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Woke up in a strange sense of confusion this morning - not unusual in recent decades !!!!
Dreamt of Monsieur Lyndon netting a volley for his third in a crucial home game.
Now dreams come true, I am led to believe.
Anyone else DREAM about QPR and the theme becomes beautifully TRUE...
We all know how dreams can be distorted versions of reality but maybe its because of the term "DYKES THREESOME" which may well have entered my INTERNAL CONSCIOUS REALITY - that this very STRANGE FUTURE PROPHECY has reared up its beautiful head !!!
If Lyndon scores a hat trick on Saturday, I may well decide to supplement my income as a PSYCHIC - because this must surely be fantasy clearly !!! 😁
But especially with flirting with relegation, currently for me it's incredibly stressful also.
Tomorrow I am not going to Plymouth but have the option to watch on red button or QPR + but on other channels there are two very intriguing Champions League Quarter Finals, of which I have zero emotions to attach..
I know I will stupidly choose the former as entertainment and get extremely irritated by my own stupid choices.
Am I on my own with these extreme thoughts of thinking..
This season and last,we have had fantastic support at home.
Extremely high attendance numbers consistently.
Yet with all this backing our home form is and has been atrocious.
Admittedly away our support has been superb also but we seem to freeze or play extremely poorly at home.
In days gone past you would have said the crowd could have been the twelfth man but for last eighteen months our players have not been encouraged by the support at all.
It's not even as if the crowd have turned toxic - they could have done - but we haven't at all.
Only explanation I can give is the high wages all players get now, no matter what, on occasions, a lot of them just don't care enough.
Am stating this in general at the top two-level of football.
80s and 90s you still got a win bonus but money even at this level is very high now.
If I was in my 20s and playing if I had secured a 10k a week contract for four years, which I would get paid, no matter what, am not ashamed to admit, if the going got tough, i could quite easily be one for the boo boys.
I think if we had this support in the 80s and 90s our home form would be superb but the game has changed simply because of the ridiculous money around even for bang average players
.... this January window just gone was as decent as it was unexpected.
Being told we had no money for no signings but then not only
Offloading Dozzell and to a rival also
But signing Frey, decent option up top Andersen silky skills and great link ups with Chair and Willock. Hayden rolls Royce of centre mid at this level Even Hodge - up and coming future star with promise.
Massively adding to our squad.
The window with
De Wijjs Johansen Austin Field
Seemed extremely decent for the six months given they were all loans but afterwards only Field has worked out.
Master stroke I feel by new chief in Nourry saying we were too strapped as think it helped in negotiations and am assuming all is well with regards to keeping within the confines of FFP.
Anyone recall, a window that has been better even when compared to summer windows - where more players signed, definitely i feel quality as opposed to quantity is so much more important.
Let's hope if we retain at least three of them, they all kick on.
Done a bit of research and apparently Belgian jails are so massively overcrowded and basically any sentence given, only a third of the sentence is spent behind bars
Currently Ilias is facing a one year jail term with another year suspended.
So effectively four months in jail but for many years the minimum time spent in jail is six months in Belgium therefore minimum required sentence to get any jail term is thus 18 months.
Hence why even if Ilias appeal remains the same, he is not expected to serve any time incarcerated.
Was all very strange though and hard to get head round that he could have done such a thing. Appreciate we all care about the football but if he really did this and he was playing for another club, we would more than likely be bemoaning the other clubs lack of morals etc.
Everything at QPR is currently rosy but this circumstance will be still here and hopefully it's proven to be untrue. Was all rather strange and hard to fathom
What are peoples real ideas around this difficult situation
I was at the Bristol City away game and prior to the start me and my mate got involved in a discussion about the team selection with a few others.
There was a bit of incredulity about Dunne playing right back.
But he has had several performances there since and has been effective in defence and decent in going forwards too.
Obviously today was another level with the goal.
But am just giving a heads up to Marti.
Maybe he has an eye for the unusual.
Cannon was not performing 100% so was a big call but its working lovely currently but reflectng back to us mere mortals with zero second senses.
What's the next rabbit out of the hat. Lyndon in goal or Colback as centre back.
Shame we did not appoint Marti when we chose Beale ie money reasons but couple more wins would make us nearly there and you have to hand it to Cifuentes.
And I would say we have as good a chance of any down there to stay in this league.
Our current position is slightly false given how poor we were under Ainsworth.
Everybody will have at least two or three games against fellow strugglers and a few draws in those games lowers the level of points that struggling teams could get.
I think currently we are in the box seat. Its in our hands as our next four games, we could get the points we need to be safe.
I think if : -
"49 POINTS"
we could be safe so three wins or two wins and a handful of draws from eight games could do it.
Another thing in our favour I think out of most of the teams down there, our goal difference is decent so potentially another bonus if it goes down to that also.
This team and squad were certainties for relegation.
And the football played was absolutely awful in the extreme.
Yes we were astute in the transfer window, if that's down to the new CEO negotiations that's promising but the entire squad is fighting for everything and the quality is there in extreme.
Andersen is looking like a find. Hayden is a solid midfielder. Hodge has not played much but looks tidy and Frey is a whole hearted player who gives everything.
The defence with Cook and Clarke Salter looks sound and Paal has added qualities too.
He has used Dykes and Armstrong to good effect. Smyth is the usual jack in a box. Chair is passing more and Willock has shown his quality once more.
And he has picked a few rabbits out of the hat.
Dunne - inho on the right, and today pressing Field further forward.
He seems able to change things around to good effect and also seems to have excellent in game management that often improves us also.
That almost felt like 90 minutes of attack v defence.
There is no surrender too.
After conceding two quick goals under Ainsworth our players often visibly seemed downhearted and felt defeated.
Cifuentes has performed a miracle with our squad and its fantastic to watch.And no injuries currently either.
Tonight it was as if Stan himself was on the pitch. Maybe he really was.
If Cooks overhead kick had gone in, I think I would have self combusted, along with everyone in the stadium.
What a fantastic event today and an unbelievably fitting tribute to the great Stan Bowles.
Cifuentes we really need to keep this man at least for the whole of next season.
Would not be surprised to see him as a long standing Premier league manager in the future. Probably not with us, but we can dream after night's like tonight.
But yes sure Stanley was watching tonight with immense pride !!!
Sometimes we get wrapped in circumstances and in all reality they are small things.
Qpr playing dreadfully on Wednesday and we get angry, disappointed and disillusioned.
Well the next day had a wake up call as to what's really important stuff.
Been working with another charity recently and in particular with this chap Darren, who has been a very dedicated man, type to wear his heart on his sleeve, which is often rare for men.
Anyhow Thursday afternoon, found out in the early hours of Thursday, he experienced a massive heart attack and died almost immediately.
He had no known major health issues. I think he was 53.
Two teenage children and a wife now without him.
I even had emails from him this week. And last saw him myself about six weeks ago.
Bill Shankleys famous quote.
"Football isn't a game of life and death. It's more important than that."
It really really isn't.....
Am going Bristol tomorrow, am thinking we might win, but its really not that crucial.
Probably in a few weeks time, the wake up call as to what's important, will fly out the window , until the next wake up call.
Whatever happens when we pass, I know not like everyone but hope Darren is having a good time.
Life can be strange. We never know and have make the most of the time we have.
Sometimes for short while events take us out of our own little worlds, so QPR performing or not tomorrow- hey ho !!!
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