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Nice one!! Me and Mr Jeff will be there tomorrow - can confirm that parkrun is almost as addictive as QPR. If you haven't got on it yet the app is full of little challenges you can do by collecting parkruns, strong recommend...
Also gave every bar and beer stand a personally curated QPR and England themed playlist including Hi Ho Silver Lining, Pigbag, Zombie, Sweet Caroline and Wonderwall. When he comes to the UK we’re rolling out the red carpet for him. Absolute legend.
Being the daughter of a man who ran casinos all his life I’m in a very glass house here so I’m not going to weigh in on whether it’s worse to have gambling sponsors or alcohol ones or whatever. But I would observe that, for a club who are making it a policy point to have a young squad and develop a youth player pipeline, it’s a bit incongruous to keep bringing in sponsors that wouldn’t be allowed on an underage player’s shirt.
As someone who has worked in theatre all her life, I can tell you nobody REALLY wants to know what happens behind the curtain - it's always disappointing when it's revealed!
Joking aside that's good to know, and if it's any consolation there's a lot more behind the curtain than that... we'll keep that under wraps though.
Yeah, that's a fair cop and agree there were a couple of missed opportunities for follow ups - I also spotted that Larkeche wasn't included in the named 28 man squad and therefore doesn't count as one of the unavailables, but that didn't square up with how Poku features as a dev squad player, and should have asked for clarity on that. When there's not been enough contact between fans and club over such a long time it leaves a huge backlog of questions to squeeze into a single interview. Here's hoping that means we get a bit more!
Yeah I wondered if anyone else would pick up on that. Out of interest Oz what do you do? (I'm the girl btw, and an endurance sport fan when I'm not participating in the endurance sport of following QPR)
So full disclosure, I was on the panel for this which after the awaydays pod on Sat was unexpected...
You'll all make your own minds up about what you hear, but to me the way the stats are used and communicated is the key problem. It's clear that Ben comes from a more scientific background and also from sports where the fanbase are more interested in data points - cycling fans might know the VO2max of their favourite rider but that's not what championship football is about.
In my opinion the club made a big mistake using quantitative information to defend qualitative comments in the early days instead of addressing them head on, and that's why we're now spending 20 mins getting into the weeds about what 89.4% availability between August and February actually means. That didn't actually answer the question that was being asked which is "why do we seem to have so many injuries"! Answering with statistics that don't seem to pass the eye test alienated people where just saying "yeah it's a lot, we need to figure out how to improve it, the boffins behind the scenes are on it" would have gone a lot further.
Data is a tool, and like all tools when you use it for the right job it can improve your life but when you use it for the wrong job it causes damage that takes forever to fix. Case in point, the number of people on this thread who have come on just to say they're not even going to listen to it because they don't trust anything the club say - it's going to take a lot to repair that.
I agree with ozexile - the breadth of his scope is pretty remarkable, I really hadn't appreciated that before.
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