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I was going to title this feeling positive but I think excited is the better word. We still have players to sign in various positions, we have a coach 'light' on 1st team experience etc etc but we have the prospect of attractive football around a good group of key young players, who still have room to improve themselves (Dieng, Dickie, Dunne, Field, Chair, Willock).
The way we are seemingly going to recruit players generally unknown to me but scouted for positions we need, with the prospect of players getting better with us fills me with hope, and reminds me of my favourite time late 80s / early 90s when we would buy relative unknowns who would become International class with us (I accept that was the Premier League but concept is the same) - when we got Seaman, Parker, Bardsley, Sinton, Ferdinand etc.
Call it nostalgia, or exitement at what's coming, or maybe it's the unknown but that tingle of excitement is there.
I work with Villa fans (and watch them a bit when there’s a freebie) and they keep saying good things about Beale. Also they reckon we’ll get some decent Villa youngsters on loan. Exciting times
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Feeling excited about next season on 12:03 - Jun 19 with 6704 views
I think it's smart that the first two signings in are players who have been coached by or tracked by Beale since they were kids. Hopefully that breeds trust and belief in those players going from youth football to week in week out Championship football here under a coach that they know believes in them and who will, all being well, improve them.
2 free transfer signings added to a core group of (relatively) young players. One of the most respected coaches in the English game. If we can find another striker, permanent or on season long loan, then there could be much to look forward to.
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Feeling excited about next season on 13:34 - Jun 19 with 6465 views
Yep, I'm looking forward to a new season with a new QPR. But, I am going to temper my expectations a bit and be prepared for things to take some time. A mid table finish in 2023 would not be a bad conclusion to the season.
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Feeling excited about next season on 15:30 - Jun 19 with 6239 views
Feeling excited about next season on 13:42 - Jun 19 by dmm
Yep, I'm looking forward to a new season with a new QPR. But, I am going to temper my expectations a bit and be prepared for things to take some time. A mid table finish in 2023 would not be a bad conclusion to the season.
It all depends how we get there of course. Awful start, great recovery, great start then collapse or win two, lose two, win two lose two...
Progression is the important bit OVER THE SEASON.
Personally, I just don't want runs of 6-7 games without a win worrying about where the next point is coming from. A steady season, being competitive in every game winning more than we lose would be fine and dandy thanks.
Feeling excited about next season on 13:40 - Jun 19 by kensalriser
The thought we might overshoot 16th again is a concern.
Always a stressful period, this point of the summer, wondering if we'll be able to fk it up as every Rangers side worth the name has always done before.
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Feeling excited about next season on 16:55 - Jun 19 with 6044 views
Feeling excited about next season on 16:11 - Jun 19 by davman
It all depends how we get there of course. Awful start, great recovery, great start then collapse or win two, lose two, win two lose two...
Progression is the important bit OVER THE SEASON.
Personally, I just don't want runs of 6-7 games without a win worrying about where the next point is coming from. A steady season, being competitive in every game winning more than we lose would be fine and dandy thanks.
Yes, good points davman. As is often the case, the number of injuries and who gets them will have a big say in how we do. Our first choice 11 is pretty good but there's not a great depth of quality in the squad.
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Feeling excited about next season on 17:04 - Jun 19 with 6015 views
Nice start. Very few goals in the team as it stands though. Very early days of course, June 19, but you can't be too optimistic about any Championship team currently facing 46 games with Dykes and Bonne as its strikers. We saw how that went previously.
I'm sure something will be done about this, we love making signings, it's very early in the summer even allowing for the early start. I do think that without a sale these two permanents might be about the long and short of it, and other deficiencies up front, at right back, and in centre mid will be covered with loans.
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Feeling excited about next season on 17:07 - Jun 19 with 6007 views
Now the dust has settled a bit, I've been thinking about where we were last season v the possibilities of this.
I think, realistically that squad had done what it could do, I, like many, could easily have lived with little change and Barbet , Ball and Austin all staying, but did we think that we could have really improved on last season -older players tend to get worse, young players better, but all in all, an improvement in the squad was needed I think, so yes feeling positive, sign a 20 goal a season striker and I might move that up to excited!
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Feeling excited about next season on 17:07 - Jun 19 with 6005 views
Feeling excited about next season on 17:04 - Jun 19 by Northernr
Nice start. Very few goals in the team as it stands though. Very early days of course, June 19, but you can't be too optimistic about any Championship team currently facing 46 games with Dykes and Bonne as its strikers. We saw how that went previously.
I'm sure something will be done about this, we love making signings, it's very early in the summer even allowing for the early start. I do think that without a sale these two permanents might be about the long and short of it, and other deficiencies up front, at right back, and in centre mid will be covered with loans.
