| Three-game weeks 10:59 - Jan 25 with 1004 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
One of the reasons Nourry supposedly appointed Stephan was his ability to manage the dreaded three-game weeks.
I included the Plymouth week even though it wasn't a league game and Stephan was told who to play but it's not great, is it? We average just over three points from three-game weeks.
Preston/Plymouth/Watford 1 point*
Sheffield Wed/Oxford/Bristol City 5 points
Millwall/Swansea/Derby 3 points
Ipswich/Southampton/Sheffield United 1 point
Hull/Blackburn/Norwich 6 points
WBA/Birmingham/Boro 6 points
Portsmouth/WBA/Norwich 1 point
Stoke/Oxford/Wrexham 2 points
Average: 3.125 points
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| Three-game weeks on 11:13 - Jan 25 with 922 views | TacticalR |
If I may quote myself from the West Brom preview on December 5th:
'I think it's dawning on everybody after the early season optimism that we are in exactly the same place we usually are (and behind where we were when we got rid of Warburton). One thing I am sceptical about is people saying in grave tones that Stéphan was brought in to deal with three-game weeks. What does that mean exactly? Does it mean that if we say in grave tones that he was brought in to win the Champions League then we will win the Champions League?'
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| Three-game weeks on 11:24 - Jan 25 with 867 views | GaryBannister86 |
This obsession with three-game weeks is another of our negative mentality narratives that drive me bonkers. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, as a club, ever entering the league and two cups seeing that we always seem to find competitive matches a bit of a bind and a hassle.
Are they three game weeks that must be carefully managed, or are they an opportunity to win three football matches in a row and fly up the table?
Are they a fitness team that are there to protect the players from getting injured or are they a fitness team who are there to get as many players out on the park and as fit as possible for the manager?
Is the league cup our best chance to win a trophy or a chance to rest our amazingly high-achieving superstars after ooh, 1 week of the season? Same with the FA Cup, unless you've got 9,000 away fans potentially breathing down your neck.
Festive period and a load of games? A chance to move forward or to phone in away games at poor sides like WBA just so that we can play even more poorly in the next home game?
I detested Ainsworth's small-club, privilege-to-be-on-the-same-park mentality as I thought it spread a small-time belief throughout the club. I think a major part of the reason Marti was so popular was that he was generally positive, for example publicly often stating he was never happy with a draw, and usually pushed a far more positive mindset.
I don't think many fans demand that much - just some ambition, some high standards throughout the club. It can be done. Things like the injury time debacle yesterday - we've often played for an hour against 10 men without ever looking like scoring. An opposition with a strong mentality sees it as a chance to up their game, come together, thou-shalt-not pass. Do we?
I want (ho ho) the owners to grab this club by the scruff of its neck; to say look, the potential is huge. We sell out home and away despite being served up some bang average tripe on a regular basis for so many years now. We are building a stronger squad. We've worked out that gambling on Burrell-types is far better than previous transfer tactics (although I fear Saito and possibly Edwards could be regressing to the mean) - and we are not just buying these players to potentially improve our FFP, or just make a profit in a year's time. We're building a squad and a team and a club that is going to make a serious aim for promotion and returning to be a regular Premier League side, like all of our near neighbours.
Or we can just drift, tinker around, bitch and moan about the number of games and injuries, give inexperienced / chancers the keys to the controls and go round in circles. We love going round in circles. How many seasons now have we been about building a more open, possession based playing style around exciting youngsters? And how many seasons does it take only a few months to go running back to stalwarts like Steve Cook that we've arrogantly derided in press releases and then saying "oops, now we realise all teams need players like you"?
Do we have management who can look at the ever-deteriorating Loftus Road situation, with a capacity that seems to reduce every season, that sells out even when we are toilet, and say right - we sort out a temporary fix quickly, like more standing, making the whole Loft standing, properly improving facilities and catering, or do we have management that implies you can either have a Kone signing or actually be able to get served a decent pint at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon?
Round and round and round we go. Ah - but next season, we are always about next season. I will check back in next season with our management and see just how that goes. |  | | |
| Three-game weeks on 11:34 - Jan 25 with 809 views | ozexile |
| Three-game weeks on 11:24 - Jan 25 by GaryBannister86 |
This obsession with three-game weeks is another of our negative mentality narratives that drive me bonkers. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, as a club, ever entering the league and two cups seeing that we always seem to find competitive matches a bit of a bind and a hassle.
