A big old week for Queens Park Rangers and now a huge game for them at Loftus Road against Nathan Jones’ newly promoted, Charlie Kelman-toting Charlton Athletic.

QPR (0-1-2 DLLL 22nd) v Charlton (1-1-1 WWDLL 14th)

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Saturday

I don’t think anybody is any great rush to relive last weekend’s debacle at Coventry City.

The one thing I would add to Jamie’s Kermodian rant would be a word I’ve found myself using a lot over the last decade or so – standards.

The gap between Championship and Premier League means blowout scorelines like that are sadly more frequent. Sheff Utd and Southampton have been particularly prone, the latter getting hit for nine on a couple of occasions. There cannot, though, be (m)any Championship mainstays who have two 7-1s and a 6-0 home loss on their CV in the last nine seasons. QPR have conceded seven goals in a game twice in almost 40 years – August 2018 and August 2025. It’s the 12th time QPR have conceded 5+ goals in a Championship match since the EFL rebrand in 2004 – only Barnsley (17) and Huddersfield (13) have suffered that fate on more occasions in this time in the division.

Like our all-too-frequent cup exits to shite League One sides, it seems to just be accepted this version of QPR will every now and again fall in a hole to the tune of five/six/seven goals. It’s only five league games since we were getting pumped 5-0 at home by Burnley. In our most recent Premier League spell we twice lost West London derbies to Fulham and Chelsea conceding six, we’ve been three goals down at half time at Fulham on more than one occasion, we lost 6-0 to Man City.

On an individual basis I’d put this on senior players. You go three or four down, shit happens, but you stand there and you say ‘no more’. You foul, you niggle, you disrupt, you get out of there with some semblance of pride. Similarly, the manager. I hated him, but when Harry Redknapp was 3-0 down at half time against Liverpool here he put Samba Diakite and Stephane Mbia on at half time to clog the thing up and make sure a damaging 7-0 wasn’t suffered. If you are 5-0 down at half time, Nicolas Madsen is not the answer to whatever question it is you think you’ve been asked. But these wipeouts and cup exits have happened under a litany of managers, and Ilias Chair is the only player who spans the 7-1 loss at West Brom and last week (though he played in neither).

I live in constant fear of our owners walking away from this. Compared with what else is out there, what else is happening in our division, Ruben and co are pretty saintly. Sheff Wed have shown just how quickly it unravels when you’re reliant on a bloke for £2m a month (which we are) and he turns the taps off – HMRC, payroll, fees to other clubs rack up within days and weeks not months. It’s always better the devil you know for me; I’m grateful (and a bit mystified) by their ongoing generosity and we’re screwed without it. But I do wonder if this is a product of the owner being largely absent. It’s all a bit like the supply teacher is in. Who’s holding up standards? Who’s holding who to account? Who’s protecting Ruben’s investment? Who’s waiting there at Heston after a shambles like that on Saturday to give it the full Gordon Ramsay treatment? If I was losing £2m a month on a business that embarrassed its customers like that (again) last Saturday, the people running it could rest assured they’d be hearing about it first thing Monday morning in person. It needs to be clear last week is absolutely not acceptable and must never happen again.

Instead, at this club cup exits to Fleetwood Town or MK Dons are just accepted. Fans have actually been conditioned to think they’re a good thing, or they don’t matter. Resting our crack senior team up for a big assault on the forthcoming league games, which they then lose. Do we look well rested after Plymouth to you? The PR after the Home Park loss was about gaslighting the supporters who’d been there into how wonderful it was for all these kids to play. These humungous defeats happen, nothing really changes, and we airbrush it away with three more signings.

Standards in any team or organisation are set from the top and are the lowest behaviour you’re willing to accept. Once you do accept it, the only guarantee is it will happen again.

Sunday

You lose 7-1, you deserve a kicking. And we gave them one. I make no apologies for that.

What I do regret is packaging that kicking with a message board overshare and Twitter rant at three in the morning when I was still absolutely livid. Might have been wiser to let that breathe until Monday morning, but then I wouldn’t be doing this authentically if I didn’t throw myself at it and lay myself out there.

All of us who were around during the Paladini era (which I was on the wrong side of to begin with) are always going to be concerned about anonymous internet accounts appearing from nowhere, peddling spookily similar lines and transfer ‘scoops’, force-feeding absurd positivity in the face of all facts on the pitch, and then going after long standing supporters who refuse to toe the line. I have always found it really difficult when I cop it from other QPR fans anyway and waking up to being called a “cancer” or “toxic” bothers me more than it should. But, then, I’ve been horrible and spikey to people on social media over the years as well. The medium feeds it. It triggers you; you publish in rage and regret at leisure.

