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Reply | Players we should have got rid - way before we did
at 16:38 14 May 2024
While I agree with this, I still for the life of me don't understand:
1. Why Barton didn't do what he normally did and simply fall to the ground, pole-axed, to get Tevez sent off.
2. Why Tevez wasn't sent off.
3. Why Tevez wasn't retrospectively banned when it was clear that he had punched Barton in the head. |
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Reply | Realistic signings everyone would target?
at 12:13 14 May 2024
Very wary after the experience with Jordan Cousins that we sign anyone who 'looked good against us'.
I want never to have heard of any of our signings. |
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Reply | Up the Budgies in the Farke-Derby
at 09:58 13 May 2024
Let's not forget our first semi at Wigan! One of the worst games in history. First legs often seem to be far too cagey, allowing the comms to trot out the nonsensical, 'you can't win it in the first leg, but you can lose it'; which, if you think about it too much, will make your head explode.
Of the four, only Albion looked to have much ambition I thought, but they're an average team (Reach still getting game time for them!) with a very good manager. I think Albion might do Southampton, and I think Leeds will beat Norwich. |
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Reply | End of Season Review - Live Now On The Patreon
at 09:47 12 May 2024
Why bother reading his post about a pod and then reply then? Very odd behaviour.
Trust me, if Dave Mc thought he had the audience that would pay a patreon for WLS he’d do it in a heartbeat. The whole point of a patreon is that it is voluntary, and those who pay get occasional bonuses as a thank you. In Clive’s case, most of the pod interviews are then painstakingly transcribed and made available to everyone anyway. If patreon didn’t exist and we didn’t pay for it, Clive wouldn’t be here and we wouldn’t have the best club writer in the country because unless you’re a student, spending hours a week providing content for free is not a viable life choice (nor should it be). |
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Reply | Andre the friendly ghost departs
at 20:23 11 May 2024
It’s almost as if some people prefer diplomacy and courtesy to just being obnoxious in the name of ‘speaking truth’. |
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Reply | Andre the friendly ghost departs
at 13:40 11 May 2024
I don’t think it really works like that.
While I’m all for accountability, he would have been watched multiple times by different people. He had played a lot of men’s football at a young age and had obvious talent. At his age, it was worth a punt, in the hopes he could have been strengthened and improved.
It didn’t work, it’s good for him and us he’s gone, but I’m not that interested in a witch hunt. Signings are extremely difficult, no one gets them all right all the time (even brighton spent good money on taylor richards).
Likewise, Nourry getting a lot of love for letting players go. Well, that’s the easy bit. Kelman was inexplicably given a new deal a few weeks ago and a lot of smart business needs to be done this summer. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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Reply | Rayan Kolli
at 14:10 8 May 2024
One I'm cautiously excited about.
Looking forward to him getting more opportunities next season! |
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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. |
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Reply | Dunne to Blackburn
at 21:58 7 May 2024
it was pretty miraculous. I wouldn't downplay it too much. |
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Reply | Irish Cafu
at 17:52 7 May 2024
This physically hurts me. |
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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. |
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