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Reply | QPR pay a heavy penalty against Millwall as cup woes continue – Report
at 11:12 10 Aug 2026
Unusual to see only 2 goals and both of them coming from mistakes (ours started with Mbengue giving the ball away carelessly, again, and then Charles dropping it). The less said about the penalties the better.
I thought we played lots of very pretty triangles in the first half when Millwall were happy to sit very deep and let us have the ball in non-threatening areas. Madsen, Vale, Chair, Edwards, Dunne, Charles - that was a nice looking central 6 who kept the ball well, moved into space to receive, played with their heads up. It was nice. But posed no real threat.
Second half, Millwall pushed up 10 yards and we lost the space to move in that part of the field. We actually created a few half chances by playing a little more direct, not long ball but a bit more incisive. Burrell moved a bit more central, then Lloyd replaced Kone, and we had Smyth on the left, and we looked to set them off with their pace. Still only half chances mind.
Overall, I'm still not entirely sure what we've got here. There was some nice football on occasion, Clive is right to say we need to move the ball just that touch quicker and some players obviously have more to come. But I worry about that midfield when games are going against us and we need some guts in there. And I still look at Kone/Burrell and think they need to play alongside one another - they both have what the other lacks - but that leaves us short elsewhere.
Hmm. Intrigued to see where we are after the Cardiff game. |
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Thread | QPR Bid
at 13:00 28 Jul 2026
I noticed the club are auctioning off the pennant given to us by Weiner Neustadt before the recent pre-season friendly. Is it me or does that feel a little bit off? It's one thing to flog signed shirts and photos etc but that pennant represents a game we played, albeit only a pre-season one, but still a game we played. I'd have thought we'd keep stuff like that even if it's just in a box somewhere. I'm sure the £100 they get for it will be really useful to a club that loses £500,000 a week. IDK, maybe I'm just old fashioned. |
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Reply | Best wishes, Cian.
at 09:11 23 Jul 2026
Tuck and Esquerdinha were the best players in that cohort (putting Morgan aside because he was basically a first teamer). One is gone and the other almost certainly on his way. The jump is huge.
*Sutton has potential, is very good with the ball at his feet, but goes missing when he doesn't have possession. |
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Reply | A New Pub !!
at 09:19 17 Jul 2026
Aren't they building flats out the back or something? |
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Reply | Squad for Austria
at 08:37 10 Jul 2026
Dixon-Bonner? Blimey, how long was his contract? |
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Reply | Gerrem Onside! - Super League/NRL 2026 thread
at 10:03 9 Jul 2026
Yeah, I expected Qld to win that one (although that's probably my default position most games). Good game from the Blues, sloppy one from the cane toads. |
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Reply | Summer transfer rumours 2026
at 09:44 8 Jul 2026
Neither of those lads are anywhere near ready for Championship football. It would be a mistake not to send them out of loan - and proof that we'd learned nothing from mishandling the development of Joe Walsh and the inflated view of Esquerdinha. |
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Reply | England Thread 🏴
at 08:43 7 Jul 2026
I was going to post something like this. As the the number of right backs available decreased and we still saw no sign whatsoever of TAA it became more and more obvious that Tuchel saw him as an obstacle to team cohesion. Don't forget, Bellingham really had to fight his way back into the squad.
Echo what has been said about the Mexico game. It had everything and if you can't enjoy that then football (in fact sport as a whole) probably isn't for you. Great performance from England, and a very adaptable one at that.
Not sure about Norway on Saturday tbh. Our best performances have been against teams that want to play more open football, whereas we tend to struggle against those that rely on organisation and efficiency. Plus they've got the orc up front. It's going to be a really tough game - which as a World Cup 1/4 final it should be. |
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Reply | WLS - Deal Agreed to Sell Field to Norwich
at 10:03 19 Jun 2026
There was a pre-match interview with Sam Field early last season where he made a joke about hoping to be fit to last 60 minutes. I knew then it was just a matter of time.
They need to make a couple of really good signings for central midfield or else it'll be a difficult season. |
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Reply | Social media ban for under 16’s
at 11:11 15 Jun 2026
16 year olds will be ale to vote but have restrictions on their social media usage. That's bonkers. |
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Reply | Location, Location and glory hunters
at 10:36 1 Jun 2026
This is all true. It's also that the Thierry Henry era coincided with the start of the huge demographic churn in London, so that swathes of people with no previous connection to this city saw them as the club to follow. It's quite interesting because historically Arsenal are the single most 'establishment' club in English football (marble halls, etc) but emerged from that era with a trendier, more internationalist feel. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 10:41 20 May 2026
The idea that Matt Winton deserved to be invited to an event like this - one explicitly aimed at websites/forums/social media/etc - simply because his dad put money into the club 25 years ago is bonkers. You're just trying to find ways to justify it to suit your wider views of the current situation.
Is it the end of the world that he was invited along? Of course not. It does, however, raise eyebrows. |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 09:19 15 May 2026
As stated previously, that area does not include Car Giant - which was removed from the OPDC's plans by a judge several years ago. |
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Reply | Tuck among 7 development squad releases
at 09:32 13 May 2026
Tuck being released is both a surprise and not a surprise. Surprising because he's always stood out; a lovely passer of the ball, plays with his head up, receives the ball on the turn, hardly ever takes more than two touches, keeps it ticking over. There's an awful lot to like about him, and deep-lying midfielders with his passing game are very hard to find. But it's not surprising because the knock on him has always been that he's very skinny even compared to his teammates never mind senior pros.
I know we've had a lot of 20-somethings hanging around past their sell by date in the past, and the DoF has publicly stated a cut off point for young players, but Tuck only just turned 20 and for me he'd be someone you'd be prepared to give some extra time to. But that's from the outside obviously. If I was at a local club like Barnet or Wealdstone, or going further afield one of the L2 clubs, I'd snap him up because I think there's real potential to develop and sell.
It does raise a couple of questions though. First, who is making these decisions, because the DoF has never kicked a football in his life. Second, Tuck has always been the stand out performer right the way through the age groups and into the DS, if he's deemed to not be good enough then it doesn't say much for the rest of them. [Post edited 13 May 9:45]
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Reply | West Ham v Arsenal
at 10:52 12 May 2026
Same thing happened in RL when they introduced the video ref 20 years ago. It's understandable, even more so for the PL with it's extraordinary global profile, why put yourself in the firing line by making a decision when you know someone will be in your ear about it if it is a foul? |
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Reply | Kolli Off
at 11:06 11 May 2026
Glad I'm not the only one to find this odd. Presumably the guy's been training with the first team every day for the past 2 seasons, signed a new contract 18 months back, and yet he's continued to be listed on the website as part of the DS and not been allowed to get changed with the first team. |
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