| Young players for the sake of it? 13:14 - Aug 11 with 2059 views | ennisR |
Was looking at the noise made about the squad being younger and Nourry's similar comments at the fans forum and was struck by the fact that he's like a regional manager concentrating on one KPI and the expense of all the others. For eg, superb staff retention KPI, while the company forgets to actually sell anything |  | | |  |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:22 - Aug 11 with 1992 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Just to clarify, when you say KPI, you do mean, Key Performance Indicators and not, Key Players Injured?
Asking on behalf of everyone else. |  |
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:26 - Aug 11 with 1969 views | wombat |
the issue since he came in his desire to buy cheap and sell high , which is the correct way forward, the issue is same as last season is hes gona all in , all untried kids first team squad is weak and even weaker now with fox ,colback ,dunne / jcs / frey/ gone/ out , first game of the season andwe are already having to try morgan at right back and a 19 year at left back making his debut at left back.
this is the nissue when somebody is running the club who have a cv which barely goes over one page in work experience previously .
even before the injuries this season was always going to be a utter car crash , |  |
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:35 - Aug 11 with 1900 views | QPRSam |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:26 - Aug 11 by wombat |
the issue since he came in his desire to buy cheap and sell high , which is the correct way forward, the issue is same as last season is hes gona all in , all untried kids first team squad is weak and even weaker now with fox ,colback ,dunne / jcs / frey/ gone/ out , first game of the season andwe are already having to try morgan at right back and a 19 year at left back making his debut at left back.
this is the nissue when somebody is running the club who have a cv which barely goes over one page in work experience previously .
even before the injuries this season was always going to be a utter car crash , |
Car crash season after a 1-1 draw with Preston  loving the level headed responses one game into the season |  | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:11 - Aug 11 with 1784 views | loftupper |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:26 - Aug 11 by wombat |
the issue since he came in his desire to buy cheap and sell high , which is the correct way forward, the issue is same as last season is hes gona all in , all untried kids first team squad is weak and even weaker now with fox ,colback ,dunne / jcs / frey/ gone/ out , first game of the season andwe are already having to try morgan at right back and a 19 year at left back making his debut at left back.
this is the nissue when somebody is running the club who have a cv which barely goes over one page in work experience previously .
even before the injuries this season was always going to be a utter car crash , |
In fairness to Nourry, we were not performing any better when we had those with supposedly better qualifications in charge. A third of the clubs in the division performed worse than rangers last season again with (following your line) supposedly better qualified people in charge.
Quite frankly, hiring from the same tired talent pool hasn't got us anywhere aside from a freak title win 15 years ago. Plenty of ex footballers stealing a living in both management and advisory roles, jobs for the boys etc
Not as though we (as fans) have any say in it anyway. | | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:11 - Aug 11 with 1778 views | wombat |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:35 - Aug 11 by QPRSam |
Car crash season after a 1-1 draw with Preston loving the level headed responses one game into the season |
actually said it before the season started , funnily enough .not made one comment about sats perfroamnces which in the first half was decent , issue is and will be the big problem we have no depth in the squad and even less so if the rumours about dunne , poku are true . ps preston are prob one of the worst clubs we will play thise season and they pretty much battered us sat second half | |
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:13 - Aug 11 with 1754 views | Northernr |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:35 - Aug 11 by QPRSam |
Car crash season after a 1-1 draw with Preston loving the level headed responses one game into the season |
TBF to Wombat he was saying that before we drew 1-1 with Preston  |  | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:19 - Aug 11 with 1715 views | GaryBannister86 |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:13 - Aug 11 by Northernr |
TBF to Wombat he was saying that before we drew 1-1 with Preston |
Yes Wombat certainly did, and I agreed with him. I didn't see anything on Saturday to particularly alleviate me from that view. Not necessarily the football, more that it's the first game of the season and yet again the squad is all over the place with injuries, weaknesses, gaps and lord knows what else.
I don't think it's much to ask for a properly-run football club to be pretty much all guns blazing come the first game of the season. More like spiked guns, and pop guns at that.
Now we are going to be forced to play a load of kids and sack off one third of the season, yet again. It won't be half way through August. I am looking forward to Nourry's masterplan coming to fruition, and fast. |  | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:34 - Aug 11 with 1620 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:19 - Aug 11 by GaryBannister86 |
Yes Wombat certainly did, and I agreed with him. I didn't see anything on Saturday to particularly alleviate me from that view. Not necessarily the football, more that it's the first game of the season and yet again the squad is all over the place with injuries, weaknesses, gaps and lord knows what else.
I don't think it's much to ask for a properly-run football club to be pretty much all guns blazing come the first game of the season. More like spiked guns, and pop guns at that.
