| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 02:29 - Dec 25 with 1196 views | CLAREMAN1995 |
Excellent preview as usual but this ones digs deeper into thr QPR quagmire and the hope we might be finally coming out of this depression is really uplifting at this moment
Friday is huge and I fully expect us to go there and win then continue on for the next few games .
Happy and safe Christmas to everybody on LFW and their loved ones |  | |  |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 04:15 - Dec 25 with 1138 views | BrisbaneHoop |
Thank you Clive. Merry Christmas to you and all. |  | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 05:56 - Dec 25 with 1075 views | Malintabuk |
Reading this with the grandkids having dragged Mr MinT out of bed ... and she is getting the buck fizz and croissants ready for breakfast morning
Middle daughter is trying to keep the boys quiet(ish) not to disturb grumpy Granddad who is lieing in the spare bedroom with a silly smile on his face...
This due to no small.part of reading yet another wonderful dissertation from Clive and am basking in the glow of... another family Christmas... and my team is actually cleverly disguised as a responsible football club
To Clive, fellow Rs and the world, have a wonderful day ... and yes I'm getting up to face the day
As slade said meeeeeeeeeery chriiiiiiistmas | | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 08:59 - Dec 25 with 828 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
Great write up and a great way to start Xmas Day.
The next 3/4 games will determine the season and we'll really know if this team can be as good as they are indicating. Now go and back it up Rangers.
Merry Xmas to you all. U Rs! | |
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| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 09:42 - Dec 25 with 755 views | hopekillsyou |
I knew our boxing day record was bad. but had forgotten that it was truly, madly, deeply BAD.
I’m now full of hope and anticipation. Stop it.
Merry Christmas everyone. [Post edited 25 Dec 9:48]
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| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 10:41 - Dec 25 with 642 views | w7r |
Great work as per usual, Clive.
Merry Christmas all!
Here’s to a bumper haul of festive points. Gone and cursed it now, haven’t I? |  | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 12:27 - Dec 25 with 470 views | BristolR |
As a wise man once said “Are you the ambulance?”
Merry Christmas one and all, may the fizz be strong and Kone score first in a 2-0 drubbing
Thanks Clive and the LfW massive x |  | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 12:45 - Dec 25 with 444 views | Rsole |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 12:27 - Dec 25 by BristolR |
As a wise man once said “Are you the ambulance?”
Merry Christmas one and all, may the fizz be strong and Kone score first in a 2-0 drubbing
Thanks Clive and the LfW massive x |
Thanks Clive - hope you get a new Chair for Xmas.
I hope to seen Kone dishing out some old school bullying and elbows tomorrow. A goal would be a bonus but suspect we’ll be back to Burrell for a brace.
Then again, it’s Boxing Day… |  |
| Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?
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| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 12:47 - Dec 25 with 433 views | stainrods_elbow |
It's hardly persuasive that anyone loves everyone, on LfW or anywhere else, but Happy Xmas to both my private supporters and (neurotypical) public detractors regardless.
Re all things JS and QPR, we've had two or three heart-warming performances/results at home, but the next 6 games (I'm including our FA Cup game and the away trip to Stoke) will tell us much more. Of the league fixtures, reading things with my half-century-old grizzled head as much as my heart, I think it'll be 2W, 1D, 2L - in other words, par for the course for our season so far. (Perhaps we should run a LfW sweepstake - if legal?) Obviously, I hope we raise the bar and make me eat my (Loft for) words.
I think Julien is doing an OK job (sometimes better than OK, sometimes worse) with the enhanced squad he has, and hopefully he and the players are improving. I don't find him particularly 'studious', for the record. Studious is, for example, making sure our full-back is detailed to show Middlesbrough's Whittaker outside so he doesn't get a strike away, or at least picking up on it afterwards. Studious is realising Nardi needs to learn to catch a ball and communicate more decisively with his defenders, and doing something tangible about it. Studious is making it clear, both implicitly in games and explicitly after games, the specific thinking behind making or not making subs in a way that dispels our more than occasional perplexity this season about his lack of reactivity and/or idiosyncratic choices. Studious, in short, is a professional coach giving me - a burning amateur who watches closely and loves to learn - illuminating insights into our strategy and showings, as the best of LfW posters from time to time manage to do. As I've pointed out, and even by 'managerspeak' standards, Julien likes to talk about games and other teams in anaesthetising broad-brush generalities which tell one nothing about the team and/or opposition - in a way that that makes me worry he's much more a 'bigger picture' kind of guy (or, in other words, one who tends not to see the trees for the wood).