Are they three game weeks that must be carefully managed, or are they an opportunity to win three football matches in a row and fly up the table?
Are they a fitness team that are there to protect the players from getting injured or are they a fitness team who are there to get as many players out on the park and as fit as possible for the manager?
Is the league cup our best chance to win a trophy or a chance to rest our amazingly high-achieving superstars after ooh, 1 week of the season? Same with the FA Cup, unless you've got 9,000 away fans potentially breathing down your neck.
Festive period and a load of games? A chance to move forward or to phone in away games at poor sides like WBA just so that we can play even more poorly in the next home game?
I detested Ainsworth's small-club, privilege-to-be-on-the-same-park mentality as I thought it spread a small-time belief throughout the club. I think a major part of the reason Marti was so popular was that he was generally positive, for example publicly often stating he was never happy with a draw, and usually pushed a far more positive mindset.
I don't think many fans demand that much - just some ambition, some high standards throughout the club. It can be done. Things like the injury time debacle yesterday - we've often played for an hour against 10 men without ever looking like scoring. An opposition with a strong mentality sees it as a chance to up their game, come together, thou-shalt-not pass. Do we?
I want (ho ho) the owners to grab this club by the scruff of its neck; to say look, the potential is huge. We sell out home and away despite being served up some bang average tripe on a regular basis for so many years now. We are building a stronger squad. We've worked out that gambling on Burrell-types is far better than previous transfer tactics (although I fear Saito and possibly Edwards could be regressing to the mean) - and we are not just buying these players to potentially improve our FFP, or just make a profit in a year's time. We're building a squad and a team and a club that is going to make a serious aim for promotion and returning to be a regular Premier League side, like all of our near neighbours.
Or we can just drift, tinker around, bitch and moan about the number of games and injuries, give inexperienced / chancers the keys to the controls and go round in circles. We love going round in circles. How many seasons now have we been about building a more open, possession based playing style around exciting youngsters? And how many seasons does it take only a few months to go running back to stalwarts like Steve Cook that we've arrogantly derided in press releases and then saying "oops, now we realise all teams need players like you"?
Do we have management who can look at the ever-deteriorating Loftus Road situation, with a capacity that seems to reduce every season, that sells out even when we are toilet, and say right - we sort out a temporary fix quickly, like more standing, making the whole Loft standing, properly improving facilities and catering, or do we have management that implies you can either have a Kone signing or actually be able to get served a decent pint at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon?
Round and round and round we go. Ah - but next season, we are always about next season. I will check back in next season with our management and see just how that goes. |
Great post. So true. | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 11:43 - Jan 25 with 769 views | Northolt_Rs |
| Three-game weeks on 11:24 - Jan 25 by GaryBannister86 |
This obsession with three-game weeks is another of our negative mentality narratives that drive me bonkers. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, as a club, ever entering the league and two cups seeing that we always seem to find competitive matches a bit of a bind and a hassle.
Are they three game weeks that must be carefully managed, or are they an opportunity to win three football matches in a row and fly up the table?
Are they a fitness team that are there to protect the players from getting injured or are they a fitness team who are there to get as many players out on the park and as fit as possible for the manager?
Is the league cup our best chance to win a trophy or a chance to rest our amazingly high-achieving superstars after ooh, 1 week of the season? Same with the FA Cup, unless you've got 9,000 away fans potentially breathing down your neck.
Festive period and a load of games? A chance to move forward or to phone in away games at poor sides like WBA just so that we can play even more poorly in the next home game?
I detested Ainsworth's small-club, privilege-to-be-on-the-same-park mentality as I thought it spread a small-time belief throughout the club. I think a major part of the reason Marti was so popular was that he was generally positive, for example publicly often stating he was never happy with a draw, and usually pushed a far more positive mindset.
I don't think many fans demand that much - just some ambition, some high standards throughout the club. It can be done. Things like the injury time debacle yesterday - we've often played for an hour against 10 men without ever looking like scoring. An opposition with a strong mentality sees it as a chance to up their game, come together, thou-shalt-not pass. Do we?
