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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 22:49 28 Dec 2025
No one was doubling up on Madsen in the 1st Half @ Portsmouth and he contributed very very little.
Showing for the ball, demanding the ball and having the courage to do something really postive with it is more important than being comfortable on the ball.
Those two are key to our season imo, with one needing to be a bit more gung ho and one a bit less so.
In the likely ongoing absence of JCS, surprised Morrison is out of favour as steps up with the ball really well, hopefully he gets his chance again soon. |
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 19:38 28 Dec 2025
I watched the two Midfielders very closely in the first half and they seemed to be in two minds as to whether to stick to the more defensive minded game plan or push up and press more aggressively,
A few times I saw Madsen give out instructions & they pressed Dozzell more aggressively to some effect, we seemed content mostly to sit deeper & play on the break,
So I think without the ball they followed the gameplan & bar Kone's mistake they would have gone in at HT at nil nil,
Where they didn't follow the gameplan was what to do when in possession with the ball, particularly playing out fro⁷m the back, where with Madsen & Varane not showing we resorted to long balls down the flanks to Burrell, giving Saito & Dembele no service,
Stephens saw this & fixed it at Half Time, if he can encourage Madsen in particular to do what he did in the 3rd quarter for the full 90, this team can push on, but they cant just wait unti HT for the Managers instructions, they need to see this for themselves and adapt their tactics during games, as good players and teams do. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 11:15 27 Dec 2025
I agree, Mbengue in particular had a very poor 1st Half but would counter both he & Cook stood out for their poor contributions, wheras Madsen just did not contribute
We were fortunate Portsmouth were so poor in the final third & Murphy was out injured otherwise we could have been further behind,
The Manager saw what was wrong & Madsen started the 2nd Half by demanding the ball rather than leaving it to Dunne to transition the ball & we were a different team. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 19:51 26 Dec 2025
Madsen was totally MIA in the 1st Half, didn't show for the ball and made it look like we were playing with 10 men,
Obviously got a rocket at Half Time, as was a changed man from the start of the 2nd Half, showing & looking for the ball, suddenly we were playing with 11 and looked a different team, unfortunately one good quarter doesn't cut it as dropped off again late on, though did make a very decent covering challenge,
If this Squad it to fulfil its potential we need 90 minutes like that third quarter most weeks, the odd cameo won't see us troubling the Play Offs. |
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Reply | Are you Madsen?
at 13:34 11 Dec 2025
I get Watford away was a very low bar for Nicolas, but it seems the lower you set the bar for yourself the greater the improvement,
A bit like Sergei Bubka and Duplantis have done in the Pole Vault, if you set the bar artificially low, the crowd are off their seats as you increase your performance level by 1cm every few months,
Madsen is no longer hiding for 90 minutes and is now putting his foot and his head in but still seems to struggle to keep up with the intensity & fitness required to play 90 minutes of Championship football and disappears for key periods in games, typically after 60 minutes, which is where Morgan can be best deployed, not as a Right Back against Demari Gray when we're trying to defend a 1-0 nil lead (still a lucky Manager is better than a good Manager as the saying goes)
Jimmy Dunne has 2 Goals + 2 Assists, whereas Madsen has 1 Goal & 2 Assists in 20 odd games (although I'd still give Conor Coady the Kone Assist) so I'm not yet seeing what others are,
For me Madsen has still a long way to justify the money we paid, but if he can turn his good short spells in games into full games, he's moving in the right direction (Btw I was a relatively late convert to Chris Willock, so hope I'm wrong again.) |
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Thread | Johnny Varane - Desire in Last 10
at 22:49 9 Dec 2025
Couple of great defensive headers just before we conceded and when we conceded kept hunting for the ball, never accepting defeat,
Whipped in a great cross, then first to react and recycled the ball in 96th minute for Morgan when he'd worked his socks off all game,
Doesn't always come off but the lad has real desire. |
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Reply | Smyth and Dunne on tonight's win
at 23:18 26 Nov 2025
Dunne left the ground immediately after the Hull match to go straight to Heston as part of his 'loading' programme a member of backroom team said, not sure what the issue is mind, must be serious enough to go to Heston on a Saturday night. |
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Reply | Football - lost its sparkle?
at 22:02 26 Nov 2025
Eberechi Eze is the perfect tonic for those who grew up on 1970s entertaing football,
That lads even brought a smile to Mikel Arteta's sour boat,
We grew up being entertained and flair footballers like Bowles were known as Entertainers, not as CAMs or whatever,
Watch Eze run back the other night, back pass to the Keeper, gets a hospital return ball from the Keeper, is out of gas, so just plays a 30 yard no look chip over the press, made me smile, we want football like we grew up watching, it should be joyful. |
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Reply | Scotland
at 08:32 19 Nov 2025
Yes, would be interested to see their XG and game stats across the tournament as Greece totally out-played them at Hampden and loss,
I see fans posted wanting Dykes to start over Che Adams & Shankland despite him being scoring for fun in SPL,
Clarkes a very good Coach and realises a team is the sum of its parts, hence sticking with Dykes as McTominay and others play off him more effectively,
Like Kone & Burrell but thinks our attack seems to lack structure and a focal point at the moment, time will tell. |
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Reply | The BBC
at 16:19 12 Nov 2025
No bother,
I never did so-called conspiracy theories until Trump starting saying it out loud,
Saying who regularly walked into his White Office without invite, who weighed his campaign in for $200m dollars plus etc, etc,
In my line of work we all know there's no such thing as a free lunch, you weigh someone in and they owe you, that's life..........
