| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 21:17 - Jan 10 with 2487 views | GetMeRangers |
"In happier news, no VAR until the Fifth Round so we’re still years away from having to suffer that nonsense."
Brilliant 😂 |  | |  |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 21:27 - Jan 10 with 2455 views | camembeRt |
Brilliant as ever. |  | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 21:28 - Jan 10 with 2448 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Sing it, Sister!!!
Agree with every word. |  |
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| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 22:16 - Jan 10 with 2239 views | Paddyhoops |
6000 at Sheffield Utd last night to watch the reserves play .
Wilder protecting their chances of a new season in the premier league and the likelyhood of getting 5 wins , if they’re lucky in a season .
Deep joy .
Magnificent turnout tomorrow. | | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 22:48 - Jan 10 with 2097 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
Half bottle of Rioja in. Great write up, can't wait for the game.
FA Cup magic my arse. But, Christ I'd love it if we win, love it !
I salute those going, u Rs! | | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 22:48 - Jan 10 with 2092 views | VancouverHoop |
"We’ve been conditioned to expect it. Like Pavlov’s dog, if Pavlov had booted it in the bollocks every time a plastic ball with ‘32’ written on it was drawn out of a little velvet bag."
Luverly! | | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 23:25 - Jan 10 with 1962 views | OldPedro |
Great preview Clive - lets hope your score prediction is right. Hope we play a strong team and give it a go. Looking forward to being with four and a half other R's tomorrow!!! |  |
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| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 03:43 - Jan 11 with 1683 views | FDC |
LFW’s Prediction: Leicester 0-2 QPR. Scorer – Jimmy Dunne
Good lord man 😱 |  | | |
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| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 08:34 - Jan 11 with 1442 views | GaryBannister86 |
Superb again thanks, but please please please don't predict us to win. I always find it reassuring when you predict some kind of disappointment :-) |  | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 08:41 - Jan 11 with 1410 views | BristolR |
Bravo, nailed every word!
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| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 08:53 - Jan 11 with 1349 views | thehat |
Great preview thanks Clive - Setting off shortly see you all in Leicester.
Come on you R'rrs | | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 08:58 - Jan 11 with 1324 views | joe90 |
Love the previews, thanks as always.
Wishing everyone a safe trip and hopefully a win. U’rssss! |  | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 09:04 - Jan 11 with 1304 views | Andybrat |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 08:34 - Jan 11 by GaryBannister86 |
Superb again thanks, but please please please don't predict us to win. I always find it reassuring when you predict some kind of disappointment :-) |
Agree, when did you last predict a win? Is this a New Years resolution to be less QPR and more positive? Great report [Post edited 11 Jan 9:06]
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| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 10:41 - Jan 11 with 1072 views | essextaxiboy |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 09:04 - Jan 11 by Andybrat |
Agree, when did you last predict a win? Is this a New Years resolution to be less QPR and more positive? Great report [Post edited 11 Jan 9:06]
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I see your 2 games in 18 days and counter with 5th game in 17 days .
I think the number of tickets sold (fair play to you all) may push Marti into selecting a stronger team than he would have done .
Of course I want to beat Leicester , but with as few players who will start at Plymouth as possible .
We have an ongoing injury problem , just had to use up budget to cover the latest two.
Anyone who saw the Luton game could see that some of them need a rest.
Just my opinion , unpopular I know , we could lose to Plymouth regardless of the team today. |  | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 10:41 - Jan 11 with 1072 views | enfieldargh |
Loved the preview as always.
To all the traveling faithfull of around 30% of our average home attendance have a safe and wonderful day.
As for the Leicester guy on the podcast I really worry for his wellbeing. I hope you left him with plenty of kleenex. Maybe not |  |
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| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 10:44 - Jan 11 with 1048 views | francisbowles |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 10:41 - Jan 11 by essextaxiboy |
I see your 2 games in 18 days and counter with 5th game in 17 days .
I think the number of tickets sold (fair play to you all) may push Marti into selecting a stronger team than he would have done .
Of course I want to beat Leicester , but with as few players who will start at Plymouth as possible .
We have an ongoing injury problem , just had to use up budget to cover the latest two.
Anyone who saw the Luton game could see that some of them need a rest.
