I could only tell Field and Dykes apart after Dykes had his head patched up because he has a dirty neck. And plays in a different part of the pitch.
To be fair I’m no better……and probably wouldn’t know half the players if they came up to me and shook my hand. And don’t get my started on Dykes tattoos……
Just goes to show, they put their bodies on the line and it paid off. Something we didn't do. And we didn't have a plan B to unlock them. We just kept doing the same thing over and over and expecting/ hoping that something different would happen. Albert Einstein suggested this was a mark of insanity. Nostradamus must have told him about QPR in his quatrains.
Was Sinclair injured for this game? If not, I can't understand why he wasn't on the bench. I know he's very raw but with 20 minutes to go, having him run at them to at least draw fouls in and around the box, would surely have been a better bet than throwing on the ineffectual Bonne. Some games, when nothing's going for you, you just need someone fast, strong and wildly unpredictable. Can't see the point of having him in the squad if he's not available from the bench should we need a bit of mayhem.
I've got some sympathy, they had 9 players in the box at one point. It's fine margins, I suppose. I thought first half we were doing better at getting the wide players involved but second half were trying to be too intricate and play through them.
Not sure about Sinclair and agree, Bonne was rather pedestrian. Needs to get his gameface on if he wants another run. There were a lot of players who must have thought just running onto the pitch will earn them the win, albeit Huddersfield were quite lucky in the first half. But they did get themselves into the right places, so earned their luck. I wrote prior to the game that we must shoot at any chance we get, but I did mean at the goal. We were sooo wayward. You'd expect the opposition's keeper to make saves at least 90 percent of the time, IF you shoot straight. According to Beeb, we had 36 shots and only 6 on target (less than 17% accuracy) and, as Frome pointed out, 17 blocked shots. If we had shot straight, guaranteed a win. They had almost half their shots on target (5 from 11). Once they got in front the "bus" got bigger and was slowed down due to a ref who "fell asleep" at the job. Hit them quick for delay of game and tactics would've stopped. Rant over. It's getting hot down here in Sydney. Mid to late 20's. I'll just get a cool drink to calm down and hope our players are taught to hit the side of a barn before Sat.
Yeah Frome. I noticed that in the second half. Their striker was the only one near the halfway line, the rest were in the 20 yd box. It resembled under 7's where all the kids chase the ball and get in each other's way. I knew at that stage we'd need some luck to eke out a draw, but alas, not forthcoming. We are QPR (= no luck)
Clives report... https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/58966/savage-amusement--report Fair to say he wasn't a fan of Gavin Wards performance Referee (ostensibly) – Gavin Ward (Surrey) 3 So a few weeks back we had Bristol City away, which for our group means a post-match curry at the excellent 4500 Miles From Delhi restaurant. There’s a chicken dish in there comes with a warning from the chef. Hook it to my veins. I had to drive back from there because of the train strikes but there was beer in the fridge when I got home and a long celebratory sit into the night was held to mark the victory. On Sunday I took my other half out for Sunday lunch as we weren’t seeing each other for the following two weeks because of a work trip, and to go with a big thick roast dinner we lashed out on two bottles of wine and then talked about what a big mistake that was for a while. I have a Monday club with my mates after work where we play football and head off to the pub after that, so you can probably stick another half dozen Peronis onto the intake the day after too, along with a reheated sausage casserole that I’d cooked at some point the previous week and didn’t think would go another day so wolfed down in the middle of the night when I crashed in late and drunk. Tuesday was Sheff Utd, which was preceded by an enormous, spicy calzone at Mama and Leonie’s and the usual beer intake for an away win. By Wednesday I was hanging, I don’t remember the journey home at all, which is a concern because I was driving. Shortly after getting out of my car back at home my body gave a very clear signal that it had had enough, and I had 30 seconds to get it up the stairs where it could have enough in a place where I could dispose of the cards it was about to deal me, or else. Well if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions coming back to haunt me. What came out of me over the next half an hour was like nothing I’d ever seen or smelt before on this earth. It was a ****ing sentient being, with wild and dangerous opinions of its own, and it made it very clear straight away that it hated me as its creator. At one point I actually found myself praying for it to stop - surely there could be no more. Absolute costume of a man. I got through a whole can of Sure Body Spray for Men, emptied out into the air in one long stream, just so I could stand to be in the same room as myself long enough to clean up and flush the thing away. It knocked £27,000 off the value of the house. I swear to ****ing Christ, it glowed in the dark. Had I, instead of pulling the chain and fleeing the neighbourhood, stuck around, got on my hands and knees, scooped whatever in the name of God it was out of the bowl with my bare hands, put it in a leaky bag-for-life from Sainsbury’s, carried it all the way down the Northern Line in the rush hour and around the Hammersmith and City Line to Wood Lane, walked it down to Loftus Road and out onto the pitch, tipped it out onto the centre spot and stuck a whistle in the top of it, not only would it have been a more pleasurable experience than watching Gavin Ward referee this game, but it would have done a better ****ing job of it than he did.
Sinclair came on? Wasn't in the squad. Bonne came on - although for what it was worth, might as well have chucked Liz Truss on.
Yes, everyone says similar about Bonne but in the very short time he was on he set Dykes up for about the best chance we had all game apart from the goal itself.
No. He saw Dykes and slipped it through 2 or 3 defenders legs while lying on the ground after getting the ball stuck under his feet. A good recovery.
Oslo, sb. We all see what we want to see. But I sure know what I want to see. MORE 'effin QPR goals! I think we can all agree on that. Oh, and could the players please better defend the set pieces. Maybe have a squiz at the way Huddersfield defended against us .. mm, maybe? Thanks fellas. Much appreciated.
