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Reply | Coventry
at 18:09 7 Oct 2025
I don't see any reason right now to assume that all or even any of Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton will be 'there or thereabouts' come the run-in - that's just easy/lazy prognostication for me. Cifuentes isn't a canny or clever enough manager for me to oversee a promotion push for one thing, but I also don't see anything in their opening games to suggest they're obvious pacesetters. Ipswich are decentish, but we've still overtaken them of late, whereas Southampton have had a magnificently mediocre start, drawing over half their games. In a couple more nails in the coffin of those who tediously insist on some indefeasible correlation between funds and performances (someone actually tried to tell me recently it had been 'explained' to me by some self-appointed prefects why we performed last season exactly as we 'should' - as if football were played on balance sheets rather than, the last time I looked, God's green grass), 'big-spenders' Wrexham and Birmingham are currently 16th and 18th.
It's very early days, of course, and just about everyone could potentially finish just about anywhere, so I guess we should all just sit back and try to enjoy the rollercoaster. If the resident punchbag can, I guess anyone can. [Post edited 7 Oct 18:11]
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Reply | What would be 'success' this season with this squad/manager?
at 12:07 7 Oct 2025
I think for me, after certain events this morning, it would also include outing the resident censors, who clearly think I 'oughta stick' to talking to like-minded (i.e. humane) humans. I wonder if QPR can help with that. [Post edited 7 Oct 12:25]
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Reply | Kone - too slow to go?
at 11:06 7 Oct 2025
He's not the quickest, but not the slowest, but he can/does come alive in the box, and four goals already is a decent return. |
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Reply | Players with great starts who then wobbled
at 18:57 6 Oct 2025
Patrick 'Don't Call Me Dave' Agyemang must surely be at the top of the tree. Out of the blocks like there was no tomorrow, scored 8 of his 15 goals for us in his first 7 games, then only 7 more in his next 60 apps! Ended his career at the legendary Cray Valley Paper Mills (1 app, 0 goals). |
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Reply | Credit where it's due?
at 18:45 6 Oct 2025
Me too, on balance. There've been some promising signs, but also some really poor/ incomplete showings. Brizzle was good to very good in parts but could easily have gone the other way - a draw would have been a fairer result - as could Oxford, even, with their chance at the end. Like another like-minded poster, I feel Oxford and Wednesday were at least 2, and more likely 4, points dropped, even if JS preferred to emphasise we didn't lose either.
Much depends, I think, on how much the likes of Madsen, Poku, Dembele, Varane, Kone, Burrell, Morgan and Vale continue to thrive and improve, as well as keeping everyone fit.
Talent and potential though that cohort possesses, there are certainly question marks about the fitness and adequacy of two or three of them. I'm far from sold on Varane and now Dembele, while Morgan for me also has a lot of learning to do and Poku is for now something of an unknown quantity.
For me, despite the partial renaissance of Madsen, and pending, hopefully, the electric return of Chair, we're still an attacking midfielder short, a canny right back, and neither goalkeeper fully convinces. So, yes, for me the squad is in a much better place than this time last year under Marti, but we're still an unpredictable work in progress. If JCS is done, we'll also need to replace him with a quality CB who's not made of glass.
Right now, I see us, at best, as playoff fringes, with, if we can keep everyone together, potentially a tilt at them next campaign. Cautious optimism then right now, with feet on the ground. [Post edited 6 Oct 18:50]
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Reply | Stephan stands by team selection after QPR draw and gives Clarke-Salter update
at 00:41 6 Oct 2025
Thank you so much - you are evidently a noble, firefighting, magnanimous crusader - quite beyond reproach. I know this because you've told me so. I, meanwhile, am a vindictive worm, which you have spectacularly gleaned on the basis of some scattered posts on a football board.
Thank you for teaching me the truth of myself. |
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Reply | Tyler comms day at Bristol City
at 23:11 5 Oct 2025
I wasn't impressed with him at the start, and still miss Nick London, but I agree he's really developing with both his commentaries and interviews. He's intelligent, perceptive, and clearly dedicated. I wish him well with his career. [Post edited 5 Oct 23:11]
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Reply | Armstrong.
at 19:59 5 Oct 2025
Easy for you to say, and even easier with hindsight. I'd be more interested to know what the player himself thinks. |
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Reply | Stephan stands by team selection after QPR draw and gives Clarke-Salter update
at 19:56 5 Oct 2025
A man of self-confessed violence condemning me for the odd supposed bit of snideness, as well as one of those who feels the need to butter his own balls by speaking for unnamed others. You couldn't really make it up - again! It's fantastic material for me as a writer, though, with people like you in this little human zoo.
By the way, have you ever considered investing in a mirror? |
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Reply | Oxford Utd Reflection
at 04:53 5 Oct 2025
That's funny, as sometimes I feel I need a battery of therapists to deal with some of the people on it. |
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Reply | Stephan stands by team selection after QPR draw and gives Clarke-Salter update
at 01:46 5 Oct 2025
Good god - if you could bottle and sell your cloud of self-righteousness, you'd be a trillionaire! As for me, if I could count the number of times I've been insulted, misrepresented, caricatured etc. etc. on this silly, lovely, website, I'd be Count Fu*kulaire from Extras. [Post edited 5 Oct 4:54]
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Reply | Oxford Utd Reflection
at 01:40 5 Oct 2025
What a bore you are! I suppose you never speak to influence or persuade. Try to wake up to the fact that we're part of the same species. |
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Reply | Oxford Utd Reflection
at 01:38 5 Oct 2025
What's wrong with being on your own - all the best people are? I suppose, for a conformist like you, the idea is frightening. |
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Reply | Armstrong.
at 21:24 4 Oct 2025
I'm sure he wasn't holding a gun to Armstrong's head, and can understand why the player sought a fresh start with a good contract at a decent and progressive Champ club. He just doesn't have the ability or nous to make it work for him, I'm afraid. |
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Reply | Armstrong.
at 18:19 4 Oct 2025
He's scored 6 goals for us and Brizzle in nearly 100 games. He's just not a centre forward - at this level anyway. Might find his feet in League 1, but for me he's probably a big unit winger. |
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