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Reply | Extra Time/Player Welfare
at 12:31 12 Jan 2026
I do agree in part that our players did look surprisingly knackered even before extra time, but even still, we had to play an extra game compared to West Ham during the festive period, and do not have the luxury of bringing players such as £20m Soucek and £15m Kyle Walker Peters off our bench to take over.
I could have seen us winning the replay, and with Walsh being a good shot stopper I could have also seen us having a chance on pens. |
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Reply | Extra Time/Player Welfare
at 12:26 12 Jan 2026
I promise I won't curse anymore of our players in the near future 
The Tottenham game was the first one that popped into my mind as well. Surprisingly, not many games went to ET this round but I would not be surprised if similar issues took place in round four.
A real shame that there won't be a game at Loftus Road, but at least we will have another/different London derby to look forward to next year. |
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Thread | Extra Time/Player Welfare
at 12:09 12 Jan 2026
My first post on this forum (sort of) – I did post regularly on here around ten years ago when I was a teenager and most likely had terrible opinions about QPR and football in general. I am re-joining as I just cannot stand the toxicity of Twitter/X anymore (for anyone who saw a mental case betting on Lyndon Dykes to score a hattrick every week – that was me), so have deleted the app, but still need somewhere to discuss/vent!
I really enjoyed yesterday’s game and do not have a bad word to say about any of the team – each one left it all out there. What I do have a bad word to say about, is the mismanagement of the cup format from the FA.
In a so-called bid to ‘protect player welfare’ the FA have scrapped 3rd round replays. So, my question is, why have they not removed extra time, like they have done in the League Cup?
By the end of that match in normal time, I said to all my friends around me we would lose in extra time, because:
1) Our players were dead on their feet
2) West Ham have multi-million-pound players to bring off the bench, whilst we have our development squad (no criticism of them, they all did well when they came on)
Low and behold, West Ham’s quality eventually shone through and we did not overly challenge in second half of ET.
I just didn’t see it as fair at all. A lower league team go away to a Premier League team and go man for man, drawing the game in normal time. What were we rewarded with? Not an electric replay under the lights at Loftus Road, not a 50/50 chance of going through via penalties, but 30 more minutes of football to risk even more injuries, which did take place (Mbengue hopefully leaving with just cramp).
If they care so much about player welfare, an additional 30 minutes of football is not exactly the correct way to do it, and in no way benefits any lower league club in the circumstances.
If you’re going to scrap replays, give the underdogs a chance by going straight to penalties, and save player’s fitness in doing so. Win, win.
Whether or not this post would have happened had we won in ET however, I’m not sure! |
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