Required bedtime reading for Swordsie. Friday, 15th May 2015 19:49 by Clive Whittingham QPR, already relegated, with dirty laundry airing in all the newspapers, face crisis club Newcastle at Loftus Road on Saturday with Chris Ramsey insisting he'll pick a "strong" side. QPR manager Chris Ramsey says, despite now having nothing to play for, he must continue to select his "strongest possible team" for the final two matches of the season to "protect the integrity of the Premier League". The integrity of the Premier League. Right. Ok...........Integrity of the Premier League indeed. I'd play Jude the Cat up front. http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footba...-the-integrity-of-the-premier-league--preview
**** the integrity of the Premier League. He should only give a **** about QPR and our future. The guy is sounding ever more naive. Play guys who will be with us next season and could do with the experience.
Harsh Mate. If our survival depended on another team not doing well and their opposition played kids, we would be well p'd off.
To protect the integrity of the League I suggest we forfeit the game. Difficult to claim this is the 'best league in the world' when we are in it.
A riposte in the style of Clive... As I lift my head from the final page of his latest weighty tome, wiping the sleep from my eyes, I realise I now know how Sleeping Beauty felt as she awoke after a hundred years of slumber to find Prince Charming leaning over her and giving her a bawdy wink, in much the same way Sid James would have done in Carry On Reading the Match Preview. I realise what Marty McFly must have experienced when he flipped open the doors to his Delorien to behold the future, starting in wonderment at the hover bikes before eagerly searching for an old sports almanac to find out what happened at the end of the 2014-15 season in those fateful days following the start of the preview. Having swapped my twenty twenty vision for the year 2020, I nearly trip over my floor length facial hair and venture forth. What will I discover? Will it be global internet crash caused by one man's verbose ramblings eating up the web's entire server space? Will we be in an new era of rationing due to.... OK, I've bored myself. Upshot of it is he's angry at Ramsey's words, angry at the owners of Hull and Newcastle and doesn't give two hoots about fielding a strong side. I say that I'd expect Ramsey to not bring us more bad publicity by telling the press that the league we'd choose to be playing in given the chance is a farce (and making us sound bitter). I'd expect him to play a strong team perhaps with a couple of changes that the pressure of normal competition wouldn't allow us to experiment with. If Jude the cat misses a sitter that costs us a result and the third worst team doesn't go down and we end up narrowly losing to the fourth worst team next season just because they're marginally better and those points cost us in a crucial manner, then I'll be angry. If we don't make any effort to avoid finishing bottom, then I'll be angry.
I actually think that we would be more competitive with kids playing. At least they would be motivated.
Move along please! There's no story here. Ramsey is saying what he has to say. He can still play the under 21's; as Clive Wittingham points out, you'd have a job proving they're any weaker than the first team anyway. Not sure I can be bothered to watch this one. Might be more entertaining if they made all the players do that game they used to have at half time where people put their heads next to a long stick and run round and round till they're too dizzy to kick straight.
you'd be right pee'd off if a team of youngsters played against a team we depended on to survive. It works both ways. Double standards here.
Just watched first 30 mins on stream....................absolute s***e and looks like Ramsey has lost the whole dressing room. He surely cannot be Manager after the recent performances...............
Not really, no. If we were relying on Southampton today, for example, and they dropped points with a few younger players in the side I'd say they're doing what's best for Southampton and that we weren't good enough.
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