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Reply | Kelman
at 15:53 1 Jul 2025
Am I missing something? He played for Reading 10 years after leaving us and never played for Charlton. |
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Reply | Kelman
at 15:47 1 Jul 2025
He had one loan before Besiktas. 3 games for Brentford. Probably not even enough to constitute a 'poor loan'. So None is the answer. [Post edited 1 Jul 15:48]
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Reply | Varane being sold?
at 15:53 23 Jun 2025
Didn't say the word desperate or even mention whether Varane wants to go there in any way. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 15:23 23 Jun 2025
Come on Wombat... Those reasonable, logical and fair points are a load of rubbish... stop group thinking and be your own man! |
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Reply | Varane being sold?
at 15:18 23 Jun 2025
Pretty sure his agent would have read it in the contract he signed a few weeks ago and therefore any perspective buyer will also know it. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 14:34 23 Jun 2025
Oh I couldn't care less what you think.
I'm not asking you to believe Cifuentes was special, it's just my view. You're telling me he wasn't like it's an objective fact. Which it isn't. Like I said; time will tell.
If we do well and don't flirt with relegation next season under the new manager - feel free to rake up this very thread and I'll admit I was wrong. I'd take great pleasure in that as I'll love the new guy more than the last.
I wonder how bad things would have to get for you to admit the opposite? |
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Reply | Varane being sold?
at 13:55 23 Jun 2025
But his agent doesn't care what they have to pay for him - he cares about his new salary and signing on fee - from which he'll take a cut.
If anything it probably does work out better for agents if the transfer fee is lower as there's more money in the coffers to pay the player. They love free transfers as they can argue the signing on fee up as they haven't had to pay a transfer fee. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 13:43 23 Jun 2025
This is exactly how I see it.
The new guy will have to deliver something and fast - as you say - in August. If it's not in immediate results there will have to be something to like about what's put on the pitch in terms of quality and / or graft.
My concern is this club has managed to go on very long runs of poor form under Holloway, McLaren, Warburton, Critchley and Ainsworth. I think it had nosedived on Beale too and I'm still pretty convinced that was a huge reason for his immediate scarper - he knew it was coming and left it to Critchley to deal with. In those long runs we've shown little graft and absolutely zero quality.
Cifuentes showed he could stave those runs off and turn us back around when they looked like they'd set in. No other manager in that list was able to do that.
Time will tell whether we've just moved on - maybe the club's in a better place now, maybe the squad will be better, the atmosphere behind the scenes is better, there's a more willing culture etc. If so, all will be fine. Equally though, there's a chance some of those ghosts are still lurking around the corner and we'll struggle early doors. If we do, I think the Cifuentes situation will definitely have an impact on fans' patience for the masses rather than the few.
Cue Ned downvoting and calling me a radical etc. |
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Reply | Jaylan Pearman
at 12:47 23 Jun 2025
Decided to let Saito go? Have I missed something? I don't think we have any idea where he'll be playing his football next year do we? |
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Reply | Varane being sold?
at 16:26 20 Jun 2025
Better get him on garden leave forthwith. |
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Reply | Hello
at 13:22 16 Jun 2025
Now you're talking |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 13:14 13 Jun 2025
I wanted to reply to this last paragraph when I read it but didn't have the time.
In 2022/23 across the season our average attendance was 14,977. This past season it was 15,826. That's an increase of 5.6%. 2021/22 the average was 14,437, so an increase of 9.6%. So firstly, QPR attendances / ticket sales have increased since Nourry came on board objectively but I don't know where you're getting 15% from, that looks to be untrue.
Secondly, since COVID football attendances pretty much across the board have increased nationally and that's certainly true of the Championship.
Last season, our average attendance was 86.2% of the capacity. Back in 2022 it was 78.6%. So again objectively Loftus Road attendances have increased by 9.2%. You appear to be attributing that entirely to the existence of Christian Nourry.
However in that same time span, Championship attendances have risen from 67.6% of capacity on average up to 76.2%. This is growth of 13%. QPR's attendance has risen by a smaller percentage than the division as a whole. Of all 16 clubs that have been in the Championship across those seasons, QPR's attendance growth is 12th. Only Stoke, Cardiff, Sheffield United and Swansea have increased their attendances less.
If attendance is entirely Nourry's doing I think it would be fair to challenge him on why ours has only risen by 9% against an average of 13% whilst teams like Hull and Preston have increased by 65% and 31% respectively. There are 11 other CEO's doing a better job than him on this measure and only 4 that are worse. He's getting quite used to relegation battles isn't he? [Post edited 13 Jun 13:16]
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 12:31 13 Jun 2025
So they've gone past contempt and are now actively antogonising the club's fans? Triffic.
I think Nourry and maybe Hoos are all aboard the franchise soccer bandwagon that has been introduced to English football by largely American owners. 'Legacy fans' (as 'big six' Premier League clubs call them) are actively a hinderance as they're noisy and have an expectation of reasonable value. Clubs would make more money if they didn't have ST holders and could sell every seat to tourists and one off ticket buyers. Clearly QPR are a little way from having earned that right but I don't think it's a huge coincidence that we had Yang and Saito at the club last year, particularly Yang what with the meet and greets and the availability of Korean shirt printing.
P&S rules not only enable this to happen but actively encourage it. Owners and Chief Execs are tapping into revenue streams that these rules allow and those revenue streams are fundamentally changing and killing our game. The Premier League has already irreparably changed and it's bled deep into the Championship now too.
PL clubs have started introducing rules whereby if you don't use a certain percentage of ST seats they whip the right to buy a ST away from you. They've taken the games away from Saturdays, they've taken kick offs away from 15:00, they've taken away FA Cup replays, they've taken stadiums out of communities and put them on the periphery for mass and international access.
Nourry has little other context by which to understand football in any other terms and as a results business he likely has few other options anyway; he's hamstrung by P&S rules that dictate where spending power is able to come from.
I don't think it's necessarily surprising that he doesn't particularly care what the club's members think under that backdrop. He's just fast tracking what will become the status quo to our wonderful community that is ultimately being phased out by capitalist greed. I'll never respect, like or accept it... but I think it's what's happening. |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 17:06 11 Jun 2025
Why do you put apostrophes in players’ surnames when they end with an S? |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 07:12 11 Jun 2025
Genuinely one of the funniest posts I’ve ever read on here.
You’re absolutely desperate to find ways to defend a string of things that at best inconvenience us all as paying customers. Of all the things that have happened over the last 20/30 years… it’s this and it’s now that you’ve finally been inspired to register and start posting? |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 09:26 9 Jun 2025
Difference being there aren't brand new accounts popping up almost every single week with the main or sole intention of criticising the club and / or Nourry for the clear wrongdoings. They are only popping up in the defence.
I see it as no coincidence that social media is being used to defend a guy that has written publicly about the importance of using social media to influence 'Gen Z'.
Call it neurotic or conspiracy theories if you like. They're opinions and you guys are entitled to them. My opinion is anyone that dismisses that out of hand is incredibly naive. Just a difference of opinion that's all and that's ok. |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 21:41 8 Jun 2025
Over Nourry’s balls?
The volume / consistency of this sort of thing is getting comedically transparent. |
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