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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 12:39 31 Aug 2025
"Sign him and we’re a centre mid away from a promotion capable team."
Very true, provided that centre midfielder was Roy Keane in his prime.
Love being a QPR fan, inside one week we've gone from being 6-0 down after 47 mins to threatening the top echelons after a hard-fought home win against one of the relegation favourites. Kone's turned into a cross between Van Basten, Ferdinand, Austin and Shearer, Saito is De Bruyne and Mbengue the next Danny Maddix.
Must admit, I prefer the optimistic route. It's more fun.
Who knows what Wrexham away will bring? :-) |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 07:48 31 Aug 2025
I think this is the point, isn't it? I mean, it's Edwards so you think that getting him can only be a good thing - but on a practical nature, we've got Morrison, Mbengue, JCS, Cook, Dunne...I am not sure how it can be justified when we need elsewhere?
Having said that, I though the same about Saito - and now I don't so much! |
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Reply | Just back
at 17:48 30 Aug 2025
Yeah I thought Morrison did OK but Mbengue, as lovable as he is, did some bizarre play on occasions and although I detest Nathan Jones with a passion, many referees would have given him a second yellow. I don't understand Field being left out, very harsh in my opinion.
A fully fit Varane is going to make an impact this season, though, if we keep him. |
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Reply | Kone MOM?
at 15:19 30 Aug 2025
Cripes, thought Kone looked good and a breath of fresh air, but we've gone early on this board today... £20m here and better than Austin mk 1 on another thread!
Let's let him breathe for a bit :-).
Lovely win today, much better. |
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Reply | Owners OUT, Nourry OUT
at 07:56 24 Aug 2025
Whoops downvoted original post by mistake, sorry. Totally embarrassing yesterday and it has been coming. Makes the cup toss off even more unforgivable and inexplicable. Still, Kone may have added to his sell on value so project still on track. [Post edited 24 Aug 7:57]
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Reply | Coventry roll call
at 17:46 21 Aug 2025
Maybe lots of people are saving their money so they can go in three years' time when all the future plans will have come to fruition? I mean, as apparently results don't matter at the moment, what's the point in going? |
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Reply | Eze
at 11:22 21 Aug 2025
Or when we spend £8m bringing Nakhi Wells in from Luton, paid upfront in full? May give us a clue. |
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Reply | Eze
at 11:03 21 Aug 2025
Yes. What makes me even more nervous is that he is such a good guy and he is no doubt desperate to prove to Palace fans that he is giving everything. Whereas most other footballers would stroll around and get themself subbed off as soon as possible, he won't be.
Argh. |
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Reply | Football Manager 1982
at 12:57 18 Aug 2025
Absolutely loved the Spectrum version. With the highlights coming on hoping there would be just one more chance / sequence appear if you needed a goal, or not if you were ahead. Genius. [Post edited 18 Aug 12:57]
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Reply | Just back - Watford reflections
at 09:38 18 Aug 2025
But it isn't to do with not being able to accept losing at Watford is it? It's a culmination of years and years of underachieving, surely. The club and players can't always get a free pass and those who turn up week in, week out - eventually will show their discontent if things don't improve.
I know it is week 2, new manager - but there is always something. Always some excuse, injuries, opposition, youth, future planning. At some point extremely soon, we need to see some tangible results. |
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Reply | Just back - Watford reflections
at 20:26 17 Aug 2025
I don't get this "you have an agenda" business as I only care about QPR winning games, literally nothing else. I know nothing else, I am afraid. And we ain't winning.
It fascinates me that as a fellow R you can think any evidence "very thin" about Tuesday's team selection, which was to me one of the biggest slap in the faces as a fan you can have. Injuries, my backside. Fatigue on Saturday? Embarrassing.
Eze's time was "glorious years"? Eh? Who do you think we are, Wycombe Wanderers?
Anyway. agree to disagree. |
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Reply | Just back - Watford reflections
at 10:34 17 Aug 2025
So I am not allowed to enquire without having some sort of agenda?
I'm just a fan, have absolutely no inside knowledge whatsoever. I am entitled to have a brain of my own and I never believed that Marti was forced to pick a certain team. I also find it hard to believe what some have claimed that Stephan isn't having a free rein on the side either. However, employing my brain cell on the team selections for Tuesday and Saturday it does seem fair to raise doubts. Is that allowed? That or Stephan has the same managerial aptitude as Ainsworth.
What I am saying is that I am fed up of QPR's losing mentality all round. I am fed up of us morphing into a club where we are meant to get excited about selling players at a profit. I am fed up of us throwing away cup ties, of being a soft touch on the road. And at home, come to that. Of team selections that make no sense even to a tactical dunce like me.
I wasn't there yesterday, but some are saying the discontent is arriving. Well, if we get stuffed at Coventry and Kelman bares his arse at the loft having scored the winner for Charlton, that would mean the fans are going to get seriously irritated. I will be. But at who? That's my point. Maybe I will just have a go at all of them, the owners, Nourry, Stephan, Jude the Cat. Because I don't really know what is going on.
