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Reply | Disappointed
at 15:15 10 Mar 2025
Re your last sentence and LfW, in other news, the Pope has also been revealed to be a Catholic! |
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Reply | Ten-man Baggies latest to trap QPR in low block ball-ache – Report
at 15:04 10 Mar 2025
Wow! I guess we inhabit different footballing planets then - but I'm hardly a lone wolf! Anyone in football who wants to play it with all possible panache has been massively inspired and educated by Guardiola in recent years (and frequently said so).
As for the haves and haves nots, though the gaps may have got wider, twas ever thus in professional football, I'm afraid. Resenting the rich for being rich is understandable, but, for me anyway, it doesn't completely corrode my enthusiasm and romanticism for rattling the cages of the so-called big boys. And both Manchester clubs' seasons are an object lesson, surely, in how you can spend massive money and still fail on the pitch. [Post edited 10 Mar 15:13]
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Reply | Ten-man Baggies latest to trap QPR in low block ball-ache – Report
at 12:55 10 Mar 2025
Why use a thread about QPR's game at WBA to have a go at Guardiola, who (with whatever legal/illegal advantages and embarrassment of riches) has engineered some of the most sumptuous soccer in living memory. If you haven't enjoyed watching City (even if through gritted teeth) while he's been at the helm, you obviously don't like football.
Chair turns 28 in October - it's unlikely he's going to 'develop' further. It would be more plausible to say he's now at his peak, and may even be starting to decline, since quick-footed playmaker-cum-wingers like him tend not to be able play on and on into their mid-thirties. I think it's more likely than not he'll stay at Rangers now for the foreseeable, though the problem we have now with Yang, Dembele, Saito and Ilias all involved on Saturday is possibly too many of the same kind of player doing the same kind of thing.
Finally, and personally, since I'm a fan(atic) rather than a manager of expectations, I always want my team to go and storm the next game. It would be very us, and very on point with our manic-depressive season, to get a good draw at Boro and beat Leeds (again). Do I expect us to? Not necessarily, but why let my prejudices get in the way? [Post edited 10 Mar 12:56]
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Reply | Ten-man Baggies latest to trap QPR in low block ball-ache – Report
at 05:20 10 Mar 2025
'Would QPR have scored if we were still there now and West Brom weren’t? ' made me smile grimly through the wincing.
Although the levels are clearly not remotely comparable, I thought what we did at WBA was very similar to Arsenal's performance at Man U yesterday (who also have injuries up top) and how the pundits saw it. Lots of pretty, intricate football around the penalty box; no end product/cutting edge. It's partly where we at as a club; it's partly because Cifuentes talks about 'learning' from it, but, as Clive's report makes clear with reference to our rap sheet here, doesn't seem able to. The ratios we can argue. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 05:08 10 Mar 2025
Very good, well done you, on your foray into resentful/pedantic semantics. I gave an opinion in the form of a suggestion. Happy now?
Meanwhile, in other news, the earth spins to the funeral music of the latest pile-up of bodies in Ukraine and Syria this week. |
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Reply | Disappointed
at 21:10 9 Mar 2025
If MC has indeed taken the team as far as he can, the fairly obvious conclusion is that this mainly flags up his limits as a coach, I'd have thought. |
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Reply | Chair on today's game
at 21:05 9 Mar 2025
OK, I guess, but it's the coach's job, surely, to inculcate a degree of canniness. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 15:10 9 Mar 2025
I offer opinions just like anyone else here, which I try to give reasons for. Don't think I need to dig out my resume for anyone at QPR. |
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Reply | Yesterday's lowlights
at 15:05 9 Mar 2025
We weren't unlucky. We shilly-shallied around and had one effort on target in 98 minutes. |
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Reply | Disappointed
at 05:27 9 Mar 2025
Another poster who doesn't seem to understand the word 'nuance' and thinks posters divide into black and white boxes in ways that make the world, I guess, lovely and simple. Hilarious how such individuals never consider for a moment that the projection of 'agendas' onto those he disagrees with is itself an agenda, let alone understand the irony of their own position.
Here's a radical idea - some of us can and do criticicise the team AND the manager when it's warranted, and move our critiques across that (very unscientific/contestable) boundary. Let us know if that's still a difficult approach for you to follow! |
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Reply | Disappointed
at 22:22 8 Mar 2025
It was OK tippy tappy at times, but no cutting edge - that much is uncontroversial, presumably.
Can we sharpen our edge sufficiently when Frey, Kollo and goal machine Celar are all back? Methinks the serrations may still be rather too few.
If MC felt able to do something dangerous and attend a Fans Forum, a number of us might be interested to learn what his/the club's ambitions are for next season. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 22:18 8 Mar 2025
No excuses - well, that's something, I suppose.
Interesingly, he says they worked 'a bit' on attacking a low block in training. I suggest they need to go back to work in that case - and this time a lot.
I wonder if he'll be reminding us again how he's been telling the club what he thinks it needs - other than more coaching.
Meh! |
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Reply | Disappointed
at 21:12 8 Mar 2025
It's not 'one', it's a few, and if you don't want to 'dissect' games, what are you doing on a fans' forum? [Post edited 8 Mar 21:14]
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Reply | Disappointed
at 18:10 8 Mar 2025
But that doesn't explain why, bar Saito's terrible miss, we failed to carve out a single goalscoring chance v 10 men all half. Alfie hardly covered himself in glory from what I saw, but the 'service' into him was appalling and in fact virtually non-existent. Besides, I dont think there's a law against other players trying to score, is there? |
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Reply | Disappointed
at 18:07 8 Mar 2025
Which is a bit of an indictment, no? What exactly was he doing then? |
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