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Reply | OASIS
at 09:29 6 Jul 2025
I went to the first night and it was the most emotional, communally ecstatic gig I've ever been to (and I have been to many). The first four songs - Hello, Acquiesce, Morning Glory, Cigarettes & Alcohol - was like an out of body experience.
I thought the whole day and night was bit like the night in the Bush after the Play Off Final, incredible atmosphere in pubs and streets, VE day vibes, and the gig itself was like when Zamora scored.
The gigs will get even better, as they relax a bit, but that first night was very moving and I probably won't experience that at a gig again. I went with a dozen or so, all with tickets in different places and everyone said the place was full of people in absolute bits.
By the way, if you don't like Oasis, nobody really needs to know do they? |
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Reply | QPR grounds its Bluesky account
at 23:04 1 Jul 2025
Have a look for some other official clubs on Bluesky. It is totally and utterly moribund. It may be growing for left of centre media and arts, but it is not a sports social media app and it is dead in terms of UK football.
Palace: 4500 followers, last posted 5 months ago.
Fulham: never posted
Chelsea: 14k, last posted two weeks ago. (they have 26 million followers on X)
No official Arsenal account
Spurs: 30 k followers, not posted in 13 days (8 million on X)
Liverpool haven't posted in four months...
Championship official accounts.. Barely exist. Millwall 600 followers, not posted in six months is pretty indicative.
I'd say QPR posting that it's closing down is actually a very good bit of commnunication in this Bluesky context. |
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Reply | QPR grounds its Bluesky account
at 22:18 1 Jul 2025
QPR has 1700 followers on Bluesky and QPR has 481500 followers on X.
There's zero engagement on Bluesky, it's pointless for organisations like QPR. Bluesky will reduce down to its very core as a liberal, artsy social media club - and absolutely nothing with that. But not great for sporting institutions used to communicating with half a million followers and trying to grow its reach. |
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Reply | Amadou Mbengue confirmed (n/t)
at 17:58 28 Jun 2025
Yeah, he started posting a month ago and every post has been to praise Nourry's work (no problem with that, if that's what one believes) by contrasting with cherry-picked digs at LF and Ramsey in comparison (massive problem with that, as by and large everything he says is BS that ignores all contemporary context). Extremely fishy, bad faith actor.
I think the club and its CEO is having a really good summer so far. But I thought that in the summer of 2022, too, when they appointed Beale and signed the likes of JCS, Paal, Laird, Iroegbunam, even Roberts - all on paper brilliant prospects and just what Rangers needed alongside Chair, Willock, Dieng, Dickie, Johansson, Amos...we had the makings of a great squad, bright young coach, started accordingly like a steam train.
Let's hope it's a different story. But seasons are not defined in June or July . Events, events... |
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Reply | Amadou Mbengue confirmed (n/t)
at 20:54 26 Jun 2025
Beans: Les Ferdinand officially left the club in June 2023 (though he'd told the board he intended to leave in February - perhaps there was gardening leave).
The game you keep referencing was in August 2023 There was an entire window and preseason that was all Ainsworth and the board's work (with Retexo in the background). That was not his squad. He never underarmed a manager like that., as can be evidenced by every August he did oversee.
"majority of that time him working with a far bigger budget than we have now": this is how I know you're trolling. Please go back and look at the financial restrictions the club was under after relegation and the record £42 million fine for FFP breaches triggered before LF and Hoos started. Read the historic Swiss Ramble reports. It's all there.
Nothing has been proved, Beans. We came 15th last season. It is June. Let's see. I am season ticket holder of 40 years and believe me nothing gives me more joy than a successful QPR season, so I hope very much indeed we have a great season. But that hasn't happened yet. |
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Reply | Amadou Mbengue confirmed (n/t)
at 20:04 26 Jun 2025
All good knockabout fun and you're obviously a troll, but I'll bite. That Watford team away under Ainsworth: that wasn't LF's work. Ferdinand had already told the board he was done as soon as they hired Ainsworth against his judgement (as was Amit when it backfired). At that Watford game there were replacements hovering for LF's job, but the board had chosen to run an audit before appointing, hence your paramour then arriving on the scene and securing the role himself.
The team Les (and anyone who calls him Evil Les may as well get cnt tattooed on their forehead) put together for/with Warburton in his final two seasons, as well as the Beale squad, that was his work. Some really good runs, some terrible defeats, but we started 2022 with promotion a stated aim having run very hot to come 9th the season before and we looked ok for a play-off until the collapse from late Feb onwards. Still came 11th. And still would school this current squad for the time being.
For the record, I like the coaching appointments of this summer. I like the sound of these signings. Like most summers, I'm really excited and optimistic. But let's see. As pointed out earlier, all will be revealed at the end of the season. Save the victory parade until then, 'Beans'. |
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Reply | Catastrophe, ou formidable? Stéphan steps into Loftus Road hot seat - Column
at 21:19 25 Jun 2025
442 is a massive red herring. Think everyone should push it to the back of their minds until we witness it regularly.
As Clive writes, "Nourry has put a game model in place that he wants all the teams throughout the club to be playing."
That game model is not 442. So unless the the Dev squad, the U18s and youth teams start playing 442 I'd be amazed if Stephan has been appointed with a mandate to just play whatever you want, son.
