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Reply | The unicorn stays a bit longer
at 16:00 23 Sep 2025
We also extended Field in a similar fashion. I don't think Field nor Frey will be with QPR this time next year. I imagine both extensions are about squad maintenance and investment protection: 1st team-ready players for this season that you can move on for next. Rather that than loans. We already sign loads of kids for the future - need some players we can rely on too.
Clearly neither Field/Fret are first choice in their positions now, but neither are any longer in their final year with the club - which is important. Both will probably play big roles in the thick of this season, but they won't be part of the evolving game model, I imagine. There's a logic to all this that they probably can't explain to us now but will be able to in retrospect, I'm guessing. |
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Reply | Nourry In?
at 10:55 16 Sep 2025
I agree with this. It's neither heaven nor hell, some really good stuff, some less so. One thing I do think is apparent is that Nourry and those around him are open to adaptation this season more than before, they take on reasonable criticism and apparently adapt. That's really hopeful. (Posts on message boards from first time posters titled Nourry In? on the back of two wins are really unhelpful and disquieting though)
However, I don't think we ever can/should compare Nourry with Ferdinand's commission: they are dealing with entirely different circumstances, radically different clubs in terms of finances, infrastructure - both physical and at board level - and identity. The QPR that CN took over is only in with a fighting chance because of the extremely thankless and dirty work that LF/LH did in the face of a world record fine, FFP snooker and board room foolishness. CN entered a club with FFP headroom, a brand new training ground and without Tony Fernandes grandstanding in the background, Harry Redknapp sulking in the foreground or any Joey Bartons. Totally different job ahead of him. |
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Reply | Charlie Austin on Under the Cosh
at 12:55 10 Sep 2025
I guess it's just a difference of opinions, but if playing at the top level is your criteria then , yes, Charlie Austin did play one season at the top level for QPR and did score 18 goals - but QPR came bottom of the league! I'd place it as the most miserable season I've experienced as QPR supporter other than the season we went to Div 2, with which is on a par.
Those other guys you mention since 1980, agree. Definite legends. But I'd put nearly any of their regular team mates from those years - Parker, Bardsley, Wilson, Byrne, Sinton, Sinclair, Impey, Wegerle etc - above Charlie Austin's one season in the top flight for legend status. He gave us two good seasons, one we got promoted, one we got relegated.
I just don't see him anywhere near that list. |
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Reply | Charlie Austin on Under the Cosh
at 12:12 10 Sep 2025
Agree with much of this other than saying you put Charlie Austin is above Ian Holloway in legend status....really? Why?
As a player Holloway (a significantly less gifted player) played more games for QPR at a higher level in a much more successful team than Austin, albeit in a far less glamorous role.
Then his work in his initial five year period as a manager alone should alone afford him higher status than Charlie Austin, a great goalscorer but who only contributed three seasons of good work for QPR. And he didn't sign a new deal, thus forcing through a cheaper January deal. Real legends like Eze sign renewals.
Austin: a great number 9, but well below Ferdinand, Givens, Allen, Bannister in the role in my time watching QPR. On a par with Furlong, maybe, for his contribution to QPR (as a player, not a man/coach). |
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Reply | Summer Transfer Window - Patreon Podcast
at 11:58 5 Sep 2025
But they could communicate this to their customers, rather than us discussing it on a messageboard six days later to find out. (I wonder how the beer hut was able to take payments - this could be explained too).
Club communication is rotten, no one can convince me otherwise until communication improves.
Do you remember when Lee Hoos used to do his quarterly business Q&As with fans on the official site? That is just one example of how communication has worsened. |
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Reply | Summer Transfer Window - Patreon Podcast
at 11:24 5 Sep 2025
They definitely weren't giving away free beer in the SB, the rotters (though I understand food was given away).
I think if this was a stadium-wide cock-up, there should definitely have been some subsequent communication, some PR management from the club. It's weird to not address it to supporters, who are also customers. It's not normal - and as I say, a similar thing happened for the Brentford game.
I am an adult and I find not being treated as one really annoying. |
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Reply | Summer Transfer Window - Patreon Podcast
at 11:00 5 Sep 2025
I think it's way too much to do for one person.
The catering completely collapsed in the Stanley Bowles Stand on Saturday - there was only beer available from one kiosk hut, staffed by two, and a queue of 500+ unserved and unhappy customers at half time. This also happened for Brentford, so not a one-off and I suspect a half-time show that will run and run.
