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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 11:59 4 Jun 2025
Don't worry. It may not be at Lords, but Middlesex will beat Essex on Sunday.
The Essex T20 team for this season is worse than that of Middlesex. I said before the start of the championship, that I was fearful of our chances in maintaining our division one status. Well Essex's T20 team has performed even more poorly and has been thumped in both of its T20 games. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 09:28 30 May 2025
Meanwhile, in the real world, it looks as if the former Norwich coach will in all likelhood take over from the MC. A Norwich team that conceded more goals than us. Essentially, his sole role was to make their defence more watertight, as their ability to score goals was never an issue.
He failed, royally. That team should have been much closer to the play-offs, if not in the top six.
Yet, he's deemed as being an upgrade on the MC. It's derisory. Of the two, there's only one person who managed to get the optimum, in terms of performance, from their respective team's ability last season. [Post edited 30 May 9:52]
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Reply | Kenny ofski
at 13:24 28 May 2025
Yeah, as many assists as the "highly-rated" and "creative" Saito. Same number of assists and solitary goal as Smyth. But Paal's crap.
For an underperforming player who had apparently "checked out" all season, I'm certain that his contributions compare favourably with the majority of left-backs in this league: Firpo and a few others excepted. [Post edited 29 May 12:48]
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Reply | State of Origin 2025.
at 12:24 28 May 2025
The quality, timing, speed of pass and accuracy under such defensive pressure for that second try for NSW, pure bliss. Rugby league at its very best. Latrell Mitchell, wow. What dexterity. |
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Reply | Kenny ofski
at 10:39 28 May 2025
Totally agree.
Sincerely hope that we have someone in mind as his replacement with commensurate level of games played at championship level, is dependable and durable.
We've lost a player who averages a shade over 43 games played per season since he joined us. What we currently have as suggested first-choice alternatives at the club will not cut it in the championship. [Post edited 28 May 11:09]
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Reply | Bright Osayi Samuel
at 11:16 27 May 2025
Trent Alexander-Arnold hasn't done too badly. [Post edited 27 May 11:29]
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Reply | Crystal Palace Beer Festival
at 10:57 26 May 2025
We're world's apart because they kept perspective from day one and didn't start to think that they were bigger than what they actually are, and have remained humble to this day. We thought that we could achieve at breakneck speed by signing dross like Barton etc on egregious salaries, with no sell-on value. When Pulis wanted to do the same and bring in the likes of Etherington etc, Parish refused. They've got there incrementally.
For Joel Ward, read someone like Bradley Orr. They got promoted through the play-offs and kept the majority of that squad for their first few years in the premier league, unlike us. Their aim at that time was to ensure that they kept as much of the premier league's largesse within the club, always mindful of relegation, and not in the pockets of mercenaries with no affinity to the club which is all that we achieved.
Lastly, to show how they have remained humble as a club, their sesaon ticket price points for the season that concluded yesterday: circa £550 to £750. There is no way that our club, with misplaced hubris seemingly oozing in its DNA, would have held the prices that low, if we were in the premier league for as long as Palace. [Post edited 26 May 11:01]
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 18:28 24 May 2025
And the "all-knowing", nepo Nourry has subsequently seen it fit to sack the person who was primarily responsible for managing to get such results against that calibre of opposition, in spite of the huge limitations in the poorly assembled squad at his disposal. Just saying. [Post edited 24 May 18:33]
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Reply | National league
at 12:28 21 May 2025
It's quite simple. After 46 games, the final league placings speak for themselves. Southend, who finished 28 points behind second-placed, York, could get promoted through the play-offs.
You're essentially rewarding/incentivising relative failure/intermittent performances at the expense of a team that performed at a more consistent level throughout the entire season. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 16:12 19 May 2025
How incredibly underwhelming.
A coach with such an embarrassment of attacking riches at his disposal at Norwich, could only finish a massive one point ahead of the MC's depleted - injuries alongside many poor recruitments - QPR.
