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Reply | I've never felt more like starting the Blues Match Thread..
at 16:17 11 Mar 2026
You clearly missed all the challenges in and around our box in the first half. He completely muscled players off the ball and carried it away at least 3 times in the first half when others were watching on.
Feel free to keep to the ill informed narrative that he’s no good though |
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Reply | I've never felt more like starting the Blues Match Thread..
at 14:56 11 Mar 2026
Varane was one of our best players on Sunday. Bar one awful pass he was as solid as be. He and Edwards were the only ones who could walk off that pitch with their heads held high.
They will target our right, as Middlesborough did, as did Saints. Virtually all goals coming from that side in both games. Mbengue (who I really like) is definitely not a full back. Complacent against players who are quick and looking to play balls around the full backs. + if he goes up the pitch and looses it he seems to think it's acceptable to jog back without urgency for the counter. He also gets isolated as Vale just hasn't got a clue how to defend/cover, he's simply not been coached it up until now. |
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Reply | So ..... team for Saturday ?
at 09:18 27 Feb 2026
He seems to have stopped trying too hard to impress in the recent games, and looked more like the player we watched and were impressed by last year.
Seeing Kolli listed here and not discussed post Southampton. He wasn't awful in a first half we controlled from the 15th min til Madson's injury around the 40th min. My gut is he was feeling something, or injured, so was pulled off.
Might not see him tomorrow... |
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Reply | Madsen hamstring
at 09:11 27 Feb 2026
Does anybody know how the Youth/B teams are getting on injury wise? Wondering if there is anything in a previous discussion around the pitches at the training ground? I have no knowledge of what they're made of, but others seemed to think they were ITK, claiming that Newcastle ripped up the very same new pitches, due to ongoing soft tissue injuries. |
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Reply | 3 at the back with wing backs Saturday?
at 17:51 26 Feb 2026
We have looked better with 3 at the back for many years now. warburton saved his job post Cardiff at Xmas by switching to a 3 for the Norwich away game, which we should have won in their promotion season. That Warburton team never looked back for almost a calendar year with the loans in Jan helping. Aug- early Dec we were sublime to watch.
BUT, yes all day long if you want to play football through the lines vs pumping it in the channels as we mostly do now |
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Reply | Madsen hamstring
at 17:42 26 Feb 2026
everybody moaned when he was changing it up for the midweek games earlier in the season, when we had decent players on the bench. "you need to stick with a winning team" was everywhere.
The bench is bare now and people want it the other way.
Thankfully, Morgan has looked OK in recent games including the other night (bar one stupid forced pass). If he can concentrate and not play the exciting (but ultimately not on) pass every time, then we might be OK. Just needs to not force it at times, but great to have a player thinking about getting it forward every time he gets the ball. Varane couldn't/can't be risked for 90, but should be there shortly.
We shouldn't be exposing Bennie to starting matches. Great strike and plenty of effort, but I'll leave it there, he's a young lad.
Vale features in the match for a few minutes, then disappears. Lovely left foot, but no engine and lacks concentration defensively. He was in the mix for 2 goals the other night by being the wrong side of play when his man had gone. Actually, was only edging forward, but he either ignored it, or missed it. He can only be played offensively. |
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Reply | Note to attackers
at 18:19 25 Feb 2026
Didn’t work for Mbengue for their 4th |
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Reply | I've not started a match thread before, but I thought f*ck it, why not? v Saints
at 22:03 24 Feb 2026
Granted. He’s looked knackered since his 2nd game, but injuries haven’t given many of them a chance to rest. The 3 weeks he was injured isn’t a rest, as he’s not training - but he still shows more energy than others, even if we would prefer to see it more offensively. Smyth must be carrying a knock, as he should be stepping in, and certainly before Bennie. |
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Reply | QPR hand O’Neill perfect start as Blackburn boss – Report
at 14:26 17 Feb 2026
Kolli should be here for me, but used more.
Morgan should have gone out for the experience and at the right club could flourish.
Bennie wouldn't get minutes. Simple as.
There are lots of on paper good Prem kids, especially in attacking positions, in League 1 & 2, and the national league for that matter not getting minutes.
Not sure how you sell a loan deal to a club when your answer to where does play is "wherever you want him to". OK, what's he good at? ........running around. That's not harsh, it's the truth.
He clearly trains well, works hard on the pitch (he does do that) and is a good lad, but I'm at a loss how he's starting games in the Championship at this point in his development. Might be better going back to Oz on loan, as he seemed to shine down there. He wouldn't get games in L1 & 2. |
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Reply | Sent to Coventry (hopefully not again) QPR vs Coventry Match Thread
at 10:41 1 Feb 2026
Kolli can play wide and we all know it. If we’d lost 1-0 yesterday because of that lapse of concentration most of you would be carving him up for lunch, as you do when we lose and are looking for a scape goat.
I prefer not to do that, but personally wouldn’t have him in the firing line in the first place.
Bar the lapse yesterday he did nothing wrong, my issue is you have to think long and hard to remember what he did right every time he plays. Broke well for the shot, but I don’t know how to fill the other hour |
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Reply | Sent to Coventry (hopefully not again) QPR vs Coventry Match Thread
at 09:32 1 Feb 2026
Ok, here’s another. Look at Wrexhams equaliser. Bennie and either Field/RND follow the same man to the far end of our 6yd box 12 yds from where the ball actually landed on Walsh’s fist. The player they left free scored the goal. He couldn’t believe his luck.
I’m not here to slag him, I actually thought he did alright with the shot across goal, poor angle etc. but I don’t think he is good enough to pull the shirt on yet. He obviously trains well etc, but I still don’t know what he is, apart from trying to make himself busy.
It’s criminal that he gets to be on there instead of Kolli, who also works hard. He’d have got us up the pitch more and stretched them later in the game |
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Reply | Eustace
at 11:29 31 Jan 2026
Have you seen how much they’ve spent… |
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Reply | Would a newby be a booby ? Match thread
at 17:40 24 Jan 2026
He wasn’t at fault for any, but some love a witch hunt...
My biggest gripe is why is a player unmarked 12 yds out in the middle of the goal when we had 2 more players in the box..
Third was just sitting too deep
Dunne should do much better for the first, but he had a great game bar that
For every Birmingham there’s a …. |
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Reply | Dembélé new boo boy?
at 16:33 21 Jan 2026
Probably the same folk who said Madson had no ability and was lazy last year |
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Reply | Injuries
at 14:09 21 Jan 2026
And only a couple of months since most on here were losing their sh1t over team rotation on a 3 game week. |
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