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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 11:28 21 Apr 2025
I was at Brentford v Brighton on Saturday (free tix) and on that game it's hard to see how Brighton are 10th. They ended up taking Wellbeck off and then took a page straight out of the Ian Holloway school of game management by putting their gigantor centre-back up front and cannoning long balls up to him. |
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Reply | Cardiff manager sacked
at 14:36 20 Apr 2025
Whatever strings he came with weren't located at the back of his thighs. |
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Reply | (No subject) (n/t)
at 14:27 20 Apr 2025
I think the current squad is a lot weaker than the squad that first Gerry and then Ollie failed to keep in this division in 2000/01 so relatively speaking 'prevented relegation’ is no mean achievement.
I completely agree with your concerns around whether or not there is any coherent succession planning for when Marti leaves because for me those mid-table finishes become relegation battles and invariably, relegation.
It's been said a hundred times here but we've changed managers, players, squads and backroom structures (often to accommodate a manager that's gone a season later) and we're seemingly no closer to the solution. The one opportunity we had to effect real organisational change when Les resigned and Hoos checked out - the cleansing of the Augean stables - we allowed Nourry to appoint himself to both roles.
The only thing left to change is the ownership and that will require a significant initial investment, an annual £25m infusion just to stand still and absolutely no guarantee of success. |
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Reply | (No subject) (n/t)
at 22:51 19 Apr 2025
I’m not sure others will look at his time here as successful enough to try and tempt him away with a better offer.
I don't claim to be ITK or anything but I can easily envisage people "inside" football thinking anyone who has QPR even flying level is doing a fantastic job because anything less than a strong manager and we tend to very easily tip over into a screaming dive into the mountains. |
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Reply | The Madsen rehabilitation thread
at 09:07 13 Apr 2025
For the record, Madsen reminds me of Steve Slade - undoubtedly talented but with the competitive aggression of a mouse.
A bit beside the point though. How we can have a dozen or so posts thinking he was OK until he "tired" or "faded" or "ran out of engine" is in any way acceptable baffles me. He's a fùcking professional athlete in a cardiovascular sport. I'm 50, smoked for 20yrs and am at least 2 stone overweight but I'd do that cùnt in a bleep test.
It's been said a million times and we've got a treatment room like a field hospital in the Somme to prove it but if we sleep-walk into next season with a fitness team literally phoning it in, we might as well not bother. |
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 20:42 11 Apr 2025
Like a Taye Taiwo tackle, I went into that one face first.  |
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 12:35 11 Apr 2025
Nor would you be entirely disappointed if your daughter bought him home, the loveable little scamp. |
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 08:28 11 Apr 2025
Hot nonsense. Varane summed us up when he'd won several 50/50s through strength, tenacity and skill only to forego a simple ball to his fullback in favour of chipping his centre-back with a shin-bobbler to Nardi that got hacked straight to the nearest Oxford player. Honk honk! |
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Reply | Arsenal Madrid - Crikey
at 13:56 9 Apr 2025
The "stupid diçkhead" fine of two weeks wages for Camavinga's 2nd yellow will make the end of season drinks budget pretty healthy. |
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Reply | Honest answer.....
at 07:30 9 Apr 2025
At the moment I'd just settle for a board that could organise a pìss-up without it descending into a gang-fùck Lilly Phillips would be proud of. |
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Reply | We need a Director of Football
at 14:14 6 Apr 2025
Sheffield Wednesday might if they'd thought of it first. Our board are inept, that fella is dangerous. |
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Reply | View from the outside – Column
at 22:44 27 Mar 2025
Didn't help that Hoare and Lavale were gurning away in the background going "do it son, no-one will say nuttin" |
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Reply | Trent
at 22:19 27 Mar 2025
I remember seeing Bale play against us for Southampton before he went to Spurs and thinking he was unplayable insofar as he played everywhere but goalkeeper and looked better than anyone we had out there. The only other player I've seen with that kind of athleticism is Kyle Walker.
Then again, Bradley Wright-in-your-handbag was playing and looked handy (sorry) so maybe we were just dogshìt. |
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Reply | Chelsea owner Tod Boehly
at 22:02 27 Mar 2025
If that's "Liquidator" then possibly one of the seminal moments of my life was patiently telling a Chel*** fan that's a Harry J choon while he steadfastly maintained it was "Ian Drury (sic) or Suggs"
When i showed him a picture of Harry J and the Allstars, a reggae band, from Jamaica, his reaction was like that bit in Star Wars when Luke realises his dad isn't quite the father figure he was hoping for. |
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