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Reply | Ilias is Back
at 21:24 21 Dec 2024
Would be interesting to know how Chair sees the bigger picture, and if he and MC view his role any differently what with the big breathing spaces of his injuries.
For me, he's still a 10, with licence to roam. I actually love the idea of him, Smyth and Saito all starting, but in that case who do you drop?
Chair definitely gave us a lift today, though. (See what I did there?) [Post edited 21 Dec 21:26]
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Reply | Smyth.
at 21:13 21 Dec 2024
Made a goal, hit the bar, and nearly (probably should have) scored another. Won us a raft of free kicks. Never stopped.
If that infuriates you, you make me look like the friggin' Buddha! |
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Reply | Preston Reflection
at 21:07 21 Dec 2024
I do rate Saito, but he was peripheral today, disappointingly. He seemed to be playing too deep and not getting ono the ball enough in threatening positions a la Smyth on the other side. That might be Marti's fault for the shape as much as the player's. Any views from the master tacticians here? |
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Reply | Was Prestons goal totally against the morals of the game
at 21:03 21 Dec 2024
I noticed Field was having a right old chin wag with the ref after it, and there was a bit of pushing and shoving with some of their players. Would love to know what was said, but that's about as likely in an Offish interview as my stepping out to the pictures with Ariana Grande. |
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Reply | Morgan
at 21:00 21 Dec 2024
What a sweet reversal! Just for once, we nab a good 'un from one of the Prem 'super teams'. (Perhaps we could sell him back to them for a small fortune in a few years!) |
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Reply | Headlines for this week....
at 18:02 21 Dec 2024
RANGERS BLOW UP PRESTON SHITHOUSE IN WEST END WHO DUNNE IT [Post edited 21 Dec 18:03]
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Reply | QPR v Not Preston again Match Thread
at 17:43 21 Dec 2024
I've been eating a few slices of humble pie on and off for a while now (though certainly not post-Brizzle), but after that 2nd half, it'll be interesting to hear from those who've insisted the entire recruitment was in the sea and Nourry an existential danger to our club. Talk about false prophets! |
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Reply | QPR v Not Preston again Match Thread
at 16:04 21 Dec 2024
Considering we're at home and up against one of the slowest backlines in the league, our inability to get the likes of Smyth and Saito on the ball and in behind to any notable effect is both baffling and infuriating. Varane also seems to have retreated to some kind of sweeper, while making Field occasionally chase balls down the line and into the corners is an exercise in futility. It's not very inspiring, is it?
They've had one shot on goal, and scored with it, and so have we, and we haven't.
Answers on a postcard, addressed to Marti, the home dressing room. |
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Reply | Are we the shithouses? Preview
at 08:37 21 Dec 2024
Ha ha, apologies for not realising your allusiveness was conscious, Clive.
Anyway, for any who might have been in the dark, enjoy the video! [Post edited 21 Dec 8:45]
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Reply | QPR v Not Preston again Match Thread
at 18:24 20 Dec 2024
Great - why not go away and have a w*nk over old Arsenal videos then?
Fortunate unbeaten mini-run or not, Marti needs to start shaping up, and his team to start treating the fans with some respect (those who actually care about watching a team that tries to playt football at least). It's extraordinary how little criticism he and the team have had since Oxford and Bristol, partly masked by plausible results. Better teams at QPR have been booed for far less. [Post edited 20 Dec 18:27]
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Reply | Out Of Contract
at 16:27 20 Dec 2024
This. When you've got absentee owners, a 14-year old with a North Korean complex as CEO, and a burnt-out, finger-raising jackass as Chairman, one's confidence in the latest recruitment is liable to be a touch dented. And that's before we get onto Marti's abilities to burnish a credible team and get it playing plausible, front-foot football, about which the jury is demonstrably out (unless you're Stevie Wonder). [Post edited 20 Dec 16:28]
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Reply | Out Of Contract
at 22:21 19 Dec 2024
Agree in principle on limiting the 'churn', but on the other hand a lot of that 'experience' has been ineffectual, injured, and/or inept (Messrs Fox, Colback, Paal, and Frey - I'm looking at you). Young or old, there's a feeling that a lot of this squad just aren't good enough often enough.
The one I'd be worried about losing is Chair as he's such a linchpin, and players with his sprinkle of angeldust are so difficult to replace, but I'm also worried about whether, or at any rate how quickly, he will or can come back and get back to the player he was. |
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Reply | Out Of Contract
at 21:40 19 Dec 2024
Frey isn't up to it, so we should offer him out (not that way - he's a scary f*cker!)
Colback gives us ballast and glue, but it looks like he's on his last legs too.
The only thing that convinces me about Fox is his terrible injury record.
Andersen has been playing his way out of staying form some time, sadly.
Paal puts the bi in ambivalent.
Of the others, I adore Chair of course, but I fear his race may be run at the Rangers.
Kolli is promising but may or may not develop.
Dunne deserves a new contract, and we should take a positive view on Cook if we can.
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Reply | post-Bristol/pre-Preston
at 16:15 19 Dec 2024
Not sure about the Hatti Jacques reference, but I like Martin, who tries to play the game in the right way, so will take that as a compliment from the mad Muppet Chef. He (Martin, not Chef) deserves a gong just for his Milton Keynes Dons team scoring a goal - set gobs to gobsmacked! - after a a FIFTY-SIX passing move, a then record in 2021 (with possession stats only bettered by Barcelona and Man City at the time) and also having the most touches in the opposition's box that year. After stamping his class on Swansea, he then went and broke another divisional record at Southampton for keep-ball, and took them up on the back of a 25 match unbeaten run. If we could one day find that elusive striker we seem determined not to, he'd be brilliant for QPR if Marti turns out to be a very naughty boy after all.
How many passes did we manage vs Bristol in one go again? Three? And how many touches in their box to their 35? O yes, 8 - I just checked!
Those joyless dullards who think football is all about winning, like Alan f*cking Shearer, and/or the most passive-aggressive rope-a-dope slaughter of the beautiful game is OK if you 'grind out' and 'fight' for a result, like Ainsworth, remind me of the kind of morons who used to charge up and down during bouts of British Bulldog in the Scout Hut my mother packed me off when I was too young and programmed and stupid to do anything about it. I like a bit of blood and guts as much as the next guy, but football is ballet with a ball. Forget possession - they're the ones who should do one!
So this week, Marti and your merry men, try to f*cking entertain me now and then (and maybe win another home game while you're there), eh? Football's what we make it!
PS I'm not always as much of a cantankerous w*nker as I might sound, and there's a nicely nuanced spectrum of views on this thread, which I'm grateful for. [Post edited 19 Dec 16:31]
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