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Reply | Charlton Reflection
at 12:27 10 Sep 2026
If we sell him, we sell him. If we loan him, so be it.
But we're running out of players, we're bringing on 16-year-olds and players who've never appeared at the level, all while running our only effective fit centre forward who is coming back from a hamstring injury into the ground before our eyes.
So, yeah, we need him. If we'd sold him and replaced him in the window we wouldn't need him. We did not do that.
We need all available players. We are extremely light and toothless in the front line. Yet he's a player who has scored valuable Championship goals, often from nothing, sitting with us in the away end.
You happy with that? |
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Reply | Charlton Reflection
at 11:44 10 Sep 2026
I feel as if there isn't much point complaining about the lack of dynamic movement up front or Smyth (as everyone on X is) or any player's shortcomings on the pitch. They at least are on the pitch.
The players that would've have won that, either as starters or subs, are:
Chair, Poku, Saito, Kone, Dembele, maybe Kolli. But Kolli was behind us in the stand and the others are down and out. We lacked that little bit of surprising magic they are specifically employed to deliver.
Lamptey was so good until he sat down. Cirkin, fantastic, almost a midfielder. Imagine them both as either full back? That's something I suspect we will just have to imagine for quite a while. Maybe will happen at business end of season.
Still, as long as Charles, Edwards, Madsen, JCS, Kamara - especially Kamara - Cirkin and Burrell make it alive to the international break we are still better than season and I will still believe.
The Kolli situation is an absolute disgrace. |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 15:45 7 Sep 2026
The sentence that you took great exception to read:
"the ball was crossed to where a £10m striker who will play for England nipped in between our CBs to slide home"
The bit I got wrong that he didn't slide between them, he nipped in behind Dunne ahead of Mbengue.
And no, not talking about two caps. Talking about a cap. You rubbished that very idea.
But this must be a boring debate to follow, so let's just agree I may be right, you may be wrong and move on. |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 14:56 7 Sep 2026
I said he may play for England. Who said anything about scoring in "proper competitions"?
Incidentally, at Lankshear's age Watkins was playing in L2 for Exeter and Toney in L1 for Scunthorpe, soon to be bought by L1's Peterborough.
Any number 9 who gets loads of goals over the next year or so is in with shout of an England cap. Lankshear had a good run in a bad team last year and is having a good run in a very good team this. So I think he's in with a shout. He's not an all-round player: he's a finisher.
(Having said all that, Dunne handled him very well. Goal aside. Which is what we used to say about Maddix and Lineker.) |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 14:12 7 Sep 2026
Well, since you ask why I think Lankshear could play for England I will tell you.
At the last World Cup, England took three number 9s: Harry Kane, who is 33, Ivan Toney, who is 30 and plays in Saudi, and Ollie Watkins, who is 31 this December and also plays in Saudi.
Will they be the same three who are picked for the Euros in two years? Maybe. But over the next four years towards a World Cup when Kane will be 38?
England will need to audition understudies. Who are the understudies?
English football is undergoing a long drought of number 9s. Who are the others? Tammy Abraham is 29 this month. Liam Delap has more yellow cards than goals.
The U21 number 9 is Man City's Divin Mubama who is currently on loan at - Gazza will not be happy about this crap level - Southampton. Then there's Will Lankshear who is graduating from England U20s to the 21s.
If Lankshear continues scoring this number of goals, he'll be promoted to the PL either with Boro or as a signing. So at some point, he'll get a call up should his trajectory continue.
That's my logic. What's yours? Who are the great English 9s in line for caps over the next four years?
As an aside, at his age Harry Kane was on loan at Leicester, scoring twice at a crap level in 13 matches. |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 13:35 7 Sep 2026
QPR made four (4) changes for Blackburn away and won that.
Then QPR made five (5) changes for their game against Cardiff and won that.
If I throw in a load of exclamation marks, do these facts carry more weight?
I went to Blackburn and thought the changes were OK, yes thank you. Same with Cardiff. And I understand them against Boro, a considerably better funded squad who absolutely battered us earlier this year but didn't on Saturday. Ideally our midfield could have done with Gerry Francis but he's not fit for 90 minutes either. |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 12:26 7 Sep 2026
Nobody would be happier than me, other than perhaps Lloyd and his family. |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 11:32 7 Sep 2026
Wait, is Alfie Lloyd QPR's "No2 striker"? Do you think if Lloyd had started against Boro QPR would have got something from the game? Am I reading that correctly?
My bet to you is Will Lankshear has more chance of playing for England than Alfie Lloyd has of scoring 15 goals in a Championship throughout his career. Let's see if either hit that milestone. |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 11:19 7 Sep 2026
He didn't get it wrong against Cardiff. We won.
Asking people on messageboards on Monday to pick a team for a match in two days who have no idea the fitness of players who played on Saturday, and in some cases three days before that, and four days before that, is mad. How do we know who can play, who is fit? Poku looked like he took a knock. But did he? Kone looked cooked - but maybe it was just a twinge.
We've just signed a load of players who have not had preseason, and some cases have barely played in the last season or so. They may be our best technically gifted players too. But in order for us to play them in the winter, they need their minutes managed. We have others coming back from injury who need gradual minutes.
Why is this so controversial? And why is beating Cardiff in fact defeat? |
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Reply | Awful team selection
at 09:40 7 Sep 2026
"wrong choices were made v Cardiff ..."
You know QPR beat Cardiff? I think that makes the choices the right ones - but hey, who can really say what's winning and losing?
