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Reply | Nightmare start to the New Year as Norwich beat QPR again - Report
at 14:07 3 Jan 2026
Great report . Agree with every word.
Looking to tomorrow , if we have to sit watch another QPR side let Goblin Bannon stroll around and dictate another match between the two sides I might just bloody explode .
Every QPR fan either at the game or not will know what he will do so if we allow him the freedom of H&F yet again then I might not be responsible for my actions.
Oh and does anybody know where Ilias is, what his injury even is and when he will be back?
We really fooled Norwich didn’t we in not saying anything about his whereabouts.
I do know this . He and his family were supposed to be at the game Thursday. He and they were not .
Edit.- Just seen there is a match thread for tomorrow . Apologies [Post edited 3 Jan 14:35]
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Reply | Paul Smyth - Social Media Abuse
at 13:30 3 Jan 2026
Hmmm. Agreed.
The ‘Last Christmas’ renditions seemed quite well organised for an ‘off the cuff’ chant didn’t it ?
Anyone heard it since the Leicester game ?
Might have been sung at Pompey but I didn’t hear it .
Certainly didn’t hear it on Thursday, [Post edited 3 Jan 13:51]
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Reply | Paul Smyth - Social Media Abuse
at 19:08 2 Jan 2026
Point taken Numpty.
Wasn’t said or meant to offend anyone especially in a thread like this obviously . |
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Reply | Kone
at 19:07 2 Jan 2026
You make some great points .
“ What needs to happen is Varane and Madsen need to own that middle more, which will draw players away from the wings and allow our wingers to get into the game.”
Only slight thing is the above , where it’s very difficult to own anything when you are almost always outnumbered.
As I’ve said previously and apologies for boring folk on here , but surely the formation has to change. If for no other reason to catch people out for a week or 2 ala Charlton earlier in the season.
We let McLean completely run the game yesterday and my fear for Sunday is Barry Basstard Bannan yet again !!! [Post edited 2 Jan 19:14]
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Reply | Paul Smyth - Social Media Abuse
at 15:32 2 Jan 2026
Sometimes you’re just left speechless .
That person verbally attacking Smyth is clearly mentally ill.
So is the waste of skin sending crap like that to Clive .
Just beyond belief [Post edited 2 Jan 15:37]
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 13:05 2 Jan 2026
Yeah fair points.
But I did say sporadically didn’t I?
Watford, Coventry, Derby come to mind early on . All horrendous when we so good at Wrexham , for example . That’s more my point . |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 10:28 2 Jan 2026
Lots of good points and sense in that post .
But what I find tiresome is the constant (not by you in particular Dave) from some about fans ‘bedwetting’ or ‘shitting the bed’ after being critical of a poor performance or 3 .
Hate those terms and are used by most fans (again not you in particular Dave as I know you can be critical of the club and team as anyone ) who don’t want to hear criticism in any way of the club or head coach or CEO .
It’s just being a football fan isn’t it ?
You celebrate when you win and moan and dissect when you lose .
The bottom line is we have been horrendous since that Leicester game and sporadically mostly away from from home since August.
The OP is good as the players do have to take some blame and stand up now.
But Stéphan has been very poor too on more than one occasion .
I think fans are entitled to a gripe after yesterday . I didn’t see anyone call for him to be sacked or any stuff over the top like that , not on here anyway . I don’t do social media but that’s a madhouse anyway .
The players and the head coach and his staff have to take a long hard look at the last 3 matches and come out swinging on Sunday .
But I fear more excuses about workload, the pitch, mentality , tiredness etc etc |
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Reply | Kone
at 09:42 2 Jan 2026
Excellent debate actually .
I totally understand the premise of ‘why on Earth would you drop Burrell?’
On the face of it, it doesn’t make much sense .
However , as I mentioned in another thread , we’ve been found out and at some point now the system surely has to change . Maybe not for Sunday as there is no time on the training pitch .
But at some point it has to . Kone looked at his best when played as the main striker with someone else (Vale at the time ) in and around him . However we need someone who can also drop into the midfield and be the extra man as we are constantly outnumbered in there . Chair perhaps ? Where he is , is another matter.
Kone much more than Burrell would suit that .
I do agree that would be harsh on Burrell but he is now running on empty and it really shows. Without his pace and press he is very ordinary …At this time .
He will improve and become a better player of course.
At the moment you now have both of them looking tired and a bit short of confidence (not just them, everybody really) . But I agree with Westbourne that if we changed system and played Kone where he should be played and has he was played to great success albeit at a lower level then he potentially could have a higher ceiling but he is just a passenger as it stands right now .
Listen, if you said who has been the better signing so far , Burrell wins hands down, so again, the thought of changing things seems a bit nonsensical.
But it’s about the system moreso the player .
As I say , it’s a good debate with no real right or wrong .However, JS seems so entrenched in this system I think it’s also an irrelevant discussion. |
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Reply | Our Pitch
at 09:17 2 Jan 2026
In the last month or so there has been 3 separate day long treatments to the pitch …with GARLIC SPRAY!
No, it’s not a wind up and I’ll let someone else google to see if it’s even a ‘thing’, other than warning off Vampires (insert gag here)
But instead of helping in whatever way needed , it appears to be killing it . Like we are spraying it with a weed killer or something . |
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Reply | Norwich Reflection
at 23:36 1 Jan 2026
Yes , I’m afraid you are right .
