| Not all victories will be victories – Report on 12:59 - Sep 21 with 3936 views | terryb |
Cheers Clive.
From the top of MU, I wasn't aware that there was a potential penalty for handball! I think I recall the crowd in SAR asking for something, but I had no idea what, or why.
To be fair, it's only the coverage from our young friends in Q (or R) block, that I know that Saito dived for his caution. Every part of the ground gives a different view as to what has really happened, but apart from those in the Upper School End, we could all go mad when Paul Smyth scored.
If Madsen had managed to score from the free kick, I doubt that many of us would have caught our intended train home. |  | |  |
| Not all victories will be victories – Report on 13:11 - Sep 21 with 3816 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Belter of a match report, Clive.
Thank you. |  |
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| Not all victories will be victories – Report on 13:11 - Sep 21 with 3812 views | TomMorgz7 |
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:15 - Sep 21 with 3738 views | Beckenhamhoop |
Excellent analogy to a disappointing child.
This team is good enough to inject more pace, risk and imagination into their play for longer than 45 minutes simply because they’re up against it. This intensity should be the norm from the off. It may not be sustainable for 90 minutes but if we play like we did in the second half, even against better teams than PNE, we would score more, earlier. | |
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:17 - Sep 21 with 3688 views | thehat |
Top man Clive - This first class report captures the whole event perfectly. The good, the bad and the ugly.
It has long been known that due to Loftus Road’s compact structure the noise from the stands goes downwards onto the pitch. It was bloody noisy in SAR so the decibels at pitch level in the second half must have been incredible. The fans deserve so much credit in getting behind the boys and roaring them back into the game.
Good that the Gaffer acknowledged his errors in the starting eleven but that is for another day.
Right now I am still buzzing from Paul Smyth’s wonder strike. Who would have thought we would all be so happy with a point against Preston North End.
It’s a funny old game……… | | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:19 - Sep 21 with 3670 views | Northernr |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:15 - Sep 21 by Beckenhamhoop |
Excellent analogy to a disappointing child.
This team is good enough to inject more pace, risk and imagination into their play for longer than 45 minutes simply because they’re up against it. This intensity should be the norm from the off. It may not be sustainable for 90 minutes but if we play like we did in the second half, even against better teams than PNE, we would score more, earlier. |
I honestly think we took it lightly on Saturday. Thought it would be easy.
Hopefully a nasty little shock will prevent that happening again. |  | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:27 - Sep 21 with 3578 views | dutch |
Great report of one of the great halves at Loftus Road in recent years. Sometimes we forget how potent we can be. Up in G block the Hello Hello's seemed to go on for ever, getting louder with each refrain, it was visceral and must have felt like a tsunami down there on the pitch. Very few places can do that, no other current ground I've experienced resonates like Loftus Road at those glorious moments. If we ever leave our cave, we will look back on days like these with very misty eyes. | | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:32 - Sep 21 with 3509 views | Myke |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:27 - Sep 21 by dutch |
Great report of one of the great halves at Loftus Road in recent years. Sometimes we forget how potent we can be. Up in G block the Hello Hello's seemed to go on for ever, getting louder with each refrain, it was visceral and must have felt like a tsunami down there on the pitch. Very few places can do that, no other current ground I've experienced resonates like Loftus Road at those glorious moments. If we ever leave our cave, we will look back on days like these with very misty eyes. |
Clive, this was celestial . Thank you | | | |
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:38 - Sep 21 with 3411 views | stevec |
A perfect piece of writing Clive, it’s actually made me feel a bit better now, after my Saturday evening histrionics on here.
Fckin club. |  | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:54 - Sep 21 with 3283 views | Rsole |
With this report you are really spoiling us, Ambassador.
You should be well hung(over) more often, Clive. |  |
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 14:04 - Sep 21 with 3200 views | M40R |
Well, that report was almost as good as watching the second half. What a turnaround. | | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 14:05 - Sep 21 with 3184 views | Malintabuk |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:19 - Sep 21 by Northernr |
I honestly think we took it lightly on Saturday. Thought it would be easy.
Hopefully a nasty little shock will prevent that happening again. |
As usual mate fantastic report and many happy for your birthday yesterday
Not sure being 1 down after 20 second affords you the luxury of taking this for granted... I just felt the injury to Vale completely threw us and JS... the Varane replacement was strange... the 20 second brainfart by Jimmy compouned it, but the sending off completely crumbled us... then the 2nd goal
So that makes the 2nd half even more extraordinary in my view, we could easily have gone damage limitation, put it down to one of those days (which we seem to have many) and move on... but as you say this team is made of sterner stuff
Been many a year since the old girl rocked like she did... the Leeds game was close... and the Leicester one perhaps... the come back against Liverpool another... but wow it made an old man feel young again.... nearly
And I'm really am going to have to stop kissing strange men I never met before [Post edited 21 Sep 14:06]
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 14:10 - Sep 21 with 3110 views | brewers_hoop |
You should write match reports on your birthday more often - many happy returns, by the way. The way you injected the pace into your second-half prose was pure genius… perfectly encapsulating that fantastic, frenetic 45 minutes. It was like listening to an old-school radio commentary from the late, great Peter Jones.
