Jack Robinson

To answer the first question, because he keeps on telling us. How many of these season's signings have taken anybody by surprise? So far?

The answer to all your questions is "Panic" We do it as much as the next set of fans. The sooner we resign ourselves to the fact that the only sensible way forward is to buy within our budget players with a long-term future, building over a number of years (even if we do have the odd setback) the happier everyone will be. For me, staying up is, and always has been a bonus. We will be solvent and even rich by the standards of ordinary clubs and able to keep on investing in our future on and off the pitch. I hope we don't push the panic button now and fill the squad with other clubs cast offs in the last week or so of this window. Surely we should have learned by now. It don't work.

 

Just spoke to a liverpool fan and he is gutted that he could be leaving. He reckons he is good enough to play for liverpool now and could play in a 352 system he is very fast.

 

Agree with the bit about a long term future and building over a number of years, however staying up is the be all and end all at present and it looks like they are trying to adopt this strategy whilst in the premier league.

There are far too many negatives about being relegated i.e. will our owners get fed up and walk, how long will be down for? How much will we be fined when/if the fair play rules catch up with us? The sale of players probably at a loss, the re-build of a championship side, plans on hold period for training ground and new stadium and that goes without saying the loss in revenue which is huge NOW and these days of huge revenue will end sooner or later it just is not sustainable so we must at all costs make hay will the sun shine and fill our boots in order to be successful. IMHO

 

That's encouraging.

 

A fee of £1m according to the Fail, which implies to me he either isn't very good or has some other horrendous problems. Mark Dennis Mk 2 perhaps, or only one functioning hip.

They also have us in for Diarra who is refusing to train for Lokomotiv Moscow (surely must be some kind of contract in place though) and McCarthy from Reading. I'd be happy with either of these, Diarra would certainly give us some steel. But Grifter will go beserk if any get into the team......

 

That's my point, Rednapp's signed the type of players that we've been screaming for, young, eager and with sell on value, yet all I'm hearing after one bad defeat is people moaning without any perspective. When you buy players it takes time to settle, so we must expect some thumping defeats from top teams with big budgets. But so many fans are panicking like we're doomed after 2 games.

It's like everyone's turned in to Flyer, which worries me more than any defeat.

 

Furious that the messages coming from the club is that we need this player or that player for exactly what system? Shambles at the moment it seems and having just watched the Spurs game… how wrong did the management get that wrong? The club's answer is to buy again. It also makes the all together R's supporters on here look very daft now. The game at Hull really did raise my hopes that there was a foundation and i fully expected a solid looking team to contain Spurs with Henry and Faurlin playing. We have to show pateience of course but this has to start with a settled side. Jack Robertson is just a name to us lets be honest we have no idea and whats more why wasn't this player signed weeks ago if he was required?.

 

Great post and was my fickle interoperation of the last few years exactly on the money on how a QPR fan is becoming?
We look to have an excellent squad and i watched a very impressive side against Hull. This was the opening home match for Spurs who themselves were worrying their fans … They got their teeth stuck in and credit to them they got their kick start … ours will come because i saw enough against Hull that it could all click into place. Looking on here some should IMO be ashamed and this post of the Lone Ranger deserves full credit IMO

 

I posted on another thread a day or so ago that it was virtually unanimous amongst posters on here that all the signings we've made were good ones. One defeat has not changed that, it's all been a massive overreaction. And to complain about Harry waving to the Spurs fans, a club he spent 3.5 years at, hells bells what are we all becoming? Any excuse to have a pop at him.

 

Personally I think the reaction has been against a spineless shambles of a performance rather than the result. We have good players. We had good players 2 years ago, who actually showed the potential of that team, briefly, in the away game at Spurs. Then we collapsed into a spineless shambles for the rest of the season. The reaction is out of fear of repetition of that awful experience, we, the fans, don't deserve it. Let's hope it's a misplaced fear, I reckon we'll know after about 12 games.

The signings have been good - Ferdinand makes sense, Caulker seemed highly rated, the Chileans and Fer - played in national teams which had a good World Cup, what's not to like? Mutch is the only one I'm not sure of, out of ignorance more than anything - he made no impression on me last season, but I wasn't following Cardiff very closely, and I'm unclear as to his position. But there is time.

But it doesn't matter how good the players are if they underperform for whatever reason.

 

The performance was that of a team who don't know each other yet, are getting used to a new system and playing a team who have spent close to 200 million in the last couple of years! Perspective!!!!

If they're playing the same way in a few months, then you can panic, but why are so many falling apart after 2 games??

 

Because they are infected and fickle and they are unaware

 

That's why I said 12 games. What's your expectation of where we will stand then? As I posted on the 'expectations thread' I have no idea where we will finish, but I think we need to start averaging just over a point a game pretty fast. 3 points on Saturday gets us back on track.

Send me the ointment Dr Voodoo.

 

Glenn: "Harry, I think we need another left back."

Harry: "Okay, I'll ask Tony."
"Tony, I need another left back".

Tony: "No problem, I'll get another one before you can say Jack Robinson."

Harry: "Great, he'll do."

 

Very Good!

 

Have you got a new script writer? They're flowing today!

 

Before you can say Jack Robinson he's gone again, as the Sun:

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28/08/2014
By West London Sport
The Sun reports that Liverpool full-back Jack Robinson will be loaned to Huddersfield Town after signing for QPR.

Rangers are expected to buy the 20-year-old for around £1m but boss Harry Redknapp is tipped to then lend him to the Terriers so Robinson can play first-team football.

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Jack Robin.............. Damm. Where's he gone.

 

Hell, we're almost looking like a professional club!

 

Bloody Hell, that won't do.......