I want (ho ho) the owners to grab this club by the scruff of its neck; to say look, the potential is huge. We sell out home and away despite being served up some bang average tripe on a regular basis for so many years now. We are building a stronger squad. We've worked out that gambling on Burrell-types is far better than previous transfer tactics (although I fear Saito and possibly Edwards could be regressing to the mean) - and we are not just buying these players to potentially improve our FFP, or just make a profit in a year's time. We're building a squad and a team and a club that is going to make a serious aim for promotion and returning to be a regular Premier League side, like all of our near neighbours.
Or we can just drift, tinker around, bitch and moan about the number of games and injuries, give inexperienced / chancers the keys to the controls and go round in circles. We love going round in circles. How many seasons now have we been about building a more open, possession based playing style around exciting youngsters? And how many seasons does it take only a few months to go running back to stalwarts like Steve Cook that we've arrogantly derided in press releases and then saying "oops, now we realise all teams need players like you"?
Do we have management who can look at the ever-deteriorating Loftus Road situation, with a capacity that seems to reduce every season, that sells out even when we are toilet, and say right - we sort out a temporary fix quickly, like more standing, making the whole Loft standing, properly improving facilities and catering, or do we have management that implies you can either have a Kone signing or actually be able to get served a decent pint at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon?
Round and round and round we go. Ah - but next season, we are always about next season. I will check back in next season with our management and see just how that goes. |
It’s all about standards and throughout our football club the standards from the owners down are low and have been for years. |  |
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| Three-game weeks on 11:49 - Jan 25 with 764 views | Northernr |
| Three-game weeks on 11:24 - Jan 25 by GaryBannister86 |
This obsession with three-game weeks is another of our negative mentality narratives that drive me bonkers. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, as a club, ever entering the league and two cups seeing that we always seem to find competitive matches a bit of a bind and a hassle.
Are they three game weeks that must be carefully managed, or are they an opportunity to win three football matches in a row and fly up the table?
Are they a fitness team that are there to protect the players from getting injured or are they a fitness team who are there to get as many players out on the park and as fit as possible for the manager?
Is the league cup our best chance to win a trophy or a chance to rest our amazingly high-achieving superstars after ooh, 1 week of the season? Same with the FA Cup, unless you've got 9,000 away fans potentially breathing down your neck.
Festive period and a load of games? A chance to move forward or to phone in away games at poor sides like WBA just so that we can play even more poorly in the next home game?
I detested Ainsworth's small-club, privilege-to-be-on-the-same-park mentality as I thought it spread a small-time belief throughout the club. I think a major part of the reason Marti was so popular was that he was generally positive, for example publicly often stating he was never happy with a draw, and usually pushed a far more positive mindset.
I don't think many fans demand that much - just some ambition, some high standards throughout the club. It can be done. Things like the injury time debacle yesterday - we've often played for an hour against 10 men without ever looking like scoring. An opposition with a strong mentality sees it as a chance to up their game, come together, thou-shalt-not pass. Do we?
I want (ho ho) the owners to grab this club by the scruff of its neck; to say look, the potential is huge. We sell out home and away despite being served up some bang average tripe on a regular basis for so many years now. We are building a stronger squad. We've worked out that gambling on Burrell-types is far better than previous transfer tactics (although I fear Saito and possibly Edwards could be regressing to the mean) - and we are not just buying these players to potentially improve our FFP, or just make a profit in a year's time. We're building a squad and a team and a club that is going to make a serious aim for promotion and returning to be a regular Premier League side, like all of our near neighbours.
Or we can just drift, tinker around, bitch and moan about the number of games and injuries, give inexperienced / chancers the keys to the controls and go round in circles. We love going round in circles. How many seasons now have we been about building a more open, possession based playing style around exciting youngsters? And how many seasons does it take only a few months to go running back to stalwarts like Steve Cook that we've arrogantly derided in press releases and then saying "oops, now we realise all teams need players like you"?
Do we have management who can look at the ever-deteriorating Loftus Road situation, with a capacity that seems to reduce every season, that sells out even when we are toilet, and say right - we sort out a temporary fix quickly, like more standing, making the whole Loft standing, properly improving facilities and catering, or do we have management that implies you can either have a Kone signing or actually be able to get served a decent pint at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon?
Round and round and round we go. Ah - but next season, we are always about next season. I will check back in next season with our management and see just how that goes. |
Testify. |  | | |
| Three-game weeks on 12:09 - Jan 25 with 706 views | Hunterhoop |
| Three-game weeks on 11:24 - Jan 25 by GaryBannister86 |
This obsession with three-game weeks is another of our negative mentality narratives that drive me bonkers. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, as a club, ever entering the league and two cups seeing that we always seem to find competitive matches a bit of a bind and a hassle.
