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Reply | Devs v Cardiff
at 20:29 24 Oct 2025
Dead right.
I really like Kolli, he seemed a bright spark in a very dark time when he first came through. I also think a mistake was made in not playing him alongside Kone when Burrell was rested/unavailable.
But with Chair coming back to fitness, Poku getting the same way, and not many other injury problems opportunities for Kolli are going to be limited and a loan I think is the way to go (so long as its to the right club.) |
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Reply | Left wing/Right wing English clubs
at 22:27 22 Oct 2025
My memory was that he wasn't a fan but his son wanted to go to football and he thought it better for the lad to go to a "proper" club rather than a Premiership side.
Might all be bollocks but if true it's pretty sound thinking IMO.
I've no time for the bloke's politics, but it's possible for people you disagree with to still be decent fathers. |
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Reply | After Many A Summer Dies The Swan, Swansea Match Thread
at 22:21 22 Oct 2025
I will take that result all day long.
Our tendency to go on long losing (and occasionally winning) streaks makes me nervous after every defeat and I hate international breaks precisely because they break up our rhythm when we're playing well, so after Millwall I'm just bloody glad to get an away win.
Throw in the continued goal-scoring ability of our 1st choice strikers, Madsen looking like an all-round championship midfield lynchpin, and Chair's ability to make the team tick and there's bags of potential for us.
Clean sheet for Nardi and a slightly makeshift defence also positives for me.
Really want to see much better from Varane, Dembele, maybe Smyth (cutting him a bit of slack in recognition of past service) but that's partly because there's evidence they've got it in them. A fit Poku would be lovely too.
Not a match to tell the grandkids about but lots of signs we're on the right track IMO. Starting to get excited about this team, and I bloody wasn't in August. |
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Reply | Left wing/Right wing English clubs
at 11:51 22 Oct 2025
I used to work with a dyed-in-the-wool, family had been going for generations, Everton fan and he was very explicit about the rampant racism in both Merseyside clubs. Blamed the refusal of Everton to recruit youth players from postcodes with high ethnic minority populations for a lot of the decline of the club (of course, Les Ferdinand can tell a story for two about that sort of thing, too.)
For a scouser, he was unusually critical of the whole city - called it "self-pity city" and said that the whole 80s depression thing was skating over the extent to which the city had largely grown up through doing very nicely in importing stuff made by slaves (even after they stopped exporting slaves) and when prosperous had looked down on Manchester for actually making stuff. |
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Reply | Left wing/Right wing English clubs
at 22:24 21 Oct 2025
I think both the OP by TeddeRs and Robith have got it right - in England football is largely apolitical.
Some clubs are very embedded in their local communities, which I suppose is consistent with left-wing ideas, but you have to be one of those "everything is political" people to infer that makes them left-wing.
In England we don't have the sectarian Rangers v Celtic thing or the Northern Ireland variants, we don't have anything like the thing in Spain where Real were Franco's lot or in Italy where Lazio were/are pretty much Fascist.
I think it's why Millwall look slightly pathetic IMO trying to make a big deal out of it. |
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Reply | Sutton/Carshalton
at 22:06 21 Oct 2025
Postcodes are all Surrey, though - it's all SM-something or other, not London SW.
(Also, no tube, so by definition Not Proper London in my biased opinion - at least that was the line I took when I was doing missionary work among the benighted heathens of Mitcham, all too many of them North Battersea fans. The Palace fans were mainly human, though.) |
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Reply | Millwall deliver QPR’s latest reality check – Report
at 23:39 19 Oct 2025
"Two trucks, overtaking, A1 past Scotch corner, forever and ever, and ever and ever, and ever and ever more. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Gear change. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"
Brilliant, brilliant analogy. |
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Reply | Another Prick in the Wall - kitty litter edition QPR vs Millwall match thread.
at 14:42 18 Oct 2025
I'm always worried after International Breaks - we seem to be poor at picking up after them. And Millwall would not have been the side I'd have chosen to play right now given a choice.
I still don't know how to assess that result. We have form for going on slides and there are tough matches ahead. On the other hand, there was some good stuff on display.
Going to find out a lot about this side and the boss over the next month IMO. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 21:51 14 Oct 2025
I've given up complaining about lack of warm-up matches, but it doesn't make it any less true.
(I also think it'd be a great way to support 1st Class cricket in the host country.)
On the England batting: I really feel Root has a point to prove in Oz and, given his form over the last year or two, this could be his time - which could be decisive. |
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Reply | international call ups
at 14:33 10 Oct 2025
Says something about that era that Konchesky was a regular for us that season and I've more or less erased the fact that he was ever a QPR player (even on loan) from my memory banks, whereas I can still remember Paul Walsh's two games.
What it probably says is I'm an old git who's living in the past but can't remember half of it. |
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Reply | The new England ?
at 14:20 10 Oct 2025
On top of which, matches vs Scotland, Wales and NI used to be competitive and we had the regular Home International tournament to look forward to in non-World Cup years.
England are in a slightly unfortunate place where qualification is routine (unlike, say, Scotland, where it is a serious objective to be achieved) but we're not quite good enough to win anything (so far).
The whole deal is generally the competition matches up to the Final. Elimination before the QF is embarrassing, a QF place is just about decent, a SF place is good as we can expect, and getting to the Final is as good as it's getting.
So it's about 6-9 matches very two years, one or two of which in the group stage will be not much harder than the qualifying games (though much more embarrassing if we're rubbish.) Hard to build a fan experience on that, really. |
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Reply | Lyndon’s goal
at 14:00 10 Oct 2025
Good luck to him.
A likeable player, just not an effective one for us, so it's win-win to see him (a) not in a hooped shirt and (b) doing OK for himself.
The one thing I'll always say for him as a QPR player was that he came to us after that basket case scenario where we started the season without a single striker under contract, and was therefore a step in the right direction IMO. Very pleased to see us now with two Championship quality strikers on the books. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 19:50 9 Oct 2025
Genuinely a bit sad if Pat Cummins is out. A class act with the ball, very decent with the bat and one of the more likeable Aussie cricket captains IMO.
On The Other Hand, it's usually us who lose our key fast bowlers so maybe it's about time.
If Stokes, Archer and Woods are all fit to bowl in every game (they won't be) England are just an entirely different bowling attack - not just better, but completely different type. |
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Reply | Coventry
at 00:24 9 Oct 2025
F*ck no. |
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Reply | Kolli up front in a two
at 10:48 8 Oct 2025
That's a very brave admission to make in these parts.
Might even be the start of a new thread. |
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Reply | Credit where it's due?
at 13:29 7 Oct 2025
Also: as a Neanderthal fan personally I don't want to have to think about what the CEO is doing at all, and not much about the DoF.
If we've got to the point where I don't then I'll chalk that up as a success. |
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Reply | Credit where it's due?
at 13:26 7 Oct 2025
Don't want to clog the thread with a quote, but that's a top post by Robith above this.
His point that the signings are fitter than the guys who've been here all summer is a good one and surely a sign of something else that the club needs to learn from and fix. |
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