| Forum Reply | Best ever QPR friendlies at 21:01 1 Jul 2024
I remember the Arbroath gam. They had a giant bruiser playing up front who looked like he'd had a skinful before the game...maybe he had. |
| Forum Reply | Clever Shop Names at 20:57 1 Jul 2024
There used to be a laundry in Highgate called Wishee Washee Splishy Splashy Cleanee Knickee Velly Quickee I must confess to have seen this years' ago, sat around for ages trying to remember... and then stealing it from Simon Price on the Interweb |
| Forum Reply | Musical Top Ten at 20:40 18 May 2024
The Band Arctic Monkeys Rolling Stones Tedeschi Trucks The Four Tops Steely Dan The Who The Kinks Van Morrison Bob Dylan |
| Forum Reply | Who is your Non-League side? at 17:02 5 Mar 2024
100% St Albans City - just down the road, decent level of football as well as being surrounded by a great range of boozers. Best EVER chant - home to York -(Because the cultured and religious City fans cherish their cathedral) "You've only got a minster". There's class for you! |
| Forum Reply | Baggies Or Not Baggies... QPR Vs WBA Match Thread at 15:21 3 Mar 2024
No former WBA player scored for us in 1967... therefore Sam does not need to score, although it would be nice! I'd go for a pint in the Lazarus' former pub in Fulham palace Road to guarantee victory but I'm pretty sure it's gone - or at least changed character so it's The Uxbridge as usual. |
| Forum Reply | Sky ( the entertainment at Preston) at 19:47 4 Dec 2023
I think the issue of Dykes "sending off" which was more than a little hysterical. No complaints about a female commentator, but just as with referees, linos, managers, directors, owners , players and supporters, they must be competent and objective to validate their view,. The commentary team on Friday was neither of these. The grudging faint praise for QPR once they had seen off Preston's early enthusiasm (no more because they did nothing with their initial possession and territory), for the second quarter of the match and then clearly dominant in the second half , was phrased in a deafening non-comment and reluctant concession of defensive determination. Bias in a national broadcaster, when it achieves the heights of pro-Preston desperation as of Friday, needs to be curtailed. I am sure the team from Friday - summarisers and commentators- have better days ahead of them - just preferably not dealing with a QPR match. |
| Forum Reply | What Manager Would Wan't To Come Here? at 18:02 8 Oct 2023
...and,from his commentaries, he is not scared of calling a spade a spade regarding performances. I am only worried that like Ainsworth - a club icon, Sinton will be faced with such a mountain to climb that his legacy as a club legend will be poisoned. I think Warburton would come back, his experience having chastened his views; I'd love Warnock back but it's a long way down to the farm in Cornwall and he'd need a razor-sharp number two. |
| Forum Reply | The Hundred (*Non QPR) at 21:15 8 Aug 2023
Comletely agree. The scheme is designed to kill off county cricket and place the media - conducive presentations squarely as the property of franchises - similar to U.S. Gridiron sides. These franchises are allocated to the major cricket grounds and tickets are nearly given away. I am a member at Kent (not a good year for us this!) and love both The St Lawrence and Beckenham grounds (and the Neville - but looks like that's a thing of the past) as well as visiting "away" venues. Taunton, Bristol, Hove, Richmond and a host of other grounds are great places to watch the full range of competitions but rarely get the TV coverage they deserve. The "Hundred" needs scrapping and the 4 -day, T20 and 50 over games given media support. In a world where football and rugbu union may be limited to the "Super-grounds" and major financial interests are only too keen to impose their own image on the sports, it won't be long until London Excellence play Northern Superstars at The Wembley Superdrome (On Sunday Evening of course) in the Soccer Superleague and "Saraquins Irish" take on Celtic Ruckers at the "Twickenbowl" for the Rugger World Series. It's not difficult to see that you don't need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows (Sorry Bob!). I attended the Ageas for the semi-final of the One-Day cup and was depressed to see not a single Hampshire shirt in the entire stadium because the young Hants fans all had "Southern Brave" shirts etc. Kent don't have that problem and yes, in a way of course I am jealous but the "Hundred" is a concocted Eton Mess which has much more to do with showbiz than sport. Bin it! As I look up from the laptop I am relieved to see the rain at Lords - even God weeps to see this nonsense! |
| Forum Reply | Sturgeon resigns at 16:30 16 Feb 2023
Criticism is not"denigration". FPTP ensures that a minority with funding and vested interests remains in power. Sometimes the label on that minority changes but the effect remains the same. In contrast, your description of Bazza's point as "left wing dribble(sic)" - let's all hope you intended "drivel" is a dog-whistle to other posters and readers here which condemns any questioning of the status quo as "political" and out of place on a QPR forum. This is, frankly, a laughable example of double standards - you can attack Bazza as a liar and condemn his left wing views but, to your mind, that isn't political - it is merely simplistic and corrupt Daily Fail regurgitation - how odiously unpleasant(or odorously)! |