I don't understand this game model and performance managers and stuff. Seems to me if it goes well people say that was down to me and if it doesn't it was down to someone else. [Post edited 17 Aug 10:36]
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Reply | Just back - Watford reflections
at 09:49 17 Aug 2025
Hang on - I'm not saying he is picking the team for Stephan. I am saying I don't quite understand who is picking what or deciding what.
In the old days, I would be heavily critical of Stephan's team selections for Tuesday and yesterday. All I am saying is I am not absolutely sure who is driving what so I don't know who to be worried about.
I would like to think you are right in your confidence it is the manager. But then, pretty poor from the manager so far - let's hope he works it out fast. And he fibbed about how much homework he had done. |
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Reply | Just back - Watford reflections
at 09:38 17 Aug 2025
What I can't get my head around is if the manager has to do what the CEO / DofF tells him to do (I presume no-one knows this for certain, but the team selection on Tuesday and picking Madsen in that midfield today would perhaps indicate otherwise) then OK, I understand that is the game model and the modern way. I don't like it as an old fart, but I can see what the overall idea is.
I would be concerned enough as it is, but could let it go, if that was being driven by a chief that was Mark Warburton or Steve Gallen or some such experienced football luminary. But if this is being driven by someone with literally zero experience of managing teams, seems inexplicable to me. Or does this where de Souza (?) etc etc come in? I don't understand how it all works.
I would love someone at the club, honestly, tell us why the Tuesday selection was made and why a manager who has allegedly done his homework and watched our entire last season can think picking that midfield away at Watford is the right thing to do. I am not a tactics man but even I posted on seeing the teamsheet that the midfield doesn't work.
Fair enough if it was the manager's sole decision and mistake. Fair enough (if inexplicable) if it was driven from above. I would just like to know. Because then the manager's "fatigue" post-match comment could lead to all sorts of questions being posed at the right people. |
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Reply | The ‘project’…please enlighten me?
at 10:11 16 Aug 2025
Totally fair. Completely understand. I don't think everyone's views are quite as entrenched as we fear. The doom mongers don't want things to go wrong, they just fear they will. The optimists don't know for certain things are going to go right, but there are some green shoots. I think it all depends how much supporting this club has chipped off you! |
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Reply | “Offender” chant
at 08:13 16 Aug 2025
Too true, I've said it before on here. How anyone can sing in a sexualised fashion about female body parts when there are quite a few young girls around them is completely beyond me. It's almost like they are saying "this is still a grown up man's domain like the 80s, and it will forever remain so". I've been next to people singing it...with their daughter alongside. I just don't get it.
It needs to be self-policed, it's a good tune otherwise so just change the two words. That's not woke, it's common decency, surely? |
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Reply | The ‘project’…please enlighten me?
at 07:49 16 Aug 2025
Totally agree. This thread and board gets accused of being overly negative. I'd say it was more wary than negative. Everyone's excited about Kone, Burrell, Poku. All I am saying is that I've been excited about Mutch, Cousins, Caulker, Samba, Dykes, Bonne in just the same way. Even Celar and his YouTube videos. I'm not going to come on here and declare we've made great signings and are #cooking until I've seen how they do for six months. That doesn't mean I will react with great glee if it goes wrong. Why would I do that?
I may be a long-standing QPR fan but I am not a massive football fan. I don't care much for tactics or even understand them really. The only bit I skim on this site is Greg's no doubt excellent analysis of players. I don't have any feel for it. All I ever care about is QPR winning and QPR doing well. It's why I get so upset when we throw away cup match after cup match and why I can't agree with people being so pleased with "how it's going". I just don't feel the same way until we start winning games, rising up the league, having a cup run. That's what matters to me. I don't care about selling players at a profit. How do we know what that profit is going to do for us in the long run? It's like resting players for the cup - I never see any of these benefits or "good reasons" I am told about coming to fruition. We rested at Leicester, nearly sold Jimmy Dunne the next week, then Marti ends up managing them. What's the benefit of all this stuff? I've heard all this long-term stuff before. I'm not stupid, of course it makes sense. But we've heard it before, done it before and it's been abandoned or forgotten about. I loved seeing Eze play for us, I didn't jump up and down and celebrate the £18m sale.
I want tangible results, things that mean I travel home at 5pm on a Saturday from a match with 3 points in the boot and a hat-trick from Kone. Then I will be posting on here with an optimistic and joyous outlook.
But for now? Nothing has happened yet, we've looked pretty poor in the 180 minutes we've played and have gone out of one of the three competitions we enter. So what am I meant to be congratulating? [Post edited 16 Aug 9:01]
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Reply | The ‘project’…please enlighten me?
at 09:55 15 Aug 2025
I totally agree with you.
I get that the plan is something that should be followed and that we are now doing so. But to state confidently on the back of a couple of League One signings that all is looking good- I just don't get it. Of course I hope Burrell, Kone, Poku turn out to be as good as they seem to be. But how can we be so confident that it will? It hardly happens very often? As wombat says - we are QPR so......
If by Christmas we are solidly mid-table, winning some games and the signings are flourishing then I will join in with the bouquets and compliments. I will believe we are getting somewhere.
I just fear we are getting carried away on these "great signings" before seeing what wearing the hoops actually does to them?
As they say, 10,000 times bitten, twice shy. |
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Reply | Injuries......
at 09:28 15 Aug 2025
Now that is splendid news! |
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