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I'm a fan of these two. Light entertainment and they clearly have good chemistry. Understand why you might not enjoy it if you just stumbled across it though. One of those that improves the more you listen. There are so many podcasts these days so I'm sure all tastes are catered too somewhere. I'm also a fan of the Wolf and Owl podcast and Three Bean Salad. Takes my mind off things on the daily commute.
Most seem to think we're fattening up Varane for a sale in January or end of season but if Madsen continues like this we may well get some serious offers for him. He'd be harder to replace than Varane on current form.
That was bad. Still had the chances to win 3-0 though. I guess we played pretty well and lost on Saturday so I won't complain too much if we played badly tonight and won. We had a few moments here and there. Not sure I fancy watching much more of Sam Field at Left back. I thought Madsen and Hayden both had solid games. Mbengue lurches from brilliance to total liability in a split second. Glad we had his pace out there though.
I think that's just more or less twitter. All I get is a constant stream of Tommy Robinson anti immigrant stuff. Increasingly AI generated. Complete madhouse since Elon took over.
If there's no QPR game on a Saturday, you can go and watch Carshalton Athletic at Colston Avenue. Nice little ground with covered stand and terrace. Bar and clubhouse for a drink before/after/during the game. My son plays for the under 7s. It's a nice little club.
Have you watched it back? What should Nardi have done? The ball didn't carry far enough for him to catch it so the only option he has is to try and play it with his feet but the Millwall player is right there on the ball so it's not just a simple clearance. Cook and RND thought the ball would carry and it didn't. They switched off and cook especially should have kept pace with the forward so he didn't have a clear shot on goal. It was a pretty basic defensive error. Cook I'm sure will be very disappointed with himself when he watches it back.
I don't think the team selection was wrong necessarily. Big physical side made sense against Millwall and it might well have worked if we hadn't gifted them tow piss poor goals. That's not the managers fault. Nardi and Cool made big mistakes that they shouldn't have. You can't gift Millwall a two goal lead though and expect anything from the game. They love to defend and they do it well.
Edit - just seen the second goal back. It wasn't cooks fault. Varane flicked it so it took it away from Cook. Not Varanes best afternoon by some distance. Poor passing and robbed of the ball a few times. Needs to find his rhythm again.
Edit 2 - assumed first goal was all Nardis fault from the reaction from cook and RND but cool slowed down when he should have just kept pace with the attacker. As mentioned, the ball landed on the 18 yard line. Nardi would have have to catch it on the floor or try and kick it away with a high risk of giving away a penalty. Second goal not cooks fault. First one he has to do better.
Agreed. He'd have been better signing a new contract and trying to develop with QPR. His career looks like it will end a few divisions down from championship. I suppose at least he will have made some good money for himself with a decent contract at Bristol City.
Good point at the end there. Oxford are no mugs. There's a tendency amongst some of our supporters to expect us to beat pretty much any team outside the top six. Any game we do win is often passed off as a win against a poor side we should have been beating easily any way. I think a bit more credit and recognition is due to just how hard teams have to work to pick up points in this division. There's no one just going to roll over and give you three points (apart from us at Coventry!)
I'm not claiming to know any more about managing a football team than you or anyone else. It would have been great to get a win tonight and if we'd had the same starting 11 as in recent games then you'd fancy our chances of getting one. That being said, Oxford defended well and were just about worth their point. Hopefully the fresh(er) legs we'll have available against Bristol City on Saturday will get us three points. I think we'll do better against a team who want to attack rather than just sit in and play for the clean sheet.
I'm not so sure. Don't think you can just keep playing the same team week in week out without players burning out. I thought JS made the subs early enough to have an impact and on another day we might have nicked a winner (could also have lost right at the end). We defended well. Dunne still not at his best but pleasing to see Cook last the full 90 and RND gets better with each game. Madsen clearly playing with much more confidence. Won a few headers and showed good physicality on the touchlines to win us a couple of throw ins. We're a much easier side to watch when he's on the pitch.
And that really average Charlton team we beat could go third tonight if current scores stay the same. Anyone could make the playoffs or even autos this year.
Apologies. I got the facts wrong about the training ground confrontation which was aimed at CN rather than JS. There were however plenty who made their minds up very quickly about JS. He had a derogatory nickname (Le Shrug) I think even before the Coventry game. Nice to see that people are coming around to seeing that he might be doing a decent job and that a lot of the recruitment has actually been pretty good. Things can turn very quickly though so I'll just try and enjoy it while we're doing well.