It's small stuff, though, for a "Sporting CEO" to be worrying about during transfer deadline week, but a huge dent in the professionalism of the club, never mind its match-day revenues. This stuff really matters - but does it to CN? I understand if he has other things to concentrate on. But QPR's paying supporters deserve better. To get a beer I started queuing 15 mins before half time and we were the last served just as the second half started.
We were laughing as we gulped our drinks down about the Fan Forum bullshit around the "thorough" tendering process and just rehiring the same firm to provide a far worse service.
It's all PR. He can't do it all. He can't be on the council, sorting the sporting side, delivering for the customers on a fortnightly basis: it's two jobs, at least, and to pretend otherwise is bollox.
It's not a pro-Nourry or anti-Nourry thing. There have been some good signings and hirings, lots of positives. But there's also, as ever with QPR, an overpowering stench of bullsht around the club. All you have to do is go to a match to witness this. |
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Reply | Former player photos
at 15:43 3 Sep 2025
In theory a very good team still, but it was disintegrating at an alarming rate and Richardson in particular was a serious downgrade on Phil Parkes. Leighton James was a class act - played a blinder against West Ham in the cup - but he never looked happy at QPR. Dave Needham leaving for Forest at Xmas almost relegated us alone.
As for Bowles, even he was getting heavy abuse by then from around us, ironically in the very stand that is now named after him. |
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Reply | Former player photos
at 15:08 3 Sep 2025
He played in a poor QPR team on its way to being a terrible QPR team, one that squeezed in one place off the bottom three that season and were relegated to the 2nd Division the following year - so I wouldn't take any abuse personally, they were all getting it big time where we sat.
If memory serves - and I was only just 9 - he did play in '77 in the game against champions of England and soon-to-be Europe Liverpool when we won 2-0. Nobody had seen that coming, especially as we'd lost 1-5 at home to Everton the month before. It was a great afternoon and even better Monday at primary school with all the glory-hunter Liverpool fans in my class.
Anyway, can't find any images and have long ago lost the programme. But looking on Ebay, you can buy a copy for £1.65 and Brian Williams is there on the back cover team sheet, facing 'Ken' Dalglish, Alan Hansen and Phil Neal on his opposite flank...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235564155498 |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 18:15 1 Sep 2025
How many games has Chair missed since he was found guilty of fracturing a man's skull with a rock? A fair few. So I dispute that "he turns up and runs himself into the ground every week."
I am not judging him Chair. I wasn't there. I don't know the details. He was however found guilty of assault and sentenced to 150 hours community service, which he may or may not have served while out injured for several weeks. I like him as a player very much.
You mention Laird and Roberts as part of the culture around then, of that "whole group" (of which Chair was a core member, best mates with Willock and Dieng) - two loan players who Dieng preceded at the club without incident for several seasons. I don't think Seny Dieng "tossed it off" at QPR and it's pretty disrespectful to say that he did or place his work in the same category as Tyler Roberts.
He can't have been that wedded to Mayfair when he moved to Doncaster, Dundee and finally Middlesborough to further his career, anyway. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 17:06 1 Sep 2025
Again, disagree.
Walsh needs what Dieng was doing at 23, ie three months at Stevenage, followed by three months at Dundee, followed by six (very successful) months at Doncaster. Then you come back ready for Championship football. Walsh is plainly not ready for the level, no matter how talented he might be. I've no idea who's a more skilled keeper between Cooper and Walsh, but Cooper now has the skillset at least having played 70-odd games at League 2 and League 1 level. Walsh is still learning, having barely played a dozen senior games - it seems counter-intuitive that knowledge should be acquired while playing for our first team. It's painful. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 16:36 1 Sep 2025
Tittle tattle!
Besides, when did the club of - clears throat - Marsh, Bowles, Shanks, McDonald, Stainrod, Byrne, Sinclair, Impey, Gallen, Dichio, Bircham, Cook, Ainsworth, Carlisle, Mackie, Kenny, Simpson, Taarrabt etc etc start worrying about what rich, young and single players get up to on their nights off? Les Ferdinand managed to become an-timer for QPR while simultaneously working his way through many of most presentable TV stars of the day on his nights off (it is alleged).
Heaven forbid we find out what the current squad of very young bachelors get up to with their pay cheques on their nights off...