I suspect if the MC were in charge of Norwich with such attacking talent, he would have got them much closer to the play-offs, if not into the top 6.
Truly inspired, Mr all-knowing Nourry. [Post edited 19 May 16:28]
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Reply | Uncle Albert on fire for Walsall
at 10:06 17 May 2025
He could dovetail that with teaching Smyth the art so that he has a better appreciation of how to deliver different types of crosses with the appropriate weight and accuracy; dependent on distance between point of delivery and targeted area or specific player identified.
Two great examples were provided expertly by the Uncs' yesterday. Oh Albert Adomah! [Post edited 17 May 10:25]
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Reply | Premier League Cup Final match thread
at 00:10 16 May 2025
Great post 1bobbyhazell in response to the boneheaded post that clearly took great delight in denigrating/speaking ill of Ramsey's achievements in also bringing younger players through during his tenure. The evidence, by way of examples that you have provided, is incontrovertible, yet someone sees it fit to pour scorn on said person. All rather sad, in light of what the youngsters achieved tonight
To that list, you can add Salamon, Putman and Tuck who have been at this club from very young. Previous players would include the much-maligned Lumley (200+ professional games) and Os Kakay (involved in nearly 100 games for us). It remains to be seen if any of the players, Kolli excepted, involved tonight will make as many appearances as the last two that I have listed: majority being at Championship level.
I wish them all the best as they try to forge a career in the game. [Post edited 16 May 8:40]
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 12:52 13 May 2025
Deep down, what's not to like. They're a well run club that has never had gandiose ideas that are way above its station. Unlike us, they didn't jettison their championship squad when they first got promoted and then squander millions on a load of mercenaries with no sell-on value. Their promoted team, via the play-offs, wasn't as good as the Warnock squad that got us into the Premier League a few years earlier.
They've grown incrementally, to the point where they now have a team that has a very good chance of winning a trophy on Saturday.
After 12 years in the premier league, their season ticket prices for most fans, are between £550 to £750 for the current season. If that were us, there's no way that we would have held those prices down to those very low price points for top-flight football. Hope they prevail on Saturday. [Post edited 13 May 17:33]
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Reply | Charlie Kelman’s Leyton Orient
at 10:39 11 May 2025
I can think of 23 reasons, and counting, why he should be given his chance next season. He has clearly acquired the knack to score goals by getting himself into dangerous scoring areas through his improved anticipation.
Nobody held Ryan Hardie in high regard before Plymouth's promotion. Yet he went on to score 13 and 10 league goals, respectively, in his two seasons at championship level. Kelman has scored more goals than Hardie did when he last played in division one. The portents are promising, he's earned the right to be given a proper opportunity next season. [Post edited 11 May 10:41]
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Reply | ve day
at 18:28 8 May 2025
Here's hoping. |
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Reply | Jimmy Dunne
at 09:56 8 May 2025
He's operated at levels far higher than Jimmy Dunne, even playing a decent number of games in the premier league, as well as being part of teams that have consistently finished higher than QPR in the championship.
Is a better right-back and has in the past played as a central-defender when required in emergencies. Is also very much a QPR academy product. [Post edited 8 May 9:58]
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 09:38 8 May 2025
Well said. The red ball game is far from dead, in spite of the negative narrative spun by some and the bookending of most of the season in the months of April/May and September!
So at the height of summer, in August, when there's no school, college, university and parents have more free time, there's no first-class cricket played. Meaning that the grounds of teams like Essex, Kent, Worcestershire, Somerset etc, are in some instances only in operation for just two days in that month, with next to no revenue being generated.
There were a number of very close contests in the last round of games. Most notably, Middlesex v Kent. Great character shown by Somerset against Essex after being 70-odd for 5. Some Essex fans are blaming the team for not winning, not me. They've reckoned without James Rew who is a special talent and will be playing for England in the near future. He's already scored 10 first-class centuries at just 21 years of age. Serious talent. [Post edited 8 May 9:40]
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