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Reply | Football and Sports - Brilliant One Week - Awful the Next !!!
at 03:03 28 Dec 2025
My point is consistency doesn't mean 100% consistency, Clive - sorry, I thought that was obvious. It means, as in those former QPR teams to which I alluded, turning up week on week, playing for 90 minutes, and (as you recently mentioned) trying to be good players all the time. Giving us a team, in other words, we can basically trust, even though it won't win all the time.
Also, that thread was asking about a question about consistency, not asserting it as some kind of idealistic dogma. Hope that helps. [Post edited 28 Dec 3:05]
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Reply | Saito/West Brom
at 03:00 28 Dec 2025
Smyht should start regardless against WBA, and he can switch left and right as needed. Koki needs to smile a little less (I know it's sweet) and develop a bit of steel. |
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Reply | West Ham tickets
at 02:55 28 Dec 2025
I think you're hallucinating those 'how little you know' lectures, Northern, but never mind. Good luck on the underground in the meantime! |
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 02:53 28 Dec 2025
Try and dial back on you 'we would all' rhetoric, mate - we're all individuals! Against a team that had previously lost half its home matches and went to pieces when we decided to attack them a bit after the half-time oranges, I don't take a draw with them. We could and should have beaten them, and with the right mentality and set-up, we would have done.
I also want 9 points from the next three games, two of which, lest we forget, are at home against the bottom two teams. We also owe both a tonking. WBA, for their part, are lower-half mediocrities, who Bristol City recently rolled over on their own patch, and somehow without that goal machine Armstrong making an appearance.
Do I think we'll get them? I think we'll get 4, and that'll be spun as decent. [Post edited 28 Dec 2:56]
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Reply | West Ham tickets
at 02:42 28 Dec 2025
Thanks for that. As you may have forgotten (or feel is trivial), I live in a different country. Congratulations on living in England.
For posters willing to engage with my point, I'd have the same attitude if I was a season ticket holder again living on the Goldhawk Road. To put it another way, just because I'm a fan doesn't make me a mug. |
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Reply | Football and Sports - Brilliant One Week - Awful the Next !!!
at 02:12 28 Dec 2025
No one asks for 100% consistency, for f*cks sake. With our team, it's 50% - almost exactly, in a number of games. That's the issue.
PS Aston Villa, a real team, have just completed 11 successive wins on the spin in the top division (poor old Chelsea). I think that's called counter-thesis! |
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Reply | West Ham tickets
at 02:08 28 Dec 2025
If the tickets were 10p, I wouldn't be going. Exactly why should I again? I saw Rangers at Wembley in 1982, and I wouldn't lower myself to the current attitude to the F A Cup. |
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 02:03 28 Dec 2025
For me, we'll get between 1-3 points from those two games on current showings. Probably lose to WBA and beat Norwich, and the manager will be calling it a good week again.
Make your own mind up if we do/he does! [Post edited 28 Dec 2:06]
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 01:52 28 Dec 2025
Excellent post.
I wish you were in charge - though of course if I'd written this (and I agree with it virtually word for word), the usual suspects would be laying into me with their usual brain-dead bile. But your first bit reads as self-contradictory about Portsmouth being in the relegation zone and yet it being a hard place to go (as asserted by our manager and captain pre-/post-match). As I pointed out on another thread, they'd lost half their games at home this season before we rolled up. It's NOT a particularly hard place to go, but we went there and could and should have been two or three down at half-time, which would have meant, imo, we wouldn't have rescued the game.
On that basis, I'd argue, it isn't and wasn't a 'good point', just because we showed in the 2nd half what we're capable of but can't be arsed to do for a whole game (as we've shown more than once now on the road). Any interviewer with balls would have asked JS why this keeps happening, and why the fans don't have a moral case for being refunded 50% of their expenses when it does. In my opinion, like it or not, JS is a cynical patsy for trying to claim the 1-1 was a good result because we only played for one half. He'd have garnered a modicum of respect if he'd devoted some of his post-match interview to explaining why his team again and again and again, especially away, only play for half a game. We won the 2nd half 1-0 at a poor Champ team - forgive me if I don't f*cking turn cartwheels!
Said interviewer doesn't, of course, because the club has built-in half-arsed (half-halved) standards. Unless that institutional slop changes, we'll be bobbing around 16th till kingdom come, strikers or no strikers.
NY message to (some) fellow fans: Wake the f*ck up! [Post edited 28 Dec 2:43]
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Reply | Saito/West Brom
at 14:04 27 Dec 2025
He's 31, and he's played about 300 professional games! There's something wrong with his engineering. We need to upgrade him urgently. |
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Thread | Saito/West Brom
at 19:56 26 Dec 2025
I like Koki a lot, but that was a really piss-poor showing from him today. For my money, JS should drop him for the West Brom game for Smyth, who you always know what you'll get from.
At half-time, I'd have had Dembele off like a shot, but he did get his finger out to good effect in the 2nd half, and showed some real flashes of heart and quality. Meanwhile, Varane continues to under-deliver - he's like Mikele Leigertwood on Temazepam most of the time!
I'd consider changing it up against WBA and bringing in two or more of Hayden, Field, Poku, and Morgan, but I think we'll be lucky (again) to get a point up there. Maybe JS will do something different this time and get us playing for the first half and phoning it in for the second. [Post edited 27 Dec 1:08]
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Thread | Dunne on Pompey
at 19:39 26 Dec 2025
https://www.qpr.co.uk/videos/0
I like Dunne, and at least he's honest about the crap first half - not that the interviewer had the guts to ask on fans' behalf why it keeps happening, obviously - but not sure what he's on when he talks about it being hard to come to Portsmouth and get a point. They'd lost half their home games before today and are 18th out of 24th in the home league table.
Have a word with yourself, Jimmy, and don't insult our intelligence! [Post edited 26 Dec 20:01]
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 19:28 26 Dec 2025
Why does that conclusion follow from those premises?
Why not feel fed up/angry/disappointed (again)?
Perhaps Nourry and Stephane can explain why the fans who attended shouldn't have half their money refunded as his team could only manage to play half a game (again)?
Our away showings are really becoming shameful. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 19:25 26 Dec 2025
It's not as if they're supposed to be professionals or anything, is it?  |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 16:00 26 Dec 2025
Let's hope his supposed studiousness gives him sufficient insight to change it in the 2nd half. If he doesn't, he's clearly phoning it in too. That, or he's just stupid. |
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