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Reply | Preston/Sheff Wed/Ipswich – Awaydays
at 12:47 13 Feb 2024
These are great. Irreverent, irrelevant, engrossing and highly amusing. I just love the pig story and you just know it's real.
Is this what we follow QPR for? No? Does it make it loads better? You bet. |
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Reply | Resolution, revolution, evolution – Preview
at 11:13 6 Jan 2024
That’s a great read, if entirely depressing. Love the Andre Dozell comment - that is spot on and right at the heart of football culture for those old enough to remember it.
We’ll be there today for some reason. No expectations and yea, Bournemouth on Tuesday it is! |
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Reply | The season of evil begins with the birth of a new year – Report
at 19:47 2 Jan 2024
It’s criminal what’s happening here. In most private companies the investors hold the board and the management to account. And if performance is below par, changes are made.
One of the many problems we face as a club is that out investors can’t or won’t hold themselves accountable. And they also don’t know anything about football. Look at Birmingham as a great recent example of what happens when people with no football experience take over the running of the club.
Yeserday was at least as bad as some of the earlier season performances under Ainsworth. And yet, my 11 year old daughter wants to go on Saturday! How can I tell her….. |
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Reply | A long time between drinks - Preview
at 16:33 13 Dec 2023
That was a great read. Remember many of those occasions. My personal fave was probably Clive Allen's goal in the semi final at Highbury in 82. We were at the back of the North Bank before it went in; found ourselves practically at the front seconds later!
Really excited about tonight. What could possibly go wrong? |
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Reply | GA podcast interview post sacking
at 15:40 16 Nov 2023
I bumped into him in the pub last week and had a quick chat. He seemed upbeat, and said he'd already been approached about a couple of jobs but was going to take his time.
He seemed genuinely appreciative of the fan base and knows that everyone wanted him to succeed. Didn't think this season's results and performances would spoil his legacy as a player and was proud of 'keeping them up' last season.
Anyway, everyone says he is a really decent bloke and he certainly seemed it in person |
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Reply | The week in QPR – Preview
at 15:40 20 Oct 2023
Christ it's grim isn't it? Hard to argue with any of this - you do wonder if people up the hierarchy at the club read this. And if they do, what do they think? Would be good to know what the owners are really thinking and planning.
Like many, I now cannot watch Ainsworth's interviews either pre or post-match. I get that he can't come out and say we're doomed, but what he does say, and the way he says it is frankly a massive p*ss take.
As you say, it would very QPR to win 1-0 on Saturday. But it's even harder than ever to see how that happens with this team.
URRRRRRS? :) |
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Reply | Each goal more farcical and easier to score than the last - Report
at 12:17 9 Oct 2023
I'm in exactly the same position mate. Been bringing my 11 year old daughter for the last couple of seasons. She knows it's a family curse, but somehow still wants to keep coming to games. We also left when the 4th went in as I just couldn't take any more. This is the worst I can remember in my 50+ years of going to games.
We won't be going back until Gareth has been replaced as this it now well beyond a joke. |
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Thread | Is it the manager?
at 19:11 7 Oct 2023
There’s been a lot of commentary over the last few years or so about how changing the manager is not the solution. Until now I’ve largely agreed with that and accepted that there are bigger problems at the club. However, it surely is now time to change the manager isn’t it? I mean it can surely get no worse can it?
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Reply | QPR fail another exposure to Coventry’s sky-blue light – Report
at 20:43 2 Oct 2023
I'm with you on the kids comment. My youngest says she still wants to go to the games but it's getting more and more difficult. If we don't improve against Blackburn I can see us taking a break for a while as it's just not enjoyable in any way currently. |
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Thread | Ticket going spare for Saturday v Sunderland
at 14:19 12 Sep 2023
Hi,
I can no longer make it on Saturday and have a spare in the East Paddock if that's of interest to anyone. Let me know by return if you or someone you know wants it
Cheers
No longer available [Post edited 13 Sep 2023 12:47]
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Reply | Ever randomly walked past a celebrity
at 13:04 5 Sep 2023
Bumped into Suggs with his Mum and Max Beasley a few years ago at the French House in Soho. They'd clearly had a few by the time they got there - I think Suggs and Max had been filming something.
Got chatting to them and had a right laugh - bought each other a few rounds etc.
Suggs' Mum can swear like a trooper. Think I learned a few new swear words that day. All 3 of them were great value though.
Was great for me as I was a massive Madness fan as a kid. |
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Reply | Gareth Ainsworth – Patreon
at 12:00 25 Jul 2023
yeah those are reasonable points - and I can see the tightrope he is trying to walk here. The Critchley approach obviously did not work but I guess my wider view is that GA quite frequently makes comments that are patently not true, and that's obvious if you watch the games.
That said, this interview has changed my perspective somewhat. I thought what we saw on and off the pitch at the end of last season was wholly unacceptable and that he was a poor appointment. But I think he makes enough good points in this interview to warrant being a good run this season. Hopefully he can deliver against a lot of the objectives discussed in the interview |
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Reply | Gareth Ainsworth – Patreon
at 08:57 25 Jul 2023
Interesting interview and worth the Patreon sub on its own as others have said. I wish him well but I don't think he does himself many favours with a lot of what he says (The Balogun defence last season as one obvious example). In this interview he talks a lot about the boys giving their all. But then seems to suggest that in different circumstances they maybe could have given more. In which case they weren't giving their all surely?
I get that it's a fine balance and it's a tough place to come back from if you openly slag the players, but obvious contradictions like this don't paint a great picture |
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Reply | Quickly Kevin
at 17:33 4 Jul 2023
it takes all sorts..... |
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Reply | Quickly Kevin
at 15:58 4 Jul 2023
Agree with you’re the repetitive other guy - clearly a Widdecomb fanboy |
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Thread | Quickly Kevin
at 15:41 4 Jul 2023
Anyone listen to this podcast with Josh Widdecombe?
The guest on the latest edition is Mark Hateley. Comes across as a right arrogant tw*t!
What a shocker |
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Reply | Just Back
at 12:48 4 Jul 2023
I was there on Friday and thought they were great. Seen them many times over the years and thought the Hyde Park gig was their best since Slash and Duff rejoined - apart from perhaps Lincoln Field Philadelphia in 2016. The sense of anticipation at that one was electric.
Interesting to see a few here who rated the MK Bowl one in 93 - I was at that one and thought it was dreadful. Each to their own I guess |
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Thread | Cold light of day
at 13:29 9 May 2023
Been to 12 games this season and I thought the first 30 minutes of yesterday we played half decent. Me and my daughter were really quite enjoying it until they scored of course and then the wheels came off.
But were we actually playing reasonably well or have we just become conditioned to watching such dross that anything even remotely resembling cohesive football now passes as good?
I'm confused, but did come away from the game feeling sadness more than anything else. |
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