| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it 20:48 - Apr 19 with 4295 views | Hastings_Hoops |
...does anyone hold any faint hope that next year could be a surprise for us all (eg, a Norwich, a half Norwich, or something even something vaguely resembling a Norwich type season). With some youngsters coming back, hopefully a better managerial appointment and some time to re-build some of Eze, Manning and Bright's confidence over summer?
I have to say that Eustace has shown glimmers of hope:
* Norwich - not much he could do in the situation given the opposition and the very recent take-over from such turgid management.
* Millwall - Good tactics to stop the run of defeats and bring in some grit.
*Swansea - Mixed it up again and got everything right (and everything wen right for him!).
* Blackburn - Clearly wanted to look at options with Pav at RB, how well does Furlong work as a CB without Leistner, etc.
I was sat behind the dugout today and what really impressed me with Eustace and Co is the 'coaching' - When BOS made that run and pinged it across goal, he look really deflated as he jogged back but the bench pulled him over and told him to "keep running at goal and not cross it next time". When Eze came off at full time, he got an arm around the shoulder. Constantly telling Joel to "hold the line". Eustace was on his feet from start to finish coaching the players through every move. Such an improvement from the previous manager.
On today: I wonder if he is under instructions from the DoF and others to allow them chance to assess our options in the summer - who to sell, who to keep, who to expose to the limelight.
I'll eat my words this time next year I'm sure, but I'm hopeful of a better season.
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 21:04 - Apr 19 with 4233 views | Benny_the_Ball |
I'm all for positive mental attitude but this is clutching at straws. Right now we're turd and you can't polish it. |  | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 21:05 - Apr 19 with 4225 views | paulparker |
No we are fooked, next years Ipswich |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 21:08 - Apr 19 with 4215 views | VancouverHoop |
...does anyone hold any faint hope that next year could be a surprise for us all (eg, a Norwich, a half Norwich, or something even something vaguely resembling a Norwich type season). With some youngsters coming back, hopefully a better managerial appointment and some time to re-build some of Eze, Manning and Bright's confidence over summer?
I'm raising a tentative hand over here at the the back. You have to have hope, right?
If BOS, Oteh, Eze, Chair, Smyth become regular starters. If we build a solid back four around Leistner and Furlong, and keep Scowen, Luongo to add experience in CM, then yes if if if if if if all that happens and they all stay healthy and there's no panic generated interference from upstairs or foam-flecked fans calling for someone's head after a couple of losses then yes. For sure we could be a fun team to watch...
...If [Post edited 19 Apr 2019 21:09]
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 21:17 - Apr 19 with 4178 views | Benny_the_Ball |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 21:08 - Apr 19 by VancouverHoop |
...does anyone hold any faint hope that next year could be a surprise for us all (eg, a Norwich, a half Norwich, or something even something vaguely resembling a Norwich type season). With some youngsters coming back, hopefully a better managerial appointment and some time to re-build some of Eze, Manning and Bright's confidence over summer?
I'm raising a tentative hand over here at the the back. You have to have hope, right?
If BOS, Oteh, Eze, Chair, Smyth become regular starters. If we build a solid back four around Leistner and Furlong, and keep Scowen, Luongo to add experience in CM, then yes if if if if if if all that happens and they all stay healthy and there's no panic generated interference from upstairs or foam-flecked fans calling for someone's head after a couple of losses then yes. For sure we could be a fun team to watch...
...If [Post edited 19 Apr 2019 21:09]
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You forgot...
If we hire a decent manager
If we have any money to spend
If we hang on to Freeman and/or Lumley
There's a lot of work required over the summer just to make us competitive next season, let alone do a Norwich. | | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 22:03 - Apr 19 with 4059 views | Lblock |
Next season?
Can we please just flush this festering turd of a season down the gurgler first?
I’m growing to detest this club of ours and getting on a right downer about football in general again.
I’ve not been at a game since early March and find myself slipping quietly into a mode of not missing it. Today has twisted the knife a bit more and I’m like a few others in questioning renewing my ST
Fcuk this and fcuk it off quick |  |
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 22:17 - Apr 19 with 4006 views | oldmisery |
Eustace may have wanted to look at options but both defensive changes were forced today. T.L was ill and A.R has a slight calf strain and was omitted as a precaution. | | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 22:34 - Apr 19 with 3978 views | Hastings_Hoops |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 21:04 - Apr 19 by Benny_the_Ball |
I'm all for positive mental attitude but this is clutching at straws. Right now we're turd and you can't polish it. |
...you can roll it in glitter though. | | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 08:07 - Apr 20 with 3682 views | kingsburyR |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 22:34 - Apr 19 by Hastings_Hoops |
...you can roll it in glitter though. |
Will still smell the same though! |  |
| Dont know why we bother. .... but we do! |
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 08:12 - Apr 20 with 3675 views | dodge_stoke_r |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 21:08 - Apr 19 by VancouverHoop |
...does anyone hold any faint hope that next year could be a surprise for us all (eg, a Norwich, a half Norwich, or something even something vaguely resembling a Norwich type season). With some youngsters coming back, hopefully a better managerial appointment and some time to re-build some of Eze, Manning and Bright's confidence over summer?