I’ll probably use Twitter for links and jokes only as much as possible now. It’s doing more harm than good to me, and me to it.

Monday

It’s QPR, of course there’ll be signings. Last time we lost 7-1 Steve McClaren was allowed to loan in Tomer Hemed, Geoff Cameron and Nahki Wells during the following week. His “team of men”. Nothing sweeps away the memories of a big defeat for a club and a support base hooked on ‘more blood’ than a new signing or three – particular bonus points if it’s a popular figure from the past.

Koki Saito is certainly that. Flawless character. Well liked. Fun to watch. Skilful. Great growth potential. Not enough end product last year with just three goals and three assists, but the goals he did score came towards the end (Hull A, Derby H, Leeds H) suggesting he was getting up to the speed of the division. Whether he’s what we need right now, whether that’s the best thing you could spend £2.8m on in our situation, is open to more debate.

Similarly with Isaac Hayden. I’m personally delighted he’s here. It’s a tacit and much needed acceptance that not everything can be a development prospect or part of a “project”. You’ve got to put a competitive team on the pitch which is able to hold its own in this division. Nobody is buying anybody from a team that gets pumped 7-1. Our best spell under this regime was when Hayden was here last and, while I’ve flip flopped on whether I would have brought him back and the club seemingly has done the same, I think we’ve missed him from the moment he left. You need that voice, that leadership, that presence, those game smarts. Somebody to stand there last week and put a finger in the dam. We also need some footballing coagulant in midfield to stop teams walking through us. We are pathetically easy to play against. The midfield just doesn’t exist – even going back to the fabled three last week didn’t work at all. Going right back to Ian Holloway sticking Grant Hall in there, this team has always been lost without somebody standing in front of the defence and protecting it.

What Hayden won’t solve is the midfield’s other problem of being able to progress the ball down the pitch. Varane can’t do it, Field can’t do it, and Hayden can’t do it either – remember one of the bits of fluff fed out about the Varane signing was he’s a 99% statistical match for Hayden? Well, now we’ve got two the same. He’s also unlikely to ease the queue at the treatment room door. There’s been a period in the Newcastle wilderness of course, but the last time Isaac Hayden played 30 games in a season was 2019/20.

Rhys Norrington-Davies is a career .260 hitter and the best part of his career is over. It’s a necessary move caused by the Ziyad Larkeche injury (and the somewhat cavalier decision to try and start the season with Larkeche as your first choice left back in the first instance). Sensible to guard against Esquerdinha having to do a full Championship winter at 18 with Morgan Fox’s non-union Sheffield equivalent.

For all the positives in recruitment this summer, this team finished last season deficient in both full back positions and the middle of midfield. With a couple of days of window left, it still is.

Tuesday

Fair play to the club for fronting up and going through with the regular open training session at Loftus Road despite Saturday’s result. Close connection with the players is vital for building up young support while surrounded with more successful but less accessible Premier League sides.

The training and conditioning in general, though, has to be under scrutiny at this point. For the last two seasons QPR have started woefully underdone. They’ve won just two of their first 17 matches in each of the last two campaigns and as it stands currently you wouldn’t put it past them doing so again. Having been fortunate not to slip into League One on the prior occasions I’m not in the mood to chance our luck a third time.

The first occasion was written off as an inevitable consequence of the 2021/22 overspend and dismissal of Mark Warburton, the double down with Mick Beale and subsequent meltdown when he walked out, and the all-round disaster that was Gareth Ainsworth’s time here along with a tight FFP situation. The second has increasingly been laid at Marti Cifuentes’ door since he left but I’ve maintained the Spaniard saved us from ourselves twice – once from the Ainsworth farce, and once from a summer of recruitment and conditioning that left the team woefully under prepared for the league it’s in. Cifuentes is now gone and, lo and behold, here we are again, very clearly not up to the physical demands of this division. You going to blame the head coach again?

There are mitigating factors. The transfer window closing a month into the season is an ongoing nonsense, and it leaves clubs like us who are at the back of the queue and have to do their business late inevitably a bit short to start with. I accept that. But two wins in 17 isn’t a bit short to start with. Losing 7-1 to Coventry isn’t a bit short to start with.

