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Luton humbling highlights scale of Critchley’s task — Report
Friday, 30th Dec 2022 18:01 by Clive Whittingham

QPR were beaten at Loftus Road by Luton Town for the first time since 1984 on Thursday night, going down to a comfortable 3-0 defeat which brings up four consecutive home losses for the R’s.

Neil Critchley has got a hell of a job on his hands here.

Queens Park Rangers’ 3-0 monstering at the hands of Luton Town on Thursday night was the first time the Hatters have won at Loftus Road in 18 visits going back to 1984/85 season — also the last time they completed a double over the R’s. In the two meetings this season Town have scored six goals, and could have had several more besides; they have conceded once, and that a freakish consolation own goal off their goalkeeper when the game at Kenilworth Road was long since done and put to bed.

More troublingly, this was QPR’s fourth consecutive defeat at home, in which nine goals have been conceded and just one scored. They have won just one of their last nine fixtures home and away, and scored only two goals across those 800+ minutes of football. Promotion certainties Sheffield United are in W12 next, and four of the five games after that are away from home including three long slogs back up north. Any hope of a new manager bounce, or that last week’s surprise win at Preston might jump-start a team temporarily stalled by mid-season upheaval, has now largely drained away through 180 desperately poor minutes against Cardiff and Luton. This team, top of the table as recently as October, is now cratering, with an attack I wouldn’t back for a goal against an U8s team, a defence conceding goals that would shame a pub side, and a midfield that’s doing nothing to help solve either problem. They can do it, we’ve seen them do it, we saw them do it in the first half at Deepdale last week, which only makes performances like last night’s more frustrating and less forgivable.

Luton took the lead on nine minutes with a goal that was coming from the moment they were able to switch good, early ball out to Alfie Doughty on their right wing. Remarkably, QPR were so narrow, their shape and stricture so flimsy, that there wasn’t a Rangers player on the Ellerslie Road side of the centre spot when the ball was played to him. Off he ran into that space, as you do, and as the home side frantically tried to funnel across and get to him they subsequently then left a Morrison’s meat counter queue of unmarked players for Doughty to pick out at the back post. Carlton Morris was in that line, running hand aloft completely unchecked by an opponent throughout the entire move, and when Doughty picked him out with an accurate cut back he finished crisply and accurately into the far corner. It’s can be just that easy.

Morris could have scored a moment before that too, when Harry Cornick’s routine long throw was nodded into his path in the penalty area, but he actually caught a scissor kick too cleanly and the ball flew straight at Seny Dieng. He did score again two minutes after half time, rendering anything that might have been said in the home dressing room during the break completely meaningless, when a free kick from the left was accidentally flicked on into danger by Kenneth Paal and Morris had reacted far quicker, with much greater awareness of what was going on, than his marker Lyndon Dykes and was able to tap in at the far post.

The defending for both goals was shambolic, but a theme of both meetings with Luton this season has been the respective performances of the strikers on show. Morris, Elijah Adebayo, Cauley Woodrow and even Harry Cornick and crusty old Cameron Jerome are all streets and streets ahead of the forwards QPR have to select from. Morris had three chances, and converted two of them. For much of the night the service, both long down the middle and low from wide, for Dykes was so appallingly bad you couldn’t help wonder what the Scottish international was meant to do with any of it, but having lost Morris for the second goal he then did finally get on the end of a good cross from Roberts late in the game only to somehow divert the ball all the way back from whence it came, past Ethan Horvath the goalkeeper, and wide of the far post by a fair chunk from just five yards out. For all my constant whitterings about FFP and the cost of strikers, Luton operate on a budget and wage bill smaller than ours, and yet have been able to recruit this collection of attackers, all of them available over the last few years for the same money or less than we spent on Dykes and Macauley Bonne — in the case of Morris and Woodrow, twice, because Barnsley were able to pick them up on a Barnsley budget from Norwich and Fulham prior to them coming to Kenilworth Road.

Whether Critchley quite grasps the size of the task in hand here yet is open for debate. His post-match interview for his first home game in charge bore absolutely no relation at all to the game I’d just sat and watched. His claims that QPR had been in some ways unlucky, that the scoreline flattered the visitors in any way, that this wasn’t a three nil game, should not pass muster with anybody who sat through it. It seems from my Twitter replies and some of the message board threads today that a portion of you agree with him. For me, Luton were greatly superior to QPR in all departments.

