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Reply | England women’s team
at 08:48 19 Jul 2025
I think that's an interesting and well-balanced comment for the debate - although what I would say is that there are far better female teams and players than this current England side and the form they are showing at the moment. I thought that Swedish striker was excellent, for example.
It's a bit like the England women's cricket team right now. They are not playing well and if you were to watch them you may make the same comments about women's cricket and cricketers. But then if you watch the Aussie women cricketers, you can't (sadly) fail to be impressed by their skills, standards, fitness, athleticism. |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 08:32 19 Jul 2025
I don't think the pro-Marti camp see him as a "wronged messiah". I do believe he got us as a club, I think he was genuinely moved by the support he got during the bad times (good luck with that at Leicester, mate), but do I think he now has a QPR tattoo and will be an R for the rest of his life? No, of course not. He's a professional and he's moved on, he's already done a Leicester intro interview identical to his one here, except replacing "Stan Bowles, Les Ferdinand" with "Gary Lineker, Peter Shilton" and no doubt he will be running around the King Power high fiving the fans before the first game.
I do however, think we have lost a good manager and that we should have tried a lot harder to keep him for longer. I don't think it would have been that difficult.
On reflection, Marti did have two major bits of fortune here. 1) Following the worst manager in the history of the world, making us instantly hang on his every word, desperate to hear something erudite and motivating rather than something about being privileged to be in the same division or some sort of Haka rubbish and 2) the song. Odd to say, but it definitely helped his popularity.
I bear him no ill will whatsoever and I hope this snake rubbish is put to bed and he gets a warm reception next time we see him. However, now we have monstered Toulouse, I am firmly in the StephanWeTrust camp. |
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Reply | England women’s team
at 13:33 18 Jul 2025
She is such a good player and a good character. We really should be keeping an eye on her contract length at Arsenal and already be mooting her winding down her career at her girlhood club and true love. We will need to get the women's team up the leagues for that though! |
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Reply | England women’s team
at 09:33 18 Jul 2025
Why do you watch QPR then? I've seen us play football far worse than last night, I've seen Ready and Yates defend as badly as Jess Carter and I saw us in a penalty shoot out vs Sunderland take just as many bad penalties. I'm still supporting us.
I don't understand why women's football can't just be judged on how good it is as women vs women rather than all this comparing to how they would fare against an u12 boys side or whatever.
Last night was massively entertaining, and well done for them for getting through, somehow. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 12:16 17 Jul 2025
But if you have got spinners then the over rate issue isn't...going to be an issue. It mainly affects England as we don't bowl a lot of spin at home. So to fit it all in we are either going to bowl spin when we don't want to normally in the game, or throw 'em to a pie chucker.
Personally, I just don't think it works, I don't think it is that important. Fanatics aside, how many test-going fans are in their seat for every ball anyway? A lot leave early, are in the bar, etc. I may be very wide of the mark, but I have never heard any match-going fan complain coming out of a test that they were robbed of overs. Perhaps just coincidence, because logically you want the full product. Just my experience of it all. Or maybe because I often leave early :-) |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 11:27 17 Jul 2025
It would certainly work, but I am in the Kumar Sangakarra camp here. What it could mean is that skippers would throw the ball to rubbish part-timers just to get the overs done quickly. If I've paid £100 for a ticket I would rather see the best bowlers for 80 overs than 90 overs that include Harry Brook chucking down some filth just to beat the clock? It's Test Cricket, quality should be sacrosanct rather than quantity. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 10:34 17 Jul 2025
Exactly - of the World Test Championship's many flaws, this is just another one. As Stokes says, we play (i) many more games and (ii) most of them on seamer surfaces, so we are bound to struggle to keep up with the over rates.
I never quite get this moaning about having to get 90 overs in all the time. Having been to quite a few days' test cricket, it is the last thing I worry about as long as I am seeing action and quality. It is quite a long day in the sun for most, anyway. |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 09:59 16 Jul 2025
"change our attitude to cups"
I've got a very close eye on this one. Nourry can win some brownie points here by forcing his managers to play their strongest teams in the cup.
The ongoing consequences of resting players for Leicester away in the 3rd round now exacerbated with MC ending up in their manager's chair. All those long-term benefits for not playing a full team against a side that didn't score a goal at home for about 4 months.
It was the one thing I didn't like that MC did. It must change. There is no such thing as jam tomorrow in the QPR world, so play for today. Try and win the only three competitions we enter. |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 09:24 16 Jul 2025
Exactly, With all this "snake" stuff on social media you would think Cifuentes walked out on us like Beale to take the WBA job. He was sacked by QPR, apparently for having the temerity to be on the lookout for better opportunities. As people say on this thread, totally normal behaviour and provided it doesn't affect your 100% efforts to the current job, I don't see the problem. More like down to Nourry and the hierarchy to make sure that a good manager doesn't want to take any other opportunities rather than sack him for looking around. Or it was just the excuse he was looking for, more like.
