 | Forum
Reply | Merry Xmas to all on Loftforwords
at 09:05 24 Dec 2025
What a player Emmanuel Gearbox was! š
Wishing all a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year .
Come on U Rās |
| Forum
Reply | 35 years ago today
at 08:46 24 Dec 2025
Mentioned before that I think Tilson was extremely under rated in QPR āfolkloreā in general.
He would have been close to being an international if heād been around now .
30 years ahead of his time as a ball playing centre back . Oozed class on the ball which was very rare .
Both he and Darren Peacock became 2 people I really looked up to and held in really high esteem , not just because of their different playing qualities but because 2 more down to earth likeable and approachable footballers you could not find .
Tilson especially was one of the few who would openly come and find you and ask how you are which is and was almost unheard of.
There is a lot to be said for that era of our history but one of the reasons for the success was the mix of established seasoned pros and lower league , down to Earth players that were brought in at the same time . Tilson , Peacock, Holloway, Penrice (to an extent) , Impey , Les (again to an extent) , older pros who were finishing their career like Ray , Garry Thompson, bought a humbleness to the obvious professional football team dressing room.
On the coach to an away game , they were the ones who would choose to sit next someone like me (16 year old apprentice / lackie) rather the card school with Macca , Bards , Barker , Sinton , because they wanted to talk to me and ask how I was .
That stuff stuck with me . [Post edited 24 Dec 8:46]
|
| Forum
Reply | So Cifuentes ?
at 14:23 21 Dec 2025
Agree with most of that although I think sacked in the morning is just football ābanterā that we have sung to others too.
I think Martiās bigger worry is that he clearly has some very very good players , but Iām not sure they are giving him everything.
They werenāt a āteamā yesterday .
He had to bring Ayew and James off before they were sent off.
Bunch of entitled spoilt brats who basically didnāt like it up āem, who look ready to throw their head coach under the bus.
If he canāt get a grip on that quickly heāll be gone by January . |
| Forum
Reply | Madsen
at 14:02 21 Dec 2025
I like it .
By his own admission he was mostly poor last season so it canāt all be Martiās fault.
The moment MC (and I ) gave up on him was Hull away . Thought he was shambolic for that cameo .
But Marti did bring him back in , to a fair bit of success at the end .
However , clearly we donāt and will never know everything that goes on in a dressing room . Maybe Madsen was being asked to do things that didnāt work . Who knows?
What I like about it is he is showing some , spunk, guts , bollox..whatever you want to call it . Certainly confidence and self belief and that epitomises his performances this season .
His turnaround has been tremendous and he deserves great credit , along with the head coach and staff . [Post edited 21 Dec 14:12]
|
| Forum
Reply | Fantastic win but the Cifuentes Abuse
at 13:37 21 Dec 2025
Yeah heard it in the first couple of minutes of the match and just winced.
Nourry PR machine have really done an amazing job havenāt they . French representatives courted at the club for every home game from early March yet Marti is put on gardening leave for much less . Got to give them credit .
And yes , CN hired people for that job alone . And it shows .
Having said that, nothing wrong with āMarti whatās the score etcā. Thatās just to be expected at any football match . Even āsacked in the morningā. Don't really have a problem with that . Weāve sang it to others and as any clubs fans would enjoy winning a football match .
QPR moves on and we are where we are , overall in a better place .
The issue was more the way it was done not so much the decision itself even though I didnāt really agree with it at the time. [Post edited 21 Dec 13:38]
|
| Forum
Reply | (No subject) (n/t)
at 07:52 17 Dec 2025
Canāt say I ever despised a Rangers player . Thought one or two were bellends when I was a youth team player another life ago .
Closest would probably be Barton who has been simply unlikeable since he plopped out onto this planet [Post edited 17 Dec 7:55]
|
| Forum
Reply | It's the NFL..again.
at 15:02 16 Dec 2025
I thought Rivers did ok considering he canāt through further than the length of his arm .
Colts did a brilliant job of protecting him though .
Thatās 3 or 4 recent games that the Colts have run out of steam at the end of the 4th quarter |
| Forum
Reply | So Cifuentes ?
at 09:29 16 Dec 2025
This thread was always going to polarize as he still does .
Lots of the same voices who wanted shot of him still jumping at the chance to talk about him though. Strange that .
Like many , thought he did well in the circumstances. No point going over āthe endā of his time with us . The PR machine has sorted that out quite nicely .
But , quick clap before the game maybe, then I want to beat him desperately.
My concern is more what our head coach does ?
Marti and Xavi will know every weak link and try to expose it . So JS has to show proper nous and experience this weekend , more than any other so far to make sure we win this game .
Madsen clearly has an axe to grind and one or 2 others probably .
Need to use that as fuel and win this football match ! |
| Forum
Reply | Fearsomely in-form Boro too hot for QPR to handle ā Report
at 10:56 15 Dec 2025
I have to admit this is fairly close to where I am with Saturday too.
I didnāt lose my rag too badly and I went out and forgot about it at around 5.05pm Saturday afternoon.
Maybe because that ā6 points from 9/ 3 game week blah blah ā affected me too in a way.
But as Iāve said elsewhere , Boro were good and would likely have beaten us anyhow.
But we didnāt do the simple , basic , ātaught when you were a school boy ā stuff that if you are to remotely make it harder for your opponents , then as the absolute bare minimum we should be doing .
But we didnāt . We didnāt at Cov and we didnāt at Norwich and itās becoming a theme and has been pre mentioned , a self fulfilling prophecy inside the club itself .
