| Taarabt the new Buzacky 23:39 - Feb 23 with 9823 views | ThGrimRanger |
Oh we're QPR fans, so a touch of skill here and a flick there seem to make a player beyond critism.
The combination of watching MOTD and having a few beverages has inspired me to share my extremely unpopular belief that Taarabt is frankly the reason why we're neither scoring goals or creating chances. I'm judging him purely as a premiership player and the fact that his 40+ appearances have delivered very little.
To his credit he seems to be more motivated and harder working than previous seasons but our last 5 games at home have been without a goal and for me he's the main culpit.
He was piss poor today but bar the Fulham game and Chelsea away he's done very little since promotion. He looks overweight, unfit and one early substution away from a bus ride home. I cringe at his 25 yard pea roller shots or his free kicks.
Bet that he still thinks, like most Rangers fans do, he's our best player.
Tin hat is on.
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| Taarabt the new Buzacky on 13:56 - Feb 27 with 1200 views | Clive_Anderson |
If we had a load of good players who he has been keeping out of the team then you might have a point. The fact is that 90% of our players have been completely useless this season and Tarbs has been the best of the ones who haven't. We didn't exactly play brilliantly in the games that he hasn't played.
So picking on him makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. | | | |
| Taarabt the new Buzacky on 15:42 - Feb 27 with 1181 views | TacticalR |
Tim Vickery has a nice phrase about this: 'When the team is playing well the star shines'. | |
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| Taarabt the new Buzacky on 15:45 - Feb 27 with 1177 views | Clive_Anderson |
I honestly think Messi would struggle in our team at the moment. No one is creating time for other players, there's no shape, no running off the ball, no keeping possession etc. | | | |
| Taarabt the new Buzacky on 15:54 - Feb 27 with 1171 views | WestbourneR |
The movement is dire. I really thought movement was Harry's strong point but there is a whole lot of strolling around especially in the final third.
We just need to up our energy levels.
When HR first came in, games like Sunderland, we were full of energy and running and we looked good. We should have buried that game. I don't know why we've gone backwards. | |
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| Taarabt the new Buzacky on 16:19 - Feb 27 with 1160 views | Clive_Anderson |
Players are hiding. They're making runs behind the opponents players so they don't have to get the ball. It makes the player on the ball look bad as they've got to try and run around 5 players or make a very difficult pass and they invariably can't manage it. | | | |
| Taarabt the new Buzacky on 17:48 - Feb 27 with 1149 views | WestbourneR |
You might be on to something there Clive. And that makes big plus arguement for Adel as, at the very least, he always shows for the ball.
I do think Granero as been very poor but he does get screwed by the fact there is poor movement in front of him.
Such a massive shame we didn't get more wins when the inital 'new manager syndrome' was in place as we played genuinely well in those games. In fact in between Harry and Hughes we put in one of our best performances - away at Man Utd.
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| Taarabt the new Buzacky on 09:23 - Mar 3 with 1044 views | TW_R |
Haha. Fair play Gaz. It looks like the "punters" get it right once in a while then! 
Will be interesting to see what happens next week. We still have little creativity in midfield and the Betty goal shows what can happen if you get the ball into the box from wide areas. | | | |
| Taarabt the new Buzacky on 10:18 - Mar 3 with 1029 views | Clive_Anderson |
He needs to get further forward and run at players more. Sometimes it feels that he is trying to hard to be a team player rather than just go for it.
Although using a flukey win at Southampton after having a third of possession as evidence we're much better without him is a bit dense. | | | |
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....he was dropped today after a few very average performances.