Are they three game weeks that must be carefully managed, or are they an opportunity to win three football matches in a row and fly up the table?
Are they a fitness team that are there to protect the players from getting injured or are they a fitness team who are there to get as many players out on the park and as fit as possible for the manager?
Is the league cup our best chance to win a trophy or a chance to rest our amazingly high-achieving superstars after ooh, 1 week of the season? Same with the FA Cup, unless you've got 9,000 away fans potentially breathing down your neck.
Festive period and a load of games? A chance to move forward or to phone in away games at poor sides like WBA just so that we can play even more poorly in the next home game?
I detested Ainsworth's small-club, privilege-to-be-on-the-same-park mentality as I thought it spread a small-time belief throughout the club. I think a major part of the reason Marti was so popular was that he was generally positive, for example publicly often stating he was never happy with a draw, and usually pushed a far more positive mindset.
I don't think many fans demand that much - just some ambition, some high standards throughout the club. It can be done. Things like the injury time debacle yesterday - we've often played for an hour against 10 men without ever looking like scoring. An opposition with a strong mentality sees it as a chance to up their game, come together, thou-shalt-not pass. Do we?
I want (ho ho) the owners to grab this club by the scruff of its neck; to say look, the potential is huge. We sell out home and away despite being served up some bang average tripe on a regular basis for so many years now. We are building a stronger squad. We've worked out that gambling on Burrell-types is far better than previous transfer tactics (although I fear Saito and possibly Edwards could be regressing to the mean) - and we are not just buying these players to potentially improve our FFP, or just make a profit in a year's time. We're building a squad and a team and a club that is going to make a serious aim for promotion and returning to be a regular Premier League side, like all of our near neighbours.
Or we can just drift, tinker around, bitch and moan about the number of games and injuries, give inexperienced / chancers the keys to the controls and go round in circles. We love going round in circles. How many seasons now have we been about building a more open, possession based playing style around exciting youngsters? And how many seasons does it take only a few months to go running back to stalwarts like Steve Cook that we've arrogantly derided in press releases and then saying "oops, now we realise all teams need players like you"?
Do we have management who can look at the ever-deteriorating Loftus Road situation, with a capacity that seems to reduce every season, that sells out even when we are toilet, and say right - we sort out a temporary fix quickly, like more standing, making the whole Loft standing, properly improving facilities and catering, or do we have management that implies you can either have a Kone signing or actually be able to get served a decent pint at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon?
Round and round and round we go. Ah - but next season, we are always about next season. I will check back in next season with our management and see just how that goes. |
Indeed. It’s very clear all available funds are being put towards enabling our CEO to play real life ‘Football Manager’.
The ground and the facilities within it are falling apart. I’m not sure that side of things is getting any attention or budget.
The category 1 academy status, once it’s actually delivered, could be great for the club, but there is a long way to go before that is realised.
Also intrigued to see what happens with the Trust’s activity now Andy Evans has retired.
As you imply, everything comes back to stands and expectations of ourselves as a club. [Post edited 25 Jan 12:10]
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| Three-game weeks on 12:25 - Jan 25 with 645 views | Hooping_Mad |
Interesting about the ground, We had Ashville doing sponsorship and stadium maintenance. Seems they went into administration in early 2025. Sad as they seems to love working with the club. My understanding is the collaboration with us helped them move to a dream site, which the landlord then doubled the rent on.
I noticed their advertising vanished a while back as well. Gutted for them.
The question is who is now doing ground maintenance?
Can't help the feeling this relates to the state of the pitch we have this year.
Edit: Just the aggregates division it seems so not all bad. [Post edited 25 Jan 13:59]
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| Three-game weeks on 12:29 - Jan 25 with 630 views | daveB |
Considering we seem to very often lose the 3rd game of a 3 game week and it's hapepend under McClaen, Warbs, Marti and now Julien do we perhaps start to think it's not the manager that is the problem.
Maybe we should be doing a lot more on the mental side of the game and the fitness side so we can cope with the schedule alot better which really is in the main the same schedule in the EFL for about 20 years and won't be changing anytime soon. |  | | |
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| Three-game weeks on 12:50 - Jan 25 with 578 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
Apart from all of that the three games a week thing has been loaded against us. 6 weeks with two away games and only two weeks with two home games. So tough weeks made tougher still by the schedule.
