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Reply | Gareth Ainsworth Wellbeing!
at 17:36 29 Apr 2024
As referenced on another thread, the guy lost his job in October, two senior executives responsible for his appointment fell on their sword shortly afterwards and we have a new CEO in place who was directly responsible for recommending Marti Cifuentes to the board originally, and was instrumental in his appointment this time around.
I think you can safely relax now - I would respectfully suggest that the powers at be aren't in need of having the various charts shoved down their throat that you were keen to do earlier this weekend. |
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Reply | Who do we want to get relegated?
at 15:05 28 Apr 2024
I agree, which is a real shame, given how welcoming their fans are to us, and the fact they try to play attaractive football and produce some good players.
Like the majority, I'd love it to be Birmingham for their lazy, ill-researched attempts to try to buy their way out of trouble, but I think they'll bore their way to a draw next wekend, whilst Hull are bang in form, as we know, and will be all guns blazing at Home Park. |
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Reply | How far ahead do QPR need to be for you to feel safe from losing !!
at 14:57 28 Apr 2024
Me too. I think that 3rd goal was a really significant indicator of how far this team has progressed over the last few weeks.
Even in the early weeks under Saint Marti, I don't think we'd have scored it, expecially given that it came from some clever and strong movement from Dykes.
To score that 3rd, and then to continue to go for the jugular by pressing high for the fourth - when was the last time that Rangers have truly done that? Probably that win against Reading a few years back. |
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Reply | Watch me rise up and leave, all the ashes you made out of me – Report
at 13:06 28 Apr 2024
For those of my vintage, (first LR visit in Dec '75 in THAT season) and particularly for those who are advanced in years enough to remember the very beginning of the Jim Gregory era and experienced the highs and the higher highs of a halcyon dozen or so years, that report brought tears of joy to my eyes and reminded me emphatically why we keep doing this to ourselves.
A 4-0 home win, live on Sky Sports Leeds, where even Don Goodman had to say more than one nice thing about us - PERFECTION!
And perfection from yourself to match, Mr. Whittingham. I can't see even the regular "I can't stop myself from p*ssing on your chips" anally challenged curmudgeons that inhabit our beloved Forum picking apart any of your prize-winning poetry this time around. |
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Reply | 3 Little Birds
at 10:45 28 Apr 2024
I love that one that's at the start of the QPR Podcast, sung (if you can call it that) by Mark Lazarus about us being on the "up and up" and "heading for the European Cup".
Now obviously, we would have had to have been singing it with a touch iof sarcasm in recent years, but that soirt of mixture of irony and positive dreaming is quite fitting, I feel. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 18:23 27 Apr 2024
The one thought that crossed my mind about this rumour - besides the possibility that its simply a money thing - would be that its close to his brother Joe of course. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 18:03 27 Apr 2024
Although, of course, how stupid of me to forget, that particular person is exonerated from any kind of finger-pointing in this particular context because he "fancied Willock" to the point where he was having to deny rumours in public that he was going to "take advantage of a situation" to swoop in with a cut-price deal to snaffle him up to Glasgow.
Maybe...just maybe...Willock's head was turned by all this attention to the point where Ainsworth felt he wasn't committed to the cause. I do remember one West London Sport interview where Ian McCullough asked Ainsworth directly about why he wasn't selecting Willock at that point to which the answer came that he needed to improve his fitness, and "Chris knows what he needs to do".
Now I will happily admit that I have no inside information on this, but I would suggest its a plausible alternative view. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 17:47 27 Apr 2024
Yet again, another cheap shot at someone who just happens to think its somewhat less than honourable behaviour to consistently trash the reputation of an individual who was proud to represent the club and gave it his whole enrgy and commitment, to the point where it clearly was taking a visible toll on his physical and emotional health.
I'm sure we could all think of at least one other figure from the recent past who is objectively more deserving of that kind of treatment... |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 17:36 27 Apr 2024
As I have already said, history is history, and not relevant to the topic of this particular thread, which is the point I (and others) have been making.
