Recent QPR progress halted by eighth straight away loss â report Sunday, 23rd Nov 2014 21:44 by Clive Whittingham Hopes that QPRâs fine recent performances against the divisionâs leading lights may lead to points being posted in so-called easier fixtures suffered a blow at Newcastle on Saturday. QPR will find little use in playing out of their skins in the games theyâre highly unlikely to win regardless, if they then regress to this kind of level in the ones that they might. A fortnight ago against reigning champions Manchester City, Rangers looked fantastic. Theyâd have been good value for a win and richly deserved the point they took from a 2-2 draw. It seemed a corner had been turned ahead of a couple of months of kinder fixtures. Maintain that level and the Râs would soon climb away from the drop zone â so the theory goes. At Newcastle on Saturday eight of the outfield players from the City game took to the field again and every single one of them turned in a worse performance than he had a fortnight ago. Every one of them. QPRâs season will not be dictated and decided by their results against Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool. Itâs the results in the kind of fixtures they have coming up over the next six weeks that will ultimately seal their fate one way or the other and this insipid effort didnât bode well. http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footba...-halted-by-eighth-straight-away-loss-–-report
''It’s hard to say which was more frustrating – the 2-0 defeat at West Ham a month ago where QPR simply weren’t at the races at all and you couldn’t help but conclude they wouldn’t be good enough to stay in the division, or this one at St James’ Park now we actually know that there is a good QPR team here when it puts its mind to it.'' ''And perhaps that ‘mind’ element is the most important here, because QPR have now lost all eight league and cup games they’ve played on the road this season, scoring only two goals in the process and conceding 16.'' I blame Steve Black .
Was definitely was Steve Black idea to start the game on Saturday with 4 central midfielders and no natural wingers. Therefore increasing the chances that another away game would go by without us scoring
Seems harsh to me. I thought generally all or most played ok, but not quite well enough to beat a good Newcastle side. Dunne was excellent, Barton, Henry and Sandro were all good. Thought we were very solid defensively, including Ned, whose distribution lets him down and leaves me doubting his abilty to play RB or CB at this level. We are lacking speed and creativity, which it seems more and more likely we will need to try to purchase in January to survive. I doubt the speed we have in Hoilett and Phillips are good enough at this level, and the creativity we have in Adel and Nico are not fit, good, or right sort enough for Harry apparently, even though he's signed Nico 4 times I believe now.
With the exception of Ameobi and Sissoko, I don't think anyone looked too special but I don't think we looked as dreadful as said. There was no great guile without Vargas and all and sundry looked rather average but I thought the game was set up for both teams to nullify and the two aforementioned players were the only real difference.
