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Reply | Season perspectives
at 14:56 5 May 2025
That’s all fine & reasonable Ned, no problems with any of that.
But my point was lassel did give us a back story and an indication where he got his info from. We could then each decide if we thought, plausible or bollox.
This is what Charlie has thus far avoided doing. |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 12:18 5 May 2025
By a similar token...if we ask a question about the (new) claims in your op, can't we expect an answer, instead of deflection?
The likes of Clive, Dave Thomas, the WLS guys etc have got track records, journalistic nous, experience...they've earned trust & respect, they can show their receipts.
Tbh all new posters giving it the ITK schtick get questioned in a pretty full on manner. How they respond quickly determines whether it gets more full on or not- - eg lassel got a fair bit of stick initially, but when, after a while, he did hint at a reliable source, was cut a lot more slack.
You present your op as just some out loud musings, then drop your ITK bombshells, and think you'll just get an, 'ok mate, carry on...' |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 08:20 5 May 2025
Ok, I'll try the benefit of the doubt approach.
"I do hear and read stuff but no more than most of you..." - can you please then share with those of us who haven't heard that Cifuentes "wasn't well liked behind the scenes" and that the Ben Williams situation is being sorted, where you heard this.
We can then make our own judgments and quietly move on.
They were two statements that jumped out from your opening post, and over however many pages we're at now, with however many posts from your good self, you've not added any clarification on those points. |
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Reply | the mythical 20 goal a season striker
at 07:12 5 May 2025
Norwich had two of the Top 5 and finished one point ahead of us.
Sharing them out's the name of the game these days, imho.
Look at Frey & Kolli's goals per minutes played ratios, both would have been double figures had they stayed fit / played more. Chair usually good for 7 or 8 a season if fit, he's also our main assister - his absence was keenly felt. |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 22:08 4 May 2025
Thing is Ned, you said we shouldn't all pile on asking Chazza the same questions re where he got his (ahem) intel from - but after several pages,for all his many ongoing thread contributions which go from sarky to hurt to 'bantz' and back again...he stii hasn't told us how he "heard" that Marti "wasn’t well-liked behind the scenes either. Stubborn, slow to adapt, quick to deflect when things went wrong – and very happy to take the praise when they didn’t"; and where / how he "heard that’s now been addressed for next season, which is good news" ref the Ben Williams farce.
So people don't feel inclined to give it a rest until he does so. At least the likes of lassel give some idea as to where they've got their info from.
So whether he's a genuine fan, a QBlockPete style stooge or someone who just fancied spending his Sunday doing a massive wind up - he's asking for grief. |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 10:15 4 May 2025
Guess so Brian, after all he was clued up enough to drop a favourite cheese introductory post a couple of weeks back. |
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Reply | Sunderland Match Thread
at 18:17 2 May 2025
"0-6.
Hat tricks for Madsen and Celar, who has risen phoenix like from the treatment room.
As the final whistle parps, the mauled Mackems slope disconsolately off the pitch, the home support long since having departed.
Christian Nourry, 27 and a half, appointed manager at 2.55pm, makes his way over to the adoring away fans, who serenade his love of data and game models..."
(excerpt from Queen's Park Rangers: How I Woke the Sleeping W12 Giant by Christian Nourry, published June 2029 to commemorate the club's back to back Champions League triumphs) |
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Reply | Travel Disruption to the North East
at 15:18 2 May 2025
Surely taking her to the game is less cruel than just abandoning her for two hours in the badlands of Sunderland Dave? |
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Reply | English manager next for QPR
at 07:51 2 May 2025
That could be Clive's challenge for every match preview, coming up with new and ever more unlikely past jobs for our dynamic Anglo-Spanish management duo.
He can have these two excellent opening suggestions as a free hit to kick off the season...only 46 more to go (maybe more if we have a cup ru...er, no, 46 it is). |
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Reply | Cifuentes on gardening leave
at 07:06 1 May 2025
Could the Hounslow Herald be a parody / made up Nourry mouthpiece?
I think we should be told! |
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Reply | Development side .
at 21:27 30 Apr 2025
Furs passes audition for 1st team job then :) |
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Reply | Cifuentes placed on garden leave as reign that promised so much unravels
at 13:09 30 Apr 2025
Paint a sneaky ...rs on the end of the sign, visit it on a Sat afternoon wearing a replica shirt (after a few pints), stand their tutting, swearing exasperatedly at any random passerby, then after a couple of hours of frustration, say "see ya next week" to the folk on the tills, and you've had the full QPR experience at a fraction of the price. |
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Reply | Cifuentes placed on garden leave as reign that promised so much unravels
at 07:37 30 Apr 2025
Cheers Clive. You have a great knack for pitching it right when this maddening club arrives at one of its regular tricky but self-inflicted crossroads. Like a funeral eulogy, striking a suitably sombre tone, but a couple of mood-lightening gags dropped in to stop us all descending into an even darker place (I'm looking at you, Pink Panther's tail).
As a fan from what you neatly summarise as the "Bowles, Thomas, Francis, Dave Sexton, and total QPR football in the 70s" era (now feels positively Jurassic), I think three words from the middle of the piece pretty much sum up where this latest chapter sits in the never-ending W12 novel - "very QPR indeed."
I do wonder if the Snake Emoji Twitter Mob go to games...I've seen the young'uns looking as onside with MC as us retired cabbies. My own young'uns certainly are (were). Talking of which, can I propose one more group to add to your roll of 'teams who hooked us in' honour - for my kids' generation, "Bircham, Rowlands, Shittu et al bombing around Olly's cave" was definitely a much-needed spark.
Very tempting to turn off all Rs-related notifications for the next 3 months, then pitch up at the first game, buy a programme for the first time in 15 years, cast an eye over the squad list, then open the pages to find out who the hell they all are, and read introductory notes from a manager I've never heard of. I know you can't do that, and am sure I speak for the whole LFW congregation in being very grateful for that. [Post edited 30 Apr 7:56]
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Reply | New R...
at 21:55 29 Apr 2025
Congrats, great news. |
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Reply | QPR trounced in final home game as Burnley run riot - Report
at 10:10 28 Apr 2025
Might be my memory playing tricks...but didn't we have a really good chance after 3 or 4 minutes...we ended up with a player unmarked just to the right of their box (from my vantage point in R block I couldn't make out who), but his pull back across the box didn't find a hooped shirt - but Burnley defence was definitely back-pedalling.
Would it have made a blind bit of difference if we'd scored? Probably not - other than poking the bear even quicker. But not seen it referred to in any reports / highlights. |
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Reply | Nice Players
at 08:52 28 Apr 2025
Blackpool away, 2003, the Langley hat trick game.
We decided to make a weekend of it, but rather than stay in Blackpool, ended up in a hotel half way between there & Preston.
On the Saturday morning, my kids spotted the Rs squad...all sauntering into the hotel lobby. They were heading to have breakfast in a private room. My lad, 8 at the time, had his Rs top on, so we walked towards the room hoping just to get maybe a quick word, possibly one or two autographs.
A jobsworth hotel employee tried to shoo us away. Ollie spotted it, stepped in...then took us into the room, and took us round every single table, basically saying, these are the kind of people we're playing for today (telling them all how we travelled from Nottingham to W12 for home games as well as going away - cos of course he'd already found out our life story)...and every single player made time for a chat.
Kevin Gallen and Andy Thomson asked Jack if he had a name on the back of his shirt - as top scorers, I guess they thought odds on it would be one of them. When he turned round and they saw 'Bircham 8'...well to say Birch (sat next to them) absolutely rinsed the moment would be an understatement.
A fine squad led by a lovely man. |
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