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Reply | Ashes thread
at 09:59 22 Nov 2025
Saddened but not particularly surprised to wake up and see it all done and dusted. Absolutely braindead stuff from England sadly.
I completely get that Bazball is about freeing players to be positive, and overall I still think it’s a good thing, but there are situations where it surely needs tempering a bit, in favour of some balance and restraint. However talented our batters are, it feels like the mentality to dig in and slowly grind out a total when required isn’t there. We just constantly default to slogging, which either goes brilliantly or falls apart.
Huge missed opportunity here, feels like the match and possibly the entire series have just been thrown away. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 16:28 21 Nov 2025
I know it's obvious, but it's really all about whether our batting lineup can step up now and match the bowlers. Huge opportunity for them to set a competitive total on a flattening pitch against a weakened Aussie attack. Do that, and you'd surely back us to take 10 wickets in the two and a half days (or more) we'd have left. Fall short of 200 / 250ish again and it's a very different proposition.
In a weird way, even though our batting was worse than theirs in the first innings I'd rather be in our position. Cut out the cheap wickets and you can see opportunities - Boland in particular looks gettable. Australia didn't even bat particularly badly, we've just absolutely steamrollered them. It's all there for us, we've just got to sort the batting out. [Post edited 21 Nov 17:49]
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Reply | Scotland
at 12:16 20 Nov 2025
They'll have a decent chance of getting out of the group no matter who they're drawn against: it's a 48 team competition so 8 out of 12 third-placed teams still go through. Winning one of their group stage games should be enough to get them into the knockouts. |
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Reply | Another Prick in the Wall - kitty litter edition QPR vs Millwall match thread.
at 13:27 18 Oct 2025
Embarrassing. So many QPR players in the box, and not one of them with the commitment or strength to put in a block or a header.
I don’t think we’ve been terrible overall, but two moments of lazy defending have cost us massively. Cook in particular looks lost. Millwall with a 2 goal lead are going to make this second half an absolute slog, [Post edited 18 Oct 13:28]
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Reply | Madsen
at 17:31 4 Oct 2025
He's been a completely different player this season, and looking far more like the player we all thought we were getting when we first signed him. I think he's shown just how hard it can be to adjust immediately to the Championship, and how important it is not to completely write players off. Very glad he's turned it around, and hope he continues to be a key player for us. |
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Reply | Dembele
at 17:25 4 Oct 2025
I get why people are frustrated, and he clearly hasn't been playing brilliantly, but come on.
He's 22, he's only recently come back from injury, we've paid a fee for him, and he's shown both here and elsewhere that he's got the raw ability and potential to be a really good player, even if he's not been showing enough of that recently.
The only thing we as a club should be doing is continuing to work with him, coaching him, and giving him plenty of opportunities to develop. All of our players are going to have ups and downs: if they were consistently brilliant they wouldn't be playing here.
Maybe taking him out of the starting lineup for a bit might be smart, given his form's dipped, but there's no way we should be giving up on him. Supporting QPR surely means supporting the players too, even when they're clearly not playing well, rather than deciding they're never going to make it and writing them off. |
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Reply | Shipshape and Bristol Fashion Match Thread
at 17:10 4 Oct 2025
Watched most of the first half on the stream and the last 20 minutes of the second (just missed Kone's goal) - thought it was a pretty even game between two decent teams, and a great result.
We look so much better with Burrell giving us some pace up top, and with Vale on the pitch. Smyth's goal was a peach too: it's a reflection of his work rate and commitment that the shortest player on the pitch was able to win the game with a header. Thought Madsen and Varane played decently too, and are looking increasingly solid as a midfield two.
Thought we were a bit ropey at the back at several moments, though: Esquerdinha is clearly still very raw, and Dunne was far from his best today. Bristol had a lot of very good chances, and will be wondering how they didn't come away with at least a point. Giving up that many opportunities and relying on Paul Smyth headers is not a long-term strategy, I fear.