I doubt for one moment that Willock's treatment at the hands of someone who departed the club 6 months ago, however you wish to characterise it, is informing his decision about whether to stay or go.
Or have I misread the thread's subject heading? |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 17:00 27 Apr 2024
How predictable that this would all swing round to me and my defence of someone who, whatever his faults are, always gave his all for the cause.
We've all moved on with our lives since then - apart from some, it seems.. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 16:17 27 Apr 2024
It would also be better if people refrained from having opinions about topics they don't know much about.
Do you have any inside information on how Willock was treated by Ainsworth, or how Willock himself felt about how he was treated by Ainsworth?
There may have been reaons that seemed perfectly valid at the time for not playing Willock, which we will most likley never know, unless Willock writes an autobiography and reveals them himself.
Given how big a fan of Eze and Mehmeti Ainsworth has always been, and how positively Eze himself has spoken about his time at Wycombe, I would respectfully suggest that the suggestion that Ainsworth doesn't understand how to handle skilful players or wnat to use them per se is a tad wide of the mark.
Also using this thread as another excuse for cheap Ainsworth bashing is a bit unnecessary. He lost his job, and two senior executives resposnible for appointing him basically fell on their sword not much later. How much more blood do you wish to see shed over this issue exactly, which has now passed off into the annals of history? |
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Reply | Looking forward to clives motm pick
at 09:44 27 Apr 2024
Funny how people see the same game differntly, isn't it?
For me it was, once again, Field the Shield, who was everywhere all at once it seemed, and had some kind of other-worldly 6th sense about where he needed to be to plug gaps defensively and then start us off again on the front foot, all seemingly without breaking sweat.
We've spent many long hours previously, I know, waxing lyrical about how important he is to the team, but last night he was the central pivot and the WD-40 that kept the team flowing like a freashly oiled machine all at the same time. |
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Reply | End game – Preview
at 12:42 26 Apr 2024
I too am proudly of the '76 vintage, having made my Loftus Road debut as an over-excited 10 year-old the previous October. (1-1 home draw with Derby County., Phil Nutt the scorer, I can still see him heading it in now from my vantage point - if you can call it that - in the bowels of the Paddocks)
I remember the aftermath of the Leeds home game that season very well from seeing it on the Big Match, with the players venturing up to the top of the South Africa Road stand (or was it the Loft ?) Wherever it was, how joyous was the noise coming from there as Messrs. Webb and McLintock, shirtless by now, milked the love and applause, oblivious to the fact it would all end in anti-climactic tears just 10 days later.
Clive: I'm surprised you didn't mention the last day of 2010-11 and the famous "No Points Deduction" Darling Gianni screaming fit (complete with dance moves taught to him by our secret accomplice David "Red Light" Pleat). Given the end of season billing that famous day also had, and the fact we lost that game having taken an early lead, but ultimately the result didn't matter anyway or dampen the celebratory mood around the ground, I can see some kind of prescient relevance for that game tonight. |
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Reply | Marti-His Part in our Victory-match thread vs Weeds
at 12:49 24 Apr 2024
..And with any luck they'll be knackered after all the effort they put in to the Boro game this week, plus the journey down to us, plus Farke was whingeing about losing Dan James to an injury so he won't be fit on Friday. |
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Reply | Anyone else getting a bit apprehensive?
at 12:26 15 Apr 2024
I think having two home games (even with our dodgy form at HQ so far) plus none of this "3 games in a week" malarkey, a full week on the training ground, and a fully fit squad to choose from are significant plusses for us this time around.
I trust Saint Marti to find the key to unlock enough from our bunch of misfits to sneak us just above the dotted line - probably on goal difference, and only after we've shed half a stone in nervous sweat on the final day. |
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Reply | Adam Crozier
at 16:01 12 Apr 2024
Didn't he get the boot from there for falsifying orders or some such?
Perfect training for his current role, then, I guess  |
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Reply | Cifuentes on Plymouth Draw.
at 19:17 10 Apr 2024
Experience, calmness under pressure and the ability to keep the ball in the oppo end of the pitch - which, admittedly, didn't exactly play out as it was probably intended to |
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