| Beale post-match 19:29 - Nov 12 with 2685 views | stainrods_elbow |
https://www.qpr.co.uk/videos/interviews/beale-post-coventry-121122/
No one can be faulted for effort.
We're in a 'blip' mainly down to the schedule and injuries - oh and finding it hard to get a shot on goal occasionally.
Today, Coventry had a good striker and we, by implication, didn't.
Not 'all doom and gloom', we're still 7th, and 'we should have a lot of optimism'.
7 points off 2nd and 8 points off 22nd makes us more or less mediocre in my view. We're probably more likely to finish 16th than 6th.
Discuss while I sit in a gloomy room, pounding my fist on a wall! [Post edited 12 Nov 2022 19:34]
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| Beale post-match on 20:30 - Nov 12 with 2559 views | Northernr |
I’m not sure him mentioning the schedule quite as often as he did there when you’re playing Coventry, whose fixture list is mental, does a lot for his cause tbh. |  | | |
| Beale post-match on 20:40 - Nov 12 with 2527 views | stainrods_elbow |
Nor bemoan the injury list, which is not actually that crippling, when Huddersfield (in addition to being bottom and largely clueless - Swansea went there today and had 75% possession, albeit without scoring) were a totally patched-up side at HQ this week.
What mystifies me is when managers like Beale, Warburton and, well, just about all of 'em, talk up the fixture list as if it were designed to undermine performances rather than being pretty much as it always has been since modern leagues began, then say in the next breath 'of course, it's the same for every team'. It's a kind of absurd rhetorical doublespeak in the game that makes mugs of intelligent fans.
Is there a special training course for this kind of thing at QPR? Personally , I find Beale's interview pretty pitiful in its starting point (could there be a correlation with how his team starts games?) and a big part of the 'woe is us' problem at QPR.
I like and admire MB as an up and coming coach, but he and his coaching staff need to respond if he's going to up and come. | |
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| Beale post-match on 20:53 - Nov 12 with 2453 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
| Beale post-match on 20:40 - Nov 12 by stainrods_elbow |
Nor bemoan the injury list, which is not actually that crippling, when Huddersfield (in addition to being bottom and largely clueless - Swansea went there today and had 75% possession, albeit without scoring) were a totally patched-up side at HQ this week.
What mystifies me is when managers like Beale, Warburton and, well, just about all of 'em, talk up the fixture list as if it were designed to undermine performances rather than being pretty much as it always has been since modern leagues began, then say in the next breath 'of course, it's the same for every team'. It's a kind of absurd rhetorical doublespeak in the game that makes mugs of intelligent fans.
Is there a special training course for this kind of thing at QPR? Personally , I find Beale's interview pretty pitiful in its starting point (could there be a correlation with how his team starts games?) and a big part of the 'woe is us' problem at QPR.
I like and admire MB as an up and coming coach, but he and his coaching staff need to respond if he's going to up and come. |
Coventry literally don't have a ground and were in the fourth division five years ago.
The problems at our club start at the top, and until they're gone, we'll be saying the same things in another five years.
Look at our bench today - that's where our 'development' strategy has got us, a bunch of players who are barely League 1 quality, who the coach (and the one before him) clearly doesn't rate, and you and I would be more use sitting there during the match.
I like Beale but unless things change above him, it's Groundhog Day I'm afraid. |  | | |
| Beale post-match on 20:57 - Nov 12 with 2438 views | bosh67 |
The big three problems is that he has talented young players who seem to get injured every five minutes. With Johansen and Balogun out there is precious little experience around apart from Albert. I think that lack of experience is behind some of this drop off. And, perhaps the biggest one is that last season we had Austin and Grey, both experienced Prem strikers and Dykes, and then Bonne back. This season we have Dykes, a one in 5-6 game goal scorer... a departing Bonne and an exciting 19 year old who has never scored a senior goal. It's not rocket science where we are very light this season. Our midfield has been scoring goals until recently and now that's dried up. |  |
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| Beale post-match on 21:02 - Nov 12 with 2401 views | ParkRoyalR |
10 minutes to go and brings on Shodipo and Adomah, presumably to put crosses into the box but takes off Dykes, brings on Thomas to play alongside Dozzell and Sinclair up top on his own....did Beale go up on Mel's bus and have a few too many sherberts before kick-off? | | | |
| Beale post-match on 21:26 - Nov 12 with 2357 views | HAYESBOY |
These last 5 games have highlighted really only one thing for me.
We need an alternative striker.
In the Norwich, WBA, Huddersfield and Coventry games I feel we could have got something more out of the games if we could have switched to an experienced striker.
As noted, last year we had normally two on the bench.
There are other reasons that ebb and flow throughout the season. Like individual mistakes and players having off days. But as a single thread throughout those games is, we did not look like scoring despite arguably being the better of the teams in 2/3 of the pitch.
Just an opinion like. |  |
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| Beale post-match on 21:31 - Nov 12 with 2338 views | distortR |
| Beale post-match on 20:30 - Nov 12 by Northernr |
I’m not sure him mentioning the schedule quite as often as he did there when you’re playing Coventry, whose fixture list is mental, does a lot for his cause tbh. |
he knew how congested the fixture list would be when he brought in JCS and Roberts, both players likely to struggle with it. | | | |
| Beale post-match on 21:50 - Nov 12 with 2256 views | Damo1962 |
| Beale post-match on 20:30 - Nov 12 by Northernr |
I’m not sure him mentioning the schedule quite as often as he did there when you’re playing Coventry, whose fixture list is mental, does a lot for his cause tbh. |
Agree. Yes we seem to get a lot of injuries, but isn't JoJo the only one now I believe? Keep signing players with questionable injury records, then moan when they are then injured...seems a bit churlish to me. 23 other teams in the league have the same fixture schedule - what makes us so hard done by.He is starting to sound a bit like Warburton TBH. [Post edited 12 Nov 2022 21:54]
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| Beale post-match on 22:37 - Nov 12 with 2131 views | ManinBlack |
The former Luton manager did say that all the clubs have big injury concerns blaming the world Cup for it. So many games crammed in by mid November has affected clubs and when they cram in more games for the second half of the season it will be the same again. We are not used to stopping in the middle of the season for a tournament.
