Match Day Thread West Brom vs QPR

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We'll fight our way out of this, it's the only way :emoticon-0106-cryin

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I can't / won't watch these. On the one hand the vacuous soundbites are embarrassing and, on the other hand, just so sad to see a former favourite drowning in his own meaningless rhetoric. Needs to go so I can get back to remembering the passionate and moderately skillful player he was.
 
I can't / won't watch these. On the one hand the vacuous soundbites are embarrassing and, on the other hand, just so sad to see a former favourite drowning in his own meaningless rhetoric. Needs to go so I can get back to remembering the passionate and moderately skillful player he was.
GA will always be a club legend,but will also be known as a clueless manager..should never been appointed,a case of heart ruling head
 
So he had a plan that was working did he?

Stick 10 men behind the ball and defend for your lives........from the very first whistle. From the first minute. Don't move, don't create space, don't look for attacking opportunities......just stay solid (lol) in your own half and defend. Hoof it if you have to, it doesn't matter, just DEFEND.

Then in the last 8 or 9 minutes probably put another forward on and hope for a lucky deflected winner.

Great plan. Genius. Trump-esque.

So basically this is what to expect in the coming matches, especially against Leicester this week-end.....at home.

He wants the fans to stick with him and back the team with this plan? A plan so rudimentary that my 5-year old could have devised it and he doesnt watch football yet?

During a cost-of-living crisis and with christmas on the horizon, does he think the average football-loving Joe wants to pay hard earned money to sit through such turgid, dire, total anti-football performed by proffessional athletes (lol) that earn way more than they do?

I can only usually sit and watch streams on Steelsy+, but the thought of sitting and watching more of that ****e makes my p*ss boil.

I honestly think i'd rather be stripped naked, smeared in honey and tied to a tree in a californian forest and left for the bears to torture than pay to sit and watch that pile of rancid cack again.

Think i'll be leaving the staples in my eyelids for the foreseeable.

Sorry, rant over. (Until the next one....which won't be long, i'm sure).
Good post.... unfortunately!
I can only think that the board/owners, whoever they ****ing are, actually want relegation. There's no other possible explanation for their lack of interest in witnessing the most clueless manager in QPR's history taking us down, playing the worst type of football I've ever watched. I will never go to another game whilst he's in charge. My son even left the room at half time, refusing to watch anymore.
 
That's what I was implying Beth ! It's just the same soundbites from Gareth after every game. He knows the games up, if you see this interview, he looks like he doesn't actually believe what's coming out of his mouth, its almost like one of Del Boy's pre programmed toy dolls !

I actually think he does believe what he's saying.
I don't believe he has the self awareness to realise that he is useless and rather dim. He thinks he's good at what he does.
 
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Same here Col. Never have I seen someone so out of their depth. I'm really starting to dislike him too due to the ****e that comes out of his mouth. Couldn't give a **** that he used to play for us. The blokes a prick.
****ing hell, you’ll be wanting him kicked out of the Forever R’s club next……
 
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GA is grovelling and scrambling around looking for a point by any means and has truly forgotten his team and his fans in this desperation disguised in his spin.

We, as fans, don’t like it (as football or for our club). I’m sure the players don’t believe, or want, to park the bus for 85 minutes and show their skills as a lottery. The basics of this game is still meant to be about entertainment and enjoyment - we have zero.

He has to leave quickly now. **** FFP. **** this crap. Just make the decision. And FFS get the next one right. Please!!!!
 
We may have already reached the point of no return, which leads me to wonder whether the board want us in league 1.
 
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I am a glass three quarter full person...honest.
But I cannot see a way out of this.

1. Our players are not the worst players in the league.
2. We have some good players...Chair Dykes, Field, Clark Salter.
3. We play like headless chickens. We have no plan
4. We have no discipline
5. We cannot score goals
6. We cannot defend


But I agree with 999s ...we have a smashing away kit

100% Beth. I sat and watched last night, and thought to myself that many of these players have, in the past, been part of a QPR side that played some really good football, so they can do it! In this current set up they seem clueless, and, most worryingly for me, they look like they aren't enjoying their football...hence the loss of composure and lots of yellow and red cards. They don't seem concerned about missing games, as they aren't enjoying playing!

So he had a plan that was working did he?

During a cost-of-living crisis and with christmas on the horizon, does he think the average football-loving Joe wants to pay hard earned money to sit through such turgid, dire, total anti-football performed by proffessional athletes (lol) that earn way more than they do?

I can only usually sit and watch streams on Steelsy+, but the thought of sitting and watching more of that ****e makes my p*ss boil.

I'd fall into that bracket. My income has been hit post covid, not too badly, but enough to make me not want to spend £10 watching a game I won't enjoy because the standard of football is so poor.
 
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Until the red card "It was working"...really? No shots on target and lump it forward to a lone striker.

"I'll back the lads"...great, and obviously that is the job of the manager, but are they backing the manager now?

"Can we get behind the boys...we all need to get behind these boys." - Maybe overly picky, but they aren't boys, they are grown men. It annoys me that he refers to 'the boys' all the time, as if they are a group of children who need looking after...they are grown men who need clear instruction and management so they can do their jobs.
 
Until the red card "It was working"...really? No shots on target and lump it forward to a lone striker.

"I'll back the lads"...great, and obviously that is the job of the manager, but are they backing the manager now?

"Can we get behind the boys...we all need to get behind these boys." - Maybe overly picky, but they aren't boys, they are grown men. It annoys me that he refers to 'the boys' all the time, as if they are a group of children who need looking after...they are grown men who need clear instruction and management so they can do their jobs.
He is giving these men clear instruction … to do things they don’t want to do/be. Defeatist, defensive, no hope football, losing any belief they have.
 
And yet again he leads into the Leicester match on saturday with that old chestnut "They're a premier league side".

FECKS SAKE MAN!!!! They are a championship side, this aint the cup

We used to have the cliche that every match is a cup final. Now every match is a second round league cup tie away at Burnley or Stoke.
 
I must be mad staying up to 4 am to watch us. GA is managing to make us even worse than we were before he came. Or is it Dobson who makes the plan and decides the in-game changes? It looks rather like he does from the stream. They should never have been appointed and need to go, but as they are still here it looks to me like we can't afford to sack and replace them due to our FFP situation. A potential FFP penalty will likely be like Reading got or worse with our previous. Perhaps they are trying to find a cheapish solution like putting GA on gardening leave for the rest of the season and replacing him internally, but doubt we have anyone in-house who can keep us in the Championship now. Relegation this season will be especially terrible because much more money is coming to the Championship from the TV deal from next season.
 
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It’s a shame this clown show of the last seven months will completely overshadow what a good player he was for us at a difficult time. That volley at Rushden was probably the best goal I’ve seen for us live since the Sinclair goal.
Remy v Wigan for me.
 
This sort of utter disgrace served up last night reminds me of the bonus games ****e spouted by kneecap all those years ago about away games, we didn't look like winning then and we don't look like winning now...... I thought those days were long gone.....
 
I watched the game on QPR+ last night. Words fail me. No, I have one: awful. Mark Warburton memorably (and accurately) said "we are in the entertainment business". On that basis, I don't think I can bear to use my season ticket to watch our defeat to Leicester on Saturday, it would be both painful and embarrassing.

Most of these players were part of our successful team of a year or so back. Our first choice team is not relegation material, although the deeper squad is a little thin. Any sane person would therefore conclude that it's the manager. Are our board mad? Please, put him out of his (and our) misery.