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Reply | Ref
at 19:10 25 Oct 2026
One of those rare refs where we’ve won more times than we’ve lost.
Like how he handles games, think he quite enjoys football unlike most of them. |
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Reply | Our Big Jim
at 08:23 25 Oct 2026
Been my favourite since he stepped on against Orient.
A loyal servant who’s carried on regardless in some sides that could stink the place out. He deserves to see some success, ideally a Championship medal and a place in the top league. |
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Reply | Best Performance in years.
at 08:14 25 Oct 2026
Very enjoyable and entertaining game, you don’t get too many sides who come down here to play football and we showed, for first time in many years, if you want to play so can we.
Watched Swansea beat Norwich recently, but their defence looked vulnerable behind their full backs in a game Norwich could have won in the first half. JS clearly set us up perfectly for this game.
Much has been said about 442 yesterday but it felt to me that having three essentially central midfielders out there in Kamara, Varane and Vale was the key. We could drop into a 442 when required with Poku, who had a very good game, transitioning either 442 or 433, but the three midfielders really restricted them moving the ball into space.
At the moment the table suggests 76 points gets you eighth place which is extremely high, it may be that their are eight or nine teams this year who could equally get automatic promotion or miss out entirely on the play offs. |
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Reply | Being told to stockpile
at 08:28 24 Oct 2026
Yes, apparently Putin is going to cut our cables, Iran have infiltrated and will initiate bacterial warfare against us, malicious actors are going to shut the entire internet down.
At least that’s what all the media reports concentrate on. Of course, it’s all bollocks as they mislead us, as ever.
The true reason is our energy policy under various governments has put us in a position where we import virtually all our energy, have removed most forms of storage, purely on the basis that if we aren’t drilling it out of the ground we don’t need it. The idiots in charge don’t want us to hear this but if your lights do eventually go out and your frozen food rots, you can be sure they’ll blame everyone apart from the actual villains, themselves. |
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Reply | Gadgets you fell in and out of love with
at 18:56 23 Oct 2026
You’re dead right, I try to pretend it’s not really there these days. When it gets warmer I think I’ll have a go at dismantling it. No doubt I’ll start with a screwdriver and end up with a sledgehammer! |
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Reply | Injuries
at 18:50 23 Oct 2026
I seem to recall 2002/03 was a pretty good season. A pre season you could describe as a specific turning point…
The 2002 RAF Halton Camp:
The most prominent instance of military training for an QPR side occurred ahead of the 2002/03 season. QPR’s fitness trainer at the time, Scott Rushton (a former Army man), collaborated with Flight Sergeant Geoff Hancocks to put the squad through a grueling military-style training programme at RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire. |
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Reply | IFR funding levy
at 16:03 23 Oct 2026
Standard jobs for the boys stuff.
100 staff, that’s more than one per club, and to do what?
If they need £18 mill then maybe cut out the middle man and the premier clubs could just give that £18 mill to the 72 clubs in the EFL. £250,000 each not to be sniffed at.
You cant help feeling that the biggest winner here will be the Independent Football Regulator. |
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Reply | Gadgets you fell in and out of love with
at 15:45 23 Oct 2026
Similar to above, bought a running machine and set it up in the garage. The kids loved using it and thought maybe I ought to give it a go. Probably due to my build and weight, the thing had a penchant for stalling mid run, especially if you picked up speed, which is a great recipe for pulling a groin muscle.
Anyway, gave that up, kids went off to uni, and due to its sheer weight, has sat in the same spot, unused for nigh on 20 years.
I’m still working out how to get rid without the council changing me 125 quid to take it away. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 16:13 22 Oct 2026
I was surprised to see that our turnover was bigger than Swansea and only slightly less than WBA.
Under the new rules, the discrepancies you see on transfer spend should level out over the next 3-5 years between clubs like us and them.
The thing that handicaps us most is the size of our ground. A stadium that caters for another 10,000 fans would generate over £5 mill a year in ticket sales alone. Stadium size is a game changer but unfortunately it’s been a game we don’t want to play.
Until we do something about that we’ll be struggling to better ourselves. |
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Reply | Saturday's referee
at 19:23 21 Oct 2026
One of those rare refs where we’ve won as many as we’ve lost.
No draws, all very symmetric.
Sheff wed LW
Ipswich L, so we should win that next one
Swansea W
Gulp. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 15:18 20 Oct 2026
One day I think football will realise that effectively banning the slide tackle has led to so many knee and muscle injuries.
