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Reply | Hull 0 QPR 3
at 20:36 14 Aug 2025
I remember the local radio reporter giving the updates on 5Live complaining what an injustice it was that the better team had lost. |
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Reply | Songs for Kone
at 11:31 14 Aug 2025
Making his QPR debut, Chesney Hawkes!
We’ve got Richard Kone
If you score two, we’re scoring three |
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Reply | Foxes vs Owls
at 17:34 10 Aug 2025
Leicester fans hated Maresca’s style despite promotion for that reason. |
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Reply | Who did you nearly support…?
at 12:20 10 Aug 2025
I was an armchair Leeds fan in the 70s, but when my mum allowed me to go to games on my own from 1979, I first used to go to Brentford with some of my school friends (in Ealing). I loved the games but it was a real shag to get there from Dollis Hill so I tagged along to Loftus Road with some Rangers supporters and it very quickly became home. Still have a soft spot for Brentford, despite how they feel about us. |
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Reply | Knob End Match Fred
at 23:15 9 Aug 2025
I thought Preston were mostly up his wing, based on tape of the Paal-Madsen-Dembélé softness at the end of last season. Route one for them seemed to be a diagonal to Small (26) but Esquerdinha coped well. Chair got frustrated with his use of the ball, but early days. [Post edited 9 Aug 23:25]
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Thread | Preston’s keeper
at 23:05 9 Aug 2025
Really took charge of Dembélé’s cramp, I thought he was going to call for the paddles. Is he a Doctor?
Never seen that before. |
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Reply | Knob End Match Fred
at 22:10 9 Aug 2025
I felt a little for Walsh, he’s been a good shot stopper in his few appearances to date, but apart from claiming the header back late in the game he had no chance to make up for being chipped…but then Nardi was being beaten by unstoppable goals early last season while having no saves to make too. But the breakdown with the ball at his feet at about 20 mins was painful to watch.
Strange early season game. We didn’t lose, but we won’t play many weaker teams. I doubt Hull will be one without a further financial meltdown. Morgan was surprisingly decent at fullback, but Mbengue was more convincing there than he was at centre back - I was cursing the Lino at first, but they can’t all have been offside, I suspect he was charging ahead of the others. Celar showed nice touches, but isn’t fast or aggressive enough for this league. Burnell was electric chasing but I don’t remember him having the ball at his feet…but he’d surely draw back two or three players out of our box if he stood on halfway when we’re defending corners. Madsen was good in the first half when we dominated possession, vanished in the second when we didn’t, Field probably wanted to disappear a couple of times in the second. Do we have to wait for November again to know who we are?
Clear positives - Dembélé’s best game for us by far, hope he’s not too badly hurt, Morrison very good again, Esquerdinha looks an upgrade on Larkeche at least. [Post edited 9 Aug 22:21]
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Reply | Dolphins v Roosters
at 11:02 9 Aug 2025
After 27 rounds, it’s going to be a Panthers-Storm final again, isn’t it? Where are the Roosters doubters now? Nice night in Sydney again… |
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Reply | QPR: The Modern Circus of West London – Column
at 10:58 5 Aug 2025
Great article. For a club that is so identified with a single area, we have played in a lot of different places - Wiki records 13, including Park Royal for 8 years, as well as The Gun Club (not CBGBs?) and the Horse Ring, wherever they were.
I think the recent crises section might have included the disastrous Chris Wright era, which included merger with a now defunct rugby club, asset-stripping of the training ground, talk of a super stadium in Iver (me neither) and at its disastrous close, plans to merge with Wimbledon and move to Milton Keynes. Another linked thread is how our perils were shared and woven in with our neighbours'. I'm not sure where Jim Gregory proposed playing the merged/absorbed QPR-Brentford, but I know that Fulham fans feared that Fayed's plan A was moving their club to W12 to facilitate "flats on the Cottage". Would either identity have survived that?
Anyway, anxiety is meat and drink to a Rangers fan, so ahead of another perilous-looking season, lets be grateful that despite everything, we are still, "Shit, but local". |
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