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I've missed a few recently too, annoyingly including the Coventry game. This one's on at midnight over here, which for a gentleman of my age is no joke these days... But my Charlton mate is recently separated with his missus and appears to think he's 21 again, insisting that we meet up for it... and as the day goes on I'm more tempted with each passing hour...
I think you can add Madsen to that too. He's an enigma really.whilst he comes across as unusually sensitive, almost vulnerable -- the summer interview for example -- I reckon part of that is that he holds himself to high standards. I'm obviously speculating but I think there's a genuine desire to win there, and an unwillingness to settle for second best. In his own slightly dour way, whenever he's interviewed he talks about needing to do better. Hopefully as he grows in confidence, which we're hopefully seeing now he'll also grow into being a genuine leader on the pitch. Certainly his position on the pitch lends itself to that role.
· 5h CEO Christian Nourry has provided an update after the closure of the January transfer window on Monday evening. Firstly, I want to say thank you for the electric atmosphere that you created at MATRADE Loftus Road on Saturday. I hope you feel that the team and our coaching staff did you proud as they demonstrated that this group can beat any team in the division. I am excited to see what we can achieve in the final 16 games of this campaign. Ronnie Edwards and Justin Obikwu We are very pleased to have added Ronnie and Justin to the QPR family on a permanent basis this January. Ronnie has been a player that our recruitment department has been interested in since 2021 when the player was at Peterborough. Last January, we acted very fast to bring him in and we were struck during his six-month loan spell with us by his maturity as a man and a professional, as well as by how deep his genuine connection and love for the club is. As was widely reported, we did attempt to sign him in the summer but were unsuccessful - we believe that Ronnie can be a critical player for our present and future. The board has been incredible in its backing of our staff to strengthen the team this year. Finally, I want to thank Johannes (Spors) and his team at Southampton for working with us on this. As for Justin, his profile was one that we looked at in a lot of detail in the most recent summer transfer window as a very good fit for one of the three different profiles of centre-forward that we seek to have in the squad in order to be successful in the Championship. A lot of the underlying strengths that Justin has demonstrated in his EFL and U21s career to date are similar to Rumarn (Burrell)’s. However, Justin is earlier in his career and we want to give him adequate time to settle and develop with the help of our specialist individual development coaching structure. Christian Pullella We continue to believe strongly in the quality of the athletic and physical development that young Australian footballers receive between the ages of 10 and 16, especially in key population centres like Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. We are excited to have brought Christian in on his 18th birthday to bolster the Development Squad - he is highly thought of up and down the Australia national team youth structure and in a position of increasing global market demand as a left-back. Michael Frey It was with a lot of emotion that we completed the sale of Michi to Grasshopper Zurich. In a different context upon my arrival at the club when we were under significant strain owing to our P&S position, Michi made significant sacrifices to join us and he was the first player we brought in. I have already spoken at length about what he and his partner brought to the club. Whilst we planned for him to have a more significant role in 2025/26, a combination of the timing of his injury and other centre-forwards hitting the ground running meant that the reality of the first half of his campaign was different. But I hope that I speak for staff and fans alike when I reiterate how grateful I am for his contributions in the last 24 months. Sam Field Yesterday, we permitted Sam to join Norwich on loan until the end of the 2025/26 campaign. In November, his camp very respectfully informed us that Sam was unhappy with the amount of playing time he was getting and asked that if an opportunity arose in January for him to get more minutes for the second half of the season elsewhere, then could we consider it? Sam has been at the football club for half a decade, always respected the fans and the shirt and therefore as a board we felt it was appropriate to grant this request. I wish him the best with Norwich ahead of us regrouping with him at the end of the season.
Big call by the club. As others have said, all it takes is an injury to RND, or anywhere at the back really, and we have a serious problem.
As Brian has said, it's hard to believe Field is causing trouble for the manager. So the only thing I can think of is that his wages are significantly too high for a squad player. I assume Hayden is on decent money too, but presumably a shorter contract.
Think I've replied to a post on this of yours on here before - but it remains on my reading list!
Re Existentialism, I have a friend who is a massive advocate for properly understanding it, and related, phenomenology. I've tried to read the books, and I can kind of see it, but for my deterministic brain it's like trying to staple jelly to a moving wall, while wearing oven gloves. I think I've pinned a bit of it down, but then the weight of its own wobbliness makes it slide off, leaving me feeling stupid holding a stapler and wondering if the jelly was ever actually there to begin with.
Ha, so it's an abbreviation of what I registered with on an early iteration of LFW as "fishdrivingcars". I never thought I'd still be using the same user name 20 years later or whatever it is!
It's from the Bill Hicks sketch about getting pulled over driving on acid:
"Cops don't appreciate fish driving around - they frown on that"
What I really like about Madsen's goal is how composed he was, considering he's struggled to get on the score sheet this season.
Some lovely touches from Vale in that clip, really hope he can keep up the performances he's put in since coming back in to the team. He could be some player for us.
Fair play to Stéphan for finding a system with the available players, I like the look of it. It'll be interesting to see how he sees things when Burrell and others are back.
With Dembele now out too I guess Bennie will be playing regularly?
... overcoming the illusion of our atomized separation, man.
And like, really man, when you see it... [crumbles dried mushroom into a rizla]... the self is nothing but an emergent property of narrative. But awareness... [swallows rizla].. awareness is infinite and universal and never dies.
Ha yes, very QPR to play the most free-scoring team in division at the end of the window, precipitating a bout of panic stricken retail therapy, twice in one season.
Ha, fair - just read the wiki plot summary, it reads incredibly bleak.
It's also got some fantastic performances in it, and an incredibly well put together dream-like quality. In fact, people have speculated over 'the meaning' for years, and Wheatley eventually came out in an interview saying that he essentially tried to put on screen a dream that he'd had.
This clip gives a good indication of the vibe. I really like Michael Smiley, he's in a lot of Wheatley's films
Have you seen it? Id love to hear your thoughts. I remember Kermode saying people walked out of the viewing he was in, not because they thought it was bad, but because they needed to get away from the oppressive atmosphere.
I've watched everything Ben Wheatley has done since watching it (apart from The Meg 2 lol). He's hit and miss, but when he's good he's very good.
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