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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 22:42 20 Feb 2026
How many times did the commentators mention Blackburn beating us? It had reached a count of four when I gave up watching... |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 18:16 18 Feb 2026
To be fair to us the first two Pompey goals at Charlton were fortunate. The keeper let the first one go straight through him, the sort of mistake he wouldn't do against us, and the second goal came from a dodgy penalty award which we would not have been given for a similar incident.
I see the commentators of the Qarabag v Newcastle game managed to wangle in a mention of our nightmare defeat to Blackburn at the weekend as if it had any relevance to the Champions League... |
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Reply | QPR hand O’Neill perfect start as Blackburn boss – Report
at 19:50 16 Feb 2026
We should remember that Blackburn have won more away games than we have. Earlier in the season they had won five away by mid November but it was their home form that was the problem.
We have been poor for years dictating the play which is probably why we have struggled at home in previous seasons from not being able to take the game to the away side. We did better away from sitting back and taking the few chances we got hence we could win 2-1 away at Burnley and Leicester but we did lose the home fixtures. This is the first season for years we look better at home but we still struggle with possession and controlling games.
It has been unlucky for us that Norwich and Blackburn changed their manager's just before we played them so we lost both 3-1. We have been bad since Christmas and so too have Coventry. This often happens where teams have a good first half to the season and a poor second half and then you have the reverse with Norwich and Sheffield Utd doing much better in the second half of the campaign. |
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Reply | Why do we keep conceding immediately after half time??
at 21:53 14 Feb 2026
It does my head in but it is more a home game defect or at least it seems that way. Today we concede in the 50th minute effectively ending the contest when any other losing side would come out all guns blazing. Coventry took the lead in the 53rd minute with one of only two efforts on target and Wrexham equalised in the 54th minute.
Our manager must really inspire the lads at the interval or maybe some of the players have been betting against us like on the time of Wrexham/ Coventry's first goal. If we don't concede early in the second half, we are not averse to conceding just before half time instead! I guess we are good at something after all... |
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Reply | Ewood'nt believe it if i told you... BUT QPR vs Blackburn Rovers match thread
at 18:00 14 Feb 2026
Only a matter of time before normal service is resumed with Sheffield Utd and Norwich going above us. It never ceases to amaze me how often we concede around 50-55 minutes at home. Whatever is said to these misfits at half time doesn't seem to register.
What is the point boring people to death drawing 0-0 away only to follow up losing at home to both Wrexham and Blackburn conceding three goals in each game? We are excelling once again in not being capable of beating teams fighting relegation and having half the team crocked.
Really am weary of this never ending season after season going nowhere tale of woe that regurgitates itself in slightly different forms. We are like a flu virus that changes slightly each winter but the end result of us feeling sick never goes away. |
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Reply | Leicester v Southampton
at 10:33 12 Feb 2026
It is the way of things that smaller clubs rise and then crash and in today's money dominated game they can't keep up with the big clubs.
We started the 70's in division 2, nearly won the first division and ended the decade back in the second division.
What annoys me is seeing other small clubs winning the FA Cup like Wimbledon, Wigan, Portsmouth and Leicester for example not forgetting Luton and Birmingham winning the League Cup. It still rankles with me today that second division Southampton won the FA Cup when we had our best ever team in 76.
Anyway this has nothing to do with the thread title. |
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Reply | Another nil nil on the road – Report
at 09:57 9 Feb 2026
Thanks for doing this research at least it proves I am not getting senile yet as it confirms my worst suspicions that we are spineless in away London derbies.
I think the away win at Chelsea was the only away derby success in three Premier League seasons which included 6-0 and 6-1 derby hidings when we allegedly had better players than we have now.
The problem for us doing badly at Brentford and Fulham was that Brentford were on the rise and Fulham kept going up and down with parachute payments while we were in decline.
It is difficult to fathom why we have not managed a win at Charlton in the last 7 attempts as they have been stuck in the mud rather like us. Didn't they knock us out of the League cup as a league 1 side in a penalty shoot out following on from us losing there in the season they were relegated from the Championship? I try to forget about nightmares like this so memory a bit sketchy.
