Match Day Thread Queens Park Rangers FC v Sunderland AFC – Saturday 16th August 2023 - KO 15:00

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He’s a good bloke deep down. Probably. I wouldn’t take it personally. He hates me far more than he hates Tony Mowbray.

I don't take it personally mate, just think it's idiotic. Mowbray’s kids took Southampton to pieces last week and, tbf, it wasn't our fault Collback lost his head ... we just took advantage.

We often step our game up, second half, when teams are tiring so I wasn't particularly worried before the red.
 
I watched on TV - we were average with flashes of brilliance. Pritch was MOTM. But if that's what we can produce against a physical, bullying, disruptive side, then the future is bright. Should have scored a hatful though. Away support looked brilliant as always - well done all those who travelled and attended. Hawaaaaay
 
Just had a look on the QPR board, after their lad had posted on here.

To be correct a fair few accept it was a red.

However there's one poster saying,

"I hate that Cnut Mowbray, I hate his brand of anti-football and all his team’s history of crying to the ref."

I can only assume he's being Ironic ...

... under Ainsworth they'll never see some of the football we've played over the last two games.
I’ve just read through their natch thread and unbelievably they are mainly saying the ref was all for Sunderland.
 
Like with Wycombe he’s getting the best out of an extremely limited group but we’ve played some nice stuff this season and were doing ok until the red IMO. On paper we shouldn’t really be competing but since he changed the system after the first game we’ve matched everyone with the exception of today after losing Colback.

I don’t really get the beef you guys have with Ainsworth. Like I get where it originated but don’t get why you still go on about it.

good of you to pop in marra, as i said earlier the ref lost the game for you, he should have stamped his mark early on and we really should have had a penalty when clarke was dragged down by his arm and the ref was less than a couple of yards away with a good clear view, he rattled both sets of fans which fired the players up and even though colback is not liked i very much doubt he would make that tackle but he dove in, was high and studs first he gave the ref no choice really but the ref failed to be consistent.

we saw a lot of ainsworth (and similar) in league one, unfortunately we seemed to be everyones cup game and were not that good to be honest but time after time we played time wasting, fouling teams that just killed games and what i saw were, quite often, well drilled teams that could actually play a bit and possibly would have got themselves a few more points if they dropped the 'dark arts' .

anyway, it was a bad day for you lads, they happen, best wishes for the rest of the season fella.
 
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I just want to say, I have little doubt we’d have come back even without the red.

We were clearly the better team even at 0-1, great finish by their lad.

It was absolutely a red, and hilarious that it was Colback. We’d have won anyway, playing 10 does not make it easy.

Wish QPR well as I’ve said throughout the weekend. They stuck in but they look really short on any kind of quality they gonna have a rough season.
 
Like with Wycombe he’s getting the best out of an extremely limited group but we’ve played some nice stuff this season and were doing ok until the red IMO. On paper we shouldn’t really be competing but since he changed the system after the first game we’ve matched everyone with the exception of today after losing Colback.

I don’t really get the beef you guys have with Ainsworth. Like I get where it originated but don’t get why you still go on about it.
I abhor Ainsworth’s methods but, strangely, I get the impression that basically and away from football he may be a nice bloke. I suppose he does what he does to try to get a degree of success so that he can feed and house his family.
 
Missed the match today as our lass Father has been on holiday in Torquay but took a bit of a bad turn on Thursday so ended up in Torbay hospital so had to drive there today pick him up and bring him back to Sunderland 800 mile round trip get in.
On the plus side on way back we stopped off at Trowell services at about 20 40 and the team were there so had a quick chat with a couple of them and it really made my day silver linings and that :1980_boogie_down:
 
I’m not saying it wasn’t a bad foul but you see a yellow given for that far more than you see a red at this level. I think at that stage of the game he was getting an earful from your bench and a few players and it came at the right time for you (that’s not a criticism, I wish we did it more).

Armstrong gets a lot given against him as most blokes his size do but all of those fouls you mention were incredibly soft even if fouls at all.

You’ve got some very exciting players no doubt. I don’t think they’ll get anything like that level of protection every week.

Anyway never had anything against Sunderland. Would rather you did well than most in this league.


Were you pissed when you typed that?
 
I think all fans claim that the ref favoured the opposition. It’s only the posters on here that are fair and accurate in their opinions! :rolleyes: :emoticon-0105-wink:

The referee was poor for both sides and made some poor decisions but the red card wasn't one of them ...

... with the referee a couple of yards away the bad decision was Colback's.

Despite a few of the QPR posters trying to rewrite the incident it's pretty clear what happened. Colback is acting the 'midfield maestro' and needlessly gives the ball away. He's had Ainsworth in the media, all week, bigging him up, saying how courageous he is, etc.

So, as we've all seen many times before, the ginger nugget tries to rescue the situation by diving in ...

... the referee thought it was a straight red and so do QPR, there's absolutely no chance they'll appeal the red.

BBC Football:

"Colback saw red seven minutes later after a late studs-up challenge on Jobe Bellingham."
 
The referee was poor for both sides and made some poor decisions but the red card wasn't one of them ...

... with the referee a couple of yards away the bad decision was Colback's.

Despite a few of the QPR posters trying to rewrite the incident it's pretty clear what happened. Colback is acting the 'midfield maestro' and needlessly gives the ball away. He's had Ainsworth in the media, all week, bigging him up, saying how courageous he is, etc.

So, as we've all seen many times before, the ginger nugget tries to rescue the situation by diving in ...

... the referee thought it was a straight red and so do QPR, there's absolutely no chance they'll appeal the red.


It would be funny if they did appeal it
 
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It would be funny if they did appeal it

If some of the QPR posters are correct they must appeal ...

Ainsworth seems to think differently however,
"QPR boss Gareth Ainsworth said he had no complaints with the decision to send Jack Colback off."

I wonder how that'll go down with his little man crush fan club.

You won't find QPR appealing ...

... no one will the way they play under Ainsworth <laugh>
 
If some of the QPR posters are correct they must appeal ...

Ainsworth seems to think differently however,
"QPR boss Gareth Ainsworth said he had no complaints with the decision to send Jack Colback off."

I wonder how that'll go down with his little man crush fan club.

You won't find QPR appealing ...

... no one will the way they play under Ainsworth <laugh>

If they think they should appeal it, it means the price of drugs down there must be very cheap