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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 16:30 25 Jan 2026
Yet there were two 3-game weeks when we got 6 points. Average 2 points a game which is promotion form. I believe the manager is learning. It's never going to be easy including keeping the players fit and rotation which always involves compromises. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 14:50 25 Jan 2026
Well Keith Andrews is obviously well tuned into standard sports management bollocks.
If you could tune athletes to be able to withstand two attritional away matches, the travelling and time away and have no more affect than Wrexham's three home matches in a row I am sure we would be doing it and no doubt everybody else would too.
The thing is there are times when you are advantaged and times when things are against you. We tend to forget when we profited from the advantages and the deluded start to believe we are therefore better than we are. The disadvantages we might use as excuses, which is regarded as a sign of weakness, but that doesn't mean the disadvantages were any less real. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 12:50 25 Jan 2026
Apart from all of that the three games a week thing has been loaded against us. 6 weeks with two away games and only two weeks with two home games. So tough weeks made tougher still by the schedule.
Without an exceptionally clever owner like a Tony Bloom or Matthew Benham we are just one of twenty four clubs trying to fight each other up the greasy pole. |
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Reply | Traitors UK thread **WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS**
at 00:04 24 Jan 2026
That's the way I saw it too. Both Faraaz and Harriet (earlier) managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory having figured it out and uttered the magic words Traitor on Traitor for the Fiona v Rachel bust up.
Fair play to Rachel and Stephen though. Worthy winners. |
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Reply | Form Guide:
at 20:48 23 Jan 2026
Unrealistic expectations would include expecting to look good away at Stoke, or at Oxford in the wind, or winning away at West Ham, obviously. You can always hope but there seem to me to be plenty on this message board who are addicted to moaning and disappointment. I am enjoying watching the defence getting steadily stronger and looking forward to our best two attacking talents, Burrell and Chair, eventually getting back to give us a lift. |
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Reply | Form Guide:
at 14:09 23 Jan 2026
Unjustified expectations are a killer in sport.
I just go to a match hoping we’ll win and to be entertained. No expectations of winning however lowly the opposition. We’re a mid table team improving gradually with a stronger squad with more Championship level players. Unless luck goes our way and the players confidence grows I don’t see things changing much. |
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Reply | Form Guide:
at 13:54 23 Jan 2026
Fair enough Myke. We’ll have to agree to differ.
What I see is many people work back from results which makes up their mind as to how well we played. Whereas you can play OK and lose and play poorly and win. So often it’s just the run of the ball and a single incident or two that decides a match.
The other thing people, including you, do is assume that league position is a good guide as to whether we should beat an opponent. You’ve just done that. Watching the Championship all these years I cannot see why anyone would confidently make that assumption. It’s all much more random than that. |
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Reply | Form Guide:
at 00:13 23 Jan 2026
What makes you think the performances vary that much?
These days I see around half the matches either in person or on live TV. No streams.
I read stuff here telling me the team played well or dreadfully and in my eyes they played just like QPR usually do. This or that player may make a bad mistake or show an occasional bit of special quality. Unlikely to be repeated any time soon. Fickle luck. How the ball falls in the area etc.
The differences are the opposition and the results, not the performances. Some lowly opposition are quite difficult for us. Some top teams find us difficult all depending how the players and tactics match up.
It’s the Championship. Forget about ‘form’. |
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Reply | Form Guide:
at 21:41 22 Jan 2026
You really should know better after all these years.
As far as three quarters of the Championship is concerned results are more or less random and ‘form’ is meaningless. Lose to a bottom three team one week and beat a playoff team the next. Go on a winning run for a while, followed by a losing run, repeat. It has been the same for ages? Little to choose between the clubs.
Internationally though the Championship is a strong league better than most countries top divisions. |
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Reply | Just back
at 19:43 22 Jan 2026
Sure it was a poor quality game but nowhere near the worst I’ve been to. The wind blowing straight down to the car park end didn’t help. At one point Madsen took minutes to take a corner due to the wind keep shifting the ball.
But Oxford’s defence has let in less goals than ours and is no pushover so I guess without Burrell, Chair, Saito etc 0-0 was always favourite. |
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Reply | Madsen
at 22:38 21 Jan 2026
LFW ratings make Madsen our 6th best outfield player. Whoscored ratings our 3rd best.
