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Reply | LFW WORLD CUP SWEEPSTAKE – THE DRAW
at 22:14 11 Jun 2026
My Mexicans have started well…certainly better than the ref?!
Please tell me that isn’t the standard of refereeing we’ve got to expect over the next month?! |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 13:32 18 May 2026
That’s probably the most interesting thing from this Clive. It does sound like CN is going through the motions. So he has to do this…that is what it sounded like. |
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Reply | QPR play the perfect promotion party guest once more – Report
at 16:10 3 May 2026
….by the way, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that you posted this 12 to 24 hrs earlier than normal! I can just imagine you slamming the laptop shut having got it done!
“Sod the lot of them…I’m off!”
I really can’t blame you mate. |
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Reply | QPR play the perfect promotion party guest once more – Report
at 16:07 3 May 2026
Clive, many thanks for this report and all of your amazing season long hard work. You are genuinely one of the very best things about being a QPR fan. I read every word mate.
Thank you.
On the broader QPR situation - I’ve been supporting Rangers since 1974. I think that this is the dullest and least engaging period of football that I can remember. Plus it’s deeply frustrating to boot.
I never look forward to the summer, and a period of no football
, but this time I am. Plus we all know that the c*&t in the Whitehouse is going to ruin the World Cup.
Then to put the cherry on the cake my season ticket that I’m sure was significantly under six hundred quid last year is now £649 as they’ve ’recategorised’ some seats. Thanks for that. |
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Reply | Madsen’s rich redemption, Stéphan’s words of warning – Preview
at 07:05 25 Apr 2026
Thanks Clive, great preview
I was anti JS from the start as I was gutted that we got rid of Marti, and most of his interviews this season are so dull, and as someone put it; a word salad!
However he has grown on me a bit, but especially in the last few weeks. I do fear for him slightly now that his true feelings are becoming public.
Laying my cards on the table I’m undecided about whether to even go today. That Swansea game was truly awful and deeply depressing. Football is supposed to be enjoyment and some kind of release. I just went home furious midweek.
Our Child King has done some things right and is getting better. But his performance at the fans forum was awful. And his treatment of JS in that public meeting was scandalous. I was amazed that JS just laughed it off.
It seems plainly ridiculous that the fitness and physio teams report to the Child King and not the Head Coach. How can he possibly run a team when the medical team aren’t at his disposal?
“I need a solid 30 mins from player X away at Stoke on Tuesday, but we can rest him today - can you make that work?” If that kind of stuff isn’t happening then he is working with one hand tied behind his back.
Clearly that shocking first half away at Wallll and Tuesday night have got him towards breaking point. Good. That is what I want to see.
Finally some interviews from him that are worth listening to. We now know he thinks fitness and injuries are a real problem and that we have a room full of kids and we need some Clint Hills mixed in there.
But the problem with that is that he is beginning to publicly bang heads with the egotistical Child King, and seeing as the owners appear to have given the keys to the empire that is only going to end one way.
Speak up JS let’s hear it please. |
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Reply | Highlights today QPR 2 Watford 1
at 18:58 3 Apr 2026
I thought at the time that their free kick was another poor bit of goalkeeping and seeing these highlights it was. The ball was nowhere near the corner.
But great team attacking performance |
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Reply | Blues pile on the misery as Stéphan brands shot-shy R’s “embarrassing”
at 14:05 13 Mar 2026
Thanks Clive, great report as always. I watched the nightmare on the red button...God knows how awful it must have been to be there. I was angry at home, you must have been livid with the first half no-show!
I almost never want the manager sacked. Plus you are correct that the manager with us isn't the problem. The CEO did better with his recruitment last summer but still left us with big weaknesses at full back and more importantly in central midfield, which the last few games have highlighted horribly. Plus how can the manager manage if the physios and fitness folk don't report to him. That is a crazy situation.
However it is obvious that there is something seriously wrong with the first team group now. What was Jimmy Dunne trying to say in that post match interview - surely you can't be confused with what the manager is asking you to do after 30+ games in charge?
It's a cliche to say that the players aren't playing for him now...but that is what it looks like. The manager needs to be tactical and astute but he also needs to be an inspirational leader....which he clearly isn't. I can't stand listening to his 'word salad' interviews, I suspect that the players are the same.
Sorry, but on this occasion he needs replacing as soon as possible.
I thought we were completely safe this season, but by the time we've lost to both Leicester and Portsmouth (which with this aptitude we will) we will be right back in the thick of it. |
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Reply | QPR thrashed, Boro run riot, night follows day, bear seen heading for wood
at 21:53 9 Mar 2026
Thanks Clive,
Wildly depressing but also horribly accurate.
As I was watching the game I kept asking myself if they were really that good, or if we were just making them look like it. It was a bit of both I guess.
The trouble now is that we’ve spent money to be this bad - previously we could say we were a budget team on a shoestring…but that isn’t the case now.
Way north of £10m and still no midfield.
How does anyone think Varane is anything at all. He is a complete liability - it was almost funny how bad his passing was. Several times we couldn’t find a team mate from six or seven yards.
And we haven’t mentioned Walsh. Heaven help us he is terrible. So bad in fact that I can’t see him as our number two next year. Clear Nardi will be off, Haymer is out of contract. From where I sit I think we need two keepers as Walsh just doesn’t look at this level.
