True that, mate but one point away from home, after not having the greatest of games, with little attack is not such a bad result, especially having been in a bad run before the last result. l’m a glass half full type of person….. especially around Xmas, hic! Ha, l make big time joke! Okay….. l go now.
This league is all about the play off positions. Burnley and Sheff utd are running away with it. +22 and +20 goal difference. The next best teams for gd are Sunderland and Watford (I think) with +6. The championship is slowly becoming a 'play off spot at best' for the established clubs. The top 2 will generally be 2 of the relegated teams from the past couple of seasons. FFP dictates many a clubs ambition. It's all becoming a tad tedious season after season.
Nil goals conceded. Says more about Cardiff's abilities up front, but against Preston we were solid. Still think we will struggle against better teams without a proper striker. We can't always rely on defenders and mids to score our goals. Hope I'm proved wrong, esp. against the mad hatters.
I think I'm more angered and dismayed at our inability to put away the lesser teams in the Championship, - Cardiff (yesterday), Huddersfield, Brum and Blackpool, while the stronger teams look like they are more adept in front of goal. We've lost our shape up front since the "honorable" Bealaggard spewed his "loyalty and integrity" speech. Come on Neil. Get us back in fighting mode, mate!
So, a disclaimer that I wasn't able to watch yesterday due to other commitments, but looking at the results alone, I reckon Critchley has done alright. An away win against a team in 9th, and a point away, admittedly against a lower team, is not bad going. Having read through this thread, it seems the performance wasn't great and it wasn't the most entertaining game, but we still got a point away, not all bad. I've just watched his post-match interview from yesterday, and yes, he is not the most charismatic person in an interview, but given time and maybe a bit of media training (which I wonder if he's been having, hence the reason for this being his first interview), I'm sure we'll see a bit more enthusiasm soon.
If we had won yesterday, it would def have been the ugly bird in the taxi. Cardiff in front of goal were even worse than us! So fair result, but mid table performance at best.
Absolutely, I can never understand why we always seem to get Welsh teams at Christmas. When the games are as shyte as that one it really rubs it in...
Went last night with my Manchester United supporting son in law, he spent most of the match on his phone, and couldn’t believe how poor both teams were. I ended up almost apologising for dragging him out over Christmas to watch such a poor game. Welcome to being a QPR fan.
I thought we were the best team 1st half and played some decent attacking football, but without creating many chances. Tim looked the most likely expoding out of their midfield on occasion, but he looked like he'd taken a knock at the end of the 1st half and disappeared in the 2nd before being subbed. What good play we had seemed to disappear with him in the 2nd half. Willock still seems a murky shadow of the player he was the first few games of the season before his injury. We defended ok, but were lucky at least a couple of times when their strikes went wide or over from close in. Our substitutions of the whole front 3 made us even less likely to find a winner, and I didn't see much from Chair. Dunne was probably our best player on the day
Clive having his usual dig at Keithy baby.... Referee – Keith Stroud (Toy Town) 5 Standards and expectations have sunk so low with Championship referees, and this plonker in particular, that he can drift through a total non-event like this - with zero competition, aggro, contact or controversy - have one decision to make in the whole thing, stand six yards away from that decision staring straight at it, having issued a warning before it happened, still get it wrong, and I’ve got QPR fans on our message board telling me he did ok. He stood there, and looked directly at this, didn’t give a penalty, but relative to what he’s inflicted on us before, this is ok. This is ok… … I’m resigned to it now. You have incidents last week, at Preston, where Tim Iroegbunam bursts through the middle of the Preston midfield, Brad Potts attempts to chop him down at the ankle, advantage is waved, nothing comes of it, and the referee doesn’t come back to book him. “He can’t”, says our resident refereeing fraternity, who I try and listen to and learn from, because… “if the advantage is played and it’s not reckless it’s not a booking now”. I then sit and watch Man City Liverpool in the week, a counter attack takes place, Cole Palmer is deliberately pulled back, the attack comes to nothing, when the play eventually stops, a yellow card is issued. “Oh, well, you see…” Well, you see, nothing. This is bullshit. The worst collection of referees there has ever been overseeing the game in this country are making **** up as they go along. I want everybody reading this to watch the penalty Reading were awarded against Swansea tonight, and then watch that Jimmy Dunne incident from yesterday back again, and explain to me how one is a penalty and one is not, other than one involved Keith Stroud and one didn’t. This is all fine and well. We’ve got Gavin Ward for Luton on Thursday night, what fun. I’ll do Office memes and Simpson crops and we’ll all roll our eyes and jolly along with this utter, utter farce. Until you’re Huddersfield Town, and you’re in a play-off final, and this incompetent shower give it to one of their fat mates to referee as his retirement party, and he botches it to such an extent that you end up trading a Premier League promotion for a spot in League One. Keith Stroud, like Jon Moss before him, has palpably and obviously not been physically or mentally capable of refereeing games at this level for some time now. That he cannot even get through this, this, without botching the only decision he had to make, epitomises that. He’s already horlicksed one play-off semi-final, between Swansea and Brentford three years back, and our League Cup quarter final tilt last season. If the EFL continue to persist with the idea that this bloke is competent at this level, then it is a ticking time bomb before it happens to another team in a big, important game again. Look at where Huddersfield are now compared to where they could have been had a proper referee done that play-off final. Stroud, like Moss, is a liability. He cannot get decisions right for trying. A disaster waiting to happen.