If he scored 12 goals in a season plus 12 assists Premier teams might show an interest but don't you need to be very good indeed or a few years younger as a Championship player to attract much interest? |
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Reply | Madsen
at 18:58 21 Jan 2026
Much improved and now I’m one of the many who should be eating humble pie after earlier criticism. Important to the team, particularly with Chair out, however I have Dunne and Burrell as more important.
There is a certain sort of fan who is enamoured by silky skill and composure. I’m more interested in end product and Madsen’s nothing special. |
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Reply | Dembélé new boo boy?
at 16:22 21 Jan 2026
All of which has nothing to do with Dembele being a boo boy.
He brings the criticism on himself with the limited ability, lack of effort and team ethic and should not be in the team when we have the injured back. |
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Reply | Dembélé new boo boy?
at 00:13 21 Jan 2026
Thought he was regulation poor tonight with occasional contributions which spared him from being rated dire.
JS seems to see enough in him to keep giving him a start. Maybe he is brilliant in training?
Hopefully JS will be able to reconstruct him in time out of the unpromising bits I watched this evening. [Post edited 21 Jan 0:19]
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Reply | 2026 Bond
at 16:34 20 Jan 2026
When the QPR bonds were issued in November 2021 Bank of England base rate was 0.1% and the best you could do with a five year fixed ISA was 2%. Less for shorter terms. So 5% - 2% = 3% difference. Worth the risk? QPR v completely safe.
Now base rate is 3.75% and top five year fixed ISA 4.17%
I guess the risk is less now than we were looking at in 2021. Which is a plus but still financially less attractive.
If you are happy to gamble that your money and interest with QPR is completely safe then fine. I took the risk in 2021. [Post edited 20 Jan 16:39]
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Reply | 2026 Bond
at 11:30 20 Jan 2026
Agree. The original package was financially more attractive plus the purpose of the bonds was more tangible. Not sure that the take-up will be so good for this deal. |
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Reply | Main Reason you started following QPR ??
at 21:21 19 Jan 2026
Thanks to Hull City really. 1965/66.
I was there at Uni and was taken to Hull City games by blokes from our digs. Enjoyed it so much that I looked for games at home in the Easter vac. Home being Northolt and QPR was the easiest to get to. Also at that time QPR were fighting out the Third division with Hull and Millwall. Hull were flying, with 25,000+ crowds and epic games with Chelsea in the 6th round of the cup. Hull and Millwall went up and it was Rangers turn as clear champions the following year.
What I found at Loftus Road was a very entertaining team (Rodney  Lazarus etc) and a great happy atmosphere including loads of humour. The final hook though must have been the League Cup win in 1967. Some great memories along the way. |
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Reply | ENOUGH!!
at 16:18 19 Jan 2026
Agree. I put him on ignore yesterday.
Apparently so ‘passionate’ he can’t see that he is just a pain in the *rse. Or maybe he can and that’s the point? |
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Reply | Stoke fans on QPR (whose side are you on?)
at 16:46 18 Jan 2026
Yes we are better at home than we are away. Surprise!
Actually I'd rather it was that way round. It didn't stop 9000+ of us going to West Ham last week or a full complement going to Oxford Tuesday. In fact the away support is, I think, as good as it's been for a very long time.
The thing is that you would probably find that many of us are realists about our club, but as supporters we are not inclined to keep harping on about their limitations. No doubt there are a million chances to criticise if that is what turns you on. But constant negativity is generally a massive downer. It destroys enthusiasm and destroys confidence which is a important in professional sport.
You might think that fans constantly demanding perfection is the way to improvement and calling our team goons will drive them on. It doesn't and it won't. It's just a pain in the *rse. |
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Reply | Stoke fans on QPR (whose side are you on?)
at 14:06 18 Jan 2026
My only regret from yesterday is that we didn't nick a late goal.
This seasons stats - goals scored and conceded, Xg for and against, shots etc etc all tell you that QPR are generally a more attacking and less defensive team than Stoke. Only three teams have scored more than us.
So I am not about to take any notice of Stoke criticisms about yesterday's match. There again I am a faithful and a QPR supporter. |
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