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The QPR way
at 17:12 9 Mar 2022

First time posting, long-term lurker of LFW.

Peterborough, Barnsley, Millwall, Hull, Cardiff… it’s been a wet, dark, cold and windy few weeks. Our staff: players and managers have disillusioned pretty much every inch out of Loftus Road; so called “easy points” have come and gone, from calculating automatic promotion to Warbs’ comments of “remind me where we are in the table?” —like those points, those comments have also come and gone, we are now 7th and no one wants or needs reminding.

After seeing the team's performances for the last few weeks and some of the fan's reactions: "Charity Park Rangers", "we've ballsed it up again”, and some knee-jerk, short-sighted (if not ludicrous) claims that Warburton has reached his time at the club, I have decided to come out of my silent lurker hibernation to simply remind that small minority of our fanbase why this sh*t happens. And why its okay.

2012. Our one and only cameo survival season in the Holy land during the 21st century. Gameweek 28. After a beautiful run of 16 with only 1 win, QPR are 18th in the league and have just lost to teams such as rock bottom Wolves, 16th placed Blackburn, 17th placed Bolton and (of course — because why the f*ck not) Fulham home. The remaining 10 fixtures included playing against all of Sky’s BIG 6. Better luck next time folks. Last man out please turn the lights off. “Charity Park Rangers”. “We’ve Ballsed it up again”. But we didn’t. We hadn’t. We won 5 of the remaining 10 games and 3 of those scary looking big 6 fixtures (Taarabt, Diakite and Mackieeee). We stayed up — it wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t the easy way, it wasn’t for the faint of heart, but we stayed up-.

We are a team that even when we walk a league and have a player like Taarabt doing whatever he wanted with the entire Championship defense, we still cannot celebrate the league until someone in an office argues, pays a fine and makes sure that Ale Faurlin’s cousin’s Fake ID is never found.

We are a team that when we do win promotion playing football it might be with 10 men, chasing shadows in Wembley, with Superman Greeno and “he’s one of our own” Keogh assisting our only bloody shot on target. In the 90th minute. It wasn’t pretty, nobody said it would be. And it sure as hell wasn’t the easy way.

And here we are, with 11 games to go. We’ve lost to Peterborough, Barnsley, Millwall, Hull and Cardiff. “I’m Jack’s complete lack of surprise”. So what if we have to beat Sheffield United twice to get to the playoffs. And Fulham home -we might as well while we’re at it-. With this team of attractive exciting talent, with a manager juggling a budget, I am just grateful that we have come this far and will be cheering them on until gameweek 46. I am reminded of Clive’s quote: “‘The thing about being a QPR fan is you’re not happy very often, and when you are it doesn’t last for long”. It won’t be pretty and it might not be fun to watch, but I’m sure as hell it will be the QPR way.

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