Ten Mill Will kills QPR's unbeaten start - Report Mon 07th Sep 2026
QPR's unbeaten start to the season stops at game five as old foe Middlesbrough win for the sixth meeting in a row, albeit in a closer and more keenly contested game than the last few here - Tom Morgan was on LFW duty. |
Is this Kim Hellberg version of Boro finally the real deal? - Oppo Profile Fri 04th Sep 2026
Not the first (second or third) time LFW has had Middlesbrough down as a potential title challenger, but can Kim Hellberg's team convert a big summer of transfer activity into a proper challenge? Jonny from @Boro_Breakdown gives us his thoughts... |
Season Preview 26/27 – The Contenders Thu 13th Aug 2026
The third and final part of our season preview focuses on the bookies’ favourites for promotion this year where, as usual, parachute payments and newly relegated clubs dominate the thinking, but there may be a Coventry-style story ready to play out in the North East. |
Stoke breaking scary new ground under Robins – Oppo Profile Thu 15th Jan 2026
Stoke, infamously, have resided in the bottom half of the Championship ever since they got back here eight years ago, but Mark Robins is defying an injury crisis to have them a point from the play-offs and Ben Rowley (@benarowley) and Sam Harrison (@samjharrison) are as optimistic as we’ve ever heard our contributors from that part of the world. |
Tales of the unexpected – Preview Fri 19th Sep 2025
A Stoke side on a run of seven consecutive bottom-half finishes but starting with four wins from five, and a QPR team somehow combining its worst start in six years with its best start in four, meet in surprising circumstances at Loftus Road tomorrow afternoon. |
Has Robins finally released Stoke from Championship purgatory? - Oppo Profile Thu 18th Sep 2025
Stoke have surprisingly won four of their first five league games, prompting hope that Mark Robins may finally be the man to snap this club's seven-year stretch in the bottom half of the Championship. We spoke to Ben Rowley (@BenARowley). |
Season Preview 25/26 – Middle of the pack Wed 06th Aug 2025
Part two of our season preview focuses on an intriguing midtable picture where Middlesbrough and Stoke are stinking the place up, Derby, Disney FC and Millwall feel upwardly mobile, and everybody is looking at that Watford attack thankful they don’t have to play centre half against it. |
The home straight – Preview Fri 28th Mar 2025
QPR come limping out of the final international break and into the last eight games of the Championship season in poor form and once again missing multiple key players to injury – a supposedly more favourable run of fixtures starts at Stoke. |
“Let’s be frank, it’s another disaster” – Oppo Profile Fri 28th Mar 2025
Stoke have finished in the bottom half of the Championship every year since coming back to this level in 2018, and this week’s oppo fan Ben Rowley (@BenARowley) isn’t convinced this latest three-managers-and-counting train wreck won’t ultimately terminate in League One. |
So far, so Stoke - Oppo Profile Thu 21st Nov 2024
Stoke have done that thing where they give a manager the whole pre-season and summer budget then sack him as soon as the transfer window closes again and for it all, they're still in the bottom half of the Championship, where they've been stuck for six years - @Potterlytics gives us the latest. |
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