| Dykes 16:02 - Mar 25 with 18211 views | ozranger |
Came off the bench with over 30 to go against Cyprus today when Adams went down. Played well and gave a good assist for the second goal. Worked well with his teammates. Many touches and strength quite decent and hopefully he can get back to full playing. With the same quality around him - Chair and Willock - I feel a lot more confident about our near future.
Pretty sure, unless Adams makes a good recovery, he will start against Spain on Tuesday evening. |  | | |  |
| Dykes on 15:34 - Mar 29 with 2848 views | Northernr |
| Dykes on 15:21 - Mar 29 by RBlock |
And Bonne... |
I'm still willing to die on the hill that he wasn't a bad idea. Not at that price and wage though obviously. |  | | |
| Dykes on 15:48 - Mar 29 with 2758 views | paulparker |
| Dykes on 14:39 - Mar 29 by Northernr |
It's nuts that team didn't even make the play-offs in 97. Impey and Sinclair on the wings, Murray and Quashie midfield, Spencer and Dichio up front. Went to man City near the end of the season and absolutely took them apart.
Sadly the defence, and particularly the goalkeeper, were complete pony. |
That dressing room was toxic at the time , most of the players didn’t like the management and were not very professional and seemed to think they were better than what they were |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Dykes on 15:48 - Mar 29 with 2766 views | stantheman10 |
| Dykes on 09:08 - Mar 29 by daveB |
for anyone to call Dykes our worst ever striker when we'd have this collection in recent years is mental
Pellicori
Adam Czerkas
Dean Sturridge
Dean Coney
Steve Slade
Lee Charles
DJ Campbell
Jay Bothroyd
Macauley Bonne
Troy Hewitt
Rob Hulse
Federico Macheda
Tamas Priskin
Marcus Bent
Ben Sahar
Daniel Nardiello
Leon Clarke
Sammy Youssouf
Stefan Moore
I could go on, Dykes isn't even in the bottom 50 worst strikers we've ever had |
You forgot Marcus Ramkilde |  | | |
| Dykes on 15:48 - Mar 29 with 2768 views | RBlock |
| Dykes on 15:34 - Mar 29 by Northernr |
I'm still willing to die on the hill that he wasn't a bad idea. Not at that price and wage though obviously. |
Had one purple patch and then returned to his previous average form... Sound familiar? |  | | |
| Dykes on 15:51 - Mar 29 with 2737 views | Northernr |
| Dykes on 15:48 - Mar 29 by RBlock |
Had one purple patch and then returned to his previous average form... Sound familiar? |
Well I would say he was prolific at Orient, albeit in much lower division, over a longer period of time than Washington was at Peterborough, and then got into double figures without taking penalties in a crap Charlton side that got relegated, so yeh perhaps worth a punt. We didn't take a punt though, we chucked silly money at it. And I'm obviously wrong anyway, because as we now know he's absolute crap. | | | |
| Dykes on 15:54 - Mar 29 with 2720 views | SK_hoops |
| Dykes on 07:38 - Mar 29 by silverbirch |
47 starts, 1 sub appearance, and 23 goals. Spencer was great, and a joy to watch…before it all went a bit strange. |
Plus he scored the last goal against port Vale in that game. Plus (I think) another. His nod your head celebration while walking past the crowd for that goal was used by me multiple times after that. | | | |
| Dykes on 15:57 - Mar 29 with 2708 views | flynnbo |
| Dykes on 13:50 - Mar 29 by Northernr |
Very QPR transfer that one. Overpaid for the bright, shiny, trendy thing based on what hot streak at Stoke that lasted about four months because the manager of the moment told the chairman if he got him he'd get him promoted. Once here, he simply went back to being the 11-12 goal a season striker that he'd been his entire career before that, and was every season thereafter. Meanwhile Clive Mendonca, who'd been a consistent 15+ goal a season striker in a mostly poor Grimsby side but not had the same press, went to Charlton for a third of the money and did get them up.
