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Reply | Centre backs progressive passing and aerial duals
at 09:05 10 Nov 2026
According to Twitter comments it is "line-breaking pass completed". Who knows exactly what that means. If that means a pass to Varane (ie past their attack) only for him to just pass straight back, not that exciting really!! |
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Reply | Blowing Bubbles Up The R's Match Thread
at 20:23 9 Oct 2026
Never a penalty, but not as bad as the one Swansea got against us last season!! Regardless, I still don't want VAR - kills the pace and passion of the match |
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Reply | Zan Celar - Goal Machine !!
at 15:16 18 Sep 2026
We have had some stinkers from everywhere, haven't we? Anyone remember Adam Czerkas and Alessandro Pellicori?!?
But to be fair, we don't do brilliantly in the UK either - sure fire bets like Connor Washington disappointed, others like Mac Bonne were probably predictable. And this is just looking at strikers!
It seems like our recruitment is getting better now (praying hopefully), but I think we all long for the late 80s, early 90s when we were the ones picking and growing obscure players, much like Brighton and Brentford today. |
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Thread | Spine Shivers XI
at 17:44 14 Sep 2026
Seeing the favourite team XI, it made me think about players whose name gave me shivers when I saw them on the team sheet - a mistake never far away. I am sure I have missed some real dross, but here is my starter:
GK - Rob Green
RB - Tim Breacker
CB - Bob Malcolm
CB - Zesh Rehman
LB - Tommy Williams
RM - Tony Scully
CM - Steve Morrow
CM - Keith Rowland
LM - Christer Warren
CF - Steve Slade
CF - Sammy Koejoe / Luke Moore (sorry couldn't pick - something about barn doors, banjos and paper bags with a lot of our strikers) |
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Reply | Favourite ever QPR team I enjoyed watching
at 17:26 14 Sep 2026
This was hard. No Defensive Midefielder and I have done nothing pre-1990 or loan only, but here we go!
GK - Camp
RB - Bardsley
LB - Padula
CB - Shittu
CB - Richard Dunne
RM - Akos Buszaky
CM - Ebere Eze
LM - Martin Rowlands
CAM - Adel Taarabt
CAM - Roy Wegerle
CF - Les Ferdinand
Can't believe they didn't make the cut
Charlie Austin
Andy Thomson
Clive Wilson
Alan McDonald
Lee Cook |
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Reply | Forza Ascoli
at 17:02 3 Jun 2026
I am delighted my second beloved Vicenza got promoted straight away after losing at the last hurdle last year.
Speaking of which, I was there when Mark "Spit" Hughes-less scored one of his volleys to knock Vicenza out at Scumford Bridge in 1998 in the CWC Semi Final.
Honestly, memories of that goal are a close second to the Andy Campbell disaster in 2003. Goals and moments that I NEVER want to relive. |
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Reply | Legacy Numbers
at 18:47 18 Sep 2025
And of course, I forgot Shabazz Baidoo, who created his own music genre!
As well as his career as a professional footballer, Baidoo has a music career under the stage name Terminator (otherwise known as T or the Darkside Pioneer). According to his GrimeForum page, Baidoo's musical career is secondary to his footballing and is a recreational activity. However, since the end of his football career, his output has been more sporadic and he prefers to be an unsigned artist.
Baidoo is said to have created his own musical subgenre within grime known as "darkside", which predominantly involves a "sluggish flow" coupled with violent lyrics. Some of his musical techniques include rhyming words with themselves and holding one syllable for an extended amount of time to allow a bar to pass. Sometimes Baidoo will even make use of one word lines in his lyrics.
On 19 December 2013, Baidoo released Darkside Pioneer. On 2 November 2015, Baidoo released Darkest Facts of Existence. In March 2019, Baidoo released a surprise project, his third album, Darkest Facts. |
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Reply | Legacy Numbers
at 18:44 18 Sep 2025
It seems April 2005 was particularly memorable. Debuts for:
Pat Kanyuka and Stefan Bailey (remember them)
Scott Mulholland and Luke Townsend (a bit less)
Generoso Rossi (who?!?)
BUT most impressively, a young Lewis Hamilton?!? |
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Reply | It's only August and Julien is already being sent to Coventry - Match Thread
at 16:26 23 Aug 2025
Stat from the Beeb - And today was the first time that the Hoops had conceded five (or more) in the first half of a league game since a 6-1 loss at Leeds United in November 2004. (Opta)
I was there, at least for 5 minutes I basked in Ainsworth's goal and then the train journey back from Leeds when Chris Moyles was being ripped apart over the train tannoy!
I am not sure I can watch today's "highlights" any time |
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Reply | Statistically our best striker in the last 40 years?
at 15:23 27 May 2025
Although if you only do Charlie's first stint (Which I think is fair), he too is at 0.55 for league games, 0.54 if you include cup. I almost forget just HOW good he was first time around. |
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Reply | A couple of your favourite games 24/25
at 19:49 6 May 2025
I sadly don't watch many matches any more, we lost 7-2 in my live appearances, so going to pick
Derby 4-0 - it's not often I get to be relaxed in the second half, although we could have had 7 if we had continued at tempo
Bristol City 1-1 - I remember so many matches where we have been robbed over the years, they should really make a film about this perfect heist :-) |
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Reply | wayne Rooney at the club golf day
at 09:30 2 May 2025
Totally agreed, but he got his money from being a great player! I didn't fully appreciate how good he was until watching him live in our match in the Premier League. He was always a step ahead of everyone on the pitch, finding space and a step ahead. I had never really seen that when watching on a TV where you don't see the whole picture.
I realise this sounds like an argument for proper scouting versus statistical databases to select players! |
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Reply | Meanwhile, in Scotland, Queen's Park ,,,
at 12:33 11 Feb 2025
PS As Queen's Park - Rangers was a tie, can we pretend that we didn't get knocked out in the third round, but actually took part in the Scottish FA Cup and got through some rounds? |
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Reply | Meanwhile, in Scotland, Queen's Park ,,,
at 12:32 11 Feb 2025
Agreed that we don't see the kind of upsets we do in England, but even those are now tinged with team's playing their reserves. I still remember Mickey Thomas' goal for Wrexham against Arsenal as a proper cupset.
In terms of Scotland - this is the one that always sticks in my mind, with a pretty decent headline, poor old John Barnes - https://www.thescottishsun.co. |
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Thread | Adel - Last of the Old School Mavericks
at 12:01 31 Jan 2025
Sorry if already shared or well known, but I will let Warnock tell this story. What a player. And I guess, what more he could have been!
Embed doesn't seem to be working, trying this - youtube.com/shorts/bpeAaa91rNw
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Reply | Yang Minh-Hyeok
at 13:10 30 Jan 2025
Very well put, I just saw that quote. I hope the kid is more Son Heung-min that Ji-sung Park. I remember being excited by the signing at the time, as unlike all the others, I thought he was a grafter, but he was RUBBISH for us. I just don't understand that period of our history |
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