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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 12:49 25 Jan 2026
Although saying that, I may potentially end up watching 180 minutes of Southampton vs Portsmouth this season and not see one goal scored.
Already been through that enough this week, I'm hoping the second half brings me something |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 12:11 25 Jan 2026
Spent five minutes confused trying to figure out where it was. Went onto Sky Sports Football, nothing there. Turned to Main Event assuming it's been put on there, still nothing. For me it's the biggest game of the day! |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 12:06 25 Jan 2026
Great atmosphere in Portsmouth vs Southampton. Love watching a derby that's not been around for a long time.
Millwall Vs West Ham should be a belter next season - whatever league they are in |
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Thread | Minus Goal Difference
at 18:32 24 Jan 2026
I understand it's probably not the most relevant discussion point today - but what is it with QPR and our fixation with having a minus goal difference?!
I'm sure some stats person can correct me if I'm wrong, but from some quick research I believe the last time we had a positive goal difference (excluding 0) was DECEMBER 28TH 2022. Just over three years ago.
This season we have been teetering on it for about two months, but can't seem to get into positive numbers.
If anything it demonstrates that we are much more prone to a thrashing than a demolition job.
I don't know why, but I find it infuriating.
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Reply | Form Guide:
at 22:52 22 Jan 2026
Win on Saturday and we could be 2nd in the form guide over the last four, being unbeaten in all and potentially keeping a clean sheet in all of them.
Think you can pick and choose form guides to suit narratives - why does the past six have more of an effect on the past 4/8/12? The past 28 form guide has us 12th, 3 points off play offs.
I understand there has been some poor performances recently, but I see it as an injury hit mid table team, having a typical mid table team blip - which every team will have gone through. Frustrating? Yes. But a real worry? Let's be concerned if we are still playing like this in 10 games with all the team back [Post edited 22 Jan 22:55]
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Reply | Last Four Matches vs Oxford
at 22:21 20 Jan 2026
Quality wise over points/return. That 2-0 at home was one of the worst games I've watched, and the two 0-0s have somehow been worse. Only one of any glimmer of football quality has been the 3-1. |
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Thread | Last Four Matches vs Oxford
at 22:05 20 Jan 2026
Has there ever been a worse run of games between two teams in the history of football?
Each one has somehow got worse than the one before. |
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Reply | The 3 sides of a match thread at Oxford
at 21:00 20 Jan 2026
Feels a bit frustrating to see Hull, a team who have been in a similar position to us for seasons on end, including last year, 3-0 up and flying at Preston to further cement their play off spot, whilst we try to scrape a 0-0 draw at Oxford.
Win this and we can potentially go 7th, why does it feel like we are content with a point? |
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Reply | A cold, wet Saturday afternoon in Stoke – Preview
at 19:27 16 Jan 2026
Great write up and definitely good news in the long term.
For some reason the Eze goal against Stoke on opening day of the season stands out for me most when looking back at games.
Unfortunately, my Palace memory is Phillips' thunderbolt after being 3-0 down at half time. |
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Reply | Extra Time/Player Welfare
at 12:31 12 Jan 2026
I do agree in part that our players did look surprisingly knackered even before extra time, but even still, we had to play an extra game compared to West Ham during the festive period, and do not have the luxury of bringing players such as £20m Soucek and £15m Kyle Walker Peters off our bench to take over.
I could have seen us winning the replay, and with Walsh being a good shot stopper I could have also seen us having a chance on pens. |
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Reply | Extra Time/Player Welfare
at 12:26 12 Jan 2026
I promise I won't curse anymore of our players in the near future 
The Tottenham game was the first one that popped into my mind as well. Surprisingly, not many games went to ET this round but I would not be surprised if similar issues took place in round four.
A real shame that there won't be a game at Loftus Road, but at least we will have another/different London derby to look forward to next year. |
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Thread | Extra Time/Player Welfare
at 12:09 12 Jan 2026
My first post on this forum (sort of) – I did post regularly on here around ten years ago when I was a teenager and most likely had terrible opinions about QPR and football in general. I am re-joining as I just cannot stand the toxicity of Twitter/X anymore (for anyone who saw a mental case betting on Lyndon Dykes to score a hattrick every week – that was me), so have deleted the app, but still need somewhere to discuss/vent!
I really enjoyed yesterday’s game and do not have a bad word to say about any of the team – each one left it all out there. What I do have a bad word to say about, is the mismanagement of the cup format from the FA.
In a so-called bid to ‘protect player welfare’ the FA have scrapped 3rd round replays. So, my question is, why have they not removed extra time, like they have done in the League Cup?
By the end of that match in normal time, I said to all my friends around me we would lose in extra time, because:
1) Our players were dead on their feet
2) West Ham have multi-million-pound players to bring off the bench, whilst we have our development squad (no criticism of them, they all did well when they came on)
Low and behold, West Ham’s quality eventually shone through and we did not overly challenge in second half of ET.
I just didn’t see it as fair at all. A lower league team go away to a Premier League team and go man for man, drawing the game in normal time. What were we rewarded with? Not an electric replay under the lights at Loftus Road, not a 50/50 chance of going through via penalties, but 30 more minutes of football to risk even more injuries, which did take place (Mbengue hopefully leaving with just cramp).
If they care so much about player welfare, an additional 30 minutes of football is not exactly the correct way to do it, and in no way benefits any lower league club in the circumstances.
If you’re going to scrap replays, give the underdogs a chance by going straight to penalties, and save player’s fitness in doing so. Win, win.
Whether or not this post would have happened had we won in ET however, I’m not sure! |
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