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Reply | The ‘project’…please enlighten me?
at 22:10 25 Aug 2025
The BEST thing we could do on Saturday, especially against this Charlton, is to ditch playing out from goal kicks. Go long to Dunne on the right. Show some awareness and the ability to learn. Swallow your medicine and don’t play out out from our goal kicks. Everyone knows Charlton are a high press side; we will be the authors of our own downfall if we try it. Just don’t. Don’t be arrogant.
That would show Stephan has some flexibility with the game model. |
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Reply | Newcastle v Liverpool
at 22:06 25 Aug 2025
They’ve been shit all game, but that goal was something special. About 10 one or two touch passes at pace, in tight spaces in Newcastle’s half to create the one man advantage at the back post. Lovely finish from the kid. A goal that deserved to win a game, even if Liverpool didn’t. |
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Reply | Newcastle v Liverpool
at 21:58 25 Aug 2025
I think this is the direction football is going in my view. The next age after the Pep age. Physical and direct.
All these Championship clubs trying Guardiola lite are behind an aging trend.
This is the problem with AI and Data, both focus entirely on what has happened before. |
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Reply | Saito signs
at 21:54 25 Aug 2025
You don’t like Nourry’s cooking here?
And you think he appointed a bad head coach, who was at fault for the hammering we took on Sat?
You are full of surprises. [Post edited 25 Aug 22:13]
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Reply | Isaac Hayden
at 13:05 25 Aug 2025
Pull that emergency zip chord!
Needed. Good signing. Been available all summer, mind. |
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Reply | Protesting together
at 12:12 24 Aug 2025
Dear Lord.
Once again, NO ONE disagrees with the idea of buying players low and selling them high to increase our income and competitiveness season on season.
It is common sense. It is what most non-parachute payment clubs try to do. It is was what we trained to do under Les.
We’re all in on data to do this now, that’s the difference
But regardless, fine.
The issue is HOW you implement and execute such an approach.
It doesn’t matter who you sign if the squad is unfit, if standards are non-existent, if there is no culture of accountability, if the game model doesn’t work, if there is no self respect, and respect for the coach. The players we sign won’t deliver that huge increase in income when we sell them. And if we’re relegated in the meantime, they certainly won’t.
It’s not enough to simply have a plan to buy potential and sell it on in two years for more money.
There is a whole host of other things that require managing and leadership to enable that “selling high” as well as on field progression, which supports that sell high.
The way Nourry is trying to manage things through the infrastructure he has put in is not working.
It’s all that stuff that Nourry is miles out of his depth on and is simply not being happening at the club. |
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Reply | Andy Sinton
at 11:10 24 Aug 2025
Yep, one of the very few good things about our football club. A top man. Get well soon, Sints. |
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Reply | Julien Stéphan
at 11:09 24 Aug 2025
It really isn’t speculation, but believe that if you want to. Ignorance is bliss. |
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Reply | Protesting together
at 10:23 24 Aug 2025
He was a hell of a lot more qualified for being DOF, given he’d been a top player, a first team coach at a Prem club, and had done all his coaching badges, plus a football manager/administrator course run by the FA. Granted we were his first rodeo, mind.
Nourry was a recruitment consultant for non-playing roles in football for 1-2 years. Prior to that ran a social media advisory firm with a handful of friends. Before that he was at Imperial. And this is first rodeo too.
But the comparison is irrelevant anyway. It’s not Nourry or Les. It’s Nourry or anyone else we could get in to do the DOF role. We could have had Steve Gallen if we wanted. |
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Reply | Owners OUT, Nourry OUT
at 09:40 24 Aug 2025
I don’t think they are remotely physically ready to compete at the minute. Speed, strength, stamina…all shocking. The fact it seems to be across the board makes it clear it’s a Williams issue. We’re sending the team out miles undercooked. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 09:37 24 Aug 2025
Excellent post.
I’ll say it again, players don’t increase in value if they are playing for a bad team getting battered regularly. And they certainly don’t increase in value sitting on the bench. Kelman increased in value because another club played him and improved his all round game. Their coaches, their fitness guys, them…not us.
Dembele has regressed since arriving. Nardi is certainly worth less now we’ve binned him off. Have Varane and Morrison improved much? Madsen and Celar haven’t. Why do we think Poku and Kone will improve?
You need to blood your high potential players into a stable environment with experienced pros around them, in a system everyone can execute competently, in order to maximise their development and ultimately their value.
And no one is worth a lot more if we are relegated. |
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Reply | We had a perfectly good manager in Marti…
at 09:21 24 Aug 2025
Marti did a good job at QPR. Not at outstanding one, but a good one. He had his faults but he parred the course last season when you look our playing budget and where we finished. The season he kept us up after Ainsworth, his PPG would have had us 9th on 66 points or something. That’s pretty decent with that squad!
But let’s move on.
The issue is not Marti (or Stephan).
The issue is Nourry and Ben Williams. They run the club. They run the playing side of the club. They run so much more than people seem to appreciate. Stephan is working with fitness levels Williams gives him, and the players he hasn’t injured. And he is following Nourry’s game model. He is simply coaching the first team it. He’s bibs, balls, and cones, as Clive said.
My worry is the players aren’t having Stephan because they don’t like Nourry and detest Williams, and don’t respect him for not doing more than just doing what Nourry says.
It feels like some of the senior pros are checked out. Either that or they are simply nowhere near physically ready. |
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Reply | What went so wrong today?
at 00:21 24 Aug 2025
1) a complete lack of fitness compared to other professional football clubs we come across, in terms of (as Brian broke down): speed, strength, stamina. Williams needs firing and we need someone else in.
2) playing out from the back: our players are not fit enough, not well drilled enough, and possibly not technically good enough to execute it…and our goalkeeper certainly isn’t. Forget the game model, go back to normal goal kicks and competing for the first and second ball around the half way line. Play from there. Cifuentes had to, and so will Stephan.
I think those two are by far our bigger issues at present. [Post edited 24 Aug 9:58]
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Reply | Fitness
at 23:18 23 Aug 2025
See my post on Williams earlier in the week… |
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Reply | Drop Walsh
at 20:43 23 Aug 2025
The decision was made before pre-season began, Aston. Certainly within the first week. Make up your mind if that was the new head coach not even wanting to have a look at last season’s number 1. |
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Reply | Owners OUT, Nourry OUT
at 20:40 23 Aug 2025
Yeah, I don’t think today has any relation to Cifuentes.
However, I do believe the players detest Nourry and Williams. I’m pretty sure the latter is true based on what I’d heard about the cycling idiot. And those two come as a pair, thick as thieves, so it would make sense.
There is something off with the dressing room and attitude. You don’t get bummed in the gob 7-1 to a side on a very similar budget to you, and there not be.
Remember Mel Johnson’s son is the Head of Recruitment at Coventry? Mel wasn’t overly flattering about the direction Nourry was taking the club and was at pains to say his son balances the approach a lot more… |
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Reply | Owners OUT, Nourry OUT
at 19:46 23 Aug 2025
Absolutely.
If you want the big job, the power, the pay check, you are accountable and you need to be comfortable being held accountable. |
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