All in all though, I thought we played decently, and were good value for the win. |
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Reply | That Mbengue tackle
at 23:31 20 Sep 2025
Agreed, thought the moment when their keeper and defender both went down feigning head injuries when we were looking to recycle and attack again, then claimed they were fine as soon as the whistle blew, was particularly shameful.
Enjoyed us playing them at their own game late on though, when they wanted to take a quick throw-in but the ballboy (or ballgirl?) threw a second ball on the pitch and the ref brought play back. |
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Reply | That Mbengue tackle
at 21:53 20 Sep 2025
Looked like a yellow in real time, but a red on the replays. Would have been a sending off with VAR, think we got very very lucky if I’m honest. |
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Reply | Wrex-iting for all the wrong reasons, its a Deadpool...Wrexham Vs QPR thread
at 15:58 13 Sep 2025
Great first half. Vale, Saito and Burrell causing absolute havoc, Kone quiet but effective up until the second goal, but unbelievable quality when it mattered most. Wrexham have been really poor, but will surely improve, and looked dangerous on the break a couple of times. First 10 minutes of the second half are going to be vital, but there’s no reason we can’t win this comfortably. |
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Reply | Wrex-iting for all the wrong reasons, its a Deadpool...Wrexham Vs QPR thread
at 14:44 13 Sep 2025
Kone and Burrell from the start is exciting, and presumably won’t have been what Wrexham expected. Madsen and Varane up against a big, physical three-man midfield feels like a disaster waiting to happen though. I’m going 2-1 to Wrexham, think we might end up getting bullied a bit, but hope I’m wrong. |
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Reply | Taylor Richards gone…thank god.
at 12:10 3 Sep 2025
Interesting that this comes straight after a pre-season when he’s been more involved in the first team than perhaps any other point in his time here. We obviously won’t ever know all the details, but there’s clearly been an effort made to reintegrate him, as has happened with several different incoming managers, and it hasn’t worked.
Whether he’s deeply troubled and deserving of sympathy, a useless waster, or somewhere inbetween, he’s clearly talented and I hope he sorts out whatever’s gone wrong here. I also hope he’s the last person we sign like this, who disappears for years on end and drains money out of the club while barely playing. It’s just really sad all round really, and I’m glad it’s over. |
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Reply | Kone MOM?
at 15:30 30 Aug 2025
Kone’s scored as many goals in his first game and a half as Celar did all of last season. Early days, but it looks like he might potentially be the striker we’ve been waiting for. Also good to see Saito and Smyth address the big criticism of them from last year, namely a lack of end product.
Still plenty to work on across the team, but today was a really promising response to last weekend’s debacle in several areas. |
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Reply | Books
at 16:30 27 Aug 2025
Eliza's an acquaintance of mine! And an absolutely brilliant writer. Her first book Boy Parts is one of my favourites of the last decade, extremely sinister but completely hilarious. |
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Reply | Looks like Armstrong is available
at 16:27 27 Aug 2025
"Could do with a spell at somewhere like Stockport, bulling some clogger League One defenders for a good team"
It's so weird, he's always been the perfect candidate for a L1 / L2 loan: all the physical attributes, but in desperate need of senior minutes to properly sharpen up his skills. Any idea why that didn't happen when he was with us? Was it the club's decision (we were obviously under-resourced up front) or his, or just a lack of interest from other teams?
It's such a shame: you look at Eze going to Wycombe and Chair going to Stevenage, and the effect that had on their careers, and wonder what might have happened here if he'd done the same. Or maybe he'll still come good, who knows. |
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Reply | Coventry City 7 Queens Park Rangers 1 – Report
at 10:00 25 Aug 2025
I’m so sorry things are tough, Clive: it’s absolutely the right move for you to take a break, and great to see Jamie step in so effectively.
Please don’t forget that the voices on Twitter are a tiny minority of idiots, and that whatever else the rest of us disagree on, the vast majority of QPR fans agree that your writing is brilliant. Even when we’re doing terribly on the pitch, LFW remains one of the very few things QPR fans can be proud of and grateful for.
Really hope that you get a bit of a breather, and come back to things with renewed energy and enjoyment in a little while. |
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