| Sweet little lies - Preview on 20:29 - Dec 28 with 2708 views | dmm |
Clive, one of your best. Your cynicism is totally justified. I can only repeat the oft repeated slogan, Fck the System. |  | |  |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 20:40 - Dec 28 with 2678 views | colinallcars |
Really enjoyable preview of a tough looking game.
I'd forgotten the transfer window slams open in just three days. No transfers in or out a strong possibility ? |  | | |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 21:38 - Dec 28 with 2563 views | eastside_r |
For the record, I liked the cat pic.
It’s difficult not to be cynic and I am one also. |  | | |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 21:47 - Dec 28 with 2541 views | Burnleyhoop |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 20:40 - Dec 28 by colinallcars |
Really enjoyable preview of a tough looking game.
I'd forgotten the transfer window slams open in just three days. No transfers in or out a strong possibility ? |
Thomas, Bonne and Shodiipo need to be moved on.
Bring in cover for Johansen and bring back the wee American from the Orient.
Ditch the 433 in favour of a 4231.
Job done. |  | | |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 22:16 - Dec 28 with 2438 views | Northernr |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 21:47 - Dec 28 by Burnleyhoop |
Thomas, Bonne and Shodiipo need to be moved on.
Bring in cover for Johansen and bring back the wee American from the Orient.
Ditch the 433 in favour of a 4231.
Job done. |
You can only shift Thomas, Bonne, Shodipo and others if you find a taker, in this market, willing to swallow their salary. I suspect there are 7-8 players they'd like to shift but are stuck with like this.
The only business we'll do this January is replacing loans that might be recalled with other loans, and potentially paying Bonne up with a lump sum second time around which might let us borrow Jamal Lowe or his non-union Mexican equivalent. |  | | |
| Sweet little lies - Preview (n/t) on 22:50 - Dec 28 with 2374 views | kensalriser |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 21:47 - Dec 28 by Burnleyhoop |
Thomas, Bonne and Shodiipo need to be moved on.
Bring in cover for Johansen and bring back the wee American from the Orient.
Ditch the 433 in favour of a 4231.
Job done. |
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| Sweet little lies - Preview on 23:54 - Dec 28 with 2234 views | stainrods_elbow |
Really captures with eloquent excessiveness my own view of fan love as damned love, elicited by such manifest cynicism in plain sight everyone in pro football who makes all their money out of us will literally be laughing all the way to the bank. And yet we still have those who tell us how 'lucky' we are to have the people we do at QPR etc etc. For falling in love at the age of 8 against Derby County watching the ashes of our swashbuckling so nearly team among the other 22,556 at LR, I've been paying and paying ever since, albeit with the occasional upsurge of mottled joy.
In the words of Samuel Beckett (again), when it comes to being a football fan, never mind a QPR fan, there's really 'nothing to be done'. All we can venture is magnify our pathology, irrationality, and irritability at our plight. To that end, I'm grateful to this forum for allowing me a platform to do just that, depsite all the brickbats.
HNY all, including those who don't deserve to be. [Post edited 28 Dec 2022 23:57]
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| Sweet little lies - Preview on 00:21 - Dec 29 with 2210 views | DavieQPR |
Shopido must be good in training because all our recent Managers have given him game time when they first arrive only to discover he is really not very good. |  | | |
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| Sweet little lies - Preview on 09:30 - Dec 29 with 1791 views | Dixie_CT |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 22:16 - Dec 28 by Northernr |
You can only shift Thomas, Bonne, Shodipo and others if you find a taker, in this market, willing to swallow their salary. I suspect there are 7-8 players they'd like to shift but are stuck with like this.
The only business we'll do this January is replacing loans that might be recalled with other loans, and potentially paying Bonne up with a lump sum second time around which might let us borrow Jamal Lowe or his non-union Mexican equivalent. |
Those three players are all out of contract at the end of this season right?
You’d like to think the club would have a plan and confidence to replace them with better at the same cost, no easy feat.
You throw the likes of Niko, Masterson, Bettache, and Kakay, into the mix, players who are just not going to play regular Championship football, then you have an opportunity to build something that is more in keeping with the division, can maintain consistency when you get injuries, and we can get behind.
We have all seen enough of the players mentioned above, to know they are never going to be good enough and the club’s financial position can’t be used as a reason our squad is not adequate enough to sustain any sort of form beyond the first 11 and subs. The Championship is a slog and teams that do well have a mixture of effective sports science, smart recruitment, and a slice of good fortune. We seem to have very low stocks of all those elements.
Biggest problem? Strikers who can’t score and are one dimensional. Roberts was never going to turn into Thierry Henry, Bonne seems to be a bit all over the place, and Armstrong is another who may be more training ground hype and academy coach ego than real potential. |  | | |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 11:12 - Dec 29 with 1641 views | dmm |
Thomas, Bonne and Shodipo do indeed have contracts expiring in the summer.