You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to think if someone's giving you $200m and they put a call in asking you to threaten to sue someone, you'll do it, especially if you threaten to sue someone or other most days of the week,
Unfortunately the UK is too weak to face Trump down and does whatever he tells them, hence the sacking of Tim Davie.
A day later on Rembrance Day, Trump is crowing that it was the USA who won WWI & WWII, what an insult, but none of our flag waving political parties or press dared rebuke him. Sad state of affairs, whatever your politics. |
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Reply | The BBC
at 15:20 12 Nov 2025
The removal of Tim Davie bears all the hallmarks of another attempt to influence free speech, similar to the attempted but failed muting of Kneecap,
Daniel Lambert Manager of Kneecap (and CEO of Bohemians FC) said at the time, after the bands appearance at the Coachella Festival in the US, their Glastonbury equivalent apparently, that Trump and his financial backers were terrified by the US audience's response to Kneecap's set,
Subsequently after trawling through hundreds of hours of footage of years of their live performances, Trumps funders found something to charge them with, the aim being to ban them returning and performing in the US to an even wider audience.
Eerily, a Panorma programme, aired 12 months ago, without a single complaint, is reviewed by a BBC Board Director, an internal letter of concern is leaked to The Telegraph and coincidentally and immediately Trump and his funders are ready to sue the BBC / UK government for £1Bn in damages?
John Simpson and many other experienced broadcasters have alluded to the very obvious and real reasons for Tim Davie's removal.
Whether you like or loathe the BBC, this is a worrying time for democracy and free speech. |
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Reply | QPR continue to slide as Saints set off on new march – Report
at 20:58 6 Nov 2025
It was a quality through ball by Varane for Burrells goal,
We've seen he has this in his locker with a similar assist against Charlton iirr
Varane needs to be encouraged to do this more as last night's chipped pass shows he has the technical ability alright. |
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Reply | tonight
at 00:04 6 Nov 2025
Superb ball by Varane for Burrells goal I thought?
Decent enough game I thought.
If anyone chucked it in after 20 minutes tonight it was Madsen, completely AWOL for entire 2nd Half.
Morgans cameo showed what we needed from Madsen, getting his head up, opening his body and playing passes in behind etc. |
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Reply | Fabio wardley v josh parker
at 11:00 26 Oct 2025
Re watch final half minute, just seen it on Twitter, very few if any of those headshots landed, Parker was tired not hurt, Wardley had summoned one last attack,
Wardley v Uysk is a far bigger pay day than Parker v Uysk,
Fosters been at it for years, saw first hand in Manchester when Groves put Froch down, to buy time Foster walked Groves to his corner, he gets picked for a reason,
Does he stop the fight if Wardleys in that position, no chance, imo. |
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Reply | Fabio wardley v josh parker
at 07:49 26 Oct 2025
Great fight ruined by Howard Foster, bent as, Wardley was missing those last few shots, Adam Smith yelling Parkers not throwing back, Parker was, a fully co-ordinated Frank Warren stitch up,
Yardley superb, deserves his chance against Uysk, and like Chisora did, could really trouble Uysk and has the power to stop him,
Fair play to Wardley but always makes me laugh when British Boxing accuses other countries like Germany of being bent. |
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Reply | Lyndon’s goal
at 12:19 12 Oct 2025
Gazza,
Facts & the truth still matter in some places and hopefully on this forum, so to put your comments in context:
Limited club teams - QPR 15 pts, Bristol City 13pts, Charlton 12pts, Birmingham 12pts
None of them get a regular game - Kelman 9 appearances / 0 goals; Armstrong 8 appearance / 0 goals; Dykes 8 appearances 2 goals
Dykes was originally behind Stansfield & Kyogo in the pecking order @ Birmingham, both of whom have cost £ 10m, so fair play to Dykes as a £1m player he now seems to be ahead of £ 10m Kyogo, if not Stansfield.
I agreed with selling Kelman for £3m as believe he's had his Conor Washington League 1 hot-streak, I could be wrong.
Armstrong was great business for us for £ 2m and I agree with you was a very very limited footballer, I often stood in disbelief as R-Block etc called for Armstrong to come off the bench and applauded him onto the pitch, playing as a lone striker, wtf.
I disagreed with selling Dykes for £1m as thought without a target man we would get relegated, fortunately Kieran Morgan & Jimmy Dunne stepped up and we escaped what would have been a ruinous relegation to League 1. |
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Reply | Madsen
at 14:58 2 Oct 2025
Decent cameo last night,
Seems our Back 5 with Varane's work-rate gives us the opportunity to play Madsen in a free role where he can get our Front 4 going,
Two CDMs last night without Varane & Madsen left us unable to break the lines,
Think everyone on seeing that line-up when walking to the ground was thinking heh wtf, we played to their strengths last night, never a good gameplan. |
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Reply | Playing for 20 minutes (again)
at 09:39 29 Sep 2025
You could well be right, just like to see us try it so we know one way or the other.
If it worked, his value could double, which given his age, would be good. |
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Reply | Madsen on today's draw
at 09:38 29 Sep 2025
I know he's 6ft4 but maybe not duck at the far post....I'm jesting Gazza! |
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