Everybody in the sport talks about the importance of pre-season and setting yourself up for the long winter ahead. Ours isn’t fit for purpose. Again, I wonder where the accountability and standards are. It seems, rather than admit we got it wrong last summer, we’ve doubled down and done the same again, briefing this is completely normal and we’re “midtable for injuries” while trying to blind the fans and protect themselves with nonsense statistics that our availability has actually gone up to 92% and 85% from 80% previously (as long as you include the youth and women’s teams). Anybody who watches QPR at the moment can see very obviously what is in front of our face.

I’ve liked some of the recruitment this summer. Mbengue, Poku and Kone certainly; Hayden, Saito and Burrell to a certain extent; centre of midfield not at all really – but it’s all pointless if the team isn’t fit enough to compete. How do you make signings that good and then lose game three 7-1? Because their conditioning isn’t up to it. Karamoko Dembele cramping up after an hour every week. You’re just pissing new signings into a furnace.

This international break must be spent catching up on what they’ve palpably not done over the summer and – again, standards, accountability – serious questions must be asked of the people overseeing this part of the club about why it has happened again. We cannot go into every season unable to run for the first two months. It’s nuts.

Wednesday

To really put the tin hat on it all, news filtered through over the weekend that Andy Sinton suffered a heart attack the day before the Coventry game. Now back at home and recovering, we can only be thankful the news wasn’t much worse for our beloved club ambassador.

Sinton was, of course, a fabulous player for the club in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Shamefully harangued on his return with Sheffield Wednesday for a transfer the club drove through, he has been retaken to the hearts of everybody in W12 since his return in an ambassadorial role. At that point any regular guest or listener to the Open All R’s podcast would sit through a string of interviews with former players – Mark Lazarus, David Bardsley, John Byrne, Dave Thomas – saying they never heard from QPR, the club showed no interest in them, they were regularly invited back to all their former clubs but never to Loftus Road. It was depressing. The club had lost what it was about, too busy lifting its skirt to cunts like Joey Barton.

Sinton’s arrival, an Ian Taylor idea I believe, changed all of that. With help from Ian Gillard, Chris Guy and others on the Forever R’s committee, he has transformed the club into one that values, treasures and looks after its own. You’ll occasionally get eyebrows raised and message board threads about why this player or that player has been invited back. It’s not the point, it’s never been the point. However good or bad they were, some of these lads went through it for QPR at a time when football was very different. It was my privilege to meet and interview Danny Maddix a while back. Now a taxi driver, he still looks like he should be playing, but when I said this to him he ran me through exactly what sort of agony 20 years of playing jabbed up leaves the body in. Andy Sinton has created an atmosphere of empathy, respect and welcome for all at Loftus Road.

I often think there must be more than one of him. Every time I’m at the training ground or the stadium, he’s there. And you go upstairs, and into the canteen, and he’s there again. And you come out of the lift on another floor, and Andy Sinton is there. It’s like that cartoon where Bug’s Bunny plays every position on a baseball team. When supporters pass away, Andy Sinton attends funerals. When supporters are poorly, Andy Sinton goes to the hospital. When supporters are going through tough times, Andy Sinton finds the right words. I have a friend who suffered a terrible double bereavement over the summer and said one of the worst bits was ringing the club to cancel their season tickets – Andy Sinton was straight on the phone.

Andy has a beautiful way of making people feel valued. Watch him work a room at any QPR event, he remembers everybody’s name, he shows an interest in them and what they do and how they’re getting on. He always makes the effort to speak to me whenever our paths cross, and it’s always positive – never ‘I didn’t agree with that’ or ‘that was wrong’ which I’m sure he does think, but instead always picking out the bits he did like or did agree with. To be honest, just the idea that Andy Sinton reads this drivel is a thrill but I always leave those encounters feeling better about myself.

The best thing about our club, Andy has been there for us over the last decade, and now we must be there for him. A terrific person. Get well soon.

Thursday

It is strange how history repeats. This is QPR’s worst start to a season since Steve McClaren in 2018/19, which also began with Preston on the opening day, and also featured a 7-1 loss in game three at West Brom. We responded to that with three signings immediately, tacitly admitting our strategy of the summer was flawed, and we won the next game 1-0 at home to Wigan with a goal from one of the new arrivals Tomer Hemed. Fingers crossed.

