http://www.teamtalk.com/queens-park-rangers/9692857/-? Barton: QPR just need a break Saturday 31st January 2015 18:54 Joey Barton is convinced QPR just need some luck on their travels to bring an end to their unwanted away defeats record. Harry Redknapp's men went down 3-1 at Stoke City on Saturday to make it 11 defeats from 11 Premier League matches this season. But Barton was among the QPR to suffer in front of goal, with his long-range free-kick coming back off the crossbar with Stoke holding on grimly to a 2-1 advantage that was only padded by Jon Walters' hat-trick strike in added time. Jinx "You’ve seen the way we played today, it’s just not going our way it’s as simple as that," Barton said. "There’s no miracle or course or anything like that. You start to begin thinking there is a jinx away from home but I don’t think it’s just this year it goes into the last tenure of Mark Hughes. "QPR have been poor away from home, I don’t know what it is. The saving grace is that everyone around us has lost again today. "People go on about the magical 40 point mark and that’s where you need to be to get safety and it isn’t. The reality is you just need to be better than three other teams and there are a lot of other teams in there scrapping away who are struggling. "We’ve lost away from home but a lot of teams have lost at home today so we have to be positive. The level of performance out there - barring some individual errors which are always frustrating - you can the lads are committed, you can see the lads are trying. "There is no hiding place, it’s just about pulling your socks up and getting on with it. Talking about it is obviously painful for us and people are going to keep talking about it until we do something about our away record but we just dust ourselves off and go again." Fed up Niko Kranjcar scored QPR's only goal, to bring the score back to 2-1, and he is of a similar opinion to Barton about QPR's plight. "We believe in each other. We give each other everything every week when we come on to the pitch. We just have to keep going and see what it brings us," Kranjcar said. "I’m fed up with it but it wasn’t to be again today but it was not due to a lack of will or lack of eagerness. We keep giving sloppy goals away which doesn’t give you a basis to build on and it’s always an uphill battle from then. "But we have to keep going. I think results went our away – nobody really stepped away from us. We must now focus on our next game which is Southampton at home."
Col, there is some element of luck. You can't easily place an overhead kick so if Vargas' kick just a bit off centre then 2 all. I do understand that better players and better managed teams make their own luck too.
Barton is right. We do need some big breaks now, a new defense, a wide man who can cross, someone other than Austin to score, a new Manager, and a lot of luck. And yes that was only partly Henry's fault. It was madness to pass to him there Isla.
I wouldn't mind if teams were playing us off the pitch, unfortunately it always seems to be our own mistakes that have put us where we are. Cut those out and we wouldn't have a problem.
Barton set up there 3rd goal brilliant I thought ... he runs around brilliantly can't fault his work ethics but he gets in the way IMO and has a footballing ego that is sadly mid championship at his every best ... week in week out should be playing for Tranmere Rovers
I'm with the guys on one level. They did play pretty decently over the second half in the game, but at some point the 'bad luck' isn't good enough. Bad luck can't explain not a single point from the entire season away from Loftus Road. They are not getting the job done on the road. I don't know what the answer is, but the question is: why do they let lapses happen so consistently away from home? I admire the team for attacking the last half of the game and frankly, we're so bad away, let's come out 'guns blazing' at the start of the games and try to get a couple goals up. Let's try to win games instead of playing not to lose them like we have most every away game. At Loftus Road we play like we can win. Let's model that.