The new manager’s team selection raised eyebrows. Key men Jake Clarke-Salter and Stefan Johansen remain absent, with Andre Dozzell and Leon Balogun, by way of mitigation. The solution he came up with looked like a 4-2-3-1 on paper, but quickly and often started to look like the 4-4-2/4-4-1-1 he used up at Blackpool. This is what we were told to expect by our regular contributor from Bloomfield Road — a central midfield used entirely as coagulant, with any skill or flair consigned and confined entirely to the wide areas. If he is going to try that here, then this squad of players will take some crow-barring into it. QPR haven’t played with conventional wingers for several managers now — with all the recent hires preferring variations of 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 or a back three and wing backs. In an effort to find one here Critchley benched Chris Willock to select Mide Shodipo (Lord give me the strength to carry on) and although a couple of early, purposeful runs produced dangerous low crosses into the box which nobody got on the end of, that went about as well as one would have expected.

What we do have is lots and lots of modern footballer boys who would like to play ‘ten’, and here one of those, Ilias Chair, was asked to hug the other touchline. From there, one early click and collect around a stranded full back drew applause, and another dribble and low toe-poke saved by Horvath was as close as Rangers came all night. When it came to time for substitutions Chair (who, to be fair, seemed to be complaining of stomach cramps or some such) went off for Willock in a like-for-like swap, prompting boos from the crowd for a manager in his first home game — shades of Paul Hart right there. With this set up, Dykes isolated and Roberts way too far behind him doing a good impression of somebody who’d never played the position before, Rangers produced 36 crosses and found the target with four of them — 11%. More often than not inaccurate balls were being wafted vaguely into a penalty area populated by one striker and three centre backs. They went back to it time and time again, also introducing Albert Adomah to see if he could do any better, and to my mind it worked twice all night — for the late Dykes miss which he should have scored, and a free kick which Roberts flicked up and onto the top of the bar. By the end the players seemed to be in open revolt with each other, with each cross that missed its target bringing another flurry of angry finger pointing and rants at each other about who should have been where and why. Tactically, relative to what Rob Edwards did with Luton, I thought we were alarmingly bad.

Talk about tactics and substitutions and strikers and so and so forth all you like, I’m just going to repeat what I said after we lost 3-0 here against Burnley a fortnight ago — you’ve got to compete better than this. Luton, like Burnley, are a better team than us. I know we don’t like them much, but there’s no shame in losing this game because they’re a good team that will push the play-offs this season. But, again like Burnley, you’ve got to do more than this, particularly as the home team, to make life difficult for them. I don’t want to go all Mike Bassett England Manager on you here but you’ve got to tackle people, you’ve got to kick people, you’ve got to win headers, you’ve got to put your foot in, you’ve got to win at least your fair share of the first contact and the same with the second ball. QPR did none of that last night. You’ve lost to a team that wins headers, wins tackles, plays at intensity, plays with physicality, plays forwards quickly when it has the chance, and runs, and you’ve lost because you weren’t willing to do those things yourself. We were soft, with the opposition, and with the referee. Easy to play against.

I want to see somebody put a challenge in. Rangers were so passive in this game even Gavin Ward could referee it. At home, bit of a local derby, some needle in the fixture, very decent sized crowd given the ludicrous kick off time forced on us by our Sky overlords, and you’ve got players pulling their legs out of tackles, ducking their head when attacking a cross at the near post, because they’re more afraid of getting hurt than they are determined to try and score the goal or win the ball. When Luton needed to foul somebody they did so — 20 times in fact. We weren’t “at it”, as they say — a nothing ball knocked in behind Dickie in the first half looked like it might drift out for a goal kick, so he sort of left it, and Dieng stayed on his line thinking about other things, Luton guy decides to chase it, suddenly we’re panicking and having to stick it in the main stand and having a row with each other about whose responsibility it was, because we’d been too casual, because we weren’t concentrating, because we weren’t alive to the danger, because the fucking goalkeeper was fast asleep.

