| Forum Thread | 'Marquee' Rs signings who were (successful) 'statements of intent' at 04:48 8 Jun 2024
I'm thinking, e.g. 1. Tony Currie 2. Mark Falco 3. John Spencer 4. Loic Remy 5. Djibril Cisse The feelgood factor's back, so, feck FFP - don't you agree it's time for another? And, if so, who would you consider (unrealistically but tearing-up the-Champishly)? Danny Ings? Aleksandr Mitrovic? The Terror Bat? I'll get me meds. [Post edited 8 Jun 4:53]
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| Forum Thread | Interesting BBC piece about Bristol City academy at 20:22 28 Apr 2024
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68628932 Food for thought, especially with regard to their targets for Academy graduates in and/or about the first team squad on matchdays. It made me wonder what we are doing in terms of trying to emulate their model going forwards, e.g. by looking at what other clubs are doing so much more successfully than we have been (which is probably just about all of them). Definitely a good question for Marti at the next Fans Forum, methinks, as to how he sees the current set-up and how it can be improved. [Post edited 28 Apr 20:25]
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| Forum Thread | The Preston keeper at 23:17 21 Apr 2024
Just what was going on with him (not that we're not delighted of course)? That howler was sub-schoolboy stuff - if I didn't know better, I'd say he'd taken a bung or been on the wacky baccy. He dropped another clanger in his box later too which could easily have led to a second, and generally performed like a bag of cats on a hot tin roof. Without him, we'd have been staring down the barrel of another 0-0, and it'd be touch and go-ville. Decent team performance and all that, but we still got lucky. [Post edited 22 Apr 0:34]
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| Forum Thread | QPR commentary at 13:02 19 Mar 2024
Listened to the Extended Highlights v Sunderland, and found him/it pretty awful, rather stupid, and all round an assault on the eardrums. I miss Nick London - but wit, style, individuality and putting your head above the parapet rarely end well in this world. [Post edited 19 Mar 15:03]
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| Forum Thread | Consistency at 22:58 10 Mar 2024
It's the thing Gerry F. used to preach, but the thing only the top teams, by definition, ever deliver, so it makes me laugh when fans here revile our team for their lack of it, as it's precisely what teams in our position display. If you want consistency, don't follow QPR (or most clubs), or just try to get your head round the fact we are where we are because we don't string more than a couple of good performances together right now. That's the maddening beauty of sport. If you don't like it, take up stamp-collecting. [Post edited 10 Mar 22:59]
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| Forum Thread | Chair at 13:22 7 Mar 2024
Looked off colour last night, as I mentioned. Thoughts from the hive? [Post edited 7 Mar 13:23]
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| Forum Thread | main clarifications tonight at 19:00 2 Mar 2024
1. The players are/always were (more than) good enough - they needed a plan/organisation/training/trust in each other, and a commitment to applying it on the pitch. 2. Marti (I had the odd misgiving) has been/is a complete and utter tonic to our troops. Hopefully this is front and centre in the match report. Either way, we should all acknowledge (1) and (2) now, and draw a line under previous hyperbolic nonsense. I see us not just staving off relegation, but able and needing to aim at mid-table. For all their possession, and the help of the referee, we made Leicester look ordinary, and our goals were away team triumphs. You Rsssss! [Post edited 2 Mar 19:01]
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| Forum Thread | Looking/staying up at 21:41 24 Feb 2024
That's 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat from our last 5 games: 10 points out of a possible 15, or, if you prefer, 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat from our last 7 games. 2 points a game is promotion-winning form - keep up that record and we finish with 61 points. Realistically, though, 4 wins and a couple of draws should be enough, and we have 3 home games to come next month. Check my maths/temperature, but I'm feeling we'll do it. [Post edited 24 Feb 21:44]
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| Forum Thread | Most under-rated players at the Rs at 20:04 25 Jan 2024
2nd thread of 2 in this exciting/now concluded series! Here's your starter for 10 (all wingers): Ian Stewart Gareth Ainsworth Nasser El Khayati |
| Forum Thread | Most over-rated players at the Rs at 21:49 24 Jan 2024
Rob Steiner. Gerry loved him inexplicably, but I thought he was pony. Six goals in a couple of dozen games, and only 100 odd games in his whole (albeit injury-curtailed) career. I rest my case. |
| Forum Thread | Cook on Offish at 08:29 22 Jan 2024
Bloody hell - dour and downbeat or what, even when he's praising the likes of Sints' pep talk! Sounds like he's here under massive duress and being a player makes him miserable, so can only hope he's not like that in the dressing room. Says getting out of the doudou will be 'extremely difficult', even though, as the interviewer points out, it's in our hands to beat Huddersfield and get out of the bottom three next weekend. You're a footballer, Steve, not an executioner, so cheer up, crack a smile, and get a Dr Feelgood injection of milk and alcohol if it helps. Looking at you makes me feel like we're sinking, so I'll look away now. [Post edited 22 Jan 8:31]
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