Just my opinion , unpopular I know , we could lose to Plymouth regardless of the team today. |
and now Plymouth will have a new manager atmosphere too. | | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 11:06 - Jan 11 with 972 views | Burnleyhoop |
Love the report, but the cynicism will take some shaking.
Our improvement has been built on desire, determination and commitment. That’s what will be needed again today. If we want it more, it’s there for the taking.
Maybe Marti is starting to shift the culture from perennial failures and embedded mediocrity to having belief in our own capabilities to win against any odds?
The evidence is building, so a win today would be another step in the right direction.
But we are QPR and hope was hidden in the cellar and left to rot a long time ago. Might just dig the torch out and have a rummage to see if it is still there. | | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 12:20 - Jan 11 with 774 views | LimpopoR |
Marti is very shrewd and is quietly changing attitudes among the R's faithful. One can't help but wish him every success, we are lucky to have him.
A full strength team today will underlie his thinking.
Clive, who I also rate, is correct. We will win. | | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 12:49 - Jan 11 with 677 views | stainrods_elbow |
Food for thought as ever, Mr W. MC's upticking schtick 'let's change the future' is refreshing of course, and he's definitely winning me over right now, but he and his team have now got their work cut out to walk their own talk and continue the mostly good-to-very good work of the last dozen games or so (one or two terrible nadirs en route notwithstanding). The last time Marti the Messiah/sometime Naughty Boy issued a 'challenge' to the team to break our Boxing Day hoodoo we know what that led to at Swansea, which makes me wonder if he might say it best when he says nothing at all (as I've noted he tends to when asked about why we've performed badly).
The actual culture of the club surrouding the F A Cup has been done to death here, and the dichotomy between those who think the cup is a crock of shit/ we'd better play a reserve team because someone might tweak an eyelash and supposedly dent our fortunes for the next game, and the old-fashioned goons (there's another one for the LfW glossary) who agree that the raison d'etre of a professional football club is to try - shock horror! - to win professional football competitions rather than manage/rotate everything down to a place of pointless joylessness, will go on being entrenched, but for those of us who were there for the entirety of our Cup run to Wembley in 1981/82, what's mostly happened since sticks so horribly in the craw our jaws are virtually anaesthetised.
I'm not sure I agree with the thesis that Leicester are finding/returning to their true level or 'mean'. As you've said elsewhere, Clive (and here I think I AM quoting you correctly - it may have been in an unusually friendly PM when I asked you what keeps you when things are at their grimmest), football is cyclical for most clubs. This sounds a bit like the start of an Alan Partridge story, but when I were a lad, Leicester was very much my 2nd team, as my grandfather used to play for Leicester Boys (and once took me to see Venners training QPR). This was the decade they had class acts like Peter Shilton, Keith Weller, Steve Earle, David Nish, Alan Birchenall, ex-Rs Eddie Kelly and Dave Webb, and a budding Gary Lineker on their books, and also the decade they beat Liverpool in the Charity Shield at the beginning of it. In fact, and I didn't know this, 2008-08 was apparently the first time they'd played outside the old First and Second Division. They've yo-yoed since then of course (haven't we all, darling?), but they've had some superb successes and highlights since then, and Ranieri's Prem crown remains a quite remarkable, applecart-upsetting accomplishment.
As a neo-Romantic in both football and life, I want to believe in the 'DNA' of a club (QPR as stylish, raffish West End cave-dwellers or something, with a sprinkling of mavericks, bell-ends and ballers), but the truth is a football club is more like a Hydra-headed monster or something from John Carpenter's 'The Thing'. There are a variety of factors, many of which are driven by business, finances and sheer mis/fortune, which shape its trajectory. It's entirely possible, if a number of dice fall the right way, our basket-case of a club could be challenging again for a European places by the end of this decade. Equally, we might be circling the familiar comforts of 16th in the Champ or conceivably plying our trade in the quagmire of League One. That's what make being a fan an act of faith or wager on the absurd - none of this is (that) much likelier or foreseeable or more pre-determined than anything else. In short, sport only leds itself to rational analysis of the supposed 'Brentford model' or anything else to a certain point. Dark matters rules, and a blessed sense of mystery. [Post edited 11 Jan 13:15]
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| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 13:33 - Jan 11 with 566 views | Burnleyhoop |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 12:49 - Jan 11 by stainrods_elbow |
Food for thought as ever, Mr W. MC's upticking schtick 'let's change the future' is refreshing of course, and he's definitely winning me over right now, but he and his team have now got their work cut out to walk their own talk and continue the mostly good-to-very good work of the last dozen games or so (one or two terrible nadirs en route notwithstanding). The last time Marti the Messiah/sometime Naughty Boy issued a 'challenge' to the team to break our Boxing Day hoodoo we know what that led to at Swansea, which makes me wonder if he might say it best when he says nothing at all (as I've noted he tends to when asked about why we've performed badly).
