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Reply | Manager situation
at 17:46 12 Jun 2025
Yep, that will be the "tough man" who got frit at the prospect of having to serve for his country in Vietnam and woosed out a number of times by way of deferments, heel spurs included.
Yet "tough man" has the gall to deride others, like the late J McCain, who did military service for their country in Vietnam. [Post edited 12 Jun 17:53]
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 20:51 11 Jun 2025
Very true, he's a big miss but there appears to be an air of malaise around the club this season. Rossington's selection above someone like Das is mystifying. I'd pick Westley in the team ahead of some others who seemingly can't be dropped.
In contrast, the balance of Kent's T20 side looks spot on. Granted, Crawley will be a big loss but you are well placed in the league after four games. Hope you beat Surrey tomorrow.
Who's likely to take Crawley's place in the team? |
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Reply | Manager situation
at 17:23 11 Jun 2025
This person is the self-appointed omniscient one. How dare you draw attention to any of his many faux pas. [Post edited 11 Jun 18:01]
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 16:47 11 Jun 2025
I just sense that this game could be over by the close of play on Friday. Both sides' strength appears to lie in their respective bowlng attacks. I don't think South Africa will get many more runs than Australia, may even be fewer.
Middlesex did comfortably beat Essex in Sunday's T20 game, very much in keeping with the manner in which the other three teams battered Essex beforehand. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 16:36 10 Jun 2025
Why would he be interested in coming to such a rudderless club like ours, when he will undoubtedly have better loan options to consider at clubs with clear(er) 1st team plans already in place for pre-season and the new season. [Post edited 10 Jun 16:40]
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 00:14 7 Jun 2025
Eze was with QPR for 4 years. Just correcting.
Meaning 6 of the same team, Kolli being injured) that started in the same game were here longer, some of whom since they were very young. This will be the same development squad that finished 2nd bottom in its league. I just think that some perspective is needed. Let's use the much-derided Osman Kakay as the benchmark; if any of the ones you are already lauding play in nearly 100 games at championship level for us or elsewhere, then they've done very well.
As was the case pre- Nourry, only a few of these players will end up playing regularly at championship level. If we get relegated, I hope not, then more will obviously play. However, at this stage, only Morgan stands out from the "new" intake and Kolli from the pre-Nourry era. Vale is nearly 22, so cannot be classed as a development player in my view. [Post edited 7 Jun 7:50]
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 23:17 6 Jun 2025
You're not thinking very deeply. Eze being a gross omission on your part, with another windfall due to be received by the club at some stage in the future, when he's sold by Palace! Memory is poor, but I'm sure we received over £4m for Tjaronn Cherry after having paid about £1.7m.
I reference Eze, as you have mentioned Morgan, who arrived at this club after being released by his former club.
Has an offer actually been received by the club for Varane at the reported figure of £5m and from whom? If true, we'd better sell him in order to offset the losses that will accrue on Madsen and Celar, as we will not get back anything remotely close to what we reportedly paid for either.
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 11:59 4 Jun 2025
Don't worry. It may not be at Lords, but Middlesex will beat Essex on Sunday.
The Essex T20 team for this season is worse than that of Middlesex. I said before the start of the championship, that I was fearful of our chances in maintaining our division one status. Well Essex's T20 team has performed even more poorly and has been thumped in both of its T20 games. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 09:28 30 May 2025
Meanwhile, in the real world, it looks as if the former Norwich coach will in all likelhood take over from the MC. A Norwich team that conceded more goals than us. Essentially, his sole role was to make their defence more watertight, as their ability to score goals was never an issue.
He failed, royally. That team should have been much closer to the play-offs, if not in the top six.
Yet, he's deemed as being an upgrade on the MC. It's derisory. Of the two, there's only one person who managed to get the optimum, in terms of performance, from their respective team's ability last season. [Post edited 30 May 9:52]
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Reply | Kenny ofski
at 13:24 28 May 2025
Yeah, as many assists as the "highly-rated" and "creative" Saito. Same number of assists and solitary goal as Smyth. But Paal's crap.
For an underperforming player who had apparently "checked out" all season, I'm certain that his contributions compare favourably with the majority of left-backs in this league: Firpo and a few others excepted. [Post edited 29 May 12:48]
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Reply | State of Origin 2025.
at 12:24 28 May 2025
The quality, timing, speed of pass and accuracy under such defensive pressure for that second try for NSW, pure bliss. Rugby league at its very best. Latrell Mitchell, wow. What dexterity. |
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Reply | Kenny ofski
at 10:39 28 May 2025
Totally agree.
Sincerely hope that we have someone in mind as his replacement with commensurate level of games played at championship level, is dependable and durable.
We've lost a player who averages a shade over 43 games played per season since he joined us. What we currently have as suggested first-choice alternatives at the club will not cut it in the championship. [Post edited 28 May 11:09]
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Reply | Bright Osayi Samuel
at 11:16 27 May 2025
Trent Alexander-Arnold hasn't done too badly. [Post edited 27 May 11:29]
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Reply | Crystal Palace Beer Festival
at 10:57 26 May 2025
We're world's apart because they kept perspective from day one and didn't start to think that they were bigger than what they actually are, and have remained humble to this day. We thought that we could achieve at breakneck speed by signing dross like Barton etc on egregious salaries, with no sell-on value. When Pulis wanted to do the same and bring in the likes of Etherington etc, Parish refused. They've got there incrementally.
For Joel Ward, read someone like Bradley Orr. They got promoted through the play-offs and kept the majority of that squad for their first few years in the premier league, unlike us. Their aim at that time was to ensure that they kept as much of the premier league's largesse within the club, always mindful of relegation, and not in the pockets of mercenaries with no affinity to the club which is all that we achieved.
Lastly, to show how they have remained humble as a club, their sesaon ticket price points for the season that concluded yesterday: circa £550 to £750. There is no way that our club, with misplaced hubris seemingly oozing in its DNA, would have held the prices that low, if we were in the premier league for as long as Palace. [Post edited 26 May 11:01]
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 18:28 24 May 2025
And the "all-knowing", nepo Nourry has subsequently seen it fit to sack the person who was primarily responsible for managing to get such results against that calibre of opposition, in spite of the huge limitations in the poorly assembled squad at his disposal. Just saying. [Post edited 24 May 18:33]
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Reply | National league
at 12:28 21 May 2025
It's quite simple. After 46 games, the final league placings speak for themselves. Southend, who finished 28 points behind second-placed, York, could get promoted through the play-offs.
You're essentially rewarding/incentivising relative failure/intermittent performances at the expense of a team that performed at a more consistent level throughout the entire season. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 16:12 19 May 2025
How incredibly underwhelming.
A coach with such an embarrassment of attacking riches at his disposal at Norwich, could only finish a massive one point ahead of the MC's depleted - injuries alongside many poor recruitments - QPR.
I suspect if the MC were in charge of Norwich with such attacking talent, he would have got them much closer to the play-offs, if not into the top 6.
Truly inspired, Mr all-knowing Nourry. [Post edited 19 May 16:28]
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