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QPR commentary
at 13:02 19 Mar 2024

Listened to the Extended Highlights v Sunderland, and found him/it pretty awful, rather stupid, and all round an assault on the eardrums.

I miss Nick London - but wit, style, individuality and putting your head above the parapet rarely end well in this world.


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What will be our upcoming/final points tally? (8 games to go)
at 13:56 17 Mar 2024

What will be our upcoming/final points tally? (8 games to go)


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Consistency
at 22:58 10 Mar 2024

It's the thing Gerry F. used to preach, but the thing only the top teams, by definition, ever deliver, so it makes me laugh when fans here revile our team for their lack of it, as it's precisely what teams in our position display. If you want consistency, don't follow QPR (or most clubs), or just try to get your head round the fact we are where we are because we don't string more than a couple of good performances together right now. That's the maddening beauty of sport. If you don't like it, take up stamp-collecting.
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Chair
at 13:22 7 Mar 2024

Looked off colour last night, as I mentioned. Thoughts from the hive?
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main clarifications tonight
at 19:00 2 Mar 2024

1. The players are/always were (more than) good enough - they needed a plan/organisation/training/trust in each other, and a commitment to applying it on the pitch.

2. Marti (I had the odd misgiving) has been/is a complete and utter tonic to our troops.

Hopefully this is front and centre in the match report. Either way, we should all acknowledge (1) and (2) now, and draw a line under previous hyperbolic nonsense. I see us not just staving off relegation, but able and needing to aim at mid-table. For all their possession, and the help of the referee, we made Leicester look ordinary, and our goals were away team triumphs.

You Rsssss!
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Looking/staying up
at 21:41 24 Feb 2024

That's 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat from our last 5 games: 10 points out of a possible 15, or, if you prefer, 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat from our last 7 games. 2 points a game is promotion-winning form - keep up that record and we finish with 61 points. Realistically, though, 4 wins and a couple of draws should be enough, and we have 3 home games to come next month.

Check my maths/temperature, but I'm feeling we'll do it.

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QPR players imagined as animals
at 16:16 27 Jan 2024

If Luke Amos were a cat, (OK, throw me a bone), he'd have been an Egyptian Mau - stylish, good-looking, but lacking resilience and with an ineluctably worried expression on their faces.

An Egyptian Mau



Luke Amos



Tricky made me think of an electric eel (with dreadlocks).

Alan McDonald was a warhorse.

Super Ray was a bit unfairly labelled a crab, but he wasn't crap, and probably played more forward passes in a game than Field does in a season. He had pincers.

Do any other posters have amusing/tedious Daphne du Maurier-esque likenesses for Rs past and present to pass the time?
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One to watch - Alex Pritchard
at 15:50 27 Jan 2024

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68117768

Pie in the sky? Definitely one who could really help us, I'd have thought. Not sure he'd come though.
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Most under-rated players at the Rs
at 20:04 25 Jan 2024

2nd thread of 2 in this exciting/now concluded series!

Here's your starter for 10 (all wingers):

Ian Stewart
Gareth Ainsworth
Nasser El Khayati
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Most over-rated players at the Rs
at 21:49 24 Jan 2024

Rob Steiner. Gerry loved him inexplicably, but I thought he was pony. Six goals in a couple of dozen games, and only 100 odd games in his whole (albeit injury-curtailed) career. I rest my case.
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Cook on Offish
at 08:29 22 Jan 2024

Bloody hell - dour and downbeat or what, even when he's praising the likes of Sints' pep talk! Sounds like he's here under massive duress and being a player makes him miserable, so can only hope he's not like that in the dressing room. Says getting out of the doudou will be 'extremely difficult', even though, as the interviewer points out, it's in our hands to beat Huddersfield and get out of the bottom three next weekend.

You're a footballer, Steve, not an executioner, so cheer up, crack a smile, and get a Dr Feelgood injection of milk and alcohol if it helps. Looking at you makes me feel like we're sinking, so I'll look away now.
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Marti pre-Bournemouth
at 22:47 5 Jan 2024

https://www.qpr.co.uk/videos/0_lt9y1oc9

Looks fed-up, weary and just going through the motions. Worrying!
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Marti pre-Tractor Boys
at 19:30 28 Dec 2023

https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/2023/december/28/cifuentes-pre-ipswich/

He's (outwardly) calm, at least, though he looks/sounds a bit weary and subdued, I think. Interesting that he appears to blame himself, at least in part, for not preparing the team as well as he felt he might have for the Millwall game. Unlike all of us, he doesn't get too 'up' or 'down', which is why it's a good thing he's managing the club rather than anyone from this board; to wit, he also repeats how he didn't get carried away after our three wins, because he knew there'd be some kind of recoil, as that's football.

As he says, we need to be braver, clearly, and execute some kind of game plan that means we have at least a chance to score one or two. Start jittery/spawny, play in our shells, and I think they'll eat us alive, like, I dunno, shell-on prawns. (Which they may anyway.)

A gutsy but deflating 3-2 defeat (Willock, Larkeche, o.g. Cook).
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QPR-related dreams (or nightmares)?
at 00:09 27 Dec 2023

Had a lovely one the other night. Had been thinking/talking about how I wanted to find a partner for a business idea, and that night dreamed I was playing up front for the Rs at LR in front of a full house alongside a brilliant co-striker, who looked like some kind of Argentine wunderkind. Game was locked at 2-2, when I chipped the ball (with my weak right foot) from the Paddock side of the penalty area at the Loft end to score an absolutely sublime, unrepeatable, once-in-a-lifetime goal. Sank to my knees like I was greeting God and milked the applause. Woke up feeling glorious.

As Diane Williams says, everything means something or it does not!

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Marti post-match
at 16:10 26 Dec 2023

Bland, boring and frankly uninspiring. We lacked 'bravery', apparently - no shit, Sherlock! And quality. And creativity. And urgency.

Try giving us one or two answers to the team's problems, or just stay in the dressing room!

https://www.qpr.co.uk/videos/0_4xp59r88


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Where will we finish now?
at 21:00 10 Dec 2023

Where will we finish now?


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Players you'd forgotten played for us
at 19:31 20 Nov 2023

Jordon Mutch (2014-15, 9 apps).

What was all that about
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Adel watch
at 18:44 16 Nov 2023



Now 34, and tearing it up in the UAE. Opinions may be mixed about the quality of the competition, but some of these excerpts made me purr. I'd have him back at LR like a shot if he'd come - he'd rip the Champ a new one and then some and would be a bolt of lighting in our mediocre midfield. Probably on a tasty wedge over there, mind.
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Will we stay up? (We need c. 40 points from 30 games.)
at 22:47 14 Nov 2023

Will we stay up? (We need c. 40 points from 30 games.)


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Dykes
at 21:39 4 Nov 2023

Really hope we can move him on in Jan and bring in one or two players who can really help the reshaped project, starting with breaking with years of tradition and actually investing in a striker who scores goals. He's going nowhere at QPR and just doesn't, and never will, cut the mustard. I'm afraid. He's a ram that doesn't batter, his buckle doesn't swash, and his goalscoring instincts are not so much predatory as borderline nugatory. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if Millwall, say, came back in for him, he'd miraculously metamorphose into a 1 in 3 merchant who plays every week, but hopefully we'd by then be past caring. I don't want a player leading our line who scores the odd header from an occasional Chair cross but who seems mainly to care about playing for Scotland.

All being well, MC will have sussed this out in double-quick time and will be reshaping our attacking line with Smyth, Willock and Chair, and a new pivot.
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