Without an exceptionally clever owner like a Tony Bloom or Matthew Benham we are just one of twenty four clubs trying to fight each other up the greasy pole. | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 13:05 - Jan 25 with 534 views | GaryBannister86 |
| Three-game weeks on 12:50 - Jan 25 by Spaghetti_Hoops |
Apart from all of that the three games a week thing has been loaded against us. 6 weeks with two away games and only two weeks with two home games. So tough weeks made tougher still by the schedule.
Without an exceptionally clever owner like a Tony Bloom or Matthew Benham we are just one of twenty four clubs trying to fight each other up the greasy pole. |
That is obviously a very fair point, Spaghetti, but we are always unlucky in such things, aren't we? Just watched an interview with Keith Andrews who said "as a football club, we don't look for excuses". I'm surprised we don't have a High Performance Manager of Seeking Where We've Been Hard Done By. | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 13:26 - Jan 25 with 474 views | Malintabuk |
| Three-game weeks on 12:50 - Jan 25 by Spaghetti_Hoops |
Apart from all of that the three games a week thing has been loaded against us. 6 weeks with two away games and only two weeks with two home games. So tough weeks made tougher still by the schedule.
Without an exceptionally clever owner like a Tony Bloom or Matthew Benham we are just one of twenty four clubs trying to fight each other up the greasy pole. |
Strange I got pelters yesterday for stating that a nd was told to "drop it man"
Jan Feb and March have each got a 3 game week in it... and in all 3 we are 2 away and 1 at home.. and Feb it is Hull and,Southampton in 3 days
Yes all clubs have 3 game weeks, but how many have like us in the 7 upto March from November we have 5 two away and one at home ?
It is not an excuse it is a fact
Yesterday for 45 minutes were suberb... and I said the first 20 mins of the 2nd half Wrexham would come for us, they did and scored. Then for the next 20 mins we pushed hard again and scored ...but that last 15mins you could see they were shot... and the Mbebgue challenge was the catalyst
Football is not like when I first attended when you had back to back games, and the players would turn out after a few pints, a couple of fags and a bet... and have a kick around,it is so much more physical
Yes questions must be asked about injuries and fitness, but I still think that we are hard done by on this scheduling.
Finally Wrexham were able to bring on a player of the calibre of Dean Windass....us a youngster in Daniel Bennie | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 13:38 - Jan 25 with 443 views | Terry49 |
Why is it called a 3 game week?
There are 7 days in a week so if you play Saturday,Tuesday or Wednesday and then Saturday tt is 1week 1day | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 13:39 - Jan 25 with 442 views | GaryBannister86 |
| Three-game weeks on 13:26 - Jan 25 by Malintabuk |
Strange I got pelters yesterday for stating that a nd was told to "drop it man"
Jan Feb and March have each got a 3 game week in it... and in all 3 we are 2 away and 1 at home.. and Feb it is Hull and,Southampton in 3 days
Yes all clubs have 3 game weeks, but how many have like us in the 7 upto March from November we have 5 two away and one at home ?
It is not an excuse it is a fact
Yesterday for 45 minutes were suberb... and I said the first 20 mins of the 2nd half Wrexham would come for us, they did and scored. Then for the next 20 mins we pushed hard again and scored ...but that last 15mins you could see they were shot... and the Mbebgue challenge was the catalyst
Football is not like when I first attended when you had back to back games, and the players would turn out after a few pints, a couple of fags and a bet... and have a kick around,it is so much more physical
Yes questions must be asked about injuries and fitness, but I still think that we are hard done by on this scheduling.
Finally Wrexham were able to bring on a player of the calibre of Dean Windass....us a youngster in Daniel Bennie |
It was a tough break, that's a fact, but we also love to use it as an excuse.
Football has indeed changed - also a fact - but the other fact that we've gone nowhere in 10 years proves that we've not tackled this as well as other clubs, surely?
As for bringing on Bennie compared to Windass - don't get that. We're QPR, we buy loads of players every single window, have done for donkeys' years. We have £4m+ of Ronnie on the bench. | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 13:54 - Jan 25 with 415 views | TK1 |
| Three-game weeks on 11:24 - Jan 25 by GaryBannister86 |
This obsession with three-game weeks is another of our negative mentality narratives that drive me bonkers. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, as a club, ever entering the league and two cups seeing that we always seem to find competitive matches a bit of a bind and a hassle.
