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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 19:40 8 May 2024
Have to disagree that our "going light" during the last pre-season is the key reason why we were lucky with no long-term injuries being sustained by our key players. It's simply down to good fortune and thank goodness it lasted for the duration of the season under the stewardship of the MC.
That strategy isn't the sole preserve of QPR and we will be beset with long-term injuries in the future to some of our key players, whether we continue to "go light" during pre-season or not. It's sport, which isn't an exact science, and injuries will arise with some seasons being worse than others in that regard. Mercifully, we got off rather lightly this season. [Post edited 8 May 19:57]
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Reply | Palace put price tag on Eze
at 13:30 7 May 2024
Totally agree. Attended the game last night and Wharton, wow. He was the best player on the park last night for me. Comfortable with either foot, always available to receive the ball in all areas, likes the physical side of the game. He oozes class already and that's with just 4 months' premier league experience.
There are a lot of good players playing at Championship level who I believe would acquit themselves much better in the Premier league than many of the foreign imports. Still can't believe that a premier league side didn't sign Gyokeres from Coventry. He's better than that ponderous lump Manure had up top for them last night.
I'm Rangers through and through, but Palace do generate a good atmosphere at their home games. Like us, they've now got a very good manager in place who has got them playing good football. [Post edited 7 May 13:34]
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Reply | More to the Point
at 18:07 4 May 2024
Pray for Gazza the Great and his wellbeing. The "legend" who left us below Rotherham after 14 games. [Post edited 4 May 20:43]
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Reply | Midlands Beach Party - Coventry Versus QPR Match Thread
at 12:41 4 May 2024
Personally only agree with the number of changes made if the other party does the same. Coventry haven't and should win comfortably, in my view. Just Walsh and Hayden as changes for me.
It's a pity, because were we to win, we would have picked up 50% of the points available since the MC took over, which is the kind of fillip that bodes well for a vastly improved campaign next season. |
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Reply | Palace put price tag on Eze
at 18:05 25 Apr 2024
Mason-Clark is already Coventry's. They signed him in January and loaned him back to Peterborough. Mark Robins and those supporting him have had a very successful track record in identifying strikers, who contribute in the goals column, and attacking midfielders who also provide a decent number of goals.
I suspect he may well be another successful signing for them. [Post edited 25 Apr 18:10]
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Reply | Dion Sanderson
at 19:57 23 Apr 2024
Rather remiss not to include:
I can go around and smash a lorry driver's head with a rock and break his skull, if I so wish.
Oh I forgot, the perpetrator of that heinous act plays for us, so he's absolved. [Post edited 23 Apr 20:12]
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Reply | Cov
at 18:14 21 Apr 2024
Totally. |
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Reply | Cov
at 18:02 21 Apr 2024
Absolutely. The condescending remarks made by Tw*tterface in particular towards Coventry have been totally disrespectful. Coventry's two strikers, Wrught & Simms have performed at a far higher level than Manure's Hojlund.
I hope they do it. It's about time ignoramuses like Tw*atterface begin to realise that there are some very good players and top coaches in the Championship, with Robins being one of the best. [Post edited 21 Apr 18:13]
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Reply | We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers
at 12:44 17 Apr 2024
"Move, anticipate, have some kind of instinct for goal". Watched the Southampton v Preston game and you saw all those traits in Che Adams. A player who Birmingham bought for £1.6 million.
Instead, after four years of being first-choice striker, we have the antithesis of the above. We will struggle to recoup the £2million we paid for him. Alongside his new contract, I fear he won't be going anywhere, as there'll be no club in this league willing to match what he's earning here. As for Celtic or Rangers, I struggle to see him being in their contemplation. [Post edited 17 Apr 12:59]
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Reply | Sincs vs Brobbey
at 10:41 16 Apr 2024
Just had a look at his goals' record this season in the Eredivision. 17 goals in 26 games.
Can we do a swap deal please. Ajax are world-renowned for developing players, who knows, they may be able to achieve what seems like the impossible with Armstrong and improve his goals' output.. |
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Reply | Hull City Reflections Away
at 20:56 13 Apr 2024
Highly likely they would have been if Liam Delap hadn't been out injured since the start of the year. I was impressed with how he led the line when Hull played us at home in December.
