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Delighted that Network Ten legend Simon Hill has leant us his opinion on our two new Oz recruits. Greg Spires analysis of Adamson included here as well...
FA GBE Rules. Jeez, is football just getting more complicated.
Thanks for the write up as I, and probably everyone else knew nothing about him. Adamson and Dunne are chalk and cheese and I don't see how you can have someone so different as a backup. Adamson looks quick and at 6ft 1, isn't exactly short, but as you said not in the Dunne level ariel dominant. I wonder if another RB is brought in on loan to release Dunne to CB.
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 17:20 - Jun 29 by Wilkinswatercarrier
FA GBE Rules. Jeez, is football just getting more complicated.
Thanks for the write up as I, and probably everyone else knew nothing about him. Adamson and Dunne are chalk and cheese and I don't see how you can have someone so different as a backup. Adamson looks quick and at 6ft 1, isn't exactly short, but as you said not in the Dunne level ariel dominant. I wonder if another RB is brought in on loan to release Dunne to CB.
I don't think you'll find another Dunne profile at right back, how we utilise him feels so unique. What this does provide is some flexibility with our setup, as we know Stephan does like to use a number of different systems and tactics
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 18:33 - Jun 29 with 5510 views
My son lives in Sydney and has come across Adamson, both as a player and an up and coming coach. One of the things about the Aussies coming over, is that they tend to be decent athletes aged between 18 and 23, with a fair bit of A League experience. But 26 games per season isn't enough to stretch them to their full potential. At its best ALeague is on a par with Championship. At its worst its about bottom half L1.
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 20:37 - Jun 29 with 5043 views
I would be surprised if Zan Celar is an ESC, being a full international and all. I would much rather have thought Paul Nardi to fall in that category. Not anymore, since he played enough bames, but to get in initially.
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 21:28 - Jun 29 by cpgerber
I would be surprised if Zan Celar is an ESC, being a full international and all. I would much rather have thought Paul Nardi to fall in that category. Not anymore, since he played enough bames, but to get in initially.
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Potentially yeh, I got in touch with the guy running that site and asked who he thought it was (I thought Esquerdinha but he's well within apparently) and he said he thought it was Celar. But apparently this Adamson has Irish parentage somewhere along the line as well.
So it's something to bear in mind, but we'll never know for sure probably.
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 22:48 - Jun 29 with 4582 views
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 19:58 - Jun 29 by derbyhoop
My son lives in Sydney and has come across Adamson, both as a player and an up and coming coach. One of the things about the Aussies coming over, is that they tend to be decent athletes aged between 18 and 23, with a fair bit of A League experience. But 26 games per season isn't enough to stretch them to their full potential. At its best ALeague is on a par with Championship. At its worst its about bottom half L1.
Adam Le Fondre’s reign of terror suggests L1/2.
[Post edited 29 Jun 22:49]
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 04:22 - Jun 30 with 4279 views
Having attended a fair few a league games over the years I'd say its standard has regressed a bit. At its best around 8-10 years ago it was maybe lower championship level.
The number of games has also been mentioned. A league regular season is 26 games with no midweek games. Huge adjustment required for the championship.
As someone mentioned above, the likes of Adam Le Fondre looking like prime Alan Shearer probably tells its own story about the standard.
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 09:46 - Jun 30 with 3869 views
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 04:22 - Jun 30 by SydneyRs
Having attended a fair few a league games over the years I'd say its standard has regressed a bit. At its best around 8-10 years ago it was maybe lower championship level.
The number of games has also been mentioned. A league regular season is 26 games with no midweek games. Huge adjustment required for the championship.
As someone mentioned above, the likes of Adam Le Fondre looking like prime Alan Shearer probably tells its own story about the standard.
You may be better positioned to answer this because it was my understanding the league was improving outlined by all the recent exports to championship clubs. Is it that we're only just clocking on? Has the youth development gotten better but the ceiling hasn't risen?
I was quite impressed with Segecic and was a shame to miss out on that. Us vs Pompey trying to sweep up all the Aussie talent
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 09:57 - Jun 30 with 3832 views
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 09:46 - Jun 30 by QPRSam
You may be better positioned to answer this because it was my understanding the league was improving outlined by all the recent exports to championship clubs. Is it that we're only just clocking on? Has the youth development gotten better but the ceiling hasn't risen?
I was quite impressed with Segecic and was a shame to miss out on that. Us vs Pompey trying to sweep up all the Aussie talent
Personally I think that's more to do with the new GBE/ESC system for signing players from abroad, which means it's far easier to get players from Latin America and further afield than it was before when obviously Europe was no problem but further afield was. Coupled with a lot of Australians having British ancestry and parentage which also helps with that.