Very much like cup games now .
Iām not singling him out particularly as I like him a lot , but as an example , the difference in the desire, attitude and work rate between Varane second half on Tuesday and from
Kick off on Saturday ā¦..itās like a different player and it was by no means just him .
One lousy game we can all accept.
But to keep doing it as a squad means there are questions to asked and answered.
As said before , we will lose games and we have lost games this season where you say ok, it didnāt go our way but you canāt fault the attitude , just maybe a lack of quality .
But if the attitude levels drop then the lack of quality at times is completely laid bare .
I totally agree with you that for the first hour I kept saying.āwe look like weāve never seen a football pitch before ā.
We can accept it and say āho hum, we are doing better than previouslyā etc etc .
But as a club, we should be demanding more from our players than rolling over in tough away games just because āwe are doing better than before ā
Or the next self fulfilling prophecy on the checklist ā¦finishing 16th , becomes eternal until we finally drop out the wrong way [Post edited 15 Dec 10:58]
|
| Forum
Reply | Middlesbrough F.C V Queens Park Rangers Match Thread.
at 14:33 14 Dec 2025
Yes I find the JCS choices and timings odd.
I understand managing his playing time , especially with his record, but he wonāt get up to speed if he only plays an hour a fortnight .
Truth is we are being hampered by keep switching the back 4 where we are managing 3 of the 6 defenders playing time . With that in mind, Morrison is worryingly completely out of favour .
I also completely understand the notion that Middlesbrough are a good side and a better side who would have had joy against everyone in the championship yesterday .
But if you do the basics and simple things correct and do all the things that, as a team you can control, then at least you can frustrate the opposition and make it hard for them.
Only my view , but I thought we sat off, backed off, let them totally do what they wanted and when we did find ourselves in decent positions, we lacked any sort of quality or care to get ourselves truly back in the game.
Difficult to be too critical as we are doing ok in general . I can see improvements of course .
But we need to stop choosing when we show fight determination (usually at home) and then pick certain difficult away games (preceded by very good results ) to really metaphorically āhave a breatherā.
Thats got a whiff of the Redknapps about it. [Post edited 14 Dec 14:35]
|
| Forum
Reply | Slowly improving.
at 10:55 14 Dec 2025
I think āslowly improvingā is a fair assessment of where we are at .
Lots to be encouraged about and lots of work still to do . |
| Forum
Reply | Alan Barnes in Hospital
at 10:52 14 Dec 2025
Yes that is sad news and I too often look down from my seat in JU to see if he is there . I did last Saturday (I think it was last Saturday ) but didnāt do it Tuesday for whatever reason so didnāt notice.
Has had a terrible time recently so letās hope he gets well soon |
| Forum
Reply | Middlesbrough F.C V Queens Park Rangers Match Thread.
at 10:24 14 Dec 2025
Not been able to post as itās taken me until now to navigate past the cookie blockage as Iām an absolute tech idiot . Had to get my wife to do it š
Not read through this to see what people were / are thinking about yesterday but will try to catch up later .
My basic take was that I feel that the completely overhyped and over discussed ā3rd game of a 3 game week ā has now become a complete self fulfilling prophecy .
As at Norwich the players looked beaten before they kicked off . Played with no intensity, no purpose or drive , no quality and on the outside not much of a care . Now Iām sure thatās not true but thatās how it looked on the tv.
The complete opposite of Tuesday .
Itās about how the coaching staff and club turn that around now as for me itās clearly an issue .
Of course , we will lose games , but itās the manor of how you lose games and yesterday was almost a carbon copy of Norwich . That canāt be a coincidence.
Letās be fair, Middlesbrough took their foot of the pedal in the last 30 minutes allowing us to look a little better but I thought almost to a man, we looked way below par .
On the plus side, we got ourselves into quite a few promising positions during the game . We just need to be so much better , especially away at decent teams like Middlesbrough.
Overall nothing to throw the toys out of the pram about , but as a club, playing and coaching staff , we canāt keep tossing games off because āweā ve already got 6 points this week ā.
Middlesbrough are a good team so we might well have lost anyway , but 17% possession after 40 mins is just unacceptable .
Thatās throwing in the towel and the frustration comes from actually, that we are better than that . And the fans that travelled up there deserve better than that . [Post edited 14 Dec 10:36]
|
| Forum
Reply | Any Roofers out there
at 08:44 11 Dec 2025
Great shout that . Felt exactly the same . Refused to believe until that moment |
| Forum
Reply | A Morgasm ā Report
at 08:08 11 Dec 2025
Wonderful description of a crazy and wonderful evening .
That complete elation we all share together at these moments is why we do it and described brilliantly Clive . Young children, middle aged men and women , OAPās and everybody in between in complete ecstatic disbelief.
Joyous
āYellow Cards: Morgan 90+7 (getting undressed in a public place), Mbengue 90+7 (lunacy)ā
This made me really chuckle |
| Forum
Reply | ELO theres a big blue nose approaching-birmingham match thread
at 20:59 10 Dec 2025
Apologies if this has been mentioned or confirmed elsewhere , but is that correct that that Mbengue also got booked after Morganās goal for running on to the field play (heād already been subbed) ?
The manās a yellow card hoarder if so |
| Forum
Reply | Any Roofers out there
at 15:20 10 Dec 2025
Talking of Leicester , another that springs to mind is Ishmael Miller.
The place went nuts |
| | mart_Goblin
|
Site Scores| Prediction League: | 12 | | TOTAL: | 12 |
|
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.