Fair play for going. Nothing about it appealed enough to consider it. One of the worst away days even when we’re better than this ****.
Take the point re the frontline but Lloyd was our only fit striker. Our midfield backbone (Field) is injured, who else could he play other than Colback and Varane? Guess we'll never know what his motivational skills are really like and what the players think of him. Sadly we have no strength in depth in the squad. Too many players either injured, out of form or just phoning it in. Going to be a squeaky bum finish to the season when we should already have been safe.
Why do so called professional FOOTBALLERS need to be trained on corners etc I have to do the walk of shame this afternoon and take nzs only stoke supporter a dozen beers
Just back after a long journey back with a detour that cost me an hour or so, despite using Google maps! (I could get lost in my back garden). 1100 QPR fans turning up to that show is pretty incredible. I don't go to many away games but decided to do this with a friend and we enjoyed great conversation and listening to the Brighton Forest game on the way home. As to the footie, crikey that first half was dire. The plan clearly was not working. Whatever MC's idea was in starting Dembele ahead of Lloyd is a mystery unless it was a message to the board. I hope MC is above that. Aside from the appearance of Madsen, the other two subs did add energy to the side as evidenced by Yang's goal. If we hadn't gifted them a third before we scored, at 2:1, and after the subs, we might have nicked an undeserved draw. I thought some of the injured might be back after the two week break. They are being missed. I hope we can secure enough points to not get sucked down towards the dreaded bottom three but at present that is merely a hope. Onwards to Cardiff at home which surely is the proverbial must win. I suggest you don't put money on that! Nevertheless, COYRs!
The only message that Cifuentes could have been giving to the board at this stage of the season, given that we can’t buy or loan any new players other than free agents too crap to have been signed by anyone else, is ‘please sack me, I hate this job/ I’m not good enough for this job’. Either of which might be true even if he wasn’t sending a message.
Liam Morrison must be wondering what he's got to do to get in this shambles of a line up. Our youngest and best defender. The only one who has a contract for next year. Yet he can't get in the side ahead of the shocking Fox and all the other arthritic pretenders. What must he have done to offend Cifuentes?
I didn't have a clue what Marti was doing with the set up and selection yesterday and I also think he may not have. It's like he's teaching a-level maths to a group of set 4 ten year olds! The players just aren't good enough to do what (I think) he's trying to do. Still, our main attacking threat is a centre back, playing at right back. A player who no doubt will receive a better offer from someone for next season. Edwards will go back to the saints and play against us the jap and Korean will go back, Ashby can go now. The out of contract players will only re-sign as they aren't good enough to play anywhere else and we are lumbered with the same ****e. JCS might play 8 games a season for the rest of his career at most. If the youngsters we have aren't better now, over the likes of Anderson, Madsen, Colback etc, then we really are in for another season of nothingness.
Some of these stats are quite something. You’d be forgiven for thinking some of our players took a long lunch through much of the game. https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/matche...-city/3fhgjf?player=917830#4520468:tab=lineup
Nine touches in the opposition box when chasing the game for 80 minutes is abysmal against Stoke. No “big chances”. One cross finding our player. Three dribbles without losing the ball. We basically did nothing with the ball and were outfought when we didn’t have it.
Who wanted a mid-table boring end to the season anyway. If we can't make the play-offs we might as well keep it interesting in our preferred end of the table. Its because of us that Hammersmith Hospital have a Cardiology department.
And if it all goes to **** entirely there are some lovely places to go next season. Bolton, for example.
That first half was up there with the worst this season. So our reaction to being pressed from our own goal kick? Keep passing across the back 4 / Nardi at a snail's pace and then either launch it to our giant front 3 to immediately lose it, or into the fans on either side. Other teams know that all they have to do is high press because our style of play is so ridiculously rigid I did feel particularly for the guy sat / standing next to me who had travelled all the way from Orkney to watch that crap Does anyone know why we were accommodated in the corner this time and not at the end next to the tunnel?
