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Reply | 5-0 ! Swans thrashed as questions will be asked for sure
at 19:33 24 Oct 2026
The scale of the defeat may be surprising, but the defeat itself is not. As I've said elsewhere, despite us turning over the lesser teams we've faced, we generally come up wanting in the games that matter. We've not spent the money we have to get turned over so easily by the better sides.
Clean sheets and goals against Watford and Derby are all well and good. Clean sheets and goals against West Ham matter more.
We have to start doing better against the sides in the higher reaches of the table. We can't keep writing off poor results as a one off when in reality they're beginning to point to larger issues with our play. We can't keep picking the same teams and players and expecting different outcomes. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 16:54 24 Oct 2026
So. Like I said.
As it stands now five of our seven wins have come against teams in the bottom six. We've scored three goals in four games against sides currently in the top ten, and conceded ten.
We have to do better against the teams we hope to be competing against or we're going to find ourselves rapidly sliding down the table. I hope the complacency doesn't extend to the club as well. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 16:04 24 Oct 2026
Just.
He's done nothing all season and he's straight back into the team in the #10 role again today. It's astonishing how much faith Matos has in him despite his almost total lack of contribution.
But, as I said, it's not really his fault today. We've just been hugely weak defensively. Maybe the players you mentioned would have made us less porous. Eom can certainly consider himself hard done by to be on the bench again. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 15:47 24 Oct 2026
Franco and Fulton aren't creative midfielders. Eom could probably do it.
I don't want to keep going over old ground, but we're continually selecting a player in a key creative role who is simply not doing enough and all people can seem to come up with to defend that choice is that he's good at pressing. If that's the standard required we could have kept Oli Cooper.
We've put all our emphasis on one way of playing. It works against some teams, and doesn't against others. If we can't defend (and today we clearly can't) then we've got nothing else to offer. [Post edited 24 Oct 15:54]
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 15:34 24 Oct 2026
Just is a nonentity but as little as he's done in a Swans shirt so far it's a bit much to single him out today. Defensively we've been all over the place.
Idah's decent if we're on the front foot but Vipotnik is better in a battle. Stamenic isn't doing much. Eom should be one of the first names on the teamsheet instead of on the bench. |
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Reply | French Economy in Trouble
at 10:06 23 Oct 2026
These people have absolutely no idea what austerity actually is. Look back at the privations people had to live with post WW2 where rationing still existed until the early 50's and then try to claim that not increasing NHS spending as much as usual is remotely similar. We've not had austerity in the UK in most people's lifetimes.
Certainly it's not a thing in France either where state spending is well over 50% of GDP.
Bottom line is that many Western Nations have been spending money that they don't have for far too long, restricted economic growth with taxation and regulation, and tried to plug the gaps with mass immigration, which has neither driven actual economic growth as far too many of them are a net drain, and also pissed off the native population as they think, with quite a bit of justification, that they're being sidelined in their own home.
It's probably not much of a coincidence that a lot of this nonsense started after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Those on the left have shifted to other means to achieve their aims. [Post edited 23 Oct 10:07]
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 09:36 22 Oct 2026
Yes, we've had a good start. Admiration of it should be tempered with the acknowledgement of who we've played. Of our seven wins, four have come against teams currently in the bottom five. Three of those were at home. The fixtures have been kind.
If we want to stay where we are then we need to do better against other teams likely to be at the top end. We've barely laid a glove on either West Ham or Southampton and mustered up a grand total of four shots on target in 180 minutes of football against average Sheff Utd and Wrexham teams at home. Teams we might have managed to open up with a bit more emphasis on creativity.
I'm really not sure why it's so verboten to be looking at areas for improvement. We have to create more chances, especially against better organised opposition. If we don't then we're not going to stay top for long. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 08:40 22 Oct 2026
I would always, ALWAYS have a creative presence in the middle. If four defenders plus at least one additional midfielder isn't enough defensive strength then you're doing things wrong.
I often hark back to our last promotion season. Sinclair's goals kept us there or thereabouts, but the addition of Stephen Dobbie into proceedings instead of playing what had previously been a fairly flat midfield (not dissimilar to us now) just transformed us as a side to the point where we possibly could have gone up automatically had Rodgers done it three months sooner.
