 21 with 554 views | CiderwithRsie |
Don't really think I'm accepting Stuart Wardley in this category.
I don't feel like it's a case of "where did it all go wrong?" so much as "how on earth did it go so right? How did a non-League big lump central defender, who never looked good enough in that role, bought in part-exchange for a load of old kit because both parties were skint, turn into a goal machine when played out of position for 6 months?"
I don't suppose he mopes over what might have been, more like he remembers that one glorious time in his life when he was a hero. [Post edited 21 Dec 21:38]
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| Most dramatic fall on 19:47 - Dec 21 with 539 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Most dramatic fall on 15:54 - Dec 20 by Logman |
I'd say Johansen and Austin rather than Johansen and Dickie. Dickie and Dunne were the only players who put in creditable performances when we started sliding at the end of that season and Austin just looked like a frustrated Sunday morning League footballer when he couldn't even get in ahead of Andre Grey. |
Dickie was the one that sprang to my mind, and thinking it over still is.
The decline of Johansen and Austin was awful and unexpected, but in hindsight you have to ask what we thought we were doing. But Dickie looked a class act and unlike the older pair was going to be an asset we'd sell.
What's really interesting is that Dunne, who was bought at about the same time, apparently as a squad player, more or less matched Dickie at his best and then at his worst, but has since risen like a phoenix from the flames [(c) Baddiel and Skinner] while Dickie doesn't seem to be going anywhere. | | | |
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