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Reply | Injuries
at 15:28 25 Oct 2026
I was also wondering this. He has been such a Brucie Bonus being fit this season so hope it’s nothing serious.
Also (and likewise sorry if this well known) do we actually know what is up with Madders? |
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Reply | Ref
at 15:11 25 Oct 2026
Was the pen just a tad soft?
I’m pretty sure it was a pen because he did catch Smyth so I guess by the letter of the law that’s all that matters.
I suppose it’s just the combination of Paul not really heading towards goal and the fairly theatrical tumble he took made me think it was a wee bit soft, but I guess that is more fool the keeper for taking him down than any criticism of the ref.
If it was us we would be frustrated but in fairness more with the foul itself than the decision. |
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Reply | Nourry
at 15:04 25 Oct 2026
“We have spent a lot of money so we are where we should be.”
But this is simply not true, is it?
In terms of money spent on the overall squad/ annual budget we are typically placed around 15th give or take. Even some of Nourry’s critics on here admit that finishing around 12th would be satisfactory. There is a basic point I think a lot of Nourry-sceptics ignore: the fact that we have spent more than in earlier years is irrelevant when trying to work out where we “should” be in the table. The key metric is how big our budget and total spend is relative to other teams. As myself, Nix and others have shown, a lot of “middle of the pack” teams in this division are now spending eye-watering sums that absolutely dwarf our outlay.
I do accept that there is a big question over the sports science side of things and ultimately that is on Nourry, particularly when Williams is so much his guy.
But here’s another way of looking at this: if we can get to 8th place after 12 games, having thrashed Swansea and Derby, drawn away to WHU and got a couple of away wins, typically achieved with 5/6 absences, just imagine (it’s easy if you try etc) if we had all our key people fit for the run in - I think it could be really exciting. Big “if” I totally accept.
As someone posted on the match thread yesterday, despite all our injuries we were still able to put out a strong starting 11. That’s due to the strength in depth Nourry has built.
There were loads of posts praising Stephan for our victory, and rightly so. These passed without critical comment. Yet someone posts a pro-Nourry thread and for some it’s like the offending poster has farted loudly in church. |
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Reply | Best Performance in years.
at 17:53 24 Oct 2026
Agreed.
Also underlined what we all really know anyway: that winning matches is about incisive moments. We could probably have scored a couple more, we were really dangerous. They must have had hundreds of passes but most of them were in their own half or in front of us. |
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Reply | swansea at home....match thread..
at 17:49 24 Oct 2026
Smyth player of season to date?
Not as lauded as the likes of Rolls Royce Ronnie or Prince Charles and in a way it doesn’t even matter as it’s a team game, but tieless running as usual and nowadays with an end product. He doesn’t get an assist for “winning” the penalty but he effectively made us two goals today.
At the start of the season probably well behind a number of our diminutive wingers in the ideal 1st 11 of most Rangers fans. But at Rangers we don’t get to see those first 11s, so being a) always available and b) chalking up all these goal contributions he has grown indispensable. |
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Reply | Best Performance in years.
at 17:33 24 Oct 2026
Particularly considering the injuries, it was a really solid performance all over the park.
Kone showed what he can do and hopefully silenced the boo boys.
Smyth electric and an incredible provider of goals at Loftus this season.
Defence super composed. |
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Reply | Hawaii 5 0
at 17:29 24 Oct 2026
Hahaha! That went right over my head until you explained, I just thought “but random, haven’t heard that in decades…” |
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Reply | Keeley Adamson
at 17:28 24 Oct 2026
V good today and much better going forward to. One of the real pluses of the season to date |
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Reply | QPR Loan Watch 2026-27
at 09:29 21 Oct 2026
The club used to be criticised for only securing loans at too low a level. These current loans were broadly praised by fans as a sign of progress that we could now send them to clubs higher up the pyramid.
I’m not sure about sending them lower. If they can’t even get on the bench for a L1 side they prob aren’t good enough for us yet. The likes of Morgan might have to be sold for a small amount, drop lower down. He is still young and might work his way back up. But it might not be under contract to us. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 09:22 21 Oct 2026
Good post mate and agree with a lot of this.
Thanks for the explanation on PTs.
As I hope I’ve made clear I’m not here to defend Williams and nothing I have heard warns me towards him.