Managers, especially modern ones, sometimes obsess over their systems to the point where they stop considering whether making changes might actually make us better. That's my only real concern with Matos. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 20:19 21 Oct 2026
Getting more service into and around the box would certainly help Vipotnik. I've been a little disappointed with some of the stick he's been taking as we've certainly not been playing to his strengths this season. It's a repeat of 24/25 where he's taking flack for things beyond his control. Dragging him to the flanks is wasting his time as much as it suits Idah.
I just think we just need to be a bit quicker and more decisive in what we do. Getting the ball forward faster is only going to help us slice through defences. It'll give Yeo and Opuku (or whoever) more space to operate.
I also certainly believe that we're long past time where Eom should have a chance centrally. His willingness to pick a pass or have a shot would be an upgrade on what we've mostly had so far. [Post edited 21 Oct 20:36]
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 09:25 21 Oct 2026
On the face of it a tricky away fixture so I wouldn't be amazed to see a Fulton/Stamenic pairing if there are any lingering doubts about Eustaquio's fitness.
I do think we need to start showing a bit more ambition and pace going forward in general though just to get us in the habit of doing so. Once the cautious mindset settles in it can be hard to shift it, and we've been a bit too slow/passive too often.
If we've got serious ambitions of a top two place, we need to start seeing a bit of swagger about our play. We've only had glimpses so far. |
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Reply | Bianchini
at 21:03 20 Oct 2026
Four years was OTT but I maintain that there was a player there when we signed him. |
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Reply | Bianchini
at 20:39 20 Oct 2026
Bit harsh.
He's lost his way recently but there were glimpses when he first got here. If he hadn't been coached by a complete vegetable then maybe he'd have kicked on.
He's wasted two years minimum of his career though. Needs a fresh start. |
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Reply | Okay I’ll post it. Call him what you want
at 13:06 20 Oct 2026
So you don't like people having a legal defence. Don't get all grumpy because I've called you out on your contempt for due process.
Even the worst of the worst, even Rudakubana is entitled to a day in court. Then to be convicted and thrown into a deep dark hole or off the scaffold, depending upon your preference.
The alternative is that the state regularly imprisons and/or executes innocent people, which I have a problem with, even if you don't give a monkeys as long as the lawyers get what's coming to them, or whatever point you think that you're trying to make. |
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Reply | Booze Runs to England
at 09:57 19 Oct 2026
Amazon's refusal to send alcohol to a collection point is annoying otherwise I'd be doing most of my beer buying on there. |
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Reply | Cabango
at 09:56 19 Oct 2026
Now *This* is Scapegoating.
When everyone is back fully fit and firing then yes, for me he'd be third choice as it stands behind Welsh and Lissah, but other than Southampton away (where nobody played well) he's been hitting his usual standards all season. |
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Reply | Welsh Labour M4 Relief Road
at 09:23 19 Oct 2026
Drakeford, Waters and the numpties who think like them would happily impose a top speed limit of 50mph everywhere in Wales if they could get away with it.
Witness the complete lack of urgency about lifting the 50mph limit on the M4 in Port Talbot. A limit ostensibly put in place for "emissions" reasons due to the steelworks, yet remains in place two years after the last blast furnace was deactivated. |
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Reply | French Economy in Trouble
at 09:15 19 Oct 2026
Rejoining the EU would mean that Burnham and co could basically hand over the running of the UK to someone else, someone who thinks and acts like them whilst never facing the actual risks of an election, This has the added bonus of maintaining the pretence of being in charge but having a convenient scapegoat to blame when things went wrong.
It's the ideal situation for a useless politician, which is why so many of them are in favour of it and would rush us back in tomorrow if they thought that they could get away with it.
I've never been much of a conspiracy theorist, but an entire continental elite all suddenly acting the same way, wanting the same things, causing the same problems whilst trying to smear anyone opposed to that as an equivalent to the 20th Century Boogyman is a bit on the nose. |
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Reply | Leo Walta
at 16:29 18 Oct 2026
My dad had my ticket yesterday and that was basically the first thing he said about the game. Far, far too slow moving the ball.
I think we've got the pressing part right, but we can get stuck sometimes moving it through midfield. Opening up a defensive line that's had time and space to get set is much harder than with one still scrambling back.
Eustaquio if fit is an automatic choice for me in that six role. Don't think we've got anyone better for it. Franco is a little terrier, but again he's not going to carve out openings or set the pace. I've voiced my concerns about how long Stamenic takes to do stuff in the past and pairing him with Fulton runs the risk of reliving the Grimes/Fulton axis. Individually? Not a problem. Together? One for away games only maybe. [Post edited 18 Oct 16:31]
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