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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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Reply | Jimmy Dunne
at 15:59 7 May 2025
Might just be me, but I wouldn't deem Bircham "as an R's through and through", howsoever determined. He was just as much Millwall "through and through" as and when it suited.
Dunne's been played out of position because he wasn't as as good as: Cook and Clarke-Salter in the season before last, and not as good as any two from: Cook, Edwards, Morrison and a fleeting JCS in the season that has just finished.
If he were better than any of the others, he would have been selected in his favoured position more frequently over the last two seasons, dire right-back situation nothwithstanding. [Post edited 7 May 16:00]
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Reply | Dykes and Armstrong add ons.
at 10:33 5 May 2025
Add-ons being realised concerning these two is a tad fanciful. They weren't very good when they were with us and haven't got any better/deteriorated (in the case of Dykes), so we were correct in selling both for decent sums considering the huge limitations of both.
Kolli, not a centre-forward but possesses far greater football savvy than Armstrong and is already better equipped to play at this level, as attested by his superior number of goals and assists in far fewer games played. As for Dykes, he couldn't get ahead of Alfie May, who has played his entire career at league one and below.
The only thing we did wrong, was not bringing in a forward in January. However, we've got away with it, as we have managed to maintain our league status for another season. [Post edited 5 May 10:38]
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Reply | Sky Sports Breaking News
at 13:23 29 Apr 2025
Les Ferdinand, are you sure. The identification of the MC as a prospective coach for QPR was the brainchild of nepo Nourry. Les had no involvement whatsoever!! |
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Reply | Let's play 'Pinch the player'
at 20:27 27 Apr 2025
It's just as well that Luton Town took a view to the contrary. As they signed Carlton Morris and Cauley Woodrow from relegated Barnsley.
Both players then proceeded to figure very prominently in Luton's unlikely promotion to the premier league and subsequent premier league largesse, which has essentially paid for their new stadium. Morris also managed to score 11 premier league goals last season.
As has already been mentioned, I wouldn't be averse to signing Hardie from Plymouth, as they are effectively relegated by virtue of a vastly inferior negative goal difference to the teams on 49 points. A team who in spite of their lowly league position, have another player on 10 league goals this season in Bundhu. [Post edited 27 Apr 21:02]
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Reply | Jimmy and Ronnie
at 21:01 25 Apr 2025
Opinions of course, but for mine, Nardi is nowhere near the level of Smithies.
I can't recall Smithies ever throwing himself to the ground in his 6-yard box when barely being impeded by an opponent at corners and claiming that he'd been fouled. He was nowhere near as hesitant as Nardi when coming off his line to claim basic crosses. He was also very adept at saving penalties. All-round higher grade of keeper.
J Dunne was the correct choice for player of the season, followed by Sam Field in my opinion. Nardi gets 6 out of 10 from me for his overall performances this season. |
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Reply | If you clubbed together the best championship players
at 11:00 24 Apr 2025
Of course it's still possible.
Sean Dyche did exactly that when Burnley got promoted for the first time in many years in 2017. He signed a number of championship players, spearheaded by Chris Wood who was signed from Leeds. A massively underrated player and a proper centre-forward who scored nearly 50 goals for them in the premier league in just 144 games, playing his part in keeping them in that league for four consecutive seasons.
During that period, the majority of their squad comprised former championship players. Had they not have sold Wood to Newcastle in January 2022, they may well have maintained their status in the premier league at the end of that season.
Rinsed and largely repeated in the case of Brentford too. Palace did essentially the same when they first got promoted. In stark contrast to us when we got promoted the first time, they kept the majority of their championship squad in their formative years in the premier league. I still maintain that the squad that got us promoted with Neil Warnock was stronger than Palace's. [Post edited 24 Apr 11:28]
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Reply | The Madsen rehabilitation thread
at 17:26 22 Apr 2025
I would suggest that for nearly a third of last season, Chair's numbers are skewed due to the numbskull, neanderthal approach of Ainsworth. During that time, he was largely a bystander but still managed two goal assists in the first 14 league games. Enter the MC and he scores 7 goals and 6 further goal assists in the 30 games in which he was involved thereafter.
Very impressive last season and still showed his quality during this campaign, albeit being hampered by injuries that have restricted him to just 19 starts. [Post edited 22 Apr 17:34]
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 11:26 22 Apr 2025
Fair question.
As an Essex supporter, but first and foremost a cricket fan, it wasn't a clean catch, pure and simple. Jamie Porter has gone down in my estimations for cheating. It wasn't just his lack of honesty for the non-catch, but along with others, squaring up to the Worcestershire batsman who was perfectly within his rights to call into question the legtimacy of the "catch". All very unedifying and marred what was an excellent contest up until then.
It is to be hoped that Jamie and Essex show good grace when future questionable decisions go against them, which will happen during a long season. Sadly, I have my doubts. [Post edited 23 Apr 11:27]
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Reply | Do Saints really need Ronnie Edwards?
at 07:59 22 Apr 2025
Might just be me, but I can't see Eze being bought by any of the so-called bigger clubs. There are at least four of his teammates at Palace who I suspect will be coveted a lot more than Eze by such clubs: Guehi, Mateta, Wharton and Munoz. Even the goalkeeper, Henderson.
Ismaila Sarr has had a better season in terms of goals scored in the premier league.
Eze has got this club circa £20m already, the most received for any departing player from QPR. Were we to receive a further windfall, I wouldn't entrust our worldly-wise Director of Football in spending it wisely. [Post edited 22 Apr 8:47]
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 14:26 14 Apr 2025
Good start for Kent, now keep it going.
From the outside looking in, it appears that you've got a stronger squad this season than you had last year. You've still got the two J Denlys to consider for selection, Quinn, Parkinson??.
Just read that Dudgeon is unfortunately out for the season after sustaining a knee injury when training. That's a shame after he bowled so well in Kent's first victory against Northamptonshire. |
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Reply | Steve cook staying
at 10:56 14 Apr 2025
Seriously hope this is true. In spite of his injuries this season, he's still played in 31 league games this season, 36 last season. Morrison has only managed 15 to date. JCS just 11.
His knowledge and experience will be invaluable for the likes of Morrison. He's played about 180 premier league games, played at this level and below with Bournemouth. He's still durable, has a fantastic attitude, still has a lot to offer on the pitch and in imparting his wealth of knowledge to younger defenders on the training ground.
He's virtually the same age as Van Dijk. If Liverpool have finally come to their senses and offered him a new contract, I see no reason why we shouldn't do the same with Cook. We need some experienced players in our squad for next season and Cook fits that bill perfectly. Were we to not sign him, we'll be hard-pressed finding an alternative with that level of experience at all levels, including the premier league. [Post edited 14 Apr 10:58]
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