Are they three game weeks that must be carefully managed, or are they an opportunity to win three football matches in a row and fly up the table?
Are they a fitness team that are there to protect the players from getting injured or are they a fitness team who are there to get as many players out on the park and as fit as possible for the manager?
Is the league cup our best chance to win a trophy or a chance to rest our amazingly high-achieving superstars after ooh, 1 week of the season? Same with the FA Cup, unless you've got 9,000 away fans potentially breathing down your neck.
Festive period and a load of games? A chance to move forward or to phone in away games at poor sides like WBA just so that we can play even more poorly in the next home game?
I detested Ainsworth's small-club, privilege-to-be-on-the-same-park mentality as I thought it spread a small-time belief throughout the club. I think a major part of the reason Marti was so popular was that he was generally positive, for example publicly often stating he was never happy with a draw, and usually pushed a far more positive mindset.
I don't think many fans demand that much - just some ambition, some high standards throughout the club. It can be done. Things like the injury time debacle yesterday - we've often played for an hour against 10 men without ever looking like scoring. An opposition with a strong mentality sees it as a chance to up their game, come together, thou-shalt-not pass. Do we?
I want (ho ho) the owners to grab this club by the scruff of its neck; to say look, the potential is huge. We sell out home and away despite being served up some bang average tripe on a regular basis for so many years now. We are building a stronger squad. We've worked out that gambling on Burrell-types is far better than previous transfer tactics (although I fear Saito and possibly Edwards could be regressing to the mean) - and we are not just buying these players to potentially improve our FFP, or just make a profit in a year's time. We're building a squad and a team and a club that is going to make a serious aim for promotion and returning to be a regular Premier League side, like all of our near neighbours.
Or we can just drift, tinker around, bitch and moan about the number of games and injuries, give inexperienced / chancers the keys to the controls and go round in circles. We love going round in circles. How many seasons now have we been about building a more open, possession based playing style around exciting youngsters? And how many seasons does it take only a few months to go running back to stalwarts like Steve Cook that we've arrogantly derided in press releases and then saying "oops, now we realise all teams need players like you"?
Do we have management who can look at the ever-deteriorating Loftus Road situation, with a capacity that seems to reduce every season, that sells out even when we are toilet, and say right - we sort out a temporary fix quickly, like more standing, making the whole Loft standing, properly improving facilities and catering, or do we have management that implies you can either have a Kone signing or actually be able to get served a decent pint at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon?
Round and round and round we go. Ah - but next season, we are always about next season. I will check back in next season with our management and see just how that goes. |
Agree with all this, obviously. A few addendums:
1/ The reason the three game-weeks are a thing is because the players aren't fit. They're not fit to play full games, let alone full weeks. Why? It's clearly a scandal for a sporting operation. They lost that game because they were too tired physically to play at the intensity of the first half throughout and too tired mentally to make good decisions in the closing stages. And, because our best players are all injured with muscle injuries. They were notably less fit than Wrexham. There are no stats that can be presented that contradict the evidence of our eyes.
2/ The state of match-day amenities are an on-going disgrace, agree. I don't entirely blame Nourry though. Hoos repeatedly said that if the team was winning nobody complains about the rest of the match-day experience (as well as generally being dismissive of fans who raised issues around that experience, including rejuvenating The Loft, where he was clearly wrong). Hoos retired from the club to become Chairman, a key board member and very probably the driving force behind this philosophy of customer neglect as a by-factor of team investment. Flavio Briatore hated QPR fans but the match day experience is nevertheless worse now. Not in the C-Club, obviously.
3/ I think the "next season" narrative is probably wrong and possibly dangerous. It will let everyone down. The squad’s not there yet, it’s definitely improving incrementally, but I think we’re at the Paulo Sousa part of the this four-year cycle. Probably another couple of years to knit together, fill the gaps. | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 14:50 - Jan 25 with 346 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
| Three-game weeks on 13:05 - Jan 25 by GaryBannister86 |
That is obviously a very fair point, Spaghetti, but we are always unlucky in such things, aren't we? Just watched an interview with Keith Andrews who said "as a football club, we don't look for excuses". I'm surprised we don't have a High Performance Manager of Seeking Where We've Been Hard Done By. |
Well Keith Andrews is obviously well tuned into standard sports management bollocks.
