Against Villa

[Rangers Til I Die]

The problem is with Kranky is that he has the talent but recently has been off the boil. It wasn't that long ago everyone was chanting his name.

Did i also read that CR said that TS would keep Villa up 'without a shadow of doubt', WTF! He should keep his gob shut and not say anything. CR is sounding like Harry 'biggin' the opposition up before we play them.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps it is in the Spurs training manual?

 

[Swords Hoopster.]

We now know why Vargas wasn't playing. Rambo said he wasn't putting in the work in training and wasn't fit. "We had a few - discussions - shall we say!" Sounds like he had it out with him more than once too. Maybe Zarate going back to West Ham has helped the situation.

 

[Hoop-Leif]

Just wtf is wrong with Kebabby now?

 

[QPR Oslo]

I am not sure if Krancar got enough credit for the pass to Phillips for the 4th goal. It had tremendous vision and near pin-point accuracy. Then there is the flick on for Austin's goal. Certainly earns a starting place if fit enough imo.

Agree. I thought Nico did well Saturday, good vision in his passes and many sensible ones, and overall I thought he was an improvement on Vargas, who apart from his goal made a lot of mistakes in the short time he was on, giving the ball away in dangerous positions. Nico looked fitter than he has been tooo, hope he's good for 90 at Villa..

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Kranjcar offers ten times as much as Hoilett or Traore. What the **** has happened to Traore- he was looking really good on the wing at times last season

 

[Swords Hoopster.]

Was just looking at the table there. We've scored more than all of the other bottom 8 sides. We've conceded 55 while no other team has reached the 50's yet.

Our defense is very weak. The two fullbacks aren't good enough (they're not really fullbacks) and Caulker is just too dosy. He certainly wasn't worth 8 Mil.

 

[terryb]

Yun is out with concussion, so I presume that Hill will be playing. Might explain his positioning after the Brom player pushed him onto Green's fist.

Perhaps three at the back might be worth re-visiting?

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Was just looking at the table there. We've scored more than all of the other bottom 8 sides. We've conceded 55 while no other team has reached the 50's yet.

Our defense is very weak. The two fullbacks aren't good enough (they're not really fullbacks) and Caulker is just too dosy. He certainly wasn't worth 8 Mil.

That's what happens when your highly experienced manager decides he'll go with three at the back, sells the only natural right-back to a rival then after two games decides to go 4-4-2.

Caulker can only ever look even close to good next to a defender who talks him through the whole game. His lack of sense on the field for a bloke who has presumably been playing the game since childhood is quite amazing

 

[ELLERS]

defense is very weak. The two fullbacks aren't good enough (they're not really fullbacks) and Caulker is just too dosy. He certainly wasn't worth 8 Mil.

Swords whenever i mention how dosy Caulker is i always get told by others R's that he is quality and i am wrong?
Agree with you, he is dosy and keeps switching off ay crucial times.

 

[Rodney]

It was Caulker who was closest to Anichebe when he scored on Saturday. Close but not close enough. I've defended Caulker on here in the past but it's dozy moments like that which give ammunition to his critics.

 

[Rodney]

I still think the future is a 4-2-3-1 formation for us but if the experts say that OBZ playing in a 4-4-2 is likely to unsettle Villa, they may have a point for this particular game. However, the repetitive, predictable and unsuccessful monotony of the hoof ball we played against Everton, prompted by OBZ's selection, must NOT be repeated.

I certainly wouldn't play 3 at the back. We have no recent experience of playing that formation and this is no time for radical experiments like that. Despite our results, we have had some promising spells in recent games, playing a more settled team rather than Harry's "names out of a hat" selection process.

 

[QPR Oslo]

It was Caulker who was closest to Anichebe when he scored on Saturday. Close but not close enough. I've defended Caulker on here in the past but it's dozy moments like that which give ammunition to his critics.

I thought Isla was equally at fault for that one - he did well to tackle Berenino (sp?) initially, but then stood a good 2 meters off him, with his arms behind his back, when he got the ball back letting him pick out Anichebe without hindrance. Agree Caulker should have competed far better there though.

 

[finglasqpr]

The Irish Independent newspaper over here included two of our players in their Premiership team of the weekend.

Bobby Zamora and Steven Caulker.

 

[Kilburn]

It was Caulker who was closest to Anichebe when he scored on Saturday. Close but not close enough. I've defended Caulker on here in the past but it's dozy moments like that which give ammunition to his critics.

Correct - appears in this photo that he was attempting to push him out of the way, rather than win the ball.

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[1982_Ranger]

Slightly off topic, but I'm 100% certain that when I looked for our live games on Sky, this was one of them? Now it looks like it's been replaced by Bristol City vs Swindon.

 

[Sooperhoop]

If games are moved from a televised date to midweek then they are no longer televised...

 

[1982_Ranger]

It did say tomorrow's date, I remember thinking at the time that it was odd to get a 19.45 on a Tuesday on sky. Ropey stream on the interweb it is then!

 

[QPR Oslo]

It is scheduled to be on the TV here in Norway.

 

[Totallyqpr]

...and Sweden

 

[Ranger4ever]

Correct - appears in this photo that he was attempting to push him out of the way, rather than win the ball.

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Sadly that's all too common nowadays. I'd rather the defender focuses on the ball rather than the player. We'd get more balls cleared from defence.

 

[Chaz]

I still think the future is a 4-2-3-1 formation for us but if the experts say that OBZ playing in a 4-4-2 is likely to unsettle Villa, they may have a point for this particular game. However, the repetitive, predictable and unsuccessful monotony of the hoof ball we played against Everton, prompted by OBZ's selection, must NOT be repeated.

I certainly wouldn't play 3 at the back. We have no recent experience of playing that formation and this is no time for radical experiments like that. Despite our results, we have had some promising spells in recent games, playing a more settled team rather than Harry's "names out of a hat" selection process.

Hoof ball worked on Saturday. Punt upfield and a flick-on, then a lay back for Vargas. Long ball out wide, and then (I can hardly believe I'm typing this) Zamora outpaced the covering defender and flicked it in over the keeper from wide of the area at full pace.....

Long balls don't always harm us...