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Reply | Rotherham
at 14:06 17 Apr 2024
The fat man returns….Hopefully he’s hungry for a win on Saturday. |
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Reply | Saturday's referee
at 20:52 16 Apr 2024
That is ridiculous. Farcically sh*t governance from the EFL. |
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Reply | The 2024 relegation thread-oh: Match 44
at 20:09 15 Apr 2024
Yes, but if it is to be useful as a forward looking indicator it shouldn’t be changing massively every week otherwise the prior week(s) it was wrong/poor when used as a forward looking tool.
I know it’s because results have been “surprising”, but the point still stands. Not just for us but for everyone. |
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Reply | The 2024 relegation thread-oh: Match 44
at 13:22 15 Apr 2024
It’s proven itself to be pretty rubbish though this analytical simply because the %s vary so much week to week.
If Plymouth lose to Stoke on Saturday, they go 2 points below Stoke and their % shoots up.
Now, I know the existing %s factor in the likelihood of upcoming results, but the fact they keep changing every week and aren’t broadly consistent over a 3-4 week spell means the results are not actually occurring to likelihood, hence this not being indicative of much.
Still interesting though, E17. |
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Reply | The 2024 relegation thread-oh: Match 44
at 10:28 15 Apr 2024
Plymouth are on 48, I believe.
I think 50 probably stays up on GD. However, it is not inconceivable it is 51 on GD.
Wednesday play: Blackburn (a), West Brom (h), Sunderland (a). Beat Blackburn and I think they’ll pick up 2 wins and a draw, so 7 points is conceivable.
Huddersfield play: Swansea (h), Birmingham (h), Ipswich away. Concern is they could be on 50 going into the last day.
Birmingham play: Rotherham (h), Huddersfield (a), Norwich (h). Birmingham will almost certainly be on 48 after this Sat. If Huddersfield beat them, they’d need to beat Norwich to stay up. If they beat Huddersfield, they’ll be safe, and Huddersfield would be collecting 4 points max from here in, so 48. That game is CRUCIAL, and we almost certainly want Brum to win it.
Stoke play: Plymouth (h), Southampton (a), Bristol City (h). We really want Plymouth to beat them as they could then struggle to reach 50. Even then, If they won one of those last 2, and we reached 50, it’d be on GD, and we are 2 better currently. Tight. Beat Plymouth and they’ll be fine though, you’d think. A draw from the last two would do them.
Plymouth play: Stoke (a), Millwall (a), Hull (h). Them winning on Friday was a disaster, beat Stoke and they are fine. Lose, and they could feasibly not pick up another point. I think we want a win for someone in their game vs Stoke and it to probably be Plymouth
Blackburn play: Wednesday (h), Coventry (h), Leicester (a). Lose to Wednesday and they could finish where there are on 49, and go down. We really want them to beat Wednesday on Sunday.
If Wednesday win away at Blackburn and Huddersfield beat Birmingham the following week, and we fail to beat either Preston or Leeds, we will likely be 3rd bottom going into the last game of the season…The team we’d likely be trying to catch would be Brum (on GD), so we’d need to better their result and we’d need to match Wednesday…
That is worrying. If Huddersfield and Wednesday lose those matches, they’d need to win both their other two fixtures AND have us pick up 2 points or fewer from our 3, due to GD. One might, which brings us into 3rd bottom (assuming we did not win again), which would mean we’d need to hope there is a loser in the Stoke Plymouth game this Sat, and whoever loses it, and we out point in the last two fixtures.
So basically, we desperately want Blackburn to beat Wednesday, and Birmingham to beat Huddersfield. And we want a win in the Stoke vs Plymouth game. |
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Reply | We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers
at 08:21 14 Apr 2024
The way he is playing at the moment, he is the worst of the 3 comfortably. I have no doubts defenders would prefer to play against him over the other two. |
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Reply | QPR in the 90's
at 10:48 11 Apr 2024
My first game was QPR 2-2 Coventry in Sept 1994. Gary Penrice with a double. Had my first proper taste of what being a Rangers fan was about with Dion Dublin scoring a late equaliser, and his first goal for Cov after leaving Utd.
Great kit that season. |
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Reply | Chair
at 09:35 11 Apr 2024
Yes. Regardless of opinions on him as a player, value in the team, etc, etc, our contract model means both he and JCS should be sold this summer.
IF, big IF, the club collected £8m-£10m for the pair, that would give Cifuentes come ammunition for next season along with a lot more wiggle room with salaries due to the Warburton gamble year dropping out.