There was no intensity, pace or tempo to QPR’s play. Rangers had nearly three quarters of the possession, but spent almost all of that moving it around between defensive players in non-threatening positions at a snail’s pace while Luton calmly filed back into their shape and wondered what the fuck we were doing. Nobody seizing the initiative, nobody driving forwards into space, nobody committing and beating an opponent, nobody with the ability or the bollocks to play a positive, progressive ball through the other team rather than side to side in front of them. If you disagree fair enough, we all have different opinions about football, but I just can’t believe any QPR fan was able to sit through this and think it was anywhere close to fine — it was the farthest thing from fine.

I said on Twitter last night that everybody involved in this should be ashamed, and yeh I’d had a couple of beers and was angry walking away from the ground, but I stand by that in the cold, sober light of day. We’re lacking confidence, we miss Johansen when he doesn’t play, I’m prone to hyperbole and exaggeration and over-emotional rubbish, I accept all of this, but I’m fairly staggered at the amount of people I’ve heard and read today that think this wasn’t that bad, that we were somehow in this game, that it was one of Mark Warburton’s “fine margins” things. It’s from a lot of people and posters I respect as well, so I’m probably wrong, but it absolutely wasn’t, not for me. There were yawning chasms between these two teams and their input last night. Rob Edwards says his lads defended their goal when they had to which they “do well and enjoy doing” — can you say the same thing about us?

Luton who, let’s not forget, also had a gobshite manager who gave it the “us against the world” “special club” tub thumping bullshit and then deserted them in the international break requiring an unplanned midseason change of boss. They haven’t missed a beat, whereas we’re struggling to register a pulse. Are there players who now, as a result of Beale’s defection, no longer want to be here? Are there loan players who know they’re being recalled in January and now don’t want to get injured for fear of killing their second half of the season move? Are there players who think they’re off in January and don’t want to jeopardise that transfer with a knock? I don’t know the answer to any of this, but the performances have tanked to such an extent — remember Watford, Millwall, Bristol City, Cardiff? — that you can’t help but start to come up with conspiracy theories as to why. When your star man has gone from such red-hot form that when he drew his boot back from 20 yards at The Den I said “goal” before he’d even hit the thing, to now not being able to get in the team ahead of Mide Shodipo, you’ve got to wonder what’s going on. Taylor Richards came on and did a reasonable turn off the bench — his low cut back should have been a goal for both Lyndon Dykes and Albert Adomah and somehow they both contrived to fresh-air their shots at the open goal from four yards out just to really put the tin hat on everything — but he wasn’t even in the squad at Cardiff and might not have been here had Andre Dozzell not been absent. We’re apparently committed to paying quite a chunk of money for him next summer, he looks half decent when he comes off the bench, and against Livingston in the World Cup friendly, and then disappears. Perhaps we’re just shit, it wouldn’t be the first time, but it all feels just so… weird.

I guess the third goal is a perfect microcosm of all this. Doughty’s shitpinger screamed into the top corner from 25 yards out and was as pure a strike as you’ll see in the Championship all season from one of this game’s outstanding players. ‘Come on Clive, what do you want them to do with that?’, you might ask me if you’re in the “it wasn’t that bad last night” camp. Watch it back again, if only for Tim Iroegbunam’s involvement in it. He’s a kid, learning his trade, fair enough, but look at the desire and drive of Doughty relative to the QPR man. I’ve heard of central midfielders letting opponents run off the back of them, but here he lets him run off his front. There are several moments in the build up too, where a ball is bouncing and loose, or miscontrolled, and QPR could put a foot in — what’s Albert Adomah doing here, for instance? There’s a 50/50 challenge on the edge of the box for one of our centre backs to try and win, but Morris has got on the move and is there first and strongest ahead of Dickie to divert the ball back into Doughty’s path. This is pathetic stuff. We’ve lost four games at home on the spin, we’ve scored two goals in nine matches, and we’re not even getting that angry or upset about it. Zero yellow cards and QPR fans telling me “come on it wasn’t that bad”. I’m sorry, it’s not good enough.

I’d challenge anybody who thinks that any aspect of that last night was acceptable in any way.