I'm raising a tentative hand over here at the the back. You have to have hope, right?
If BOS, Oteh, Eze, Chair, Smyth become regular starters. If we build a solid back four around Leistner and Furlong, and keep Scowen, Luongo to add experience in CM, then yes if if if if if if all that happens and they all stay healthy and there's no panic generated interference from upstairs or foam-flecked fans calling for someone's head after a couple of losses then yes. For sure we could be a fun team to watch...
...If [Post edited 19 Apr 2019 21:09]
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IF all of that happens. We will still be in the bottom three. Personaly I'm with L block ( further up this thread). I've just about lost interest in football in general. The games turned to shit. Where a touch is enough to send a grown man sprawling around the floor. Where so called experts say that this is ok. The same experts saying that this player or that player is worth £100k/£200k a week. FFS nobody in any walk of life is worth that. As for QPR ,Jesus we must be the only club that has come into so much wealth via owners and made such a calamitous fvck up of it. A point proven when we are praying that the likes of Eze who hasn't really stepped up when given his chance this year, and players, who apart from Chair, aren't really ripping up any trees, 2 divisions below where we need them next year. [Post edited 20 Apr 2019 8:50]
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 13:45 - Apr 20 with 3459 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Ya, I'm looking forward to it.
I think we'll hire a good manager (delighted we're not rushing into hiring any old soak), and I think we'll recruit well and I think we'll see out our most difficult FFP year yet.
The following season we'll be able to spend some money, thankfully. |  |
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 14:02 - Apr 20 with 3442 views | CiderwithRsie |
A lot depends on who we get as manager/coach.
I said a couple of years ago that with the state of our finances and of football generally all I want is a squad where I can see players improving, players committed to the club (especially out of the youth team) all across the pitch, and where the organisation, tactics and selections are making the best of what we've got. We had all that at the end of Ollie's reign but we hadn't had it for years before (despite being just as shite as we have been in 2019).
I know that doesn't make winning side but it makes a side you can cheer for and feel are ours. The record is that when we get those things together we're decent enough at this level even with this squad. | | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 14:27 - Apr 20 with 3393 views | DavieQPR |
Been flirting with relegation for a couple of seasons now. Not a good sign. |  | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 16:19 - Apr 20 with 3316 views | TheChef |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 21:08 - Apr 19 by VancouverHoop |
...does anyone hold any faint hope that next year could be a surprise for us all (eg, a Norwich, a half Norwich, or something even something vaguely resembling a Norwich type season). With some youngsters coming back, hopefully a better managerial appointment and some time to re-build some of Eze, Manning and Bright's confidence over summer?
I'm raising a tentative hand over here at the the back. You have to have hope, right?
If BOS, Oteh, Eze, Chair, Smyth become regular starters. If we build a solid back four around Leistner and Furlong, and keep Scowen, Luongo to add experience in CM, then yes if if if if if if all that happens and they all stay healthy and there's no panic generated interference from upstairs or foam-flecked fans calling for someone's head after a couple of losses then yes. For sure we could be a fun team to watch...
...If [Post edited 19 Apr 2019 21:09]
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Yes I'm hopeful with a team of younger,committed players and a couple of older heads we can still compete next season. A team we can get behind rather than a bunch of loanees and players seeing out their contract. Suggest we make Furlong captain as well. |  |
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 17:46 - Apr 20 with 3248 views | Antti_Heinola |
We'll be rightly one of the favourites to go down next season - and I think, short of appointing a really stellar manager (we won't), we will. |  |
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 17:47 - Apr 20 with 3244 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
When FFP kicks in for everyone else and we have already been through it we will win the league with 30 point because everyone else will be on -50 haha |  | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 18:02 - Apr 20 with 3216 views | CamberleyR |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 14:27 - Apr 20 by DavieQPR |
Been flirting with relegation for a couple of seasons now. Not a good sign. |
Yep, afraid these last few seasons bear all the hallmarks of the late 90s where we circled the drain for a while before eventually falling down the hole to the third division. |  |
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 18:08 - Apr 20 with 3204 views | Hunterhoop |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 17:46 - Apr 20 by Antti_Heinola |
We'll be rightly one of the favourites to go down next season - and I think, short of appointing a really stellar manager (we won't), we will. |
Disagree.
