| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 10:19 - Mar 11 with 6039 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Thanks Clive. Incredibly thorough, as ever. |  |
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 10:22 - Mar 11 with 6037 views | Northernr |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 10:19 - Mar 11 by BrianMcCarthy |
Thanks Clive. Incredibly thorough, as ever. |
It's a mess really, but I'm going for the train in an hour so it'll have to do. |  | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 10:49 - Mar 11 with 5905 views | BristolR |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 10:22 - Mar 11 by Northernr |
It's a mess really, but I'm going for the train in an hour so it'll have to do. |
Correction: the team/“squad” is a mess, this is far from it. Another piece on the money as ever…enjoy Digbeth
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 11:01 - Mar 11 with 5855 views | thehat |
Thanks Clive - Some good points made in that piece.
Everyone keeps telling me we have nothing to play for. Am I the only one who is still worried about relegation?
From what I have seen in the last three games I am worried we could go into freefall and be dragged into the dog fight with four games to go.
I can't see where the next goal is coming from let alone the next point.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"
Best of luck to everyone heading for St Andrews tonight. I salute each and every one of you. |  | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 11:20 - Mar 11 with 5765 views | TheChef |
Cheers Clive. Nine more previews to go.
Thoughts and prayers to those travelling up.
I'll be "enjoying" via the red button; can't wait to find out which insightful commentators they have lined up for us tonight... |  |
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 11:23 - Mar 11 with 5727 views | loftus77 |
Thank you Clive, great resolve again!
Got to ask: Team News - Rumarn Burrell out for season, is that confirmed? Did I miss the memo? Wouldn't surprise me, but I was still clinging to the foolish hope of March (31 March obvs). Thanks again. | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 11:27 - Mar 11 with 5718 views | Northernr |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 11:23 - Mar 11 by loftus77 |
Thank you Clive, great resolve again!
Got to ask: Team News - Rumarn Burrell out for season, is that confirmed? Did I miss the memo? Wouldn't surprise me, but I was still clinging to the foolish hope of March (31 March obvs). Thanks again. |
Well, they're not going to tell you. But it's the middle of March, it's a very bad hamstring injury, and he's not training. | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:23 - Mar 11 with 5356 views | derbyhoop |
At times like these I wonder how you can keep doing this. It's often been depressing as a QPR fan but, the combination of long term injuries to key players and a general acceptance of mid table mediocrity, would try the patience of a saint. |  |
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:24 - Mar 11 with 5354 views | KensalT |
Great piece Clive.
I don't really buy this theory about making Walsh the first choice keeper from the FA Cup game in January onwards.
After we beat Sheffield Wednesday on 4th January we were on 38 points, three off the playoff places.
Would we really shuffle goalkeepers at that point of the season?
Notwithstanding our injury problems he would probably have become the scapegoat for our slide down the table and we would have completely wrecked his confidence.
The whole GK situation has been handled badly.
If we had wanted Walsh to be first choice this season we should have given him a loan last season to get some experience under his belt. Instead we sent Cooper out on loan last season and again this season. There's a clear lack of forward planning. |  | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:26 - Mar 11 with 5342 views | Northernr |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:24 - Mar 11 by KensalT |
Great piece Clive.
I don't really buy this theory about making Walsh the first choice keeper from the FA Cup game in January onwards.
After we beat Sheffield Wednesday on 4th January we were on 38 points, three off the playoff places.
Would we really shuffle goalkeepers at that point of the season?
Notwithstanding our injury problems he would probably have become the scapegoat for our slide down the table and we would have completely wrecked his confidence.
The whole GK situation has been handled badly.
If we had wanted Walsh to be first choice this season we should have given him a loan last season to get some experience under his belt. Instead we sent Cooper out on loan last season and again this season. There's a clear lack of forward planning. |
Well you wouldn’t have known you’d have 38 points and be 3 off the play offs in the summer. You may, in that circumstance, have subsequently changed your mind and stuck with.
As it turns out we did have 38 points and were 3 points from the play offs aaaaaaaand they shuffled the goalkeepers anyway.
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:27 - Mar 11 with 5341 views | kensalriser |
Are any of the injured players going to be back this season? You can add Chair to Burrell in the slim chance category, probably Madsen too. Maybe half a chance for Poku and Obikwu, one of whom has contributed nothing and the other next to nothing this season. |  |
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:31 - Mar 11 with 5300 views | KensalT |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:26 - Mar 11 by Northernr |
Well you wouldn’t have known you’d have 38 points and be 3 off the play offs in the summer. You may, in that circumstance, have subsequently changed your mind and stuck with.
As it turns out we did have 38 points and were 3 points from the play offs aaaaaaaand they shuffled the goalkeepers anyway.
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You're probably right.
But then we would have got to the end of this season and Walsh would still only have two dead-rubber Championship games under his belt!
So whichever way you slice it it's still poor planning by the club. | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:32 - Mar 11 with 5284 views | KensalT |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:27 - Mar 11 by kensalriser |
Are any of the injured players going to be back this season? You can add Chair to Burrell in the slim chance category, probably Madsen too. Maybe half a chance for Poku and Obikwu, one of whom has contributed nothing and the other next to nothing this season. |
WLS say Poku is in the squad for tonight
https://www.westlondonsport.co | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:39 - Mar 11 with 5244 views | AshteadR |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 11:01 - Mar 11 by thehat |
Thanks Clive - Some good points made in that piece.
Everyone keeps telling me we have nothing to play for. Am I the only one who is still worried about relegation?
