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Thread | Our win vs Rotherham is massive
at 01:22 25 Feb 2024
- Moved out of the relegation zone first time since Sep 23
- Won at home, a place we don’t get much
- Willock scoring, playing like a Willock we knew a couple of seasons back
- come from behind after starting the match badly
- Most importantly, this win is a great confidence boost. We always wondered which rangers will turn up, especially after a good performance at Bristol City. We were there before, the Stoke game. The Huddersfield game. We find it hard to get some consistency after a very good performance. The more I looked at it, I think it is a confidence thing.
- need to win a must win game, a relegation 6 pointer
- playing in front of a sell out home crowd
- 5 or 6th time to get out of the relegation bottom 3 we lost count, hope against all hopes
We started 10-15 minutes in a “I told you so” fashion. Conceded a goal under 10 minutes. Bloody Rotherham! Bottom, not won in 5 consecutive games. Charity Park Rangers all over, again. What do we not know, that we already knew about the “typical” QPR
How important is that win, then. It is massive, just massive. A real confidence kick, which I think was the mental side of our game, we knew we could perform, past matches played testament to that. But when the burden was so immense, we didn’t fall apart, we just didn’t turn up. So this win, this win against all odds against a relegation rival which we always lose, is so so massive.
Upwards my team! [Post edited 25 Feb 5:48]
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Thread | Points Gained by QPR since Cifuentes
at 08:40 10 Dec 2023
Points and Position gained by QPR since Cifuentes as Head Coach
Note Cifuentes QPR P6 W3 D2 L1
Current position / club / Pts after 14 games / Pts after 20 games / Pts attained after 6 games / Pts gained by QPR against opponent / League position + or -
14. Bristol City / 18 / 26 / +8 / QPR +3 / +1 (15th)
15. Coventry / 15 / 25 / +10 / QPR +1 / +5 (20th)
16. Swansea / 18 / 24 / +6 / QPR +5 / -3 (13th)
17. Birmingham / 18 / 23 / +5 / QPR +6 / -3 (14th)
18. Plymouth / 15 / 22 / +7 / QPR +4 / +1 (19th)
19. Millwall / 17 / 21 / +5 / QPR +6 / -1 (19th)
20. Stoke / 19 / 21 / +2 / QPR +9 / -9 (11th)
21. Huddersfield / 14 / 21 / +7 / QPR +4 / na (21st)
22. QPR / 8 / 19 / +11 / na / +1 (23 rd)
23. Sheffield W / 6 / 13 / +7 / QPR +4 /+1 (24th)
24. Rotherham / 9 / 13 / +4 / QPR +7 / -2 (22nd)
Over 6 games;
- QPR gained points against all opponents on the current table from position 14th - 24th
- Largest gain vs Stoke (+9), smallest vs Coventry (+1 still a gain)
- QPR moved one place up the table from 23rd to 22nd
- only top 4 teams in the championship has more points gained through this period - Leeds +16 (2nd), Leicester +15 (1st), Ipswich and Southampton +14 (2nd and 4th respectively). Only Watford has same points gained (+11) with current position at 11th
- average points gained during this 6 games period by all 24 clubs = 8.58
- average points gained during this 6 games period by clubs 14-24th positions = 3 (including QPR +11)
Early days, but signs and table evidence are very very encouraging especially winning the last 3 games, which included Cifuentes first win, first home win, goals at the loft, against 2 opponents much higher up the league table.
We are definitely moving in the right direction, onwards and upwards!
[Post edited 10 Dec 2023 19:32]
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Thread | How many match videos did Cifuentes watch?
at 01:24 5 Nov 2023
Before he arrive from Hammarby to form a decent picture or due diligence of the kind of players we have here?
- Last few games before Rotherham?
- From our preseason (including the famous clip of a goal scored against Wimbledon)?
- Since the famous burnley win last season?
- Or everything onwards from Beale’s time as he was known to be one in the shortlist (was he given a team profile and dossier on each player during the initial interview?)
He seems to know from the off who our star and key players are, which talented players he can relied on to build his team around. And he alluded to chair, Willock before the first training session, and versus Rotherham we could see immediately Chair, Willock, cannon, Dixon-Bonner, Richards featuring
I mean Willock who has not been the same for over a year? Richards and Dixon-Bonner not featuring much during GA time, and even if all those did their performances were nothing but ordinary?
So he must have been tracking the team for at least a year or so to know this much, can’t be just only watching videos from since our Blackburn 4-0 drubbing say or the few sessions he had with the team.
