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Reply | Take Me Out to the Ballgame
at 09:01 22 Oct 2025
Back in 2016 me & Mrs SLM did a 2-week west coast tour of the US (Boston -> New York -> Philadelphia -> Washington).
We went to see the Red Sox in Boston, tickets we bought before we went. They got trashed by the Orioles (it felt very QPR as the boos rang round the stadium as the Orioles hit two home runs in an innings and stretched their lead...) Found them overall very snooty though, the attitude of a staff member I had a mini-chat with in the club shop in the afternoon of the game was dismissive of anyone non-Bostonian going to watch the Red Sox, and whilst I enjoyed the experience it felt very much like going to watch Liverpool with the Fenway Sports connection. All the history, all the arrogance etc...
When we were in Philadelphia we picked up a couple of tickets to watch the Phillies as they had a home series against the Mets whilst we were there and we could see the stadium lit up from our ridiculously high hotel room.
Absolute opposite experience. Went into the club shop before the game, employee clocks we're two British people, got really excited that a couple of British tourists had decided to come and watch his team, dived into his pocket and pulled out a baseball card for us of the home ground (a much more modern facility than Fenway Park!) then went into the backroom to give us a certificate to certify our first game at Citizens Bank Park. Its absolutely the sort of thing thats actually intended for children but he was so genuine and so enthusiastic that we were really touched by the gesture.
So as a result, I have a much bigger soft spot for the Phillies. They were also crap at the time which brought me much more into my sporting comfort blanket with supporting QPR, and the game that night went on forever and was God-awful quality, eventually finishing 2-1 to the Phillies were it felt like anyone trying to score a run was like, in Clive's words, trying to sh*t a snooker table. Again, much more QPR! |
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Reply | Parking at Derby
at 13:31 21 Oct 2025
Its quite some years since I've been but I remember there being lots of parking in some of the industrial/ex-industrial areas around the stadium.
I would say when it comes to place explaining how far something is to walk to, you can almost always convert it as a "fat American" pace, and therefore take a good chunk of time off for what it would take a normal person to need. |
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Reply | Beating John Terry
at 10:21 16 Oct 2025
Well done!
If you're not already part of it, feel free to join the QPR Runners group on Facebook/Strava. We're a relatively small bunch, but all QPR fans who run and share our exploits. There's even QPR Runners kit, a "home" and "away" version (Dennis the Menace of course!) |
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Reply | Keeper conundrum?
at 08:45 9 Oct 2025
Is it really necessary? If Murphy Cooper continues to impress at Barnsley then surely he should be coming back here next summer with an aim to be #1, otherwise what's the point (from his perspective) of staying with us?
Walsh I think has been stunted by too many years on the bench, he needs to go an spend a solid 2-3 years as a #1 in League 1/2 if he wants to make it in the Championship in future.
Despite our impressive recent form I still think it unlikely we'd be serious contenders for a top-6, so surely you'd just stick with Nardi for the year with the aim to bring Cooper back, rather than spend unnecessary money on another keeper who isn't probably going to make an enormous difference to the team you've got? |
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Reply | Players with great starts who then wobbled
at 16:29 6 Oct 2025
I remember Jordan Cousins coming off the bench for his debut when we rifled Leeds 3-0 in a season opener and he looked amazing and...well...that was about as good as he ever got. |
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Reply | Fan Chants and Where They Come From
at 13:31 6 Oct 2025
An interesting one is to think of song tunes which were once popular, but have now disappeared as the song itself disappeared from popular culture.
Like, football chants based around The Automatic's "Monster" was quite popular for a few years in the late 2000s, but as the band and song disappeared into obscurity so has football fans coming up with chants to it. |
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Reply | Players With Wobbly Starts
at 13:24 6 Oct 2025
That was when we were in the top flight in year 2, Clint was the mainstay left back for the title winning season.
Danny Shittu got sent off on his debut in a 4-1 trouncing at Peterborough, definitely got better after that. |
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Reply | Owl be seeing them in League One Sheff Wednesday Vs QPR match Thread
at 18:12 27 Sep 2025
Its a funny one really, from a brutal truth standpoint with all of Wednesday's issues every club in this division should expect 3 points from them, but that also makes it a huge banana skin fixture.
And in addition, you have to play to earn wins, no-one is going to roll over and give it to you (well, excepting us at Coventry perhaps...) so if you're not on it you'll get caught out.
A point better than none, always. |
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Reply | Women’s Rugby World Cup final .
at 16:55 27 Sep 2025
England just look head and shoulders above everything, no-one has really given them a close game.
That said its clear the gap between a full professional team and one that isn't. And the Canadians were brilliant against New Zealand last week, but they've had to crowd fund elements of their trip to England, just shows the difference funding can make. |
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Reply | Owls’ problems coming home to roost – Preview
at 15:40 27 Sep 2025
Councils owning football grounds is a quickfire way to crumbling, unsafe, grounds within a decade. Clubs spend the bare minimum already, councils would do even less. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 21:57 26 Sep 2025
Blackburn Rovers have banned the Lancashire Telegraph from all club premises because they don't like the local press reporting objectively, and have even been pressuring Charlton to ban the journalist from The Valley tomorrow.
Embarrassing, but it seems grown adults behaving petulantly when they don't get their own way is becoming ever more normal. |
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Reply | Bircham isn’t happy
at 09:01 23 Sep 2025
I've got a work colleague who's a Reading fan and he said they gave him the nickname "Cheeseburger" as it was the first English word he learned, allegedly. |
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Reply | Bircham isn’t happy
at 12:32 22 Sep 2025
I think those of us that are probably 20/25+ are a bit bemused by it at first because we've never really seen it before, but this thing has been the done thing in Europe for a long time, and you know what, I like it.
It means we've won, it is a bit of fun, its another moment that's able to send everyone home feeling happy.
Will it feel a bit silly in a meaningless end of season game? Probably. Will it look silly if you've done it in September and are still relegated come May? Probably.
Is it fun in the actual moment though? Yes. Yes it is.
Carry on lads. |
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Reply | Dembele
at 09:00 22 Sep 2025
End of the day its elite sport and to be in the team you've got to be better than the guy you're up against.
So that's Dembele's only real choice no matter how he's feeling, be better. |
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Reply | 2025/26 squad photo
at 11:51 18 Sep 2025
Its almost a one-to-one ratio of support staff to players.
I think back to when Ollie was manager first time round, I'm sure his coaching staff was just Scott Rushton, Gary Waddock, Kenny Jackett and Prav Mathema as physio!
Things have changed somewhat. |
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Reply | QPR sponsorship curse strikes again
at 11:50 18 Sep 2025
I met a couple of guys behind Guava a couple of years ago at a trade show in Manchester and I was rather unconvinced by their patter then. It was just after their initial sponsorship with us was announced.
I went and looked them up on Companies House afterwards and they were just another Fintech company that had received a huge chunk of investor cash and was swallowing it up at an incredible rate.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if they collapse in full after this, felt it was always a matter of time in a crowded market full of companies all doing the same thing. |
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Reply | Applauding a quality opposition goal
at 08:53 16 Sep 2025
There's quite a lot of applause from behind the goal for both of Gareth Ainsworth's goals at Rushden & Diamonds all those years back.
As well as the goalie Billy Turley screaming at his centre back Barry Hunter after the first, which as Ian Holloway rightly pointed out is hilarious, what did he expect him to do?! |
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