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Reply | Angus Gunn charged by FA
at 18:58 17 Dec 2024
We're like the Damned. "I can't afford a Cannon / I can't afford no Gunn at all." |
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Reply | Russell Martin
at 16:32 12 Dec 2024
It was Clive's theory about Kompany at Burnley, which I think holds water there, given he was never going to stay long. He just wanted a stepping stone. I don't think it's necessarily the case with everyone, though. I think it's more that we've entered an age of managers as coaching brands, instead of personality brands – now they're selling their theories rather than their charisma. Lots and lots of them are all about "never sacrificing our principles" now, so they kind of have to stick by them or accept you're another hack manager who'll do anything to scrape mid-table. (Even Ainsworth was a brand in his own way. He certainly didn't have a Plan B.)
And it's not as though Russell Martin is in with the slightest shot at Liverpool/Arsenal/City/Chelsea/United or even Spurs/Villa/Newcastle. And certainly the managers taking the same line lower down the leagues aren't in any danger of attracting attention from further up unless they're actually winning games, as well as encouraging a 38-pass move between the goalie and two central defenders within their own box from every goal kick. [Post edited 12 Dec 16:33]
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Reply | Patient stabilised but home win still proves elusive - Report
at 13:07 4 Nov 2024
I know we're all down on Madsen and Celar, but I thought both were genuinely good on Saturday. Celar missed the chance, but he seemed to me to have a good all round game, and Madsen did some lovely things, especially in close quarters and with long passing. |
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Reply | Fans Forum 30/09/24
at 14:27 25 Sep 2024
As a journalist, who deals a lot with PRs, reasons MC shouldn't do events like this (from the club's point of view)
1/ He has said uncomfortable things in postmatch interviews. Fu*k knows what he might say with people who aren't following the normal interview rules.
2/ People who are not following normal interview rules will also ask the kind of questions that might irritate him ie Why are you playing out from the back instead of booting it long like what I like? You don't want a ratty manager.
3/ You don't want hostages to fortune, like "I will get us in the play offs." Or even worse, "If they'd bought me x player, I would guarantee you the play offs."
4/ One problem this club has had for years is different camps pursuing different agendas and putting out different messages – academy v first team; Les v owners; Les v management. Just putting one person forward at least means one message.
5/ Lots of the questions that would be aimed at MC - those regarding recruitment and contracts etc - are better aimed at CN anyway.
Reasons he should
1/ Honestly, it looks shit if he doesn't.
2/ QPR is already developing a bit of a paranoid PR problem.
And those are both increasingly serious. |
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Reply | Fans Forum 30/09/24
at 14:20 25 Sep 2024
Does that mean he's in charge of water pressure in the Ellerslie? |
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Reply | Hammersmith Apollo ticket help
at 22:12 10 Sep 2024
On Twickets, you can put them up for sale before you have them – increasingly, gig tickets are sent out electronically a day or so before the show. You get all your money back if they don't materialise. And you are put in direct touch with the seller, so they cant hide.
It's much the best of the resale sites. |
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Reply | Dynamic Pricing
at 22:36 2 Sep 2024
They would want it in football because the big clubs want to reduce the number of season ticket holders and make many more seats available to casual fans. There's massive revenue differential between an ST seat and a casual one. And dynamic pricing will make it bigger. |
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Reply | Loftus Road renovation/revamp
at 22:34 2 Sep 2024
1. Don't think moving a school to get a few extra seats in will win us many friends.
2. Who pays for building and equipping a whole new school? Think LBHF will be happy to pay? I don't. |
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Reply | Always Enjoy
at 11:30 29 Aug 2024
TBF That "anyone but them" was also the entire point of Clive's preview. Not sure I blame a Luton fan for feeling the same way. |
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Reply | Celar
at 12:47 28 Aug 2024
I thought Celar was subject to unfair criticism after Plymouth. He did miss his chances, but look how he managed to create them for himself – the one he blazed over, where he brought the ball down and turned fluently. That counts for more, for me, than one bounced in off his shin.
Thought he looked pretty good last night. Not amazing, but pretty good, and I hope he carries on getting better.