They want players to transition smoothly through the age groups, train with the first team sometimes - it's gonna all be the same formation, or similar enough. Kelman went to Os because they play the same system. There's a Head of Methodology on a very good wedge no doubt to ensure that there's no jazz played by individual coaches, that it all aligns. Bould's appointment is another brick in this construct. |
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Reply | Marti Officially Gone
at 20:44 24 Jun 2025
We absolutely do. And Stephan is undoubtedly a very good manager. But there are good managers and there are good QPR managers. Not often the same thing. I feel we're saying goodbye needlessly early to a good QPR manager.
I hope Marti gets a great job soon, does really well there and that we never play one of his teams.
Am excited about the new manager too, it's a great appointment in theory - but something about the karma feels risky. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 14:54 23 Jun 2025
Has to be a success. Doesn't have to be an immediate success in August, or even much before Xmas as I think people will be very open, forgiving and above all optimistic.
But if it goes badly - let's say he just doesn't fit for whatever reason: can happen, we took Ray Harford who was top of the league with WBA and ended his career more or less - and the board are forced to ditch him, then it'll be curtains for all involved.
Ditching Warbs when they did to appoint Beale finished Ferdinand, Bhatia and in theory Hoos, who instead somehow engineered himself a new title, because it was an unforced, hubristic error.The same would apply here to Nourry and whoever is standing too close to him at the point of impact.
But hopefully it goes swimmingly and instead in ten months we're back to worrying about our manager being pinched for a better job up the food chain. They must really believe in him (and themselves) |
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Reply | Varane being sold?
at 11:07 21 Jun 2025
100%, was just about to write the same.
Varane will have signed the new contract no doubt partly because of an agreed release clause. His agent will obviously have inserted that sum and is now no doubt trying to entice enough clubs to bid (gardening leave for JV?) so that eventually that sum is triggered. I doubt it's £10 million - but who knows. Regardless, nice fees all round.
That's fine. That's football. QPR definitely need to start selling players for five to ten times what they bought them for on a regular basis. That's how the club attracts more of these players in the first place and starts being able to charge more with each sale and insert higher release clauses.
You can't do that if you hang on to players for too long. |
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Reply | Ben Williams announcement?
at 14:26 20 Jun 2025
If I didn't know something or didn't have any personal experience of something, I'd probably sit out high-handedly passing judgement publicly on those who do have experience of it - but different strokes for different folks. |
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Reply | Ben Williams announcement?
at 12:47 20 Jun 2025
I'm neither here nor there with him, he's just an football administrator who I've never met - we won't really be able to judge his work properly until he's done three or four seasons at least (unless we're promoted triumphantly or relegated catastrophically first).
But the twitter zealotry is mad. Real culture war stuff, predicated I think because like a lot of his most active posters he's young and they've turned it into an old v young thing - partly because that's been used against him too first (unfairly, to some degree).
Two posts leapt out yesterday: 1/ "Nourry Does Not Miss" (this about the Williams return, which is literally the correction of an error - so, yeah, like everyone, he makes mistakes) 2/ Nourry The GOAT (the greatest football sporting director/CEO of all time? A lower mid-table Championship team losing money hand over fist?)
I'm sure they're all genuine fan accounts, but it is striking that they are all anonymous. Are some controlled by a single user or there really half a dozen teenage/early 20-something Christian Nourry zealot ultras? There's more to life, lads: meet some girls, have some adventures. Because posting fanboy screeds day and night about a football administrator on social media throughout what should be the best summers of your life is unbelievably wet. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 12:55 19 Jun 2025
What's the accounting period for each year of the Championship's P&S end? I know it's June 30 for PSR in the Prem - if it's the same, I wonder if that's a factor in the gardening leave, allowing any contract settlement payment to Marti to be pushed into the next period? I'm not sure where QPR are in the three-year cycle currently. |
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Reply | Micah Hyde departs
at 20:30 17 Jun 2025
Yes, Furlong is ahead of him. Perhaps Furlong too has earned another step up the ladder. Perhaps he wants that, perhaps he doesn't - most people in any competitive industry, especially sportsmen, want to test themselves at a higher level, though. Does he coach the U23s for ten more years, then retire? Unlikely.
Do we think Furlong has earned a promotion? I think so. Do we think Micah Hyde has earned a promotion, that he could handle more responsibility? I don't know enough about his work. But Watford think so and they have provided that career path that QPR chose not to.
Furlong: what's his future career path? Seemingly, QPR have decided it's not as head coach. QPR have also decided it's not Head of Methodology, as they gave that to Jon De Souza. Again, I don't know enough about De Souza to suggest that isn't the right call - other than Furlong's coaching CV is not less accomplished. The only difference being really that De Souza changed clubs often to climb the ladder - something Furlong may also conclude is best if he's hit a ceiling at Rangers.
For it's all very well painting yourself as a 'development club'. But sometimes that means taking a big risk and developing someone to their full potential. |
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Reply | Micah Hyde departs
at 20:09 16 Jun 2025
Very curt farewell, comparatively. No quote from Nourry - five years service, helped coach the Dev Squad to a cup last season - some of those players have been with Hyde through the age groups. Nothing in tribute from the guy who likes to sign his name on every coming and going.
Nathan Shepperd, meanwhile, third choice keeper, doesn't make an appearance, signed for six months but is provided with space to thank the club and gets a glowing sentence for each month at the club from Nourry in that same farewell.
Thereby hangs a tale, I bet. |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 17:38 11 Jun 2025
I had to take Stainrod's Elbow off mute to read this read and I think 'Beans' has almost made that worthwhile. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 18:22 9 Jun 2025
Apart from the bit where I wrote:
"If he wanted it, interviewed well and had a plan i would give it to him. QPR want to be a club with a pathway, after all." |
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