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Reply | Their Thread
at 12:44 5 Oct 2025
Stayed in Bristol for the night - love the place. Talked to some pretty fair minded City fans about the game. They felt that both teams are mid table ability wise but thought the difference was our pair up front. They were seriously impressed by Burrell. One thing we agreed on was their ability to get behind our full-backs but their strange reluctance to do much one they got there. I was seriously worried on occasion, but their final ball or lack of it was noticeable. |
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Reply | Stephan stands by team selection after QPR draw and gives Clarke-Salter update
at 09:17 3 Oct 2025
I’m going to give the manager the benefit of the doubt. I really liked Marti, and was a bit of a fanboy, but hindsight (I know) suggests that he had 2 modes - 1 the mode he really aspired to, lots of quick, technical players playing very progressive football, the other the very stodgy hard working midfield 3 (any of Varanne, Field, Colback and Morgan) - gave us results and the odd performance but could be a hard watch.
I think Stephane is trying to find a better balance (with in fairness an improved squad) -Progressive if he can, I think his use of Madsen is a good case in point, but has also been pragmatic with moving away from the pissballing at the back.
Can I also add that his desire to rotate the squad seems entirely in keeping with a desire to a) test out a few theories b) keep the whole squad motivated and c) not overload players. |
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Reply | RND
at 12:36 2 Oct 2025
Yes, I also thought that. What was odd was that in the first half, their winger tried to take him on from quite far out and RND completely took him for pace. Might be a case of he hasn’t got the pace from a standing start, or possibly not (yet) confident enough to really go for it |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 09:12 31 Aug 2025
In all of the post-game chat, no one seems to have mentioned that although Morrison and Mbengue were Ok on the ground, they got pretty much beasted in the air by Leaburn. A lot of our ‘midfield’ problems stemmed from the second ball from those knock-downs. I did wonder whether moving Dunne into the middle just to compete against him might have helped, but I can see teams targeting us if that’s our central pairing |
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Thread | More travel advice requested
at 09:09 27 Aug 2025
Apologies - non Rs related..
Me and the Mrs are travelling to Northern Spain in 2 weeks. Train straight down to San Sebastián, then following the coast using local trains. Have got Bilbao / Santander / Ferrol / Gijon / Pravia / A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela on the itinerary so far - nothing set in stone. Any other reccomendations (or suggestions for removal)? |
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Reply | Books
at 18:13 26 Aug 2025
Just finished Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan. Found it really compelling on how power seems to work in London. If only some of it is accurate it’s worrying |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 14:55 26 Aug 2025
Just finished watching. The end is mad |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 11:06 26 Aug 2025
Loved the first series. Even better that a lot of the cast of Spiral and Braquo were in it! |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 11:03 26 Aug 2025
Riviere Perdue is a good recommendation. Binge watched the first 4 episodes and really enjoying it. just seen that Dark Hearts is coming back for a second season. [Post edited 26 Aug 11:04]
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Reply | Isaac Hayden
at 15:42 25 Aug 2025
Not sure your last sentence is in any way justified |
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Reply | Where in the world? Non QPR
at 22:24 22 Aug 2025
Quite a few Hampton R/s on here. I play Vets and walking football for Hampton Rangers - any of you get down there?
Live in Esher - long way from Acton where it started
Likes - Easy access to countryside, very safe, good pubs (Albert arms in particular)
Dislikes - about as middle class as it gets |
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Thread | Analytics
at 15:39 14 Aug 2025
Can anyone explain how you get a competitive advantage out of this? I presume that everybody is using some form of analytics for recruitment? I imagine that a few (e.g. Brighton and Brentford through their betting company owners) have more / better data, but for all of the others, is it simply a case of having better analysts to interpret the data? In the old days, a scouting system presumably depended on trusted scouts with a track record of finding players - what drives the advantage today? |
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Reply | Le Shrugs thoughts post Plymouth stuffing.
at 14:42 13 Aug 2025
As I posted on another thread ‘ Special in French would mean Weird, so I don’t think there’s much need to take this literally. ‘Il est un peu special’ would translate as ‘he’s a bit strange’ |
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Reply | Who was this disaster down to tonight....
at 12:25 13 Aug 2025
I don’t know if this helps - but when the manager says ‘it’s a bit special’, this is probably one of those french expresssions that doesn’t translate. ‘C’était un peu special’ would mean ‘it was a bit strange’. And not in a good way |
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Reply | Average age today
at 10:26 10 Aug 2025
It’s OK Bazza, I think your view probably reflects that of a large number of supporters. It’s quite possible to feel that there’s something not quite right about the way CN acts, yet also feel very positive about some of the things being done, particularly youth. The 2 positions are not mutually exclusive.
I have to say that I thought there was a lot to enjoy about some of the football we played, with all the usual caveats |
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Reply | Eze
at 12:39 7 Aug 2025
with Maddison now our for the season, think Spurs might go for him. |
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Reply | Source (credibility) effect
at 13:06 3 Jul 2025
He’s a good example of how you monetize misogyny and racism. Straight out of the Tommy Robinson playbook. If you can find me an example of this so-called complexity that isn’t pseudo-intellectual bullshit, I’m all ears |
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Reply | How optimistic are you now?
at 15:12 30 Jun 2025
As with every pre-season, and I’m sure most club supporters feel this, looks optimistic on paper. As ever, we’ll have to see how it matches up with reality. I’ve always been in the ‘why are we getting rid of the manager so soon?’ Camp, but am cautiously optimistic/ foolishly optimistic on Julien Stephan. I do like what seems to lie behind our recruitment so far - if we keep Kelman we’ll have 2 players that made the L1 team of the year, which is what we should have been doing for a while now. Think the first 6-8 games are key - solid start and I think we could be a surprise package - slow start and I think we could really struggle.
So I don’t know really. |
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