Links >>> Ratings and Reports >>> Message Board Match Thread

QPR: Dieng 5; Laird 5, Dickie 5, Dunne 5, Paal 5; Shodipo 5 (Adomah 78, 5), Iroegbunam 4, Field 5, Chair 5 (Willock 66, 5); Roberts 4 (Richards 78, 6), Dykes 4

Subs not used: Kakay, Amos, Archer, Masterson

Luton: Horvath 6; Bree 7, Lockyer 7, Potts 7 (Freeman 76, 6); Clark 7; Doughty 8, Campbell 7 (Berry 85, -), Mpanzu 7, Bell 7; Morris 8 (Jerome 85, -), Cornick 7 (Woodrow 58, 7)

Subs not used: Adebayo, Watson, Isted

Goals: Morris 10 (assisted Doughty), 47 (assisted Bree), Doughty 81 (assisted Morris)

Bookings: Doughty 43 (foul), Clark 67 (foul), Potts 72 (dissent), Mpanzu 76 (foul)

QPR Star Man — N/A Yeh, good one.

Referee — Gavin Ward (Surrey) 6 Really struggles to police time wasting and any sort of clock running — Luton deciding they were having a water break mid-match seemed to flummox him, and the beautiful Jack and Rose moment between Potts and Doughty by the South Africa Road stand in the second half was laughably farcical — but there was nothing to referee here and he was fine by and large.

Attendance — 16, 030 (1,500 Luton approx.) Very much doubt there’ll be that many here on Monday after this.

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OutintheOrne added 18:35 - Dec 30
Couldn't agree more, something smells bad amongst the group.
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Northolt_Rs added 19:03 - Dec 30
Critchley got the starting XI hopelessly wrong. It looked like he’d never watched any footage of QPR before taking the job. His comments after the game were very worrying. We weren’t unlucky, we were unacceptably abysmal all over the pitch. A real horror show.
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distortR added 19:13 - Dec 30
Good write up. That's the limp, defeatist shite I watched.
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Geoff78 added 19:16 - Dec 30
Don't completely agree with this. You're not wrong but there is a bit more to it. We could have conceded 3 goals in the first 15 minutes (I think they may have all come from second balls) but after that we gradually got into the game. By half time we were controlling midfield and had a few decent balls into the Luton area. At half time I wasn't more than averagely concerned.

Conceding right at the start of the second half knocked the stuffing out of us and we have to believe the morale was already poor after Beale jumped ship. We then never believed we could get a goal, although we did go close a couple of times.

I agree we look too half-arsed at times just not pressurising the opposition, or willing to put the boot in when required and Luton just took the piss. It's also worrying if Critchley thinks 4-4-2 is the answer. We just haven't got the squad and waste the talents we do have - Iroegbunam, Chair especially.
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Dixie_CT added 19:17 - Dec 30
It is all a bit sad and bad at the moment. Something isn’t right and we look both rudderless and leaderless.

This can’t be levelled at Critchley, he has been here five minutes, but why one earth is he picking Shodipo to start? Is he being told to do that? Does he just want to play wingers, regardless of quality?

That was very painful to sit through, as was Cardiff, as was Burnley. Yes there are fine margins but they have nothing to do with effort and commitment, which is missing in buckets.
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Royboy48 added 19:24 - Dec 30
No conspiracy, Clive, it's becoming very clear very quickly; Beale's betrayal has poisoned the dressing room well and Uncle Critchley's post match "er.." meanderings I'm afraid don't carry any conviction, authority or even parallels with reality. It would be wrong to say he's lost the dressing room; of course not. He's just not been able to get his hands on the poisoned chalice in the first place.

To say that post Wolves-gate we are relegation form is no knee jerk reaction, it's an incontrovertible and very uncomfortable truth.

At the start of the season my FL- Block group laughed about the prospects of finishing 16th.

We're not laughing now.

Monday's attendance will be diminished; ordinarily, I would relish the challenge of defeating the 3rd world road and rail systems south of the river even with strikes, congestion charge and ULEZ. Anything to get to W12

Not now, not with all that, not in midwinter, not to watch this slop and not with this squad who give us nothing to cheer.

I'll return in the end of course, we all do

Call me out by all means, but next Monday, it's Rajput and Sky at Ron's place - and that's it.