So Sheron may have been a terrible signing for the reason you said, but it's our fault not his. |
Didn't Houston also let the Costa Rican guy go who then went on to score a hat trick for Derby v Man. Utd? |  | | |
| Dykes on 15:57 - Mar 29 with 2706 views | flynnbo |
| Dykes on 15:51 - Mar 29 by Northernr |
Well I would say he was prolific at Orient, albeit in much lower division, over a longer period of time than Washington was at Peterborough, and then got into double figures without taking penalties in a crap Charlton side that got relegated, so yeh perhaps worth a punt. We didn't take a punt though, we chucked silly money at it. And I'm obviously wrong anyway, because as we now know he's absolute crap. |
I quite liked Idryssa Sylla who someone on this board once described as an anti Andy Impey. | | | |
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| Dykes on 16:03 - Mar 29 with 2693 views | Northernr |
| Dykes on 15:57 - Mar 29 by flynnbo |
Didn't Houston also let the Costa Rican guy go who then went on to score a hat trick for Derby v Man. Utd? |
Yes. Wanchope. Scored seven goals in two reserve games on trial. Houston said players like that were ten a penny in non-league, then spent £2.4m on Mike Sheron instead. | | | |
| Dykes on 18:09 - Mar 29 with 2516 views | Watford_Ranger |
He’s on Talksport now. | | | |
| Dykes on 18:12 - Mar 29 with 2498 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Dykes on 15:57 - Mar 29 by flynnbo |
I quite liked Idryssa Sylla who someone on this board once described as an anti Andy Impey. |
Quite fun to watch. Bit of a cult hero but crap mostly IMO. | | | |
| Dykes on 18:20 - Mar 29 with 2473 views | daveB |
| Dykes on 14:39 - Mar 29 by Northernr |
It's nuts that team didn't even make the play-offs in 97. Impey and Sinclair on the wings, Murray and Quashie midfield, Spencer and Dichio up front. Went to man City near the end of the season and absolutely took them apart.
Sadly the defence, and particularly the goalkeeper, were complete pony. |
yeah awful at the back that season, not helped with Bardsley out injured so rather than replace him for a season just played kids or out of position players at right back plus the fixation with playing Karl Ready or Steve Yates at centre half instead of Maddix
We had a spell that season where we were just awful and Houston had this stupid idea of giving everyone a game so we wasted 3 months of the season looking at players like Mark Graham, Andy McDermott and Lee Charles rather than just putting the obvious proper team out. |  | | |
| Dykes on 18:54 - Mar 29 with 2412 views | ted_hendrix |
| Dykes on 00:01 - Mar 29 by bob566 |
They were awful but cheap. How about john Spencer. Probably paid around equivalent 60 mill in todays money for literally a hand full of goals |
I can't have that, he was the "Man" as he often told us faithful stood or sat behind the goal whenever he scored for us, not only did he score vital goals for us but his work off of the ball was excellent.
Was you at LR when he scored one with his left foot, one with his right foot and one with his head against Barnsley?
Now then, the following season the rumour was that the permantly useless Rioch had grabbed Spencer by the throat and slammed him against the dressing room wall at a pre season freindly game against Exeter I think? I'm not sure If that was the start but he never seemed to be quite the same after that.
Sheron was a big let down for me apart from his 2 goals in the last 10 minutes at Sunderland one wet and windy night, those 2 goals got us an unlikely draw and made the long journey home in a packed Escort van a bit more bearable.
Dykes Is alright. |  |
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| Dykes on 21:38 - Mar 29 with 2296 views | wombat |
| Dykes on 18:54 - Mar 29 by ted_hendrix |
I can't have that, he was the "Man" as he often told us faithful stood or sat behind the goal whenever he scored for us, not only did he score vital goals for us but his work off of the ball was excellent.
Was you at LR when he scored one with his left foot, one with his right foot and one with his head against Barnsley?
Now then, the following season the rumour was that the permantly useless Rioch had grabbed Spencer by the throat and slammed him against the dressing room wall at a pre season freindly game against Exeter I think? I'm not sure If that was the start but he never seemed to be quite the same after that.
Sheron was a big let down for me apart from his 2 goals in the last 10 minutes at Sunderland one wet and windy night, those 2 goals got us an unlikely draw and made the long journey home in a packed Escort van a bit more bearable.
Dykes Is alright. |
Thought the rumour was that he booted a manger firmly in the plumbs that season think it was Ricoh and as u Ashted it seemed Togo downhill quickly after that , shame as a great little player for us |  |
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| Dykes on 22:08 - Mar 29 with 2235 views | SydneyRs |
| Dykes on 09:08 - Mar 29 by daveB |
for anyone to call Dykes our worst ever striker when we'd have this collection in recent years is mental
Pellicori
Adam Czerkas
Dean Sturridge
Dean Coney
Steve Slade
Lee Charles
DJ Campbell
Jay Bothroyd
Macauley Bonne
Troy Hewitt
Rob Hulse
Federico Macheda
Tamas Priskin
Marcus Bent
Ben Sahar
Daniel Nardiello
Leon Clarke
Sammy Youssouf
Stefan Moore
I could go on, Dykes isn't even in the bottom 50 worst strikers we've ever had |
There's no way that Dominic Iorfa should not be on this list. And at the top. | | | |
| Dykes on 22:20 - Mar 29 with 2196 views | kensalriser |
Iain Dowie is hugely conspicuous by his absence, too.
