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Reply | The Barry Bannan Master Class Match Thread
at 16:32 3 Jan 2026
This isn’t a ‘must win’ game in terms of points needed but by heck we do need to win it in terms of morale especially as West Ham are getting tonked at so far winless Wolves and we could do with going into the cup game on a bit of a high. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 11:41 2 Jan 2026
Well, exactly, it’s all a waste of time IMO.
I don’t bother with pre and post match manager interviews because they are simply not going to give anything away (and not should they) and it’s just formula answers to formula questions, repeated 45+ times a season.
“Do you think the opposition team should have had a penalty?”
“Oh no…” [furiously tugs ear lobe] “it was a clean tackle and I didn’t see anything wrong with it”
The manager is hardly going to say that the player was taken out, stonewall penalty and a sending off.
Same with MoTD, so much air time given to post match analysis (just show more match minutes), all a waste of time. I can see for myself thanks. Yet they get paid huge amounts for what amounts to pub talk and ‘bantz’.
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Reply | An Air of Despondency
at 11:32 2 Jan 2026
For the West Brom game, I spent most of the game preparing the floor (with primer first) and then mixing up and applying floor levelling compound in our utility room.
I even had a handle snap on the tub so some spilt onto the paving slabs outside and needed clearing up.
By all accounts, that was probably all more interesting than the game. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 19:44 1 Jan 2026
Managers are not going to publicly give solutions (if they have one) to the problem as that’s going to play into the hands of teams we play over the next few weeks.
I just hope they do have one and it’s sorted out behind closed doors. [Post edited 1 Jan 19:46]
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Reply | Today's lowlights
at 18:00 1 Jan 2026
Norwich’s second took a deflection but looks like we deserved nothing out of tha game.
The game v Wednesday has to be a turnaround from recent form and for God’s sake someone has got to get a grip on Bannon from the off, not from 5-10 minutes in to see how he’s doing. We know what he can do so just stop him from the first whistle. |
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Reply | Where are the Coal Mines
at 17:00 1 Jan 2026
I’m not watching the game but did their second come about because we were pushing for an equaliser or are we just schite? |
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Reply | club
at 16:58 1 Jan 2026
Match thread? |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 15:54 30 Dec 2025
I too was a bit miffed when I saw the line up but feels to me it’s resting players in the hope of getting two straight home wins.
Mangers will, of course (and nor would I want them to) not say this as it’s giving things away but is always a gamble but with a club like ours that don’t have the resources of the elite, I can understand why it would be done if indeed that is the plan. |
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Reply | West Ham tickets
at 18:45 28 Dec 2025
I can’t see how they can issue any more as the blocks either side are for home fans and have sold tickets. It would be a logistical nightmare trying to sort that out if they’d have to re-allocate those tickets. Maybe as many QPR fans as possible can buy in those adjacent blocks to keep as many of us together?
As far as the ground goes, their fans got what they deserve. Besides, where else could they go? Part of the problem long before the Olympics came along was there was nowhere to relocate to. The 2012 games solved that problem but the Olympic people right royally messed it up by building a stadium not designed to be repurposed for football.
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Reply | Football and Sports - Brilliant One Week - Awful the Next !!!
at 14:45 27 Dec 2025
I know it’s a completely different level of football but it’s proportional, I watch a lot of youth football as my son plays.
This season they started off with a draw and five wins then lost four on the bounce without scoring and was about to lose the fifth 1-0 (never gone that many games without a goal) when we got a dramatic last minute equaliser.
Same boys, same line ups, same tactics (and we do have a plan B) but just can’t figure out why it derailed.
Hopefully a break and restarting in the New Year may help
It's sport, that’s how it goes especially in team games and why I can’t get so wound up by football.
It’s always been like this and always will. As I’ve said before, lots of post-match analysis of why we didn’t win a particular game is basically insinuating that we should win every single game. That’s never going to happen.
I’ve seen plenty of QPR games we’ve won that we should not have and games we’ve drawn/lost that we should not have. Real head-scratchers, but that’s how it is and no, i don’t have low standards or expectations, just what I think is pragmatic realism. [Post edited 27 Dec 2025 14:47]
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 17:05 26 Dec 2025
I know we’ve not won a Boxing Day away game since time began but I’ll take that.
I know Portsmouth are flirting above the drop zone but we have no right to win any game and treating teams as though we do (I’m not saying we did) is how games can come unstuck.
Plenty of teams dropped points today and I’ll take where we are going into the new year, with one more game of ‘25, compared to previous seasons when we were decidedly nervous. |
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Reply | christmas day food..
at 21:49 24 Dec 2025
Fairly straightforward…….Turkey, roast potatoes, gravy, peas, yorkshire pudding, pigs in blankets, stuffing.
Brussell sprouts are banned. |
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Reply | Merry Xmas to all on Loftforwords
at 13:18 24 Dec 2025
I'm ambivalent towards it now as it (like football) has turned into a grotesque money machine where businesses have to rely (which is insane) on this time of year to keep afloat.
The kids, of course, love it so it's all about them and the joy I get from seeing them happy.
Happy Christmas to you all!  |
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Reply | Things I am worse at than wrapping Christmas presents
at 12:59 24 Dec 2025
My missus is amazing at doing it and I'm like GaryBannister86. Normally I do it but this year I'll be distracting the kids this evening while she's upstairs wrapping their presents. |
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Reply | Gary Rowett sacked by Oxford
at 15:17 23 Dec 2025
They'll want a new man in place now, rather than February/March, who will be able to use the January transfer window to move players in and out. |
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