We look out of ideas and out of gas .
JS seems entrenched in this 442 because it worked for a while but how many times does he have to sit and watch our 2 in midfield struggle because they are outnumbered? Our 2 ‘wide’ men with no space, our second striker , Kone today , Field (!!!!!) on Monday be a passenger for 90 mins.
At some stage you have to do something else or it’s lunacy .
He has eroded some credit after the West Brom fiasco but we would have let it slide if we had won today . Or Maybe not even win, maybe just look vaguely look footballers ?
We must be the only football team on the planet to wallop a team 4-1 and then every squad member seems to lose confidence and belief from it . Bonkers!
They should have been absolutely buzzing and chomping at the bit since that game but they couldn’t have looked more opposite .
Back to the club DNA, the ‘standards’, the mentality of this team ….and the team 1 year, 3 years, 5 years , 10 years ago .
We say it often , but there is something not quite right at this football club.
Just a side note which I think I’ll be on my own mostly but I want to point it out .
Romarn Burrell has been great …..for what he is .
He has a tremendous attitude and work ethic and gets us up the pitch with his press .
He has a knack of being in the right place at the right time for his 7 or 8 tap ins this season. That’s not a criticism . Many strikers come here and are still looking for the ‘right place /right time’ see Dykes etc.
But .
His last 3 appearances he’s looked shot. Like when Armstrong used to tear around chasing the ball until someone told him to stop wasting energy .
His press has stopped . He can’t do it . He has barely got into a sprint since we played Leicester.
And if he can’t do that then he is a very average footballer….at this time .
Now he is young with time on his side still, with lots to learn and it’s a big step up , for him
and Kone. But his all round game , with the ball is pretty poor at the moment .
My overall point being that it’s now a bit unfair to really rely on Romarn to carry our attacking threat on his own. He’s been flogged to death and is now a passenger along with Kone which is another problem JS has created .
These are potentially good players but they are league one players stepping up and they have really looked like it recently .
JS must now think about changing our system because hoof ball over the top for someone who can’t get up to a sprint is going to see us in a relegation battle pretty quickly .
Oh and if i read one more thread about “will Chair get into this team?”, I’ll scream .
If anything was clear today , it was that he is still by far and away our most creative, industrious and available player when teams are as stubborn as Norwich were today .
Our 4 wingers were garbage today . All of them [Post edited 1 Jan 23:40]
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Reply | Where are the Coal Mines
at 17:01 1 Jan 2026
I said that if you start phoning it in and tossing off away games then it will creep into your home form…and didn’t just .
Clueless, toothless and frankly useless from back to front |
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Reply | Where are the Coal Mines
at 13:58 1 Jan 2026
Much stronger starting IX which was always gong to be the case after Monday.
Put even more pressure on ourselves to win today though .
Esquerdinha bombed out again completely which for his progress just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense |
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Reply | Where are the Coal Mines
at 13:55 1 Jan 2026
Talking to folk ‘at the club’ , sounds like Saito has had a virus of some kind .
Which in one way explains his form recently , but asks more questions about why he played for so long on Monday |
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Thread | Burst water main on A40
at 09:05 1 Jan 2026
Happy new year to everybody!
Just a heads up as I’ve just come past a burst water main by the Greenford roundabout on the A40.
It’s on the Eastbound side so might not be a problem but it’s really pumping out and if they don’t stop it quick then it could potentially close the whole road . Already down to one lane coming out of town . Just something perhaps to keep on eye on if you are travelling in that way later today .
Poor folks living along there are waking up to a flood outside which looks very much like it will damage their properties as they live below the road level . Let’s hope they can stop it quickly . [Post edited 1 Jan 9:05]
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Reply | Madsen
at 17:06 31 Dec 2025
I agree with lots and lots of that.
We shouldn’t be heaping tones of praise on a midfield player who does the basics with the ball well.
But he does and no one else does so he is going to stand out . I was his biggest critic last season, and he has shoved my words back down my throat , which is what we want, right?
I will bow to the suggestion that the last 2 games he has started to hide a little again as I haven’t been present at the matches and of course you can see a much bigger picture from the stand rather than on a tv.
Even at West Brom I thought he got hold of the ball ok and I remember one sublime , almost reverse pass into Saito on the edge of their penalty area that was ridiculous. Sinton called it on comms too. Saito wasted it and there is a little bit of the issue , I think one or 2 have been dragged down by the rest in the last couple of outings . That and fatigue perhaps .
I disagree a little on Field.
I thought he was ok at WBA , better than most without really creating anything . Did a lot of the donkey work for others for very little reward.
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Reply | Chaotic team selection, chaotic outcome as R's slip at West Brom - Report
at 15:10 31 Dec 2025
Yeah spot on.
To leave that IX out there until the 72nd minute was at best , strange, at worst , incompetent.
It took most of us 72 seconds to realise that was all wrong and it needed changing.
Was messaging my son on the half hour mark that JS needed to change Esquerdinha and Saito and perhaps even Varane, and move Field back into midfield and add a forward. Possibly Smyth.. To see them all appear after half time was a bit ridiculous. |
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Reply | Elijah Dixon-Bonner
at 15:05 31 Dec 2025
Fully agree.
My point was more that until recently Sutton wasn’t even getting on the pitch . |
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