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Reply | Swindon
at 13:55 21 Nov 2024
A very long time ago, not far from Swindon, my wife and I were married... ... by an exorcist. He, Canon Harman, might have been able to help Ollie, but he was already rather elderly (and busy) when he officiated. |
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Reply | Wembley Stadium
at 12:38 19 Nov 2024
Should we tell the County Cricket Club?
BTW - born between Wembley and Greenford (Middlesex) and I regard that as west London  2 |
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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 10:33 14 Nov 2024
Intended to listen for a few minutes but I stayed to the end. Excellent interview. Mark was honest (it seems) but suitably diplomatic. Interesting angle that young bosses don't want older, more experienced people working under them. With the set-up at QPR today, it's a wonder that we do not have a coach who is in his teens (OK, only joking). |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 09:13 13 Nov 2024
Agreed.
Nourry's appointment may have been a mistake, but debating his future is a massive distraction and something that the QPR Board will deal with if and when they deem it necessary.
My interest is in what happens on the pitch. The manager and the players have a job to do - grind out points and get us out of the drop zone. Whose fault it is that we have a squad that is struggling is of interest - but, for the moment, it is of far less interest than how Marti can get the best out of the resources at his disposal. |
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Reply | What's the next move?
at 09:03 12 Nov 2024
Could we add an option something like 'What must happen next is about what happens on the pitch and other issues will have to wait'? |
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Reply | Have you ever left early...
at 09:01 12 Nov 2024
I have left a QPR match early only once. That was a big game in 1986. We were losing 3-0 to Oxford. I missed nothing by leaving and years later, I learned that it had all been an illusion and that the match had not really taken place. What a relief. |
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Reply | Savage amusement - Report
at 12:58 11 Nov 2024
You are right, Dave, but although recruitment may have caused the problems on the pitch, it is on the pitch that we have to fix them - a job for the players and their coach. |
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Reply | Savage amusement - Report
at 08:38 11 Nov 2024
Nourry should go? Maybe, but the trouble is, he is not a player. It is the players that have to turn this around. If Nourry is picking the team or deciding the tactics, that's another matter. But, if his sins were committed in the summer transfer window, then they are a mere distraction at the moment. For now, the club must focus on what happens on the pitch. |
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Reply | Is this season written off already?
at 21:00 9 Nov 2024
The question was 'Is this season written off already?'
The answer has to be 'no'. We are about 65 points off a play-off place, with 31 games to play. There is no point in thinking about that. Success is now survival in the Championship and the first target has to be pulling away from the relegation places.
But, six first choice players are missing at the moment (Clarke-Salter, Paal, Chair, Colback, Dembele and Frey). Their availability would improve the team immensely, but it looks likely to be weeks before that happens.
In the meantime, Marti has to use every power that he possesses to get some points with what he has at his disposal. Forget the arguments about poor recruitment policies and who is to blame. He must earn his corn and the fans can help by accepting the situation and helping him and the team battle through it. It is, first and foremost, about survival. |
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Reply | MC has got to go
at 22:18 5 Nov 2024
It seems as though Marti has a bigger job to turn it round than he had last season. A scary thought, but I have not given up. |
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Reply | Cant believe this game has come up on youtube
at 22:32 2 Nov 2024
I was there in SAR with Mrs Kernowhoop.
Couldn't remember much detail except a) not being happy at going behind and b) West Ham goalkeeper (Day?) strolling well up the pitch when, in a previous fairly recent game, he had conceded when someone spotted him and lobbed the ball beyond him into the goal. |
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Reply | Mousehole AFC
at 10:53 30 Oct 2024
Agreed, Digger. Especially about the Penlee Lifeboat disaster. I was living in Polperro in December 1981 and one evening there was a tremendous storm. We went down to the sea to watch it, not knowing then what was going on farther west.
I know what you mean about 'welling up'. I have listened to the recording of the communications between the Penlee (Mousehole) lifeboat and the coastguards as the lifeboat crew try to rescue the seamen on the 'Union Star'. Eventually, it goes silent. That is a lump in the throat moment.
We use terms like 'hero' rather loosely at times. Those people - commemorated in Mousehole- were true heroes. |
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Reply | Mousehole AFC
at 10:29 30 Oct 2024
Would that be 'Mousenal'? |
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Reply | Turfed over once Moor - Burnley Match Fred
at 15:56 26 Oct 2024
We go long spells without the commentators mentioning Chair or Smyth. We need those players (especially Chair) to have the ball from time to time, if only to take the pressure off the defence for a minute or two. Sounds like heroic defending though. |
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Reply | Austin return?
at 10:20 22 Oct 2024
Aaah. Where should I apply for a job like that? |
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Reply | Austin return?
at 10:10 22 Oct 2024
I loved him as a QPR player - was it 18 PL goals in a team that got relegated?
But, a 'striker coach'?
Sorry, but I have a job to understand quite what that entails. At Wembley, years ago, I met Les Ferdinand who told me that he was coaching the strikers at Tottenham. I should have asked how he did it.
It seems to me that there is something that we might call a 'striker's instinct' but that can hardly be taught.
One thing that definitely can be coached is the way that ammunition is provided to the strikers. Could we start there? |
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Reply | Cook on todays defeat
at 11:28 21 Oct 2024
Possibly the most important of his comments was that the fans should continue giving their support. The alternative is unthinkable. |
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Reply | QPR slump to dead last after Pompey implosion – Report
at 11:22 21 Oct 2024
I am as cheesed off as most QPR fans must be, looking at four successive defeats. But, perhaps not quite as much as some on LFW are.
I can remember the optimism here at the beginning of this season, based on the remarkable recovery in 2023-24, the belief in Cifuentes, the transfer business in the summer and the football that has been played (albeit without the necessary consistency) Look back at that, if you have time.
It should reassure all - except those who actually prefer to moan and cry in their beer - that this is a situation that can be turned around. My guess is that it will be. |
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