| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 12:53 - Jun 6 with 4499 views | Northernr |
Nathan Jones, who Cardiff seemed pretty certain was coming to them, signs 5 year deal at Charlton, so we've got the dubious pleasure of that gnome again next year. |  | |  |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 12:59 - Jun 6 with 4416 views | Hoopsie |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 12:53 - Jun 6 by Northernr |
Nathan Jones, who Cardiff seemed pretty certain was coming to them, signs 5 year deal at Charlton, so we've got the dubious pleasure of that gnome again next year. |
Looking for 3 teams to finish below us already, any promising candidates?
Hope it is a lot more competitive at the top rather than the usual 3-4 suspects blowing away the league. Unlikely eh |  |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:09 - Jun 6 with 4377 views | Northernr |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 12:59 - Jun 6 by Hoopsie |
Looking for 3 teams to finish below us already, any promising candidates?
Hope it is a lot more competitive at the top rather than the usual 3-4 suspects blowing away the league. Unlikely eh |
Oxford, Charlton, Sheff Wed, Preston... | | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:14 - Jun 6 with 4362 views | Lblock |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 12:59 - Jun 6 by Hoopsie |
Looking for 3 teams to finish below us already, any promising candidates?
Hope it is a lot more competitive at the top rather than the usual 3-4 suspects blowing away the league. Unlikely eh |
Well we always seem to beat Nathan Jones sides so there's six points in the bag I hope (and him having two meltdowns).
At the moment we look like certain candidates for the bottom 3 in my book.
Weaker at the back than we were.
If Saito doesn't sign that's a slightly weaker midfield.
We'll probably go with the same strike "force" so very weak there apart from Frey (who I know divides opinion but I like him so there)
We're in the mix with Charlton, PNE, Oxford, Derby, Pompey and possibly Dull City and Sjoke if they continue to revert to type with signings etc.
Looks like this could be our year |  |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:27 - Jun 6 with 4293 views | TheChef |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 12:53 - Jun 6 by Northernr |
Nathan Jones, who Cardiff seemed pretty certain was coming to them, signs 5 year deal at Charlton, so we've got the dubious pleasure of that gnome again next year. |
Other than Nathan Jones being Welsh and Cardiff being in Wales, I've no idea how they'd think he drop down to a League One club, having just got one promoted! |  |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:45 - Jun 6 with 4229 views | Malintabuk |
I have a feeling that we will be going in with the kids this year ... as I can't see many signings on the horizon... not sure who we could tempt here at the moment
Be great if we could keep Saito ... and apart from the right back position, I'm pretty, if not comfortable exactly, but not too stressed with the defence
I'm also in a way not that stressed about Varane if he leaves. We are supposed to be a selling club... so let's sell. Because knowing how luck we will keep him and it will go to rat sh!t
Even the attack seems to be a little more positive. Celar hopefully comes.... well average will do me... Frey is competent, and I really hope that Kelman settles back... there could be a case to actually play to his strengths and play so we create chances for him.
It really is just the manager situation that has me worried.... we are going to suffer if this is not resolved by July.. the pre season is so important |  | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:47 - Jun 6 with 4239 views | derbyhoop |
Wednesday have to be in trouble, surely.
The chances of Rohl being their manager in August must be remote.
Players not getting paid and they've already lost Ihekwie and Valentin.
Oxford, Charlton, Preston, Hull and Stoke all look poor. But, then, at the moment, so do we. |  |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:55 - Jun 6 with 4205 views | Lblock |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:45 - Jun 6 by Malintabuk |
I have a feeling that we will be going in with the kids this year ... as I can't see many signings on the horizon... not sure who we could tempt here at the moment
Be great if we could keep Saito ... and apart from the right back position, I'm pretty, if not comfortable exactly, but not too stressed with the defence
I'm also in a way not that stressed about Varane if he leaves. We are supposed to be a selling club... so let's sell. Because knowing how luck we will keep him and it will go to rat sh!t
Even the attack seems to be a little more positive. Celar hopefully comes.... well average will do me... Frey is competent, and I really hope that Kelman settles back... there could be a case to actually play to his strengths and play so we create chances for him.
It really is just the manager situation that has me worried.... we are going to suffer if this is not resolved by July.. the pre season is so important |
Forgot about Kelman
If only that thread had made it to 30 pages | |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 14:06 - Jun 6 with 4159 views | LazyFan |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:09 - Jun 6 by Northernr |
Oxford, Charlton, Sheff Wed, Preston... |
Add Pompy and Derby to that.
Bigger teams in the Champ next season, but there are still enough poor ones that we should survive. |  |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 16:54 - Jun 6 with 3978 views | Loft1979 |
Could CN be looking at SW waiting for Danny Rohl to walk? |  | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 17:53 - Jun 6 with 3863 views | Paddyhoops |
Hats off to Hunter . Great thread and one of the most enjoyable. | | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 18:12 - Jun 6 with 3805 views | HAYESBOY |
I miss the old thread already. |  |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 22:31 - Jun 6 with 3527 views | Hunterhoop |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 17:53 - Jun 6 by Paddyhoops |
Hats off to Hunter . Great thread and one of the most enjoyable. |
Thank you, sir. Glad it worked.
