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Reply | Ben Williams is back
at 20:42 4 Jun 2025
Or Brooklyn Nets, after one of their worst seasons in their history for injuries, and, on one metric, apparently the team with the worst injury record in the NBA, sacked him…. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 20:09 4 Jun 2025
Quite. Protestantism in particular, a German export that one. And much more recent to these Isles than Catholicism. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 17:11 4 Jun 2025
They do. But the DOF they report to is usually somewhat more experienced than our fella. And, often a lot more personable. Have a feeling that will be putting a lot of them off. They will actually have to meet him before accepting the role… |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 21:17 3 Jun 2025
Struggled at Watford, mind, who didn’t think that well of him.
I’m not sure about Edwards. I’m not actually sure why.
Carrick is a weird one too. Can’t help but feel he has underdelivered at Boro. At the same time, he’s been around in this league for a while and I think he has something about him.
I’m not sure either of them are better than Cifuentes mind. But we’ll need to move on from that.
Whoever ends up in the role, it needs to go well for them (and Nourry) quite quickly. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 15:29 1 Jun 2025
Would be surprised if many of them made it at Champ level. We’ve just released the captain, and the tricky wingers last loan was Hanwell Town. One hell of a leap! |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 08:59 1 Jun 2025
Did said player also tell you the sky is blue and the grass green? 
I’m not sure how much evidence some people want to accept Nourry knows very little about football. He was a recruitment consultant two years ago. He wasn’t even interested in football at Uni according to someone who knew him from there.
I have no problem with data playing a role in football. I think it should, but I think there should be a balance. Nourry in Belk’s role, reporting to a genuine DOF, who reports to a CEO might make some sense. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 00:53 1 Jun 2025
But how do we do our business without a head coach in place to have input on the business being done?! How do we know they’re players the HC will want to play?!
Nourry has said it’s Belk, the Head Coach, and him, as DOF, who have input into signings. Surely we can’t make any decisions without an head coach in place…unless he was lying?
And if we do business without a head coach, it means this business is led and controlled by a 28 yr old with about 4 years experience in the game. 18 months with us, 12 months auditing us, and a prior year in non-playing staff recruitment for a 3 man band outfit.
Isn’t that a bit ludicrous?
Either the head coach has input, in which case we’ve put ourselves in a state of paralysis. Or they don’t, and we’re led by a 28yr old novice/charlatan (delete as you see fit).
Neither of these are good. |
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Reply | Is the club locked into playing 4-2-3-1?
at 14:09 23 May 2025
We haven’t played 4231 this season.
We have played 4141 or 433 for almost the entire season.
Our good run came playing 4141 with Varane the holding midfielder, a Field and Morgan as box to box “8”s with the wingers alongside them (Smyth and Saito/Chair).
Earlier in the season we played this system but with Madsen and Andersen playing as the “8”s and Field holding…and Field was basically playing in midfield on his own as those two didn’t have the legs to do that role.
It has at times been a 433 with the wide players pushed on and the midfield 3 being less “box to box” and more conservative.
But we haven’t played the traditional 4231 much at all, to my eyes anyway. |
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Reply | End of Term Report 24/25 – Attack
at 07:43 23 May 2025
Surely the best suited two would be Frey and Kelman. A true big man, little man combo from days or yore. Frey would soften everyone up for him and do the hold up work allowing Kelman to play on the shoulder. Less risk of the ball coming straight back too. |
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Reply | charlieB
at 09:32 22 May 2025
Been travelling a bit? |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne
at 09:38 20 May 2025
We don’t. Everyone has an agenda. That’s why journalists typically sourced information from at least two different places. It’s why police want two accounts/pieces of evidence to corroborate something.
There are multiple sources saying the same thing…have been all season. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 09:35 20 May 2025
Nourry and Hoos are adamant that out injuries this season are only “mid table” for the league.
Nourry walked out of LR at one of the last home games repeating this message to fans.
Obviously, the question I’d love to be asked is: “how are your measuring that?” Number of games missed by squad players? Number of injuries overall? What about weighting the games missed to first teamers and back ups? And what about training sessions missed; it’s not only about games. Finally, where are you getting the data for the rest of the league from?
Without answers here, it’s just BS being flung around. We all follow the club closely. We know injuries have been bad this season. Perhaps not dreadful or the worst ever. But bad. And made worse by the quality and depth of the squad assembled. I still think Cifuentes did a remarkable job with it.
The club must resolve the Ben Williams issue. You cannot set standards, create a professional culture, and improve the fitness of the team with the Head of Fitness (Performance, fine) being based remote in Dubai. I cannot fathom how Nourry and Hoos cannot see this. It’s not about whether he can do his role from a laptop; it’s about perception, standards, and professionalism. That needs sorting almost as much as a new Head Coach; it’s that ridiculous in my book. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 00:01 20 May 2025
That isn’t true though. I said if he can win over the council, that is great. I’ve praised some of the signings. I agreed it was time to move on some of the legacy people in the academy set up. And I have welcomed some of the contract renewals under his watch.
But yes, overall, I don’t trust him, don’t think he displays any leadership traits, think he has outright lied to the fanbase since being in post, think he misled everyone about his career background to get the role, know he does business in a manner lacking integrity, think he is in it for himself and is ultimately a narcissist now concocting a social media agenda to manipulate fans similar to that which Paladini attempted.
That doesn’t mean he won’t be successful, mind. If the club succeeds under his watch, I’ll hold my nose and very much welcome it. But I am worried. I am concerned. That is allowed, isn’t it? |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 23:48 19 May 2025
Some of us predicted this course of events months ago.
Hoos and Nourry have wanted him out for a while. They were bold enough to push him. They have now made a rod for their backs and we all need to hope things start very well for the new guy otherwise it’ll all get very toxic quite quickly. |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne
at 23:45 19 May 2025
Ah, okay. Well, you can safely assume that’s nonsense then. Or a line being peddled by the club.
Cifuentes and Dunne were quite close from what I understand. Certainly looked that way at FT after games. Might it be the deal he had has fallen through for some reason, the option has emerged to re-sign him, and someone at the club is using this as an opportunity to present pure correlation as causation to the naive girls and boys on social media?
I’m a cynic. Guilty. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 22:05 19 May 2025
Not entirely true. A contract of employment is a contract between two parties: the employer and employee. Clauses in there put obligations on both parties. An employer is also bound by employment law, which is all designed to protect the employee. To terminate an employee’s employment in a way that contravenes employment law requires a settlement agreement, which means paying more than the notice. Speaking (just speaking) to other employers is not, to my knowledge, a breach of any employment contract, because it would be against employment law to prevent it, I believe. |
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