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Reply | It's the NFL..again.
at 12:34 8 Sep 2025
agree Neil Reynolds is excellent on Sky. As you say, he adds actual insight and analysis rather than just describing the play, He's also very skilled at getting the most out of the co-presenters.
I've been to a lot of games. Used to watch the Giants regularly when we lived over there (and Jets occasionally) and have been to games at Wembley and Tottenham. It's a different experience in London as a) you don't get the tailgating, which is a lot of fun and b) you get fans form lots of different teams there, unsurprisingly, so the atmosphere is quite different.
However, if you like the game and get a chance to go to one of the London games then I'd highly recommend it |
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Reply | Football's Financial Shame (BBC Documentary)
at 14:58 7 Sep 2025
I watched it and was pretty outraged by it. Brian Deane and Danny Murphy in particular come across as very hard done by.
I honestly don't know what the BBC's supposed narrative would be so I can't comment on that. It seemed like objective reporting to me. All sides were given the opportunity to participate in the programme |
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Reply | Summer Transfer Window - Patreon Podcast
at 22:49 5 Sep 2025
completely agree with this Brian. Really enjoyed the pod and I thought it was great to have Matt on there with some opposing views for discussion. But that bit really grated with me too. There is no way anyone could ever convince me that Nourry has/had more relevant experience than Les for a DOF role.
Whether he turns out to be more successful is a completely separate matter but sometimes you just have to call BS. |
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Reply | CONTRARY to FIRM BELIEF
at 00:41 31 Aug 2025
Great ‘use’ of single ‘quote marks’ in the OP. Is it David Baddiel’s ‘ mother’?
We should be told |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 12:28 28 Aug 2025
this is a tough one though I think - cos what else are they supposed to say? If you read my few posts on here you will see that I'm no fan of the current regime but this is not one of the areas I am critical of. Anyone with eyes and a brain can see things ain't sweetness and light currently, but I really don't see what else the club could or should do on the official website |
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Reply | We really should not be surprised
at 21:47 26 Aug 2025
maybe, maybe not. Perhaps we don't all understand the rules or etiquette of fan websites. If there's a handy pocket guide somewhere please point me in that direction. |
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Thread | We really should not be surprised
at 21:26 26 Aug 2025
If you hand the keys of a football club to a kid with zero relevant experience, why on earth would you expect it to go well?
No sane business person would make that call. But our beloved QPR have. There is no logic here. It is pure madness. The owners have ballsed this up to a level not seen before at Rangers - and that is really saying something. What we are seeing play out before us was predictable. Lamentable. Shameful. Embarrassing.
When will it end? It would be great not to be a laughing stock, even if just for a short while. |
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Reply | Coventry City 7 Queens Park Rangers 1 – Report
at 13:25 25 Aug 2025
Great report of a horrific performance Jamie - must've been tough to endure but your writing is excellent. Thanks for taking the time and the skill to produce that.
Best wishes to you Clive - I've enjoyed this site for years - from when I was living abroad as a great way to keep in touch with happenings at the club and now that I'm back here in the UK. Your writing is always insightful, knowledgable and frequently very funny - I'll miss it if you do step down on a more permanent basis. But as others have said, health is more important than anything else. And if some of this is down to nameless pr*cks on twitter then hopefully the support you get on here (not least on this thread) shows you how much you are appreciated , and is enough to outweigh any crap you get on that cesspit.
Best wishes |
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Reply | Ainsworth
at 22:23 20 Aug 2025
Have mentioned on here before but he lives locally to me and I see him around every now and then. He's always happy to have a chat - pub. gym, petrol station, whatever.
Saw him in a boozer about a week after he left us and he was very pragmatic, and recognised that the Rangers fans love him as a player/bloke, and that the managerial experience shouldn't tar his reputation with the fans.
I was gutted when he was appointed as our manager cos you could see exactly what would happen.
Really happy for him that it's working out at Gillingham. Top man (as he himself always says) |
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Reply | Julien Stephan - Word of warning
at 17:28 18 Aug 2025
I know this one has been done to death BUT......surely professional footballers should be able to handle 2 games a week? They most certainly could before Sky invented football.
Or has sports science, fitness, the pace of the game etc moved on so much that it's just not feasible for the players to play so frequently any more?
Binning off the cup to protect league status is a ludicrous idea for a club like QPR in the first place in my opinion - and it hasn't exactly worked well for us as a general rule.
Game's gone as many have said |
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Reply | Analytics
at 17:13 14 Aug 2025
I find this to be a bit of dilemma tbh, not least cos most of my career has been in data, analytics etc and the old adage of more data = better decisions is generally true BUT - it does depend on who is making the decisions with said data and how they are using it.
We are all familiar with Moneyball and how the gave the unfashionable Oakland A's a big advantage but these days I think it's all gone a bit far. If you look at the half time stats they put up on a game shown on Sky its largely meaningless.
All this XG, passes completed nonsense is not for me. And if clubs are buying players based on that and not seeing what they can do in the flesh then they deserve all they get |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 21:48 12 Aug 2025
yep 100% agree. As a 58 year old I may be out of touch with the yoof and what's in vogue football wise today - but this is unforgivable. Really, really poor.
The club hierarchy should be accountable for this. Caaarnts [Post edited 12 Aug 21:49]
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 21:39 12 Aug 2025
well we can politely disagree then. What exactly have these kids gained tonight that is better than the club going on a cup run?
i believe the answer to be f*ck all. You presumably have a different point of view |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 21:35 12 Aug 2025
football these days is so sh*te. When I was a kid, this would've been a big game and we would've played our strongest side and played to win it.
Not having a go at the kids on the pitch, but this is rank. Utterly disgraceful. Cos yea, we need to rest everyone to make sure we can have a proper tilt at winning the Championship this year.
Football = b*llox
QPR attitude to cups is a farkin disgrace |
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