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Reply | Ridiculous kick off time for west ham away
at 17:10 15 Dec 2025
Anyone fancy predicting how many we will sell? (presuming we are allocated the 9,000).
I don't think we will sell out - I am thinking around 6,000. Hope I am wrong.
What's the largest away support you've been a part of (excluding Wembley and semis)?
Wimbledon in the Cup 5th round was well over 10,000 I thought
United at Old Trafford - 9,000?
Hillsborough - 8,000?
Highbury the 0-0 cup draw - ?
The Dell Disaster after the 4-1 at OT - ? |
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Reply | So Cifuentes ?
at 12:32 15 Dec 2025
That was not our finest hour. Nothing game, Cole couldn't be bothered at all, until he was booed (for what I have no idea, the temerity of being a good player) and then he turned it on.
Like sledging Brian Lara, you don't wake them up. |
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Reply | So Cifuentes ?
at 12:20 15 Dec 2025
I think, thankfully, this would only have been an issue if we were really struggling this season. As we are doing OK it seems a bit of a moot point.
I know not all agree, but I loved Marti, and think he did a brilliant job with the paucity of attacking options at his disposal. So a polite round of applause from me - if / when we go 4-0 up in the second half I would not be adverse to The Song making an appearance, swiftly followed by support for JS.
However this is at a Loftus Road where some cheered Sinclair Armstrong and some booed Lyndon Dykes on their return (both of which I strongly disagree with) - so each to their own, no doubt. |
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Reply | Middlesbrough F.C V Queens Park Rangers Match Thread.
at 11:06 14 Dec 2025
I agree, Mart - feels more like we treat the third game as a shot to nothing rather than a dig-in mentality to try and get a point (as 7 from 9 is real progress up the table).
I don't quite get the JCS thing - apart from this being a game where surely Cook is the better bet anyway, we seem to be treating him like Ledley King or something, being honoured just by his presence. Is he actually that good? I am slightly concerned that he is hampering Morrison's development, especially when no doubt he will be injured again soon. |
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Reply | Burrell again...
at 12:46 13 Dec 2025
Ha, join the club mate. Totally tone deaf. So bad that a few matches ago I was "singing" Come On U Rs and the (lovely) bloke next to me said that my singing was even worse than the football....I took no offence, as even though we were bad that day, we were not that bad. |
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Reply | West Ham Ticket Price
at 12:47 12 Dec 2025
Does that mean we will definitely be Saturday or Sunday then? |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 16:32 9 Dec 2025
Difficult to argue with (1) the attempt to communicate with the fans and (2) most of the answers to the questions, except for the total meaningless waffle about Loftus Road's facilities. The ol' if you want us to invest in some half-decent facilities, then we will do so and not spend on any more Burrells or Kones schtik. Any long term thinking going on there? Still seems a total shock in the Loft that quite a few people may want a beer and a pie at 230pm. Surprised he didn't mention the plans for more safe standing.
However, the three reasons I am currently holding a dim view of Nourry = Marti, Furlong and the sacking off the cup debacle, for obvious reasons this doesn't change the needle on the first two. Has he talked about our general cup philosophy anywhere?
Really appreciate the time taken and the write up, thanks. |
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Reply | FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 22:24 8 Dec 2025
If it is right we get 9000 tickets it will go to general sale and although we will take lots would be quite amazing if we took all 9000 especially with danger that we play kids. |
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Reply | FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 20:05 8 Dec 2025
Oh they will find a reason, they always do.
At worst the whole kids debacle again, at best resting Burrell.
I say it again, finally we get a fun draw. What is the actual point in being a QPR fan if we don't even try to win it?
Still remember Marti's face in the pre-Leicester game when he was told how many tickets we had sold.
Please, please don't do it again. [Post edited 8 Dec 20:05]
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Reply | Loveliest Town in England Match Thread
at 22:04 26 Nov 2025
Well done lads, all the stalwarts like Cook, Field, Chair, Smyth get written off and look who are standing up to be counted up North midweek.....
