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Reply | April 23rd
at 19:23 23 Apr 2025
No-one is listening Mart...
IT IS THE 28th APRIL THIS YEAR - church stuff - they do not like it to be so close to Easter.... |
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 19:18 23 Apr 2025
Thing is, I could have written that from the sources on here, so its not news. The direct quotes have been reported everywhere else and you can spin it that way or you can spin it another way.
It may be right; it may be wrong, but the WLS crew have hardly been positive about Nourry from Day One have they? All of this of course makes it really, really easy for Marti to walk away and still look like the good guy even if he isn't.
Once this type of article makes it to the MSM, something usually happens although I am sure I read in that 'kin rag that we were going to get stuck with a points deduction over the Faurlin saga...
If he is going, then let him announce it before Saturday so that we can say good bye. It'd also be lovely if we knew which of the OOC players were going too...
But that requires communication with the fans so I doubt that'll happen... |
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Reply | The Swansea Match Thread.
at 15:56 21 Apr 2025
Not a single shot.
Rank awful.
Today was ALWAYS Frey from the start and Kolli to stretch them when they get tired.
Everyone poor today, but no shots in a half against this lot is as bad as it's been this season.
Our attacking threat is zero today.
Frey for Kolli,Chair and Morgan for the Danes. |
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Reply | Lucas on today's win and THAT goal
at 10:59 19 Apr 2025
Unless you re-sign the out of contract players (which might be a bad idea - see below), of course it is going to be a re-start; you can't lose that number of key players without an overhaul.
Paal - looks like he doesn't want to be here. Was awful early season; genuinely looked like he was going through the motions. Improved since the turn of the year and we may well miss him, but I'm not worried as I think he flatters to deceive. Lovely touch, lovely technique, but can't defend 1 on 1s, can't beat a man and gets 1 of about 20 decent crosses in.
Dunne - will be an utterly massive miss. Less of a liability out on the right and absolutely the heartbeat of the team. HOWEVER if he doesn't want to be here and wants to chase money or contract length, we have no choice, so he has to go.
Edwards- no chance - clearly Soton's best player by a country mile and will be their PotS next year.
Fox - steady back up, bags of Champ experience, but you'd think it's worth "gambling" by replacing him with someone younger and cheaper.
Cook - been awesome for us and before his latest injury, another year seemed a no brainer. But surely his form since that injury and the recent setback should send some warning bells? An appropriate wage for another year maybe. No doubt he will be a massive miss of he does go though...
Anderson - lovely goal yesterday and has shown glimpses in the last few games, but if we want to get better, sadly he HAS to be moved on.
Frey - THE biggest conundrum. A squad player only asked to do 15 minutes most weeks, maybe, but your no. 1 striker expected to complete most of the time on most of your games? Unfortunately, even though he worked his ass off last summer, he has simply not been on the pitch often enough. Someone less ineffective, but available for 35-40 games is a must. Shame as I love the bloke...
Saito - simple Q of whether we can afford him. If he gets a sensible offer and takes it, happy days, but, like Dunne if he is more about money than loyalty oh well...
Colback - same with Cook.He is fantastic and has shown all his class since he came back from injury and has been fairly disciplined. We need to replace his experience somewhere and need to do it cheaply. If we can't, maybe one more season, but I'd hope not to be signing anyone over 36...
So, reasons for loads of them to HAVE to go, which means an overhaul... |
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Reply | Flexi ticket help
at 19:10 18 Apr 2025
Never managed to do it on line; always has to be on the phone to the box office unfortunately... |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne Will he stay or will he go
at 14:01 17 Apr 2025
Dickie had to make up for his abysmal period of phoning performances earlier in that season. Playing for a BC contract; he wasn't doing it for us. |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne Will he stay or will he go
at 14:00 17 Apr 2025
If as most of us suspect Steve Cook is going to be offered a 1 year deal on big wages, I'd rather spend that money on Jimmy. I know wages apparently are not the thing with Jimmy, its the length of contract, but I do not trust the board to replace him with anyone nearly as effective in this team.
I am not dumb enough to come out with a "pay him whatever he wants", but he has done enough this season to prove himself a really valuable member of the squad and I am fairly sure that he'd be a shoo-in for PotS if he had committed himself to the club long term. Yes, he is limited (but who isn't), but I doubt that he would let us down, so offer him a bit more than most, but don't break the budget...
I think he will go though as his head will be turned by bigger offers... |
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Reply | Referee today.
at 17:04 13 Apr 2025
I thought that he was inconsistent throughout and certainly Bristol C players had to work harder to get booked. Their no. 3 (Pring?) committed 5-6 fouls, a few of them quite cynical and petulant yet he wasn't even spoken to. Colback's one was a yellow (thanks, JV) though.
In the first half for one of our corners, Pring is literally facing Jimmy Dunne with both hands grabbing his shirt at the chest and clearly holding him back. The fact that Jimmy won the header should not change the fact that is a foul and its in the penalty area, but that seems to be fair game these days - anywhere else on the pitch, fine, but there, clearly not.
