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Match Day Thread QPR vs Leeds

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  1. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    Big article on QPR in the Times today, branding us the maddest team in the championship based on goals scored and conceded. Notes that injuries haven’t helped us at the back but we really are punished every time we make a mistake and we concede a lot from set pieces. Warburton characterised as a manager who, when Plan A isn’t working responds not by turning to Plan B, because he doesn’t have one, but by trying to do Plan A better. Eze singled out for praise but Chair and BOS also highlighted.

    Play off place not ruled out.
     
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  2. qprbeth

    qprbeth Wicked Witch of West12
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    I actually think that this bit about Warburton having no plan B is rubbish.
    We play 3 at the back, 4 at the back
    We play 2 upfront, 1 upfront.
    We play with 1 or 2 CDMs
    Our front midfield of BOS, Chair and Eze wander all over the place

    He has surprised me and I am sure a few oppo managers with his team selections and tactics.

    It appears our matches have produced the most goals in the whole league (we wanted entertainment)
    But incidentally we are actually tied at the top (or bottom depending on the way you look at it) of the worst disciplinary record in the Championship.
    I didn't really see that, we are not a "dirty" team in my opinion, but perhaps it is down to our inherent mistake-making which results in too many "necessary" fouls
     
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  3. Rangers Til I Die

    Rangers Til I Die Well-Known Member

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    The facts is that when you're on the receiving end of those decisions, you feel as Rob from Leeds has expressed. When they go for you, you shrug your shoulders and say, 'that's football'. I'm never convinced it balances out over time but the ranting just makes the ranter feel worse in the end. They are second in the league and still likely to get automatic promotion. Get a grip!
     
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  4. Tramore Ranger

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    It also makes them look like spoilt brats and how dare a small club beat a massive club....it's just not fair....<laugh>

    Have to say I hope that they cock it up again.....
     
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  5. stick

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    Even if it meant Brentford or the Ruperts going up instead?????
     
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  6. StortfordQPR

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    Definitely - seeing Leeds f*ck up season after season is a gift that just keeps on giving :1980_boogie_down:
     
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  7. Tramore Ranger

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    Don't really have a problem with that...….
     
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  8. finglasqpr

    finglasqpr Well-Known Member

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    Good to see young Conor Masterson from Celbridge getting a run in the team. Think he might keep his place in the side at the moment. He has pedigree coming from Liverpool. I like BFG but I think Hall and Masterson will be the Central defensive partnership for the time being.

    It also looks like Wallace will be first choice left back for the time being too. It is a shame for Manning as earlier in the season he was playing well.
     
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  9. stick

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    Warbs has said that he has had to reconsider sending him out on loan and that BFG was fit for Saturday but he thought the youngster deserved his spot. I hope he continues to play well and has a long run in the team. We need some stability at the back.
     
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    A small part of me would tolerate them being promoted if only to have the delayed pleasure of the inevitable whingefest as they’re being relegated the very next season, sad me
     
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  11. Totallyqpr

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    Sheffield Weds have sold out the School End already. That is more massive than Massive!
     
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  12. StortfordQPR

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    And on a Friday night too....impressive
     
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  13. Sooperhoop

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    We could be outnumbered...<yikes>
     
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  14. Sooperhoop

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    This hasn't aged well...<laugh>
     
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  15. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    I think the Leeds forum matchday thread is already on page 400
     
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  16. QPR Oslo

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    Massive Moaning.
     
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  17. QPRski

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    Oslo, I think you are refering to this article. It is a great read! :)

    Madness in methods of Mark Warburton’s QPR entertainers

    The Journeyman
    Gregor Robertson


    Are Queens Park Rangers, in the wacky world of the Sky Bet Championship, the most madcap of the lot? Granted, it is a crowded field. Leeds United are gripped by a seemingly interminable neurosis. Derby County’s various off-field transgressions will surely be chronicled one day, perhaps even used to make a feature film. A handful of teams are about to feel the wrath of the EFL for circumnavigating profit and sustainability regulations. The Championship could soon be an indecipherable sea of asterisks. But on the football pitch? Well, this season QPR may just be the most crazy of them all.

