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Comment | Rovers casting nervous glances after hitting winter wall - Interview
at 21:00:51
Blackburn, like us, tank alarmingly when unable to field their best eleven. 4 from their injury list, including Szmodics, returned against Wrexham.
Not what we needed going to Ewood on Saturday. The hoodoo is unlikely to be broken this weekend me thinks. |
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Comment | A win - Report
at 12:53:34
I think the euphoria around Armstrong is well OTT. Hope to be proved wrong of course.
As long as we keep picking up the points needed, Rivaldo it is.
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Comment | A win - Report
at 11:12:32
People / supporters often see what they want to see. Unconscious bias I think the term is.
I'm struggling to see how Armstrong has turned into Rivaldo all of a sudden. Amazing how a goal and a win can transform opinions. We'll be banging on about a promotion push again if we beat Huddersfield.
Thoroughly enjoyed the game and the win, but unless we can find some consistency, the shit will hit the fan soon enough. Hello Blackburn. |
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Comment | A win - Report
at 20:02:10
Up until his goal I thought Armstrong was having a poor game. Can barely control the ball when it comes to him and never wins a header. Yes, he is a handful with his direct running with pace and power, but didn’t see as much of this as the Watford game.
Whilst Willock didn’t have a particularly good game, his touch and dribbling ability allows him to retain possession and lay it off. A six for both for me, but that’s just my opinion and I don’t tend to get too hung up on player ratings as a rule. |
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Comment | Light at the end of the tunnel, or a train coming towards us? – Analysis
at 22:35:17
Excellent article. Some science and math behind all the bluster.
Appointing Ainsworth has ultimately doomed us. Had Cifuentes been in charge at the start of the season, even with our mediocre squad, we would have had enough to at least survive until the purse strings could finally be loosened.
Millwall and Huddersfield really are must wins if we are to stand any chance of survival.
It’s now or never chaps.
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Comment | Back where we started again – Preview
at 19:05:30
Fair enough, no argument left in me now Clive………but just make sure that feckless fooker Dozzell is the first numpty slung out through the door marked “do one” come January 1.
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Comment | Very big in Sheboygan – Preview
at 22:26:11
Definitely on the side of the fence that thinks Cifuentes has polished this turd of a team up to a glossy sheen. But it is still a turd and capable of producing utter shite. |
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Comment | Quite the transformation - Preview
at 21:34:21
More rotation likely for this one as I suspect Cook will be replaced by Salter. Would like to see the more attack minded and industrious EDB replace Dozzell, but how do you replace Illy or Willy as both have played 90 minutes in the last two games?
I applaud Cifuentes efforts to use the squad fully and start with a clean slate, but he must now be getting concerned with the paucity of quality on the bench. Kakay had a shocker on Tuesday and Kelman didn’t impress at all. Will again be interesting to see what the line up is. Do you go with your now recognised and obvious best Xl, or protect the fragile from a potential stint in the treatment room?
Ultimately it will be the sports scientist department that will advise on player availability and the manager will have to set up accordingly. Not ideal, but this is where his real coaching and tactical nous will be tested. He really didn’t like what he saw on Tuesday, but 3 of our best players were culpable for some serious sloppy play in those opening minutes. A bit too complacent by far, which needs nipping in the bud for what will be a stern test tomorrow. |
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Comment | Where did it all go so right? - Interview
at 18:23:31
"Vulnerable to balls over the top", there it is, their Achilles heel, we must exploit it to the max because we are good at those!!
Still got a pony on Leicester scoring 3 or more. Let the shitshow begin. |
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Comment | Innnnn one - Report
at 12:37:09
Entertaining read as always, but the underlying message of total farce makes it hard to be amused. These are seriously desperate times and God only knows how Ainsworth is going to approach the Leicester game with potentially no centre halves available. Damage limitation is the only viable option as our midfield and strikers are a million miles away from what Leicester can put out and a huge embarrassment may await.
Not looking forward to Saturday one bit. More sleepless nights for Gareth this week I'm afraid.
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Comment | As good as we've got? Report
at 11:31:02
No getting away from that performance, clueless pub team shenanigans all day long. Brilliant report, could laugh and cry in equal measure, just bizarre.
Blackburn tomorrow with key players missing. Back to betting on QPR defeats I'm afraid. |
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Comment | QPR wheel in Cannon to fire up de-fence - Signing
at 18:51:42
Like the look of him. It's another step in the right direction and I suspect the best of this team is yet to come, when everything and everyone has bedded down. Its not a given, but the signs are there. Fingers crossed.
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Comment | QPR lather, rinse and repeat with Cook capture – Signing
at 11:32:58
I understand the concern with bringing in seasoned pros on big(ish) money with no re-sale value two years down the line, but our record of picking up youngsters or developing our own to sell on for profit is pure fantasy. Our record is abysmal and there are no signs it is likely to get better.