Suspect he'll be loaned out by City next season to a Premier League team. [Post edited 14 Apr 0:32]
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Reply | Weekend Championship Games
at 20:51 12 Apr 2024
It was an excellent goal scored by their back-up striker. If only ours could run at defenders in the same manner with the required close control before the composed finish. |
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Reply | Smyth tonight
at 16:41 10 Apr 2024
Totally agree.
His constant diving, thumping of his fist on the ground, outstretched arms and petulant histrionics when the referee doesn't award a free-kick in his favour, are all rather tiresome. Him and Armstrong are pretty puerile in this regard [Post edited 10 Apr 16:42]
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Reply | Smyth tonight
at 12:48 10 Apr 2024
That was league 2. He won't be afforded that opportunity in the championship to just cut in like that. He will need to show greater guile and technical ability with the football for it to work at this level.
The fleeting moments he has played on the left, he hasn't looked comfortable in my eyes. |
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Reply | So frustrating.
at 11:25 10 Apr 2024
Smyth was playing in league 2 last season, where he was hardly prolific: 10 goals in 42 games. His spells with other clubs in league 1 have only yielded 9 goals in about 70 games. It's therefore not surprising that he has squandered the vast majority of chances that have come his way this season. |
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Reply | Pilgrim and Bare It - Plymouth Vs QPR Match Thread
at 08:52 8 Apr 2024
There does appear to be, in certain quarters, a degree of disdain towards Plymouth which worries me. They're about 9th highest scoring team in the league, which can only be achieved if you have forwards worthy of that job title within your ranks.
Alongside certain sections of our fan base shouting "going down" to Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, when that result leaves us still in peril of relegation ourselves, its all rather puzzling and totally misplaced.
Just hope Hardie: 12 league goals, 1st season at this level, and £1million Whittaker: 19 league goals, don't start scoring again tomorrow or the spectre of relegation will come back into sharp focus. [Post edited 8 Apr 9:14]
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Reply | Grim reading these stats of our goal scoring:
at 19:36 7 Apr 2024
Should we stay up this season, which I believe we will, can the club contact Mark Robins at Coventry to enquire and learn how he has managed to have a ridiculous success rate with strikers and attacking midfielders at this level and on a budget that was lower than ours for a number of years.
We bought Dykes for £2million. Roughly at the same time, he forked out less than that for Hamer and Gyokeres. Within three years they have got the best part of £35 million by way of a return on an initial outlay that was less than what we paid for Dykes. He's since got Simms and Wright scoring regularly after difficult starts at Coventry. To the point that I wouldn't bet against both of them getting 20 league goals before the end of the season.
Even their back-up striker, Matt Godden has 6 league goals, just one fewer than Dykes & Sinclair. Godden has managed 9 goals in total. He signed at the start of the season an attacking midfielder: Sakamoto who had scored 7 league goals before injury; O'Hare has 7.
With an eye already on next season, they signed in January, the promising attacking talent from Peterborough: Mason-Clark and loaned him back for the rest of the current season. Coventry might miss out on the play-offs this year, but they are building impressively for a realistic launch next season under the stewardship of the excellent Mark Robins. [Post edited 7 Apr 19:56]
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Reply | Rumour Plymouth manager gone
at 07:16 2 Apr 2024
I most definitely held that view, as they have a couple of forwards who have scored heavily in the case of Whittaker and regularly re: Hardie, in the league this season.
I reckoned without the magic of the MC to transform us into a side that has now picked up 38 points from 78 since he took over. Conceding less than a goal a game: 25 conceded in 26 games has clearly offset the paltry goals' output from our forwards.
I hope they manage to stay up, but obviously, not at our expense. [Post edited 2 Apr 8:15]
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Reply | A positive team that cares
at 00:00 1 Apr 2024
He's "tainted" because he was totally incompetent at this level. He was an okay footballer, hardly deserving of being labelled as a club legend in my eyes. Such accolades should be the preserve of the likes of Stan Bowles, Les Ferdinand, Paul Parker, Alan McDonald, Andrew Sinton, Charlie Austin etc, who all delivered at the highest level.
Wasn't togetherness and unity, as now evidenced under the MC, the supposed unique selling points of Gazza. 14 games under GA and only garnering 8 points, is why we are now still fearful of getting relegated. Hopefully, we have now dispensed with the old boys' network appointment, as the remedy, for good. [Post edited 1 Apr 0:47]
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