I think the club would be wise to ban mentions of “game models” for a while and stop trying to slip “the project” into every signing piece. In the same way you’d look a bit daft going down to League One with a “head of methodology” on staff, you look completely ridiculous talking about your “project” and “game model” while getting bummed in the Cov 7-1. I feel like we’re too busy looking years into the future, selling this player and that player, losing sight of the here and now. These players will be flogged off cheap if we’re relegated. And nobody’s going to buy players from a team performing as we are at the moment anyway.

If you do want to talk long term then I think there’s genuine questions about whether this is actually a “game model” five years out of date. I look at teams now and it’s all high press, set pieces, land of the giants, physicality. The days of these goal kick routines and play out from the back are being smothered. Russell Martin can’t even get it going with £60m of payroll at Rangers against St Mirren whose last wage bill was £1.6m. Every time we play a half decent high press it’s embarrassing. I look at the Brentford team we played in pre-season and it was just the size and athleticism of them that stood out to me. Meanwhile we’re adding Koki Saito back to Dembele, Chair, Smyth et al.

Short term – basics, basics, basics. You have to be fit. You have to be organised. You have to be committed, and be willing to run, be physically strong, tackle and compete. Man Utd showed on Wednesday it doesn’t matter who you are or who you’re playing, if you don’t do those things you’re nothing in this sport. Park your game model, park your project, park your sodding goal kick routine. Get this team fit, get the spine of the side set, and concentrate on competing. Once you’ve got a solid spine and base you can hang whatever little development trinkets you like off the side of that. But not before. We’re arse about face at the moment.

I’m very interested by Julian Stephan’s firm promise after the Coventry defeat that “it will be a very different game against Charlton next week”. In what respect, I wonder? This will be the most interesting team selection there’s been for a long while.

It’ll start with who’s in goal. Shifting your out-of-contract 31-year-old out and starting the 24-year-old you’ve given a new deal to makes sense for “the project”, but it ignores the practicalities of winning Championship football games. If that’s what you want to do, fine, I’m with you all the way, but give Nardi the first 20 games and then ease Walsh in gradually over the second half of the season once we have points on the board. Dropping the guy in after two starts at this level in his life and expecting it to just fly was not fair on him at all.

It's also another similarity with the McClaren year – QPR had tried valiantly to build the excellent Alex Smithies into a big sale and groom Matt Ingram as the next cab off the rank. Ingram was slung straight in at the start of that year and, well, look how that went for him and where his career went subsequently.

Friday

I think part of my reaction last weekend was driven by the doom loop this website can put me in. I’m clearly over invested anyway, which is what makes this website what it is but can take a personal toll. I’m also obviously very concerned with what’s happening at QPR right now, but I know people don’t just want to read me moaning on and being negative all the time. So, I spend the week trying to think of positives I can focus on in the match preview, hold my tongue a little bit, dress it up as best I can. QPR then go out and, frankly, do pretty much what I expected them to (I didn’t think Coventry would be 7-1 but I didn’t expect it to go well) which then makes me angry at both them and myself. I then lash out all over the internet. Then I wake up the following morning with enormous anxiety about what I’ve said. And then off we go again.

It's a good deal simpler this week. If the team has lost 7-1 and you’re sitting there on a podcast or a website like this giving it “but, hey, how about that development team” then that’s not authentic. That’s propaganda. That’s what the official website is there for. There’s no dressing this up. Coventry was unacceptable and Charlton is a huge game.

Charlton win, Nathan Jones celebrates all over the Loftus Road pitch, heaven forbid Charlie Kelman scores, it doesn’t really bear thinking about how a crowd that’s clearly living on its very last nerve would react to that, nor how the team would recover with a daunting trip to Wrexham waiting on the other side of the break. Win, new signings in the building, players getting up to speed, who knows maybe even that midfielder we’ve been talking about signs on deadline (or Ronnie Edwards, be still my raging erection) and it’s a whole different vibe.

You don’t have must win games in August. This one isn’t far off it.

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Team News: Koki Saito hasn’t played at all in pre-season following the shoulder injury he sustained playing for us at Preston last Easter. He insists he’s fit and ready to go though and is in the squad for tomorrow. Ilias Chair is “still being assessed” – which feels a lot like “you’ve had enough bad news this week” but let’s wait and see. Richard Kone has done 20 and 45 minutes so far as he builds back to match fitness – the temptation to play him from the start and then use Burrell’s pace from the bench must be strong. Kwame Poku was provisionally pencilled in to return at Wrexham after the break. To the surprise of nobody, Taylor Richards and Jake Clarke-Salter remain sidelined.

