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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 13:55 29 Apr 2024
First and foremost, we need to secure Marti and let him know what options he has.
He's kept the patient 'alive' but we need to convince him that he needs to stay on for the recovery otherwise any other treatments (i.e. transfers) could be irrelevant. |
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Reply | Begovic
at 13:54 28 Apr 2024
Personally I would like to see Begovic and Dykes move onward, leave while they are 'on top' and can remember us cheering them as opposed to jeering them!
Back in those far off days of the 1980s, there was an inciteful book about good management (albeit referencing offices, etc) -
it's still out there (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Minute_Manager)
but one of it's fundamentals was that if you are going to criticise someone for not doing what they should, then you should also praise them when they do something well!
It is a simple tenet but overlooked by many managers (office based or armchair football managers) : "always give credit where it is due!".
I've been very critical of both Begovic and Dykes this season but, in the 'one minute' I am allowed by the book, I have to say that they have both played very well when we needed them to so well done both of them!
But, as with Albert, please now leave is on a high! |
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Reply | I have had a dream - Lyndon to score three against Preston
at 15:24 17 Apr 2024
Knowing the R’s Dykes will score 3 but Begovic will let in 4!!
We are due a day where everything clicks and goes for us but I’m not sure that will be this season !!
But never say never and lottery winners will tell you ‘Dreams can come true!!’ |
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Reply | Begovic
at 19:58 16 Apr 2024
Agreed. Stan Bowles cites this very point in his (auto)biography.
People said it was the loss away at Norwich that dropped the points which would have on us the title but Stan correctly pointed out that it was the games where we were winning (and let a last minute goal in to draw) and where we were drawing (and let a last minute goal in to lose) that cost us the First Division title.
However, it is actually what is fresh in people's minds and it is the same for the loss at Norwich as it is for the draw at Plymouth. It is the dropping of so valuable points when it is critical and there is little chance to recover those points - which is the issue!
I've seen us continually miss opportunities and lose points this season and have said to friends around that we may well rue those opportunities and lost points.
However, to be a few minutes away from a valuable win and to throw 2 points away which he did (and has done time and again- as well as saving goals!) - is criminal.
If you do what you are paid very well to do and you do it then that IS why you are paid, but if you are paid very well and DO NOT DO IT then expect criticism- and he has flapped once to often!
However as he has been at one end, Dykes (striker??) has been worse at the other and one can very easily argue that Asmir has been as good as he has been bad, whereas Lyndon hasn't!
However, if he saves goals and we win then all will be forgiven! Ditto Lyndon but I have more confidence in Begovic saving than Lyndon scoring! |
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Reply | Saturday's referee
at 17:46 16 Apr 2024
Is there anyone on here (with an IQ above that of a 'plant') who thinks that the chants:
"You're just another shit ref" or
"Lino, Lino you're a ****!" or
"You don't know what your doing!"
will actually make them stop, and re-evaluate their ability and suddenly change their decision-making in favour of the R's.... ?
OR,
assuming they hear and are human, do you think it will make them wave away any 50-50 claims we have?
But you will hear the chants nonetheless and then watch the subsequent decisions go against us and wonder why (and fume) that the ref and or lino are crap! (Has anyone ever bothered to write to the refereeing body after a match?)
Yes, it IS frustrating but is there any other outlet?- cos the ref and lino aren't going to change their opinions and will become more resolute- they ARE human!
Then, separately, is there any chance that Armstrong could be taught NOT to go right up to a defender who has his back to him and can fall over! He keeps giving the referees and linos every chance to blow or wave for a foul when the defender is going nowhere!
Is there any chance Colback or Dykes won't get booked?
I've asked the plants in the garden and around the house but they don't answer or they look at me with scorn knowing their colleagues will ridicule me for the post!
But we have to avoid the stupid, pointless things and 50/50s and above all, NOT get a sending off! (Dykes/Colback/Cook/Field/CSalter - all please note!) [Post edited 16 Apr 17:54]
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Reply | My Mum
at 15:10 15 Apr 2024
Sincere condolences!
Words mean nothing at this time- but they are all we have and they are sent with feeling! |
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Thread | JCS - We know what we need to do !!
at 14:54 15 Apr 2024
Great that at least one of the players knows and but not sure if, in saying ‘we’ he means ‘more than one’ or if it is a royal we and he just means ‘he knows’!!
Just in case any of the team, their agents, friends or close relatives are looking in, and as an easy to remember catch net on what to do or not do
Please score more goals than the other team
Please do what you are paid very well to do
Lyndon, Chris, etc - the ball has go into that area between the white posts that Asmir is not flapping in!!
Lyndon, please try to gain a few yards and try to anticipate where the ball is going instead of standing and watching it!
Sinclair - please note that you don't have to get so close to the defender you are chasing such that he can fall ove and draw a foul. If you touch them- they will fall!! It's not difficult!