Nonetheless, everything points towards a very intelligent coach who knows what he wants and how he wants to play using the available players to achieve his goals.
For once, after so long, I think we are moving on the right track (or back on track) to where we want to go and be as a club on the playing side. [Post edited 5 Nov 2023 1:35]
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Thread | Attendance
at 00:41 29 Oct 2023
We are mental - 5 consecutive losses - no home win yet - and yet Loftus Road was 94% full (17,385) to see us lose 6 in succession and rooted currently second from bottom
Big, big applause for the fans 
It is crazy just as it is amazing - just imagine if we were doing well then the stadium is far too small for all! |
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Thread | 2003-04 team in attendance v Blackburn
at 01:35 7 Oct 2023
At half time
Why not start them at kick off, surely it wouldn’t be much worse than the current lot?
Day
Shittu
Carlisle
Gnohere
Palmer
Langley
Rowlands
Ainsworth
Gallen
Furlong
Thorpe
There’s goals in this team, oldies or not! [Post edited 7 Oct 2023 6:39]
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Thread | Possession can do one?
at 08:19 3 Sep 2023
All 8 wins out of the 9 wins this weekend home or away in the championship are by teams having less possessions than their opponents
Bristol City (2-1 away to Swansea) - 39% (4 shots on target to 4)
Sunderland (5-0 home to Southampton) - 31% (9-2)
Huddersfield (2-1 away to WBA) - 38% (4-5)
Preston (2-0 away to Stoke) - 30% (3-1)
Rotherham (2-1 home to Norwich) - 38% (3-5)
Plymouth (3-0 home to Blackburn) - 42% (9-4)
Hull (1-0 away to Leicester) - 35% (4-1)
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QPR (2-0 away to Middlesbrough) - 39% (3-9)
Ipswich only team that won with more possession 3-2 v Cardiff at home (55% 7-5 shots)
Possession can do one? It is not just us if you wonder having less possessions in matches. We certainly are not lucky to win. We played well and are competitive. Statistics is a funny game.
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Thread | Ainsworth, Armstrong and the academy
at 15:11 13 Aug 2023
Too early to tell, but I am thinking Armstrong maturity in the Cardiff game, a goal and an assist, could be attributed to the work Ainsworth and Dobson did during preseason?
Eze had a breakthrough season after a successful loan at Wycombe.
Ainsworth is not adverse to having academy players training with the first team - Gubbins, Woodman, Hawkins, Aoraha, Pedder and even Kolli appeared in the substitute bench
I get it we are skint on squad members with championship level and had no choice but to look deep in the development squad, but we had past managers refusing to name academy players in match day squads to prove a point - two goalkeepers and leaving empty slots for substitutes etc.
Warburton, Beale gave no confidence in our academy players at all
Thoughts? [Post edited 13 Aug 2023 15:19]
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Thread | Are the players mentally preparing for relegation?
at 06:37 30 Jul 2023
After the Oxford debacle, I can’t see anything but this
Put us fans’ positivity and negativity aside, it is quite clear the contentious thread “is everyone here mentally prepared for relegation” is asking the question to the wrong people.
The players should be held accountable and to them I asked,”are you lot mentally preparing or prepared for relegation”? And it is not fair for Ainsworth to answer this
We fans fought amongst ourselves over what really are the players’ mental problems, lack of attitude, lack of application, no commitment etc
I hope it just a few wrong’uns, but it seems the whole team is afflicted by this malaise we cannot eradicate
[Post edited 30 Jul 2023 6:39]
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Thread | Chair’s on!
at 16:04 17 Dec 2022
Second half sub with Morocco trailing 1-2 to Croatia |
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Thread | Ex-Derby, ex-Hughes, both in crisis...
at 01:43 23 Aug 2018
Interesting comparison / trivia on Stoke City and QPR
Both bottom (one and two) in the championship
Both ex-premier league clubs only recent
Both managed by recent former Derby County managers Gary Rowett & Steve McClaren
Both clubs managed previously by Mark Hughes
Both in early season crisis....
Somehow I think Rowett is in a more precarious position.... (we like to think crisis only happens in QPR....) .....maybe that's because i am a QPR fan...! |
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Thread | QPR v Fulham, visiting from overseas
at 07:32 7 Sep 2017
Hi guys,
I will be travelling to London from Australia and really keen to attend the QPR-Fulham match at Loftus Road on 30 September. Any advice for a visitor? I will be with my 11 yo. which stand is good for family and ticket price, would i be able to get the tickets on match day? any tips is appreciated, thank you!! |
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