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Reply | FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 01:54 5 Dec 2025
For the first time ever, I can't care. The club has sucked my passion for the cup out of me.
You Arse! |
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Reply | World Cup Draw
at 00:12 5 Dec 2025
Reminds me of a joke by a flat-chested female comic about how she was looking for a boyfriend with a small face!  [Post edited 5 Dec 0:12]
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Reply | Belatedly learning that
at 00:10 5 Dec 2025
I like Kolli, but I'm really started to get fed up with his seemingly endless injury issues, plus the 'noise' that seems to surround him when he's not playing. It feels like he just can't get going with us, and if it doesn't change, and even though I don't rate Frey one bit, I'd be looking to loan him out for the rest of the season - and possibly the next.
Elsewhere, Bennie looks, if anyone, that he deserves to be brought back into the fold, so my worry is more the players who continue to play without deserving to (Messrs Varane and Madsen).
16th looks about right with our lot. [Post edited 5 Dec 1:53]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 17:31 3 Dec 2025
God, you're tedious. Anything but actually deal with actual content/argument - man and not ball every time. Why not just make a big effort to grow up? |
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 17:29 3 Dec 2025
I didn't say it was watertight, and, yes, Warnock showed himself to be a better man-manager than Magilton, I guess. Though I still think he (JM) was set up, which was no doubt why he was talking about taking the club to a tribunal. |
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 17:26 3 Dec 2025
If you can't see the value between making a distinction between human inconsistency/ contradictoriness and talking 'nonsense', so be it! It doesn't change the fact that I wasn't talking nonsense, just expressing a view you happen not to agree with. Perhaps engaging self-critically with my content rather than always trying to 'catch me out' might even turn out to be both more humane and more interesting. Just a thought. [Post edited 3 Dec 20:54]
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Reply | New stadium for London
at 01:13 3 Dec 2025
It seems like every football club in London gets permission/money to build/take over a new ground apart from us. It's getting to a point where I'd be considering suing H & F Council for restraint of trade. [Post edited 3 Dec 1:14]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 01:09 3 Dec 2025
That's fine too - we can just agree to disagree.
For the record, ultimately, I don't actually think it's human to be (fully) consistent - contradiction (inc. self-contradiction) is what keeps conversations like those on a football message board in business, as well as interesting. This isn't a court of law, after all - fans are irrationalists! [Post edited 3 Dec 1:16]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 19:44 2 Dec 2025
If anyone seriously wants to argue that football is more tiring to players (let alone threatening to life and limb) in the 2020s compared to any other time, what with, ooh let's see:
near-perfect pitches
dieticians
psychologists
culturally legitimised squad rotations (i.e. cheating) for cup competitions
actual withdrawal from cup competitions in the case of Manure
friendly game-level substitutions
simulation
international breaks
water breaks
and whatever else,
I despair.
In 2025/26, the ball isn't even in play in a Premier League game for more than about half of the 90 minutes on average (see https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/15/longer-games-less-football-ball ), the lowest in 11 seasons since records began. (If we had records for previous decades, those of us with souls could all vomit in unison!) You don't have to be a statistician to see there is an inverse correlation between the enrirchment of players and clubs and the value to the fan, which is, in my opinion, the reason that the Julien Stephans of this world now agree to cynically manage down expectations at every opportunity with bullsh*t about 3-game weeks - and don't get me started on the likes of Ferguson and Klopp!
Good journalists would be shouting about this stuff every week in the influential media and throwing it back at the clubs on our behalf. That they aren't tells you something, but I'll leave that to you to work out.
Then again, it could all be a conspiracy theory, and I can be the child in the room again if you prefer. [Post edited 2 Dec 20:06]
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Reply | (No subject) (n/t)
at 17:42 2 Dec 2025
So he's a good trainer, but a crap player the manager plays anyway? Yippee! [Post edited 2 Dec 17:43]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 17:36 2 Dec 2025
Careful - sanity like yours might be catching!
I suspect many of those who are defended the 'player fatigue' thesis haven't been watching football for more than a couple of decades or so. |
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Reply | Hillsborough - not a single officer will be held to account
at 16:56 2 Dec 2025
The officers' names are at least in the public domain, even if feels like a Pyrric victory at best. They all retired (or did the decent thing and died) to avoid accountability. So much for being 'public servants'. Pubic perverts would better cover it. |
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 16:14 2 Dec 2025
Allegedly headbutted a player - unless you're simply swallowing the propaganda of the rich lunatics who were hiring and firing on a virtually monthly basis at the time.
A (presumably player) source in the dressing room later denied any head-butt happened, as did Marc Bircham, and at the time John Gorman and the reserve manager walked out in support of the manager (who also denied it). It was discussed on a thread on this very messageboard on 9 October.
https://www.wearetherangersboys.com/forum/general/qpr-fans/16858-did-buz-embelis
I suspect what happened is that the player concerned, and probably some of the rest of them, didn't like a bit of managerial passion going up against their lack of it, and the twunts running the show wanted to flex their scrawny muscles once again.
PS Re Magilton's CV, he and the IFA might disagree with your assessment that his managing the Irish U-21 set-up for three years isn't a 'pwoper job'. [Post edited 2 Dec 16:34]
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 16:00 2 Dec 2025
I didn't say I admired his record, just that I liked the cut of his jib. (In fact, from memory, we started pretty well under him, before the wheels came off.)
We could use a manager like him now, imo. who might get in the faces of the likes of soft centres like Madsen and Varane |
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 15:56 2 Dec 2025
It's not that hard, surely? I didn't feel (rightly or wrongly - there's a seemingly endless thread about it) I was being mugged off by the club on that particular occasion, that's all. Even I sometimes pedal back on the critical thinking just a tad, especially as I realise one must be pretty dense to go to a football club of all things for transparency (even if, probably because I am bit stupid, being a fanatical, I often rail against it). |
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Reply | Isaac Hayden
at 13:25 2 Dec 2025
if Varane and Madsen are our rough diamonds, I'm neurotypical! |
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