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Reply | Kolli
at 21:05 3 Nov 2025
That's the problem. We only want physically weak and height-challenged individuals playing in similar positions. Saito, Dembele, Smyth take your pick.
None of whom along with Vale are close to achieving what Kolli achieved in just 21 games last season: 5 goals, 3 assists. But yes, all of the above are playing so well at present scoring and creating chances aplenty for our forwards. [Post edited 3 Nov 21:14]
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Reply | Lloyd
at 20:03 3 Nov 2025
He won't be selected ahead of Ballard or Connolly who are both scoring regularly for L. Orient. Wouldn't be surprised if he's recalled in January to then be loaned elsewhere. |
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Reply | Ipswich Reflection
at 09:49 2 Nov 2025
Respectfully, there's no league one team that will be remotely interested in paying a loan fee for Esquerdinha. Beaten so easily by a trick that's as old as the hills: drop shoulder & step-over all in a straight line and then showed no desire whatsover to try to make a recovery tackle. He merely ambled alongside the Ipswich player, as his escort, deep into our penalty area before the clipped cross was delivered.
Ipswich player being of the same age: 19, and able to use both feet well. NB: Vale, Dembele, Poku (it would appear too). [Post edited 2 Nov 10:16]
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Reply | Left back at the training ground
at 19:56 1 Nov 2025
If that be the case, then why has the club, or rather Nourry, ostracised Kolli.
Last year, at the same age as the much-vaunted and overrated Esquerdinha: 19, he was performing at levels that were commensurate with the Championship. He never looked out of place as Esquerdinha does at this level. This isn't the first time that he has been found wanting; Preston's equaliser, long punt from their keeper, was down to his poor positioning and inability to react in time.
Incidentally, the player that beat him so easily with the most basic of skills: drop shoulder and step-over all in a straight line, is the same age: 19. It's the lack of desire to attempt to make a recovery tackle; Esquerdinha just ambles alongside the Ipswich player.
Yet he's deemed as being the better prospect. Not for me. I wish him well and hope I'm proved wrong, but I'm getting N Hamalainen vibes than anything stellar.
The two best prospects from that age group, and by a long distance, still remain Kolli and Morgan. For a club whose "mantra" purports to be promoting, supporting and giving playing opportunities to youngsters of championship calibre, it's rather puzzling that the two best prospects have had next to no real opportunities this season and makes a mockery of such claims. [Post edited 2 Nov 9:33]
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Reply | Our fans today were pathetic
at 17:49 1 Nov 2025
If I remember correctly ND, weren't you about a year ago getting all performative and declaring that "you had had enough of QPR and would stop going to home games". Yet now, you're criticising other fans for exercising their right to leave early when the outcome of the game was already determined after 64 minutes.
Entitled! [Post edited 1 Nov 17:51]
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 20:14 26 Oct 2025
Not championship related for 25/26, but it is refershing to see how all the promoted sides are faring, to date, in the premier league.
Personally hope it continues and that it leads to the relegation of West Ham and Forest in particular. |
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Reply | Young team?
at 19:39 26 Oct 2025
Agree entirely. Which makes the ostracising of Kolli, for that's what it is, all the more baffling.
What he achieved as a 19-year old last season in very pressurised situations/games is evidence enough that he has the ability and temperament.
Currently, none of Vale, Dembele or Saito are on course to replicate Kolli's numbers in 21 games last season: 5 goals and 2 assists. Nobody is saying that he should be starting, but he is just as good as the abovenamed in my opinion and is younger. Even this season, he has scored one goal in 6 games, which is still better than Dembele. [Post edited 26 Oct 19:51]
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Reply | (No subject) (n/t)
at 22:13 25 Oct 2025
Exactly this. It may be en vogue but I fail to see any real merits to it from an attacking perspective. |
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Reply | Dembele?
at 19:36 25 Oct 2025
Indeed this. From memory, his best game for us this season was against Preston when lo and behold we played him on the left. He managed to create a goal by going to what is now a no-go area for all our wide players: venturing anywhere near to the by-line and delivering a cross. Smyth was just as reluctant on the left today. Saito has the ability to do it, but is way off it at present in terms of game consistency.
Unless you're as gifted as Bukayo Saka or Olise who are very adept in the inverted role, just stop persisting with it, or at least resort to it sparingly. As none of our wide players are any good at playing in that role. It just makes for a very easy afternoon for the opposing defence, as it's all very predictable. They also aren't very good at manipulating the ball in the manner that Chair and Willock used to do, even when the latter was past his peak form.
For mine, Smyth/Saito on the right and any of the others on the left, by all means swap at times. However, until this lot become more adept at being able to master the most basic of skills i.e. cross accurately with their weaker foot, let's revert to what was convention in football for many years.
