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Reply | Cheese.....
at 20:26 7 May 2025
Have you tried dolcelatte yet? Beautiful flavour  |
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Reply | Head of Set Pieces role
at 09:26 7 May 2025
To save money, we have combined that role with that of milk monitor.  |
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Reply | Rangers read the room, finish on a high at Sunderland - Report
at 14:18 6 May 2025
Like a can of Winalot, that was packed with meaty goodness. 
You, your fellow contributors and more than a few posters on here come up with so many good suggestions about how to move this club forward, you're almost doing the QPR board's job for them, if only they'd listen.
Sadly, they don't seem to, none of them really care enough to move us forward, and egos frequently get in the way of progress. I really don't take the £2m a month and another year of Championship survival for granted, even if it frequently feels like the board do take its fanbase for granted, but we're really only treading water, hoping that either someone with more drive will finally buy us or that the lower grade coaches and players we have to rely on due to S&P rules will one day, somehow, flukily produce a season of utter brilliance and get us up into the Premier League.
Its brutal but it would be so much worse without the insight and self-help possibilities LFW affords us. Thank you so much, Clive, contributors and posters.
Now, get some rest and - important, this - no political threads!  |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 13:43 6 May 2025
"This City Is Ours" has been brilliant so far, in my view. It's a bit like "Kin" but set on Merseyside. I like the multiple, interwoven plotlines, it's not just about the drug dealing.
We just watched the first two episodes of "Families like ours" and thought it was excellent, if worrying. It's a Danish drama in which the Danish government has decided to close the country in the light of major and ongoing flooding. It's on the BBC. |
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Reply | Subtle differences
at 09:32 6 May 2025
"Is it just me, or am I all on my own, again?"
As sung by rockers The Darkness
"Constant change is here to stay".
As sung by Rush. RIP Neil. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 09:20 6 May 2025
Unless Marti leaves of his own accord, I think the club is on a sticky wicket. I think they would need to prove that Marti is in breach of contract. That might not be easy.
I want Marti to stay and I'm no expert when it comes to these things, but unless another club comes in for Marti, the situation appears very messy and could remain so for some time. |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 20:33 5 May 2025
I was struggling to find the answer to an obscure query I had about Italian football. That was in spite of including a lot of very specific information in the search criteria.
I had never previously tried an AI-driven search due to how much extra CO2 they generate (around 10 times more tgan a standard search), but thought I'd make an exception just this once.
Well, the search came up with a convincing answer first time.
However, when I checked the answer - the name of a football team - I discovered that the AI had been wrong. Interesting... |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 20:03 5 May 2025
It's fine, healthy in fact, to have a debate where there are lots of differing opinions, but given what has happened since we were last relegated and the nerve-shredding season we have just had, with its bewildering and as yet unresolved final crisis, coming up with the statement below suggests to me that either the original poster has been paying very little attention, they don't care, or they have an agenda.
"There’s a bit of stability creeping in, and for once, it feels like we’re not just lurching from one short-term fix to the next". |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 09:30 5 May 2025
"There’s a bit of stability creeping in, and for once, it feels like we’re not just lurching from one short-term fix to the next".
This is the section which most bothers me. I can't believe that any genuine fan, even the most pro-Nourry one, could think, let alone, write this. How little attention would you need to be paying to think this?
For example:
- A large number of key players are about to be out of contract
- We are in a crazy limbo situation with our manager
- The team keeps experiencing wild swings in form
- We often flirt with relegation
- While showing signs of improvement, our internal player development is nowhere near where it needs to be yet
- We are in the middle of an S&P induced nightmare which looks like it will never end, mainly because
- Nothing is being done to address our issues with the stadium (capacity, long term future, mon-matchday revenues)
- Communication between the club and the fans about the really serious stuff is appalling. There is an information vacuum which is being filled with endless rumours, in the know claims and sock puppet campaigns. Perhaps you could flag this up to the people you claim to know behind the scenes, please?
You talk about posters subjecting you to a witch trial. Well, while things aren't all bad at QPR, for the true, long-standing fan, for a lot of the time in recent years, a trial is what supporting the club has been like.
It's spirit-crushing and not easy to cope with season after season. |
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Reply | The Drunks, Insomniacs, and Antipodeans Thread
at 12:05 4 May 2025
I found myself awake at 5.30am and miraculously, remembered that it's International Dawn Chorus Day. I stuck my head out the window for a while and had a listen.
It seemed quite muted and distant compared with 20 years ago, but there were still quite a few different birds singing.
I'm not great at identifying them by their songs but there were robins, blackbirds, crows and wood pigeons in there, plus, more intriguingly, something I hadn't heard much before.
One problem was that because there was so little other noise at that time of day, when a 'plane went by, the din it made was huge and seemed almost endless. 
Good luck sleeping, insomniacs. If ever I can't sleep, I find reading a book helps me drift off.  |
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Reply | Possible next managers...
at 13:26 1 May 2025
Indeed, unless we let Calm and Betsy, plus maybe also Furlong, do it and make it official when Marti is officially gone. Not that I want Marti gone, mind, but I think there's no way he can stay while the current top team is still in place. |
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Reply | Possible next managers...
at 10:18 1 May 2025
Rather than bringing in someone who is new to QPR and who will more than likely treat us as a stepping stone for a few years, if they don't get sacked first, why not make Calm official head coach - if he is willing to put up with Nourry - make Betsy his official assistant and promote Furlong to make him a first team coach. I know Betsy and Calm (sounds like a posh soap brand  ) are in interim charge, make them permanent or as near as QPR ever gets to permanent .
Calm hasn't always worked with Marti, he has been a head coach twice, albeit at a low level, and he has Championship experience here and at Birmingham City. He was apparently doing all the defensive coaching anyway, Marti coached the attacking players, such as they are.
Let's give some people who already have some affinity with Rangers a go. It gives us some much needed continuity and avoids a situation where our new coaching team know little or nothing about the EFL.
I didn't realise before but Betsy actually coached various England youth teams. This approach probably won't work, hardly anything seems to at this club, but perhaps the combination of a bit of emotional attachment and some loyalty plus a modicum of ability will work. It will be cheaper, too.
Right, time for my tablets . [Post edited 1 May 10:30]
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Reply | Cifuentes on gardening leave
at 20:57 30 Apr 2025
He hasn't always coached alongside Cifuentes. For example, he was at Birmingham City without him, as part of Pep Clotet's coaching staff. |
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Reply | Possible next managers...
at 20:07 30 Apr 2025
I've just had a horrible, horrible thought:
Wayne Rooney and new owners coming as a set.
Please not Wayne. Ugh!  |
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