The foul by Dickie on Saito in the pen area was sooooo Dickie-esque - done for pace, trying to get back, late, clumsy - a pen. Just because Saito had off loaded the ball before there was contact matters not, there was contact and he was clearly taken down.
...and to show he wasn't bias, the Saito chance came from Min Hyeok's blatant push on their full back, with the ref looking directly at it.
Useless, like most of them still are... |
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Reply | Colback has shown the grit we have needed
at 19:56 10 Apr 2025
Think he's been great since he came back from injury. He is a quality player at this level and just adds class; he does everything so smoothly and rarely loses the ball. Also won the in midfield to set Dembele off for the third - faultless.
But, unless he will sign for peanuts, I doubt he'll bit available for too many games next season and, as we know availability is the main ability we've been missing for the last few seasons... |
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Reply | Madsen
at 19:52 10 Apr 2025
Easy to forget when you are a QPR fan, but I suspect Oxford's start was a lot to do with nerves. They had a great win on Saturday, but this was a game they would have targeted because they are good at home and we are crap away. They did not look fluid at all until that spell when Varane put us under pressure with the silly pass back to Nardi and Madsen did his flick.
After they scored and bought the young lad on, their tails were up and they had a renewed energy and upped the press. We really, really needed Yang's goal to kill them off... |
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Reply | Nice Bristols! The QPR v Bristol City Match Thread
at 19:33 10 Apr 2025
I thought that those of us on a winning streak of starting the match thread get first dibs on the next one? 
City will be well up for it and we might not be although I'd hope that we get a striker back for that one...
Hoping for a 2-0 win Armstrong and Dickie OGs would be LOVELY.
Not sure why Dickie always gets off lightly with our fans. He absolutely phoned it in in that last half season where he was utterly, utterly crap and quite clearly wanted away. Thought he was better than us, so hope that Bristol C fail to keep him at this level... |
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Reply | Madsen
at 07:35 10 Apr 2025
He did ok, but does not have a defensive bone in his body. I am not a Paal fan, but he had to play well tonight because he was constantly exposed by the lack of support in front of him. Started really well, but regressed after that flick he attempted right in front of us. |
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Reply | You gotta laugh....I think
at 23:25 8 Apr 2025
It was cold, so bloody cold. Was on the way home after a work trip and managed to forget decent shoes - feet froze and started slipping with the frozen drips from the stand's roof. Couldn't see the game, knew we were losing, 'kin freezing, already had a 5 hour drive south with another three to go and car was parked at the end of a street that would have taken an age to get away from. I left at 72 minutes. I have never left that early in my life, didn't regret it then, don't regret it now.
Freak result, let's hope we play them away early season when their confidence will be on the floor and they will be used to losing.
Assuming we stay up of course... |
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Thread | Match Thread - Not on my Manor (anymore) - its the Kassam
at 22:27 8 Apr 2025
Stands on three sides, no strikers, no hope.
Going to be a hard sludge through the poop tomorrow with a packed away end. Got tickets with the boy, but about 5 rows apart, so may have to stoop to the "we sit where we want" types.
Dreading it.
Feels like a routine 2-0 home win with little more than a whimper from our decimated team with an utterly offensive offence. |
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Reply | Dembele has had a free ride this season
at 07:35 5 Apr 2025
Build a team around Dembele, Chair, Saito, Anderson, Madsen, Vale, Min-Hyeok, by all means, but don't try and accommodate four of them in a weak as pss slow team who are incapable of passing the ball to team mates, take throw ins, keeping possession and get constantly out worked and out fought by the opposition.
Dembele needs a stable base to receive the ball in space to run at players. He needs a striker who can run off he shoulder last man. He needs physically aggressive and tall players around him who can do the dirty work.
He has none of that at the moment with us.
Today will be a hard, hard slog. Another game with no strikers and limited outballs. It'll be something like that first half against Oxford earlier in the season over the whole game. Just hope we scrape a 1-0... |
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Reply | The Next Two Games is the Season - Shittu and Dou Dou Time
at 18:47 3 Apr 2025
For once, it is about getting a striker ANY striker in the game. Not sure I can face Dembele and Smyth rotating the lone forward role in the Championship. If we still have no Frey, Kolli or Lloyd starting on Saturday, I will fear the worst even against teams as poor as Cardiff and Oxford. |
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Reply | Ice Ice Baby
at 12:47 2 Apr 2025
My go to film in my formative years - bloody hilarious and un-PC in so many ways. Loved it - "Skeet Surfing"...
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Reply | Loading Schedules ?? Complete load of ****
at 12:28 30 Mar 2025
Maybe this is what you get if you sign ageing players and players with poor injury records?
Being injured is nothing new for Field, Dembele, JCS, Morrison, Cook, Colback, Fox, Frey and Anderson. Chair and Celar surprises, but Lloyd and Kolli are already showing signs of being injury prone...
Maybe yet again, availability might need to be the most important ability this squad needs (as well as pace (obvs). |
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