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I've had a very up and down relationship with Xmas over the years, so totally relate to anyone who finds it a difficult time of year. It can feel like you're at odds with the omnipresent ideal that is concocted, packaged, and forced on to you, aided and abetted by seemingly every single person around you who is buying into it. Tough stuff to manage.
So solidarity to anyone in that position. Not sure what the solution is tbh. Perhaps finding some aspect of the thing that _does_ speak to you, and focusing on that. I know some people find comfort in doing charity work at this time of year, seems a good and worthwhile thing to do. And there's plenty of football to watch of course.
For me, these days having two young girls who are giddy as kippers is good, because (like everything else) it becomes about them and making sure they have a good time, so all the other stuff takes a back seat.
I hope everyone who is in to it has a brilliant Xmas, and everyone who isn't at least gets to watch QPR play some decent football x
If we're going to mount a push for the playoffs we'll have to show we have the fitness and resolve to get results in these games. At least it's a proper test that'll clarify things by the time the last of the turkey has been eaten!
Yeah this. When we're at our best (i.e. Saturday just gone) I'm not sure he's an asset, because it's super direct, rapid transition etc. but we're not always going to be in that situation and he's the best player we have at retaining possession. I was also struck by Madsen saying in the W12 interview that Chair is the hardest trainer at the club. I'm confident that if JS is here for a while and Chair stays fit that JS will find a way to work him into a system that gets the best out of him. In fact I think we've already seen a slightly different Chair this season, taking it outside and playing a quicker ball etc
The W12 interview is definitely worth a listen. He's an unusual character. Comes across as unusually honest and unguarded, and also sensitive to criticism. I wonder if something went on here that is behind is apparent antipathy towards cifuentes?. Also comes across as a bit dour 😂 I like him, and like others you'd have to be incredibly misanthropic to not find joy in his redemption arc
Fortunately this isn't how league tables work 😉. The improvement needed to make the playoffs is roughly one point more in the second half of the season than we got in the first half.
Yeah I was actually trying to compare the two games in terms of how dominant we / Coventry were, but hard to be objective. Felt like if we hadn't had to stop for half time we could have scored as many as we want, can't remember seeing an opposition team look so clearly checked out and rattled. Probably needed to score early second half to keep the momentum going, although Kone had a good chance to score which could have opened the flood gates further.
It's a shame, and didn't see it coming, probably because my main connection to QPR is this message board.
I actually felt sorry for Marti watching it yesterday because that Leicester team is clearly full of absolute weapons, must be a difficult dressing room. And from Twitter last night their supporters clearly expect them to be going up again this season.
I mean, the thought of competing in the premiership is ludicrous... But football is where I come to park the grounded objectivity portion of my brain, so I'm all for dreaming of an unlikely promotion push tbh . To go from Coventry to challenging for playoffs would be a hell of a story - and fairly on brand tbh
I'll admit to looking at the table last night and thinking there's not really anyone outside the top two to be especially fearful of. And if you look at our games over Xmas we're playing three of the bottom four, and West Brom who are bottom half... In principle there's no reason not to be aiming for a big points haul that would take us into January well in the mix...
What a difference it makes when both wide players are on it, has that happened this season?
And like Tyler said, if you could pick three players who would benefit from a goal Kone, Saito and Dembele would be up there. Madsen scoring in the second half would be icing on the cake.
Lovely to address the goal difference Coventry deficit. We want 7!
I was at an AI workshop earlier this year and the facilitator challenged us to think of a domain which was immune to be dramatically changed by AI. I said sport, because people wouldn't want to sit around watching machines competing - robot wars notwithstanding. He argued that there would be a future where we should be doing precisely that, essentially watching CGI renderings of probabilistically determined 'sports'. Sounds shit if you ask me. But then in the middle east there's a huge market for the premiership and people chop and change their allegiances from game to game so 🤷♂️
The 70s is before my time, the Les, Sinton et al team was what I grew up up on, but Adel, Faurlin et al were the team that really got under my skin in the way that can only happen when you're travelling to games a lot, drinking on trains etc., and celebrating in pubs afterwards. I think it was made more special by the years of shite beforehand. There were times were you had to pinch yourself, like, "I didn't think we were allowed nice things?!"
The win away at Reading with ten men in particular was a moment where you just knew this was our year.
Classic QPR for the whole Faurlin affair to hang over the end of the season of course.
I was home for Xmas, and took my brother who doesn't watch football to watch that game. At full time he produced one of the all time under statements, "Your number seven is pretty good isn't he"
One of those rare games where watching football is genuinely joyful
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