We have a squad with more midfielders than defenders, I doubt we shall be signing any midfielders. We shall work with what we have got.
Agree, on a RB and CF and a RW is my view. Might have to settle for loans for some of them.
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Feeling excited about next season on 21:18 - Jun 19 with 5412 views
I’ve got a lot of time for Dykes, enjoyed his hot spells with us, and think with time he’ll be ok, but my ideal scenario would be selling him on and starting again up front. Without Austin and Gray I’d like to see what Beale could do with a blank slate up front funded by a Dykes sale. Bonne’s not good enough.
Rest of the team coming together nicely
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Feeling excited about next season on 22:23 - Jun 19 with 5296 views
It's certainly a nice feeling knowing that we have enough quality that we won't be in a relegation struggle - and excitement from the unknown potential with Beale and the new younger players to see if we can get something going.
Hopefully the unknowns do enough to relax people so we don't get the toxicity that comes with those increased expectations, and we can enjoy the younger players getting involved.
You also see certain players really go up a level when new managers come in, so many players are in the squad this season with nothing to lose and everything to gain - excited to see who pushes on.
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Feeling excited about next season on 22:39 - Jun 19 with 5236 views
I think the players that we are retaining will flourish under him. Can't opine about the new signings as I have not seen them in the flesh. Dykes is an integral part of the team, even if he is not scoring goals he enables others like Chair and Willock to have the space to work in and score goals. I can't see Beale opting for two out and out strikers in a 4-4-2 so I think it'll be another player that can pick a ball up and run at a defence that we might look to add.
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Feeling excited about next season on 23:43 - Jun 19 with 5106 views
Feeling excited about next season on 20:22 - Jun 19 by LazyFan
We have a squad with more midfielders than defenders, I doubt we shall be signing any midfielders. We shall work with what we have got.
Agree, on a RB and CF and a RW is my view. Might have to settle for loans for some of them.
we wont need loans, surely the pool of talented youth that Warburton was blocking like the Berlin Wall will now come flooding through into the first team
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Feeling excited about next season on 09:19 - Jun 20 with 4896 views
Bones of a good side is certainly there. Dieng, Dunne, Dickie, Field, Amos, Chair, Willock certainly looks good. But currently there's no right back and patchy strikers.
Obviously we need to sell (and I get the feeling it's Dickie or Dieng who will go), but we shouldn't fear that.
Will be happy with mid table and progression from those with time left on their contracts whilst fattening Willock up for a big sale next summer
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Feeling excited about next season on 10:21 - Jun 20 with 4764 views
Feeling excited about next season on 09:19 - Jun 20 by BAWHoops
Bones of a good side is certainly there. Dieng, Dunne, Dickie, Field, Amos, Chair, Willock certainly looks good. But currently there's no right back and patchy strikers.
Obviously we need to sell (and I get the feeling it's Dickie or Dieng who will go), but we shouldn't fear that.
Will be happy with mid table and progression from those with time left on their contracts whilst fattening Willock up for a big sale next summer
I posted this on another thread a couple of weeks ago. Things have moved on now with the first couple of signings. -------------------------------------------------------------- Who have we currently got who will fit this shape, and what might we need? (Each position x 2 for cover)
GK RB CB1 CB2 LB DM CM CM RW LW ST There’s no way we can go on a massive spending spree to fill any gaps and I think it’s much more likely we will making maximum use of the loans system to bring players in. I can foresee a situation where we max out on loans (is it still 4 in a match day squad permitted?) RB/LB remain our biggest gaps — likely loan options CB — if he promotes Masterson and we recall DeWijs we’re ok? DM — Field (sorry to see you go Dom!), cover? CM — ok with Amos, Dozzell, Johansson? RW/LW — Willock, Chair, Adomah plus cover? ST — Dykes plus likely one of the loan options? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With JCS coming in as a CB I reckon that takes DeWijs out of the picture and we won’t see him again, and/or we free up some funds with a Dunne or Dickie sale. Look at Beale’s track record on formation there’s no reason for him to come in and adopt the previous manager’s preferred 3 at the back. He’s 4 at the back all the way and the priorities now have to be RB and CF and some pace to cover at RW and LW. We don’t have money to spend so it’s no surprise we’re picking up free agents who he’s worked with before and we’ll be making judicious use of the loan market also with his connections. No loans yet understandably (too early in pre-season to see who might not be part of other teams plans), but with that’s where future signings will predominantly come from which will take a few weeks.
I wonder if it's not more likely that Dykes may go. I felt for most of last season that it was a smaller, pacier type of striker that would have suited us better - a Wells type, ironically - and (I'm guessing a bit really) if the stats for passing that the two new signings have are any indication, maybe that's what Beale would prefer too.
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