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Reply | Eze
at 21:12 23 Jun 2025
I've wondered that too. He's from the area. Friends and family nearby could be important for him. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 21:20 18 Jun 2025
Our Board has a strong American presence. Lee Hoos and Richard Reilly are from the US, and Ruben has experience at the executive level with LAFC.
My guess — and that's all it is — their intention, especially after the Ainsworth debacle, was to institute a North American style sports hierarchy at QPR. The line of authority in that is pretty rigid, it goes: President/Chairman > General Manager > Head Coach. If the latter is fired, the GM does it. If the GM is let go (less frequently) the word comes from the top, consquently GMs tend to last longer than coaches.
In QPR's case the fact that Cifuentes was hired three months before Nourry, and by most accounts did an excellent job in that period, is irrelevant but the "optics" are awkward. Marti turned around a titanic disaster on the pitch, winning over us fans in the process. So who the hell does this 27 year-old kid think he is?
Thing is when a GM is let go the Head Coach almost always follows him out the door, because, for better or worse, he isn't the new guy's choice. That's the way the system works. Sadly Marti's a just pawn in the game, not a Knight or a King. |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 23:43 15 Jun 2025
This is piece about the NHL, but the points are relevant to any professional team sport:
First principle – does your team have a good culture?
Every club says they do, and a lot of them get nowhere near the Stanley Cup. A good culture isn’t a fun culture or a supportive culture. This isn’t a kindergarten. If you’re not winning, your culture needs fixing.
What does culture change mean? It isn’t finding the oldest, orneriest or most expensive player you can find and slotting him into a mediocre operation, which continues to be mediocre.
It’s finding the players who don’t just want to win, but need to do so. There aren’t as many of them as sports people would lead you to believe.
Many professional athletes do not experience true competition until they reach the very highest level. They are the kid who cruised through every level of schooling without having to do homework.
Now they’re surrounded by people who are just as talented as they are, some of whom had to struggle to get there. Some of those naturals will get better. Some won’t. A few will be good enough, but won’t care all that much and will coast. Some will stick around for the money. Some can manage great life balance. Some are terrible at it.
All of them are physically gifted, perpetually coddled 20-something men, which means they have no sense of mortality. It’s not until you hit your 40s that most people begin to feel time slipping by them. A person who feels like the good times will last forever is not the sort of person who feels any urgency to win right now.
The real challenge isn’t finding the guy with the quickest shot release. It’s finding the guy who thinks this could all end tomorrow. Not just says that, but feels it.
— Cathal Kelly Globe & Mail [Post edited 15 Jun 23:44]
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Reply | "Shoot" "Beano" "Roy of the Rovers"
at 17:49 13 Jun 2025
I remember the first issue of Tiger. It included a cardboard tiger head with a bit of string attached and a packet of rosin. If you dipped your finger and thumb in the rosin and pulled them slowly down the string the tiger roared... kinda! |
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Reply | The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 19:24 12 Jun 2025
“His arrival is the latest recompense for our staff who have so enthusiastically embraced the changes in pathway philosophy that is now seeing some of the brightest Category One prospects highly value interest from QPR."
Are we sure this isn't someone down the pecking order taking the piss? |
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Reply | End of Term Report 24/25 – Attack
at 02:24 23 May 2025
Can't speak for others but not playing Kelman next season would be counter to everything that matters to me as a supporter. I don't care if there are offers from bigger clubs. We need to hope, to dream of what he might be, even if it's just for a season or two. He'd give us that at minimum. Maybe only for awhile, but if we trade him for cash without even getting a glimpse of what he might become it would be soul crushing. |
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Reply | The QPR summer managers rumours thread
at 18:56 19 May 2025
If Thorup comes to QPR, maybe Marti will go to Norwich?
Very unlikely I know, but it'd make an interesting couple of fixtures |
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Reply | Michi Frey contract ✅
at 00:25 18 May 2025
Kelman is the quandry. Play like we did throughout the majority of the season and like Celar and Kolli he will get battered by the big, mean Centre Defenders that live in the Championship.
They have big, mean defenders in League 1 too. Kelman's built like a cast-iron fire hydrant these days. Beaten for skill maybe, but he's unlikely to be pushed around. He deserves a good few months to prove himself at the very least.
I worry that should Orient get promotion they'll move mountains in order to keep him somehow. |
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Reply | Nathan Jones Amateur Dramatics
at 14:14 16 May 2025
He must have genuflected to the God, Allah, and about a dozen different South Asian deities in time-added-on. Has to be a record of some sort. |
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Reply | Spurs v Man Utd Europa League Final
at 02:09 16 May 2025
I watched the Charlton/Wycombe match, two very poor teams I thought. Not a patch on either Orient or Stockport. (Which guarantees Charlton will beat Orient at Wembley of course.)
What's the Valley's capacity these days? It seemed a very large crowd for sure. |
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Reply | Charlie Kelman’s Leyton Orient
at 17:06 15 May 2025
Hitchin supporters wouldn't regard Watford as a derby, and vice versa probably. Luton would be the Yeller Boys big local duel. [Post edited 15 May 17:51]
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Reply | Charlie Kelman’s Leyton Orient
at 02:58 15 May 2025
It's League 1 (Division Three in real money.) Muck and bullets. Attritional football, not the "Beautiful Game." But there's a desperation and valour about it that is just as appealing. |
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Reply | Charlie Kelman’s Leyton Orient
at 22:08 10 May 2025
The cardinal skill Kelman's acquired at Orient — and it's one every successful striker has to have — is to know where to be before the ball arrives. It sounds simple, stupid even, but it isn't. Charlie Austin had that ability, Lyndon Dykes never did. You don't see Kelman running around futilely chasing lost causes very often, at least not in the few games I've watched him in this season. |
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