I’ve also said I would have no problem in binning him. My provisos were more practical: have we identified what specially we are doing wrong (early season talk was that we had abandoned / modified this slow fitness build up but in any event most fans agreed we generally started the season looking pretty fit). What specifically would we change (other than his generally rude/ unpleasant behaviour)? How do we scientifically assess the success of a potential successor?
To repeat there maybe a lot of things Williams is doing wrong and he should go. But as a fanbase we can sometimes look for scapegoats and I guarantee if we had Arsenal or Chelsea’s equivalent working for us I strongly suspect we would have a lot of injuries.
Some fans are suggesting we are having too many injuries because we are resting players too MUCH. That seems unlikely. Others are saying we should recruit better. Well yes we all agree, but even Lampety’s signing was welcomed by most fans.
Whatever the very different thoughts on Nourry he is, as you say, pretty ruthless and I’d be amazed / deeply unimpressed if he were not having a pretty thorough interrogation behind the scenes as to what has gone wrong. Just because he is “Nourry’s guy” sometimes you have to admit you made a bad call, as with Celar: it happens.
I am absolutely as disappointed as any fan that yet another season looks like being derailed by injuries. I’m totally sick of it. I’m certainly not going to shed any tears if Williams is sacked. I’m just not 100% convinced it will transform the situation. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 20:34 20 Oct 2026
I started my earlier post stating: "I hold no torch for Ben Williams".
So I have not come on here as his spokesperson.
I've heard the rumours (bad) and his performance at the fans forum wasn't great.
But that isn't in itself a smoking gun.
He might be a bit of a jerk to deal with: it doesn't explain why we have so many injuries.
The point about players getting their own PTs: I don't know the answer here, but is it possible most players at most clubs have one? Anyone can come up with a rumour, but in itself it's not enough to sack someone unless it's substantiated.
It is not that hard to find a scapegoat - Noury or Williams are the usual suspects- but what should we have done/ be doing?
RECRUITMENT:
We could have filled the squad with 24 Osman Kakays: fit, strong guys with good injury records.
The flip side is such players might lack the technical ability to get the team challenging for the play offs, which now seems the expectation of many fans.
Granted Declan Rice is an extreme example, but just about every Championship club is mining the same data science sets across Europe and beyond for player recruitment. We are not working in a vacuum. We have a lower than average budget for our division. Many players we sign (Poku, Kone etc) are linked with rival clubs.
SPORTS SCIENCE/ PERFORMANCE TEAM
So if it is not a clear/ easy fix on recruitment, is it something we are doing in the building?
If so, I repeat my question from a couple of weeks ago: what is it?
Clive initially replied that such problems often reflected on how a club was run, but rowed back when I asked if he thought our club was badly run.
No one else has really come up with a tangible suggestion.
So I totally accept that we MIGHT be doing something terrible, and if so yes absolutely we should fix it, and if we can find better, let's do so. But after hundreds of posts on the subject I am still completely clueless on what it actually is we are doing wrong... |
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Reply | Injuries
at 17:06 20 Oct 2026
What a blow.
I hold no candle for Ben Williams but other than being disappointed I’m not sure we can necessarily blame him. He might well be doing something wrong, I simply have no idea.
If there is something we are doing wrong then I would far rather we used any transfer budget we might have on using data science to recruit the most cutting edge sports scientist who has the best track record in football at keeping people fit.
But then again, how do you assess that? One of the reasons Declan Rice is a £100m footballer is because he can play 60 games a season at an incredible level. Obvs the likes of Arsenal will have a better fitness record because they aren’t taking chances on Lampety, Poku, JCS etc.
There does SEEM to be an issue given the 3 yrs of major issues, but whenever I have asked what specifically that actually is, it turns out other fans don’t really know either. I |
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Reply | Rampant R's to Brum Rush The Show Match Thread
at 17:21 17 Oct 2026
Re passing there ball - and the buck - to Charles, they do that a lot, and today after a good start his kicking wasn't quite up to his usual brilliance. When the CBs didn't just ping it back to him, they were shuffling it back and forth along the line in a re-enactment of Warbs-ball.
I'm hoping today was just tiredness after a 3 game week.
But Stephan has to take some responsibility. Some of us were saying even before kick off that the Vale-Smyth-Poku combo was too powder puff away to a good side. Meanwhile his substitutions looked more like damage control than a genuine attempt to rescue the game.
Who knows? With a fit Madsen, Chair, Burrell and (don't laugh) Lampety this would look a very different side. But how often will we see that this season? |
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