All we need is for JFH to get manager of the month then it is a nailed on guarantee to not win another match all season! Bit of a hard task to leapfrog the teams above us, if we'd not drawn so many games I reckon it could have been a different story. The flip side of that is all those draws meant we didn't drop all the way down to the relegation zone. Mid-table security looks sorted and a summer of contemplaton with a bit of 'out with the old, in with the new' so that we aren't paying anyone Premiership wages. I am of the opinion we will be saying goodbye to Messrs Green, Hoilett & Phillips after the end of the season if we remain a championship side.
Bloomin' Ada! I'm with Factomondo with this one. Our last two forays in the Prem have ultimately failed because we took too much old baggage up with us and could only sign even more. We need to get a settled team together who have a chance of scraping together enough points to stay up ... then add one or two more players to cement it. I don't want us to go up and come straight back down again having sat through game after game of frustration and disappointment. I've had enough of that in recent years. (Nines, couldn't you just add a letter and become QPRx999?)
First of all huge congrats to 9s for doing his shift and earning the respect and gratitude of Londoners. Well done mate and enjoy the next phase. To digress slightly from the OP, anyone who works in a publically funded service industry will strongly relate to your comments re the bureaucracy and the non-sensicle changes that those of us at the coalface know to be plain foolish. Many more will be driven out early unless this can change. Back to the footie, even if it was QPR that put a run together, I think the maths dictates high mid-table. Saturday was a case in point. A fine win but no movement up the table. It would have to be a very odd set of results for to gain 6th over the other teams ahead of us. Finally, and most importantly, a speedy recovery for your nephew 9s.
I too, think this is too quick (that is the attack on the Prem, not your well justified retirement 999s) JFH is doing well, but it is not quite all there yet...we do not have a free-scoring forward (well we might do, but they need more time to consolidate their confidence). We have not fully sorted out the defence yet....Robinson/Cole and others need to be more than competent at Championship level.... We are very dependant on Ale and his knees and Hoillett and his tempament Whereas I agree that we have no God given right to be promoted, and need to take any opportunity that is given, and if we get into the top 6, and then win the playoff final..THEN we deserve to go up. I will take the opportunity to change my mind....I am allowed............. I am a girl Great news 999s, I hope you enjoyed your well deserved retirement....and the news on your nephew sounds marginally better...I hope he makes a full recovery ...my thoughts are with you.XXX
Not ready for prem yet & can't see it happening, finish about 8th & re-coup in players for next season & see how we go, good finish to this season & will bode well for next season.
Can't understand when people say "not ready" agree with Nines in that you never say no and should always want to go up. I think we have left it too late due to Benny and JFH (poor start). Really should have done better this season but once again we have had too much upheaval. I reckon we will just miss out but hoping we somehow make it. PS the "not ready" is not in reference to your post Jeffranger as i didn't see it.
Thats ok Ellers, don't get me wrong i would love another trip to wembley, Not ready & you quote upheaval correct is another reason & agree should have done better & very disappointed the way its gone so far, Bit of stability we have now it seems.
Another day out at Wembley wouldn't go amiss........ Stranger things have happened, Derby and Boro are in some sort of meltdown and Boro play Hull on Friday......Brighton and Weds are not unbeatable......Cardiff, Brum and Ipswich are inconsistent...... String together a run of another 4 or 5 wins and we wouldn't be a far from play offs.......
First off it is already verging on mathematical impossibility because of the sheer number of clubs between us and a play-off spot. At least 5 clubs would have to have a disastrous run in all at the same time. But...if by some statistical fluke it did happen we would be nuts to hope for anything other than promotion. Yes we've screwed up twice before but there is no amount of preparation that will prime you for the world's richest league. I'm sure that Derby are secretly very pleased that they lost to us two years ago as that has given them time to improve...
I think you're right about Derby. Think how much Richard must have enjoyed Tuesday's chants!! I think you're correct about the maths too.
Burnley and Hull aside, what a crap league. Even they will go up and struggle. And the championship will be harder to get out of next year, in the right direction.
This league throws up strange results every week .... It eats itself QPR keep winning then of course it's on