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BlackCrowe added 19:30 - Dec 30
It was Men against Boys from start to finish, utterly embarrassing and woeful and Critchley needs to acknowledge that. If he thinks that was fine margin match, then that is a big big concern and he should expect a lot of empty seats going forward if that's what's being served up.
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Paddyhoops added 19:33 - Dec 30
It was dreadful from start to finish.
Nobody can excuse that performance .
Field as ever was our standout performer.
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Jimjams added 19:34 - Dec 30
3 5 2 NOW!
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Sittingbournehoop added 19:48 - Dec 30
Quite depressing to watch and I’ve already got a bad feeling about Critchley, he just sounded stupid with his post match comments. It was men against boys, a well organised and motivated team against a complete shambles, wrong team, tactics, and completely uninterested. I left with 15 minutes still to play and unlikely to return again soon. It’s crying out for changes at the top, if Ferdinand really loves the club, have the decency to resign. We’re making no progress and clubs like Luton on smaller budgets look light years ahead of us. Critchley has a McLaren feel about him, too soon to judge, but gut feeling he’s the wrong man for the job, and Luton got the man we needed!
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062259 added 20:19 - Dec 30
Dictionary definition of meek. Not even bothered enough to draw a single yellow card.
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Burnleyhoop added 20:29 - Dec 30
“Men against boys”…stole my thunder there BC.

Have used this expression a few times already this season, and last, but we keep loading the team with fancy Dan kid footballers at the expense of hardworking ball winners.

Championship games are ostensibly a physical confrontation for 90% of the game with the fine margin wins coming from the 10% of quality shown by the likes of Willock and Chair.

Clive is spot on, we have a bunch of wannabe no 10’s that have never been schooled, or have the experience to live with the likes of Luton, WBA or Sheffield when it comes to winning the “war”.

Our midfield is powder puff and needs sorting quickly, with players that have a battling, siege mentality. We need to stop the rot, but heads are down and Critchley does not inspire much confidence from what I have seen and heard.

Utterly dreading the SU game.



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monners1969 added 20:42 - Dec 30
Just about right - awful performance at both ends of the field - I think willock is on his way - and loanees is again becoming a a coke habit which never goes away - a massive frustration for me is that this has been stored up and kicked down the road for so long - kick the shit out of shodipo like everyone else and sneer at the fact that he’s been here since before brexit - but the guy has still only played 40 odd games across his tenure - CW has made a great barometer of 50 - 100
Games - how are these players supposed to be properly judged until they’ve had that run ? In shodipos case (and I’m only using him as an example) he’s had 40
Odd games across 6-7 seasons - how are we supposed to judge him on that properly ?

For me we own him and kakay and bloody travelman nico (the list is longer than those 3) and just having these guys in the background behind loan players is a total false economy - and here we are as a fan base directing all our ire on them and not the clubs approach for nearly a decade.

“But they’re shit” “ league 2 at best” - maybe they are but how do
We know if all they get is on average 8 games a season mainly off the bench

Our new approach has to back our squad and get to the judgement quicker

So players like mide Charlie Owens etc get better through coaching or experience or we find out they can’t develop quickly and move on to the next one

This death by 1000 isn’t fair in the players the fans and is killing any chance of QPR getting anywhere near the so called promised land of the premier league
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komradkirk added 22:35 - Dec 30
you said soft early in the piece.
have to agree , some would say my mantra of "soft as shite" is used too often but last couple of seasons its what i feel we are.
we never seem to do well in a battle which the majority of championship games are.
start of season i thought we would have more about us to avoid a new year collapse like last time but now i'm unsure if we have 5 more wins in us.
wish the new manager all the best but the window will be ........interesting ?
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snanker added 03:43 - Dec 31
Mmm thinking dissension ruling in the shed and Clive spot on "are there loan players who know they’re being recalled in January and now don’t want to get injured for fear of killing their second half of the season move? Are there players who think they’re off in January and don’t want to jeopardise that transfer with a knock?" Every chance Blades will get hold of us next and that's OK so long as we show some stomach and decent endeavour and don't jump at our own shadows ! Critchley on a hiding to nothing already !!
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AshteadR added 08:05 - Dec 31
This feels a lot like what happened towards the end of Warburton’s tenure. Not sure what’s going on behind the scenes, but it doesn’t feel good
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thehat added 09:13 - Dec 31
Spot on as always Clive.

Very disappointing and teams come to Loftus Road knowing that if they are organised and aggressive they will leave with the points.

Yes we can play nice triangles in neutral areas but that doesn’t win you Championship football matches.

Neil Warnock liked to have a number of “bread and butter” players to compliment the flair players and apart from Dunne and Field we are lacking players who enjoy doing the ugly side of the game.