If you could tune athletes to be able to withstand two attritional away matches, the travelling and time away and have no more affect than Wrexham's three home matches in a row I am sure we would be doing it and no doubt everybody else would too.
The thing is there are times when you are advantaged and times when things are against you. We tend to forget when we profited from the advantages and the deluded start to believe we are therefore better than we are. The disadvantages we might use as excuses, which is regarded as a sign of weakness, but that doesn't mean the disadvantages were any less real. | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 15:43 - Jan 25 with 257 views | BushRanger82 |
I'm afraid Julien has us shitting ourselves whenever 3 game weeks come around.
Like we're the only team in the championship, that play them.
Every single 3 game week only differs in how shit they've been. |  | | |
| Three-game weeks on 15:50 - Jan 25 with 228 views | stainrods_elbow |
| Three-game weeks on 11:24 - Jan 25 by GaryBannister86 |
This obsession with three-game weeks is another of our negative mentality narratives that drive me bonkers. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, as a club, ever entering the league and two cups seeing that we always seem to find competitive matches a bit of a bind and a hassle.
Are they three game weeks that must be carefully managed, or are they an opportunity to win three football matches in a row and fly up the table?
Are they a fitness team that are there to protect the players from getting injured or are they a fitness team who are there to get as many players out on the park and as fit as possible for the manager?
Is the league cup our best chance to win a trophy or a chance to rest our amazingly high-achieving superstars after ooh, 1 week of the season? Same with the FA Cup, unless you've got 9,000 away fans potentially breathing down your neck.
Festive period and a load of games? A chance to move forward or to phone in away games at poor sides like WBA just so that we can play even more poorly in the next home game?
I detested Ainsworth's small-club, privilege-to-be-on-the-same-park mentality as I thought it spread a small-time belief throughout the club. I think a major part of the reason Marti was so popular was that he was generally positive, for example publicly often stating he was never happy with a draw, and usually pushed a far more positive mindset.
I don't think many fans demand that much - just some ambition, some high standards throughout the club. It can be done. Things like the injury time debacle yesterday - we've often played for an hour against 10 men without ever looking like scoring. An opposition with a strong mentality sees it as a chance to up their game, come together, thou-shalt-not pass. Do we?
I want (ho ho) the owners to grab this club by the scruff of its neck; to say look, the potential is huge. We sell out home and away despite being served up some bang average tripe on a regular basis for so many years now. We are building a stronger squad. We've worked out that gambling on Burrell-types is far better than previous transfer tactics (although I fear Saito and possibly Edwards could be regressing to the mean) - and we are not just buying these players to potentially improve our FFP, or just make a profit in a year's time. We're building a squad and a team and a club that is going to make a serious aim for promotion and returning to be a regular Premier League side, like all of our near neighbours.
Or we can just drift, tinker around, bitch and moan about the number of games and injuries, give inexperienced / chancers the keys to the controls and go round in circles. We love going round in circles. How many seasons now have we been about building a more open, possession based playing style around exciting youngsters? And how many seasons does it take only a few months to go running back to stalwarts like Steve Cook that we've arrogantly derided in press releases and then saying "oops, now we realise all teams need players like you"?
Do we have management who can look at the ever-deteriorating Loftus Road situation, with a capacity that seems to reduce every season, that sells out even when we are toilet, and say right - we sort out a temporary fix quickly, like more standing, making the whole Loft standing, properly improving facilities and catering, or do we have management that implies you can either have a Kone signing or actually be able to get served a decent pint at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon?
Round and round and round we go. Ah - but next season, we are always about next season. I will check back in next season with our management and see just how that goes. |
Agree with all this. The owners lack pride, purpose, and passion, in my view. Nourry might be a bit of an alien, but at least he's articulate and involved. Julie looks and sounds like a patsy, however - that's how it appears to me.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the club don't deserve us. |  |
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| Three-game weeks on 16:30 - Jan 25 with 180 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
| Three-game weeks on 15:43 - Jan 25 by BushRanger82 |
I'm afraid Julien has us shitting ourselves whenever 3 game weeks come around.
Like we're the only team in the championship, that play them.
