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Reply | One Game at a Time. Pasoti preview
at 17:39 22 Aug 2024
Thank you, lots of amusing lines.
Particularly liked the jibes at Dykes and this:
Scoring goals was an issue, with their leading marksmen being putative fugitive from the Belgian Courts Ilias “Electric” Chair, and long-term fugitive from trapping and close control drills, Lyndon Dykes, who between them managed five less than Morgan. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 16:43 22 Aug 2024
Unless I have missed something Reggie Cannon is personally liable, not QPR?
Tho if we are still having to pay his wages and he isn't available for selection that is a big cost, although we could presumably also sue him after his other club. |
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Reply | Chair - what's the story?
at 13:45 17 Aug 2024
Does anyone have a link to an excellent piece of analysis by Clive, I think in his end of season review of our attacking performance? It spelt out in numbers what Chair’s contribution to the team was and made clear why he was not just a bit better than Willock, Dykes etc last season but off the scale our most effective attacking player across a lot of metrics. |
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Reply | Kolli online abuse
at 17:56 7 Aug 2024
Oh god seems I was being way too optimistic about the reaction on here, or to be exact one poster hell bent on fighting a culture war and telling black footballers to ignore vile racist abuse.
Can’t be bothered with such views - a tiny minority on here admittedly with many, many other excellent posters and a first class writer in Clive - so think I will stay off here for a while |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 15:27 7 Aug 2024
Surely Celar was bought as first choice centre forward?
Agree with Padula that service as much a problem as the centre forward himself. Michael Owen in his pomp would struggle to score many for us at present.
Not sure I buy the comment about Dykes getting manhandled especially - all strikers do. For a big man with all those tattoos he gets bullied off the ball more than he should. I have reservations about Frey but you saw how he battled when he came on against Brighton. Dykes, in contrast, mainly just ambles about IMHO.
Finally I get that Chair is probably out for this weekend but unless I've missed it I haven't read even any rumours of interest in him? |
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Reply | Kolli online abuse
at 15:18 7 Aug 2024
What disgusting views. What a disgusting way to behave. What a "fan".
I am confident that all fans on here - including those who do occasionally express some quite hard line opinions (though to be clear nothing along the line of this idiot's posts thankfully) - will join the club in condemning such behaviour. |
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Reply | QPR bolster midfield with Varane capture – Signing
at 12:08 5 Aug 2024
With Hayden I guess there is free and there is "free". We don't know if Newcastle were prepared to buy him out entirely of his contract - if they were he should have been open to a very big reduction in wages. But hypothetically if they offered to pay him only a percentage of his contract - and frankly, who could blame them? - then Hayden might be looking for much higher wages than we were prepared to offer. Its why I think whatever happens to Hayden - whether he comes here on loan, goes elsewhere either on loan or permanently, or stays in Newcastle reserves - it probably comes down to a calculation on the final day of the window: what is the highest wage offer open to Hayden, and if Hayden wants Newcastle to cover the shortfall, whether Newcastle are prepared to pay that much to get him off their books.
Agree Varane the clear winner in likely future value. Downside oc is he is far less proven. Clive produced some stats (think in his end of season report) showing Hayden's contribution and it was incredibly impressive. One of those players who, to employ the cliche, does all the stuff fans don't notice. But guess our finances dictate we have to go for potential. Plus getting older players is not entirely risk free either, as Stefan and Charlie second time around proved - albeit Hayden is considerably younger than both of those. |
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Reply | QPR bolster midfield with Varane capture – Signing
at 11:16 5 Aug 2024
Read elsewhere that the player his stats most resemble in world football is - Isaac Hayden. Hopefully there was a bit more due diligence than that but it does slightly suggest the word came down "we can't afford Hayden, find me a cheaper, younger version."
I like the height aspect - Dunne's aerial ability made a big difference and so should Varane.
Whist attack remains a massive problem its tried and trusted football management to sort the defensive side first.
In the absence of further recruits I hope we line up with Field and Varane holding with EDB further advanced.
Varane seems a positive signings - my only reservations are he couldn't get in his team towards the back end of last season, and he has about the same experience as EDB, so we are not buying the finished article here. And if we can't get Hayden on loan in a cut-price deal at the end of the window it means a lot will rest on Varane seeing as Colback looks spent. |
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Reply | Announcement at Brighton Friendly
at 09:50 2 Aug 2024
Absolutely.
For weeks now the general election thread has been far more active than the transfer window one.
Even though last time I checked the general election was settled.
There seem to be a minority of posters keen to contest a culture war.
Arguably its a good thing if people get out of their silos and debate with people of very different opinion.
But some seem far more animated on here about their political opinion than they are about their football club.
Perfectly legitimate - indeed sensible - to regard politics as more important than football, but as Clive says this is actually a football forum. As a liberal I should report that not a word written on this board by the Faragists has changed my mind on anything; and it would be arrogant in the extreme to imagine anything written by a liberal on here has changed the minds of the Faragists.