Varane looks to me he like he might be the passive Samba Diakité. One minute he's running the game. The next you can just tap him off the ball or watch him fall asleep in possession. Is that better or worse than going mental and getting sent off? |
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Reply | Jermaine jenas
at 02:58 23 Aug 2024
The whole point of good limericls is to set up the obvious payoff then avoid it. They're meant to be sacy, not anatomical. |
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Reply | Jermaine jenas
at 22:31 22 Aug 2024
There once was a pundit called Jenas
Whose texts were not known for their cleanness
A woman complained
That the image remanined
On her phone of – By God, have you seen this? |
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Reply | Luton HOME Carabo Cup now on Sale
at 14:45 20 Aug 2024
Typical QPR. Website says they're on sale. The ticketing site isn't selling them yet.
Edit: Sorry, the actual Ticketmaster bit is selling, but the ticketing page of the website does not yet have the clickthrough link. [Post edited 20 Aug 14:52]
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Reply | Longest number of years as a fan
at 15:19 13 Aug 2024
First game was autumn 77, when we lost 5-1 to Everton at LR, and Bob Latchford got a hat trick on his way to 30 goals. Can't really get more Rangers than that. |
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Reply | LFW Marti Sit Down
at 15:11 13 Aug 2024
In 34 years in journalism, I've never worked anywhere that gives copy approval. Not at any magazine – including when I edited FourFourTwo – or any newspaper. People think it happens all the time, but it really doesn't. [Post edited 13 Aug 15:11]
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 21:32 16 Jul 2024
All I want is for us to stay on exactly the same site, on the same footprint, in a 35,000-capacity stadium with room for 40,000 season ticket holders and 10,000 in hospitality. I want the stadium to have world class facilities, top-class bars with no beer costing more than a fiver. I want every seat to be reclining, with footrest, and fully sheltered, with no restricted views of any kind. I want the club to takeover and reopen Ocean Billy's like it used to be, and get Shepherds Bush overground station moved a bit north, so you can get out at the junction with South Africa Road.
I'd ask them to sort out the water pressure in the Ellerslie, too. But no point getting unrealistic. |
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Reply | Best ever QPR friendlies
at 00:28 30 Jun 2024
Can't believe no one's mentioned one game that was officially a friendly, but really (and quite obviously) the climax to a long and high-quality competition. That being when QPR beat Watford to secure our last major honour, the Dryworld Cup. Or the World Cup, for short. |
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Reply | Saturday - forget the negativity, let's just turn up and roar
at 17:38 14 Apr 2024
We're not a loud crowd, unless we're given something to cheer, and we haven't been given much to cheer for any sustained period for a long time – the best season we had for ages, we hardly saw any of it because of Covid. But getting behind the team does make a difference - you can't tell me the atmosphere at Loftus Road didn't make a difference in those five wins that kept us in the Premier League (Roseanne Cash daughter of Johnny, singer herself – went to the game against Arsenal, having been to the Emirates the week before, and said we were much louder than they had been, even in our tiny ground).
And getting behind the team is also more fun.
All that said, the reason for the atmosphere in those five wins was that the only one of those games we went behind in was the first one, against Liverpool, when the atmosphere was getting poisonous until the miracle comeback (remember Barton getting booed off the pitch?). But then we had ten minutes of the greatest atmosphere ever, and it never really let up. Clive was suggesting the other week that no one remembers the 3-0 win against Swansea. I do – not the specifics of the game, but us playing them off the park, and the atmosphere being one of jovial delight and no anxiety. I remember Ted Kessler tweeting after: "Tiki-taka that, you smug bastards."
So the team do need to not go 1-0 behind after 10 minutes and then spend the rest of the game playing as though the concept of the sphere has suddenly been erased from their mind, and understand that this nameless thing that travels towards them is subject to the laws of physics, and can be tamed. No one in their right mind is going to keep up the noise if they play like they are wont to do at times of maximum need and expectation. But if, and let me not be cursing us all, they can take the lead themselves and stay on the front foot, then they'll get the crowd behind them. I hope. [Post edited 14 Apr 18:21]
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