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Reply | Overtaking National Express coaches – Report
at 09:59 3 Oct 2025
Great report as per usual.
For me it isn't necessarily the players that were wrong it's our quality and decision making that always let us down when we need it most.
Examples - fantastic ball from Madsen - Smyth gets to the byline perfectly and then just smashes it straight across the six yard box into nearest defender. Anything, and I mean even the worst scuff that goes backwards towards the penalty spot and we're 1 up. It's such a simple concept that will be regularly (like daily) drilled into wide players but we fail to make the right decision.
Strange square free kick to Mbengue - often works as it draws the first man out and you slip your free man in - here it was Saito just one easy pass from being in a glorious position to shoot on goal. What happens - wasted long shot that never had a chance.
The lack of quality on the final ball was ball-achingly painful as well. RND had numerous opportunities to deliver a whipped cross and managed 0 of any real purpose, often hitting the first man.
Smyth beats his man all ends up - is away and should be bearing down on goal - instead his second touch is so awful it sends the ball the opposite direction and is somehow tackled by the defender he's just beaten.
Frey making the wrong decision to shoot when he had 2 players in advanced positions and the defence exposed.
It feels like it is catching when you are watching it, like the players try to out do each other in who can provide the most wrong decision or least bit of quality.
I guess that's why I'm looking forward to seeing Chair back as soon as possible. |
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Reply | Team v Sheff W
at 16:20 22 Sep 2025
Last season at Loftus Road we put Morgan on Bannan in a man-marking role for certainly the first half and to be fair it worked, that is until they scored and we had to go chasing the game. Bannan plays so far back, the man marker is basically a 10 but I'm all for having specific plans for the opposition. Agreed - if you stop him from playing they lose 75% of any threat. |
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Reply | The Biggest Loser
at 17:24 18 Jun 2025
Teams we have played a good number of times i.e. 25+, it's Man Utd & Liverpool - a pathetic 11-15% win ratio. |
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Reply | Our crowds these days compared to years gone by....
at 16:20 24 Jan 2025
The bit that always grated on me the most was games against Manchester Utd & Liverpool in the late 80's through to mid 90's. Loftus Road would be full to capacity and then Barnes or Giggs score and the whole of the School End and basically 75% of Ellerslie would explode in celebration. We were nearly outnumbered in our own stadium - used to drive me round the bend.
On the flip side it was nice sticking it to them when we won the odd game. |
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Reply | Saito's goal
at 17:02 22 Jan 2025
Willock vs Sheff Utd away under Beale? |
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Thread | Clive meeting with Nourry
at 15:37 14 Jan 2025
Will it be a Patreon thing? If it is, can you give us any tidbits whilst we wait? Was it productive? |
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Thread | Fog - FA guidance for pitch inspection
at 07:45 14 Jan 2025
Obviously completely moot now but I wondered how that match could have gone ahead based on the conditions at kick off.
Here is the official FA guidance for fog:
Fog creates its’ own problems. Use perspectives from ground level and the back of a stand – check forecast (remember that there is a responsibility to paying spectators).
If was farcical from what I could see and i don’t understand why the kick off wasn’t at least delayed and an orange ball played at the very least. |
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Thread | SKY stat from last night
at 10:26 23 Oct 2024
At some point in the game SKY put up a stat I hadn't seen before and it blew my mind - can't quite remember the specifics but it basically had us as 2nd or 3rd in the League for shots and chances created and bottom for chance conversion at something like 6% - it summed our season up so far in a very telling way. Woeful.
That said I don't think I've ever seen so many of our shots blocked before - it seems like every game there are at least 5 good shots that end up being blocked and not even deflected - no luck with anything going our way. I've only managed to watch on TV but I've been incredulous at the amount of times tackles and half blocks have fallen incredibly kindly to the opposition in all the games as well.
Feels like the hex is back somehow. |
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Reply | Time to finish with the Dunne experiment?
at 10:09 15 Apr 2024
Agreed about the set piece impact, but we've stopped utilising him as an out ball in both the Plymouth and Hull games. If he plays then we have to have Paal on the left to give us a better balance / more attacking outlet.
On a separate note, Willock on the left with Chair as the 10 worked much better in the 2nd half. I've never understood why we haven't re-implemented this since Willock has re-emerged as a player again. Think back to the Beale September and those beautiful triangles they and Paal used to form. When they've been on the pitch they have been physically miles apart which is weird when they play so well together. |
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Thread | Time to finish with the Dunne experiment?
at 18:07 14 Apr 2024
Was there yesterday and I’m afraid Marti got that one wrong 4 centre backs a la Swansea was horribly wrong. They were so mobile and tiny and there weren’t really any crosses to deal with. Desperately needed mobile full backs to close the gaps out wide and get up the pitch to pen them back.
We’ve also stopped utilising the advantages of having Dunne as an outlet at right back and it totally nullified him. Think back to the successes at Blackburn, West Brom, it was all about pushing Jimmy high and winning the knock down against smaller weaker wingers and full backs. We didn’t do that once yesterday. |
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Reply | Hull City Roll call
at 17:21 12 Apr 2024
I'll be there, live in Leeds but the company I work for are based in Hull.
Pubs-wise probably counter-intuitive but the best ones are in the Old Town around the Minster - The Head of Steam being my favourite, but they are all proper pubs. Probably don't need telling but avoid the Whetherspoons at all costs. |
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Reply | We lost one of our longest standing true supporters on Tuesday
at 23:21 28 Mar 2024
As one f the QPR supporters in the wider Wareham family, I can attest to the wonderful servitude my Uncle Tommy gave to the club. He was like a father to my own Dad and I probably wouldn’t have the passion and love for the club that we all collectively have without him.
I will always cherish being taken to watch the team in the mid-eighties as an impressionable 10 year old and would happily drop by V block in Ellerslie Road whenever I had a ticket there in later years (my season ticket was in the Upper Loft so this was more difficult on a regular basis) to have a catch up and discuss the finer points of the game at that point.
He was a wonderful QPR man and will be sorely missed.
RIP Uncle Tommy. |
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Reply | So go on - that ref yesterday
at 16:46 18 Feb 2024
I thought the first one was really odd as well. Bell pulls up with an obvious hamstring pull, Andersen is away and down the line and the ref stops it - why? Would genuinely like to know. |
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Reply | The Wednesday on Saturday Match Thread
at 21:00 16 Dec 2023
Was there today and most of the observations are accurate. Kakay is an absolute liability, I coach U14s and would be pissed off he any of them had cleared it backwards like that and then in the big pressure moment to put us 2-1 up he can”t even hit the target - disgraceful.
That said I said at half time I would be surprised if Wednesday were to score as they were absolutely shocking. The main problem today was second balls - we barely won any and we let Bannan dictate everything again as per usual.
We played some neat stuff on occasions but not enough, Chair didn’t see enough of the ball 2nd half and we didn’t take our chances when they came (a familiar story).
Field simply has to score in that position.
Dunne got dragged out of position when there was no need, got rolled again (we’ve seen that before) and combined with Kakay being nowhere meant their goal was simplicity personified.
It was basically typical QPR - no matter which team or season.
V disappointed. |
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