Every single 3 game week only differs in how shit they've been. |
Yet there were two 3-game weeks when we got 6 points. Average 2 points a game which is promotion form. I believe the manager is learning. It's never going to be easy including keeping the players fit and rotation which always involves compromises. | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 16:32 - Jan 25 with 175 views | BushRanger82 |
| Three-game weeks on 11:24 - Jan 25 by GaryBannister86 |
This obsession with three-game weeks is another of our negative mentality narratives that drive me bonkers. Sometimes I wonder why we bother, as a club, ever entering the league and two cups seeing that we always seem to find competitive matches a bit of a bind and a hassle.
Are they three game weeks that must be carefully managed, or are they an opportunity to win three football matches in a row and fly up the table?
Are they a fitness team that are there to protect the players from getting injured or are they a fitness team who are there to get as many players out on the park and as fit as possible for the manager?
Is the league cup our best chance to win a trophy or a chance to rest our amazingly high-achieving superstars after ooh, 1 week of the season? Same with the FA Cup, unless you've got 9,000 away fans potentially breathing down your neck.
Festive period and a load of games? A chance to move forward or to phone in away games at poor sides like WBA just so that we can play even more poorly in the next home game?
I detested Ainsworth's small-club, privilege-to-be-on-the-same-park mentality as I thought it spread a small-time belief throughout the club. I think a major part of the reason Marti was so popular was that he was generally positive, for example publicly often stating he was never happy with a draw, and usually pushed a far more positive mindset.
I don't think many fans demand that much - just some ambition, some high standards throughout the club. It can be done. Things like the injury time debacle yesterday - we've often played for an hour against 10 men without ever looking like scoring. An opposition with a strong mentality sees it as a chance to up their game, come together, thou-shalt-not pass. Do we?
I want (ho ho) the owners to grab this club by the scruff of its neck; to say look, the potential is huge. We sell out home and away despite being served up some bang average tripe on a regular basis for so many years now. We are building a stronger squad. We've worked out that gambling on Burrell-types is far better than previous transfer tactics (although I fear Saito and possibly Edwards could be regressing to the mean) - and we are not just buying these players to potentially improve our FFP, or just make a profit in a year's time. We're building a squad and a team and a club that is going to make a serious aim for promotion and returning to be a regular Premier League side, like all of our near neighbours.
Or we can just drift, tinker around, bitch and moan about the number of games and injuries, give inexperienced / chancers the keys to the controls and go round in circles. We love going round in circles. How many seasons now have we been about building a more open, possession based playing style around exciting youngsters? And how many seasons does it take only a few months to go running back to stalwarts like Steve Cook that we've arrogantly derided in press releases and then saying "oops, now we realise all teams need players like you"?
Do we have management who can look at the ever-deteriorating Loftus Road situation, with a capacity that seems to reduce every season, that sells out even when we are toilet, and say right - we sort out a temporary fix quickly, like more standing, making the whole Loft standing, properly improving facilities and catering, or do we have management that implies you can either have a Kone signing or actually be able to get served a decent pint at 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon?
Round and round and round we go. Ah - but next season, we are always about next season. I will check back in next season with our management and see just how that goes. |
Agree with every word.
When I was a kid, we believed we could win Div.1, and very nearly did.
We believed we could get to a Wembley final and win a trophy, we did in '67, and but for a bit more luck, very nearly did in '82.
Nowadays, this club just has one ambition, get to the Premier League and hang on for grim life to our place there. And that's it.
In order to do that, we must fark off the cups at every opportunity. The one at Plymouth, only the second game in, was the most shocking of all our scant regard for the cups we've shown the last couple of decades plus.
And now we have the worst record of anyone for 3rd round exits in the FA Cup.
It's a great shame, because inside Queen's Park Rangers, there's a club 10 times bigger than Chelsea, that has only once in our history, been nearly let loose on English football. | | | |
| Three-game weeks on 17:08 - Jan 25 with 138 views | R_from_afar |
The endless succession of false dawns is utterly exhausting.
I think we are making a little progress but sometimes let ourselves lose sight of the basics and become bewitched by trendy new methodologies and structures.
Barring a Warnock/Taarabt style alignment of the planets, progress is likely to be slow, so we're going to need to continue to be patient for a good while longer I fear, sadly.
We're far from being the only club in this position, though, and there are three clubs in the bottom half of League One who were recently in the Prem and who would kill to be where we are at the moment.
The slog continues...  |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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