Madsen got caught late in a standing tackle v Derby, Mbengue similar a few weeks earlier when approaching tackle from behind, was jumping about holding his knee after and the way his leg went I was amazed he managed to carry on then. Slide tackles, neither of these would have occurred.
Are there any physios/doctors in football actually looking at this? |
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Reply | Vale of Tears
at 21:27 19 Oct 2026
Well he seems to have his best games when we’re in the ascendancy, his worst games when we’re up against it.
It was a generalisation but by and large home games mean ascendancy and away games you’re up against it.
If we could find his best position that might help. |
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Reply | Vale of Tears
at 09:15 19 Oct 2026
Had a lot of time for him when he arrived. As mentioned above, I doubt if you asked him his best position whether he’d even really know himself.
Madsen Edwards Kamara when we play three across centre mid looks good, suggesting he’d be a sub in that set up.
At home, if we play two CDM, then he’s been okay on the right (suspect his goals/assists count is way better than Poku, for instance) but away from home, he isn’t so efficient.
Sub away, starter at home for now. He’s a good player but needs to show a bit more metal now, it’s the Championship, not carpet football at Chelsea. |
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Reply | Clinical Blues deliver Rangers reality check – Report
at 08:25 19 Oct 2026
Nice report. Missed this game completely and haven’t fancied watching the goals back, but intrigued to read we played two in CM.
This is the issue I have with JS. On the rare occasions we play three CDM we look good, very good. We are compact, it adds protection to the full backs, it lets the wingers think predominantly as forwards, it just bloody works.
Quite why he wants to change that, against the kind of pace and power team that we’ve struggled big time against, season after season, is unfathomable.
That said, was expecting a hiding somewhere this month, but if we’re going to move on, JS needs to settle on a formation that works or it will unravel again like last season. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 11:02 18 Oct 2026
Yeah, we’re very reliant on team work which is fine but it doesn’t half make a difference, when you’re up against it, if you’ve got a poacher who can nick a goal out of nowhere. That’s something we don’t have.
Missed the game all round yesterday, did we set up as a 4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1 ? I’m thinking Harvey Vale here, as much as anything. |
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Reply | The team that spent the most.....
at 22:12 17 Oct 2026
We cannot seem to beat top 5 sides.
Worrying thing is after only eleven games, Norwich aside, you could predict these as the teams who’d finish ahead of us. Stoke recruited well this time round.
Need a top notch performance next Saturday. |
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Reply | Rampant Rangers rout wretched Rams (again) – Report
at 08:50 16 Oct 2026
I’ve seen this before. There’s something about being a QPR supporter, essentially schooled in adversity, we’re quite unsure how to handle comprehensive wins with a superior side.
One down, 2-1 win, that we can thrive on. It’s just the bit, those rare times, when we step on the pitch with a side good enough that we expect to win and not only that, they go out and show they’re good enough to do it.
I’ve noticed, when the roofs about to fall in, the crowds go up.
Was in a box many years ago, we were in Division 1 or the Premier League, I can’t remember, and at the end we got to go on the pitch and have a shot or two at the away end. We used to win games for fun at that time. Yet I remember, as I looked up above the goal, the scoreboard said ‘crowd today, ten thousand and something, thank you for your attendance’. That’s something that’s always stuck with me, like it’s defined where we really wanted to be, as if we weren’t entirely comfortable with raging success.
If this all goes pear shaped, the club don’t need to worry, we’ll be there. If we are to become successful, bare with us, we’ll all get there eventually. |
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Reply | 10 Games in
at 07:59 16 Oct 2026
On target for 78 points, 70 will get us top eight.
They’ll be a nasty defeat somewhere, probably quite soon, it’s imperative these players set it aside when it happens.
If we keep doing the stuff we’re doing will get that 70 points, if we get a spark up front anything could happen. |
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Reply | Glen Kamara
at 07:46 16 Oct 2026
Previous seasons I’d describe us trying to keep possession like a game of pinball, frenetic.
This fella has changed all that. |
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Reply | Alfie Lloyd - Well Done
at 18:47 15 Oct 2026
Think perhaps that playing three across the middle means your defenders can spend more time defending and your attackers attacking.
That big hole between full back and winger doesn’t seem such a big hole anymore. Noticed midfielders are now doubling up with the full back too. It just makes us look more compact. |
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