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Amazingly the title predictor thing when I typed in the word Gaffer automatically found... on today's defeat
I think it's safe to say that us fans are pretty p*ssed off this evening but I'm not sure we are as p*ssed off as Stephan is this evening.
Let me stick up for him for a moment. I looked at the side he chose today and thought, yeah, that's the side I would have picked and the changes I would have made. It didn't work and I would have been scratching my head too right now.
Late on in this interview he talk about it being a mentality issue and he's right. The problem is that 'the mentality issue' has been the same f*cking issue for the last 3-4 years and the last 4 managers. Every single one of them seems to inherit a mentality hex issue that dogs the club.
That starting 11 should have won today. So we can have a go at the manager. He picks the teams etc but tonight the players need to have a real look at themselves and get their act together.
This is a squad that blew Leicester away 12 days ago... and then decided to phone in the next 3 performances. We can all blame the manager but the players have to stand up on Sunday and show us that they aren't feeble and have some pride about their work.
Blimey that was a bit horrible. Where is the team that took Leicester apart?
Norwich fully deserved it but bloody hell, how many years of watching us fall asleep at the wheel against lower sides in the division do we have to take?
I thought he had picked the right side as well today but they were very very poor all over the pitch.
That was pretty awful and it takes quite a lot for me to say that. I thought he'd picked the right side as well today but even that didn't work. The endless inability to beat teams at the bottom of the table and make them look half decent isn't very good. After Leicester it felt like we had a platform to really do something but for some reason they really have fallen asleep at the wheel in the last few games.
I think him and Luke Amos are similar in some respects although Amos's career has been crippled by injury. He's still only 28! Both Amos and Bonner-Dixon I think suffer from split football personality. Some games they would look like they really belonged and others they were a bit like Casper The Friendly Ghost.
I can sort of sympathise with this because when I was a young lad (many centuries ago) I could go onto a football pitch and be the best player on it. You don't train with Glenn Roeder, Ray Wilkins and Glenn Hoddle as a youth player if you have nothing. The problem for me was at youth level I simply couldn't do it every game. Something switched off in certain games and I would be invisible. I got a few injuries and dropped down the pecking order. So obviously I should have been a shoe in at QPR! :)
The point is I think Dixon-Bonner and Amos have talent. The problem is if you can only switch that on now and then you're never going to make it at the higher levels. I couldn't do it. Many can't, despite having real ability.
I for one think Madsen's turnaround has been a key part in us being a better team this season. When he is on it he has a Faurlin like presence. He moves the ball forward, has very good delivery and if you watch extended highlights, there he is, in the main, crunching into tackles.
I agree, we are massively too dependent on him and we are starting to see a bit of fatigue in some of his play, but we are lacking a back up. With Chair struggling a lot through injuries it's massively highlighted. The weird thing is I remember watching Kolli in the dev team and he very much played the Eze role. Picking the ball up in his own half and being a playmaker. Simply not being used in that role and he's had his own injury issues.
It could be one of the reasons we go for Edwards in this window again. The lad can play CB very well but we also know he can play the midfield role too and there is a lot of Glenn Roeder in his style of play and for those of us who remember Roeder, he could explode through the midfield and create all sorts of chances.
But I think Madsen is as close as we have had to Faurlin in some time. Faurlin, if he hadn't killed his knees so many times would have played way above our level but he was the elegant playmaker we needed who could get stuck in. The best compliment I can pay Madsen is he's the nearest type of player we've had to him.
Faking injuries is the big one. I think if a player rolls around on the pitch like they've been shot and then get up as if nothing has happened it should be in the rules that the ref is allowed to kick them in the nuts.
Although I do remember Uncle Albert actually in tears after he scored twice against us years ago at Loftus Road. Two moments when you could almost see him screaming 'I hate my job!' Obviously Albert wasn't a journeyman.
Honestly his face and off mic words after their second goal probably summed up what we all felt. Poor lad has completely fallen into the QPR heaven and hell net.
I find most of the gongs baffling. A friend of mine, former Royal photographer, Beatles photographer, etc has raised about £20 million for charities donating his photos for auctions, served on council committees to try and help homeless people and done so much for the community and is consistently overlooked. Similarly, my friend Ollie has done so much as a young person with Down Syndrome to raise awareness of the ability of people with disability and is again overlooked.
I've supported QPR for over 50 years, that's got to be worth some kind of medal?
There is definitely something there but totally agree he needs a proper loan out in League 1 to get up to speed and get pro minutes. I'm not so sure that he's possibly a better flat out left winger than a left back. We'll see but a loan is very much what he needs.
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