| Forum Reply | Welsh "National Anthem" at 16:58 22 Nov 2022
As far as I'm concerned, the Welsh are entitled to their own national anthem. Anything is better than the dirge England players and fans are obliged to mouth prior to any sporting occasion. Perhaps, also, London clubs' tendency to remind supporters of anywhere west of Slough that they are "Welsh and you know you are" legitimizes their case still more strongly. At rugby I've heard "Jerusalem", "Fields of Athenry" and a whole assortment of welsh songs belted out with enthusiasm and skill (The welsh and Irish are much better singers!). At Murrayfield "Flower of Scotland" still causes hair on back of neck to rise up but "God Save Our Gracious Queen/King/Prince of Wales" is dull, lifeless and, frankly boring. Apart from vaguely racist football chants and the dreadful "Swing Low Sweet Chariot", it seems English sports fans lack the wit and willingness to support their nation. No disrespect to the Royal Family but maybe the suggestion of the theme to "The Archers" is a better idea than appeared at first. |
| Forum Reply | Lootin Town Scum at 13:14 17 Oct 2022
If I recall correctly the "stanley knife" cup fixture saw multiple arrests which helped to justify their away fans ban but the vast majority of addresses cited for those arrested for possession of these weapons came from the Luton, Dunstable, Markyate, Stotfold, Harpenden areas - none of which locations are exactly famous for the high number of carpenters/electricians or carpet-layers residing there- nor indeed for large numbers of QPR fans! |
| Forum Reply | Refs ARE crap, but no-one deserves this... at 13:06 17 Oct 2022
Would generally agree about our "niceness" but it got us nowhere vs Lootown where from early in the game their players were mobbing the ref and demanding cards for the most innocuous of challenges - and it worked greatly to their advantage. |
| Forum Reply | Anti-Northern songs at 19:00 23 Aug 2021
AppArently the slithy Gove has renounced QPR for his true love - Chelski - must have lined up a job with Abramovitch after he is kicked out of politics. |
| Forum Reply | Whats everyones plan of action tomorrow. at 20:42 10 Jul 2021
Good luck in Canterbury- having watched Kent slaughter Surrey last night I have hopes of a similar result against Sussex - and a big night watching England slaughter Italy 1-0. |
| Forum Reply | Bands fronted by women at 19:00 7 Jun 2021
Susan Tedeschi, Amy Helm, Sonia Kristina, Stevie Nicks, Sandy Denny, |
| Forum Reply | Roy of The Rovers at 19:52 28 May 2021
If my memory has not totally failed me there was a storyline where "Nipper Lawrence" disillusioned with his professional career, leaves football and gets a proper job. He is, of course, grabbed for the works team who are playing QPR next week. Turns out QPR are "Quality Pies and Rissoles" - a name with a certain resonance. |
| Forum Reply | May 14th 1983 Grimsby Away - Who was there? at 18:33 16 May 2021
5 of us in a car - drank in Cleethorpes. Sat in FINDUS stand watching ships at sea - much more memorable than the football. Celebrated Stainrod's goal and headed South. Spent the evening in Spilsby - dunno what it's like now but had a good selection of boozers. Long night ...very long night. Great away trip - still discuss it! |
| Forum Reply | Happy St George’s Day at 19:43 23 Apr 2021
St Edmund died in A D 869 martyred by a bunch of Danes adopted by Alfred as a patron saint - nice idea to establish the saintliness of the monarchy! Edward III replaced him with a "warrior" saint in St George - Edward being somewhat partial to looting and pillaging in France. Throughout the medieval period St Thomas a Becket (martyred in 1170) enjoyed the greatest following and Canterbury was the foremost centre of pilgrimage in England. Chaucer - Edward III's contemporary celebrates a pilgrimage to Canterbury -the scene of Becket's murder in "The Canterbury Tales".Henry VIII could not tolerate the idea of a common (even if religious) figure enjoying Becket's cult status and destroyed his tomb in 1538 insisting that all mention of his name be obliterated. Obviously Henry didn't fancy the idea of a religious rebel being worshipped - especially as he was wiping out any dissident religious voices in his pursuit of any likely palace whore with whom he might sire an heir and with whom he could share his syphilis. Both Canterbury and St Albans cathedrals were desecrated (St Albans became a cathedral later) and the myth of St George was encouraged alongside Henry's self-image as "defender of the Faith" - it's far easier dealing with a myth than the idea of a saint who defied a king. In terms of seniority, St Alban is the earliest English christian martyr (A D 305) but being killed for sheltering a priest doesn't quite have the media pull of an imaginary knight bumping off a descendant of T-Rex. Patron saints were and have been the subject of fairly nonsensical political exploitation. No one should be ashamed of their Englishness - just aware of what aspect of Englishness is getting the front page. Me - I celebrate Shakespeare's birthday. |
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