Fair play Stephan, got it right tonight. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 08:06 26 Nov 2025
No-one would accept it, even if we rushed off to play a pink ball game, though. Losing the Ashes is usually the end of regimes and I find it pretty sad that McCullum, Key and Stokes will almost certainly be chucked away at the end of this latest debacle, if that is what happens. They have made some mistakes for sure on this tour, to the delight of vile old never-weres like Agnew, but they remain our best chance to beat them at home in a couple of years' time.
In my view, you can practice all you like with the pink ball against whoever, but it won't mean Zak suddenly lines up Starc.
As DaveB said, we were actually right in that last test match - we are not far off.
I just wish they would bring a little balance. McCullum needs to reign Brook in from batting like a madman, he's so good and he is wasting it. Crawley only has one way, really, but the class like Root and Brook need to play properly. [Post edited 26 Nov 8:28]
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Reply | Furs leaving
at 20:34 25 Nov 2025
Can only echo these thoughts Brian. I have absolutely no inside knowledge nor personally know anyone who does, but if certain posters are coming together I will give that more truck than the ones who mysteriously come and go.
This is another major cross against Nourry for me. I don't like what he is doing to the club - yet again I find myself wondering where the absentee owners are. If I owned this club I would be extremely concerned, I certainly am as a fan. |
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Reply | Hull Reflection
at 07:40 23 Nov 2025
Thought when 0-1 down and 2-1 down there was a real precipice moment there and that the players seemed a bit flat and a bit lost. However, what a pleasure to see them dig in, turn it around and in the end should really have won by many more.
I do wish Stephan would find a back 4 and stick to it. Dunne at CB and Mbengue at RB seems to work, was bemused for JCS to be thrown straight back in. Genuinely think a settled back 4 may have kept a clean sheet today.
Burrell was fantastic; I absolutely love him and the impact he has on a game. Never, ever stops running and busting a gut. Wonderful.
Really impressed with Dembele too, just keep improving that decision making - when he passed rather than shot we got the rewards.
And of course Chair - the man needs a run of games and we know from past evidence he just gets better and better.
Excellent day in the end. :-) |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 10:58 22 Nov 2025
You can't honestly believe any team captained by Ben Stokes would either be picked on golf abilities or not prepare hard enough? Listen to an interview with Mark Wood in the summer. He hates golf, and just laughs at the perception the has beens put out about it. [Post edited 22 Nov 10:59]
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 10:42 22 Nov 2025
Also BazBall is at its best when we bowl first. I am stunned we chose to bat, to be honest. I thought the whole point is that we scare the opposition because we can smash our way to anything in the final innings? Bit like what the Aussies did to us really. We are going to be rubbish at defending without quality spin. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 08:34 22 Nov 2025
Got that feel about it, hasn't it? Turned it off, too depressing. :-( |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 08:25 22 Nov 2025
The thing is the Bazball aspect of it has worked, we are so much more competitive. I think it has been great to be more positive.
The bit I don't get, and we haven't learned,was from that India chase in the summer. Ridiculous chase, no chance normally, we would prod around, go nowhere and never get near it. This time we Bazballed, got ourselves into a really strong winning position....and kept going. Brook threw it away and that was that. That was the time to reign it in. Just like this Test, our position at lunch...surely it was time to be a bit more sensible. BazBall had got us into a brilliant position, but you can't just keep going, that is a nonsense in Test cricket.
Love Baz and Stokes but it perplexes me that they can't see that. [Post edited 22 Nov 8:25]
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 08:05 22 Nov 2025
Clutching at straws here, but if I remember right in 2005 we lost the first test but at least put down a marker that we could compete and saw it through. I trust Stokes to show that we can be competitive.
Batting has to improve, our system is so reliant on batting around Root, if he fails, that's it. |
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