Regards the “3 worse than us” theme:
Oxford (still the worst team I saw last season and one of the worst I’ve seen at his level)
Pompey (weak and the home advantage will wane)
Preston (sounds like it’s falling apart there)
Sheff Wed (definitely falling apart)
Charlton (look sh*t and obviously I hope Nathan Jones fails)
Hull (struggled last season, hopefully that continues)
Derby (poor last year…we beat them 4-0, FFS)
Stoke (circled the drain for so long now…)
So all in all we’ll finish 16th again. |  | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 22:54 - Jun 6 with 3484 views | JamesB1979 |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 22:31 - Jun 6 by Hunterhoop |
Thank you, sir. Glad it worked.
Regards the “3 worse than us” theme:
Oxford (still the worst team I saw last season and one of the worst I’ve seen at his level)
Pompey (weak and the home advantage will wane)
Preston (sounds like it’s falling apart there)
Sheff Wed (definitely falling apart)
Charlton (look sh*t and obviously I hope Nathan Jones fails)
Hull (struggled last season, hopefully that continues)
Derby (poor last year…we beat them 4-0, FFS)
Stoke (circled the drain for so long now…)
So all in all we’ll finish 16th again. |
I do think / hope Wrexham might not do quite as well as people expect. | | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 11:51 - Jun 7 with 3232 views | Beestonranger |
I know a lot of Watford fans and they’re all worried. Finished bottom of the form table over the last half of the season. | | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 12:51 - Jun 7 with 3107 views | TomMorgz7 |
I was having a think about this the other day, originally looking at next year's championship I was quite worried at how competitive it is, but am now thinking it's just another divided division of good teams with money (recently relegated, brum, Wrexham) and the usual dirge at the bottom. Not envious of your job to predict where this QPR team will finish in that... |  | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:11 - Jun 7 with 3022 views | Northernr |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 12:51 - Jun 7 by TomMorgz7 |
I was having a think about this the other day, originally looking at next year's championship I was quite worried at how competitive it is, but am now thinking it's just another divided division of good teams with money (recently relegated, brum, Wrexham) and the usual dirge at the bottom. Not envious of your job to predict where this QPR team will finish in that... |
Oh it'll likely be the same sht it always is. Dominated by parachute teams and one or two who've got their act together over time (Cov maybe playing the Sunderland role this year).
The slight difference is Birmingham/Wrexham are the strongest/richest clubs that have come up from that division in a while. That aint no Plymouth, Rotherham, Oxford thing they've got going there. No guarantee of course, but I would be surprised if either went down.
But to offset that you've got Sheff Wed who finished midtable last year apparently now melting down, Watford threatening to do similar, Preston as mentioned (though even they've gone out and picked up Thierry Small who I'd have been quite excited about coming here).
As for predicting QPR I'll probably stick them 16th as always but that feel optimistic at this stage (first week of June).
If you were another club in this league writing a season preview and having to assess QPR for a season preview, what would you say? Chaotic, unresolved managerial situation. Player of the year leaving along with Saito and others. Won 3 of the last 13 games last season. Several key players who were already knocking on a bit are now a year older, and in Steve Cook's case badly injured. No signings made. One pre-season friendly confirmed. No kit. 27 year old running the show. Complete radio silence for more than a month now. You wouldn't be placing us high up would you? You'd be saying things like "what's going on down there?"
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:24 - Jun 7 with 2955 views | DavieQPR |
Wrexham will be an interesting watch. They have succeeded so far by buying players from the league above which they can't really do this season. Also they play a lot of long ball which often struggles in the Championship. |  | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:25 - Jun 7 with 2964 views | Northernr |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:24 - Jun 7 by DavieQPR |
Wrexham will be an interesting watch. They have succeeded so far by buying players from the league above which they can't really do this season. Also they play a lot of long ball which often struggles in the Championship. |
Well they've put some ludicrous offer in for Tom Cairney from Fulham which would fit in with that model. But they're also in for Travis from Blackburn who, at £3m, would be a steal. | | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:34 - Jun 7 with 2928 views | kensalriser |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:24 - Jun 7 by DavieQPR |
Wrexham will be an interesting watch. They have succeeded so far by buying players from the league above which they can't really do this season. Also they play a lot of long ball which often struggles in the Championship. |
Watch as they comfortably take six points off us playing long ball. |  |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 14:30 - Jun 7 with 2781 views | TomMorgz7 |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:11 - Jun 7 by Northernr |
Oh it'll likely be the same sht it always is. Dominated by parachute teams and one or two who've got their act together over time (Cov maybe playing the Sunderland role this year).
The slight difference is Birmingham/Wrexham are the strongest/richest clubs that have come up from that division in a while. That aint no Plymouth, Rotherham, Oxford thing they've got going there. No guarantee of course, but I would be surprised if either went down.
