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Reply | Edwards just makes it look Eze
at 00:31 15 Apr 2025
Presumably if they kept him, he could also play against everyone else apart from them, while, uh, playing for them and not us? |
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Reply | A recipe for success – Preview
at 04:33 13 Apr 2025
And a perfectionist - in which regard passion makes you both unpopular (with the mediocre) and lonely. It's not a coincidence that the story of Christ is called the Passion, who, like the devil in a different way, took the evil of others upon himself and got crucified for reflecting it back to them.
I wish we had a Gordon Ramsey at QPR (or LfW) - truth-telling, bullshit-detecting, brilliant, and beautifying. |
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Reply | Flying the flag - Pistols
at 23:14 12 Apr 2025
What - for disagreeing with you? Loads of Pistols fans (who were actually there in the 70s, and in my friend Stephen's case worked with MM) have been horrified by this indulgent mess with a substitute singer. If it somehow floats your boat, great - just jog on! |
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Reply | Flying the flag - Pistols
at 20:34 12 Apr 2025
O dear, o dear - Sex Pistols karaoke! And it wasn't exactly great the first time around. |
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Reply | Bristol City Reflection
at 20:24 12 Apr 2025
Glad you're missing me too - as I pointed out to our Lofty Leader, I cop it with some when I 'over-post', cop it when I keep my powder dry. That's the madness of a football messageboard for you, folks. I've recently realised it doesn't actually matter what I write to quite a few here who'd rather be snide and self-righteous apropos their fantasy of a person they don't know than actually have the genuineness to engage with my footballing points
More importantly, as to the game, Some good things, some not so good things today, I thought, but a lovely goal and the players seemed to be much more relaxed post-Oxford, which I think helped a lot. Brizzle passed it around us at times in pretty pictures, and tended to 'look after the football' better, but ultimately had little end product. Kolli showed his inexperience at the end, but he's a promising player, and I like him. Dunne, Morrison, and Edwards were excellent, and Ashby did pretty well too, so who knows? Saito had one or two scintillating moments, and should have set up Wang, who did gamely, and may improve.
Madsen had a decent-ish 20 minutes, but he seems to be a player who needs acres of time and space to spray his passes, which you don't often get in the Champ. He's had nearly a season to win us over in an often poor side, hasn't managed it, and the manager obviously doesn't really rate him, even though he told us he (Madsen) had 'very high standards' a few months ago - and even though he was instrumental in bringing him in.
I think we do have some makings, but not enough nous, stability and creativity, and it concerns me that MC has had a year and a half at the club and there still seems so much re-engineering to do from front to middle to back. This season, for the most part, has really done my head in, and a third shitshow in a row would be too much to take next year, so I only hope those in charge are finally going to step up. [Post edited 12 Apr 20:32]
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Reply | This Forum, Clive and friends.
at 02:00 12 Apr 2025
I've learned plenty about human nature - the best and the worst!
And laughed out loud at times. |
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 00:09 12 Apr 2025
If your last para is accurate, why waste your time railing against me rather than engaging with my points? I don't have an 'agenda', I'm not that coherent or messianic, nor a desire/need to piss on anyone's chips, just a lot of passion and anguish about all things QPR, which I speak about on my own behalf on a football messageboard, so what's yours? A barrel-load of resentment and self-righteousness?
if you don't like my opinions, or disagree with them, that's fine - put up some counter-arguments of your own rather then dealing in ad hominem tedium, and others can decide for themselves. Either way, none of it makes me 'vindictive' or anything else. But thanks for the 'uniquely individualistic' accolade, even if you didn't necessarily mean it as such, tee hee. As I often say, the world basically divides into individuals and those who follow the herd. [Post edited 12 Apr 2:24]
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 00:03 12 Apr 2025
The fact that, for me, I still think this one is the best should give you lots of happiness, considering what I have to put up with at times.*
* Before anyone chips in, I know I don't 'have to' - it's a turn of phrase! [Post edited 12 Apr 2:25]
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 18:26 11 Apr 2025
And your point is (to my several counter-points)?
