Match Day Thread QPR vs Nottingham Forest

Probably not but he’s possibly our main hope. I like Oteh but don’t think he’s capable yet of playing 40+ games and getting into double figures. We’ll probably find out though.

 

I’m pretty sure you know that I value beautiful football above results, but I’m not stupid enough (just) not to realise that one without the other is eventually unsatisfying. I didn’t see the game, from what people say I’m sure we played better than we have done recently (without it being beautiful football, I can barely remember what that looks like in the context of QPR). I’m sure we were better than Forest except in the categories of scoring goals and conceding goals. That I know for a fact. But it was a meaningless game, made more meaningless by playing a bunch of people who certainly won’t be at the club in a few weeks time, picked by a manager who won’t be here either.

 

In that Eustace started with Walker up front, plus Eze and BOS, and left Freeman, Wells and Pawel on the Bench, it seemed to me that giving a game to youngsters to give them some 1st team experience, was a greater priority than winning the game today.

 

I think sacrificing a goat is definitely worth a shot...good call

 

QPR caretaker-manager John Eustace said:

"That game summed our season up. We haven't been clinical enough. It's something we need to get right in the summer.

"It's important that we recruit winners - players who aren't used to losing. I think over the last two or three seasons the standards haven't been good enough and the recruitment is going to be massive this summer.

"We need to recruit hungry players who it means everything to them to win games. There were a lot of young players out there fighting for the club and the experience will only stand them in good stead for next year."

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He's right in what he says but finding winners & hungry players costs money we don't have.
A clear out in definitely needed though.

 

Its all about opinions, that's football. I didnt see it, nor was I too bothered about seeing it and that says a lot about how I feel about our club at the moment. Whether we played well or not becomes irrelevant at the final whistle if no points are recorded. What you can do is take positives and try to build on them. Take negatives and try to erase them. I dont bye this about giving the youngsters some valuable experience. BOS should be starting anyway, Eze has started the majority of games and Walker surely cant be any worse than Smith, Wells or Hemed. Let's just face facts, this team is poor,one of the poorest I've seen for a while. It's not going to improve without shrewd purchasing. That's what the next manager should be about. If the youngsters are good enough then they should and will start under anyone with half a brain. What we need is a manager who can purchase decent players. That in my opinion may be some foreign geezer who knows the lower leagues of European football.

 

Very much so.

 

We did play well today with much better pressing, passing and possession but we lost because they were clinical with the fewer chances they had and we squandered ours.

I don't expect us to win every game but I do expect to be entertained for my money. Perhaps one can quantify that in football terms as in 'Ooh Ahh' moments. There were at least half a dozen such moves from us that brought that reaction from the crowd and that was, at least, entertaining with the hope that one such moment might produce a goal.

Smith unlucky not to score with the header.
Wells missed couple of reasonable chances and tried to redeem.himself with the penalty. Alas!
Lovely move put Tomer through but just could not get his feet right (Or maybe blocked).

Best I've seen us.play for ages but those who point to the only stats that count make irrefutable observatjons.

Entertainment is great but only points get you up the board to safety and promotion.

Lists ing to the story of The Blades. They decided to appoint a die hard Blade as manager and get behind him. I know we've tried that with Olly but maybe Birch or Ainsworth would bring that passion and playing for the badge and pride!

 

I liked everything you said in this excellent post but then you have to go and spoil it with that last paragraph!

 

I totally agree with everything you've said so I won't repeat it with my own full report. I'd just add:

1. Lumley's first half save, one-on-one, was incredible;
2. For me, Scowen would be vying for man of the match (again) with BOS, he put in a real shift and produced some quality moments, as well as the sweat;
3. Manning looked a lot more comfortable again today;
   
4. Interesting to see Cameron play at CB; he'd be worth a place in the 2019/20 squad as a CB, if he were affordable;
5. After a number of insipid displays earlier in the season, I was a little surprised to see Hemed again put in so much effort to such good effect; and
   
6. Lovely to see Walker get his full debut: Hemed, Wells and Smith haven't always starred , so it could have happened a little earlier!

 

Just for once, next season especially, can we get them in before we clear them out? It really would not surprise me at all that third week of August has come and we have not recruited a manager, a single player and we then release a ship load full of players in a panic to pay the utilities bills in September while our billionaires quaff champagne and talk about the importance of getting it right and recruiting the right man with the vision to take us to the next level. Their excuse then will be that we are struggling to put 11 fit players out onto the pitch for the first game of the season. By and large the players we do have are not worth much money so they can be released or moved on for a fee once we have the requisite number of replacements in. One out one in not vice versa.

 

Don't you mean 1 in, 1 Out?

 

Dedication beyond the call of duty, and he's still relatively compos mentis...

 

My mate Chris beats that.....1460+ competitive games consecutively.....home and away.

Madness beyond redemption.

 

That’s a syndrome, an obsessive compulsion, not a hobby.

 

He’s not well.

 

Yes indeed

 

That's a jail sentence..... you don't get that long for murder! Hope his parole officer directs him to the nearest pub.