Match Day Thread QPR vs Preston

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I think my shortest enthusiasm was when Kieron Dyer lasted 3-minutes into our great hope season.

Conceding at Watford in the first minute 2 years ago didn't count, my enthusiasm hadn't even warmed up at that point.

Fond memories of thinking we’d played well in the first half against Swansea before losing 5-0 under Leslie Hughes.

Genuinely fond memories of battering Blackpool on a day hotter than the Sun while they wilted in an unnecessary black kit.
 
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I was still queueing to get in at Watford a couple of years ago when that opener went in. My watch was a minute slow and I didn't even realise the game had started!
That was an all round quality experience. From the weirdest crowd control ever, which basically allowed 5 people in every 10 minutes, but then allowing hundreds of fans to stand all down the aisles for the whole match, to 1 toilet, no booze(what the ****?), then a Sunday league performance. I think I might of combined last 2 years in some of my experience, but u will know what I mean, and for those who don't have fun a week on Saturday!
 
Preston nob end, could this be the dullest way to start a season
Hopefully we have an exciting first 25 minutes or so albeit with no serious chances, concede a comical goal from their first attack and scrape a draw from a scrappy corner in the 68th minute before miraculously surviving a series of late set pieces to set the tone.
 
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I think my shortest enthusiasm was when Kieron Dyer lasted 3-minutes into our great hope season.

Conceding at Watford in the first minute 2 years ago didn't count, my enthusiasm hadn't even warmed up at that point.
Too funny, I may have told this story before, but at the Bolton game that you refer to, 3 of us were working on a sweep to see how long Kieron Dyer would last - we hadn’t even sorted the rules and prize as he went down….
 
Wow. Already time to start another season which currently is full of unkowns. I admit that I have not idea on the formation, tactics or who will start where. So it should be quite interesting.

Against PNE, we should aim for a home win, but it could easily be a banana skin. Hope that is will be a great and entertaining match, and we pick up three points. We will be wiser come Saturday evening.
 
Wow. Already time to start another season which currently is full of unkowns. I admit that I have not idea on the formation, tactics or who will start where. So it should be quite interesting.

Against PNE, we should aim for a home win, but it could easily be a banana skin. Hope that is will be a great and entertaining match, and we pick up three points. We will be wiser come Saturday evening.

I don’t intend to be
 
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Wow. Already time to start another season which currently is full of unkowns. I admit that I have not idea on the formation, tactics or who will start where. So it should be quite interesting.

Against PNE, we should aim for a home win, but it could easily be a banana skin. Hope that is will be a great and entertaining match, and we pick up three points. We will be wiser come Saturday evening.
I'm oddly enjoying the unknowns, Its taking me back to the 80's & 90's.

I've got blind hope of a new style and team similar to when Jim Smith joined.

Pre-internet and big money most of our signings were players I'd never heard of.
I'd read in the paper about a signing from lower league but the likelihood was I'd never heard of them & knew nobody that had watched them play. At most I might have had a panini sticker of them or find them in the Rothmans book I'd beg for every couple of years.

It was always a nice surprise when the player actually turned out to be good.
The Paul Parkers as a success, the Andy Tillson's slightly less and the Lewis Hamiltons and Tony Witters never troubling the programme writer.

I'm not sure how this bunch will turn out but maybe arriving with less expectation than Celar and Jamie Cureton, both of whom I didn't know prior to the internet telling me how great they'd be, might be a good thing.