Ilias- you dont have to try and mimic Hull's first goal - a great cut in from the left and curling shot into the top corner- EVERY time you cut in from the left! Try something different at free kicks - you did it once and we scored! Use the overlap more
Asmir, please stick a rocket where it needs to go and realise we HAVE to win games so don't take all the time in the world! Act like a captain and take responsibility for your howlers! - just for the next three games! Go out / retire knowing you gave your best ! All you have to do is perform as you would like the students at your goal keeping school to perform - and that is not to swat flies at the same time a ball is being crossed at a corner !!
We shall be the ones shouting and supporting as we have done all season - please respond!!
Waste of time posting here I know but they can’t hear me from the stands and I’m only trying to help!!🤔🙄🙂
And yes I do know that some of them are trying but are just not good enough!
(Ridicule posts to now follow in threads below!!) - enjoy!🤔🙂
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Reply | Thanks QPR fans
at 18:24 14 Apr 2024
Re the young man looking at the river …..
The Thames runs through our Kingston and the Hull through yours .
He may have thought he was in Kingston upon Thames as opposed to Kingston upon Hull or just Hull!
So glad we don’t call our Kingston just ‘Thames!’
Best wishes to your mum and hope she enjoyed the win!
🙄😁👍 [Post edited 14 Apr 18:25]
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Reply | Begovic
at 02:05 10 Apr 2024
If anyone has any shares in his goalkeeping school can I suggest you contact your broker!
What exactly would he be teaching young keepers to do at corners ?
His reaction is always as if it is not HIS fault !! |
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Reply | As expected - Coventry A final day of the season moves to 12.30
at 17:29 20 Mar 2024
I called the train company and said that I wanted to go to Coventry, but they wouldn’t talk to me 🙄 (granddad joke!)
Ridiculous timing !!
However as an earlier post- let’s see what happens with Brum and Sheff Wed before being concerned re Coventry.
Please Rs make a decent fight of it !! |
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Reply | Dunne...
at 20:24 7 Mar 2024
I've been critical of Dunne in the past but was brought up to give credit when and where it is due and he has been, as the OP states, amazing!
A changed player (hopefully) and fitting in well with his asigned role. Wow, was he good in the last two games  [Post edited 7 Mar 20:27]
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Reply | Please can someone have a LOUD word (or MORE) in Begovic's ear
at 19:43 4 Mar 2024
Not moaning at all- making a point that I was frustrated by something.
It was you who mentioned shots on target, not me, and my reply was to give you what you had missed!
My understanding of this forum is that people often say good things and others comment on things that irk them. You at one point or another are likely to have voiced an opinion and that is your prerogative and your right.
I was simply doing that and some have agreed and others disagreed ..and in case you haven't read Clive's great summary, he also thought Begovic's keeping from that free kick was abysmal as do certain others, not least Field who was showing Begovic where he 'should' have directed the save.
You might not like my comments or opinion but it doesn't mean I am right or wrong - it is simply a comment, a venting, which you will have done yourself having watched the team.
So keep your seat in FSA, as in "SD-SU"! |
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Reply | 4th March 1967
at 19:29 4 Mar 2024
Spent the next day cutting out all the stories and photos from every newspaper and scrapbooking them for the future.
No idea where that went?!
Have memories of West Brom claiming their keeper was fouled by Hunt before Lazarus picked up the spillage.
I can just remember the stadium erupting and the players running back to the half way line! I think that was the start of my anxiety as to whether we can hold on..which i still have with any game we are winning by one goal!
A fabulous day! |
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Reply | Interesting post by the club
at 19:19 4 Mar 2024
Re: Presumably the club want the fans to go to Belgium:
Hope this is not a way of setting up a rota for Illias's visitations for the next 12 months?! 
Visitor Pin Number or similar? |
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Reply | Please can someone have a LOUD word (or MORE) in Begovic's ear
at 18:36 4 Mar 2024
As the OP, (whether original poster or Old Phart?- or other choices!) I would acknowledge that, of course you are correct but there is always that chance that someone will see some truth, beneit or gauge feeling in the posts. Perhaps not.
A strange thing has happened though and whilst i am 99.999 etc% sure it was just coincidence!
I bemoaned on this forum the way we have two players standing over the ball when taking free kicks and instead of one of them shooting (and missintg) or crossing and not clearingt he wall or kicking into touch, couldn't they at least try to fool the opposition and try one player running off and over the ball and then receiving the pass which would then becoming at a different angle than the defence expected and crossing from behind the wall! Shortly after posting that for the second time they have started doing it and scored at least once from the ploy!
So either it is (as I wholly suspect) just a simple coincidence and a case of minds thinking alike etc, or someone IS actually looking in and reading?! Who knows but we need that 0.0000000001 % chance and can never say never! [Post edited 4 Mar 19:11]
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