In fact, so far I have seen us win three games, draw one and lose one from five. Obviously not as good as if someone was in charge who just played the best players every game regardless of whether they had injuries or fitness levels to be managed as they hadn't done preseason - but not bad for a hipster amateur like Stephan.
My counter is that QPR lost the game against Boro because Paul Smyth lost his tackle on the edge of the box, the ball was crossed to where a £10m striker who will play for England nipped in between our CBs to slide home. Later, Harvey Vale hit the woodwork from a shot which he'd scored an identical winner against Stoke last season.
Fine margins. That's what happens sometimes. Chair, QPR's best player, going off early totally disrupted us too. We look a very decent squad, better than we have been, with a good coach.
It's all jockeying for position until the first international break, a bit like an extended preseason. I'd say we're ahead of where we were meant to be, except the Chair and Kone injuries are a big setback. But West Ham is where the season really kicks off.
Glass very much hall full for now. Find this thread a bit bedwettery. |
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Reply | Stephan got away with one tonight
at 08:59 3 Sep 2026
Stephan did exactly what he had to do to win a game I have seen us draw and lose many times before. And he did so whilst not sacrificing players for Saturday and beyond. |
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Reply | Tim Iroegbunam
at 11:52 2 Sep 2026
Oh I remember it well enough, Critchley was the dour portal we had to all travel through for 12 games to reach Ainsworth-world... |
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Reply | Tim Iroegbunam
at 11:25 2 Sep 2026
He was a 19 year-old PL wonderkid in the Villa academy, lent in September to QPR, at that time top of the Championship and playing dynamic possession based football under progressive coach Mick Beale, who insisted Iroegbunam was the final piece in his puzzle...and then bailed.
By the bleakest of mid-winters, Iroegbunam was playing anti-football in a seemingly inevitable relegation team for Gareth "possession can do one" Ainsworth and scoring an absolutely vital winning goal against Watford in Ainsworth's first win in 13 matches.
Jimmy Dunne was piss poor in that run too and he's our club captain rock now, so time's have changed.
Anyway, here's the Athletic asking "Is Tim Iroegbunam the heir to Idrissa Gueye - and the Premier League's next great ball winner?" as recently as May this year. Based, one assumes, on his performances in the PL over the last seasons, rather than un Ainsworth in the Championship three years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/athlet
Possibly not. But in the scheme of some of this window's transfers by PL clubs, £13m rising to £22m is probably below the market. |
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Reply | Tim Iroegbunam
at 15:37 1 Sep 2026
I wish. Three new contracts and signing bonuses at three PL clubs in four years is a bit of a touch, percentage-wise, for a player destined to spend the rest of his career in the EFL, based on this thread. |
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Reply | Tim Iroegbunam
at 10:56 1 Sep 2026
"If I was him, I'd stay at Everton..."
Amazing. If you were him, indeed.
He's going to Hull because he'll get a signing on fee worth QPR's weekly wage bill, and if they stay up he'll get a bonus worth more than any player we could sign and Everton will get the balance of that £22 million. So it's quids in all round and there's no guarantee than Everton will have any kind of season or that Moyes will see Christmas there. Of course he goes.
Incidentally, when did you last watch him play a full match? Because he's the not the player you describe. He and Garner play in a double pivot and were dominant in the game they drew with City last May that I watched: he's an excellent midfielder, 23 years-old with a high ceiling and over 100 games under belt.
This discourse seems to be about a 19-year-old who played in arguably the most mental QPR season in a decade, under Beale, Critchley and Ainsworth. He's not that guy! |
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Reply | Tim Iroegbunam
at 09:42 1 Sep 2026
Some amazingly tight knickers getting in a twist about a transfer between Everton and Hull here, on this QPR forum.
Just to correct the OP: it's a £12 million transfer upfront, with add-ons that could come to £22 million. If he achieves those add-ons, he'd be worth it.
Bearing in mind he cost Everton just over £9 million two summers ago, has since played 50 games, with 30 coming last season when he was good value in that team.
So, a £3 million mark up in two years of PL football for a mobile, strong, technically sound 23-year-old English midfielder seems reasonable, perhaps even decent value in today's deadline day market. |
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Reply | Do we need another striker before the window closes?
at 18:10 30 Aug 2026
I meant a player to cover for Dunne, who cannot realistically be expected to play every game. He wins headers in each boxes and nobody else does, certainly none of the players you cite do. Yes, we have "three very decent CB's." You need four minimum and none that you mention are dominant in the air, blood and thunder CBs in the Dunne mould.
Steve Cook played 30 games for the 1st team last season and has not been replaced. That's what I think we need.
ps. who is "the young lad who played for the first team last season who plays in the Development squad"? Tylon Smith has left the club. So that's another CB gone. |
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Reply | Summer transfer rumours 2026
at 13:32 30 Aug 2026
Lloyd is three years older than Morgan and has had loans in L1 at Orient and Lincoln: it's now or never for him (probably never, with that touch: he'll have a good career a little lower down).
Morgan is 20, was signed for the DS, was promoted far quicker than planned and needs a run in first team football at L1 level. Then we can judge. |
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Reply | Do we need another striker before the window closes?
at 13:27 30 Aug 2026
Edwards is not a CM. He's a highly skilled player who could do a job anywhere, but watch the Cantwell chance with the header he absolutely should've scored in the first half.
Comes about because Edwards lets him run off his shoulder, completely unaware there's anyone there because it's not his position, he's not used to it and it will bite him/us at some point. He's a good enough player to play full back, CM or even CF in a short-term role. But he's a centre back.
The player we need more than anything is a wise-head CB to cover and replace Cook. |
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