And Saito is a complete passenger in games like Sunday. We may as well have played with ten men.
I very very rarely want the manager to go, and I agree that the manger can’t really be the problem as we’ve churned through so many of them, but clearly JS has checked out and is inspiring nobody. So if he isn’t going to be here next season wouldn’t it be better to change things now? |
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Reply | Sunrise, sunset – Report
at 22:19 1 Mar 2026
I love seeing Leicester lose…. So it turns out that place is a shit show and it wasn’t all Marti’s fault after all. God I wish we still had that guy in charge for us.
I agree Clive that JS is managing with his arm tied firmly behind his back, and the level of professionalism from the players yesterday was pretty disgraceful, but also JS’s performance was poor too. Cracks certainly appearing.
Things don’t happen in isolation. From where I sit in UP there seemed to be strong disagreement between several of the players from very early on. It was like they didn’t agree with the selection, personnel and tactics.
Surely JS isn’t being told to pick Esp? If he isn’t then the manager set the course for this disaster.
After a 5-0 humping, you need to regroup be solid and get stuck in. He had five senior defenders to choose from and still put the child at LB with Saito as cover. It was almost as if he was doing a Harry Rednapp and not filling the bench to prove that the cupboard was bare.
I fear for the next few weeks and where the next point is coming from. |
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Reply | Leicester City
at 19:38 5 Feb 2026
Six points is fairly farcical too Clive. It’s so insignificant.
You could almost create a business plan to spend ridiculously to have a real tilt at promotion and the riches of the prem, knowing that if you fail you sometime have to take a six point medicine. [Post edited 5 Feb 19:45]
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Reply | Leicester City
at 17:05 5 Feb 2026
Doesn’t six points seem light?
Especially compared to what we got, and for that matter compared to other similar breaches by other EFL clubs. |
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Reply | The antidote – Report
at 06:59 2 Feb 2026
Magnificent match report Clive, thanks.
I’ve been waiting for the joy of reading your take on that wonderful performance by Kone and Madsen all day on Sunday - who knew you were working on the theory that “sleeping is cheating” and you’d post it at two in the morning!?!
Happy Monday morning. Roll on Friday evening.
Thank you. |
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Reply | Extra tickets for Charlton away on sale tomorrow...
at 18:07 27 Jan 2026
On the subject of Charlton tickets why did the club have a system where they confirmed a row and seat number when you booked …. And then post you completely different seats?!
I don’t really care but surely that just causes them endless unnecessary phone calls.
Or is it just me, has anyone else had this? |
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Reply | Four minutes of madness – Report
at 06:54 26 Jan 2026
Great report, thanks Clive
A couple of thoughts, one of which I intended to mention to you in the boozer, but forgot; it hasn’t really been commented on that the style of football JS has us playing doesn’t help with the injuries or the apparent lack of fitness. We always have less possession than the oppo, which means by definition we spend more time chasing around after the ball. We are therefore bound to look more knackered at the end, even if we were equally fit, which I don’t think we are. Plus that style of play must contribute to soft tissue injuries.
Onto Mbengue, is there a chance that he was trying to get sent off? It was so stupid, it does make you wonder. He knew he was on a two game ban for his 10th yellow - did he assume that would be trumped by a red card one game ban?! |
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Thread | Dixon Bonner
at 17:38 7 Jan 2026
I see that Morecambe are stating that we’ve recalled Dixon Bonner from his loan there? I wonder why that is? It’s not as if they’d be worried about the amount of game time he’s getting.
A plan to sell him?
I can’t imagine that they want him back in the squad surely? |
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Reply | Kolli rescues Rangers, but injuries mount – Report
at 21:37 5 Jan 2026
Thanks Clive,
As you say, that was a very strange watch. We were saved by a strong speculative smash by Kolli. When you watch it back his shot was little more than a well-struck ‘get something on target’ but thank God it went in. The next one was a bonus!
Up until then all I could see was a SW equaliser.
You won’t see it sitting in the SA, but there is a huge mobile heat lamp stored in the Loft entrance….i can only assume that we can’t afford to plug it in as the pitch is shocking. Or maybe we have a very poor head groundsman?
Also I read that we are trying to move on Frey - can that really be the case now? And if it is then surely they must have another striker lined up to join.
As you say the festive season has taken all of the air out of our balloon. I just hope we’re allowed some kind of fun next Sunday?! |
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Reply | Insert paragraph about Barry Bannan – Preview
at 09:30 4 Jan 2026
Thanks Clive. You must have spent the entire festive season watching Rangers, travelling/drinking and writing. It’s much appreciated I assure you…and I’ve read every word. So thank you.
I did comment on the WBA match report that those things don’t happen in isolation. The decent pros in the group must have been mumbling about what the Frenchmen was doing! Portsmouth was simply down to the unprofessional players, WBA was completely down to the manager.
I was fearful that we’d get a loss and a shabby draw against the bottom two and then go across town in huge numbers and the pot would boil over if the team selected was wrong, or the performance was like Portsmouth.
I really believe that today is huge…JS is two games away from losing the masses, and that includes me. |
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