Why can't we just take normal free kicks like normal teams? Twice in the final 10 mins Wigan conceded a free kick halfway into their own half. At nil nil that should have been the cue to stick everyone in the box and lump it in there- instead we took poncy quick free kicks and inevitably squandered possession. I know QPR are now a fancy passing team, but we're suffering from a distinct lack of directness at the moment. If games are level after 70 mins i say we replace a CB for Onyewu, and utilise his long throw. Every free kick from halfway/further forward should be an opportunity to stick it in the box too. Dunne/Austin/Clint's aerial prowess is being under utilised, it's a gold mine at this level.
I mean it always worked sticking George Santos or Big Dan up front for the last 10 minuets under Holloway right? I get what you mean but football has evolved a bit since then and while long ball and club bouncers worked at stoke I do not wish to see that at Loftus Road any time soon.
I think they was cautious as they didn't want to be caught on the break just in case it broke down & settle for a hard earned point, but can see where your coming from grifter.
BBC commentators thought we didn't want to risk moving up Clint and Dunne for these free kicks late on as Wigan were putting us under pressure and Harry wanted to safe the point. And also that without these 2 in the box we had little aerial threat, so we there wasn't much point in just lumping it in the box. Id love us to be taking the game to Wigan, but without Kransjcar and Barton to give us this control, perhaps Harry was right to safe the point in the last 10 minutes up there.
http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/footba...news/33221/nothing-to-see-here-–-report "With three minutes to go at Wigan on Wednesday Queens Park Rangers were awarded a free kick in a reasonably promising position some 40 yards from the home goal wide on the left. It was an opportunity for them to deliver a ball into a penalty box which they could happily have populated with Charlie Austin, Clint Hill and Richard Dunne – all fearsome aerial opponents – and hunt for a late winner. What they did instead, in fact what they did with all their free kicks at Wigan on Wednesday, was to quickly take it short and resume the aimless passing to nothing that suffocated the entire match. It’s like QPR can, or could, but don’t want to. For a Championship team they have some outstanding creative talent at their disposal and an attacking trio of Niko Kranjcar, Charlie Austin and Junior Hoilett should have been more than enough to pose problems to a limited Wigan side. But somewhere along the line they’ve become lost in some football hipster ideal that a completed pass is almost as good as a goal; like 100 of them would count half on the scoreboard. Surely to goodness even Brendan Rodgers would concede that there’s no shame in delivering a last minute free kick to the heart of the penalty box? We’re not exactly suckling at the teat of Tony Pulis by doing that are we? God this was frustrating stuff. "
