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Reply | Frey on the move?
at 14:58 2 Jan 2026
Nine league goals in 51 appearances. Yet some are writing Burrell and Kone off! Burrell already has the same number of goals and I'm in no doubt that Kone will match that number in significantly fewer games too.
They are both upgrades on Frey and will get better, which for me bodes well for the future.
I appreciate what Frey did for us last season but if that means more game time for Kolli, another potential talent, then it's the correct decision. [Post edited 2 Jan 15:38]
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Reply | Kone
at 13:58 2 Jan 2026
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Reply | Kone
at 13:17 2 Jan 2026
I get what you are saying, but 8 goals in 18 and 10 in 23 in Les' formative years, are not what I would use as proof of someone struggling to find the net. Especially when playing at Premier League level.
I think that both Kone and Burrell have done well to date in scoring 9 and 5 respectively in the league, as our service to them and poor standard of passing and ball-retention is hardly helping. They themselves aren't blameless in this regard too.
If our wide players, Chair excepted, cannot use their weaker foot very well, can we please just play them on the correct flank. Yesterday, Smyth should have started on the right and Dembele on the left along with full-backs overlapping on occasions. Dembele v Preston and Saito delivering the cross when he found himself on the right v Brum are some examples of players delivering crosses in open play on their stronger side to telling effect.
When watching football highlights, most goals scored from crosses in open play stem from what I would call the conventional route and rarely from inverted wide players cutting back onto their stronger foot and delivering into areas where defenders are facing away from their goal and the threat posed is minimal. [Post edited 2 Jan 13:53]
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Reply | Smyth
at 12:11 1 Jan 2026
He's only started in 7 games to date and has played for a mere 600 minutes in total this season. Meanwhile Saito has started in 14 out of the 18 games, when available for selection, and been on the field for over 1000 minutes.
Smyth has managed to score 3 goals and 1 assist in that short period. He should have been afforded much more playing minutes this season, but instead we've chosen to persist with the ineffectual pair of Saito and Dembele. Dembele having been given nearly 1200 minutes' playing time.
Go figure! It's beyond me. [Post edited 1 Jan 12:41]
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Reply | Chaotic team selection, chaotic outcome as R's slip at West Brom - Report
at 18:10 31 Dec 2025
Perfectly penned as usual.
Kudos to those who continue to travel away in such numbers. It's a pity that it hasn't been matched by the performances on the field of late.
Baffling all round; from continuing to pick players who are patently out of form, non-appearances of others who are deserving of more minutes, culminating in Monday's team selection. [Post edited 31 Dec 2025 18:26]
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 16:45 31 Dec 2025
Well done, Emmerson. That bodes well for the future. At his age, the National League is a very good standard and he'll learn and grow much more quickly than playing easy-osy development squad games.
If there are no league two takers for the likes of Adamson, Bennie, Smith, Akindileni and Pearman, then the club should be trying its darndest to get some of them out on loan at National League level. [Post edited 31 Dec 2025 16:45]
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Reply | Two home games against the bottom two - Six points ???
at 08:42 31 Dec 2025
Both tough games.
I'm looking forward to the Norwich game as they, like us, signed a forward from league one in J Makama who has successfully stepped up to this level and has scored 8 goals. He's a unit and will be a handful. As much as Sargent is deemed to be having a "poor" season, he's still scored 7 and provided 3 assists. Expecting a few goals to be scored by both sides in this game.
3 points [Post edited 31 Dec 2025 8:55]
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Reply | Chair
at 07:58 31 Dec 2025
Totally agree with you.
However, I thought that Chair has been put out to pasture along with Field, Smyth and Cook, as none is compatible with the free-flowing, cohesive football that is now the club's totem and is being executed to such precision by the likes of Varane, Saito, Dembele, Vale etc on a consistent basis. [Post edited 31 Dec 2025 8:07]
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Reply | Elijah Dixon-Bonner
at 22:36 30 Dec 2025
That's hardly a ringing endorsement of our much-vaunted development set-up. One player from that age group is playing for relegation-threatened Morecambe in the National League. Many others playing at clubs in tiers 2 and 3 of the non-league pyramid.
There are at least three previous players who were rejected by QPR but are now featuring for better teams in the Conference league. Players being: Gubbins and Kendall at Southend and Drewe at Woking. There's Arkell Jude-Boyd, another of our former young players, now in his second season at Cheltenham in league 2.
Are these young pups any better than the names above. Just curious. [Post edited 30 Dec 2025 23:18]
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 15:10 30 Dec 2025
This. Was afraid to state the same. Like you, I'm not convinced JS is the final arbiter on who actually plays. The non-involvement of Kolli and Smyth adds credence to that whilst the likes of Varane and Saito continue to be selected in spite of poor performances now being the norm from both.
Field should have started in place of Varane and Smyth ahead of Saito. Dembele initially at 10 with Kolli replacing him at a later stage. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 11:04 30 Dec 2025
I believe that Esquerdinha has been touted by the development PR machine as the next cab off the rank. If that be the case, then he is way short of the two that figured prominently in the championship for us last season and in a far more pressurised environment: Kolli and Morgan.
When played in their best positions, they remain the only two real prospects from that crop of players and the powers-that-be need to accept that and focus on further developing these two, as they are the stand-outs.
It's one thing making errors, but last night and against Ipswich, once beaten, Esquerdinha appeared to lack the recovery speed required to at least attempt to make a recovery tackle or commit a foul. I'd be surprised if a League 1 team were to be interested in him and agree to playing him regularly, as that is a tough and physical league. [Post edited 30 Dec 2025 11:42]
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Reply | Saito/West Brom
at 07:49 29 Dec 2025
The same consistent information was provided by more than one solitary outlet in Belgium, corroborated by reliable sources on matters QPR, such as Dave McIntyre. Unless you can provide evidence to the contrary that he's been signed for significantly less, then I'm inclined to believe the likes of the aforementioned. [Post edited 29 Dec 2025 8:21]
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Reply | Saito/West Brom
at 15:05 28 Dec 2025
The name in the title. The fee's common knowledge: circa £2.8 to £3m. We definitely didn't get him on the cheap. [Post edited 28 Dec 2025 15:13]
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Reply | Saito/West Brom
at 09:43 28 Dec 2025
So we've signed a player for £3m who is clearly ill-suited to meeting the rigours and different set of demands that are generally associated with playing away from home. Genius. [Post edited 28 Dec 2025 10:17]
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Reply | John Robertson RIP
at 16:17 25 Dec 2025
Seriously good wideplayer with excellent technical ability as well as being able to to cross accurately with either foot. RIP John Robertson. |
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Reply | Poku
at 17:54 24 Dec 2025
I watched that game and yes, he fluffed his lines on both occasions with poor option selections, but at least he was involved in that game and wasn't a bystander like Saito. He also didn't let his head drop, as evidenced by his direct run when he switched to the left, which resulted in him being fouled in the Boro penalty area.
Without Smyth, we would only have two away victories to date. For a bit part player he has had far more telling moments in away games than either of the much-vaunted Saito or Dembele.
Here's hoping that these two actually show up against Pompey, when selected from the start, and begin to contribute with their own telling moments in away games. [Post edited 24 Dec 2025 18:22]
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Reply | Chair
at 14:28 24 Dec 2025
Totally agree with your observation re: Saito's and Dembele's propensity to either give the ball away cheaply or be easily dispossesed when passes are played to their feet due to their inability to largely withstand physical challenges made by the opposition.
It's most marked away from home, where to date neither has really excelled especially when they have been selected to start. |
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