Many players from yesteryear had no problems in being adept to go either way and deliver a cross with their weaker foot. Dave Thomas, Andy Sinton, Wayne Fereday, Trevor Sinclair all spring to mind. There are no excuses for the current crops' patent inability in this regard. [Post edited 25 Oct 21:10]
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Reply | Love watching...
at 08:29 22 Oct 2025
Equally as reprehensible by every measure. Yet.. |
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Reply | Lyndon’s goal
at 09:53 11 Oct 2025
Very true.
Midfielder J McGinn has a superior goals to games ratio than him: 20 goals in 80 games. That was Dykes's first goal for Scotland in about 15 matches, well over 2 years, which closely mirrors his excruciatingly barren spells with us. [Post edited 11 Oct 9:56]
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Reply | COOK
at 00:01 6 Oct 2025
No need to change that pairing. They were both solid, tackled determinedly without being rash, didn't lose concentration and were calming influences overall.
The fact that they played together yesterday is of Mbengue's making and he has to now bide his time and hopefully learn from this, as five yellow cards in just 8 games, 2 of which could have led to a second red card against Charlton and a straight red against Stoke, is reckless beyond extreme and will cost us in the future if he continues in this vein. [Post edited 8 Oct 7:49]
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Reply | Brentford v Manchester City
at 20:00 5 Oct 2025
Bit harsh.
Few points shy of teams like Newcastle, about the seventh-equal highest scorers in the league and have a striker on 4 goals already, making him third highest goal scorer in the league to date.
It will be a tough year for them, especially after losing Frank, the biggest loss, and two goal scorers who got circa 20 goals each in the premier league last season.
All told, they're not doing badly at all. Losing to financially-doped and serial FFP violaters: City, will hardly define their season. Wish it were us going into our fifth consecutive season in the Premier League. [Post edited 5 Oct 21:21]
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Reply | Shipshape and Bristol Fashion Match Thread
at 14:00 4 Oct 2025
That's not good news. I fear for Esquerdinha and how he fares defensively, especially if targeted. Dembele starting away from home, not for me. Looks too brittle a line-up for an away game. Hope I'm wrong of course. [Post edited 4 Oct 14:02]
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Reply | M40 pile up Witnail and I edition - Qpr vs Oxford Match Thread
at 09:05 3 Oct 2025
Totally agree. I'm in no doubt that if he were playing against the last two teams we have faced, even more so with Hayden & Field starting, he would have come off the wing to link up play or even take the ball off either of them by moving more centrally.
He has done this on a number of occasions in the past. I don't understand why others: Dembele, Saito, Vale don't do similar to try to effect change. [Post edited 3 Oct 10:00]
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Reply | Loans
at 08:22 3 Oct 2025
This is my concern with the players that we have loaned out. If they're as good as we have been led to believe, then surely a few more of them would have been loaned to sides in the top league at non-league level: National League, a very good standard, and getting decent amount of minutes.
Even Aaron Drewe's playing regularly in the National League with Woking and Joe Gubbins is playing some games at Southend. [Post edited 3 Oct 8:31]
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Reply | Well 95 minutes of my life I won't get back !!
at 11:26 2 Oct 2025
But we were equally as bad against Sheffield Wednesday with the so-called A team in full effect, where they were all outshone by a 35-year old Barry Bannon.
I personally am quite happy about that, as it appears that players like Bannon who have a football brain, have that ability to find space even under pressure and are seemingly always available to receive/offer themselves as a passing option, still have a key role to play in the helter-skelter of the modern game. Yesterday, like Saturday was dire and it's clear that we still have problems playing any semblance of coherent football if a team decides to apply the high press against us. [Post edited 2 Oct 11:27]
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Reply | Could this be the most open Champ season for years...?
at 17:02 1 Oct 2025
I suspect that they'll fancy their chances tonight against us after drawing games against Leicester and Coventry as well as winning away at Bristol City in their last four games.
We can't take them lightly, as they have enough to beat us. The young forward they've signed on loan from Spurs: Lankshear, and Brannagan spring to mind. [Post edited 1 Oct 17:03]
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Reply | RND
at 16:11 22 Sep 2025
Exactly. Wrexham wasted no time in exposing him and he was found wanting; being easily beaten by their wide player and appeared to panic on occasions thereafter. He does have ability and is the next in line from the development squad after Kolli and Morgan.
Norrington-Davies is an excellent loan signing and is very solid defensively. This team has enough offensive options in other positions, starting and from the bench, so it's not a major requirement for him to figure as prominently in attacking areas. [Post edited 22 Sep 16:13]
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