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Reply | Burrel out until March
at 16:29 8 Jan 2026
Yes, he the sports editor of the Hounslow Herald. You could google him and read the quotes he gathered directly in the presser that he shares every week. That was just one quote. I'm sure WLS were on the same presser.
ps. you know the blue tick meaningless? You buy it. Dave Mc hasn't got one. |
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Reply | Burrel out until March
at 16:20 8 Jan 2026
Absolutely no way that back four starts and the team coach leaves the stadium in one piece. Imagine explaining to the club captain he's being rested for Tylon Smith in a televised game against a PL team as they're playing again in six days at Stoke.
JS claims he's picking his strongest side and that definitely doesn't include Adamson or Akindineli.
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Reply | Ronnie Edwards
at 16:02 8 Jan 2026
I hope he's the player we remember watching and not the player Southampton's coaches are seeing.
I think £4.5 million is too much for us, for a CB, when we have holes at both full backs, and up top. I can't believe that we couldn't scout another CB for a third of that (perhaps the Edwards equivalent of 18 months ago, as is the mandate), and invested the rest elsewhere...
Of course I hope it proves a bargain price in the long-run. He was a lovely player. But it sits badly with me. |
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Reply | Daniel Bennie
at 13:05 8 Jan 2026
When was the last time Kolli played 90 minutes? Or back to back games? He barely managed 70 minutes on Sunday.
We've got ten games before March, when Burrell is supposed to be training again at the earliest. And that first streak of March games is a three-game week.
So, let's call it 13 games before we see Burrell back at best. Do we think Kolli will be fit to play in seven of them?
Of course Bennie's "in contention" for a run of games. All of our hybrid 10s and wingers will be.
I bet they sign someone on loan though too (and more than one). |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 09:34 7 Jan 2026
It's QPR. Of course they'll sign players. Has there been a window in memory they haven't?
They would've anyway but injuries down the spine of the first team make it inevitable now, surely, especially at CB if Morrison and JCS are out longterm (again). Smith sounds good on paper, but let's see how we really feel if Dunne/Cook are out at any point soon too and we're playing with him and Mbengue in the middle with, I dunno, Morgan at RB.
I expect at least one marquee signing - probably a CB - plus a few loans in and out. |
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Reply | thoughts on west ham in t'cup
at 22:09 5 Jan 2026
If you're coming from the east, you've got much better options all round.
I live nearby on Central Line, so...answers below.
1) Possibly the most important is. Do we need to find a watering hole outside of Stratford? I know we've been advised to, but is it necessary?
> Unfortunately, yes. Not many options and you need a home ticket anyway. But if you're coming on CL westbound, there's really good pubs aright by Leytonstone (Red Lion, plus a Spoons) and Wanstead (George) tubes, plus a good one five mins walk up Leyton High Street (Engineer).
2) As we have bus replacement on Greater Anglia services, I'm yet to decide whether to drive to Shenfield or Gants Hill. Is their still free road parking available at Gants Hill on the side roads? I suppose this question could also apply to Fairlop or Hainault.
> Central Line is a better bet if you want prematch. All the WHU fans also park by the tube stations, particularly Gants Hill. You may get lucky. May find more joy in streets near Redbridge, Wanstead and L'Stone tubes.
3) If I'm using the Central Line, is it better/quicker to walk to Leyton after the game than use Stratford?
> Hadn't thought of that! Will probably attempt it as drinking that way after.
If I was coming from the West, I'd drink by Liverpool St Station before and jump on Elizabeth Line. |
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Reply | Kolli
at 22:53 4 Jan 2026
Great finishes, and there's lots in him playing behind Kone with runners either side. Looks a good position for him, even if it may take a game or two to click.
However, he was out on his feet long before the end. He's certainly not match fit, he was blowing from about 70 mins. We thought he might be taken off as he was bent double for a bit - and then he scored.
It'll take him a few weeks to get fit. Hopefully he's robust enough, because he's a finisher and a player.
Good to see Chair on the pitch at the end (even if he didn't look too happy). We miss him badly. |
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Reply | Kone
at 13:49 2 Jan 2026
When Ferdinand was the same age as Kone, he played two games all season and scored none. The next year, 23 going on 24, he played nine and scored two (in the same match).
Let's see how Kone's doing when he's 25, 26, the age Les started scoring more often. I agree with Clive: I think he's doing well for a 22 year-old new to this level.
Edit: strongly agree about not using inverted wingers [Post edited 2 Jan 13:50]
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Reply | Kone
at 11:42 2 Jan 2026
He just needs a goal. Happens to all strikers - even those hailed on this thread such Furlong and Austen. Go through barren patches, look less than ordinary, pitchforks come out...score a goal, suddenly they are twice the player again. He looked good when he was scoring, now he's on this drought he looks clumsy and hesitant.
Only exception that I can think of as a young player at Rangers is Clive Allen. But neither Kone nor Burrell are Clive Allen, our most reliable 9. Even Les Ferdinand - not saying Kone is Les - but Les Ferdinand took a little while to hit his straps: 1990/91: 18 games, 8 goals; 91/92: 23 games, 10 goals...then he got really going. He was 26 then, though.
