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Reply | Is anyone else feeling a bit depressed this evening?
at 12:18 2 Jan 2026
It's a tough one as we're all fans so when we play like we did against leicester we are top of the world and you serve up that tripe yesterday and it feels like the end of the world.
Always worth rembering we were not world beaters after Leicester and are not the worst team ever today but thats easy to say and wasn't how I felt during that second half yesterday |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 10:57 2 Jan 2026
I've just seen a lot of stuff about how now the manager is awful, all the players are crap thats what I was referring to with shitting the bed. I think it's bang on to criticse the performance yesterday, we were awful but I don't think that should equate to we're gonna fall apart and we're doomed which feels like the vibe at the moment. I probably shouldn't look on social media but thats where a lot of it comes from. |
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Reply | Our Pitch
at 10:20 2 Jan 2026
From behind the goal it looked like someone had driven over the pitch, was huge dents in the pitch by the penalty area. No excuse for how we played but it didn't help either side. |
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Reply | Norwich Reflection
at 10:18 2 Jan 2026
We did this after Derby home last season and also after Luton away, pat ourselves on the back look at how good we are then didn't win again for 2 months. |
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Reply | Kone
at 10:13 2 Jan 2026
I thought Burrell was the worse of the 2 yesterday, I'd have taken him off instead |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 10:09 2 Jan 2026
every manager has one way of playing, can you think of any managers who change the system and style when they fancy it.
he started this season 4-3-3 but saw the players and what we had and changed it to get the best out of them which has worked.
I have a lot of sympathy for the manager, when he picks the same team in these busy weeks he gets slated for not understanding he needs to make changes, when he changes it he gets slated anyway.
We have to make changes to thht backline. Nardi came in and did pretty well, kept the score down after Hamer was dreadful at West Brom. Hamer is also out of contract now so may well have told the club he is off or the club are not giving him a new deal and looking elsewhere, complete speculation on my part but is possible.
You have RND who can't play every game so always misses one game in these weeks with multple games. JCS is out injured so rather than risk Cook at his age with 4 games in 10 days he played Morrison in one of them. He's been doing that for a while but with JCS coming in for the odd game when we were winning.
I do get the frustrations and we have been poor the last few games but it is so tiresome to see people shit the bed everytime we lose a few games. We're a streaky team who will be really good for a few games then really bad, is pretty much the same for every team in this league. We were never going to maintain the recent run winning 4 home games in a row, the key now is to get out of the bad run as quickly as possible. Earlier in the season we lost 3 games in a row and it was back to relegation talk before we picked up again. Hopefully will be the same again |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 10:24 31 Dec 2025
I'm not blaming Esquerdinha at all, I thought he did OK the other night
I just think he did well in the Development squad and moved up the pecking order to get his chance, thats what we should be doing. Those other names you mention are in positions where either the first choice has done well and we have other back up or they are not seen as good enough.
If we are going to blame anyone for the other night, in what was a narrow defeat rather than a hiding, I'd point the finger at the likes of Varane, Saito, Kone and at times Madsen who just kept trying to play in our own half and kept giving the ball away to put us under pressue and not allow us to get up the pitch. We wasted so many good opportunites to get a cross in or have a shot by making a sloppy pass.
It seems like the manager is coping the stick for this one but he was badly let down by players who can play a lot better than that |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 23:46 30 Dec 2025
I just think with Esquerdinha how long do you wait to give him a chance. He's been here a year now and is 19, do we wait a few years?
Apart from the Ipswich game he's been fine so far, the whole point of the investment to the academy and development squad is that if you get injuries or players need a rest you can have players to come in and cover, learn and eventually become regulars. It might end up that he's not good enough like others before him which is fine but would rather see him get a chance than do what we did with Travelman with loans around the world and no prospect of ever making it here |
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Reply | Where was Chair ?
at 23:20 30 Dec 2025
He's been out injured hasn't he? Went off in the home West Brom game |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 22:15 30 Dec 2025
The manager seems to see Morgan as a right back now, he hasn't picked him in midfield since pre season. Even if you put Field left back that's 3 of the back 4 changing, I'm not sure that would have given us a better chance.
I'm obviously wrong judging by what others are saying but for me it was Varane, Saito & Kone who were a far bigger issue last night than the players who came in. All 3 of them on a sponsored give the ball away and then jog back failing to retrieve the situation.
We've been poor away from home the last few games so I wasn't against trying something different, try Field as the advanced number 10 with a high press similar to what he did at Oxford.