I am now nervously looking over my shoulder as the relegation places are firmly in our rear view mirror. We somehow need to cooble together another 15 points and regroup in the summer.
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Andybrat added 10:29 - Dec 31
Guys I get all the comments and don’t agree with all ( except CW, what is going on?) all I know is not turning up to support isn’t going to help. Saying that my wife told me the other night not to go Monday as the knock on affect at home not great. Somehow we have to keep the faith and I think all agreed Critchley was the best of those available, the irony being he and Rob Edwards could have been in opposite dugouts if timing was different. I still don’t get why with a squad of so many no-one seems to be able to get the ball in the back of the net. Hopefully see you all Monday?
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CateLeBonR added 10:41 - Dec 31
I guess I’m somewhere in the middle on this performance because I thought we were played off the park. Although I also thought we were unlucky.

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ed_83 added 10:59 - Dec 31
Couldn’t agree more with this, thought our performance was embarrassingly short in so many areas. It’s a good job we’ve got a decent number of points on the board already: this feels like a team that’s in deeply entrenched relegation form, not just suffering a temporary blip. Serious work required on the fundamental mentality we’re bringing to games.
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MelakaRanger added 12:23 - Dec 31
We are in free fall and I genuinely fear for the rest of the season. Bottom 3 is a very real possibility. I am not impressed at all with Critchley. He doesn’t Instill any confidence to me.

I hope I am wrong but we need one hell of a change around to arrest this decline and there’s no Charlie Austin coming to the rescue, like 2 years, ago this time
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Marshy added 12:30 - Dec 31
The team selection certainly raised my eyebrows. Shodipo - how come? On paper this looked a certain defeat. Overall I didn’t actually think that Luton were that good, but we were so bad we made them look world champions. Teams have gradually learned how to play against us. Luton pressed us well all over the pitch and closed us down. When this happens we don’t seem to have any answer for it. But in the second half when we did get a little more time on the ball, and some decent crosses into the box, there was no one there. We always tend to focus on players that have scored lots of goals, but I’m just wondering if Lyndon Dykes holds the record for the most missed - on the line - goal opportunities. A player that is rarely in the right position, or anticipates the run of play. It’s fair to say that he does put the effort in, but has there ever been a more unintelligent centre forward. But most of the team have an awful lot to answer for after that performance.

Obviously we are not privy as to what goes on behind the scenes, so we can only speculate. However, there is no doubt that the whole MB debacle has upset the applecart in more ways than we can only imagine. Where do we go from here. Your guess is as good as mine. If some players don’t want to be here (whoever they are), then get shot of them in January, and hopefully get some new blood in. As for NC we have to give the bloke time. None of the previous events are his fault. He is still learning about the squad, and has a tremendous task on his hands. Apart from tactics, he first needs to get a grip of the dressing room, and instill some passion into the players.
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rbee added 17:03 - Dec 31
Not since Luongo or even Scowen have we had any aggression in our team and most of our yellow cards now are for pulling players back. Johansen shows a nasty streak occasionally but we need more.

The squad isn’t very balanced and we need to revamp yet again. Frankly I don’t care who gets sold as we desperately need funds to go again. The added worry is if our scouting / recruitment team are up to the job.

How we ended with Lyndon is beyond me.
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Oxfordhoop added 18:39 - Dec 31
Totally agree with all of this Clive. That’s the game I saw. People pulling out of tackles and seeming to have no plan once they had the ball. Another thing that struck me was the difference between the demeanour of the two managers. I was sat above the benches and watched Rob Edwards constantly geeing up his team from start to finish while Neil Critchley calmly watched the dross we were putting out and occasionally made a note in his note book. Doesn’t bode well I fear.
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WestonsuperR added 12:04 - Jan 1
I agree with Critchley’s comments, this wasn’t nearly as bad as performance as the scoreline suggests, possibly a bit of an overreaction from the fanbase on the basis of result only and that it was against Luton. We had far more possession, hit the bar and missed a sitter on another day we get something from the match, I was more concerned with our performance against a very poor Cardiff side.

I strangely liken this match to Hull away last year, we won 3v0 but only with a miraculous clearance from Dickie, although the result that day looked excellent and most of the fanbase delighted we overlooked the actual performance.

It is worrying times at QPR, 4 home losses in a row, but certainly this performance wasn’t as bad as many others over the last season or 2.
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