Kone is only 22. 22 in his first season at this level...cut him slack. He's definitely got a higher ceiling than Burrell who is 25 but they can grow together still.
Burrell is now five without a goal, too. They both need one. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 16:57 31 Dec 2025
Yes! That's right. Forgot that one. He played three (?) times in the PL at 19 for us. Looked lost.
Following season he played 30+ games in L2. Then the season after did half a season in L1 before starting for us thereafter.
Think that would be a good model for our more promising DS players next season - though not sure there's a huge line of L2 clubs waiting for them. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 12:15 31 Dec 2025
Interesting you say he's a far better player with much more talent than Hämäläinen. What are you basing that on? (Genuinely interested). We have a very small sample size for Esquerdinha.
Hämäläinen came on first in a game away at Fulham, looked decent in that game, which we won. Then started away at someone I forget now and looked very much like Esquerdinha against Ipswich. Never really kicked on.
Without wishing to be cruel, like almost all of QPR's DS/U23 players over the years, they look like future Baller League players to me.
Then again, I'm not a football coach, not a scout, not in recruitment, so what do I know other than the only full-back we've produced in 20, 30 years is Darnell Furlong...and he looked like he was going to make it at the level from the off, unlike those two.
Re: Madsen. The redemption arc was always more feasible as he was signed as a 24 year-old with 150+ pro games at a decent level under his belt. Didn't see it coming though. Glad to be proven wrong by him, hope to be by Esquerdinha. |
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Reply | Esquerdinha and his usage
at 09:57 31 Dec 2025
But this is exactly what we did with Hämäläinen. At 19, he was getting the odd game for the 1st team and then he went on loan. I think Esquerdinha and Hämäläinen have almost identical playing profiles at the same age: both too slight for Championship defending purposes at 19, both tidy with the ball but too slow to be attackers, both thrown in to Championship games for political necessity nonetheless.
Maybe Esquerdinha would benefit more than Niko H from a season at Kilmarnock, maybe he'd kick on. But physically, I can't see it. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 14:05 30 Dec 2025
This "lower mid table squad" is currently 9th. Three points off the play-offs.
The Eze money has not been spent. The Kelman money has, though. The Eze money has not been entirely banked.
PS. Nutjob Ian Holloway's Swindon are second this Christmas, exactly 12 months after you assured us he'd be fired. |
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 15:11 28 Dec 2025
And just as a footnote for the play-off mentality monsters here...
In the season QPR were promoted via the play-offs, we drew eleven games including away at such tough-places-to-go citadels as Huddersfield, Wigan and Reading. We lost at Doncaster, in amongst our 12 defeats. The culture of that team was in the bin, but still got over the line. You can be sht for months at a time in this league and still pull it off. |
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 14:50 28 Dec 2025
Re 'player trading': we have seen the selling of good (ish) players - ie Armstrong and Kelman - and had them replaced with better, Kone and Burrell (let's put Celar down to experience). Two in two years is not bad. Kelman and Armstrong were not universally approved sales at the time but cannot be questioned now. A few more now can be sold for modest improved fees, and the club are on a good run of signings. It's gonna take a little time but it's definitely in place.
I am finding this discourse a little off, a bit too grumpy. It feels a bit like after Sheffield United, which I felt was a great point but everyone was down on. We're on a good run of form, one defeat in five (at second placed Boro), including three barnstorming home wins...had a ropey first half but got a point at Pompey. I don't see this as soft. I think it's the opposite. And I see coming back against Hull, Birmingham (and Pompey) as definite culture change from the first coupe of Stephan months.
I should caveat all this by saying I had zero expectation of being one point off the play-offs after Boxing Day, think the squad/manger are slightly over-achieving, so maybe my standards are lower than some. Feel 12th to 8th is where this team belongs. We will get hammered by some more teams, I think. I'm just going to enjoy the weeks we win or even draw away. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 13:58 28 Dec 2025
It'll be Field and/or Kolli, maybe Smyth. Varane feels a bit integral to be a January sale. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 12:11 28 Dec 2025
We are going to have to sell players. If everyone wants to sign Ronnie Edwards, an upgraded keeper, perhaps RND or his equivalent, QPR will need to sell players.
And they will be popular players, because nobody wants to pay money for QPR's unpopular players.
They'll be players many want to see more of, Kolli, Field, perhaps Smyth. I would be amazed if they're not being offered to clubs, along with other fringe first teamers. Of course they are.
I didn't want QPR to sell Sinclair Armstrong, nor Charlie Kelman. Thought it a mistake to sell homegrown players so early in their careers. I was wrong. They'd never match Kone or Burrell.
Kolli looked a good player in glimpses. But they're glimpses. Perhaps enough to make some money from. And maybe the club have someone else in mind, someone better.
I think the club's recent dealings have earned them some faith on this either way. It'll be a football decision, though. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 12:11 27 Dec 2025
"Our away showings are really becoming shameful."
In fact, away from home this season:
P12 W4 D3 L5
Puts QPR 10th in the table away from home, above the likes of parachute clubs Ipswich, Southampton, Sheffield United. Only six clubs have won more.
Your posts are infinitely more shameful, for you (reasonable comedy for everyone else). |
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