I do think Dieng would be a big improvement on what we have - though he has been injured twice seriously since his pomp so maybe that's moreb of a problem. I reckon his injury did for Warbs: that injury at Blackburn was a sliding doors moment. I don't believe Khadra's shot would've gone in had he been in goal - subsequently, we conceded a string of goals he would've prevented and the team collapsed in April 2022.
Ifs and maybes. He probably doesn't rejoin. But not sure we should be judging his character, bearing in mind we've forgiven our star player for cracking someone over the head with a rock. If we can forgive a guy GBH, we can forgive another's Saturday nights in Mayfair clubs. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 13:45 1 Sep 2025
Strongly disagree. Huge technical upgrade on both keepers at club currently and would transform both the defence and its distribution.
What are you basing the "clear attitude problem" on? Guy joined us at 21 and took on five loans at Whitehawk, Hampton, Stevenage, Dundee and Doncaster (not exactly a glamour-strewn rite of passage) before becoming our number one five years later. Sold him for millions three years later...isn't he the epitome of current the model?
Always seemed like a good lad, too, on the pitch, humble, appreciative, nice authority. Is it just his Insta that irked? |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 18:05 23 Aug 2025
RND on the bench today for Sheffield United so maybe he's not coming.
If he really believed in his own project, Nourry should come out on Monday and say "We will not be signing any left backs or centre backs on loan, for to play one ahead of Esquerdinha would piss on everything the club has said for the last 18 months. Forza Bazza In The Loft! It's Esquerdinha, Leahy or bust! "
See how that goes down. I suspect, however, there will be loans and new signings galore through the door between now and Monday week. And if we lose to Charlton, that won't be the only thing through the door.
I bet everyone is glad it's open training on Tuesday. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 09:26 23 Aug 2025
Bet he plays at CB too, possibly more often than LB, as we do not have a left foot in that position without JCS and the whole pass from the back routine works 100 x better with left footers down the left. In some ways, getting a left footer in is adhering more tightly to the game model. Playing right-footed CBs at LB definitely isn't. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 08:49 23 Aug 2025
Don't be a drama queen. It's a turn of phrase to say it's a mad idea. It's obviously not really saying you should be sectioned.
Larkeche out for season, JCS out...for a while.
Fox, their cover, has just left.
In comes RND on loan as replacement for Fox and covers these roles.
Not really burning the blueprints, is it? |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 08:27 23 Aug 2025
"No one has ever got relegated due to one weak left back."
Tell that to Christer Warren! Actually, that QPR squad of 2000-01 had big similarities - best players injured, lots of youth massively over-promoted, a couple of senior pros trying to carry the load in vain, others too old to contribute meaningfully, some very weak fullbacks, rookie goalkeeper trying to make his name in the shadow of a senior back-up, a potentially great young CF passing through, and on and on...
The idea that you could go through this particular 2025 Championship season, up against multi-million quid wingers and midfielders every week with two teenage left backs with collectively 180 minutes of professional football in the tank (and some right-footed CBs and midfielders as their back-up - who backs them up?) is so cavalier as to be sectionable.
They'd be hanging effigies of Nourry on X by November and he knows it. A loan to cover a season-ending cruciate is not messing with any project or timeline. It's routine. |
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Reply | Eze
at 14:13 21 Aug 2025
Agree with all this. Interesting (to me) that all the people who used to get stuff leaked by the club in the pre-Nourry era say it's 20% and all those who get stuff leaked now say it's 15%.
Imagine there's probably some news management of the fee being paid now too by Palace and Arsenal so who knows what's really due. At least something's due. It's not really anyone's interest for the world to know how much. [Post edited 21 Aug 14:14]
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Reply | Eze
at 20:05 20 Aug 2025
Agree. Can cover Odergaard, rotate with Martinelli on left or cover Havertz while he's out. Plus, he might actually win the league. Levy's might have fcked this, which is always enjoyable. |
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Reply | Taxi for Marti
at 14:31 14 Aug 2025
Far be it from me to defend Arsenal but...
They got to the semi final of the League Cup, a full-strength team losing to Newcastle who won the thing. They also got to the semi final of the Champions League, if you recall, so I don't think you can really can accuse Arteta of sacking off cups to come second! They were desperate for a cup final. In fact, they may have done better in both league and CL if they had sacked off the league cup as they lost players to injuries and suspension throughout. |
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