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Reply | Rating for this Summers Transfer Window
at 14:08 2 Sep 2025
thats good to hear, does feel a bit odd though as we spent a fair chunk last summer, around 10million this year without any major sales yet thats all fine but year before under ainsworth they were chucking everything overboard to try and stay safe and deferring fees and wages. I don't doubt you and of course the eze money is big for us but all feels a bit odd |
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Reply | Rating for this Summers Transfer Window
at 22:55 1 Sep 2025
I don't think you can judge a window until the next one starts, it normally looks good on paper and then we get to january and need 5 new players so will wait and see but you have to say with what was needed they've done really well.
I did a podcast with Clive and Jim F at the end of last season and it looked like we need replacements for Dunne, Paal, Cook, Fox, Edwards, Saito and Colback before you even got to needing improvements in midfield out wide and up front. We were all pretty pessimistic that we'd end the window in a better place.
It's not been perfect but we've done pretty well keeping Dunne for starters, Saito ended up signing. Hayden seems a a good replacement for Colback. Norrington Davies in for Fox seems an upgrade. Mbengue not as good as Edwards but has added some pace, energy and lunatic energy to the team which is a positive. Burrell looks an upgrade on Alfie Lloyd .Poku and Kone look excellent signings
I've got doubts on Dembele but he clearly has ability we just need to find a way to get him on the ball in dangerous areas.
Overall we've done well, it looked a stronger squad than we've had since Warbs left, if we can get them fit and find a way to get the best out of them we should be aiming for top half which would be an excellent season
Concerns are where on earth we've got the money from to stay within PSR rules but thats probably a concern for further down the line and may well be a gamble that the rules are going to change. We do seem to have signed a few players who shouldn't need replacing within 6 months which would be progress on previous years |
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Reply | Absentees
at 20:06 31 Aug 2025
We do have the strongest squad now since that last year of Warbs, not as good as that one yet especially in midfield but we have a lot of options |
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Reply | Have you ever caught the ball at a game?
at 20:04 31 Aug 2025
I got smacked in the arm from a Munoz shot against Palace last season
My one and only time to throw the ball back was against Cardiff New years day in 2024. It landed next to me and I quickly threw it back to the keeper but completely botched it and it hit some poor bloke in the back of the head near the front. Like an anxiety dream come true, I'm still cringing at it now when my son regularly reminds me of it |
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Reply | Saito goal
at 20:00 31 Aug 2025
I thought it was really poor defending to allow him a free run into the box but he did really well and finished it beautifully |
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Reply | Is the game model now binned?
at 16:07 31 Aug 2025
It was a smart move by the manager, i imagine we won't play that way every week though but you do need varity and was good to see some |
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Reply | Playing Walsh after the 7-1 defeat
at 14:32 31 Aug 2025
Takling away the goal kick routine helped him a lot and eased the pressue on him.
Thought he did Ok yesterday and wasn't helped by Mbengue jumping in front of him and missing the ball so he was unsighted |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 16:05 28 Aug 2025
yeah I don't think their past experience is comparable but Les did do similar daft things early on and probably didn't get called out on it as much as lets face it we love him for his time as a player and due to the career he'd had he had earned a bit more trust than someone new(ish) to the sport. |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 15:19 28 Aug 2025
I'd agree I doubt he his handing Julien the team sheet every week but the choice of which keeper to play does seem to have been made from above, same semeed to be happening with Larkeshe before he got injured and that team we picked for the league cup I mean thats clearly come from the top to get as many kids in as possible to highlight pathways, show off records etc. the result was a long way down the list on what we wanted that night.
Thats not anything new, Les did that in the first few years as well, not to that extreme as we saw in the cup but several young players were chucked in when they were clearly not good enough.
You add in the game model and Nourry has been pretty clear thats how he wants the team to play it does feel like a lot of influence from the top.
Of course the idea is you get a manager who wants to play that way rather than have Ainsworth and ask him to play triangles in his own penalty area and they do seem to have done that.
I'll be fascinated to see how this all pans out this season though as again how we want to play and the players we have in the squad seem too far apart to me, will we go back to the pragmatic way Marti had us playing when we won games or are we gonna stick with this and hope it works.
One things for sure if we do end up having a good season Nourry will deserve a lot of credit for it and he'll equally deserve a lot of the blame if this doesn't get any better |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 15:11 28 Aug 2025
I do think sometimes who are we looking to sell these players to becasue those at the top of the tree are not shopping at QPR unless you have someone incredible.
Even with Eze he went to a side in the bottom 6 of the prem who have got better since then. It's taken him 5 years to get to a top 4 club. If the aim is to develop and sell then what sort of players do those bottom 8 Prem clubs want
Perhaps we are seeing signs of them getting that more now, we've gone from signing little wingers on mass who premier league teams have hundreds of in academies to talking about defenders like Morrison, Edwards who I do think have more sell on value because those Premier league clubs don't have great defenders at the moment. Brighton do that really well stacked with goalkeepers who they are making good money on with loans and selling them
Aside from all that I just want to see us have a plan to win the next football match put in front of us, a lot of what the club talk about for the last 10 years has always been 2/3 years away from being achieved and no matter how many years have gone by we are still that 2/3 years away from seeing results. A cynical person might say thats a smart move to ensure you are never judged and keep your well paid job which you could certainly aim at Les, Ramsey etc and maybe we'll say the same about Nourry in a few years [Post edited 28 Aug 15:22]
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 12:59 28 Aug 2025
Since we beat Derby in Feb we've played 17 games and conceded 2 or more goals in 10 of those games thats ignoring pre season where we let in 6 in one game and 2 in a few others.
To stand any chance we need to stop doing that and Hayden gives us a better chance of achievening that.
he won't fix the problems of playing out through midfield but there isa lot to be said for staying in games and giving ourselves a chance of winning |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 12:57 28 Aug 2025
Kevin Gallen was getting stick yesterday not not being positive enough on the WLS podcast following a 7-1 defeat
James who I do the Hoops & Dreams preview show with (New episode on youtube now) got some right stick yesterday for posting a stat that Dembele has never been on the winning side when starting a game at Loftus Road as if how dare you state a fact when Dembele is obviously brilliant
The difference between how great everything is that I read online and the reality of watching them on a matchday is quite big |
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Reply | Wrexham away tickets
at 15:26 27 Aug 2025
yeah looked at that but Lenny henry's gaff is sold out
Might give this one a miss |
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Reply | Charlton Line Up
at 15:25 27 Aug 2025
He looked good in those dead rubber games where he had time and space on the ball, I think that may have fooled them into thinking he can do that all the time but as soon as teams press him he disapears
It's frustarting as he has shown a lot of ability on the ball he just doesn't have the spped or strength to make that count in this league. |
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Reply | Charlton Line Up
at 15:00 27 Aug 2025
I don't for a second think it can work but he's the type of player we need in midfield to play out through midfield, thats why they signed him |
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