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Thread | Not fun, not big, not clever
at 19:38 6 Apr 2024
I didn't go today.
It was not that I couldn't face another 4 hour roundtrip after Monday's jaunt to Swansea. It was a small matter of a mother-in-law in pallative care, a pregnant wife gone to look after her, her father and her sister in panic stations, and the fact that neglecting my babysitting duties for a day in the sunshine would probably have put a downer on things.
So I resorted to watching that beautiful game online, and boy, was it a fight.
The first few minutes were a fight because my 3-year old decided to battle it out with me for possession of the TV remote. She wanted to watch her buddies Peppa and Blippi, and i wanted to see if I could spot any mates in the crowd.
She won the battle. Mostly because she yelled more and I couldn't take the histronics. You have the Ipad AND the remote, kid. I'll grab the laptop and we can all be happy.
Well, watching that dross for the best part of 2 hours was something that you couldn't describe as a fun experience. Like my parenting ways left when left alone with my daughter, it was a little half-arsed on the edge of disaster.
QPR could - and should - have been 1-0 down at the break, with Dean Windass' son providing one of the misses of the season. The second half, we were stuck on the blocks, so much so that our spikes were in the wood and we weren't really straining to get out of them.
Sam Field doesn't close down his man. A comical deflection. 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday. The hordes on the top of the School End celebrate. The TV angles are more apt to show the celebrations of an away end more than the home one, and the Northerners looked happy.
Meanwhile in my household, Poppy was happy and silent. I was unhappy but ensuring that my words of rage were sent out to my QPR friends' Whatsapp group.
Anderson hits the bar. I groan. Poppy looks around. And turns back. I turn around.
Not going to be our day, is it?
Three pretty clear heading chances go missing with Dunne, Armstrong and Dykes the culprits. Then, nothing, until Wednesday take the 2-0 lead.
I could have done with a break. I really could have done. It's not been the easiest few days. Wait a minute. It's been a f**king rough few days. I wanted QPR to provide a break. I was almost mentally begging them to.
But they didn't.
The wife's offered me the chance to go to Plymouth away (I live about an hour away). I already have the ticket.
If we're this crap on Tuesday night, it might be the death of me. |
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Reply | Swansea Away Reflection
at 23:43 1 Apr 2024
Decision to bring Frey on was more defensive IMOH. Getting another big body there for opposing set pieces .
Had Armstrong put in a earlier, Frey was on his own from 7 yards out. |
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Thread | Begovic
at 23:39 1 Apr 2024
Credit where credit’s due: Begovic was excellent today. Two good saves today and looked imperious on crosses. |
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Reply | We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers
at 23:23 1 Apr 2024
I had a feeling that someone would bring up the paucity of the strike force.
But then it occurred to me: Who cares? I’m sure that the away end didn’t today |
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Thread | Swansea boozer
at 14:22 29 Mar 2024
Hi all,
I am going on my own to Swansea and was wondering what good away-friendly pubs there were, or alternatively whether I can join anyone for a drink.
I know is sounds Norman nae mates, but I’m coming up from Exeter. |
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Thread | Some Boro thoughts
at 15:26 10 Mar 2024
1) It didn't seem there today. The atmosphere, the team, the energy. Just...nothing. It was like we'd packed so much emotion into Leicester and West Brom that an (on paper) easier game against a team that Boro fans told me were "crap", that this was rather, you know, listless.
2) Carrick worked us out pretty easily. Anderson puts the ball to Chair. Chair is faced with three men like the famoust Maradona v The Dutch photo, Chair passes it back because there are no alternatives. Anderson doesn't bother switching it over to Willock on the right, who had half of West London on the right time after time again. We can blame Chair all we want, but we can't expect him to be Moroccan Stanley Bowles when other teams are recognising who our best player is and doubling or tripling him up accordingly.
3) Because of taking out Chair, we ran out of ideas incredibly quickly. Boro got brave moving up the pitch...
4) And then lived in our half for the first half of the second half until the first goal. Bad defending for the goals? Well, when you've got a tired, not great, and pretty exhausted central defense to face with two pacey players - and you work out that simply whacking the ball across isn't the way forwoard, then we became easy to break down. And we were.