The club have actually nailed Chair’s contract situation. Spot on. The problem is that he may have his 1 yr prison sentence upheld in the appeal/2nd court hearing. No one is going to buy him before they know the outcome of that. The club desperately need to know that as soon as possible. |
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Reply | Tonight's Championship games
at 22:44 10 Apr 2024
Great night for us. I see Stroud has been making friends again.
Stoke are going to influence things heavily with those two games against Wednesday and Plymouth.
Equally that Wednesday Blackburn game is huge. Blackburn could conceivably pick up no more points.
Blackburn and Birmingham going down would be hilarious. As would Stoke, tbh. |
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Reply | Begovic
at 05:38 10 Apr 2024
I’m not really sure why there is a long thread about him or any different views on here.
The stats tell us (goals conceded vs Expected Goals against) across the whole season he is one of the poorest in the league.
From memory he has cost us points with some weak shot stopping and corner flapping that resulted immediately in goals (Cardiff home springs to mind as well as tonight)
Visually, he looks slow and heavy. It looks like his legs have gone. He was lucky to get away with a very slow clearance charged down in the first half.
We win that game 1-0 if he doesn’t miss a corner. There was no excuse. It was simply very poor goalkeeping. Yes, he saved some shots, but, as ever, they were all rudimentary.
Whilst he’s apparently on nothing like the salary quoted by some (under £10k per week) we should still move on in the summer. |
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Reply | Complacent QPR caught cold by Owls – Report
at 14:29 8 Apr 2024
I’d sum it up as: Wednesday cared and tried but are an awful team, and will likely get relegated. We did not play like we cared. We certainly did not give “100%” and we also the executed badly. Complacent is correct. Rubbish but trying a bit beats better players who are complacent.
Why were so complacent? That is the key question.
It’s clear Cifuentes was worried about it, and tried to protect against that, but it wasn’t enough.
You shouldn’t really need to be overtly trying to protect against it with professional athletes, but clearly with our lot you still do.
Hopefully there will be a reaction. I think we need a minimum of 4 points from our next 3 games. And I think we could need 5-6 to stay up. |
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Reply | Complacency.....
at 10:45 7 Apr 2024
All successful teams turning winning into a habit. It’s not a chore. Turning up and performing week in week out isn’t a chore.
I can’t have that as any form of excuse. Turn up, play to your ability and if you lose to a better team, a team with better tactics, or moment of genius, then fair play, beaten by the better side or better team on the day.
To simply not turn up in some games at all, especially when the opposition is so poor, when you’re at home, a win could be so important, is an attitude problem.
Having standards means performing to a set level week in, week out, regardless of the situation. If you’re performing levels are yo-yoing so much, you are not maintaining standards. That is an attitude issue. |
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Reply | “Saint” Marti
at 10:36 7 Apr 2024
You don’t need to be Einstein to read between the lines there. What he’s actually saying is “that is all on the players. I’m furious. I spent all week telling them not to be complacent and that they would need to play with intensity, and they haven’t listened to me.”
He’s just dressed it up as “my fault for not being able to get my message across and persuade them.” |
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Reply | Complacency.....
at 01:08 7 Apr 2024
I’m not sure what else you call it?! Arrogance? Laziness? Tiredness?
We were awful. We showed no signs of life. We had no shots on target in the last 70 minutes, at home, to a side in the bottom 3, when a win would like see us safe.
It’s inexcusable.
Worst performance of the season. |
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Reply | “Saint” Marti
at 01:04 7 Apr 2024
The obvious riposte here, Brian, is go man to man and beat them through having the better players or the players that try harder…
We lost today because the players were not at it. He was waving them up the pitch all of the first half. Zero press and standing ten yards off was not a tactic. That was on the players.
Chair, Anderson and Willock simply did not do their job today on or off the ball. Armstrong was clearly injured. Hayden had his worst game for us. And the full backs were very poor on the ball.
Effort was non-existent. No intensity. No tempo. No urgency. |
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Reply | The Owl and Jude the Pussycat - A QPR match thread
at 17:40 6 Apr 2024
That was the worst performance of the season.
Given the players we had available and picked, the opposition, the context of the game…that was the worst performance of the season.
Inexplicable and indefensible.
Players should hand their heads. I don’t blame Cifuentes today. He was desperately waving them to get up the pitch and press to no avail.
Do not believe this lot are fully the right sorts yet. |
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Reply | Song For Jimmy
at 18:05 30 Mar 2024
Couldn’t make the game. Nor could my mates including the bloke who came up with it (for Richard Dunne originally). |
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Reply | Blues brothers – Preview
at 09:27 29 Mar 2024
Very blatant emotional hedges in the predictions there! Think you’ll need to depart with some serious Claude to make that any form of worthwhile emotional hedge. |
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