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Match Day Thread QPR vs Middlesbrough

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by daverangers, Mar 7, 2024.

  1. Totallyqpr

    Totallyqpr Well-Known Member

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    Baardiff beat the Tractor Boys.
     
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  2. Kilburn

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    Back in the 1950's, 60's we spent the summers in a rented thatched cottage in Hope Cove, Devon (Norfolk reed) on a hill overlooking the sea. There was two sets of stairs to go upstairs so great for fun & games (servants staircase). Up to my first visit there I had only eaten Vanilla ice cream and at Hope Cove there was a choice of some 20 flavours. Dad used to sometimes being us down from Andover, Hampshire, spend a week with us, then return to his building construction business (we didn't need a car in Hope Cove) and then pick us up at the end of summer when we spent another week together before returning. At 5 or 6 I met my 1st girlfriend on the beach at Hope Cove and we became inseparable in the years to come. Her name was Carol Lockhart and her parents became Uncle John and Uncle Pat, they lived in Manchester. Unfortunately Uncle John died relatively young of a heart attack and our families drifted apart. I recall that Carol often wore a mustard crinkly yellow bathing suit and we loved to explore the rock pools and the creatures trapped in them when the tide went out. Carol became an air stewardess and we once visited their family and stayed overnight in Manchester when we were returning from a holiday in the Lake District. I believe Carol was a couple of years older than myself and perhaps the romantic "fantasy" was likely more on my part than hers, as years had passed and we had both grown up. I still think about her though, any those times of young innocent "love".
     
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    So you never took her up the Hope Cove again later in life?
     
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    It would have indeed been my fantasy, up a creek without a paddle, I do wonder what became of Carl though, likely 72 now, a seasoned thoroughbred now! What are the chances of her still living in Manchester? A United or City fan? We never discussed football.
     
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    Lucas Andersen can have my babies, he's pure filth and I love it.
     
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    Turkish" Premier" Hoops Well-Known Member

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    That won’t even fit in the ice cream / escort van <yikes><yikes><yikes><yikes><yikes><yikes>
     
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    Begovic out quickly to stop their break from a long ball. Only sniff they've had so far. You R'Sss!
     
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    All us. Willock fighting for the ball when we lose possession. So good to see.
     
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    Our pressing and back tackling is paying dividends and Frey’s hustling so far is great to watch
     
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    Was just about to say something similar. They have no time on the ball and look rushed.
     
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    Playing well....
     
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  12. Turkish" Premier" Hoops

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    3 years ago Deny “great save “
    Now, Deng you B’stard
     
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    Frey and Anderson put some graft in!
    Willock doing some nice play today.
    We’re looking good so far.
     
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    Blackburn 1-0 Plymouth
     
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    Did I just see Marti with a bit of sledging at that Middlesbrough throw in :smiley-finger007::smiley-finger007:
     
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    They can’t get a breath, it’s constant pressure from us
     
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    Anderson, Chair and Willock floating all over the pitch....
     
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  18. Turkish" Premier" Hoops

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    Was just going to say that Andersen is like a Jack in the box, popping up everywhere
     
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    Hopefully he’ll pop up on the scoresheet soon.
     
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