Perhaps it is just as well we are not in the Premiership. Fourteen derbies would be enough to relegate us as we won't pick up many points in those fixtures. |
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Reply | Another nil nil on the road – Report
at 20:22 8 Feb 2026
To be fair to Nathan Jones he thought the ref showed common sense not sending Vale off as there was no intent.
I would be interested to see how many away London derbies we have won since 2000. They say life is short and 19 years without an away win at Charlton is a significant proportion of my life. We have an excuse struggling at established Premiership London clubs like Arsenal and those who have risen like Palace, Brentford and Fulham but to not win at Charlton who have struggled is not a good look. You realise how quickly life passes when you analyse the last time your team won at a certain ground... |
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Reply | Don't be Addicks - Charlton Athletic vs QPR Match Thread
at 23:05 6 Feb 2026
I have lost count but that must be no wins in our last seven visits to the Valley. We are poor at winning away in London derbies so I guess a small mercy we didn't lose.
In truth we should have taken one of those stoppage time chances to win the game. We can say at least Dykes didn't score against us but he stopped us winning with the goal line clearance. |
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Reply | Gary Lineker
at 23:42 31 Jan 2026
I don't think Coventry and Leicester fans particularly like each other so he may have liked the result.
While I was agitated that once again we conceded soon after half time from one of only two on target efforts from Coventry, I am pleased with the way we played and that we didn't hand them their first away win in 7 league away games so no generous charity donations from us. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 21:59 30 Jan 2026
8 away wins is damn impressive for a team that lost at Oxford. It is a big turnaround since the Rams lost 4-0 to us when Eustace arrived. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 22:22 26 Jan 2026
You are right but Coventry haven't won any of their last 6 away games. Time for our benevolent charity to help them out. Norwich only 7 points behind us now so my Canary friend's prediction they will finish above us looks on. |
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Reply | Marti gone...
at 18:29 25 Jan 2026
Marti is a good manager for keeping a team up but I don't think he is the right man to get a team promoted like Leicester who would expect to be fighting for promotion. Be interesting to see where he goes next. |
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Reply | Wrexham fans
at 18:17 25 Jan 2026
The key words here are we continue to bob around in roughly the same position.
The thing is we have been fairly static for 10 years like s Monopoly piece selected and going to jail in the first move. If we keep finishing around the same position it gives the impression we lack ambition and have made zero progress. We exist but just appear to be making up the numbers.
While we have been loitering around the lower half of the table we have seen Wrexham go above us from non league, Luton went from non league to the Premiership, admittedly they have now gone back down to league 1, Ipswich sailed by us to the Premiership and are still above us despite relegation, Sunderland look like they are staying in the Premiership, Coventry are in a great place to join Sunderland next season and now Derby are above us.
I accept some clubs like Portsmouth and Oxford could return to league 1 with Sheffield Wednesday so we have done OK in terms of avoiding the drop. However, while we continue to finish around the bottom half that does not suggest we are moving upwards out of the rut. Sure, we could still finish in the top half but not if we are unfit as appears to be the case.
I was watching Villa winning at Newcastle today and thinking how fit they look. They were playing in Turkey on Thursday and won. Despite all the travelling and having to then travel to Newcastle didn't seem to affect them. Yet I read on here our boys are out on their feet at home to Wrexham but we only went to Oxford on Tuesday not Turkey.
If we had done our research we would know Wrexham score quite often in stoppage time. How is it we can muster the dark arts of the game for 100 minutes at Stoke but can't do it for 4 minutes yesterday to see the game out? We should know Wrexham finish their games strongly which they regularly demonstrated in their rise from non league. If we keep fielding unfit players we cannot move forward as a club. Our club needs a major shake up if it is ever to wake up.
If I was a Wrexham fan I would be happy about the direction of the club and the never give up approach and winning mentality of their team so fair play to them. Yesterday's finish was another depressing low for me as an R. |
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Reply | Just back
at 18:33 24 Jan 2026
If you are not fit then the team will look tired the longer the game goes on for. If the manager and players know they are going to wilt then it is imperative we take the opportunities in the first half. We should have been three up at half time but a tired team will start sitting back as the game wears on when only leading by a goal. If we had done our homework we would have known Wrexham score a number of stoppage time goals so we should have played more sensibly in the dying embers.