Total farce. I am sure Dec 20th will be another one of those Loftus Road moments a la Seaman where half the crowd is spitting vitriol and the other half cheering a returning hero. Such fun!
I know what I will be doing, if Stephan has us languishing in the bottom three and Leicester cruising to promotion even with a points deduction.....welcoming back Marti and telling Nourry to get out of our club.
But, I am a fair man, so if Stephan is actually doing a good job - I will reserve just a polite clap for MC and get behind the lads and the second Messiah that is Julien.
Fickle, that's me. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 07:40 15 Jul 2025
I wish the Aussie bowlers would hurry up and get in transition! Spicy pitch and pink ball obviously in the Windies, but they are consistently so good. I am just not sure how we are going to get the runs. Having Archer hopefully back will make a huge difference, but their last hurrah in a home Ashes is going to very difficult to resist. |
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Reply | Dunne new captain
at 09:30 14 Jul 2025
Totally agree, Bazza. I remain perplexed by the treatment of Steve Cook both by the club and by some of the fans. Talk about taking a player of excellent quality, commitment and reliability for granted. The way the club worded that press release about his contract renewal was petty, churlish and demotivating. Now they take the captaincy away from him. Anyone would think he was triggering the extension clause by turning up to prat about in some meaningless game rather than put his body on the line in a relegation battle.
It's shoddy how Cook has been treated compared to some of the total chancers we've had go through this club.
I don't agree with it, I don't think it's a good look and I can imagine it will shoot us in the foot when the young defenders all lose form / get injured and we are a long way up north with no one to get their balding bonce on to it. |
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Reply | season not looking good
at 08:24 13 Jul 2025
You are dead right. The overreaction to pre-season games, or even just one game, can't be logical.
I am extremely pessimistic about next season, but was before our first pre-season game and didn't shift my opinion because of that easy win, nor likewise because of this defeat.
I am very fearful for next year. I know people are optimistic, but yet again we are going to go in to the season with a woeful collection of strikers (unless we keep Kelman and he fires, possibly decent odds against both), but this year we've no Marti to haul us out of the danger. Of course I hope Stephan is as good, but can't imagine we will make two quality managerial appointments in a row. When's the last time we did that? Howe then Francis?
Two lower league signings don't change my hopes - seen it all before from that division. Blackpool fans thought we were incredibly lucky to get Dembele. I think they may still be right, but even if these guys are good it usually takes time with young players.
The difference on this coming season is that Marti had the goodwill of match-going fans. Support was maintained even through horrific runs. Don't see Stephan getting that luxury, can see it going toxic and everything going pears.
I hope I am wrong. I usually am :-). Tell me why it is going to work out better than this. Need cheering up! [Post edited 13 Jul 8:24]
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Reply | Castellon Friendly
at 14:48 12 Jul 2025
Not sure why anyone would have had those ideas anyway. Can't remember if it is a myth or not but wasn't our pre-season before the Warnock Championship win particularly woeful? |
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Reply | Castellon Friendly
at 12:37 12 Jul 2025
Always enjoy how quickly we go from great signings, brilliant who has re-signed, excellent new manager, gonna be a good season, to.....everyone's crap, manager's clueless.
45 minutes of a pre-season friendly, in fact. Love it.
#StephanOut [Post edited 12 Jul 12:37]
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Reply | Pink and Black halves
at 08:12 11 Jul 2025
It's hard to care anymore because it will just change every year and be consigned to the bin, but I don't even recognise it as QPR. What's it got to do with QPR apart from the badge?
Abysmal. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 12:38 10 Jul 2025
As a Crawley fan, what drives me nuts is that when he plays "properly" he looks a million dollars. I don't get charging down the pitch this morning, especially when you have every shot in the book so it is allowed to wait for the bad balls.
Not much he could do about his nick. He did well to edge it, as they say, brilliant ball. |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 09:13 10 Jul 2025
I get your point, but as with Warbs there seem to be quite a few of us who think that the club have got rid of a good manager far too early. The reason people pined for Warbs for so long was the rubbish that followed after him. Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself. |
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Reply | Marti to Leicester…maybe
at 09:05 10 Jul 2025
I'm just worn down by bitter experience, but at the moment we're in that summer period of high hopes with a new manager, excellent looking young signings, youth development on the up, Dunne committing to us.....yet we all know there is a fair chance come Dec 20 with Marti in the opposition dugout that we're down in the depths and they have soared past us even starting on -12.
I sincerely hope that, for once, our optimism is actually justified. |
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