Austin slays old club, then sees red as QPR move out of bottom three - report Sunday, 7th Dec 2014 22:15 by Clive Whittingham QPR moved out of the relegation zone at the expense of Hull City on Saturday, thanks to a hard-fought 2-0 home win against fellow strugglers Burnley. Charlie Austin scored against his old club but was later sent off. And so the pattern of QPR’s 2014/15 Premier League season continues: an away match that makes you think there’s no possible way they’ll be in the top flight next season is followed by a home game that makes you think there’s a half decent team to emerge from this squad of players yet. A quirky fixture list that has handed QPR away trips to nine of the top ten sides before Christmas, partly explaining the dismal form displayed so far on their travels, set the R’s up with consecutive home matches against their fellow newly promoted sides this week. Rangers were a distant fourth behind Leicester and Burnley in last season’s Championship but have now beaten both at Loftus Road inside seven days to climb out of the bottom three for the first time in nearly three months. *All three former second tier sides starting the day in the bottom three has been cause for much analysis and comment. A piece in Saturday morning’s Independent said he struggles of the Foxes and Clarets could probably have been anticipated given their lack of summer outlay on new players, whereas QPR’s main problem is Harry Redknapp “hasn’t got his heart in it”. Ian Herbert clearly not one of ‘Arry’s favoured scribes. * Read the rest here........... http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/37094/? *......... http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ght-to-avoid-the-swift-drop-back-9907186.html
This must have at least brought a smile to your face Swords? "On that occasion Danny Ings looked to have the pace to round Richard Dunne after isolating the veteran Irish defender, but the route around the QPR centre half is so long you could probably justify building a bypass as part of the governmentâs £15bn road improvement network and after a trip that seemed to take hours Dunne simply used the strikerâs flailing momentum to ease him off the pitch and into the side netting. âTake a seat over there Dannyâ. Dunne was magnificent here â easily his best performance since the Wembley play-off final in May."
Absolutely spot on reporting. Just out of interest is there anyone out there who didn't have Richard Dunne as MoM?
Crickey, I did not see that 'challenge' by Heaton on Charlie. That was a straight red if ever there was one! Would def have been if it was Ashley Young on the receiving end!!
Any member of any of the top 4 would have got the decision in their favour - absolutely straight red !!
What's not to like about that read? Must admit that challenge by Heaton was reckless, couldn't tell at the time as his body was blocking my view, almost as bad as that one by the German keeper on the French lad at a world cup in the early 80's........are we really surprised Moss didn't give anything, a lot of his decisions on Saturday were guess work.....
What's not to like about that read?..........................................Precisely. week after week, I agree with 99% of what CW reports. Some people obviously don't like him for some unknown reason so choose to find his reports boring, which is the last think they are.
It's a stylistic thing. I find it very laboured and 'look at me I'm writing' self conscious. Plus he occassionally throws in puerile sexual references which I don't find offensive, just embarrassing. Just personal taste.
Fair enough sb. Did you not find the bit about Boyd funny? The whole 'style' thing is obviously very personal/individual. I like it as ,bear in mind all away reports have been negative so far (no choice), & I find it lightens the mood.
More typos and inaccuracies than usual. Also, I thought bringing Kranjcar on was a no-brainer, as we were always going to keep the ball better and we'd have an extra man in the midfield. Not one of his better reports for me.
Cheers nines - thank you for posting. Great report - as some have said there may be a couple of debatable details, but every time I watch a game my opinions/views are different to the person next to me so it's not a big deal for me. I don't get the negativity - I'm not aware of an edict that says people are obliged to read it.
Nice one Seagull. To be fair the negativity thing was my fault. Myself and the Swordster used to joke about the length of Clive's offerings. I felt that I had to stop after Mr Whittingham came on here to defend himself. I did try to explain to him that it was a long running joke on here when I saw him and he seemed okay about it. I find Clive's reports a great read and there is always something in them that makes me grin. He usually makes one or two cracking observations that aren't so obvious at the game that he spots that I didn't.
