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Reply | Frey
at 00:23 28 Jan 2026
That's right - we need more of these types who can't actually play, but are lovely fellows off the pitch. That'll see us soaring up the table. |
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Reply | Frey
at 00:22 28 Jan 2026
Well, if Frey's bit-part performances for us after he'd got his new contract were him 'straining every sinew', I'd hate to watch him when he's coasting! |
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Reply | Frey
at 20:11 27 Jan 2026
If so, Frey will literally be laughing all the way to the bank. The player lets himself go to a point where he contributes the square root of nothing for months, gets a new job (somehow) with a top-division Swiss side, and is paid a small fortune by us, on top of his new contract, to take a taxi to the airport.
I don't especially dislike Frey, but, really, don't let the door hit you on your big behind, son! Football really stinks. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 20:04 27 Jan 2026
It's very relevant, in my opinion, and in fact your opening claim effectively does a volte-face with your final sentence.
It's speculation with hindsight that the team's hit the buffers solely, or even mostly, because we've got a handful of players out. The salient difference with QPR is that the management team leans it into as an excuse (when it isn't whining about 3 day weeks, long trips to Norwich on the bus (!), the wind, or whatever else is on the agenda this week), thereby deliberately instantiate a culture of mediocrity and tolerance of low standards via downwardly managed expectations. It's frankly embarrassing.
The shocking way we performed at Stoke in parking aforesaid bus (once the poor lambs had blearily staggered off it) has far less to do with missing a winger or two, or even our top scorer, and everything to do with a depressing, defeatist, and indeed cynical/cheating mindset. We were missing Burrell and one or two others at West Ham too, but we managed not to play like spoiling jerks there - mainly because Nourry/JS realised, I suggest, that we had 9,000 fans there, most of whom wouldn't have stood for it.
The question is, for me, whether being a supporter means you support that culture come what may, or instead demand the club throw off its 'mind-forg'd manacles' and try to become the best it can be. [Post edited 27 Jan 20:06]
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Reply | Christian Nourry - Two Year Anniversary
at 19:53 27 Jan 2026
Why are these the CEO's job(s), exactly? He's there to provide oversight, not do the coaches'/manager's job for them (developing players so they can be sold at a profit, if we absolutely have to) or manage our injuries.
The most pertinent questions are surely why there's little sign that our players ARE developing under JS (one or two at least, like Kone, seem to be stalling if not going backwards) and/or why managing/sharing information about our injured stars seems to be such a sh*tshow. None of which is down to Nourry not doing his job. |
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Reply | Christian Nourry - Two Year Anniversary
at 18:20 27 Jan 2026
What does being a 'posh boy' anything (in your idiom/experience) have to do with anything? Would you also call someone a 'working class x/y/z' (insert disparaging noun of choice)? You say you've met lots of his 'type' and don't like any of them - so what? Maybe they weren't that sold on you either - I dunno. It might not be a welcome view with some on here, but I suspect at least some of the antipathy towards him is (class) envy.
He's obviously a bright man, whether he's posh or common: Oxford degree, legal training, and Master's scholar at Imperial College could given anyone's education a run for its money. I don't doubt he skirts one or two things for 'political' reasons, but, when you compare it with our manager's interviews, he comes over as a bastion of integrity. I like the fact that he's articulate, can string some thinking together, and has plenty of insight into how to run the club whenever I listen to him. Plus the fact he's a professional in his field - unlike anyone on this board.
Clearly, on top of that, he had enough credentials and knowhow to convince the owners he was a strong fit for the job - unless Nourry's critics are prepared to call them out too, as they appointed him. It's entirely possible, indeed probable, that his star has risen so far so quickly, because he's intelligent, educated, insightful, and ambitious. Of course, for those who are determined to see people a certain (negative) way, they'll go on looking through their own clouded lenses. He's also benefiting from more and more experience the longer he stays in the job. (Which is what I'd ask him if I were interviewing him: What has he learned since starting at QPR?)
The other benefit with him is a slam-dunk - he's not Lee Hoos.