You only used to get long periods of no football with weather like the great freeze in 1963. Playing three games a week must contribute to the unpredictable results in the Championship as it regularly seems to happen. I reckon if only one game a week was played again you would find more consistent performances and results by keeping players fit and not constantly changing the team. |  | | |
| Beale post-match on 22:40 - Nov 12 with 2106 views | daveB |
| Beale post-match on 21:02 - Nov 12 by ParkRoyalR |
10 minutes to go and brings on Shodipo and Adomah, presumably to put crosses into the box but takes off Dykes, brings on Thomas to play alongside Dozzell and Sinclair up top on his own....did Beale go up on Mel's bus and have a few too many sherberts before kick-off? |
yeah that was bonkers. Both Adomah and Shodipo put a few decent balls in but Thomas had no hope |  | | |
| Beale post-match on 09:47 - Nov 13 with 1842 views | francisbowles |
| Beale post-match on 20:40 - Nov 12 by stainrods_elbow |
Nor bemoan the injury list, which is not actually that crippling, when Huddersfield (in addition to being bottom and largely clueless - Swansea went there today and had 75% possession, albeit without scoring) were a totally patched-up side at HQ this week.
What mystifies me is when managers like Beale, Warburton and, well, just about all of 'em, talk up the fixture list as if it were designed to undermine performances rather than being pretty much as it always has been since modern leagues began, then say in the next breath 'of course, it's the same for every team'. It's a kind of absurd rhetorical doublespeak in the game that makes mugs of intelligent fans.
Is there a special training course for this kind of thing at QPR? Personally , I find Beale's interview pretty pitiful in its starting point (could there be a correlation with how his team starts games?) and a big part of the 'woe is us' problem at QPR.
I like and admire MB as an up and coming coach, but he and his coaching staff need to respond if he's going to up and come. |
'Swansea went there today and had 75% possession'. We had 71% possession against Huddersfield.
Swansea had 16 shots and 11 corners. We had 36 shots and 14 corners.
Agree we were poor against an injury hit side but not sure how comparing us to Swansea illustrates your point as arguably, on those stats, they were worse. | | | |
| Beale post-match on 17:02 - Nov 13 with 1614 views | PinnerPaul |
| Beale post-match on 20:30 - Nov 12 by Northernr |
I’m not sure him mentioning the schedule quite as often as he did there when you’re playing Coventry, whose fixture list is mental, does a lot for his cause tbh. |
Injuries and schedule - he's sounding more like MW every day! | | | |
| Beale post-match on 17:04 - Nov 13 with 1612 views | PinnerPaul |
SE - OR NO points off the play offs, 8 from relegation.
That is NOT mid table. | | | |
| Beale post-match on 17:06 - Nov 13 with 1601 views | PinnerPaul |
| Beale post-match on 21:50 - Nov 12 by Damo1962 |
Agree. Yes we seem to get a lot of injuries, but isn't JoJo the only one now I believe? Keep signing players with questionable injury records, then moan when they are then injured...seems a bit churlish to me. 23 other teams in the league have the same fixture schedule - what makes us so hard done by.He is starting to sound a bit like Warburton TBH. [Post edited 12 Nov 2022 21:54]
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BUT as Clive has said, IF SJ, JCS, Roberts, Richards etc were NOT injury prone they wouldn't be here! | | | |
| Beale post-match on 17:26 - Nov 13 with 1578 views | Northernr |
| Beale post-match on 17:02 - Nov 13 by PinnerPaul |
Injuries and schedule - he's sounding more like MW every day! |
Well I did say when Warburton was getting (unfairly in my view) hammered for repeating himself when trying to explain why we are where we are, that people wouldn't like the next guy's answers either, or the guy after that.
Everybody comes into QPR the same, saying all the right things about the academy, and we're going to do this, and I think we can improve that, and we're going to develop this and that. Drop a few names (remember when he was in love with Arkell Jude Boyd for five minutes in the summer?). Then they realise what they have here, and we're back to 5 minutes of Mide Shodipo and bringing George Thomas on to chase games and moaning about having to play so many football matches.
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| Beale post-match on 15:58 - Nov 14 with 1347 views | PinnerPaul |
| Beale post-match on 17:26 - Nov 13 by Northernr |
Well I did say when Warburton was getting (unfairly in my view) hammered for repeating himself when trying to explain why we are where we are, that people wouldn't like the next guy's answers either, or the guy after that.
Everybody comes into QPR the same, saying all the right things about the academy, and we're going to do this, and I think we can improve that, and we're going to develop this and that. Drop a few names (remember when he was in love with Arkell Jude Boyd for five minutes in the summer?). Then they realise what they have here, and we're back to 5 minutes of Mide Shodipo and bringing George Thomas on to chase games and moaning about having to play so many football matches.
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Yep you did say that.
I'll always call out the 'schedule' argument, whoever makes it, on here or by the club.
I still haven't got over the 6/7 day argument yet!  | | | |
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