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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 15:41 17 Jul 2025
Now I think of it, the other is his instinctive negativity about Bazball.
I remember when Eoin Morgan was first made ODI skipper (which was sort-of the predecessor of Bazball,) when everyone had for years been saying that England's ODI cricket was negative and out-of-date. As soon as we lost a few cheap wickets in the very first game, he was immediately querying whether it would be better to be more cautious.
Jeremy Coney said: "Well, that's one approach. The other is to keep the same style, but do it better." Which was spot-on and proved right. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 15:35 17 Jul 2025
Broadly I think he's done a good job as Cricket Correspondent for a long time. There will be mistakes in that but overall I like him.
He does have some stuck-in-the mud whinges and over rates is one that grates with me (there's at least one other that I forget for the moment.) |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 13:48 17 Jul 2025
I certainly agree that I get bored of the likes of Jonathan Agnew (who I generally like) going on about over rates all the time.
Time wasting is a pain in any sport but half the time it's not the bowlers, it's batters trying to avoid a tricky last over; or wanting new gloves, drinks etc.
Using fast bowlers a lot isn't time wasting and I'd rather watch the quicks going all out (including long run-ups and a breather between deliveries, if that's what it takes) than a lot of dibbly-dobbers or spin just for the sake of over rates (as opposed to spin when it's called for by the match situation.) There's nothing boring about waiting a few seconds for Pat Cummings or Jofra Archer to stat their run-up, it's part of the anticipation that makes Test Cricket a great sport.
Personally I like Andy Zaltzman's suggestion of fining the umpires if there is delay. I'd give them the job of managing time wasting, the right to dish out penalty runs for time-wasting at their discretion (have a yellow card system for warning) and put the match referee in charge of general time management by the ground staff. If the over rate isn't met then you could call the umps and match ref in to see the ICC and have a sensible conversation about why they weren't met. |
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Reply | Sell-on clauses
at 00:20 16 Jul 2025
It's a very sound question, but I think the issue is over the probability of getting that bigger up-front payment.
We're a middling (at best) Championship club, even our best players aren't going into the 1st team at Man City or Liverpool - either they're sold before they've even made it into our first team (Sterling or, back in the day, Bowler) or they go to, at best, lesser Premiership sides like Palace (and even then Eze wasn't first choice for a fair bit.)
Prices are going to reflect that. If we'd held out for, say, an extra couple of million from Palace for Eze then I'm not sure we'd have got it, because I'm not sure Palace had got it.
Eze's sell-on fee is basically about getting money from the sale to Palace that Palace don't have to find. We were confident hat Eze would be a success, that Palace were getting a player worth more than they were paying, but unless someone else actually came on for him we had to allow for Palace's budget. The sell-on fee reflected our confidence that, some day, Eze (and, previously, Sterling) would get a really big move and I reckon with Eze eventually we will.
In the Kolli example, much as I like him, the evidence that he is even Championship level is limited: I don't think we'd gett a big fee for him (so I wouldn't sell) but of we did I'd expect him to go to a club with a bigger budget than ours (if only because he'll want to be stepping up, not going sideways.) So I'd rather have the up-front money than gamble on him making a big money move later. (And look at BOS - I reckon you'll be waiting a long time before any club gets a sell-on fee for him.) |
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Reply | New Away shirt
at 18:05 10 Jul 2025
Exactly right. The only non-hooped shirts which are "proper QPR" are the plain white with blue shorts or the halved shirts (red-white or Oxford/Cambridge blue.)
I don't mind pin-stripe hoops if you really must (the 95-96 navy blue with white pin-stripe hoops was decent apart from the badge in the middle; if you want to do pink, I'd do that with maybe black pinstripes). |
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Reply | Webinars
at 14:57 10 Jul 2025
End on-line meeting misery with the GnomeMart personalised cardboard cut-out. Simply place in front of your computer camera and no-one will know you're not there, allowing you to get on with your job. Or slope off down the pub for a crafty pint, your choice.
"Career-changing": Mr B Williams, Shepherds Bush
Send photograph of yourself in work attire plus £59.99
Plays theme music to The Traitors. |
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Reply | New Away shirt
at 14:39 10 Jul 2025
Just give me hoops on the thing. |
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Reply | Shepherds Bush Green
at 23:28 9 Jul 2025
"What days, what brilliant days, who the hell wants to sit In a classroom learning how to speak bloody French FFS."
You think you had it bad, poor old Julien Stephan had to spend his whole childhood speaking French.
Still, happy ending, he now gets to work in Shepherds Bush (not sure how much time he'll be spending riding on buses though) |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 23:24 9 Jul 2025
I'm not quite there; when Venables left I wanted him to do really well because I thought he was a football genius and I didn't want to be proved wrong. So I wish Cifuentes well (same goes for Warburton.)
But basically - yeah. Stephan's the man now.
Hoping for something like when Gerry replaced Don Howe. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha
at 18:53 1 Jul 2025
How about the being surrounded by Giselle Bunchen thing? (Joke about getting tackles in deleted in the interest iff taste.) |
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Reply | How optimistic are you now?
at 18:07 1 Jul 2025
I've an old friend who follows Barnet home and away.
When I first met her, Spurs were her team and Barnet were her "second" side - now completely the other way round.
She said the difference was summed up by the fact that she's had loads of face-to-face conversations with Barnet players but the only interaction she ever had with a Spurs player was when her boss got her into the directors' box and Gazza (accidentally) shoulder barged her down the stairs on his way out. |
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Reply | How optimistic are you now?
at 18:02 1 Jul 2025
Apart from the last sentence, that makes me more optimistic than anything else. |
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Reply | How optimistic are you now?
at 13:30 30 Jun 2025
You're thinking "Will we sign a striker and a left-back, or five more No 10s and wingers? Will Madsen, Celar and Kelman tear the League up, or be in a thread on "Players you've forgotten played for us" in 10 years time?"
Now to tell you the truth, I'm not sure myself in all this excitement. But being this is QPR, the most QPRest football club in the world and going to every game will blow your head clean off. As well as bankrupt you. You've gotta ask yourself a question: "Do I feel optimistic?" Well, do ya, punk? [Post edited 30 Jun 13:31]
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Reply | According to Kieren Maguire
at 16:14 29 Jun 2025
I'd feel better about him if he spoke basic English (the more basic the better). |
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Reply | According to Kieren Maguire
at 13:02 29 Jun 2025
It is possible for Nourry to be doing a good job on the finances, in very challenging circumstances, and to also have acted like a complete arse in respect of Cifuentes.
I'm not saying either of those statements are true, because I don't know jack about the details, but they aren't in any way contradictory.
Whatever. I think worse of the club for falling out with a manager I rated and who made most of us feel better about the club. But he's gone and the replacement looks decent on paper. Onwards and, err, upwards-ish? Maybe 15th this year? |
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