5) We offered nothing that second half, apart from Smyth's half chance, where I felt he was tugged back. Had he gone down....you've seen 'em given...
6) Great to see Seny Dieng back. Loved him at LR.
7) Boro did a job on us. Plain and simple.
Onto Sunderland for the latest of our must-win games.
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Reply | Huddersfield 1 up
at 15:18 10 Mar 2024
Update: Huddersfield ended up getting t*atted. |
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Reply | I Always Enjoy the Away Fans Vids
at 23:54 2 Mar 2024
Dear Leicester,
Thanks for providing me with an excellent shot of our crowd going absolutely bonkers when the second one went in. |
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Reply | Armstrong's goal
at 23:52 2 Mar 2024
To be fair I was one of those people who wanted him to press their keeper, because he was clearly uncomfortable on the ball. But someone explained to me why he shouldn’t do it, and I shut up about it.
As for the ‘OTT celebration’, I loved it!!! |
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Thread | Just got back….
at 23:49 2 Mar 2024
Before the game, I had mentally planned to leave early with us 4-0 down so I could make a connection to Exeter, where I now reside.
After all, there wasn’t going to be a prayer of beating top of the table Leicester at their place, was there?
Well, Queens Park Rangers once again put paid to any plans I’d had.
And they answered some questions, too.
Focus for 90-odd minutes and despite an utterly crap ref who I called a c**t about 20 times in the second half? Check.
Willock working his arse off? Check.
Lyndon Dykes playing brilliantly as what felt like a 4-5-, holding up the play and then skinning the defender and delivering an exquisite ball to Ilias Chair’s outstretched boot and causing a 3001 roaring mosh pit to deafen the KPower? Check.
Armstrong smashing in the second and standing like a statue as others clambered on him, watching on as me and 3001 of my best friends displayed more limbs as we went up 2-0? Check.
Bad goalkeeping from Begovic to make it 2-1 and make all of the 3001 away fans extremely nervous? Check.
QPR being pretty comfortable after the goal and completing the destruction of another batting slip who had us as a dead cert to lose today? Check.
Huggy puddle, fist of exhalation and joy? Check.
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Reply | Ilias Chair
at 21:25 19 Jan 2024
Was he fed up with the bloke taking his dinner money? |
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Thread | Meme request
at 21:22 8 Oct 2023
Anyone seen the meme about the old man who says: ‘Things haven’t aged me’ with the sentence ‘Andy, QPR fan, 25’.
I could use that right now. |
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Thread | Why get rid of Les?
at 06:09 20 Feb 2023
I understand why Warburton was fired.
Our season had fallen so badly that we were lucky that the game ran out.
The appointment of Mick Beale was an excellent one. People move to bigger jobs all the time. I don’t like what he did, but football is a business. He managed to knife QPR AND Giovanni Van Brockhorst in the back in one fell swoop. It took some doing.
And the appointment of Critchley may have looked good on paper, but it didn’t work out.
Honestly, I don’t understand who the fanbase wants to get in.
Why would you get rid of Les Ferdinand? The man’s a club legend and helped to steer us to some sort of financial stability. I don’t understand what he could have done more. |
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Thread | LSA Letter wanting changes
at 16:27 16 Feb 2023
The sentiment: We want two spots on the board because only us can sort out this mess, because we’re the best QPR fans on Earth.
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Reply | Everton or Burnley or Leeds
at 23:56 3 May 2022
From a financial perspective, I hope either Everton or Leeds go down, because they are guaranteed to fill our away end at 40 quid a pop. |
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Reply | Dani Parejo v Liverpool
at 23:48 3 May 2022
Having also seen Geronimo 'do a Tony Roberts' for 2 out of 3 of Liverpool's goals, I'm sure than Villareal fans had shipped him off to the Wild Wild West that is Championship Football. |
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Reply | The notion of sliding doors
at 22:13 9 Apr 2022
I have no great theories, but that's certainly where the players seemed to lose the self-belief and the rot set in. Then came everything else. |
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