Now we are going to be forced to play a load of kids and sack off one third of the season, yet again. It won't be half way through August. I am looking forward to Nourry's masterplan coming to fruition, and fast. |
Be interesting to see when Nourry next fronts up. The fans forum has obviously gone, he held a few interviews for approved channels...so radio silence until August 2026 now? [Post edited 11 Aug 14:35]
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:35 - Aug 11 with 1616 views | wombat |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:19 - Aug 11 by GaryBannister86 |
Yes Wombat certainly did, and I agreed with him. I didn't see anything on Saturday to particularly alleviate me from that view. Not necessarily the football, more that it's the first game of the season and yet again the squad is all over the place with injuries, weaknesses, gaps and lord knows what else.
I don't think it's much to ask for a properly-run football club to be pretty much all guns blazing come the first game of the season. More like spiked guns, and pop guns at that.
Now we are going to be forced to play a load of kids and sack off one third of the season, yet again. It won't be half way through August. I am looking forward to Nourry's masterplan coming to fruition, and fast. |
Even a non football person would say hang on lads , we have slightly over cooked this , unless all our aims from now on is survive somehow and look to sell the odd player for a few quid , cant see the fans flocking to games for two long if that is the grand plan can you? and any promising young players will soon be battered into submission by losing week in week out instead of flourishing which you would hope is the ultimate plan ?
We do have a Plan dont we? | |
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:03 - Aug 11 with 1533 views | 7374Ranger |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:26 - Aug 11 by wombat |
the issue since he came in his desire to buy cheap and sell high , which is the correct way forward, the issue is same as last season is hes gona all in , all untried kids first team squad is weak and even weaker now with fox ,colback ,dunne / jcs / frey/ gone/ out , first game of the season andwe are already having to try morgan at right back and a 19 year at left back making his debut at left back.
this is the nissue when somebody is running the club who have a cv which barely goes over one page in work experience previously .
even before the injuries this season was always going to be a utter car crash , |
The problem with this type of model is QPR risks becoming like a Crewe Alexandra kind of club.
The club needs a strong 1st team squad to at least be a top half Championship one, rather than run the risk of relegation every season. | | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:17 - Aug 11 with 1477 views | QPRSam |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:13 - Aug 11 by Northernr |
TBF to Wombat he was saying that before we drew 1-1 with Preston |
Fair enough
I do wonder in the world we didn't concede such an awful goal and that ended 1-0, would it still be a car crash season, we're doomed? I'd imagine there wouldn't be such a hyperbolic response but I wouldn't expect anything less in a football forum | | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:25 - Aug 11 with 1437 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 14:19 - Aug 11 by GaryBannister86 |
Yes Wombat certainly did, and I agreed with him. I didn't see anything on Saturday to particularly alleviate me from that view. Not necessarily the football, more that it's the first game of the season and yet again the squad is all over the place with injuries, weaknesses, gaps and lord knows what else.
I don't think it's much to ask for a properly-run football club to be pretty much all guns blazing come the first game of the season. More like spiked guns, and pop guns at that.
Now we are going to be forced to play a load of kids and sack off one third of the season, yet again. It won't be half way through August. I am looking forward to Nourry's masterplan coming to fruition, and fast. |
We were going to play 'kids' anyway, so the coach is not being forced to. The only 'kid' to play Saturday was Esquadinha.
In fact his coaching experience is with bringing through younger players.
These threads are starting to mirror US politics. People act shocked/outraged when Trump does something he always said he would do (tariffs etc).
Nourry has said numerous times this would be the model to get this club up the league. We as fans know this isn't going to be easy but I'd sooner watch Esquadinha than sign another Lee Wallace! | |
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:28 - Aug 11 with 1412 views | GaryBannister86 |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:25 - Aug 11 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
We were going to play 'kids' anyway, so the coach is not being forced to. The only 'kid' to play Saturday was Esquadinha.
In fact his coaching experience is with bringing through younger players.
These threads are starting to mirror US politics. People act shocked/outraged when Trump does something he always said he would do (tariffs etc).
Nourry has said numerous times this would be the model to get this club up the league. We as fans know this isn't going to be easy but I'd sooner watch Esquadinha than sign another Lee Wallace! |
I meant being forced to play kids tomorrow because of the injuries, not on Saturday. Although I would argue that Nourry must have had a say in the Walsh choice, at very least.
I don't get your US politics comparison. I didn't vote for Nourry. Didn't agree with his hiring, unimpressed with what he is overseeing, hoping fervently to be proved very wrong. Whereas I just hate Trump. | | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:32 - Aug 11 with 1386 views | DavieQPR |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 13:26 - Aug 11 by wombat |
the issue since he came in his desire to buy cheap and sell high , which is the correct way forward, the issue is same as last season is hes gona all in , all untried kids first team squad is weak and even weaker now with fox ,colback ,dunne / jcs / frey/ gone/ out , first game of the season andwe are already having to try morgan at right back and a 19 year at left back making his debut at left back.
this is the nissue when somebody is running the club who have a cv which barely goes over one page in work experience previously .
even before the injuries this season was always going to be a utter car crash , |
Strange all the ones you mention are the older players. Maybe if we hadn't signed younger players there would bi a few more on that list. |  | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:48 - Aug 11 with 1311 views | dm97 |
For all the things you can chastise the current regime for - bringing the average age down and focusing on development of young players should not be the thing you choose.
