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Reply | Coventry
at 19:29 7 Oct 2025
It seems I have to apologise for being lazy suggesting the three relegated teams will be in the promotion picture at the end of the season. Maybe their starts are not brilliant albeit Ipswich are unbeaten in five and Leicester are third. The general standard of teams is not great so having financial clout will help particularly in the January transfer window if the clubs with money are not where they want to be.
With 37 games to go an awful lot will happen over the coming months. Birmingham may be below us but on Saturday morning they were above us so it is very tight for now. As for Wrexham their away form is good. Their problems lie in not winning at home which we know only too well. Anyway none of this has much to do with Frank Lampard's Coventry and this thread. [Post edited 7 Oct 19:38]
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Reply | Coventry
at 14:28 7 Oct 2025
Absolutely agree with you. I would like Lampard as our manager. To hell with his Chelsea connection he is a winner. Having won Champions League and Premier League titles as a player the man knows what it takes to achieve success. Lest people forget, Dave Sexton had been at Chelsea before he oversaw our best ever team and we have had good players who previously played for Chelsea.
Lampard has made Coventry an ever better team with an attack attitude. To win consecutive away games 4-0 and 5-0 a few days apart is excellent. When do we win like that at the New Den or Hillsborough? For a team with just 5 wins it is some stat to have a plus 20 GD.
Whether it will last is another matter as the parachute teams Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton are likely to be in the mix at the end of the season so too early to say if Lampard can keep them playing attacking football. |
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Reply | Shipshape and Bristol Fashion Match Thread
at 18:11 4 Oct 2025
Bit harsh on Coventry to include them in the poor teams category. Won all their games this week on an aggregate score of 12-0 and already have a plus 20 GD. I agree with the rest of your post but we should be third but chose to make life difficult for ourselves against Oxford |
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Reply | In The Play Offs.
at 17:59 4 Oct 2025
We would be third if we had done the job against Oxford which we should have done. Oh well very satisfied with today's result after a fairly inept first half. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 14:58 4 Oct 2025
Three games in a week for Coventry. Won all three, scored 12, conceded none. No issues about rotating the squad for them. Looks to be a huge gulf between us and Coventry and not just because they stuffed us. Wednesday's one goal and point against us is all they have achieved at Hillsborough so far. Then we can't beat league 1 standard Oxford at home so a lot of work still to be done with our squad. |
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Reply | Overtaking National Express coaches – Report
at 21:39 3 Oct 2025
Top quality report as ever and summed up better than I could ever put it.
The frustrating thing is we should have played the strongest team to beat Oxford and at least have 4 points for the week. It seemed we had more of an eye on Bristol than on Oxford looking at the team selection. If we lose tomorrow then 2 points from 9 is a poor return. We all know when we make wholesale changes to the team for cup games we invariably lose which is why so many lower league teams knock us out.
In Wrexham's defeat to us, they identified their defence lacked pace and subsequently they have played defenders with more pace. So there we are facing Oxford at home and take all the pace out of the team and hey presto, we look useless in the final third and create absolutely nothing. Frey's shot on goal was described by Sky as our best chance of the game. I would not consider a 25 yarder by Frey as even a chance to score.
In true QPR tradition we played two teams in the bottom 3 and didn't win and looked reasonably lousy in both. Quality in our squad is still in short supply but at least we have some pace now.
I think we only had one shot on goal at Bristol last season and escaped with a point. Bristol are unpredictable like us so you can't be sure what to expect from them. They won 3-0 at Wednesday while we laboured to a draw but then lost at home to Oxford so one expects they will play better against us. |
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Reply | Players Performance assessed by television viewers as against fans at the game.
at 20:47 3 Oct 2025
Perhaps the tv commentary has an influence which you don't get at the game. Generally those who describe the action on tv say who they think has been good and those not having such a good day. People at the game don't get led what to think by commentary so not surprising they view it differently. |
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Reply | M40 pile up Witnail and I edition - Qpr vs Oxford Match Thread
at 22:56 1 Oct 2025
Have to agree with this. The commentator at the Sheffield game made a point about us having the worst record of results in 3 game weeks in the Championship. There is no doubt in my mind the manager is aware of this and made changes tonight as Oxford the weakest opponent of the week. As a result we got a feeble footie game that would have Sky viewers cancelling their subscriptions.