I’m looking forward to next season. Lots of young, hungry players.
It’ll be our toughest season yet. But I think we’ll survive and the chickens will start coming home to roost for others in the league.
Stick with it. The club needs supporting. |  | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 13:32 - Apr 21 with 2979 views | terryb |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 18:02 - Apr 20 by CamberleyR |
Yep, afraid these last few seasons bear all the hallmarks of the late 90s where we circled the drain for a while before eventually falling down the hole to the third division. |
They do, but the same applied to most seasons after our promotion back to this division. Until the 2010/11 season that is!
I find it very hard to express my thoughts on this season, but will give it a try!
I was surprisingly optimistic back in August & thought we may go through the month unbeaten. I think I got that one wrong! What I didn't like about that month (apart from the defeats) was how few younger players were on the pitch for us. It seemed to be the opposite of what I was expecting.
Then came the four sgnings & results/performances improved. However, apart from Kakay, we still kept our quota of having three young players on the pitch, so we replaced experienced players with better(?) experienced players.
Up till the end of 2018, I enjoyed seeing us play. It wasn't always great football that we were producing, but the work ethic of our players was superb. The week of beating Ipswich, Wednesday & Villa had me on cloud nine! Three very different performances, but I doubt many of us left Loftus Road on the Friday night with a bad word to say about the club, including replacing Holloway.
At that time we had a togetherness on & off the pitch similar to the early 2,000's. Even when we had a bad result, it was accepted because the team had given their all & cared. At least, it seemed that way! On December 31st, I believe we were only two points from the play offs & had celebrated out first victory at the City Ground. Wasn't life great?
Into this year & we achieved two FA Cup wins plus a very good display at Villa Park.. What magic we were performing! To offset this, we hit the 93rd minute period! Game after game, we conceeded in that minute, or missed a penalty, or the referee didn't give us the blatant penalty!
I have since seen three shocking performances from us - Stoke, Rotherham & Bolton (the worst of them) plus, on television, Norwich. I'm sure our away supporters can add extra. In these games it was hard to see any player getting close to giving maximum effort. Mixed in with these were Leeds & Swansea! How can we be that inconsistent?
This Saturday I will be there to watch us play Forest. Am I looking forward to seeing it? Not really, but I will enjoy the time in the pub with Simon & Beth before the match & regret it will be August before we meet up again.
Overall, my views on this season have fluctuated but I do regret that I've seen very little of Smyth, Chair etc & far too much of Cameron, Hemed, Lynch & Cousins. Feel free to add to that list!
Next season, I expect we will have to rely on younger players & I'm quite happy about that. They should have been playing this season instead of wasting our resources on the three loanees. If it had resulted in relegation so be it. At least we would have been better prepared for our future! | | | |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 13:01 - Apr 22 with 2763 views | LadbrokeR |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 22:03 - Apr 19 by Lblock |
Next season?
Can we please just flush this festering turd of a season down the gurgler first?
I’m growing to detest this club of ours and getting on a right downer about football in general again.
I’ve not been at a game since early March and find myself slipping quietly into a mode of not missing it. Today has twisted the knife a bit more and I’m like a few others in questioning renewing my ST
Fcuk this and fcuk it off quick |
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 18:06 - Sep 27 with 2039 views | Hastings_Hoops |
“...it leads us to the wholly unlikely scenario that the winner of tomorrow’s game at Loftus Road will top the table leading into the three o’clocks. Who saw that coming? Nobody, that’s who, don’t turn this website into a house of lies.”
*Bump*... I will be slaughtered when we drop into a relegation battle come March. [Post edited 27 Sep 2019 18:11]
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| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 18:57 - Sep 27 with 1949 views | Boston |
| Just hoisting the flag to see who salutes it on 18:06 - Sep 27 by Hastings_Hoops |
“...it leads us to the wholly unlikely scenario that the winner of tomorrow’s game at Loftus Road will top the table leading into the three o’clocks. Who saw that coming? Nobody, that’s who, don’t turn this website into a house of lies.”
*Bump*... I will be slaughtered when we drop into a relegation battle come March. [Post edited 27 Sep 2019 18:11]
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