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Reply | Our away end
at 17:30 26 Apr 2025
I remember being in the SA Road for the 0-0 Cup Game
v Spurs Jan 81. Spurs (literally about 8K) of them, were in the old roofless Loft. Rangers in new School End. Just under 29K in the ground that day. [Post edited 26 Apr 17:31]
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Reply | Marti, stick or twist?
at 18:26 20 Apr 2025
Yes definitely stick. We need some continuity. Got a feeling next season will be better than this one. The dreadful start to this campaign was a shock after the way we finished last season. We need to hit the ground running next season, we can't waste the first 3 months like we have done over the past 2 seasons. Obviously, a lot depends on what happens transfer wise over the summer, but a fully fit Chair and Kelman coming back will be like two new signings. Clark Salter another.
Looking forward to seeing Morgan, Morrison and Kolli furthering their development and hopefully Madsen and Celar too. Surely we can't be as unlucky with injuries as
we were this season? A fit Field and Varane too and we have the makings of a very decent side. Hopefully, we'll be seeing the culmination of what Marti's been trying to achieve here finally take shape. He knows this group of players inside out now and what we need to move forward. Who else is out there that we could seriously take a risk on? How would they do a better job with the resources and constraints that the club has? Would be a terrible gamble.
Let's hope Marti stays and we don't have to find out the answers to those questions. [Post edited 20 Apr 18:28]
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Reply | And breathe – Report
at 07:01 11 Apr 2025
That is superb. Had me chortling all the way through.
Staring into The Ark of the Covenant is better for your skin complexion than managing this rabble. 😆😆😆 |
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Reply | Honest answer.....
at 08:08 9 Apr 2025
Well said. I loved the Warburton years. We generally played good football, Warbs dug the philosophy of our club and although the last few months were disappointing I always thought he would come up with a new plan. The Eze period was sublime. Football heaven. And the period a bit later culminating in the 4-0 defeat of Reading in January 2022 was just about as good as it gets. He also got us to the 5th round of the Cup for the first time in decades. Chair was breaking through as a bright young thing and Willock looked unplayable. It wasn't that long ago and maybe it can happen again? |
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Reply | Honest answer.....
at 01:08 9 Apr 2025
VAR, 100 million pound players, 50 + quid ticket prices, thousands of pounds for season tickets, the 'race for 4th place', bottom 3 promoted clubs effectivley relegated weeks before the end of the season, tourist fans galore, murderous club owners, endless entitlement and hysterical media hype, etc etc.
Not for me thanks. I find all of that tedious and disheartening. I'm not a fan of the modern football industry.
Where did I say that Arsenal beating Real Madrid is 'a load of old crock'?
The football Arsenal played tonight was outstanding . But, often it isn't. Have you ever had to listen to their fans endlessly moaning or to West Ham ones who are even worse?
I can't get excited about the rising 'middle class' of Brighton, Bournemouth and Brentford all finishing mid table every year or watching City win another FA Cup or the billionaire Geordie journalist murderers picking up a League Cup.
If that makes me deluded, then so be it. |
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Reply | Honest answer.....
at 21:53 8 Apr 2025
I find the Premiership tedious to be honest. Yes, Brentford and Fulham are doing brilliantly and well done to them but would I want to be them? No.
No more than I would want us to be like Arsenal. And I'm currently watching them stuff Real Madrid with a swagger.
I think most of us just want us to be more competitive in this league and like you say have a tilt at the later stages of one of the Cups occasionally. But, both of these things seem a distant dream. We're more likely to end up like Charlton in League 1. I can live with that.
We're still a great club, (a big, small club) with fantastic support, a wonderful, old, atmospheric stadium like no other in England and we're situated in a wonderful location.
If we could just play a bit of decent football now and again with a team with a consistent line up that always gives it all, then I would be delighted. We're not that far away from that. In fact, even at the end of January that felt like a tantalisingly realistic prospect. [Post edited 8 Apr 22:08]
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Reply | Two Bristol City fans walking to the QPR game
at 20:55 8 Apr 2025
Ha ha Boston. I used to dive but no longer. Funnily enough, I do a fair bit of swimming. Not in the canal though if I can help it. I fell in it once and the water has a very gritty aftertaste. I wouldn't recommend it. I wouldn't mind kayaking along it, but it would be a fair old hike from Hanwell to Shepherds Bush on the last paved leg of the journey with a canoe on my back!
One day I'd like to do the whole walk to Birmingham along the Grand Union but reckon it would take at least 3/4 days...
I enjoy the walk and the scenery. It's surprisingly beautiful along large stretches. It means I have a great day out no matter how dire the football is. |
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Reply | Two Bristol City fans walking to the QPR game
at 17:40 8 Apr 2025
Fair play to these lads - is a cracking effort by them.
I'm walking 17 miles from Slough on Saturday, mostly along the tow path of the Grand Union Canal.
Weather forecast looking good too 🌞 ☀️ [Post edited 8 Apr 17:42]
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Reply | Ellersille Road Question
at 07:28 6 Apr 2025
Yes, I always thought you could get into the Blue and White Bar this way, although the last time that I tried to do this earlier in the season after the Millwall match, they wouldn't let me in.
The under stewards in fairness, called over a 'top steward' to talk to me. Probably one of the biggest jobsworths I've ever met. I explained I'd been in the South Africa Road stand and now wanted to come into the Blue and White Bar for a drink as I had done many times before. He said he couldn't let me in,
because I could be a Millwall fan. I was wearing a QPR retro shirt and showed him my digital QPR membership card and digital ticket for the match that had just finished. He said you could have got these from someone else. So, I said you think I could be a Millwall fan in disguise looking to get into the Blue and White Bar on my own to start some trouble? And he said Exactly.
