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The signings of Peacock, Tillson and Brevett saved us.
Andy Tillson was just pure silk. I cannot remember why his career never hit the heights that it should have. Myself and another lad in our number raved about him and we dubbed the lad “the poor mans Alan Hansen”.
Gould and Howe were a great double act. Blimey….thirty ‘kin five bloody years ago?! My word!!
If you want a hotel room around Heathrow then I’d suggest you arrive by dinghy. Avoid or google choices around there to make sure they are still 100% “tourist” hotels.
Locally I’d recommend the Best Western opposite Northfields Station on the Piccadilly line so convenient for Heathrow and also not far from W12 (about £16 in an uber if you’re a lazy fcukr like me or head in via Hammersmith or Ealing Broadway) I’d also consider the hotels noted near the Bush but can’t personally recommend
Enjoy your trip and hopefully we can keep the score below seven, might even let Cov score one
Why, based on what you’ve seen / heard of Poku this season, do you think he’s a better option than Smyth????
I don’t get it.
Smyth is 100%, full of pace, tracks back on is robust (can’t think of too many injuries) and has three goals to his name. He’s well above Poku and Vale at the moment I feel.
Chair remains well ahead of Dembele for me. He’s also well ahead of Poku as I’ve seen nothing of him; there’s a man who needs to demonstrate some fitness and robustness (can’t see it happening for him this season). Koki and s great when on form but he’s in a lull so Yass comes straight in above him.
So there’s 3 players I’d put him ahead of and JS would probably put Chair ahead of Smyth (level choice for me).
I could also see Chair playing “in da hole” with Kone pushed up as the point man striker. This does rob us of Burrell the pace monster but it’s got something about it in my opinion.
Did amuse me yesterday to see the hoody with ski goggles coats in the away end. Wanted to ask them how they got on at Hillingdon Dry Slope earlier in the day
After Dembele scores have a look bottom of the screen at Madsen. He celebrates that goal knowing the part he played and seems to be celebrating quite nicely towards the dugouts…….. who knows why?!?!
I was saying to my mate sitting next to me I’d like to see changes with pace from 65/70 as felt Leicester would be hugely vulnerable on the break. He mentioned as well that there’s a lot of games coming thick n fast and be good to get minutes into the legs of replacements and those who start all the time have a bit of a sit down
It was Dembeles goal for the third IIRC He continued his theme of this season by working hard, closed down in front of Ellerslie and then a lovely outside of the boot flick inside to who I think was Varanne who pushed us on forward. That flick was subtle, good vision and in that move opened up a vast area of the pitch for us.
Have said on other threads he’s having a dramatic turnaround season and making my harsh words last season look stupid. I’m always happy to eat humble pie and he’s serving me large portions…… if he added half a dozen goals to his game this season and could see some clubs showing an interest.
Easy to wax lyrical after yesterday’s first half and focus on all the big upticks all over the pitch.
Something happened second half that showed me more than all our goals did and it involved Leicesters undeserved goal from the penalty. After the post was struck and their man reacted fastest to score a few players had an inquest. Think it was Jimmy Dunnes man…. Him. RND, Cooke and a couple of others were having quite an involved discussion and not at all happy we’d not got the rebound first. At 4-0 up and late in the game it would’ve been easier for them to just shrug and move on closing the game out. I really liked what I saw in front of me from the South Africa Road seats. Standards - don’t accept them slipping even when cruising to a win.
I have to confess to being a tiny bit gutted that Leicester “won the second half”; really hope the players are as well. I was hoping we’d razzle another couple of goals in to bury that Coventry away result once and for all plus get the GD back on track. Let’s hope the players have that in mind and attack the Pompey game with the level of effort and commitment required.
Final word on standards for the Lino on the SA Road side. Shockingly bad. If you cannot keep up with play and judge blatant offsides then give it up.
"If you like a bit of aggro with your football join our club"
Also...... sadly I can't really make many away games anymore but used to love on the coach / train getting involved with "We all follow the Rangers over land and sea (and LEICESTER), we all follow the Rangers onto to victory"
Keeper situation is a bit of a joke. We’ve destroyed Nardi and he looks terrible this season (quite good today though); Walsh won’t make it IMHO and Hamer is the stiffest of stiffs.
Full backs have been an issue for years.
Centre back looks sort of well covered but JGS cannot be relied on and Cookie will be gone end of season but I’d hope he’d continue to give 100%
I’m a big supporter of Varanne but I can’t deny he’s not stamping any authority on games this season. Madsen much improved from a very low base but he’s the pick of the bunch. God knows what’s happened to Field. Poku is a physios wet dream and the Anthill Mob will always get overrun away from home against accomplished squads like Boro. Saito is looking more and more like a poor signing and money that could’ve been invested in a younger and better Colback type.
Up top Burrell is a revelation but I see little else. Kone will be added to the QPR Hall of Fame for Non-Scoring Goal Scorers and Frey looks like his race is run with Kolli seeming to just be a load of off pitch noise.
The Manager and most of his staff are new to all this and it shows some weeks, great others. I would say I think they are doing well with all the above considered; as are the players with a better than expected points tally so far. I just hope Nourry and the club can keep on learning and learning fast. Gotta stop the cycle and actually build rather than continually having new dawns.
I’d agree “slowly improving” but an awful lot to do and I remain concerned that a death spiral may come around sooner than the marked improvement.
We looked better when fresh legs came on. Another one I’m chalking up as down to a novice coach to the EFL but Julian should’ve learnt by now. Repeat this for a third time and I could start throwing the words “arrogant” and “foolhardy” around.
Not happy but not unexpected and it could’ve been worse.
Now back to twelve points away from the bottom three. My barometer is less than 12 and I get concerned……
When do we say Julian has passed the “learning about this league and this squad” stage?
It was 10 games back in August
Nobody expected us to wipe the floor with Boro today but to repeat the N’arich debacle is a proper dereliction of duty. No subs at HT or 55 mins in when you’ve got weak baggage like Saito out there is quite frankly bizarre
You see for me I will never accept the narrative out of the club that having two wins already in a three game week means it’s been a good one no matter what happens on the Saturday. It seeps into the players and these nothing performances away in game 3 are too readily accepted. Fcuk off. Nothing less than 100% animal aggression is needed every second that hooped jersey is pulled on. Minimum requirement.
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