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You couldn't write a better cliff-hanger to the end of this season than the one we're involved in (apart, of course, from us being involved in a similarly tight promotion race).
The great thing is that we're right in the mix, despite our horrendous start to the season.
if we pull this off, we can look back at it as being "character-building" and I for one wouldn't be at all surprised to see us up the other end of the table next season, assuming we can keep this squad together and make the loans signings permanent.
Sorry, Bluce. Can't be letting this level of blasphemy go unchallenged! Stanley Road is a work of genius, and I think the fact that you can spot the influences a mile off adds to the charm, rather than detracts from this. Anyone who covers Humble Pie's "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" should be roundly applauded, and "Out of The Sinking" with its shameless nod to Thin Lizzy is coolness personified in my book. Not sure where you get "arrogant" from when a lot of his writing alludes to the fact that he is only too aware of how inconsequential he feels he is - "Porcelain God" on that same album is a brilliant example of exactly that.
I think its something of an unjustified insult to put Jim Gregory in that list, TK! Without him, we would never have the glory years of the 70's, plain and simple. Look back at what and who QPR were before he came on board.
The other interesting question to ask is if this was known to the management at the time, and how they responded to it, of if it was kept "hush-hush" between the players.
Let's also hope that this incident hasn't caused the squad to splinter into different factions, leading us back to one or two more wholly unwelcome wooden performances.
It definitely goes some way to explaining his general demeanour during recent games and in interviews afterwards, where he has looked particularly hangdog.
I personally would not be at all surprised to see him rested tomorrow, just from the viewpoint of keeping him out of the spotlight - although that in itself is potentially likely to make sure that the spotlight gets firmly thrust back on him, of course.
I imagine that Marti has had a quiet word with him and asked him how he feels. Could be that being out on the pitch amongst people who will by and large stick with him for the moment is a welcome distraction, especially now that a verdict has allegedly been cast. cast.
Well said, Clive. To be fair to our new CEO, I think he's already shown himself very adept at handling the information flow (well, as much as he can do in a case like this for instance) and not showing the club's official hand until (a.) There is no other option or (b.) He can make a statement that can be shoehorned into some really positive PR (the 4 January signings being a superb example). Light years ahead of where we were in this regard under Uncle Tony Twitterfingers, and absolutely the most sensible way forwards in this particular context.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that... Then between that, a hold-up of a Director in the boardroom at gunpoint, various gambling and drinking incidents, and now this, I certainly can't think of anything we haven't ticked off yet, like Clive says... We really do like to swing uncontrollably between triumph and disaster don't we, often in the same afternoon..! What was the phrase that Clive used somewhere? "That wasn't a crisis! That was Tuesday.."
Were you there for the game against Sunderland in '78, I think it was (maybe 77)? Dreadful first half from both sides, but the 2nd half really came to life from us, and Stan scored one of the most memorable goals at LR I've ever seen (they put it in the highlights reel for that Stan Bowles Day).
Just found the link for it - Lord knows how many times I've watched his again!:
Kind of fitting that it should happen around the Rotherham home game, after we had that big Stan Bowles Day for him a few years ago for a home match against them. Last time he got to grace the Loftus Road pitch and milk that applause with "Stanley, Stanley, Stanley" ringing out all around the ground.
That was indeed a truly vile watch. No cohesion - no influence from us in the centre of the park at all, Was looking forward to seeing more from Andersen, but tonight we just looked like no-one had actually played together. I take my hat off to those who called it correctly, as I genuinely thought we had finally achieved escape velocity. Can anyone tell me what Colback was doing for the goal? It looked to me like he'd seen Burger was free, but made no attempt to put a block in - bizarre..
Take the Blackburn game, rinse and repeat, and we'll be fine.
We already know how Schuhmacher ideally wants his team to play from the Plymouth game, plus we actually know how to score real-life proper goals now, and have already stuck 4 past this lot before we actually had someone who looks confident in doing so on a regular basis.
I believe we are genuinely on the up now, and I'm looking forward to another week where I don't have to look at our lot through fingers outstretched over my face.