By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions. We in turn value your personal details in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Please log in or register. Registered visitors get fewer ads.
I know that we’re likely to be saying goodbye to a lot of loan and out of contract players at the end of the season but I would like to see us do whatever we can to hang on to Saito. He’s been a real joy to watch and gives you a buzz when he gets the ball on the left and starts taking people on.
Watching him ambling around in the second half while Saito and Yang were running their nuts off to close down the Bristol defenders was doing my head in.
Absolutely brilliant. Funnier than anything on TV these days and reminiscent of the wonderful “Whose Line is it Anyway” from thirty odd years ago. “Your challenge is to write a QPR Match preview in the style of Gordon Ramsey.”
People have been telling me that Morgan’s form has cratered so totally that he’s not worth selecting. I don’t know if that’s true but if it is, it leaves us without a third midfielder of the type that Clive suggests is totally necessary for our success in the Match Report, so I don’t know how best to fill that gap.
Some great responses to my question in the original post and I as I mentioned then I think myself that Kyle Walker was a different class and without doubt the highest quality player we’ve had on loan at Loftus Road. I can still vividly remember being in R Block and seeing him streaking past us on the overlap like the Roadrunner. But I was thinking more in relation to the difference that the loan made to the fortunes of the club over the season than the actual quality of the player and that’s why I picked Ronnie. For example, I think we’d have very probably been promoted fifteen years ago even without Kyle Walker. But I’m less sure that we’d have survived in the Division this year without Ronnie Edwards. And the reason I missed out Adel was because I was thinking of players who were on loan when they made the difference for us. In his miracle season of 2010-11, Taarabt was already our player.
In terms of the quality of the player involved then you would have to say that Kyle Walker was a different class fifteen years ago. But if you judge it on the contribution the player has made I think you’d be pushed to beat Ronnie. He’s always given 100%, been very solid in all of the three positions he’s played in and has been a very important factor in ( hopefully) taking us to safety this season.
So with a view to making him think twice about it, what we could do with is a massive show of support for Marti on Saturday, to show that the vast majority of the fan base would hate to see him go. He’s not perfect and he’s made mistakes but I think he’s done wonders to get us probably to a position of safety with the unbalanced and in some cases unsuitable squad he was given plus the appalling injury situation he’s had to deal with.
If what you are saying is true then it isn’t him out of the two who should be going. I have zero faith in Nourry to find a replacement who is anything like as good and is anything other than a “yes man.”
Funny old game for sure. Before it started I was convinced that there was no way we were going to be able to get a win with no strikers and the players we had available. And then they produce a performance like that, taking the game to Oxford from the start and somehow finding a way to be two nil up at half time. And then going on to secure the win that I am pretty sure will mean that we will still be playing in the second tier next season. So all credit to Marti and the players for digging out the kind of committed and gutsy performance to get us over the line against a team which may not look impressive but have been in outstanding form since Rowett took over. What an unpredictable and surprising team we are.
On the other hand they could take advantage of the fact that Madrid have to come at them from the start and use the speed of Saka and Martinelli to get in behind them and give the arrogant tossers a humiliation that virtually everyone in the football world will enjoy.
I can just see it now if we’re in the same position on Saturday with no fit striker. A combination of Saito/Dembele/Smyth/Yang up front and us pumping up high balls for them to compete for against Rob Dickie in the air.