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I find this thread hilarious. We're just not very good away from home, as we're proving again and again, and people want to fixate on the (admittedly unfathomable) colour of our shirts. Talk about an exercise in collective denial!
And another poster who plays the man not the ball, and prefers to castigate and caricature the writer rather than deal with the content he's raising. I'm not 'proclaiming' anything, about my intellect or anything else, just demonstrating my passion for all things QPR, so the issue must be with your inferiority complex and resentment. If you don't want to engage positively, don't say anything!
Just for the record, I'm not judging Varane for his performance today. I haven't been convinced by him from the start - he plays too deep, can't pass (incisively), dawdles on the ball, and gets caught in/turns over possession too often. Playing him and Field together is too much.
I'm certainly no Paal hater, and I appreciate it's not his first language, but honestly - he doesn't seem the brightest tool in the box, does he? His interview's only 3 minutes long, but I didn't even make it to the end. Come on, Ken, throw us a bone, man! I'm not asking for Brian Glanville levels of sporting analysis, but is 'taking it game by game' really the best you can do? Today was one game, and your team mates didn't show up, so that cliche isn't even very relevant, is it, if you think about it?
This tendency of our players, and sometimes our manager, seeming to have no idea about why we perform so badly when we do worries me. Wouldn't you think, for your own professional self-respect if nothing else, you'd try to think of something to say before going in front of a camera? It was the same with Field after Swansea, if memory serves. Absolutely shocking first half in particular, but, again, he didn't have a clue as to why.
I must be missing something! These are professionally coached players. Is it they just don't think about their team and what they're doing, or they don't really care?
As MC pointed out in his pre-match interview, we won 56 points last season. This season, with 12 games to play, we have 44pts, so we need four wins and a draw from 12 games to pip that total by a single point. You'd think we'd achieve that, but I don't necessarily feel we'll get a lot more. Gut says we'll probably finish with about 64 pts at best and finish somewhere around where we are now, so marginal improvement in terms of results.
Unless the squad is significantly upgraded next season, I foresee further mediocrity next year.
Players don't automatically leave because they're out of contract. Isn't that equally obvious? It's entirely possible, and indeed probable, that at least one or two will be offered (and will accept) new terms.
It wouldn't surprise me either - people can say what they like, but, for me, two or three games this season (cf. Leicester and Swansea), including this one, have smelt as fishy as the the 2003 Playoff Final, the 1986 Milk Cup Final and the 1982 FA Cup Final Replay. The team could well be under instruction from the owners to stay in the division but not to have a tilt at the playoffs. We had a fantastic opportunity to continue to do the latter today, buoyed by another rousing away support, and didn't turn up. It's inexcusable!
'Nullified' is an interesting way off putting it. They 'nullified' poor Koki by taking him out with an elbow, splattering his face in blood, and the piece of sh*t who did it should have seen a card the colour of Saito's wounds rather than that of his native ethnicity but saw neither. Cook should have been in the ref's ear from the start, as should our bench. It was gutless, inept, and we deserved exactly what we got.
Yes, you're right, and I'm wrong, on recent form at least. But I still think over-emphasising their good home form probably impacted our mentality negatively. A good team with good players and a confident coach with a proper game plan (think our 3-1 win at Anfield in 1991 or that glorious 4-1 spectacle at Manure) goes and takes the game proactively to the opposition, competes properly, and plays to its strengths. Plus, it's f*cking Portsmouth, 17th in the Championship, not Paris St Germain (and we've been, what, 4th ourselves or thereabouts over the last 10 games or so)!
Obviously, it's just speculation, but when I look at a game like that, which we seemed monumentally and moronically determined to lose, and the Leicester cup game, and that shocker at Swansea, I really worry there's more to it than meets the eye.
Hope he includes his own performance in his 'disappointment', epitomised for me by the ridiculous delay of seven or eight minutes in getting the subs on once it had finally dawned on him at our usual 'minute 60' he'd got his team wrong. How Varane stayed on the pitch till the end is anyone's guess.
Hope he includes his own performance in his 'disappointment', epitomised for me by the ridciulous delay of seven or eight minutes in getting the subs on once it had finally dawned on him at our usual 'minute 60' he'd got his team wrong. How Varane stayed on the pitch till the end is anyone's guess.
I take all your points, but it's highly unlikely imo that none of the four you mention will re-sign. I suspect we might well retain all four, actually, though I'm starting to worry a bit about Cook.
Usual hard-hitting questions, expansive managerial self-examination, and aimed as ever at a discerning, critical, and intelligent audience.
Interesting clue at least to where his ire might have been directed post-match in that uncharacteristic specific reference to our 'experienced' players not doing their jobs - I assume he has in mind the likes of Cook, Field, Smyth, and Frey, which he'd be right about, even if Varane's performance was particularly poor and finally convinced me he won't cut it in the Champ. Dunne and Chair were badly off it too, but at least they created a (quality) token goal. Of the starters, only Paal and Saito came out of it with any credit. To me, that points to preparation, mentality, and a lack of manliness.
Re Chair, and though I certainly don't treat him as immune to criticism, if you think our most hard-working and creative player is a 'luxury' anywhere, I say 'give me more luxury'. It's self-evident our issues in midfield are down to the lack of forward thinking/ability of the likes of Field and Varane, surely, as well as the lack of goalscorer(s).
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