The actual culture of the club surrouding the F A Cup has been done to death here, and the dichotomy between those who think the cup is a crock of shit/ we'd better play a reserve team because someone might tweak an eyelash and supposedly dent our fortunes for the next game, and the old-fashioned goons (there's another one for the LfW glossary) who agree that the raison d'etre of a professional football club is to try - shock horror! - to win professional football competitions rather than manage/rotate everything down to a place of pointless joylessness, will go on being entrenched, but for those of us who were there for the entirety of our Cup run to Wembley in 1981/82, what's mostly happened since sticks so horribly in the craw our jaws are virtually anaesthetised.
I'm not sure I agree with the thesis that Leicester are finding/returning to their true level or 'mean'. As you've said elsewhere, Clive (and here I think I AM quoting you correctly - it may have been in an unusually friendly PM when I asked you what keeps you when things are at their grimmest), football is cyclical for most clubs. This sounds a bit like the start of an Alan Partridge story, but when I were a lad, Leicester was very much my 2nd team, as my grandfather used to play for Leicester Boys (and once took me to see Venners training QPR). This was the decade they had class acts like Peter Shilton, Keith Weller, Steve Earle, David Nish, Alan Birchenall, ex-Rs Eddie Kelly and Dave Webb, and a budding Gary Lineker on their books, and also the decade they beat Liverpool in the Charity Shield at the beginning of it. In fact, and I didn't know this, 2008-08 was apparently the first time they'd played outside the old First and Second Division. They've yo-yoed since then of course (haven't we all, darling?), but they've had some superb successes and highlights since then, and Ranieri's Prem crown remains a quite remarkable, applecart-upsetting accomplishment.
As a neo-Romantic in both football and life, I want to believe in the 'DNA' of a club (QPR as stylish, raffish West End cave-dwellers or something, with a sprinkling of mavericks, bell-ends and ballers), but the truth is a football club is more like a Hydra-headed monster or something from John Carpenter's 'The Thing'. There are a variety of factors, many of which are driven by business, finances and sheer mis/fortune, which shape its trajectory. It's entirely possible, if a number of dice fall the right way, our basket-case of a club could be challenging again for a European places by the end of this decade. Equally, we might be circling the familiar comforts of 16th in the Champ or conceivably plying our trade in the quagmire of League One. That's what make being a fan an act of faith or wager on the absurd - none of this is (that) much likelier or foreseeable or more pre-determined than anything else. In short, sport only leds itself to rational analysis of the supposed 'Brentford model' or anything else to a certain point. Dark matters rules, and a blessed sense of mystery. [Post edited 11 Jan 13:15]
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I think you have too much time on your hands Stainrod. | | | |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 16:04 - Jan 11 with 407 views | stainrods_elbow |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 13:33 - Jan 11 by Burnleyhoop |
I think you have too much time on your hands Stainrod. |
You're probably right and obviously know much more about my life than me! In between renovating a house, starting a new business, writing a play, editing two memoirs, seeing friends and family, and publishing a few opinions on this board, I'm terribly under-stimulated. Thanks for such a generous response to my views. [Post edited 11 Jan 16:07]
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| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 18:16 - Jan 11 with 330 views | Burnleyhoop |
| That FA Cup preview again – Preview on 16:04 - Jan 11 by stainrods_elbow |
You're probably right and obviously know much more about my life than me! In between renovating a house, starting a new business, writing a play, editing two memoirs, seeing friends and family, and publishing a few opinions on this board, I'm terribly under-stimulated. Thanks for such a generous response to my views. [Post edited 11 Jan 16:07]
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Always find your posts entertaining, although don’t always agree with your views, but that is the joy of the forums. Differing views and perceptions is human nature and the basis for debate.
No offence intended. | | | |
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