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Obviously apart from the QPR ones anybody have any particular podcasts that they enjoy listening to? Over the last year I’ve been jilted dipping into the Wittering Whitehalls, but have just discovered Kathy Burke’s Where There’s a Will There’s a Wake. PC it ain’t. Brilliantly funny. And search for the one where Paul Whitehouse is guest.
Marti, please don’t tell me again that the players did not do as you asked of them or any other lame excuses. This match and much of what has happened so far this season is on you and your team selections and the way you want them to play. It doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked all season and I suspect if you continue it will not work for the rest of the season. I have been bored stiff so far watching Rangers this season, ponderous, lethargic, no movement, no pace and not a lot else either. It’s all on you as a manager. The first goal today was down to zonal marking at a corner and the cross could have gone to any of half a dozen Derby players and they would have had a free header. The second goal was schoolboy stuff, not much difference to that fourth goal that Blackburn got against us under Ainsworth last season. Utter dog toffee the whole lot has been apart from maybe Nardi, Dunne, Cook and Frey.
Another transfer window where they have now spunked around £200million on about 15 players with the now reported signing of Neto. I believe that takes the squad number to 47!!! Given that they have a limit of 25 for the PL season that they can name plus home grown under a certain age I pray that this will cause massive disharmony in their ranks. But it shows that the PL are happy to punish the lesser clubs like Everton and Forest but ain’t doing nothing about this filth and even as it seems allowed a non-footballing asset sale to be included in their accounts to help avoid PSR. Now given that infrastructure spending isn’t included in PSR calculations then can someone explain why the sale of structural assets can be included against losses?
Saturday afternoons in summer can bring some lulls in entertainment. So given the clubs constant plugging that season ticket sales are well ahead of last season I decided that I’ll try and count how many have been sold, give or take eyes starting to ache. I’ve come up with the number 10,167, obviously excluding exec boxes. Highest number in the Loft with 3,604 followed by the SAR with 3,333 and then the ER with 3,230.
Just looked on Oddschecker now we know the make up for next season of the Championship. The Champions of Europe are favourites at 5-1 and we are 13th at 28-1. Much better than last pre-season.
Just been reading the West Brom message board and such comments other than being very impressed were ‘This QPR team should be top of the league’, ‘on this display they should be challenging for the top two’, ‘best team we have played all season’ and my favourite so far ‘it’s been like playing Man City without the goals!’
Let’s be honest, given that we hadn’t won at home for 13 matches, scoring very few goals, it was a very cold Tuesday night, the game could be viewed on the red button, to have yet another near sell out was fantastic............except, let’s be really honest here, there was certainly at least 6,000 empty seats, and given that Clive’s match report suggested that there were 1,100 Stoke fans in attendance in an away end holding 2,800, although I noticed that the lower tier was sparsely populated with home supporters, the maths just do not add up, nor the vast empty rows of seats in the SAR upper. I cannot think for the life of me that season tickets en masses decided to stay at home. So what’s the reason? Increase revenue to help placate FFP fears or to show any potential future owner that this is a well supported club whatever the weather or state of the team?
Despite all its obvious flaws I thought that VAR was there to try and make things fair and also for me take away the perceived and not without good evidence the bias refereeing towards the bigger clubs. Once again last night, in the last minute of injury time a major decision made by the on field ref which was then backed up by the VAR ref was so obviously wrong that it was totally embarrassing.
Any other fellow R’s collecting stuff. I started off a few years ago collecting Wisden Cricket almanacs. Have now achieved the full set from 1946 to the present day, and a yellow wall is a big feature on my book case. Now starting to get the war years and then go backwards towards the 1930’s and 1920’s, but that will be a slow process due to the cost of originals. Have some early ones, 1940 and 1934 at the moment and also a facsimile of 1916 which has a 35 page obituary of W G Grace.
Was thinking that if more teams adopted Gazball as we’ve seen in the last couple of matches, could it leave the ball left on the halfway line with both teams sitting deep in their own halves waiting for the other team to make a move?
I’ve read about what a great job this guy does in terms of identifying players not only for the current season 😮 but also for future campaigns but it has left me scratching my head that the heads of recruitment at Luton and Millwall, two clubs who are fishing in the same tank as us and yet have built decent, solid teams. The only players since the start of the Warburton era that I’d be happy to keep or have kept was Barbet, Ball, Field and Dykes. So with the likes of Ferdinand, Hoos, Ramsey, Hall, Furlong and Impey, what the heel does this guy do to earn his money?
Anybody else who is in their 50’s and their eyebrows are the last attachment to their original hair colour when all else has turned grey or fallen out and then you start to get these white hairs within them that grow to a centimetre in length overnight with the thickness of barbed wire? I now have to pluck these fûckers out constantly and sitting on a train home there is an old boy opposite me who seems to have combed his eyebrows in different directions with a parting given the length of them! Is this what I have to look forward to?
Reading the outline proposals, particularly such things as fairer distribution of wealth of PL money and also the need for each club to provide viable business plans each year, could this part especially see the death nell of FFP? Can a viable business plan include additional shareholder funding for player investment? Certainly interesting that the EFL are all for it and the PL are not so keen. Now part of this should also be addressing the Cat1 v The Rest academy bias.
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