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 12:00 - Jun 30 with 3603 views
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 21:30 - Jun 29 by Northernr
Potentially yeh, I got in touch with the guy running that site and asked who he thought it was (I thought Esquerdinha but he's well within apparently) and he said he thought it was Celar. But apparently this Adamson has Irish parentage somewhere along the line as well.
So it's something to bear in mind, but we'll never know for sure probably.
So what happens if (hypothetically) Nardi were to get a serious injury in pre season and not play at all next season?
Would his status revert back (because he hadn't played 50% of games since joining)?
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 12:04 - Jun 30 with 3600 views
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 12:04 - Jun 30 by Northernr
Not sure.
Me neither!
Second hypothetical (last one, I promise)
Some of the youngsters we've brought in are very young and might benefit from going out on loan. If they were to go out on loan and play over 50% of games then would that change their status? (or count towards it?)
Otherwise we're stuck with youngsters who are nowhere near the first team using up overseas player slots!
It all seems like a delicate balancing act.
One mis-timed spin and it might all come crashing down.
No point Nourry cooking if he ends up smashing all his plates
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 12:50 - Jun 30 with 3463 views
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 12:37 - Jun 30 by KensalT
Me neither!
Second hypothetical (last one, I promise)
Some of the youngsters we've brought in are very young and might benefit from going out on loan. If they were to go out on loan and play over 50% of games then would that change their status? (or count towards it?)
Otherwise we're stuck with youngsters who are nowhere near the first team using up overseas player slots!
It all seems like a delicate balancing act.
One mis-timed spin and it might all come crashing down.
No point Nourry cooking if he ends up smashing all his plates
[Post edited 30 Jun 12:44]
Also don't know. There's a suggestion neither Pearman nor Adamson count on this because of parentage. So it's all very much going on in the background and we're at somewhere between 1 and 4 on the quota haha.
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 13:11 - Jun 30 with 3381 views
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 12:50 - Jun 30 by Northernr
Also don't know. There's a suggestion neither Pearman nor Adamson count on this because of parentage. So it's all very much going on in the background and we're at somewhere between 1 and 4 on the quota haha.
Parentage!
OK, I'll buy that.
Although I assume the authorities check more thoroughly now than they did in Tony Cascarino's day!
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 16:59 - Jun 29 by colinallcars
Macarthur Park Rangers…
"QPR Park is melting in the dark, all the Percy Dalton's flowing down, someone's left the programmes in the rain, I don't think that I can take them, 'cos it took so long to make them, and I"ll never have those old rangers again, oh no, oh nooo.....oh noooooooooooo.........."
That's not the Richard Harris version. It's more like - "Carpathia here, we'll come and rescue you boys ,we promise, we'll rescue you!" "Bugger off Carpathia, we've half a tank of gin left. Let me tell you about Stan The Man". Cop this in Morse". It goes like this :- "Dit, dit dit, dah, dit, dah, dah, dit, dit, dah dit dah, Didley dee , diddle dah, didley dee , diddle dah,Doo Wah Diddy, Widdy, Dah Widdt Doo.doth giddy doo, Didley dee , diddle dah, didley dee , diddle dah"
When it get to 32 degrees, plus a gallon of G & T with Titanic Ice, and when you live in Norfolk that really hits the spot,
We will always have ...... Brian Bedford, Rodney Marsh -- and Stan The Man. Stan The Man ........... the King, the Star, The Universe.. Which is rather like the 105 bus on time and The White Hart, recently voted by CAMRA as 'The worst pub in London, ...... but it has a charm we can't explain. It's certainly not the beer"
When we came back from the White City to Loftus Road in 1964,, this song was always played on a crap tannoy,, courtesy of WG Records ,Shepherds Bush Market
QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 19:58 - Jun 29 by derbyhoop
My son lives in Sydney and has come across Adamson, both as a player and an up and coming coach. One of the things about the Aussies coming over, is that they tend to be decent athletes aged between 18 and 23, with a fair bit of A League experience. But 26 games per season isn't enough to stretch them to their full potential. At its best ALeague is on a par with Championship. At its worst its about bottom half L1.
Having watched a reasonable amount of games on BT Sport, as it was named, and saw the likes of Le Fondre star in the A League (after struggling in his final seasons in the Championship) I would say the standard is more like bottom half League 1.
That's not to say that there are no players that can play in the Championship and improve. Given time and games, I think all 3 of the signings cannot forge a career here.
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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing on 18:36 - Jun 30 with 2897 views
ALF left Sydney in 2023. From what my son has said, and he goes to a number of Sydney games, the standard has gone up. Those who have come over have plenty of upside. Out of our 3 I suspect only 1 will make it into regular appearances .
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
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