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Reply | Spurs' new stadium
at 22:57 5 Mar 2026
I see everyone here VERY confident we’ll be in the Championship still
Be absolutely brilliant if this became the most Spursy season of all time
Sadly I do think their April fixtures will keep them up; everything crossed and that they don’t and we do welcome them down to Dog League
It’s hilarious stuff and will impact them next season even if they stay up.
Doom cycle in full effect —- only players signing for them are going for big bucks rather than to be spirited characters. That’s what’s got them in a mess.
Lovely to see |
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Reply | He'll be back
at 16:04 5 Mar 2026
His only achievement a the club so far is making Jaffa Cake Boy Bonne (nee Offside) look a decent signing.
My days |
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Reply | West London Sport pod
at 15:59 5 Mar 2026
Nice to see ya to see ya nice.....
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Good game good game |
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Reply | Ollie - Legend
at 20:51 4 Mar 2026
This has been done to death but....... personally, I have him down as one of the best R's Managers ever in my time following the club.
If not THE best then certainly in the top 3 (Warnock and Gerry the other two).
I don't know the in's and the out's but from the outside looking in, Ollie took a burned out shell of a club and re-built it on fundamentals of 100% is the minimum anyone has to give.
My own take it that without achieving what he did, there might not be a club to follow.
Not read the article but it matters not what it says - legend for me every day of the bloody week. |
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Reply | "Would benefit from a loan elsewhere...."
at 14:48 4 Mar 2026
He wouldn't be the first highly rated prospect we've had and totally mis-managed from start to finish.
Inticed with a BIG contract for 4 years effectively making them a multi-millionaire overnight.
Fail to mentor right from the start.
Left to own devices... young men + money = make your own mind up.
Fail to keep them atoned to standards as the club basically doesn't have any.
Nett result? Disaster.
Of course we aren't the only club to have this issue but as it's our club we have heightened awareness of it.
If you've ever spoken to anybody who has experienced first hand the youth set up at QPR then I'd be amazed if you won't have tales of chaos, poor management, cliques and self preservation via excuses.
Nourry impressed me early in his tenure with his talk of achieving, needing to be effecting first team and (mainly) his chopping out of some comfortable deadwood who had produced the square root of f'all last few years. Decent men who cared for the club were left but now these are / have been dismantled and disposed of largely as well.
It's not rocket science -- pick up the best prospects from lower down in the pyramid, catch one's falling through the Prem cracks and mould both types into decent players by coaching, close quarters mentoring, developing life skills, nuturing a passion and commitment etc, etc, etc.
You can't achieve this by sitting behind a laptop looking at data from trackers etc.
Circus |
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Reply | Leicester away
at 14:38 4 Mar 2026
I think this one will come into the "must win" category.
What a shitshow yet again. |
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Reply | Stephan
at 17:24 3 Mar 2026
Exactly this.
Data can be manipulated so many ways and once you get caught out doing it you look pretty stoopid.
This mob have already played their card on the "% availability" front by adding in QPR Ladies, kids etc into last seasons figures.
Increase or decrease your souce data and %'s suddenly look really good or really concerning.
Returning to the subject -- I get the feeling the Frenchman is making noises to protect his rep so he's not walking into interviews with QPR shit on his shoes.
Imagine we get relegated from the position we were in mid January? That would properly blot your copybook so distancing himself from the Cohort of Heads is the way forward.
Soon forgotton is the club at the start of the season shouting loud and proud that decisions on players and positions are a collaboration that all the Heads have input into.
Circus |
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Reply | Stephan
at 17:18 3 Mar 2026
Have a look around the ground -- there are mass rafts of "giveaway" tickets. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 12:59 3 Mar 2026
Imagine having so much money that writing off £2mill a month is something you do matter of course for something you rarely see.
Mad old world we live in. |
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Reply | "Would benefit from a loan elsewhere...."
at 09:23 3 Mar 2026
So I return to my original point.
These young lads have been picked up by the latest set of Bengal Lancers and nests have been feathered......... clearly none of them good enough and I might caveat that with a "yet" but then again :- "If you're not knocking on the door of the first team by 21 then you never will be".
Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
I know nothing but in my warped mind if you are 20 years old, a well paid football pro, but can't get a start at National League South then you best start thinking about setting up a Personal Trainer business or come to QPR to get your pension fund started. |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 20:50 2 Mar 2026
I'm in hospital at the moment.
I got rushed in with an emergency case of Peekaboo Syndrome
They're just about's to transfer me to ICU |
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Reply | "Would benefit from a loan elsewhere...."
at 20:48 2 Mar 2026
That's a shout - will give them that one as well.
Forgot as he never really did it for us but as you say, the fee could be argued as "doing it for us".
Weird one though with a kid who never scored a goal for us! |
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Thread | "Would benefit from a loan elsewhere...."
at 17:38 2 Mar 2026
I keep seeing this.
I can't get my head around it.
It all comes across as totally missplaced conceitedness to me.
Same as when we say Player "X" needs to be sold.
You need clubs willing to take them no?
What makes people think clubs at any half decent level are falling over themselves to take these co called prospects that a load of idiots who are clueless about football have signed? There's literally only two or three good examples in recent memory that you could cite -- Chair to Stevenage, Eze to Wycombe and (pushing it here), Lumley to Brizzle Rovers.
None of those under the current incumbents of Heads of xxxx
Where else has us loaning out young players benefitted the accepting club, QPR and in turn the developing player? Examples are rare as hen's teeth and if I'm the Chairman / Owner of another club I'm not looking to extend my budget, potentially upset my squad or risk derision from my fans just to accomodate a punt QPR with their track record have taken.
Maybe I'm wrong but the current lack of our players at any sort of half decent level is either down to this and/or the absolute dearth of contacts Nourry and his team of Heads have in the game.
Surely anyone with some sort of football knowledge can see Esquidinhia would be eaten alive in League One or Two? I've described him as the worst Brazilian since Gemma Collins shaved her fanny and I stick by that. I actually feared for his wellbeing at Oxford but always did have a tiny voice in my head saying "he's putting that all on.... doesn't like to be hit hard". I'm a harsh old w@nker I know but being available for selection a week after being stretchered off in a leg brace with gas and air being given has justified that feeling to me.
I'd also add other "developing" players to that - Bennie has razzled in a blinder against a Hull side leavign space everywhere, but where would a recieving club actually look to play him? It seems the club who owns him doesn't know itself what his position is. He's been with us nearly two season's now hasn't he?
The other Aussies will be exactly the same I'd say - extensive and far reaching data and profiling by the same Agent might be a clue.
Just as I finish typing the GK in Murphy springs to mind.
Mmmmmm.... maybe but Barnsley weren't grumbling when he was pulled out and sent to Hillsborough.
I'm all for loaning out players to learn their trade in the mens game but the fact is they need to have something about them to enable that.
Maybe Nourry will examine this when he reviews himself this summer in his own Staff Performance Assessment - he'll probably give himelf 11 out of 10 though.
For me it's a FAIL at the moment and shows no sign of improving.
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 13:34 2 Mar 2026
I did say Mbenge would cost us this season.
We'd probably be safe now if it wasn't for his "brain" meltdown then 
He has cost us and cost us big.
That moment really was sliding doors as to have won that and followed it up with the Cov win would, I'm sure have meant we didn't revert to the Stoke & Poxford away slop at Charlton.
Oh well.
I'm intrigued to see how the Frenchman and the cohort of "Heads of" arrest the latest Death Spiral after the Boro defeat.............. |
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Reply | Sunrise, sunset – Report
at 07:19 2 Mar 2026
The Death Spiral is officially on.
I’ll get my plastic bedsheets out….. had packed them away too early (again) |
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Reply | Our ‘goal’ today….why was it disallowed?
at 21:42 28 Feb 2026
Not sure how the lino can judge Smyth is stopping the keeper in an offside position from stopping a certain goal
Having said that……… I’ve papered over some cracks on n my time but this is woodchip across the Grand Canyon |
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