Nathan Jones says Charlton will strengthen before the window closes, specifically in their wing back positions, but haven’t done so prior to press time. The Addicks have been missing last season’s top scorer Matty Godden after surgery, while Reece Burke’s injury woes at Luton have followed him to The Valley.

Elsewhere: The Mercantile Credit Trophy weekend starts with a serious test of promotion credentials for both Marti Cifuentes’ Leicester and free-spending Birmingham City.

The lunchtime games on Saturday apart from our own feature two of the sides that were unfancied in the summer previews but have, nevertheless, made great starts. Stoke, looking to avoid eight consecutive seasons of bottom-half finishes, have won their opening three matches. They now welcome West Brom who lost Tom Fellows and Darnell Furlong for the thick end of £15m yesterday but have responded quickly by signing Alfie Gilchrist. Middlesbrough had a cup horror against Doncaster but have also won their first three league matches ahead of a visit from Sheffield Red Stripe who have shelled out £7m on Millwall defender Japhet Tanganga.

Tanganga was a big part of the reason we tipped Millwall so strongly in our season preview. With the former Spurs man sold and a chastening 3-0 home loss to Boro under their belts, Alex Neil’s side are one to watch tomorrow at home to Wrexham who continue to chuck good money after bad.

Speaking of big spenders, Ipswich v Derby is arguably the game of the day tomorrow afternoon. As well as Furlong, Town have spent £10m on Marcelino Nunez from Norwich and absolutely gone to town on the social media announcements with a monologue from Danny Haynes who scored for the Tractor Boys against the Canaries at every level from U10s up. Derby’s summer spend continues with the arrival of Lewis Travis from Blackburn, but their results haven’t matched the outlay just yet.

Coventry are somewhat out of control, with 12 goals scored in their last two games ahead of a trip to Oxford. Southampton, fresh from picking up Fellows from West Brom, head to Watford. Sheff Wed’s disasterclass claimed the notable midweek scalp of Leeds in the cup and go looking for a first Championship win at home to Swanselona who have allegedly found several million from somewhere for Celtic striker Adam Idah.

Blackburn v Norwich and Bristol City v Hull round out the coupon along with this week’s exciting clash of two sides beginning with P as Pompey host Preston Knob End.

Referee: Very differing experiences for these two clubs with young referee Andrew Kitchen so far. Charlton had this guy in charge for their 1-0 play-off final win against Orient at Wembley in May. QPR, meanwhile, haven’t won in five appointments thus far. Details.

Form

- This is QPR’s worst start to a season since 2018/19 under Steve McClaren, when they also started with Preston on day one and a 7-1 defeat in game three.

- Coventry A last week was the 12th time QPR have conceded 5+ goals in a Championship match since the EFL rebrand in 2004 – only Barnsley (17) and Huddersfield (13) have suffered that fate on more occasions in this time in the division.

- It was the first time QPR have conceded five goals in a first half since a 6-1 loss at Leeds in 2004. @JTSupple

- QPR are winless in seven home games since beating Derby 4-0 on February 14. The R’s have won just 22 of their last 82 games at Loftus Road.

- Charlton started with a 1-0 home win and 3-1 cup success against League One opposition, come into this on the back of a 1-0 home defeat and 3-1 cup defeat to League Two opposition, and have a 0-0 at Bristol City in between.

- Nathan Jones’ side are the lowest scorers in the league so far with just the one. It’s first time Charlton have scored one or fewer goals through their opening three league games of a campaign since 1970-71.

- QPR have the lowest xG of any Championship side so far - 2.06.

- Richard Kone scored his first QPR as sub at Coventry. It was his first goal in 13 games, ending his worst run without a goal in senior football.

- This is Charlton’s first season at this level since Lee Bowyer’s team spent the lockdown disrupted 2019/20 in this division. Naby Sarr equalised with the last kick in a 2-2 at Loftus Road, Darren Pratley won the game at The Valley 1-0 behind closed doors.

- QPR are unbeaten across their last six home league games against Charlton (W4 D2) since a 4-2 defeat in October 1997 in the second tier. Charlton have won three of the last five in all comps on all grounds, losing just once.

- Charlton’s League One promotion was built on defence. The Addicks kept a league-leading 26 clean sheets (20 in the league) and didn’t concede a goal at all during three play-off games. They have the Championship’s best defence so far with just one conceded (QPR have shipped ten) and their league games so far have produced just two goals. A clean sheet here would be the first time they’ve shutout opponents in their first two away games of the year since 2003/04.