At that point point I just gave up. I wasn't that desperate to spend 8 quid on a pint of Guinness...
Hopefully it was just a Millwall game thing.
And also hope that none of your mates have Welsh accents? [Post edited 6 Apr 7:28]
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Reply | Millwall keepers sending off
at 20:52 3 Mar 2025
Great memories of that tournament. And amazingly, England put 3 past France in Bilbao in the opening match. Bryan Robson scored in literally first few seconds. I was on a school exchange trip visit during the first half of the tournament in Germany, sharing a room with my German pen pal with all his pics of Bayern Munich, Karl Heinz Ruminegge and Paul Breitner on his bedroom walls. He wasn't a happy bunny when Algeria beat Germany and their game against Austria was so obviously a fix. His dad was Czech and wasn't too happy when England beat them. The Brazil v Italy quarter final in Barcelona was also an incredible match. |
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Reply | Millwall keepers sending off
at 10:14 3 Mar 2025
Remember it well - what a cracking game it was. Felt so gutted for the French. That was a sparkling side that went onto win Euro 84.
Tournaments in Qatar and forthcoming ones in USA and Saudi a depressing reminder that international tournaments were so much better in those days. |
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Reply | Blades' cutting edge too sharp for Rangers' toil and chug - Report
at 10:09 3 Mar 2025
Great report - spot on. There was always that feeling towards the end that we might get lucky and squeeze a late equaliser. 2-2 would have been a phenomenal result and we weren't that far away from getting it.
Was a lovely day out in the early Spring sunshine, everyone seemed in a happy mood on Saturday. It's great not to have to worry too much about the table. I'm confident we'll be playing in the Championship again next season and I'm happy with that. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 10:53 1 Mar 2025
Starmer has come out after what happened yesterday and and has backed Zelensky. You might not like Starmer but he's doing what any decent British PM would do whether Tory or Labour, and that's doing what is best for this country. Unfortunately we are dependent on USA both economically and militarily. Macron is playing the same game too. Germany can afford to sit it out a bit as they are in between Chancellors but good to see that Merz looks like a realist here and has recognised that the transatlantic alliance is ending.
Big Euro Conference opens in next few days. All the European leaders, including Starmer will be backing Ukraine and attacking Putin. Putin is not as strong as it is often made out. Their economy is stuttering and probably couldn't cope with another year of this. Hundreds of billions of pounds of their assets are frozen in Europe. We could seize them and use them to help rearm Zelensky and ourselves. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 08:12 1 Mar 2025
I think Starmer is playing a blinder. We have to keep the orange buffoon onside for as long as possible. Our nuclear defences and Air Force is almost totally dependent on American supplies and support. We have to take what we can off them in the short term whilst arming ourselves to the teeth as quickly as possible.
The French and Germans know this too and with the Poles, Scandinavians and Dutch on board we have a strong backbone that should be able to resist anything Putin throws at us. Interesting to see how that traitorous little weasel Farage comes out of this. He's trump's number one little glove puppet and by extension, Putin's
too. A right little Quisling is Nigel.
In WW2 Moselyites like him were locked up. |
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Reply | QPR 1976 Scandy TV doc
at 20:21 19 Feb 2025
A real gem this. Interesting views from Brian Moore and Jimmy Hill. Both full of praise for us and our 'continental' brand of football. Frank McLintock and Gerry both very articulate. Incredible that Frank was working up to 4 nights a week in his pub whilst playing First Division football too! Mind you, also hard to believe that this is all now nearly half a century ago! |
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Reply | Min-Hyeok Yang
at 18:22 6 Feb 2025
There's an awful lot of evening games in the Championship and it takes its toll on wallet and energy. I was working all day Tuesday and had a 12 hour, full-on day lined up for Wednesday. Was at Millwall too on Saturday. Although I only live an hour away by public transport it was just too much of an ask on a cold night knowing I'd feel shattered at work all day the day after. Not all of us can work from
home.
The evening kick offs are even harder for people that live further away, hence the reason why our midweek games are more poorly attended. |
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Reply | A complete unknown
at 13:52 21 Jan 2025
Looking forward to seeing the film. I love Bob.
First saw him perform at Wembley Stadium in 1984. He opened with a rip roaring version of Highway 61 and he played a brilliant set. As others have pointed out in more recent decades his live performances have become more inward looking and pedestrian, but I've gone to see him out of loyalty. Last saw him at The Palladium in 2022
where beforehand queueing up to get in, I spoke to an original 'Bobcat' who attended the famous electric 'Judas' concert in 1965.
I didn't attend the recent Albert Hall shows but I think he's just sitting plonking on a piano now without a lot of acknowledgement of the audience. But fair play to him he's 83 after all. |
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Reply | best london derby qpr you've seen.....home and away.
at 10:39 4 Jan 2025
The Pizanti Cup Game in 88 was incredible. Was exhilarating. I was terrified getting out and finding myself surrounded by literally thousands of West Ham fans. The Cup was a big deal in those days and we'd just knocked them out. Remember stuffing my scarf deep into my coat pocket.
Sadly wasn't at the Chelsea 6-0 or the Arsenal Cup game.
My personal favourite was the 3-0 win over West Ham in September 1979. Bowles and Currie in the same team, as well as Roeder, Goddard and Allen. West Ham also a team packed full of household names and later that season went on to win the Cup. The last time that anyone from outside the top division did so. Still, we bossed them that day. 24,600 in the ground and everyone entertained from start to finish. Incredible that there's no footage of this game. [Post edited 4 Jan 10:43]
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