Match Day Thread QPR vs Nottingham Forest

[kiwiqpr]

Clive W's match report ...

Forest flop leaves QPR nursing unwanted record - Report

Sunday, 28th Apr 2019 by Clive Whittingham

A club record eleventh home defeat of the league season was confirmed in the final match of the 2018/19 campaign at Loftus Road against Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

With the grim inevitability of the ten defeats that went before it, Queens Park Rangers lost at home for the eleventh time this season on Saturday – a club record.

The players responsible were left to complete the traditional end of season lap of the pitch in front of an almost entirely empty stadium, finally abandoned by one of the most patient QPR crowds I can ever recall who feel the team abandoned them weeks ago. Harsh on one or two of them, but everything one or two others deserve. There’s been barely a whisper of dissent at games directed towards the team, the management, the executives or the owners despite everything that’s gone on, but being asked to stay and applaud this group for this output, trotting round the pitch with wife and kids, was an imposition too far. Ghosts of QPR present, left to drift around a silent stadium alone. I hope they were embarrassed, because they've embarrassed us.

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that was short
did he forget to post half of it

 

[Rangers Til I Die]

We didn't deserve to lose this one. The first half was a bit of a snore fest with not a lot happening. They tried hard but Forest edged it with slicker football. In the second half we came out all guns blazing and created some good chances. BOS looks a real talent and we'll have a real talent if he can find an end product and learn how to put away chances. We could have won it on most other days and could've scored four or five but Pantilimon had a worldy with some excellent saves. I thought we got the penalty for handball when it looked to me that Robinson punched the ball above his head. I don't know why Wells was bought on as he didn't look interested against Blackburn. His two shots before the penalty were comical and there was no way he should've taken it. Everyone around us were saying that he was going to miss it.

Anyway, I'm glad the home campaign is over. The last four seasons in the Championship have been much of a muchness and it's difficult to differentiate one from another. In fact since OBZ day the last five years have been pretty ****e where we've been looking down and very rarely up.

I heard today that a deal has been done with Ainsworth. I'm not too sure how true that is but I wouldn't wish this job on him. Well certainly not at the moment anyway.

Tx for that. If the deal with Ainsworth is true, no matter what happens, he will always be a QPR legend!

My mate Chris beats that.....1460+ competitive games consecutively.....home and away.

Madness beyond redemption.

So that is about 36 years? Has (s)he ever estimated how much that has cost? Would not be a small amount! Respect.

 

[Staines R's]

So that is about 36 years? Has (s)he ever estimated how much that has cost? Would not be a small amount! Respect.

I’ve never thought about the cost of his travels but as you say, it must run in to a fair few quid over the years.
It’s a bit of a habit for him now and reckon if he misses just one game on his run, then he might stop his away travels. Takes a lot of planning around birthdays, weddings, christenings etc and no doubt he’s pissed a few people of by not going to their celebrations

 

[Rangers Til I Die]

I’ve never thought about the cost of his travels but as you say, it must run in to a fair few quid over the years.
It’s a bit of a habit for him now and reckon if he misses just one game on his run, then he might stop his away travels. Takes a lot of planning around birthdays, weddings, christenings etc and no doubt he’s pissed a few people of by not going to their celebrations

Very hard to guess what a day watching the Rs averages out at in today's prices for all those years but including the ticket, travel and refreshments, I would have thought about £30?? That is about £40k. I suspect more!!

 

[Sooperhoop]

Very hard to guess what a day watching the Rs averages out at in today's prices for all those years but including the ticket, travel and refreshments, I would have thought about £30?? That is about £40k. I suspect more!!

I'm sure my first home match in 1968 it was 1s/6d to get in and prices didn't take off substantially till the 90s...

 

[sb_73]

Very hard to guess what a day watching the Rs averages out at in today's prices for all those years but including the ticket, travel and refreshments, I would have thought about £30?? That is about £40k. I suspect more!!

Got the email telling me it was my last chance to get the loyalty prices for an ST next season, 24 hours to go....

Problem is I’m not loyal, I don’t even think it’s a virtue.

 

[awjm]

Meaningless game, doesn’t really matter what the stats say or how well people who were there or saw it on telly thought we played. If you dominate and don’t score, let alone win, it’s not ‘unlucky’ or ‘unfair’, it’s because you are not very good. A game to go and we are guaranteed to finish with less points than the two previous **** seasons. We would have been relegated with this points total plus 3 two years ago. We have survived because there are even worse teams than us around - or teams that were even unluckier and even bigger victims of injustice than us if you prefer. QPR is going backwards at increasing velocity. Main hope for next season is that there are three worse teams than us, I can’t see how we will be any better unless by some miracle we get a very good coach who can turn the inevitable poor to average squad into a team which is more than the sum of its parts. Any coach who can win 15 games and draw 15 games next season should have a statue on South Africa Road.

Sadly, this is a very accurate summary