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Reply | So player of the season?
at 23:21 20 Mar 2025
Jimmy Dunne.
I’d love to give it to Smyth just to cruise Twitter afterwards. |
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Thread | Dave Thomas
at 08:33 20 Mar 2025
Not well unfortunately. Wishing him all the best in his recovery.
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Reply | Emmerson Sutton
at 21:28 19 Mar 2025
What a sound lad. Old head on young shoulders listening to that. |
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Reply | Liverpool Newcastle Cup Final
at 00:00 19 Mar 2025
In David Coleman's case "ONE NIL" said with authority was occasionally followed with the qualification of "oh no he's missed". |
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Reply | A turn of Frey's
at 13:57 17 Mar 2025
I said this briefly on another thread but I think with Frey, his injuries, body shape, style etc ideally he'd probably be your 3rd or 4th striker out of 4. Something a bit different for late in games or specific tasks. If you are going to start him then, like you say, you want to be taking him off for something else after an hour.
We've been slightly unlucky to have Celar and Kolli injured, but even with everybody fit Frey is your first choice striker. I don't think that would be the case at many other Championship clubs. Celar is 1/2, and so far he doesn't look to be very good. Kolli, who should be your promising kid from the academy as option 4/5 is actually our option 2/3 and fast approaching 1. Then you've got Alfie Lloyd who seems like a great kid but is a long way shy of the level.
That's the squad we've put together.
I feared for us on Saturday when it got to 2-2 because look along that bench and, really, what is there for the manager there to impact that game? Meanwhile Leeds are bringing on Gnonto. |
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Reply | Pass Masters
at 13:28 17 Mar 2025
Some players who can pass the ball. |
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Reply | Liverpool Newcastle Cup Final
at 10:54 17 Mar 2025
Had a game recently with John Champion commentating, you forget how good the old boys are at it when you're stuck with Gary Weaver screaming about citadels being stormed and flags being planted. |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 22:09 16 Mar 2025
On the Ruben comments...
We, as the supporters, are the only constant in this. The players, the managers, the execs, the owners all come and go. Chris Wright breezes in, makes some big promises, spends loads of money, fcks it all up, leverages the debt against the club, walks away from the whole thing with a training ground in his back pocket. Who's left going to Hartlepool? Us lot.
An owner saying "we've been too open, we're going to tell you less in future" is not a good thing. It's Bernard Matthews taking the calendars out of the turkey sheds.
This is a club that has gone from a Premier League side in receipt of and spending a fck tonne of money, to one stuck in Championship purgatory far more likely to exit this division south than north. That has happened through the club's repeated rank bad decision making around appointments, recruitment and retainment of players, managers and execs. The last couple of years in particular have been fuelled by disastrous decisions on contracts, player and manager recruitment and retainment.
We're blessed that they pay for their mistakes, and put in £2m a month to keep it going. But we should be pushing for more transparency and openness about these decisions, not sitting there nodding as they say "actually we're going to tell you less". |
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 21:59 16 Mar 2025
Yeh, because that's where Dan James lives, which is why it was a stupid idea. |
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 21:51 16 Mar 2025
If you're happy with a point, I'm not sure passing the ball to Dan James while all our defenders are in their box is a great way to express that happiness. |
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 21:35 16 Mar 2025
You don't need to vary things in the 93rd minute. You've got one play left, you play the play that's worked best for you all day.
I think you're being very kind because you think Paal gets unfair criticism on here and you want to stick up for him. He played pretty well yesterday. Numerous big clearances in our own box under heavy fire.
That free kick, however, 93rd minute, was fcking rank idiocy. |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 21:31 16 Mar 2025
A thing to consider here...
QPR are never backwards in coming forwards when something is going even remotely well. We printed Ledesma t-shirts after a hat trick in a first round League Cup game. Koki Saito scores one goal away against a rank Hull side and we're printing Japanese language on the replica tops. Kieran Morgan has a good dozen games running on adrenalin and he's getting deep dive pieces in The Athletic.
They love it. They love it when something is going even very remotely well. It makes them look like hey know what they're doing. They hype the fck out of it.
Marti Cifuentes is just about the most popular manager we've had here since Warnock. The fans love him. They make flags with him on, they sing his name, he gets a complete free pass whenever we go on a winless run.
And yet QPR, the club of the Ledesma t-shirts, won't let me, won't let the other podcasts, won't let a (let's be honest, pretty tame) fans forum audience within 1000 yards of him. They obfuscate and say "oh we wanted this to be a forum about more off the pitch issues", they kick the can down the road with "there'll be forum with the football side of the business later in the year", they hope you'll forget they said that, then when you remember they say "oh, send us some qs on email and we'll ask the ones we like the best in a controlled, edited environment, involving all the coaching staff".
The most popular manager we've had in a decade, in theory an enormous success story for the club, and they are terrified of him speaking in any unfiltered, long form way that they cannot control. They don't want you and me speaking to him.
You can attack the "ITKs", you can dismiss it as gossip, you can talk about airing dirty linen in public, or whatever, but at the very least you should be curious about why that is.
Why is that? |
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 21:23 16 Mar 2025
Well I agree with you on Colback mate, and Paal made several game saving clearances in the six yard box yesterday so it was overall a decent performance from him after a tough week, but that free kick was dumb as bricks. Last minute, chance to put the ball in the box, Dunne has crawled all over them all afternoon, and you not only try and play an overly clever short one down the side but you do it on Dan James' side knowing he's the quickest player in the league. Thick as pig sht. |
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Reply | (No subject)
at 17:22 16 Mar 2025
It’s all starting to feel a little bit like the end of Warbs to me. Let’s hope another two and half year cliff face doesn’t await. |
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