- Charlton have lost just one of their last eight league London derbies (W5 D2), though did lose their last in the second tier 2-1 against Brentford in July 2020.

- Karamoko Dembele has been on the winning side just four times in his 26 league appearances for QPR (13 defeats, nine draws) His four league wins have all come away from home so Dembele has yet to be on the winning side in a league game at Loftus Road in a year at the club. @HoopsDreams_QPR – support the guys and watch their preview show here.

Prediction

In our Prediction League for 2025/26 we’ll once again be handing out prizes for being top at Christmas and overall winner from The Art of Football - sample the merch from our sponsor’s newly extended QPR collection here. We welcome a new contributor this year as QPR_Hibs won last season’s Prediction League at a canter and has agreed to lend his thoughts to the previews...

"This is a public service announcement. This is only a test ......."

Rumours that the teams will be running out onto the pitch to the strains of 'Warning' by 'Green Day' at Saturday lunchtime may yet prove to be unsubstantiated. Not that you'd be able to hear anything in the Upper Loft anyway without a major upgrade to the P.A. system - 1 million sovs to you, guv'nor, cost-price and I'm not making a penny.

"......emergency evacuation protest." I dunno, maybe Billie Joe Armstrong has watched more QPR games than I thought.

After last week's debacle at Coventry, where I managed to predict a late consolation goal from Kone if nothing else, the club have responded without hesitation by announcing three new signings. Terms undisclosed, but of course. Hayden, Saito and RND (on loan) should all improve the squad, though where they fit into the project is unclear. And we can only field 11 players at any one time. Right? Right!

There has been a clamouring on the forum this week for the reinstatement of Paul Nardi as our number one and for Joe Walsh to be dropped. I have also seen praise for Murphy Cooper's goalkeeping performances on loan at Barnsley. Maybe Walsh just needs a season-long loan at League One level before being given the jersey next year? I will be amazed if we don't start with Mbengue and Morisson at CB and Esquerdinha has been our least bad option at left back so may continue there. I honestly haven't a clue what the midfield will look like (shite, I hear you cry!) but we will surely go with Kone up top from the start with Burrell to come on after an hour.

Charlton have one win, a draw and a defeat from their three league games so far, and Nathan Jones changed his entire starting 11 for the cup defeat to Cambridge in the week. Obviously saving themselves for their big day out at Loftus Road. Charlie Kelman is yet to open his account for the Addicks so we know how that's going to pan out.

If we persist with the playing out from the back routine then I expect us to lose, but I'm hoping that common sense will prevail and that we'll stem the bleeding with a 1-1 draw.

QPR_Hibs Prediction: QPR 1-1 Charlton. Scorer – Richard Kone

LFW’s Prediction: QPR 1-0 Charlton. Scorer – Richard Kone

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FrankRightguard added 21:00 - Aug 29 Great piece. Keep on keeping on mate. We all appreciate what you do.
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TacticalR added 23:04 - Aug 29 Thanks for your preview, and thanks for trying to make sense of the current mess. What looks particulary self-contradictory is announcing everything is going to be different (the project) and then doing everything the same. I wonder if the French have a term for 'déjà vu'? The sudden change from Nardi to Walsh looked suspect. Either the plan was crudely executed or there was no plan. As for tomorrow, it's looks like it's going to be the Kelman vs Kone show. Perhaps we'll get a sense of who got the better bargain. Andy Sinton. Yes, always seems to be everywhere and always knows what to say. He was born to do this.

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royinaus added 01:40 - Aug 30 Thanks Clive You have an uncanny knack of venting all those frustrations on my behalf and your putting into words means I don't have to. Being an (over) 50 year QPR fan I feel I've earned the right to do exactly that but given the time, effort, passion and expense you've endured over the years, no one has earned the right more than you. Also glad to know it's not just me that worries about our owners pulling the plug and wonders why they do it...

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AussieRs added 08:36 - Aug 30 Clive, echoing comments made elsewhere, please know your columns are one the few bright spots of supporting the Rs, even after the week we've just had! What made Coventry a particularly piquant affair for us downunder was the pleasure staying up to 2am to catch it. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
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HastingsRanger added 10:54 - Aug 30 Clive, you're not negative, you're a realist, which means negative comments about things that are negative! It's always an outstanding read that real supporters (as above) appreciate. On another note, Coventry's opener involved a player offside in the six yard box jumping over the goal bound shot. Did it affect the outcome, no. But imagine if it had been a game we were competing in. PS love the deja vu reference above!

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