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Match Day Thread QPR vs Swansea

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by daverangers, Jan 16, 2023.

  1. Didley Squat

    Didley Squat Well-Known Member

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    We get the mail late here, mate.
    Hope you enjoyed a good day out.
    We're the same age with the exception you just that little bit older!
    Mines in June.
    Aussie.
     
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  2. stanleyparkerbowles

    stanleyparkerbowles Well-Known Member

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    Surprised the crowd was so big on Saturday
     
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  3. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    I think that we took over 2,000?
     
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  4. Rangers Til I Die

    Rangers Til I Die Well-Known Member

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    About right.
     
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  5. sb_73

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    Yeah, healthy. I think you had both tiers of the School End, which not too many teams manage. I suppose it’s a long and expensive trip but pretty simple from Swansea to Paddington. Heard Hymns and Arias faintly (I sit at the opposite end of the ground, and such is the **** design of Loftus Road that I can’t even see the away support in the upper tier of the School End) a few times. I’m guessing that they would have gone home happy, you showed even less threat than us, which is some achievement.
     
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  6. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    A day or weekend journey up to London is an easy and attractive trip for many.

    As for having less threat than yourselves, in some respects that’s how it’s been all season: beating you at our place ‘kick-started’ our season (we were 3rd bottom at kick-off), we then have a 5 or 6 game run that took us into the Play Off places, but now we are on a run of 9pts from 36pts.

    Some of our matches have been boring and mediocre to say the least <cheers>
     
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  7. SW Ranger

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    It’s a great point. Is the league a level playing field rarely seen in modern football leagues where teams can beat any of each other (rather than perhaps the ‘yo-yo’ teams or two). Or is the league a mediocre level that is all about who plays worse and loses/drops least points.

    I have always liked how the league can change with a good run and you’re rarely surprised when there is a turnover of a good team. But runs like yours Taff, and ours, still don’t seem to leave you far from the chance of a play-off position. Which perhaps confirms the mediocrity of football, and of perhaps the decline of quality in this league, that shows the widening gap from the EPL. Sad if this continues. Already many here are, sadly and understandably, accepting mid-table mediocrity and keeping away from relegation as more of a hope than play-offs or promotion.
     
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  8. sb_73

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    This league is bizarre. For the most part - Burnley aside - it’s generous to call the quality mediocre. It’s pretty crap. But it is ultra competitive, which generates whatever excitement there is.
     
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  9. QPR999

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    QPR999 Well-Known Member Staff Member

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    I read somewhere that it was officially 2,300.
     
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  11. Taffvalerowdy

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    Clive’s report sometimes bug me but this one is spot on
     
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  13. QPR999

    QPR999 Well-Known Member Staff Member

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    Did anyone else notice our ( what I thought anyway ) bizarre defensive corner routine, where we had all eleven of our players defending within our own eighteen yard box? If you clear the ball there's no one out there to win the second ball and try and go on the counter attack and the ball is inevitably coming back into your box. I don't see the point of five foot Chair being in there.

    Swansea didn't score from a corner, so I guess it must work to some extent.
     
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    Chaos from every one though
     
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  15. QualityPiesnRissoles

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    The song from the welsh “it’s coming home it’s coming home…..**** alls coming home” was quite funny
     
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  16. stanleyparkerbowles

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    I also meant The South Africa Road stand was as full as I have seen it in a long time. Is it new striker hope?
     
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  17. jeffranger

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    Yep I found that weird 999’s, normally leave chair or Willock up there so when Deing catches he normally kicks up field for or the other to chase down & it does work as we have scored from it, strange
     
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  18. Hammersmith bookie

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    To be fair, anything is an attractive trip if it gets you out of Swansea !
     
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  19. Hammersmith bookie

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    Although to be honest Shepherds Bush is on a par with it these days !
     
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  20. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    <laugh><laugh><laugh>

    You’ve obviously never been to Mumbles or the beaches on the the Gower Peninsula <cheers>
     
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