Naturally, I scrutinise his performance, language, and demeanour, the most important metric among which is how well the club culture/business side is percolating - but even that, on the player side of things, is down to so many variables. The state of/situation with the ground is for me aggravating. When was the Loft roof last painted? 1985? As to 'blacklisting' fans for being too much off-message, I'll confine myself to saying I know all about that. Most people scapegoat some people so they can prop up their own self-image - and not just the 'bad guys'. Rene Girard devoted a career to writing all about it.
Overall, I'm much more worried about Stephan being a Nourry 'yes' man in terms of club steering right now - which obviously also reflects on Nourry, if my instincts are right. The manager needs to be his own man - as we all do. (Unless we're women, I guess.)
B+ for me so far. Promising, sometimes evasive, but we'll no more in a year or two. [Post edited 27 Jan 18:23]
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 14:56 27 Jan 2026
Both. I think he overrates himself, plus he's a footballing liability. If there's been a worse crosser of the ball at QPR in the 50 years I've been watching, I must have missed him. |
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Reply | EFL Panini sticker album
at 14:32 27 Jan 2026
I was just talking to a painter last night about Subbuteo. All the accessories/stadium stuff/floodlights etc. were great. I used to try and often fail to paint red numbers on the backs of my QPR team. Sadly, the game itself was a bit shit. What was the story with those bizarrely oversize corner kickers for starters? |
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Reply | Disappearing threads
at 19:38 26 Jan 2026
Even though your bile is some of the most fantastically eloquent and high-flown when we do lose, Clive. I'm confused, but then I'm not, because LfW, whatever else its merits, is such a textbook demonstration of the psychological principle of source/halo effect (the idea that two people can say exactly the same thing, but it's the person who has the higher status in the 'in-group' who'll get praised for it, while the other person will get attacked). It's all so humanly, if depressingly, instructive for a writer, especially when it keeps happening.
For fans of Frasier, there's an excellent episode, 'Docu Drama' (season 8, episode 16) which is all about it, for those posters who like to understand the shadow side of power.
Have a lovely week all! [Post edited 26 Jan 19:42]
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 19:22 26 Jan 2026
Dropping Cook so Mbengue can waltz back into the first team doesn't sit well with me, even if I'm also worried about the idea of Dunne going back to right back. Personally, I think Mbengue should be on the sidelines for a while. |
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 00:32 26 Jan 2026
If that's the case (and I'm not sure what the evidence is - surely it's more likely that Edwards is still not quite fit and/or JS didn't wasnt to break up the Dunne/Cooke partnership, which has been the only good thing about the team in recent weeks), it's surely the beginning of the end for the manager, isn't it?
Again. |
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Reply | EFL Panini sticker album
at 00:30 26 Jan 2026
Do they still do the gold sticker badges?
I was passionate about them when I was a young teen at school, but for grown adults?  |
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Reply | Marti gone...
at 00:28 26 Jan 2026
You were at the Stoke and Oxford games, were you?
JS won a French cup with Rennes, and, er, that's about it. When he left Strasbourg, they were facing relegation, with 1 win in 19 games if memory serves.
I don't like anyone getting sacked, an Marti seems like an OK guy, but still don't rate either of them very highly, to the extent that I'm even half-hankering for Warburton's return. [Post edited 26 Jan 1:42]
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Reply | Four minutes of madness – Report
at 00:16 26 Jan 2026
Just about covers it, though I don't necessarily agree we deserved to win. A draw would have been about right from what I've seen and read.
This manager is all ifs and buts and shrugs and excuses. He said if we'd got to h/t at 2-0, it might have been a different game, but we didn't, and it wasn't. Even at 2-0, though, I think we could still have found a way to f*ck it up. For me, the second half showing was pusillanimous, lacked pride, and really showed up our lack of confidence. |
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Reply | Mbenge
at 21:45 25 Jan 2026
He plays football like Micha Richards does punditry. A 'big personality' (please!) to mask a basic lack of intelligence or insight.
That said, even if he's a bit of a tw*t, but he's our tw*t.
My main issue that he must be the worst crosser of a ball at QPR since time began. |
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Reply | 2nd Wrexham goal
at 21:38 25 Jan 2026
As I've pointed out, Kone was blatantly fouled too, but his protests got him nowhere. |
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