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Reply | Twelve games left
at 14:51 26 Feb 2026
If we can hit 60 points this season it will be an improvement. |
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Reply | Special mention for the kits last night
at 11:30 26 Feb 2026
If you go to a ground dressed as a Bassett's Allsort you get what you deserve!
Please club and Errea 26/27 traditional blue and white hooped home kit with hooped sleeves and blue hoop on shoulders and Denise the Menace away kit, again with hooped sleeves.
It's not rocket science and you'll sell a lot! |
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Reply | Steve Cook
at 16:27 25 Feb 2026
Do you think this is why he's not quite up to speed? |
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Reply | Special mention for the kits last night
at 16:25 25 Feb 2026
I'm using this excuse to account for Walsh not getting to a few things because he thought it was his own player trying to get the ball away.
I think this was a case of our club's commercial stupidity over practicality and sense. |
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Reply | Stephan
at 11:00 25 Feb 2026
Some of this is also down to the seemingly Jekyll and Hyde performances the team puts in. Is that Stephan's fault? Probably no more than his predecessors. There is no particular reason why the same starting 11 that beat Hull couldn't go and get something at Southampton. He had a very limited ability to change much and as Monkey Roots said, we weren't that bad first half, but mistakes and bad luck with Madsen cost us dearly. Mistakes and injuries are not really the managers fault in game. Did he do the right thing second half bringing a few key players off? The morning after, perhaps he did. Kone has been running on empty but is the 'senior' striker at the moment.
Being QPR manager is a tough gig, particularly as we seem to be this Jekyll and Hyde type outfit week to week. The only one who seemed to have a handle on it was Warburton, but he had far more to work with than any that followed him. Also, we dip have dips under Warburton as well. Beale only got lucky for a bit. Ainsworth couldn't turn it around, Critchley couldn't turn it around, Cifuentes was good at keeping us up but had horrendous losing streaks and that brings us to Stephan. He had a full squad 2 months ago and now he's got dev squad players on the bench and one out and out fit striker, whose running on fumes.
Overall, I agree with Monkey Roots. Bar last night and a handful of other heavy defeats, I think he's done okay given what we have here. Although he has to find a way of changing the season upon season Jekyll and Hyde game to game mentality we seem to be afflicted with - but that seems to have been a thing for ages, and doesn't seem easy to solve. |
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Reply | Steve Cook
at 10:35 25 Feb 2026
It's an interesting thought. I think we may have to given the level of injuries at the moment and perhaps even move Edwards to midfield if needs be? |
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Reply | Madsen hamstring
at 10:33 25 Feb 2026
We have Vale who'll have to play the 10 now for the foreseeable. |
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Reply | Stephan
at 10:23 25 Feb 2026
Who'd want to be a football manager?
He gets a great result on Saturday and names the same 11 for the next game. From Saturday afternoon he would have been asking that starting 11 if they felt good enough to start again last night, and consulting with his physios/conditioning staff as well. His players obviously said yes, they were ready to go.
Let's face it, if he's tweaked the line up and we lost we would have been throwing our toys out the pram that he didn't leave it alone. So he leaves it alone and gets dogs abuse. I looked at the team last night before we started and thought, well the players obviously feel good to go again so why change it. The problem is they were very leggy and going to Hull and back and then down to Southampton hasn't given then time to fully recover.
Also the injury list is now beyond ridiculous compared with 2 months ago. You look at the bench and it's really limited in terms of changing a game from an attacking perspective. I am sure Stephan would have liked to rest Kone for a game or so if Burrell was available and the new lad hadn't knackered himself on the first day of training. He also lost Madsen last night and that is a massive blow because realistically he now only has Vale available as a playmaker. No sign of Chair, Poku could still be a few weeks away from a start, Dembele out till next season, Smyth injured, Burrell obviously a way off and the new lad crocked. The decision to let Field go is coming back to bite us in midfield too.
It's fine turning heat on Stephan but he's running out of troops. My bigger concern is Steve Bould. The erratic abilities and inabilities of the defence and defensive performances must to a large degree be down to what he's doing and not doing with them in training.
At least Stephan opened with an apology to the fans. It was much needed but he did that. Apart from that, I'd hate to be a football manager. Especially here, because you win a game and all is well and you lose one and you're chased out of town by angry torch carrying villagers. |
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Reply | Walsh
at 10:09 25 Feb 2026
Walsh is 6 foot 3. Nardi is actually only 6 foot 1 and Hamer is 6 foot 4.
I feel for the kid to be honest. He's like the rest of the team in that he can be wildly inconsistent. He is, like many keepers, capable of fantastic saves and has on occasion looked good at crosses. I think he suffers perhaps with nerves and concentration. Murphy Cooper is also 6 foot 1 but to be honest, of the keepers we have he seems to be the most consistent, but he's on loan, is he not?
I think Walsh perhaps needs a season in League 1 but it's a difficult choice. He's had bad games and then been trusted to bounce back in the next one, and generally has. |
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Reply | Walsh
at 10:03 25 Feb 2026
Dunne is just under 6 foot 5. |
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Reply | QPR Players and Management.
at 22:21 24 Feb 2026
We'll beat Sheffield Utd. It's the most QPR thing we could do. We won't know why. Why probably won't know how. But we will beat them. |
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Thread | Madsen hamstring
at 22:20 24 Feb 2026
Apparently it is his hamstring. Another one with a hamstring injury. Will we see him again this season? Huge loss for us if so. |
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Reply | Club Accounts
at 12:03 23 Feb 2026
Swiss Ramble's assessment is excellent, allowing idiots like me to get some handle on what's going on so thanks to him for that.
I agree we will have to sell this summer. My only issue would be Madsen. Obviously if a £10-15m offer comes in we can't ignore it. But... if this team are going to 'push on' for a play off place next season I'm not sure how we achieve that without Madsen. He's now a player you build a team around.
I think it would be far more comfortable in theory if players like Varane and Chair moved on perhaps to better things, but not sure their value is as high as it was, so I take your point that Madsen is the one it may have to be, given that he is head and shoulders the best player we have now. |
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Reply | Eze Loves Spurs
at 21:28 22 Feb 2026
He seems to prefer playing him as some kind of weird 6 or deep 8 instead of a classic 10. |
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