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Reply | Books
at 17:00 27 Aug 2025
if you bump into her you can tell her i think she's amazing. My wife has just finished Boy Parts and i'm about to start it. |
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Reply | Books
at 14:53 27 Aug 2025
i just read "She's Always Hungry" by Eliza Clark, which i would maybe describe as 'soft body horror'? i've never really read horror but i loved it, have you heard of it? |
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Reply | Books
at 00:12 27 Aug 2025
just finished 'The Lock-Up' by John Banville, who won the Booker Prize for his The Sea a few years back. This is one of his detective novels, which I think he started writing under a pseudonym. very noir-ish. set in 50s Dublin. Really good.
also reread a couple of my favourite sports books this summer:
The Year of the Locust by Jon Hotten. the most incredible boxing story ever. Hotten also writes brilliant cricket books.
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own by Jonathan Rendall. Another incredible boxing book / memoir about a journalist becoming a boxing manager. |
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Reply | Where in the world? Non QPR
at 15:49 22 Aug 2025
I had my 18th birthday party at Hampton Hill cricket club. we used to go to the White Hart in Hampton, but it closed many years ago.
now: Los Feliz, Los Angeles, USA (married an american)
Like: near a big park, amazing restaurants, great cricket club and community nearby, beach not too far, cinemas and general city buzz, two of my best mates from home live round the corner
Dislike: driving all the time, poor air quality, lack of an actual pub, hard to get anywhere interesting for weekends, general slide into fascism of the country |
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Reply | Corner Bar...
at 13:46 19 Aug 2025
I think that a 'buffet' implies choice of food? the (actually not bad) 'hot fork' i experienced at the corner bar had no choice - curry before, pie after.
but i agree that there must be a clearer way to say that for the layman than 'hot fork' |
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Reply | Corner Bar...
at 17:11 16 Aug 2025
I did it for the Jimmy Dunne Birmingham game, which was my dad's birthday and there were 10 of us. my dad and i have season tickets in S block, and the tickets they gave us for the corner bar were high up in SA Road, near the away fans. Can't remember the exact row / block, but it was basically the exact opposite side of the ground to where we normally sit.
the 'hot fork' before the game was a pretty good curry, and after there were decent small pies of which my son had about 7.
It was full of (very nice) American families who were in London for a week or so and wanted to see a game. None of them knew each other, but all seemed to have ended up there the same way - couldn't get prem tickets. |
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Reply | Singing from the same hymn sheet – Fans Forum
at 13:36 31 Jul 2025
thanks so much for this Clive
on that last question was there a sense of 'who carries the can if this all goes wrong?' or was it more about the playing style?
i suppose that's the one thing i'd like to know - it's easy to set targets and see what success looks like but what does failure look like? or does it not exist? does going down but with a team of 22.5 year olds mean targets were achieved? |
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Reply | Coffee VVankers thread...
at 17:10 18 Jun 2025
I drink one cup a day as i was told it helps with migraines. doesn't seem to, but i'm in too deep now.
i get my few remaining hairs cut on monmouth street, and always scoffed at the queue outside monmouth coffee until one day there wasn't a queue and i thought i'd see what the fuss was about.
now get all my beans there and love the coffee they make. the staff are insanely pleasant, especially given they are dealing with an endless queue of tourists and coffee vvankers like me.
Finca la Piragua are my favourite beans i've had so far from there. Colombian.
went to a coffee making talk once and the barista said that the thing that makes the most difference apart from the beans is the water. filtered water in a hard water area like London is better apparently.
never thought i'd post my boring opinions about coffee on a QPR board, and yet here we are. |
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Reply | Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read?
at 18:40 3 Apr 2025
my best man bought me the first tokyo book, which has sat, unopened, on my bookshelf for 14 years. should i try it finally? |
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Reply | Great Football Food (Non QPR Obvs)
at 05:06 3 Apr 2025
I went to Union Berlin once about 10 years ago, and at the back of their standing section they had people barbecuing and selling these spiced, boneless, pork chops in pretzel buns for 2 euros. still one of the best things I've eaten anywhere. then the beer was about 2 euros a pint and they had blokes wandering through the crowd selling that too. |
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Reply | Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read?
at 04:05 2 Apr 2025
A girl i was trying to impress sent me a reading list of her favourites and Cormac McCarthy was one of them. I think if i'd read Blood Meridian first i would have stopped there, but the first of his books I read was All The Pretty Horses, which is tough going in places but less so, and then the rest of the Border Trilogy. Then Blood Meridian, then everything else he wrote, including The Road which is horrendously bleak. Anyway, my point being don't let it put you off.
I read The Damn United after picking it up at an airport and loved it so much I decided to read all of David Peace's work. i started with Nineteen Seventy-Four and after a week was wondering why i was a bit depressed in the mornings. turns out it was that book. Never read anything else of his since, but feel I am missing out. |
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Reply | NZ travel thoughts & ideas
at 20:17 4 Jan 2025
I worked in Wellington for a year recently. lovely city, worst weather on earth unless you are there december to february when it's like heaven so might be a bit tight for you. if you do go then the Weta workshop is worth a visit, the view from Mount Vic is spectacular, the museum is really good, and the food is wonderful in the city just generally. I was lucky enough to watch England play a test there - 50 quid for 5 days - but also went for other men's and women's matches and it's probably my favourite place to watch cricket. also opposite the ground is the restaurant Curryiza - that's curry on a pizza.
it's a city i really love, and much preferred to Auckland in the end.
Someone else mentioned the Bay of Islands, which i'd also recommend. Drove around the area with a mate in a camper van, and had a great time in Russell / Kororareka. Fantastic beaches seemingly everywhere. Waitangi was where the treaty with the Maori was signed, and it's a short boat trip from Russell (the 'treaty' itself i think is in the Museum in Wellington).
Queenstown i found a bit too busy, and the ski slopes were heaving, but people - especially Kiwi friends - love it. |
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Reply | Nardi's shot stopping
at 19:30 29 Sep 2024
and i should have added that i like him a great deal, agree he is an upgrade, love so much of what he's done, etc |
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Thread | Nardi's shot stopping
at 23:22 28 Sep 2024
He stops a lot of shots, and makes good saves, but he seems to always push the ball back in to the central area rather than out wide, as keepers are normally taught to do. if you push the ball wide towards the corner the need for a secondary save becomes less likely.
i think this is something that is a goalkeeping basic, and something easily coachable, but maybe i'm wrong. |
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Reply | Anyone ever got season ticket and then wanted change - moaners behind you ??
at 11:31 25 Aug 2024
braver than me. me and my dad moved our tickets because the two men behind us just didn't shut up berating the players. lowlights included one pre-match screaming at other people near them who were suggesting Taarabt should start (this was Redknapp fiasco times) then after seven minutes - 7 - were screaming at Redknapp to make a substitution and bring Taarabt on. later in the game Austin missed a penalty and they gave him endless dogs abuse. I turned round and said "that's Charlie Austin (mk1)" and they started having a go at me.
anyway, lovely seats now. nice bunch around us, even the two people who are obsessed with Paal not getting close enough to the opposition winger when the ball is on the far side of the pitch. going to be a long season for them. |
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Reply | Positives from today….
at 15:46 11 Aug 2024
i felt - might be alone - that Smyth played well. He was competing all game and whipping balls in which were getting deflected for corners, which is at least better than knocking them straight into touch.
I think when Dunne played higher up the pitch we were more dangerous, and he had a good shot well saved.
The big issue was who we have to come off the bench to change the game, which at the moment i'd say is no-one. but with 4 more additions then suddenly that looks different. |
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