He was let down by the two behind him and had to keep dropping deep.Poku needed a start, I've seen plenty calling for him to start so if not last night when?
All well and good saying loan out Esquerdinha but he's here as a back up left back so we shouldn't be afraid to play him every now and then. If he's not good enough then fine at least we know and don't hang onto him for years.
I'd much rather us try something different after recent away games in the middle of a 4 game week than experiment in the cup games. It clearly didn't work but I didn't think it was anywhere near as bad as Norwich and Boro where we played a lot more of the "normal" starting 11.
I still say if Poku scores that chance at 1-1 we win the game and the mood would be very different to the same team selection. The 2nd goal changed the game and we were second best after that. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 12:14 30 Dec 2025
I don't think Dembele or Smyth are ideal either in that position. Burrell is such a unique player for us we have no one else like him. Field was able to drop back in midfield when needed as well. It didn't work but I still don't think the team he picked was that bad given the circumstances.
It all came down to a couple of mistakes at set pieces and the impact subs having no impact at all when they came on |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 11:31 30 Dec 2025
You just can't play the same team 4 times in 9 days and expect it to work. We saw when he made hardly any changes a few weeks ago we lost and the moans were he needed to freshen it up. You can't win really.
If Poku takes his chance at 1-1 it's a very different result and reaction to it. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 11:14 30 Dec 2025
didn 't Field play a very similar role at Oxford away last season and did quite well, think he scored. I can see why he played him there to try and press from the front and keep the two in midfield together. Frey has shown time and time again he can't do that anymore and Kolli is coming back from injury. Options were pretty limited
I think the way the fixtures fell this week he had to make a few changes in one of the games, for me the game came down to two moments, Poku hits the bar with a good chance and we defend a set piece poorly. That was the main difference, game could have gone either way really even with the team he picked. We actually got a lot worse when he brought the regulars on in the last 20 mins. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 10:32 30 Dec 2025
As a club we can't bang on about the development club and then when we have a promising kid never pick him.
No issue at all with him playing last night and he did fine, neither brilliant or awful. I hope he ends up getting another 5-10 games before the end of the season
I'd much rather we made those changes last night than in the FA Cup |
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Reply | QPR look to conquer away jitters at restless West Brom - Preview
at 08:24 30 Dec 2025
Thast not true, it used to be 2 or 3 games over Christmas/New Year, this extra one came in last season with the new tv deal and the FA Cup moving to a week later with replays scrapped
2024/25
Thursday, 26 December Away -Swansea City
Sunday, 29 December Away -Norwich City
Wednesday, 1 January Home -Watford
Monday, 6 January Home- Luton Town
2023/24
Tuesday, 26 December 2023 Away Millwall
Friday, 29 December 2023 Away Ipswich Town
Monday, 1 January 2024 Home Cardiff City
2022/23
Monday, 26 December 2022 Away Cardiff City
Thursday, 29 December 2022 Home Luton Town
Sunday, 1 January 2023 Home Sheffield United
2021/22
Monday, 27 December 2021 Home AFC Bournemouth
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 Away Bristol City
Saturday, 1 January 2022 Away Birmingham City
2020/21
Saturday-26-December 2020 Home Swansea City
Tuesday-29-December 2020 Away Norwich City
2019/20
Thursday-26-December 2019 Away Reading
Sunday-29-December 2019 Home Hull City
Wednesday-01-January 2020 Home Cardiff City [Post edited 30 Dec 2025 8:26]
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 08:16 30 Dec 2025
Ultimately whatever team is picked we’re neither great or dreadful, we’ll have some good days and some bad for the rest of the season and finish somewhere between 6th and 16th, I know that’s boring but that’s what mid table teams do.
It's the same across the league Watford look world beaters one week and can't kick a ball the next, same as Birmingham, Southampton, Derby, Leicester. It's a mad league this year, no one is brilliant and not many are dreadful |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 22:07 29 Dec 2025
When do you play them then? I thought Morgan was fine, Field and Morrison did Ok as well, was more the regular players who were crap.
JCS is injured again
You can't play this many games over Christmas without multiple changes |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 22:04 29 Dec 2025
we had to make changes really playg Friday, Monday, Thursday, Sunday you can't play the same team in all 4 games and may well be a few knocks which is why Mbengue was missing.
I thougth the team he picked was fine we just had too many players below their best. Varane, Saito, Kone and Madsen all very sloppy on the ball giving it away timer after time. Madsen did create a few chances but looked shattered towards the end
The subs had no real impact, Vale in particular was really poor |
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