I think the Leicester game was probably (and to me somehow sadly) in some part the players socking it to Marti, so, for different reasons, and much as I enjoyed it, I'm taking it out of the recent picture for the opposite reasons that Clive implicitly sidelines the Boro game in his own piece. That might strike some as unwarranted, given the quality/resilience we showed against Hull and Brum, but time will tell. As we'll all agree, however, good teams show steel and panache on the road too - that's what makes them good teams, as distinct from those (like us, historically) that turn it on when we feel like it then phone it in when we've had to get on a coach for a bit, we're too far North, or it's Boxing Day.
So ram my equivocations down my throat, Rs, and let's take this seriously counter-cultural! Give me 10 points from here to Stoke, go to the Hammers with a credible team and win (or at least put up a proper fight), and then we'll talk again!
Standards, you darling bastards, standards! [Post edited 25 Dec 13:01]
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| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 13:38 - Dec 25 with 359 views | thehat |
Thank you Clive - Merry Christmas to you and yours - Your fantastic writing brings so much joy and fun to our family even in the tough times. Whisper it very quietly but I think better days are ahead.
Merry Christmas to all the other retired cab drivers on here too......If you know you know.......
Come on you R'rrs | | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 13:49 - Dec 25 with 327 views | 7374Ranger |
Thanks Clive, for this write up.
With an appalling record like that for Boxing Day away games it's hard to even be confident that anything will change tomorrow. Especially after such a great performance against Leicester. The phrase after the lord mayor's show immediately springs to mind.
However, I am feeling a bit more optimistic that QPR will put in a good performance at Portsmouth and actually get a result. | | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 14:13 - Dec 25 with 297 views | Geoff78 |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 05:56 - Dec 25 by Malintabuk |
Reading this with the grandkids having dragged Mr MinT out of bed ... and she is getting the buck fizz and croissants ready for breakfast morning
Middle daughter is trying to keep the boys quiet(ish) not to disturb grumpy Granddad who is lieing in the spare bedroom with a silly smile on his face...
This due to no small.part of reading yet another wonderful dissertation from Clive and am basking in the glow of... another family Christmas... and my team is actually cleverly disguised as a responsible football club
To Clive, fellow Rs and the world, have a wonderful day ... and yes I'm getting up to face the day
As slade said meeeeeeeeeery chriiiiiiistmas |
"cleverly disguised as a responsible football club". Like it!
But when the disguise comes off... Are we just the same old battered Ford Cortina owned and run by charlatans or that sleek new Kia EV purring towards the playoffs? Answers in May please. | | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 15:49 - Dec 25 with 182 views | JamesB1979 |
Happy Christmas Clive. Thanks for all your match reports, previews etc throughout the year. Hopefully this season we’ll have a team to feel proud of and make it all worthwhile. | | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 15:54 - Dec 25 with 170 views | HantsR |
I spotted the Fleetwood Mac quote, and I claim my £5!  |  | | |
| Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview on 17:38 - Dec 25 with 37 views | dutch |
No idea what will happen tomorrow, which QPR will turn up, whether the curse will continue, but on a longer scale I am genuinely positive. This manager had turned me around, I think tactically he is astute and pragmatic. We have the players for a 442 and it seems to throw most teams we play. We also have real characters:
Burrell, Mbuenge, Kone, Dunne, a proper Rangers side. I'm sticking my neck out and predicting we will finish top six, beyond that the Gods will decide. But let's enjoy the good times, and let them roll. | | | |
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