Snipped and snapped at for over-posting, for disappearing, for saying too much, for not 'learning' from posts . . .
What a barnyard! |
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Thread | Smyth
at 18:12 11 Apr 2025
What was ailing him at Oxford? Couldn't seem to get into the game at all and then, when he did, he was atrocious.
Hopefully just a one-off as he's been POTS for me this season and greatly improved at Champ level. [Post edited 11 Apr 18:13]
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 18:06 11 Apr 2025
He really stood out in that first half for sure with a touch of the Viera about him. Now he needs to rise to his own bar consistently. Do that, keep improving, and he can be a real asset at this level. He's 24 in December, so now's the time for him to step up to the plate. |
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 17:58 11 Apr 2025
Nice to know I've been missed, I suppose, but not quite sure what your point is, Northern, however many times you like making it, and however many times you keep reminding us you're making it - something that tends to get me into trouble with the usual suspects. (No surprises there - LfW is about as level a playing field as Barnet's Underhill!) No manager is perfect - obviously! In other news, bears do their toilet in the woods. Here's a further thought for you - criticality is a form of love. We rant and rage about those things/people we love, not those we don't give a f*ck about - because we're idealists, perfectionists, and we want them to be better. Who cares about being pragmatic? All true fans are deranged enthusiasts who want the beautiful game and their club to be kings of infinite space.
All your previous remarks about Warburton seem to be pushing the agenda that both he and Cifuentes were/are the vitcim of circumstances and Mark shouldn't have been released either. As with Marti and his decidedly mixed house party, it's selective, ad hominem analysis in my book. If those two have been hamstrung by the 'behind the scenes' circus, why weren't any number of the club's other incumbments right up (or down) to the likes of poor Paul Hart? I'd say Marti is less of a good egg than a curate's egg based on his year and a half with us so far, but, whichever way you cut it, this season has been more bad - and sometimes Ainwsorth-levels of bad - than good.
The fact that questions can and should be raised with (i) our recruitment/set-up and (ii) the manager presiding over alarming/perplexing peaks and troughs in the team's performance and form (through his own failings) are not mutually exclusive. The demarcation lines between club and coaching are hardly any more determinable than ancient debates around 'nature' and 'nurture'. Though there is clear potential with some of these players, such as Saito and Dembele, and quality with the likes of Nardi and Chair, and reliability (limited, aged or otherwise) in Field and Colback, there are manifest, alarming deficits up front, in centre-mid and at full back. I don't think the players are fully at it collectively, and I don't believe the manager is fully switched on or convincing at this level either. That said, the lamentable injuries have been massively mitigating this campaign, thoiugh I agree with the general consensus that the club's flim-flam around them smells fishy. Even though MC rightly garners sympathy here, however, it doesn't justify his Cup selection at Leicester, which really left me and a number of others hacked off, or his generally noted lack of proactivity with his subs at times.
At the same time, while the criticism of Nourry feels vindictive and misleading for the reasons I've given at times, both he and the owners needs to front up with the fans re the aims and aspriations next season, and look at their own roles. (If criticality is a form of love, self-criticality, and self-improvement, is what separates the men from the boys.) To that extent, I do agree with you that, unless the culture of the club is properly enthused and enhanced, any manager is on a stickier wicket than he should be.
As far as next season goes, all in all, it's a barrel of questions. [Post edited 12 Apr 0:01]
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Reply | Substitutes
at 23:18 10 Apr 2025
Television is always better than the 'real' thing. This season, most of the time, its mediation has thankfully saved me from getting too close to QPR. That way, I can think of it all as a foolish film (with replays for anything I need to re-visit). |
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Reply | Colback has shown the grit we have needed
at 21:07 10 Apr 2025
Agreed - though a big shout for the defence too. I think (not sure) that you were critical of the length of contract given to Colback when he came in (or was it Cook, or was it both?), so do you think he should be retained? I'm stuck between the pros and cons. |
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