After the 3-3 at Reading a few years back, we overheard an elderly, disgruntled Biscuitman behind us bemoan: ‘It feels like a defeat.’ That felt like a win. [Post edited 21 Sep 14:12]
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 14:17 - Sep 21 with 3037 views | Loyalitat |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:19 - Sep 21 by Northernr |
I honestly think we took it lightly on Saturday. Thought it would be easy.
Hopefully a nasty little shock will prevent that happening again. |
Totally agree that we failed to respect the opposition on Saturday in terms of the starting eleven. Made all the more baffling in light of the series of tough games, ostensibly, that we will face in October.
Excellent report. [Post edited 21 Sep 14:18]
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 14:57 - Sep 21 with 2797 views | NewYorkRanger |
Possible recency bias, and still some incredulity at what transpired over the full 90 but I think this could be your best one yet. Goose bumps all over just reading it through. The noise. I can't remember anything like it.
I don't really gamble, but I had a tenner on an R's win at half time at 33-1. I thought the Madsen free kick was in. Until it wasn't.
This is why we go. This is why we don't follow anyone glamorous for the glory. That was worth all the pain. And we din't even win. |  |
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 15:10 - Sep 21 with 2735 views | AshteadR |
Super report Clive, well done.
Only at QPR. Think you mentioned on the Patreon that it would be typical if we didn't beat Preston. Even for us, that was an extreme first half. | | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 15:37 - Sep 21 with 2557 views | kensalriser |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 13:19 - Sep 21 by Northernr |
I honestly think we took it lightly on Saturday. Thought it would be easy.
Hopefully a nasty little shock will prevent that happening again. |
I'm sure you're right, but haven't we learnt our lessons? No one, especially all the professionals involved, should be taking any game at this level for granted.
Even Sheff Wednesday's depleted, moth-eaten team, one that accrued the lowest ever points tally in the Championship (before the points deduction) managed to avoid defeat in nearly a third of its games last season. |  |
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 15:38 - Sep 21 with 2554 views | Northernr |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 15:37 - Sep 21 by kensalriser |
I'm sure you're right, but haven't we learnt our lessons? No one, especially all the professionals involved, should be taking any game at this level for granted.
Even Sheff Wednesday's depleted, moth-eaten team, one that accrued the lowest ever points tally in the Championship (before the points deduction) managed to avoid defeat in nearly a third of its games last season. |
Including against us. | | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 16:07 - Sep 21 with 2408 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
As that 2nd half ticked down the louder it got and it just felt inevitable that we would equalise. Pure raw emotion when we did. It was almost like the crowd forced the ball in through shear will or by pray. A spiritual moment at HQ.
Best bit about the game, though, longer term? The reaction when we equalised from the team. 8 of the players were already in position, ball on the centre circle by the time Smyth had completed his acrobatics. Great to see. | |
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 16:15 - Sep 21 with 2364 views | Paddyhoops |
Not a drug in the world could give a natural buzz like that second half .
You described it perfectly. | | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 16:49 - Sep 21 with 2183 views | paddyhdog |
Exceptional writing. Captured the match better than any TV recording ever could. We are lukcy to have you Clive. | | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 18:02 - Sep 21 with 1866 views | Ghost_on_the_Westway |
Aww, what a great read and the now almost obligatory Phoenix Nights reference in there, too.
Many thanks Clive.
That handball though. FFS the useless tw4t is looking right at it. [Post edited 21 Sep 18:03]
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| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 18:27 - Sep 21 with 1756 views | dmm |
What a report, Clive. Had me beaming. And "Carrot and stick, and they're both going straight up your arse" was a genuine laugh out loud. |  | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 18:42 - Sep 21 with 1694 views | Burnleyhoop |
Fabulous report.
Surprised there is no mention of the significant shift in mentality of this group that must have been instilled ostensibly by JS.
There is an ambition and belief in this group, the likes of which we haven’t seen for years and despite not having achieved the points haul we should have so far, the underlying numbers, attitude and performances indicate there is much more to come from this group.
Exciting times ahead. | | | |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 19:07 - Sep 21 with 1593 views | EuroRanger |
| Not all the victories will be victories – Report on 18:27 - Sep 21 by dmm |
What a report, Clive. Had me beaming. And "Carrot and stick, and they're both going straight up your arse" was a genuine laugh out loud. |
Yeah, my other half asked me what I was giggling about over lunch. 😂 | | | |
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