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Reply | Manager situation
at 17:06 13 Jun 2025
I'd say the appointment is on a knife edge.
He could also be a knob. |
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Reply | Fao Phil P Diddy
at 21:18 12 Jun 2025
Or not clever, I guess?
I guess I just don't get with the modern digitial technocracy, but I never upvote or downvote anything/anyone - I just read posts and write them. Whatever it is, it sounds quite childish and puerile to me.
However, if I had a quid for every argument I've entered on this site that's been misread, caricatured or supposedly dismissed (actually just dissed) in the absence of even a whisper of cogent counter-argument, I could buy out QPR's owners.
It just goes to show, I think, that (as an excellent episode of Frasier once lampooned), it's not what's said in life that usually carries the day, but who's saying it. |
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Reply | 50 years ....
at 21:06 12 Jun 2025
You're right of course - doh! |
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Reply | 50 years ....
at 16:56 12 Jun 2025
Some stat bod can correct me if I'm wrong, but we would still have needed to win the game, I think, by four clear goals to pip Liverpool on GA. |
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Reply | Come back Southgate...
at 21:45 10 Jun 2025
Why is Southgate not 'the Englishman' if Tuchel is 'the German'? Or, more to the point, if Southgate is 'Southgate', why isn't Tuchel 'Tuchel'? |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 21:42 10 Jun 2025
What's the difference between a shortlist and a 'so-called shortlist' exactly?
Is the existing/alleged list scribbled on the back of an envelope or summat? |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 15:41 10 Jun 2025
I might start one about all the stories about him called Jack-a-Nourry. |
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Reply | Ravel Morrison
at 00:58 9 Jun 2025
Who said anything about academic qualifications? You're misreading what I wrote. Although I have one or two such certifications, if anything, I agree with Julie Burchill that too much education can make you stupid.
However, I stand by my general remarks correlating boredom, addiction, and the (lack of) inner life. If you feel unswayed by them, no problem. |
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Reply | JET
at 23:05 8 Jun 2025
So because not everyone dies of drink makes it OK?
With high-level philosophical logic like that, you must holiday in Delphi! |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 23:02 8 Jun 2025
In the end, it's only football. Compared to, ooh I don't know, the decimation of Gaza, the horrorshow of Ukraine, and the burgeoning military dictatorship of Trump's America, it's comic-book levels of futility played out by self-serving, over-paid, ultimately tedious mercenaries.
Who'd be a fan, eh? We're afflicted mugs, really. [Post edited 9 Jun 1:01]
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Reply | Manager situation
at 22:48 8 Jun 2025
Tbh, I'll wait for something - anything - to come from the club. There's only so much fandom one can take! |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 22:26 8 Jun 2025
I do have a problem with it when said manager is feigning love of the club/fans while scheming behind the scenes to accelerate his departure. While I hold no brief for Nourry, I didn't and don't trust MC, didn't and don't particularly like him, and his record with us has been an often nausea-inducing rollercoaster ride at best, where he basically dug immense holes and filled them in again.
For me, assuming (as seems uncontested) MC did speak to WBA and/or anyone else, he put the club in a position where the only option was/is to start to move him out. I'd have felt upset as a fan if it hadn't acted thusly.
I also don't see a big moral difference between Beale and Marti right now, save the latter stuck around a bit longer. However, assuming he's on his way and now seeking his 8th club in 10 years on his JET-like professional trajectory (minus the prison sentence) at the ripe old age of 42, the time it's taking the club to appoint a credible successor and start pre-season planning is lamentable and amateurish. Meanwhile, we have an unpopular, inexperienced CEO, an ex-chairman sticking round like a bad smell who's supposed to have f*cked off home to the USA a year ago, and ineffectual/uncommunicative owners who speak up once in a blue moon.
Apart from that, everything's super douper hoopsa. [Post edited 8 Jun 22:35]
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Thread | Manager situation
at 09:47 8 Jun 2025
MC has been on GL for nearly 6 weeks now - and not a whisper from the club, not even to clarify what they propose to do with him (or he with them)! It's pathetic and unacceptable.
The club also, obviously, needs to be planning its pre-season and recruitment. We're supposed to be operating a professional entity, with buy-in from the fans. Pah!
What will/should happen next?
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Reply | manager
at 12:17 7 Jun 2025
It's unreal isn't it, comparing the managerial outcomes of Spuds and Manure?
One had a massive injury list, finished quite a long way below what they'd expect, but wins the Europa (albeit a tad fortunately) and secures Champ League footie.
The other had at worst average injury issues, finished worse than hey have for decades breaking abject record after record, going backwards and further backwards, loses the Europa, and have a manager who did nothing to change any of it. (Miraculously, though, despite apparently being virtually bankrupt, they are still able/allowed to spend tens of millions on their latest round of recruits - just because, I guess)
Meanwhile, one manager is out of a job, while the other is smiling through, despite an uitterly wretched season where he accomplished absolutely nothing in terms of setting up a credible team, and in fact made bad players (admittedly, not his players) look worse. Talk about stealing a living!
I'd say, in the circs, Ange's good grace (though he hardly came in with any kind of stellar club record) is so good he should go to heaven! [Post edited 7 Jun 12:18]
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Reply | Rayan Kolli
at 12:08 7 Jun 2025
If his dad is a tad OTT, I guess you're the anti-dad!
Cut the guy some slack, jeezus! |
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Reply | One For The Oldies!
at 12:06 7 Jun 2025
Isn't it the alleged(ly) greatest goalkeeping save rather than the greatest alleged goalkeeping save? (I think the fact that it was a goalkeeping save is not in dispute?)
Asking for a pedantic friend! [Post edited 7 Jun 12:06]
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