Never has there been more of a time for pragmatism than this very moment. If we can get Dunne and Cook in the center of defense along with Field and Collback in central midfield, we just might have a chance of stopping the rot.
Getting Chair and Willock back together ala the good old days would also be ideal.
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Comment | Rob Dickie’s M4 odyssey — Column
at 00:29:24
So……we don’t want Ainsworth to recruit a bunch of league one cloggers and
Ferdinand and Belk should have been sacked by now for the utter incompetence of allowing the recruitment of a bunch of powder puff academy boys and ex crocks.
Who then, is going to be responsible for replacing the raft of players that have and will exit the club via the door marked “do one�
What exactly is the new footballing philosophy going to look like and who will be take accountability if it turns to shit again? Sacking Ainsworth after 3 months would reflect as badly on the hierarchy as on Ainsworth himself. The summer rebuild of this squad could/should be the last chance saloon for the likes of Ferdinand, Belk and Hoos. I’d recommend they refresh their cv’s…….for all they’re likely to be worth.
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Comment | End of Term Report 22/23 — Goalkeepers
at 00:35:33
Needs to sort his attitude and behaviour and less of the billy big bollocks.
That can probably be said of most of our ego riddled squad. I just hope Ainsworth can bring back some professionalism and standards to his newly formed squad over the summer, as this group of players have embarrassed themselves and the club. An absolute bunch of sulking nimbies, with only two or three exceptions. |
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Comment | Bittersweet symphony — Report
at 16:45:06
It was indeed an awful watch and I’m struggling to reconcile our passing stats with the relative capability of some of our players. The failure or inability to string a few passes together was embarrassing for a professional football team and I can’t believe it is all Ainsworths doing.
I suspect the occasion and nerves played a big part in that performance and the tactics were to keep it tight and avoid allowing Stoke too many goal scoring opportunities, but they are an awful team.
Nonetheless, we’re safe and the clear out begins. When it comes to recruitment, just who can we trust to get it right? Suppose that depends on who is left in the building following the cull of playing staff and non playing personnel at all levels.
It is going to take something fairly special before I feel remotely excited for the start of next season. I don’t think any of us could endure another season like this one. |
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Comment | It’s about ownership — Preview
at 00:25:35
Probably the best report I have ever read Clive.
The drawing of the curtain to reveal the utter incompetence of it all, although not hidden, lays bare the futility of the situation and the seeming inability to escape it.
The owners need to stay for obvious reasons, but we must find a senior management team that knows what it is doing and clear out the rot from this club and get us back on an even keel.
Warburton would be one such individual worth reinstating, perhaps not as coach, but maybe DOF. Intelligent, professional and honest, he was likely dismissed because he called it for what it was. His only crime was to spend beyond his means on the wrong players in his forlorn attempt to reach the playoffs.
Les, I’m afraid, has been covering his own arse and those of his cronies for too long. Time to head for the door marked “do oneâ€.
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Comment | Things turn toxic as hapless QPR lose yet again - Report
at 00:38:35
Ainsworth was brought in to galvanise the squad, but despite his best efforts, has failed miserably, along with his horrible hoof ball tactics. The problems clearly run much deeper than the so called “lack of confidenceâ€.
There is simply nothing left in this squad other than acceptance of its fate. This is the end of the line for most of these players at qpr, along with the vision that Ferdinand had of creating an academy of rising young talent. It, has also failed spectacularly.
I now believe Sir Les should step aside in the summer as his position will be deemed untenable by the vast majority of the support base. A rebuild in the summer is needed to face the uncompromising style of football we will face in league 1. It might suite Dunne and Dykes, but that’s it, everyone else is mincemeat.
Who thought it would come to this? Sad indeed.
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Comment | A cavalry charge, played on a kazoo — Report
at 21:57:11
The return of the “cavalry†was promised. More like the “charge of the lightweight brigadeâ€.
I’m sorry Gareth, but for all your positivity and endeavour, you are flogging a dead horse and I think even you know it. QPR’d indeed.
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Comment | QPR slip further into the mire with dire Brum loss - Report
at 00:02:57
One can only hope that shit show was us finally reaching the bottom. It was Sunday league stuff, although in truth, I have played in Sunday league with far more quality on show than this slop. Horrendous, mind numbing incompetence, bereft of any quality whatsoever.
Our only hope for salvation now is the return of the crocks after the international break, but with the exception of Chair, who really thinks any of them will be up for Gareth’s “eight cup finals�
Wigan may be bottom of the league and a poor footballing outfit, but I would suggest they are likely to be more up for the fight than we can muster. Gareth is starting to sound like a bit of a mug if he continues to espouse his belief this lot are leaving everything out on the pitch for the cause, because clearly most of them are not.
The Wigan game will be the one that defines our season. If we don’t turn up for that one and have a sufficient number of players that are capable of stringing a few passes together, putting a foot in or working up a sweat, relegation beckons.
Wigan might also need to bring a few extra balls a week on Saturday, as we are likely to punt half of them into the car park. Jesus wept.
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