To get it back on subject, I'm fairly indifferent about the Italian and don't think its imminent. But I am curiously excited by the Varane potential signing. Even though I have never seen him play, nor had I heard of him until we were linked to him. Which probably makes me the worst kind of football fan just getting excited about players for the sake of it, who Clive has quite rightly satirised on here many times. But such a relief we seem to have moved on from the Jeff Hendrix years and are trying to develop young, skilful, technical players. Until he turns out to be the next Andre Dozzell... |
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Reply | Orange wine
at 23:09 30 Jul 2024
This is one of the many reasons why I love our club.
My daughter just back from one of her first adult holidays and was going on about orange wine in Italy. I told her she was a stuck up cow (mildly affectionately). My wife went out and bought a bottle and said stop being a boring old sod. Now I’m reading a wine expert’s take on a QPR forum.
Not many football forums I suspect would offer that.
Such a diverse fan base but if we can stay off politics we seem to rub along ok |
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Reply | On the basis of pre-season/the current squad, where will we finish this season?
at 21:51 27 Jul 2024
This game certainly a reality check and tempered my expectations.
But just so many variables its impossible to predict.
With the team that played Reading? Bottom six at best as zero creativity or ability to drive forward.
With Chair, Celar, EDB and Koli playing from the start? Just about mid-table.
With the above plus a box to box midfielder who can turn and move forward, plus either a good right winger or number 10 and a season with few injuries? 14th-9th maybe. |
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Reply | Match Thread - A Royal Preseason
at 18:18 27 Jul 2024
Colback wins whatever the opposite of MoTM is. Why do so many of our midfielders somehow believe they have done their job and earned their wages if they simply tap the same ball back to the defender in the same way that they received the ball? Is it that Jack is not confident enough to turn? Or can't be bothered? Or is unfit? Or isn't coached? Its not like the Reading press was so intense or of such high standard that this was impossible, surely? If that is the poverty of his intent not deserving of a starting place IMHO. |
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Reply | Match Thread - A Royal Preseason
at 17:08 27 Jul 2024
We didn't even look that fit. So sluggish. Am not convinced that if you have no one capable of hitting a forward pass in a friendly that you will suddenly find the killer pass - or even a progressive pass - against WBA in a fortnight. |
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Reply | WTF is a head of methodology?
at 11:41 27 Jul 2024
I get that as a fan even more obsessed with the Rs than the likes of me this kind of stuff might be irritating, but just as prime ministers are judged on the big decisions, so are ceos. Signing Marti, insisting transfers are done according to data, recruiting youth, looking at the psychological make up of players, refusing to be bent over by rapacious agents, getting actual money for completely ineffective players and securing a proven goal scoring centre forward (until now…) - all of this he has achieved and which apparently alluded Hoos, Baird, etc.
Very early days and it could and probably will all go wrong because we are Queens Park Rangers - but if he successfully rebuilds the squad and achieves a top 10 finish this season, are fans really going to be talking about the ticketing for Birmingham? I do get that as you, unlike me, follow the team away as well as at home you have more skin in the game, reflected in some of your beautifully evocative descriptions of miserable journeys to hell-holes. But the best way IMHO to make most fans happy is to run a football club that wins matches and shows progression. There at least appears to be a strategy now - compare and contrast to a couple of years ago with Amit basically saying: “I give up. i’ve been in football for over a decade but essentially I haven’t learned anything or know anyone useful. We have tried the only strategy that could work and we failed at that too so the answer has to be Gareth Ainsworth.” That was the moment I nearly despaired of this club, more even than when we were relegated to League One. If we pour over every decision made by a club of course there will be things some don’t like - I know you have a principled objection to the non-releasing of contract lengths - but on the available evidence I think, at the very least, Nourry deserves the benefit of the doubt, his management-jargon, nonsense-laden press releases notwithstanding. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 12:52 26 Jul 2024
I don't want him back either but very harsh assessment here IMHO. When played in a five thought he was excellent. Crucially when he left us you soon saw what that loss of passion and fight meant. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 12:22 26 Jul 2024
Loved Yohan but when has it, as the songstress Sade told us, been as good as the first time with a returning player? Steve Wicks, Clive Allen, struggling to think of any in recent times. Smyth debatable. Wonder as a fanbase if we are more nostalgic than most or if it is a common football phenomenon. Whenever a popular player retires the cry goes up "make him a coach". |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 11:04 24 Jul 2024
Precisely, Dozzell was more ruff and tumble gelling his hair. Not sure how much those stereo-types about English players still apply. Many have been coached to "play football" and we have had many a midfielder ala Tom Carroll who regarded the prospect of a tackle much as Ann Widdecombe would a venereal disease. I don't care about nationality, its all about the attributes of the individual. |
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