| Forum Reply | Players we should have kept at 14:43 10 May 2024
Josh Laurent would be the most recent probably? Also, we let Chris Mepham go. Then Brentford sold him for about £20m. And he and his family are QPR fans. Really dropped the ball there, although he's usually kind enough to not be at his best against us. [Post edited 10 May 14:44]
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| Forum Reply | QPR New Deals at 09:33 10 May 2024
Yeah it's a myth we don't cross it. We do, it's just that he's hardly ever there. Also, they often look up and see him hiding behind two defenders: I don't blame them for checking back half the time. Interesting that a lot of his headed goals tend to come from crosses not across the face of the goal, or pulled back, but crossed diagonally from a position further back on the pitch (Swansea equaliser being a classic). His goal from the corner v Leeds was a very, very rare goal where he attacked the near post. The contrast to Charlie Austin there is enormous. |
| Forum Reply | Aaron Drewe at 08:47 10 May 2024
Mentality. This is why when people say a player doesn't work hard enough or doesn't care enough, it needs context. To play at Championship level in this country is extraordinarily hard - or at any professional level. Not only do you need ability, yoiu need dedication and a massive will to succeed. i don't think we quite appreciate that enough sometimes. It is, of course, why players like Richards will ultimately fail; it's why 'talent' (whatever that is, exactly: I personally don't really believe in it to much of a degree - almost everything comes through hard work, not some magic 'talent') isn't enough. That goes for any particularly competitive career though, I guess. |
| Forum Reply | Aaron Drewe at 08:41 10 May 2024
Agree Derby. Some fans have this lovely romantic view of the 'youth system' being kids aged 8 joining the club, being coached for 10 years, and then being a first-teamer. In reality, this is vanishingly rare, not just at our club, but *anywhere*. Of course it is! The best players in my district in the 80s were with clubs, but within a couple of years they'd been overtaken by other players who a couple of years earlier were nowhere near as good. Then, as you say, we have to compete with other teams: if we have an outstanding talent at aged 13, we'll probably lost them (see Elliott, Harvey) - and there's not much we can do about it. It's much easier for a Chelsea or a Liverpool to have a successful academy, because they can just cherry pick the best talent elsewhere. Equally, if a smaller club has a talent at 13, we can take advantage of that ourselves. If you're only counting youth products as players who've been at the club since the age of 10, then almost no academy system 'works'. That's why, when it does happen, there's a big fuss about it. It's why Man Utd's Class of 92 is so revered: because a success like that is and was still pretty much unheard of in modern football. |
| Forum Reply | Opening day of the season at 16:42 8 May 2024
Live sport absolutely is viable though and Sky will have done the maths based on years of FL coverage. The reason it's viable is that live sport is one of the few things people still watch 'live' - therefore it's one of the few places advertisers still want to advertise. |
| Forum Reply | Liam Rosenior at 14:14 8 May 2024
I don't think that's a concern - yet. Brighton have been appointing managers who have managed at the top level in bigger leagues and managers who have gone deep in major Euro competitions. Marti not in that bracket - yet. Won't be long. |
| Forum Reply | Opening day of the season at 14:13 8 May 2024
Sky are claiming they will choose all fixtures for broadcast until FA Cup 3rd round before the season starts, and after that, the rest of the fixtures by end of november. I guess when they're showing so many every week, it makes it easier to decide. Interesting. Until the end of the season, I'd rarely watch a football league game that wasn't a QPR game. Are they effectively assuming that most games will have a viewing number of the amount of fans of the away side who normally only go to hime games, plus a few others? |
| Forum Reply | Rayan Kolli at 14:10 8 May 2024
One I'm cautiously excited about. Looking forward to him getting more opportunities next season! |
| Forum Reply | Liam Rosenior at 11:47 8 May 2024
Not a chance he'll drop to championship. He'll go prem or abroad. Not many prem clubs have changed manager, really. |
| Forum Reply | Dunne to Blackburn at 21:58 7 May 2024
it was pretty miraculous. I wouldn't downplay it too much. |
| Forum Reply | Irish Cafu at 17:52 7 May 2024
This physically hurts me. |
| Forum Reply | Irish Cafu at 17:06 7 May 2024
Well, Cook, Colback and Fox all have a year to run. I think that's enough for them for now. JCS has 2 years left. |
| Forum Thread | Irish Cafu at 15:53 7 May 2024
Ain't going nowhere |
| Forum Reply | Palace put price tag on Eze at 15:39 7 May 2024
Well, not rated above Bellingham, Palmer, Foden, Saka etc etc. That's not the same as 'not rating' him. Southgate clearly likes him. Was going to be in his initial bigger squad for World Cup 2 years ago before his injury. But when you look at the players in his position, it's very, very hard to crack that nut. |
| Forum Reply | Liam Rosenior at 15:37 7 May 2024
I can't see Marti going to another Champ club unless it's like a sort of Southampton or Leeds type scenario. Gulp. |
| Forum Reply | Work to do at 10:15 7 May 2024
I think an issue we have is that we have three strikers. None are prolific enough. None really seem quite good enough. But I also think we are not going to be signing one striker, certainly not two, if we can't offload at least one of them first. No way we're going to be paying 5 strikers for 1 poisition. |
| Forum Reply | Ainsworth 'Titbit' via the Stevenage Forum at 11:32 6 May 2024
Woah there Bosh. Jury is very, very, very firmly out on Nourry. The reality is we simply have no idea at all what sort of operator he is yet. He might be a boy genius. He might also be completely out of his depth but luckily is surfing the Marti wave. |
| Forum Reply | The Coventry Conference – Report at 11:30 6 May 2024
Brilliant stuff Clive. Thanks for all your efforts over a difficult season. It's funny, we come to the end of it and think 'what a horrible season' - in fact, it wasn't. The first third was. After that and certainly since the halfway point we've been pretty consistent. Frustrating at times, some awful results, but also some amazing ones. A solid mid-table team. Agree with every word on Marti. Everyone wishing you a happy summer, but of course, we all know you still provide us with a ton more stuff - player ratings etc etc. Looking forward to that. Cheers. |
| Forum Reply | Transfer rumours 2024 at 21:21 4 May 2024
Well he’s played more games! Overall, yes i think he has been. Is that controversial? I can see why people think Hayden might have been a better signing, but he’s often been sub or subbed. Like him a lot, just think Andersen on a free overall a better signing, yep. |
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