As for the contracts of the others you mention: Masterson and Bettache also have contracts expiring in 2023; Hamalainen and Kakay's run to 2024.
As always there will be a slew of youngsters' contracts up in the summer and it'll be interesting to see who is retained. | | | |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 11:32 - Dec 29 with 1605 views | ngbqpr |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 09:30 - Dec 29 by Dixie_CT |
Those three players are all out of contract at the end of this season right?
You’d like to think the club would have a plan and confidence to replace them with better at the same cost, no easy feat.
You throw the likes of Niko, Masterson, Bettache, and Kakay, into the mix, players who are just not going to play regular Championship football, then you have an opportunity to build something that is more in keeping with the division, can maintain consistency when you get injuries, and we can get behind.
We have all seen enough of the players mentioned above, to know they are never going to be good enough and the club’s financial position can’t be used as a reason our squad is not adequate enough to sustain any sort of form beyond the first 11 and subs. The Championship is a slog and teams that do well have a mixture of effective sports science, smart recruitment, and a slice of good fortune. We seem to have very low stocks of all those elements.
Biggest problem? Strikers who can’t score and are one dimensional. Roberts was never going to turn into Thierry Henry, Bonne seems to be a bit all over the place, and Armstrong is another who may be more training ground hype and academy coach ego than real potential. |
Armstrong is 19. We have already see him scare the living sh!t out of many defenders in this division.
He is very raw, and his finishing clearly needs work - but I'd be willing to wager he'll go on to be at the very least an effective No. 9 at this level. I think we've managed him well so far this season tbf. |  |
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| Sweet little lies - Preview on 11:38 - Dec 29 with 1585 views | Burnleyhoop |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 22:16 - Dec 28 by Northernr |
You can only shift Thomas, Bonne, Shodipo and others if you find a taker, in this market, willing to swallow their salary. I suspect there are 7-8 players they'd like to shift but are stuck with like this.
The only business we'll do this January is replacing loans that might be recalled with other loans, and potentially paying Bonne up with a lump sum second time around which might let us borrow Jamal Lowe or his non-union Mexican equivalent. |
Ok, I accept that it is highly unlikely we can shift any of them, although Charlton and Ipswich have shown a mild interest in Bonne, but we need to find a better balance and shape quickly.
Reflecting on the Cardiff game and the shape and personnel available, we shouldn’t really have expected anything more than what we got. The Preston game was probably more of an aberration from the norm than the Cardiff performance.
For me, the defence doesn’t need “shoring up”, it’s the midfield that is the problem. The failure to track runners and remain goal side of opponents at set pieces is abysmal. The likes of Willock, Adomah, Dozzell and Tim are simply not at it when it comes to defending.
If we can’t shift any of the squad deemed not good enough, we should look to return loanee(s) that are simply not contributing.
I’m in the return to sender camp with Roberts and perhaps the bullshitting toad at GR might take the useful but unnecessary Balogun back up north.
I would like to see Field and a similar type (no more academy boys) shielding the defence, allowing the aforementioned academy boys to do what they do best further up the pitch.
Alternatively go with 3 at the back and play with 2, very capable, wing backs.
Will be interesting to see what Critchley does over the coming weeks as it appears he wasn’t happy with what he saw at Cardiff. Players now coming back from injury should give him more options. | | | |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 12:29 - Dec 29 with 1493 views | QPR_Jim |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 22:16 - Dec 28 by Northernr |
You can only shift Thomas, Bonne, Shodipo and others if you find a taker, in this market, willing to swallow their salary. I suspect there are 7-8 players they'd like to shift but are stuck with like this.
The only business we'll do this January is replacing loans that might be recalled with other loans, and potentially paying Bonne up with a lump sum second time around which might let us borrow Jamal Lowe or his non-union Mexican equivalent. |
I've seen that Gillingham have just bought a player for the first time in years for a transfer fee because they have new American owners. Maybe they could take some of our players, get them off our books and improve their squad. |  | | |
| Sweet little lies - Preview on 22:42 - Dec 29 with 928 views | monners1969 |
I find it pretty funny that us rrrs fans focus on getting rid of squad players we own (and at times need) and hardly mention the 100,000s we’ve spent on loan after loan
Moan all you want about shodipo Thomas etc but we own them and have consistently overlooked them with loan players we are obliged to play
It’s all done now but I go back to Clive’s 50/100 games ometer eze chair willock have all had that investment and many we own haven’t and we’ve just dropped in loanees for the short term
We find ourselves owning 3 strikers who have scored 6 goals between them all season (and we were top not so long ago)
We are going to be in so much shite this summer with squad players out of contract our top players reducing in value and ffp back on the agenda
To top it off one of my rare visits to LR will see us host Sheffield utd ffs |  | | |
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