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Late goals and wild celebrations at Loftus Road......
at 19:16 11 Dec 2025

What a great idea for a thread, the hat!

One of my favourite ever cup games at HQ.

Simon Barker's equaliser in the 6th Round in 1990 was special, but just looked it up and it was 83 minutes, so while it qualifies under 'wild celebrations' maybe it doesn't under 'late goals'.

But still...I'm asking for inclusion...1-0 up thanks to Razor, only for 'Bahnes' (as Motty always called him) to exploit Seaman's free-kick Achilles heel and then Rush putting them ahead with only ten to go ("and that's it" - declared Motty).

But that was not it.
Was it, Motty?
Was it, Simon?

We. Went. Utterlyandcompletelyberserk.

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What are people’s thoughts on the Club pulling out all the stops in January ?
at 18:27 11 Dec 2025

Undecided. And concerned.

We're throwing out new contracts like confetti, we may be loading them to get around P&S, we may have spent a chunk of the Eze money, and we may have mortgaged the future - at least to some degree.

So I'm not sure if I'd be entirely comfortable with more spend.

On the plus side, we may get more money in from selling players from the previous regime. Or maybe even players bought by this one. We are getting some nice money in now.
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Mbengue Yellow card - FAO anyone who knows about betting
at 10:38 11 Dec 2025

Can we put them in charge of suspensions?

How is Mbengue looking, do we know, for a stay in Joel Lynch's Christmas in Dubai?
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nardi
at 20:51 10 Dec 2025

The thing is I clearly like him. He seems like a really good fella.

And I agree with those that say that all stats are open to interpretation, and I posted as much earlier.

But they're still worth considering.
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nardi
at 15:34 10 Dec 2025

https://fbref.com/en/comps/10/keepers/Championship-Stats

Save percentage:

24th out of 29th in our Division.
23rd out of 24th for keepers who've played ten games or more.

Sadly, this correlates with last season's stats as well.
And shot-stopping is his strong point.

Even allowing for interpretation - for instance, perhaps QPR allow more shots in front of goal or close in that are harder to save than the average team - it's grim reading.
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Free kicks, corners, etc
at 12:09 10 Dec 2025

I think the corners and frees delivery has slightly improved in the last few games, Ned?

It's not just about delivery, though, as we've said on here before. It's also about movement, runners, jumpers, decoys. We haven't looked as inventive or as urgent this season, it seems to me.
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Just back
at 12:05 10 Dec 2025

Ya, the headers total seems off alright.
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Just back
at 11:53 10 Dec 2025

RND also good again, agreed.

Cook and Dunne stats (Cook first):

Tackles (won) - 1(1)-1(1)
Interceptions - 2-3
Clearances - 7-16
Blocked shots - 1-1
Recoveries - 2-6
Ground duels (won) - 3(3)-3(2)
Aerial duels (won) - 1(1)-17(9)

These are off sofascore. They're labelled as defensive stats, but Dunne's Aerial duels seem very high - I wonder if they include attacking headers as well...
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Free kicks, corners, etc
at 11:44 10 Dec 2025

I don't think for a second that Chair just decides that he's on corners, Spaceman. That has to be decided by whoever's in charge of set pieces.

A few weeks back, Jack Supple had us 23rd in both attacking and defending set-pieces for the entire season, so we're rank at them regardless of who's taking them.

I think our throw-ins are also terrible - long throws that aren't long - and would love to see the logic behind the decision to take them long. Also, if we're going to continue to take them long, then why isn't Cook taking them.
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Just back
at 10:43 10 Dec 2025

Ya, they'd be my top two as well.
Both damn good.
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Julien Stephan - He is doing quite well !!!!
at 09:57 10 Dec 2025

Looks like that was a genuine injury, Hat.
Chair had ice on in the dugout after coming off.
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Gaffer on tonight's win
at 23:19 9 Dec 2025

I agree with him that we were ambitious in the second half, and even after the equaliser.

We pushed up more and more as the game went on (something I wasn't sure we'd do with Cook in the team) and in the last 15-20 we really went for it.

It didn't guarantee possession or position, as we lost the ball quite a bit, but I liked that we tried it anyway.

And it was lovely that such ambition paid off.
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nardi
at 23:11 9 Dec 2025

I thought he was far too deep for that corner kick.
If that went in, it would have been on him.

He also juggled a one-on-one early on, got bailed out by Dunne on the first high ball, and generally looked nervy again.

Was so happy for him on Saturday, but he wasn't good tonight.
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ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 22:46 9 Dec 2025

Thought we really pushed up and went for it in the second half.

It was enjoyable to watch. And nice that it paid off.
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ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 22:05 9 Dec 2025

Ah, Ed. That was a bad miss by the goalie.

It was a shot low to his right. From distance.

He didn't get down in time.

If he had, he'd at least have parried it.


Woo-hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 21:58 9 Dec 2025

Daphne's song....
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ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 21:53 9 Dec 2025

OH

YES
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ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 21:49 9 Dec 2025

92:00 of 96:00 played.
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ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 21:23 9 Dec 2025

Right...right....eh?
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ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 21:13 9 Dec 2025

Correct.
And funny :)
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