Comms/injuries/general double standards (we’re a selling club unless it’s the manager etc) should all be far higher.
He’s right about the DS and he’s right to bring the average age down to increase likelihood of player sales. No one is buying Chair at 28. |  | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:59 - Aug 11 with 1268 views | mart_Goblin |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:25 - Aug 11 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
We were going to play 'kids' anyway, so the coach is not being forced to. The only 'kid' to play Saturday was Esquadinha.
In fact his coaching experience is with bringing through younger players.
These threads are starting to mirror US politics. People act shocked/outraged when Trump does something he always said he would do (tariffs etc).
Nourry has said numerous times this would be the model to get this club up the league. We as fans know this isn't going to be easy but I'd sooner watch Esquadinha than sign another Lee Wallace! |
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 16:11 - Aug 11 with 1230 views | nix |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:32 - Aug 11 by DavieQPR |
Strange all the ones you mention are the older players. Maybe if we hadn't signed younger players there would bi a few more on that list. |
Well exactly. Fox and Colback only managed 2 games by November for the former and 4 games for the latter by January for a joint ÂŁ30k a week. Not hankering after either of them.
We do need some more players in, that's absolutely certain, and sort out our injuries. But that's no reason to tear the whole strategy up. [Post edited 11 Aug 20:11]
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 16:52 - Aug 11 with 1078 views | terryb |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:25 - Aug 11 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
We were going to play 'kids' anyway, so the coach is not being forced to. The only 'kid' to play Saturday was Esquadinha.
In fact his coaching experience is with bringing through younger players.
These threads are starting to mirror US politics. People act shocked/outraged when Trump does something he always said he would do (tariffs etc).
Nourry has said numerous times this would be the model to get this club up the league. We as fans know this isn't going to be easy but I'd sooner watch Esquadinha than sign another Lee Wallace! |
I agree with "We were going to play kids anyway", but I think you're then forgetting how young Morgan is!
Is the coach being forced to play kids or not? That probably depends on your definition of forced. I would say that he was employed to follow the club policy & is doing so. [Post edited 11 Aug 16:57]
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 16:54 - Aug 11 with 1050 views | dm97 |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 16:11 - Aug 11 by nix |
Well exactly. Fox and Colback only managed 2 games by November for the former and 4 games for the latter by January for a joint ÂŁ30k a week. Not hankering after either of them.
We do need some more players in, that's absolutely certain, and sort out our injuries. But that's no reason to tear the whole strategy up. [Post edited 11 Aug 20:11]
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Accidental downvote klaxon. This. Right now my ire is more directed at Ben “your favourite players” Williams - won’t get on the high performance podcast with this record mate. | | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 16:56 - Aug 11 with 1030 views | nick_hammersmith |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:25 - Aug 11 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
We were going to play 'kids' anyway, so the coach is not being forced to. The only 'kid' to play Saturday was Esquadinha.
In fact his coaching experience is with bringing through younger players.
These threads are starting to mirror US politics. People act shocked/outraged when Trump does something he always said he would do (tariffs etc).
Nourry has said numerous times this would be the model to get this club up the league. We as fans know this isn't going to be easy but I'd sooner watch Esquadinha than sign another Lee Wallace! |
100% signing a Lee Wallace isn't going to help anyone. We might need to use one of the loan spots for some experience though. Just need to be careful as this team needs a strong role model character.
I remember Lyndon having his best season when Charlie was showing him how to train etc. |  | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 19:51 - Aug 11 with 880 views | Pindarus |
Far better what we are doing now than squandering on the likes of Hateley, Wright-Phillips and other ageing stars like in the past | | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 20:07 - Aug 11 with 835 views | QPR_Hibs |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:25 - Aug 11 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
We were going to play 'kids' anyway, so the coach is not being forced to. The only 'kid' to play Saturday was Esquadinha.
In fact his coaching experience is with bringing through younger players.
These threads are starting to mirror US politics. People act shocked/outraged when Trump does something he always said he would do (tariffs etc).
Nourry has said numerous times this would be the model to get this club up the league. We as fans know this isn't going to be easy but I'd sooner watch Esquadinha than sign another Lee Wallace! |
Is Lee Wallace available for the play-offs? |  |
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| Young players for the sake of it? on 20:42 - Aug 11 with 697 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
It’s a necessity we’ve put off for too long.
All clubs in our position will have to do it. |  | | |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 21:44 - Aug 11 with 583 views | wombat |
| Young players for the sake of it? on 15:17 - Aug 11 by QPRSam |
Fair enough
I do wonder in the world we didn't concede such an awful goal and that ended 1-0, would it still be a car crash season, we're doomed? I'd imagine there wouldn't be such a hyperbolic response but I wouldn't expect anything less in a football forum |
Try reading the original reply yes crash season has nothing to do g to do with the Preston game ,first half we was decent soon as they used us out in the second we wasn’t , couple fhtta with the little depth we have in certain areas yes car crash season , even with Kone coming in we are still paper thin in to many areas . So staying up those season will be an achievement,with what we presently have to work with | |
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