Two goals in 34 appearances. |  |
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| Dykes on 22:44 - Mar 29 with 2134 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Dykes on 09:08 - Mar 29 by daveB |
for anyone to call Dykes our worst ever striker when we'd have this collection in recent years is mental
Pellicori
Adam Czerkas
Dean Sturridge
Dean Coney
Steve Slade
Lee Charles
DJ Campbell
Jay Bothroyd
Macauley Bonne
Troy Hewitt
Rob Hulse
Federico Macheda
Tamas Priskin
Marcus Bent
Ben Sahar
Daniel Nardiello
Leon Clarke
Sammy Youssouf
Stefan Moore
I could go on, Dykes isn't even in the bottom 50 worst strikers we've ever had |
From that list, I count six that smashed it at other clubs. |  | | |
| Dykes on 23:19 - Mar 29 with 2100 views | Loyalitat |
| Dykes on 22:44 - Mar 29 by BazzaInTheLoft |
From that list, I count six that smashed it at other clubs. |
Yes you're right. Some of whom had decent goal scoring records in their spells at top flight/ Premier League before taking into account their championship tallies, which are far better than Dykes' [Post edited 29 Mar 2023 23:34]
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| Dykes on 23:45 - Mar 29 with 2040 views | CateLeBonR |
| Dykes on 22:44 - Mar 29 by BazzaInTheLoft |
From that list, I count six that smashed it at other clubs. |
Similarly you could easily have had Heiðar Helguson on that list. Maybe even Les Ferdinand.
Both had poor spells here. [Post edited 29 Mar 2023 23:46]
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| Dykes on 01:08 - Mar 30 with 1971 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Dykes on 16:03 - Mar 29 by Northernr |
Yes. Wanchope. Scored seven goals in two reserve games on trial. Houston said players like that were ten a penny in non-league, then spent £2.4m on Mike Sheron instead. |
Three of those goals were against Chelsea, if I recall correctly.
An obvious fit with the QPR No 10 shirt, including the usual frailties; the fact that Houston couldn't spot that tells you everything about why he failed here. | | | |
| Dykes on 01:10 - Mar 30 with 1969 views | CiderwithRsie |
Back to Our Lyndon, this is a quote from the Grauniad post-match comment:
The Spain defence and their own keeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, frequently looked panic-stricken. And this, when faced with the Queens Park Rangers forward Lyndon Dykes
I'm still trying to work out if that's a compliment or not. | | | |
| Dykes on 04:47 - Mar 30 with 1920 views | QPROslo |
| Dykes on 01:10 - Mar 30 by CiderwithRsie |
Back to Our Lyndon, this is a quote from the Grauniad post-match comment:
The Spain defence and their own keeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, frequently looked panic-stricken. And this, when faced with the Queens Park Rangers forward Lyndon Dykes
I'm still trying to work out if that's a compliment or not. |
Panicked! With the state of Dykes neck perhaps they weren't sure if the head up there was connected to his body or not. | | | |
| Dykes on 07:24 - Mar 30 with 1858 views | Northernr |
| Dykes on 01:08 - Mar 30 by CiderwithRsie |
Three of those goals were against Chelsea, if I recall correctly.
An obvious fit with the QPR No 10 shirt, including the usual frailties; the fact that Houston couldn't spot that tells you everything about why he failed here. |
I think one of the issues was to sign him you had to sign a second Costa Rican, Solis, as part of the deal and we wouldn't do it. Derby had no such problem of course, picked them both up and stuck the other lad in the reserves. | | | |
| Dykes on 09:27 - Mar 30 with 1752 views | daveB |
| Dykes on 18:54 - Mar 29 by ted_hendrix |
I can't have that, he was the "Man" as he often told us faithful stood or sat behind the goal whenever he scored for us, not only did he score vital goals for us but his work off of the ball was excellent.
Was you at LR when he scored one with his left foot, one with his right foot and one with his head against Barnsley?
Now then, the following season the rumour was that the permantly useless Rioch had grabbed Spencer by the throat and slammed him against the dressing room wall at a pre season freindly game against Exeter I think? I'm not sure If that was the start but he never seemed to be quite the same after that.
Sheron was a big let down for me apart from his 2 goals in the last 10 minutes at Sunderland one wet and windy night, those 2 goals got us an unlikely draw and made the long journey home in a packed Escort van a bit more bearable.
Dykes Is alright. |
I loved John Spencer, he was the man and partially responsible for me meeting my misses.
After listening to the final few minutes of the Port Vale game in a phone box calling clubcall whilst in Middlesbrough I was obviously a little overjoyed at the equaliser. I returned to the student halls with a mini bottle of vodka in one hand and some other drink in the other, burst through the doors singing only one Johnny Spencer whilst drinking both bottles before falling into the kitchen. My misses was sat there and obviously either thought that man is the one for me or just felt sorry for me one of the two but I have Spencer to thank/blame for the last 25 years together | | | |
| Dykes on 15:54 - Mar 30 with 1588 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Dykes on 22:08 - Mar 29 by SydneyRs |
There's no way that Dominic Iorfa should not be on this list. And at the top. |
Too young for Iorfa but Modibo Maiga’s fleeting QPR career was a thing of beauty. | | | |
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