Messrs Warnock and Mackie were bored by our showing. Neither could understand why we made 5 changes when you can bring on 5 subs during the game. Like many of us, they believe we should play our strongest team in home games and go all out to win them and not worry about the next away game.
We forfeited a winnable game tonight to save players for Bristol. Warnock was rather critical of the manager then commenting that Bristol have an extra day to prepare which sounds like he is getting excuses in early if we don't win. He reckons comments like that should be kept between the coaching staff and not aired on tv for the players to hear as it's defeatist. I think he has a point and as the last manager to bring us any success his views carry some weight. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 22:29 30 Sep 2025
That was the third game already this season that Brum scored in stoppage time to gain bonus points. Might not be that good but they don't give up. |
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Reply | Ryder Cup Thread
at 23:11 29 Sep 2025
The Americans late fightback that just failed was similar to Borussia Munchengladbach trailing 6-0 to Eintracht Frankfurt at the weekend as the game ended 6-4 with a late fighback by the home team. Basically Frankfurt won the first half 5-0 and Gladbach won the second half 4-1. Totally bonkers. |
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Reply | A few of my favourite things – Report
at 13:42 29 Sep 2025
Not only did us suckers become the first team to concede at Hillsborough this season, but also it was Iorfa's first goal for over 12 months. You can always back us to help lame ducks. It would make a nice change if we did our homework on Wednesday as to how to play against them as they seem to do to us. Despite their struggles the last few years we never look like beating them. |
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Reply | Owl be seeing them in League One Sheff Wednesday Vs QPR match Thread
at 17:52 27 Sep 2025
I thought with our forward line we might have had a go at them but it never happened. Bristol City went there a couple of weeks ago, attacked them from the off, and went in at half time 3-0 in front. In the end it is just relief we didn't lose but I notice Charlton have gone above us in the table as we didn't win today. Definitely need to play better against Oxford and Bristol. |
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Reply | Vale’s goal .
at 15:41 20 Sep 2025
Stoke lose to a Vale goal.
Bit of irony there and a headline for the match report can come from that. |
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Reply | The Big Match - ITV4
at 10:57 20 Sep 2025
I still get annoyed about this game. Sexton left out Stan Bowles, a man who destroyed Derby a few months earlier, giving Derby's defence a huge boost. Derby were only second to us on goal average that day so w²e should have played our strongest team with Stan to open up their defence. |
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Reply | VILLAREAL
at 22:08 16 Sep 2025
Didn't see it. Watched Juventus v Dortmund. 0-0 half time which became 4-4 at full time. Don't recall a second half quite like it. |
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Reply | Wrex-iting for all the wrong reasons, its a Deadpool...Wrexham Vs QPR thread
at 17:47 13 Sep 2025
Excellent win and a perfect reaction to the mauling at Coventry. I did feel this was a bigger test than Charlton and how we would react after the previous away horror show.
Typically Cov had 28 shots today and needed a 97th minute goal to save a point. Against us every shot on target found the net... |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 17:31 13 Sep 2025
It is a great tragedy we don't play the Blades now. You can guarantee they will have changed their manager and will be moving up the table by the time we meet.
Still we soon have Wednesday who have been poor too but will we play like the last two games or gift them their first win of the season rediscovering our charitable status? |
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Reply | Eliminator Playoffs
at 17:23 13 Sep 2025
The problem with this is the gulf between the Premiership and our league. If by some fluke a side that finishes 8th does win the play offs they will be annihilated the following season. Look how badly Sheffield Utd and Southampton did and they were around the automatic promotion places when they went up. |
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