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Reply | threadbare squad
at 15:03 13 Jan 2026
As I said in the match report, this will likely become the latest issue at QPR on which the two factions of the support entrench themselves again, but it's really very simple.
Blame who or what you like. Put it down to bad luck if you must. Give it all the stats you like. But if we want to improve again next year and push for the play-offs then we cannot get to the middle of January with eight first teamers out, all but one of them with muscle and soft tissue problems, and a pitch that looks like a ploughed field. The club should just admit that's not good enough and vow to improve, not give it statistics and pretend we didn't have injury problems as happened at the last forum.
However it's happened, whoever is at fault, we have to do better than that next year. We've got some very winnable games coming up (Oxford, Blackburn, Charlton) that we're going to potentially struggle with now for want of putting a team out. If we want to push for the top six next season then your best ability is availability. |
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Reply | Cocaine
at 14:24 13 Jan 2026
That's a brave post mate, welcome. |
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Reply | Morrison going out on loan
at 13:35 13 Jan 2026
Yeh but if Scotland wait as long to get to another World Cup as it took them to get to this one he might be dead before he gets another chance so shoot your shot I guess. |
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Reply | Morrison going out on loan
at 13:27 13 Jan 2026
Been expecting this, and also wouldn't be surprised to see a similar story about Harvey Vale in the next week or so. I'm not sure Stephan really rates either of them TBH.
We are 14 points clear of the drop zone. We are only three points off the play-offs, but I'm not quite sure we're a PO team this season and with the injuries we've got now I suspect the next 6 weeks will drop us away from there. So, what's more valuable, Morrison sticking around and playing 5 games here, or going and playing 20 somewhere else?
We're not short at centre back. We've got Dunne and Edwards now who, fingers crossed, are going t basically play the next 20 games together. That's your pairing for the next two years you hope. They're covered by Steve Cook, who showed on Sunday that's absolutely fine. JCS, I know, lol, but still. That's four very good centre backs for the level. Sam Field can play there, Mbengue can play there. And your two best development squad prospects are supposedly Smith and Akindileni who are also both centre backs. You'd hope if we've got nothing to play for in the last ten games they might see some action.
depending on where he's going, good thing IMO. |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 16:22 12 Jan 2026
And Oxford.
Our box office are very keen for this to happen more.
Solves the problem of the 'you're in my seat' thing to a large extent, let's those who want to stand at the back do so and those that want to sit at the front the same.
Getting other clubs to play ball, however, not so simple. Stoke and Oxford both select from the seat map and tickets landed straight in the email instantaneously.
I do miss paper tickets to a large extent but that's much easier than, for instance, Pompey and Middlesbrough where I ordered online, took pot luck with what I was given, and then neither set ever arrived in the post. |
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Reply | Central Coast Mariners
at 16:08 12 Jan 2026
Yes there is a fundamental flaw in the plan isn't there? I.e., the A League is dog chocolate. |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 15:04 12 Jan 2026
We drank at St Pancras and did the high speed out there, which worked really well I was quite pleased with myself for coming up with that. Train only takes 6 minutes and because we walked through the west ham security and walked around it sounds like we missed a lot of the OTT security measures nearer the away end coming from Stratford.
Afterwards... complete fcking pain in the ars. Walked out of the ground at 17.10. Train at 17.49. Oh, we'll easily make that says I. No chance. Missed it by a street. Every fcking bridge, every fcking walkway, another barrier, another steward, another funnel, another crush, another queue. It took us an hour to go from the away end to getting onto a train.
I would genuinely stop going if QPR played at a place like that. Echo the thoughts from above, treasure what we have. Walk out the Crown at 14.40, into my seat in time for the teams coming out 15 mins later. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 14:54 12 Jan 2026
Kone scored. Again. He's doing fantastically for the levels he's stepped up at his age. West Ham played a back three against him yesterday that has cost them £90m.
Kolli, there was a moment in the second half running towards us where we played a long ball up to him, two defenders on him, and he brought it out of the air immaculately, turned one of the markers and beat the other, accelerated away into space in front of where we were standing. That was proper.
Desperate to see him get fit and play the next three months while Burrell is out. Then we can start making judgement calls. But he's got something. |
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Reply | Cocaine
at 14:42 12 Jan 2026
Couple of bits - when we came out of lockdown this was absolutely rampant. I remember one of the Peterborough away games was absolute chaos, but it's calmed down a lot recently.
The dogs... I couldn't possibly comment but I'm told you get paid very handsomely as a private third party company for providing those dogs to events. Whether they can actually do what's advertised on the collar, and it's not just Joe Dog Owner rolling up with Rover for a nice side gig on the weekend who's to say... |
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Reply | Extra Time/Player Welfare
at 12:17 12 Jan 2026
Nice to have you on here mate, we still chuckle about the Lyndon Dykes hat trick bets.
If you were cynical you could say it's another thing done for the benefit of the Premier League sides. Bigger, fitter squads, which will tell in extra time.
Saw it with Spurs last year, Tamworth held them for 90, and the they just stuck Madison and a couple of others on for extra time and won after all.
West Ham at ours in front of a full house would have been a great replay for us, and for the broadcasters.
Noone gives a sht about player welfare. They occasionally pretend they are if they think it can get them what they want (i.e. less pesky games against the likes of us, more mid-season tours of Dubai) but they don't care really.
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Reply | Central Coast Mariners
at 11:39 12 Jan 2026
I'd accept a pre-season friendly if they're offering to host. |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 11:19 12 Jan 2026
If I had to go there every other week I'd stop going. |
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Reply | January Patreon - We're Halfway There!
at 18:03 10 Jan 2026
I did say earlier in the pod they didn’t look a good side to me despite the wins, but I do think they’ll have enough to stay up. Oxford going for the guy who took Luton down since then as well. |
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Reply | Ronnie returns, but is it the handsome deal QPR hope? – Signing
at 12:11 10 Jan 2026
One thing that I do like about this, and I know I mentioned in the piece about it being a good sign he wanted to come back having been here before, is that I do like having QPR fans involved. Whether he is himself it sounds like most of the family is. That was a big part of what Ian Holloway built first time around, getting people here who care about the club and want it to succeed and want to be here because it's QPR. |
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