But to offset that you've got Sheff Wed who finished midtable last year apparently now melting down, Watford threatening to do similar, Preston as mentioned (though even they've gone out and picked up Thierry Small who I'd have been quite excited about coming here).
As for predicting QPR I'll probably stick them 16th as always but that feel optimistic at this stage (first week of June).
If you were another club in this league writing a season preview and having to assess QPR for a season preview, what would you say? Chaotic, unresolved managerial situation. Player of the year leaving along with Saito and others. Won 3 of the last 13 games last season. Several key players who were already knocking on a bit are now a year older, and in Steve Cook's case badly injured. No signings made. One pre-season friendly confirmed. No kit. 27 year old running the show. Complete radio silence for more than a month now. You wouldn't be placing us high up would you? You'd be saying things like "what's going on down there?"
FourFourTwo season preview submissions have to be in by the 10th.
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The kit release roadmap is bollocks isnt it? | | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 14:38 - Jun 7 with 2756 views | actonman |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:34 - Jun 7 by kensalriser |
Watch as they comfortably take six points off us playing long ball. |
On Boxing Day and a random Tuesday night in November |  | | |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 15:02 - Jun 7 with 2667 views | derbyhoop |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 13:11 - Jun 7 by Northernr |
Oh it'll likely be the same sht it always is. Dominated by parachute teams and one or two who've got their act together over time (Cov maybe playing the Sunderland role this year).
The slight difference is Birmingham/Wrexham are the strongest/richest clubs that have come up from that division in a while. That aint no Plymouth, Rotherham, Oxford thing they've got going there. No guarantee of course, but I would be surprised if either went down.
But to offset that you've got Sheff Wed who finished midtable last year apparently now melting down, Watford threatening to do similar, Preston as mentioned (though even they've gone out and picked up Thierry Small who I'd have been quite excited about coming here).
As for predicting QPR I'll probably stick them 16th as always but that feel optimistic at this stage (first week of June).
If you were another club in this league writing a season preview and having to assess QPR for a season preview, what would you say? Chaotic, unresolved managerial situation. Player of the year leaving along with Saito and others. Won 3 of the last 13 games last season. Several key players who were already knocking on a bit are now a year older, and in Steve Cook's case badly injured. No signings made. One pre-season friendly confirmed. No kit. 27 year old running the show. Complete radio silence for more than a month now. You wouldn't be placing us high up would you? You'd be saying things like "what's going on down there?"
FourFourTwo season preview submissions have to be in by the 10th.
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I work on the assessment of who is going to be better than last season and who is going to be worse. The trouble is, like Hull 2 Summers ago, someone can do a supermarket sweep towards the end of the transfer window and it changes everything. That particularly applies to the relegated clubs and any others (Sheff U?) with parachute money.
ATM, I see Sheff W, Watford and PNE being worse. WBA , Bristol C and Boro probably going to drop a couple of places. Brum and Wrexham have too much money to be as bad as the sides they are replacing. Portsmouth and Derby may be slightly better for a year in the Championship.
As for us, as things stand, we look an under-cooked mess. Although, getting a couple of decisions right could change that assessment, dramatically. | |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 15:19 - Jun 7 with 2600 views | davman |
The thing at this stage is that we are QPR, so we WILL buy players and the majority of them will be huge gambles. The question then is will they come good?
If the recruitment strategy remains the same, ie: getting in "ballers" with good technique, but limited physicality, athleticism and pace, well we're fckd. If the Injuries are solved by the Scarlet Pimpernel re-emerging from the desert, we might be less fckd. If they get more pragmatic and give some steel to add to the midget army up top, then we may be less fckd. If they hurry up and sort out a manager that fits the model and is aligned with the club's philosophy, maybe we're even more less fckd.
So that's a whole heap of 6s we need to roll and with our track record as the club that will fall into a bucket of t*ts and coming our sucking our thumb, what do YOU reckon the chances are? |  |
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| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 15:49 - Jun 7 with 2490 views | Northernr |
| Rest of the Championship thread 25/26 on 15:02 - Jun 7 by derbyhoop |
I work on the assessment of who is going to be better than last season and who is going to be worse. The trouble is, like Hull 2 Summers ago, someone can do a supermarket sweep towards the end of the transfer window and it changes everything. That particularly applies to the relegated clubs and any others (Sheff U?) with parachute money.
ATM, I see Sheff W, Watford and PNE being worse. WBA , Bristol C and Boro probably going to drop a couple of places. Brum and Wrexham have too much money to be as bad as the sides they are replacing. Portsmouth and Derby may be slightly better for a year in the Championship.
As for us, as things stand, we look an under-cooked mess. Although, getting a couple of decisions right could change that assessment, dramatically. |
Hull are the most difficult one to write under this ownership. You tell me they make the play offs next year I’d believe you, you tell me they finish last with 30 points I’d also believe you. | | | |
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