Match Day Thread QPR vs Bristol City

Still not convinced mate.
Seen them given I suppose.

 

Fair enough. Of course there's only one opinion that counts and we had that yesterday afternoon.
Hopefully, SA will win some more in due course.

 

For me it looks less like a penalty from that angle

 

I don't think it's one to get too uptight about. Sometimes you'd see it given, other times not. I'd say 48:52 - the infernal ratio.

 

What a tosser. He was ****ing hopeless.

 

The question I have about Dykes is whether he's,
1. Missing chances?
2. Failing to get into positions to allow team mates the opportunity create chances for him?
3. Just not being given the ball where strikers need it when he's in decent positions?
Very hard to be a striker if you're not given opportunities but it's also a requirement that strikers get into decent areas at the right times.
Could he be good with better service?
No doubt about his work rate.

 

How many has dykes scored per year as our main striker

 

He does have a superpower knack of hitting the goalkeeper with his shots. Surely training should knock that out of him.

But otherwise I agree Ozzie, a grafter he is but he’s not proven himself to be the goalscorer anyone would need.

 

Which is kind of the point.
Dykes is also ****ing hopeless.

 

The team don't necessarily play to his strengths and no matter how well he holds the ball up/flicks it on there is never a player within 40 yards, however...

He has no pace, freezes when he has the ball at his feet and rarely gets on the end of headers,

His main positive is that he's not Tony Thorpe!

 

So basically we bought the wrong striker Mick (who doesn’t fit our style - whichever one the tenant manager was implementing at that time). I do agree we don’t get enough bodies in the box - maybe pressing higher will help that, but it didn’t happen on Saturday.
We can’t change the other 9 outfielders, so we need to change our forward seems to be the basic requirement.
That ain’t happening anytime soon - so we’re stuck/desperate with the hope MC can get some sort of tune out of him as a goalscorer.

 

Give Kelman a start? Can’t be any worse surely.

 

"Can’t be any worse surely."

This is the thought process for every decision over the last 4 years!

 

Makes 2 of them then !

 

"It could have been a win regardless had a second half penalty appeal gone our way. Armstrong burst into the area with the pace and power we know all about, went up against with Zak Vyner and hit the deck. The Loft appealed long and loud, Geoff Eltringham shook his head.

It’s a pretty good test case for why VAR was never going to work and never will. From the Ellerslie Road side of the ground, and the main camera angle, it looks a penalty. Friends we had watching via the stream were alive on the WhatsApp groups straight away saying they thought it was. From the South Africa Road side it didn’t look one at all, and not a single one of us in the group at the front of F Block thought it was – Sinclair about as subtle as a brick in looking and waiting for contact and then hitting the deck as soon as he felt it."

 

Pretty much how I saw it.

 

My only point regarding the penalty would be, how many times has armstrong been on the giving end of that type of tussle and got away with it?

A) many....and never!