The frustration I have with us is that when the opponents go down to 10 men we can't score against them even when we have an hour still to play. All we had to do was see out 5 minutes but we ship two just 60 seconds apart. We can make excuses about tiredness but why do other clubs cope better? Wrexham won all four games between Christmas and the New Year. Today Middlesbrough blew Preston away 4-0, this after winning at West Brom and Stoke in the past week. Why are they not tired and sitting back at home like us? We have mentally weak players who are unfit and it never changes over the seasons. Until someone at the club shakes us out of this apathy and changes the dynamics we will still be in this same place in twenty years time.
Perhaps people have forgotten past nightmares but we have been here before. The famous City game 2-1 up on 90 minutes only to lose after 95 minutes. Or how about Hull? One up after 90 minutes only to lose two goals in stoppage time. The only difference today is that we were at home. [Post edited 24 Jan 18:36]
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Reply | Is the season over?
at 22:51 20 Jan 2026
I like your comments about us going full bore but I don't think you meant it in terms of us putting everyone to sleep at Stoke and Oxford. That really was fully boring.
In contrast bottom 3 Norwich won at Wrexham and thrashed the Baggies by actually playing football. My Canaries mate is egging me to take his bet they will finish above us this season. I don't think I will indulge him seeing that we let them have 6 points off us. I reckon I will be on a loser there. |
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Reply | Stoke fans on QPR (whose side are you on?)
at 21:10 18 Jan 2026
I watched Wolves v Newcastle, Villa v Everton and Senegal v Morocco and wish I hadn't bothered. Three games little better than ours yesterday. Perhaps I have been footballed to death. The only entertainment was Senegal walking off the pitch before the end.
Unfortunately money corrupted football and the best players with quality play for the elite teams. The rest of us feed on scraps so with little quality we have to manage the best we can. It is much harder these days to play great football with mediocrity. |
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Reply | Semenyo
at 20:22 14 Jan 2026
Exactly this. Work on the basis a player will move to a big club for big money in January so allow him to be available for cup ties for his new club. No great surprise to see four big and rich clubs in the league cup semi final.
This new ruling also helps get more results like Man City 8 Salford 0 and Man City 10 Exeter 1. Still at least Pep does play strong sides in the cups and doesn't tolerate being four up at half time and then putting the cue on the rack. The magic of the FA Cup seeing City pummelling a league 2 team at the Etihad. I bet Salford were impressed to see they are away to City again so will probably be happy to lose to Swindon now to avoid a repeat. |
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Reply | The rules of Road Runner – Report
at 21:37 12 Jan 2026
I wondered what the road runner had to do with yesterday but I suppose he didn't get struck down with hamstring injuries like our team.
An interesting take about Soucek seizing the initiative from us when he came on. I thought we just reverted back to the low block game of the first half once we got level. I hadn't considered we had run out of steam. I just felt a better team than us would have gone for a second goal as the Hammers were rocking at that stage and we let them back in the game dropping back. This is the problem when we haven't got our best team on the pitch. Some West Ham fans making out online they were passing the ball around the back in the first half to keep warm as we offered no threat.
After all that effort it was disappointing no replay to get more money in the coffers but we would still have to field a weakened team again against the Hammers if replays still happened. Good to see our fans enjoyed the day out but naturally I don't share the opinion of some we will get 6 points off West Ham next season.
London derbies are a struggle for us and we are particularly poor away when it comes to winning. When do we ever take 6 points off Millwall? I am confident we won't win at the Valley to get 6 points off Charlton as a good probability some of our crocks will still be missing. I would not be surprised if one meeting with West Ham next season will be one of the four games played in the 10 days spell. Look how well that went for us the other week so it's very premature to say we will get 6 points against them. The timing of when we meet can play a huge part in the outcome.
As for West Ham's ground it lacks the soul of Upton Park. But with owners it's all about making money so if you can get 60,000 in a stadium that cost you a fiver compared to 30,000 at the Boleyn, those gate receipts and season ticket sales gives you more finances to spend. Just seems to have gone wrong this season. [Post edited 12 Jan 21:39]
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