Barton's BLAST: QPR skipper criticises Hoops teammates after Stoke defeat JOEY BARTON has launched a four-letter blast on his QPR team-mates insisting they need to sort their away form and their defending if they want to stay in the top flight. Published: 22:30, Sun, February 1, 2015 By Ian Baker please log in to view this image Joey Barton has criticised his teammates after their 3-0 defeat to Stoke Rangers have lost all 11 games on the road after a Jonathan Walters hat-trick handed Stoke victory on Saturday. Captain Barton is sick and tired of coming back from away games without any points and wants his men to cut out the mistakes. Rangers were far from their best at the back with a joint error from Mauricio Isla and Karl Henry leading to Walters' first. Eduardo Vargas then gave the ball away with Walters capitalising to make it two while, after Niko Kranjcar had pulled one back, the Stoke striker sealed victory in the final minute after the Rangers defence were slow to react to a Barton half-clearance. "There were a couple of individual errors with the goals," said Barton. "They haven't meant to do it and there will be times in the season when they will atone for them. "But you are looking at it thinking, 'Where do you go?' We've got to first and foremost become a lot harder to beat, a lot more difficult to concede against. "It's the same story every time, against Burnley, against Stoke, umpteen times this season when we've been our own worst enemy and it's not ****ing good enough." QPR only won twice when they were last in the top flight in 2012-13 - ironically under the charge of the current Stoke boss. "They were **** the last time they were in the Premier League under Mark Hughes," said Barton. "They were crap away from home, the away record was terrible, so it's not just something that has happened this year. "Last year we were better away because we faced teams who didn't have the quality of the Premier League, simple as that. You play Barnsley away, no disrespect, make a mistake and maybe it doesn't end up in the back of your net. It's the same story every time, against Burnley, against Stoke, umpteen times this season when we've been our own worst enemy and it's not ****ing good enough Joey Barton "You make a mistake at this level it's in the back of your net. It's the Premier League, it's the not ****ing about league and we've been ****ing about too much." Rangers boss Harry Redknapp is known as the king of the deadline day but he insists expectations are low today to bring in a new striker despite being linked with Tottenham's Emmanuel Adebayor. "I'm expecting a quiet day," he said. "We are looking but don't think we're close to doing anything really. We've been looking and looking but it's so difficult, who's going to let good players go? "We just need another striker really, someone who might come and score goals. Good frontmen are not easy to find and everyone looking." This was the first time a Stoke player has scored a hat-trick in the Premier League but Walters was not the only player who earned rave reviews from this game. Stephen Ireland was involved in the first two goals as he enjoyed a rare start filling in for Bojan Krkic, who is out for the rest of the season with a cruciate knee injury. "It's a shame he's got injured because he is a vital player for us," said the Irishman. "He is going to be missed but there are still a lot of games to be played and a lot of points to earn. Luckily it was me who has gone in there this time and taken his spot. "I plan to fill the game, that's my aim, that's my goal. I have to step up and keep that shirt now because I want to finish the season off strong and play as many minutes as I can. "I'm a very big fan of Bojan. He is a very nice kid as well and I get on well with him. He is a very good player and good guy. But injuries and form, anything can change, and at the moment I'm the guy who stepped in and it's my chance to take which I did." Stoke (4-2-3-1): Begovic 7; Bardsley 7, Shawcross 7 (Muniesa 42, 7), Wollscheid 7, Wilson 7; Nzonzi 7, Whelan 7; Arnautovic 6 (Crouch 63, 6), Ireland 8 (Adam 72, 6), Moses 7; Walters 9. Booked: Moses, Walters. Goals: Walter 21, 34, 90. NEXT UP: Newcastle (a) Sun, PL. QPR (4-5-1): Green 6; Isla 5, Dunne 6, Onuoha 6, Hill 6 (Yun 75, 6); Vargas 5, Barton 6, Henry 5 (Zamora 46, 6), Fer 6, Kranjcar 6 (Hoilett 69, 6); Austin 5. Booked: Isla, Barton. Goal: Kranjcar 36. NEXT UP: Southampton (h) Sat, PL.
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"Joey Barton has criticised his teammates after their 3-0 defeat to Stoke." I am not sure at the level of journalism as we lost 3-1 not 3-0.
Joey Barton reveals QPR's 'worst enemy' 11:00, 1 February 2015 By Paul Warburton Skipper says Hoops shot themselves in the foot at Stoke - again please log in to view this image High: Stoke's Glenn Whelan battles Joey Barton Joey Barton reckons QPR are their own worst enemy. The Hoops captain was inconsolable after the club’s 11th straight defeat in the Premier League this season at Stoke yesterday. Only Liverpool 61 years had a worse record of 13 – and Hoops are fast catching that dubious milestone. Niko Kranjcar’s fourth goal in six games against the Potters, as well as Barton’s free-kick in the second half, which thumped the bar. The skipper said: “You know what Stoke are all about on a cold, windy day. “And you make a difficult task almost impossible when you give away the goals we did. But we’ve got to pick up ourselves and go again.” please log in to view this image Misery: Leroy Fer looks dejected after Stoke's first goal Even a consoling word over Rs decent showing both at the beginning and in the second half did little for Barton’s ire. “It doesn’t make me feel any better, you saying that,” he added. “We’ve got be a lot harder to beat. It’s the same story at Burnley, and at Stoke, and I can tell you there’ve been umpteen times this season when we’re our own worst enemy – and it’s just not good enough. “Why did we have decent away record last season? Because we weren’t playing sides with Premier League quality – it’s as simple as that.”
One shot with the wind behind it and he is Pirlo Look at your positioning and your timing first please No one will question your running but it was you that set up their third goal Next time head it out for a corner
I felt Yun was far more at fault. First half was usual Barton dross but he did pretty well in the second for once
I'm just glad to read this. They need to get in each other's face and get some passion going to dig deep and sort this out.