    The west London club, after Saturday’s hectic 1-0 home win against Leeds, reside in an underwhelming 14th place. Yet they have somehow managed to score 46 goals, more than every team other than West Bromwich Albion, who are top, while at the same time conceding 51 goals, a figure exceeded only by Luton Town, who are bottom. They are the entertainers and the infuriaters. Even in a division as capricious as the Championship, no team segues from the sublime to the ridiculous with quite such frequency.

    This year began with the 6-1 shellacking of Cardiff City at Loftus Road on New Year’s Day. Four days later, the assault on Wales was completed with a 5-1 defenestration of Swansea City in the FA Cup. Last weekend, however, QPR were 3-0 down after little more than half an hour in a 3-1 defeat against local rivals Brentford. Then Saturday yielded only a third clean sheet of the season against second-placed Leeds, no less.

    You see an average of 2.67 goals a game in the Championship; in QPR games, that figure is a league-highest 3.46. There have been four or more goals scored in 46 per cent of their games, including the 4-0 thumping by Nottingham Forest at Loftus Road in November and the 5-3 defeat by then rock-bottom Barnsley at Oakwell last month. In a 3-0 defeat at Cardiff City in October, QPR had 72 per cent possession and took more shots than in the 6-1 win in the reverse fixture on New Year’s Day.

    So, what is behind these wild oscillations? And, is there any method to the madness?

    Mark Warburton, who replaced Steve McClaren as manager in May, is the kind of coach who, rather than reverting to a Plan B, simply talks about performing Plan A better. The former City trader, who previously led Brentford from League One to the Championship, shipped out 17 players in the summer and signed 15, all on free transfers or on loan. Having previously fallen foul of EFL financial fair play rules, QPR have not paid a seven-figure fee since January 2017.

    While the madness ensues, Les Ferdinand, the director of football, and Lee Hoos, the chief executive, have stuck to their guns, reducing the wage bill, identifying and developing young players. That is the plan but this is the result. It can be thrilling to watch and a triumvirate of young attacking midfielders represent the best of what QPR are trying to do.

    Eberechi Eze, 21, was released by Millwall in 2016 before a successful trial shelved plans of enrolling at college and a part-time job at Tesco. Ilias Chair, 22, joined the development squad from Lierse SK, the Belgian second-tier club, after a trial later that year. Bright Osayi-Samuel, also 22, joined from Blackpool for an undisclosed fee in September 2017. Eze is a joy to watch, roaming from the left into pockets of space, gliding past defenders with ease and unerring poise. Just how much longer Loftus Road will get to enjoy his virtuoso talent is unclear. Spurs are among a number of Premier League clubs casting glances Eze’s way.

    Just imagine if QPR could defend. As it is, 51 goals conceded prompted a series of mischievous adverts in the latest issue of A Kick up the R’s, with the fanzine touting the QPR defence as a the “World’s Greatest Charity”, a “cure for constipation”, and “Comedy of the Year”. No team have conceded more goals from big errors (10), or from set pieces (20), including six penalties. In mitigation, the experienced Yoann Barbet, Toni Leistner and Àngel Rangel, have all been struck down by injury.

    “It feels like we’ve been punished every time we make a mistake,” Warburton said, although, given Leeds’s profligacy, perhaps QPR’s luck is changing.

    Just seven points shy of the play-offs, could they make a late run? Truth is, your guess is as good as mine.
     
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  18. ELLERS

    ELLERS Well-Known Member

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    After some of the comments I have read on Twitter and message boards I hope MASSIVE blow and don't go up. They really are a deluded bunch. They still think they are some MASSIVE club when in reality the are a Championship club that haven't played in top flight for 16 years. Its funny that a club like Bournemouth are miles ahead of them.
     
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  19. qprbeth

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    Kelly, that's our goalkeeper GOALKEEPER is named in the EFL team of the week.
     
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  20. Ranger4ever

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    Must be fake news!
     
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