From what I have seen in the last three games I am worried we could go into freefall and be dragged into the dog fight with four games to go.
I can't see where the next goal is coming from let alone the next point.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"
Best of luck to everyone heading for St Andrews tonight. I salute each and every one of you. |
I’m not worried, yet, but we somehow need to get a win or two on the board soon, to avoid it. | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:43 - Mar 11 with 5229 views | Paddyhoops |
The amount of goals we concede year on year is staggering. The problem regardless of players or management has never been addressed.
We will never challenge for the play offs if it continues.
Great preview and good luck to all travelling. | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:47 - Mar 11 with 5208 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:23 - Mar 11 by derbyhoop |
At times like these I wonder how you can keep doing this. It's often been depressing as a QPR fan but, the combination of long term injuries to key players and a general acceptance of mid table mediocrity, would try the patience of a saint. |
Completely agree. I don't know how they have the fortitude to watch us away at the moment, when the levels are so far below what you'd expect from a well-run professional football club. I think most people found it an effort to drag themselves to the match on Sunday, so the thought of dedicating time and spending money to watch the next two matches is astonishing. The people running the club really do not deserve their loyalty. | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 14:08 - Mar 11 with 5151 views | TheChef |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 13:43 - Mar 11 by Paddyhoops |
The amount of goals we concede year on year is staggering. The problem regardless of players or management has never been addressed.
We will never challenge for the play offs if it continues.
Great preview and good luck to all travelling. |
58 already this season (quite possible we can break the 70 mark again)
24/25 - 63
23/24 - 58
22/23 - 71
21/22 - 59
20/21 - 55
19/20 - 76 (and somehow finished 13th!)
18/19 - 71
17/18 - 70
Another one to file under "NOTHING CHANGES". | |
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 14:20 - Mar 11 with 5117 views | R_from_afar |
Many thanks, as ever, for that preview.
One other thing which could be added to the list of issues diverting attention from first team results, and which should be chained to a very large anchor and hurled into the Mariana Trench, is this notion of buying an Australian football club.
We're making a poor job of running a club in West London, how on earth could we also take on the ownership of an outfit on the other side of the world  .
Funny you should mention Coll Donaldson, he's club captain with The Bairns, AKA Falkirk. John McGlynn has worked wonders there, securing back to back promotions and getting them to the semi-final of the cup, whatever that is  . |  |
| "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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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 14:23 - Mar 11 with 5102 views | R_from_afar |
He's only included so Cook has someone new to play scissors, paper, stone with on the subs bench . | |
| "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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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 14:28 - Mar 11 with 5074 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 14:20 - Mar 11 by R_from_afar |
Many thanks, as ever, for that preview.
One other thing which could be added to the list of issues diverting attention from first team results, and which should be chained to a very large anchor and hurled into the Mariana Trench, is this notion of buying an Australian football club.
We're making a poor job of running a club in West London, how on earth could we also take on the ownership of an outfit on the other side of the world .
Funny you should mention Coll Donaldson, he's club captain with The Bairns, AKA Falkirk. John McGlynn has worked wonders there, securing back to back promotions and getting them to the semi-final of the cup, whatever that is . |
I dunno, maybe we could do what we used to do and transport Hoos, Nourry and Cycling Ben to Oz to run it. | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 14:46 - Mar 11 with 5008 views | FredManRave |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 14:23 - Mar 11 by R_from_afar |
He's only included so Cook has someone new to play scissors, paper, stone with on the subs bench . |
We don't want Chair on the bench if there are any stones lying around.
And what are the odds that we'll now have a slew of players being injured due to paper cuts. |  |
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 15:23 - Mar 11 with 4925 views | kensalriser |
Perhaps I should qualify what I mean by 'back': playing a meaningful number of minutes in a meaningful number of games, ie not 10 or 15 minutes a couple of times before being injured again. | |
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 15:28 - Mar 11 with 4910 views | KensalT |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 15:23 - Mar 11 by kensalriser |
Perhaps I should qualify what I mean by 'back': playing a meaningful number of minutes in a meaningful number of games, ie not 10 or 15 minutes a couple of times before being injured again. |
Baby steps :-) | | | |
| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 17:54 - Mar 11 with 4416 views | mart_Goblin |
Great as always .
Said it earlier in the week but I feel more like a rubber necker at a terrible accident than a fan watching my team tonight.
The club has to be careful . They have a very loyal fan base that generally sticks with them through thick and thin . But, I’ve spoken to 3 separate QPR fans this week whose kids ALL refused to go on Sunday . And are already making excuses for the next home game . 2 out of the 3 anyway)
They keep ignoring the hear and now for some sort of better tomorrow .
I understand it .
But it’s playing with fire a little at present . [Post edited 11 Mar 18:00]
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| QPR and Birmingham desperate to stop respective rots - Preview on 17:55 - Mar 11 with 4415 views | silverbirch |
Another problem with never knowing what is preventing us from seeing our favourite players, is that people speculate. And when they speculate, the speculation is (probably) far worse than the truth, and damaging to the reputation of the players and the club.
If it’s Chair, we yet again get the suggestion that he has community service to complete. It just perpetuates the worst possible news. Keep it alive and you’ll keep getting the ‘jokes’ about keeping chair away from rocks, stones etc. And on and on, damaging for the player and the club.
For Obikwu, I’ve twice seen suggestions that he's not injured, he’s failed a drugs test.
These are PR disasters, and so easy to avoid. | | | |
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