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Reply		‘Methodology’
at 22:14 26 Feb 2026

What worked for us under Venables was wholesale buying of the 'Team of the 80's' he developed at Crystal Palace.

I can't remember them all off the top of my head but I think we brought five or six of that team to QPR under Venables.
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Reply		‘Methodology’
at 22:10 26 Feb 2026

You are spot on Dave.

I can see the logic of the DS shadowing the first team because you might need DS players to slot in at short notice.

But there is no reason for every other age group at our club to be so narrow in their development.

We're not developing players to spend their whole career at QPR. We're developing players to trade and grow the club.

The focus should be on developing players for the market, not just the narrowly defined needs of our first team.

Failing to see this basic point is conceited nonsense.
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Reply		In Today's Least Surprising News...
at 17:16 26 Feb 2026

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Reply		In Today's Least Surprising News...
at 16:37 26 Feb 2026

"Long contract" being the crux of the matter.

As I understand the amortisation rules we can't offload him at a loss this summer because the loss will go straight into the accounts.

And that is not going to be very helpful when we need to make at least one good sale and most of our most sellable assets are crocked.

So it looks like we're stuck with hm.

And that other forgotten man Hevertton Santos is also likely to be coming back. Five starts this season in Portugal. No goals and one assist:

https://www.espn.co.uk/footbal
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Reply		Ben Williams and his team
at 13:35 25 Feb 2026

Kelman and Frey both said they did their own thing for conditioning over the summer of 2024.

Kelman clearly bulked up a lot and looked bigger during his successful loan season with Orient.

It seems strange that the club would let players go away and do that on their own. Or that players would feel the need to!
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Reply		Madsen hamstring
at 13:28 25 Feb 2026

I asked a similar question on the "Ben Williams and his team" thread about reporting lines and information on player fitness.

My understanding is that Ben Williams reports to Nourry but not to Stephan.

So you are asking important questions here:

Who is getting what information on player fitness and their ability to play?

Is JS in the loop on this or is he getting what Nourry chooses to tell him?

If JS is clearly getting the right information then why are we managing player fitness/conditioning so badly?
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Reply		Ben Williams and his team
at 13:16 25 Feb 2026

1. I wouldn't mind the medics/physios having some input on team selection provided it was clear guidance about which players need resting and which players can only play a limited number of minutes.

We don't appear to have done that very well this season.

From what I understand of the management structure Williams reports to Nourry, not to Stephan.

Is Stephan not getting the right information from the player performance team, or is he getting the information and ignoring it?

2. It would be very QPR to give someone a pay rise just because he lost his side hustle. I hope there was a corresponding drop in pay when Williams opted to spend a year in Dubai multitasking several different sporting teams across multiple time zones.
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Reply		Broken Chair?
at 12:20 24 Feb 2026

When did we put Lovejoy on the payroll?

Do we really need a Head of Distressing and Glazing Performance!?

If we're trying to make a few quid off Chair down Portobello Road he must be in worse shape than I thought.
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Reply		Broken Chair?
at 21:00 23 Feb 2026

I'm not blaming DM.........

He's just reporting in good faith what he hears from the club.

It's the club itself that's pushing this twaddle about the condition of our players.

Several times this season we've been told that players are back in training or on the brink of a return only to disappear again without explanation for several more weeks.
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Reply		Broken Chair?
at 18:56 23 Feb 2026

If you go back to the original post it was actually a dig at all the erroneous reports the club has been steadily putting out around player availability.

Chair is just the latest example of that.

Maybe I should have just said that instead of trying to look clever!!

In other news Poku's back in training (again)

https://www.westlondonsport.co
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Reply		Club Accounts
at 15:09 23 Feb 2026

Agree with that.

But it's a tough process because the players the club can sell for big money are the ones the fans don't want to lose.

So it requires patience and a lot of trust from the fans.

You also need to factor in any sell on clauses we promised to the clubs we signed the Madsen's, Ronnie's, Burrell's etc from. That's going to take a big bite out of any funds we have for reinvestment in the squad.
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Thread		Broken Chair?
at 13:24 23 Feb 2026

Last week WLS told us Chair would be fit for the Hull game.

No sign of him on Saturday and now he's out for at least two more games.

DM should stop publishing these injury updates from the club. They're making him look like Comical Ali (or Lord Haw Haw, since he lives in Ireland - ask your grandparents kids!)

https://www.westlondonsport.co
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Reply		Nourry answers questions
at 13:33 18 Feb 2026

Accounts aren't my thing but everything you have outlined sounds convincing to me.

As an aside the PL is moving away from PSR next season:

https://www.premierleague.com/

Does anyone know if this is coming to the EFL and what it might mean for us going forward if the rules do change?
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Reply		Club Accounts
at 11:12 18 Feb 2026

No love for Hevertton Santos?

Don't answer that :-)

He might not have cost much but he was Nourry's first signing.
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Reply		Nourry answers questions
at 09:46 18 Feb 2026

Craig Johnston was a Strayan.

Although born in South Africa, and played for England U-21.

But he grew up in Australia and played his youth football there
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Reply		Blackburn Reflection
at 22:44 17 Feb 2026

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Reply		Blackburn Reflection
at 11:26 17 Feb 2026

So they could have just explained that clearly in the first place and avoided all the confusion!

Or does that count as telling us too much!?

It's all a bit silly and unnecessary.
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Reply		Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 10:35 17 Feb 2026

I was being semi-serious.

Pitches are checked before every game by the referee and officials from both clubs, but I don't know what sort of checklist they use or how thorough the checks are.

But footballers are expensive assets and they have a powerful union.

If a particular pitch has a large number of injuries then people outside the club might start taking an interest.

If a pattern were to emerge in the type of injury or if they were happening in a particular part of the pitch then that might raise some interesting questions.

But maybe we're just unlucky.

Or cursed!! :-)
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Reply		Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 09:38 17 Feb 2026

How many serious injuries are you allowed in one season before the EFL and other clubs lawyers start taking an interest in our playing surface?

One of the main objections to artificial pitches is that there's an increased likelihood of injury to players.

We are single-handedly disproving that objection.
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Reply		Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 20:15 16 Feb 2026

No love for Wimbledon or Bromley?

We will be in real trouble if Bromley ever motor past us.
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