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Queens Park Rangers v Brighton & Hove Albion (Official Thread)
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We needed a bit of luck.
We really have been rubbish this season. My worry is that unless there is some "real" investment in players before we kick off in League 1, we're going to struggle similarly next year. I certainly wouldn't put a penny on our finishing in the top half of the table.
I'm sorry but we drew with QPR AWAY and held Preston who I promotion contenders to a draw, I think they are two scores we would have taken just after xmas
Collar Feeler
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- Jul 26, 2003
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Uncle Spielberg said:
Seconded!
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Miracles are mathematically possible. It involves beating Millwall and Sheff Weds though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/predictor/default.stm
I bet they will be calling for Neil Warnocks's head when Sheffield United are seven pints adrift near the end of next season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/predictor/default.stm
I bet they will be calling for Neil Warnocks's head when Sheffield United are seven pints adrift near the end of next season.
Sheff Utd have lost the plot big time. I read this on football frenzy
The Warnock Quiz
1. You are comfortably clear of the chasing promotion pack, with a settled side crusing to promotion. In the january transfer window you look to strengthen your squad, do you:
A) Scout around for an even mix of defenders, midfielders and strikers to ensure that all positions are covered?
B) Just go for some young talented up and coming players, who will be an asset in future years?
C) Squander thousands of pounds of the clubs money tossing it off going on stupid fruitless scouting jaunts to Portugal and Israel, forget signing any promising youngsters and instead spent millions Signing four big aging strikers with no resale value whatsoever and then faff around with the team everyweek, upsetting everyone trying to accomodate them all?
2. Your constant tinkering is upsetting the balance of the squad, at the start of the season you had a solid settled starting line up, now you are chopping and changing and wonder what to do, do you:
A) Select your strongest line up and stick with it, knowing that this sort of cohesion and togetherness will build a solid team which will gain results.
B) Rotate certain players, make sure there is some creativity on the bench incase things don't go as well as expected.
C) Make 6 changes to the starting line up every game, mess around with tactics (albeit non existant ones) formation and squad selection every match, and make sure that nobody has a ****ing clue where or how they are supposed to be playing.
3. Your star midfielder has been awarded. by many other respected proffesionals in the game, the honour of being crowned 'Championship player of the year'. For your next game do you:
A) Play him in his honoured midfield role.
B) You are having some defensive problems, so play him in his equally strong fullback position. Afterall he is a man of many talents.
C) Play him at rightback, where he has never played before and dosent really know what he is doing.
4. After a home defeat and a draw against the worst away side in the country, your promotion hopes are starting to look a little fragile, luckily the draw was on a Friday night, so you have the whole of saturday free, do you:
A) Use this time to your advantage and scout on your next opponents who are playing the next day.
B) Call in your players for an impromptu training session and try and boost confidence and morale.
C) Forget your current job and do a bit of punditry on BBC 1 and give your 'expert' views on a Premiership game.
5. You need to pick a formation for your next game, do you:
A) Stick with 4-4-2 which has served your so well for most of the season.
B) Stick with 4-4-2, but perhaps have a midfielder in a more attacking role playing behind the strikers.
C) Experiment with a revolutionary, and as yet unseen and untested 4-3-3 system with no wingers at all, instead just aimlessly run at defenders, and perhaps use your strikers to cross balls in, albeit cross them into empty space as they are all playing as wingers.
6. Your side loses a game at home, you were winning quite comfortably until you made a totally stupid substitution, moved everyone out of position to accomodate it, and then lost the plot, do you:
A) Take responsiblity for your error like a man.
B) Blame it on the refferee, afterall, nobody likes those pricks.
C) Blame it on the fans, who obviously have everything to do with your constant ****ing about.
7. You accidentally sign a player who is in fact a ghost, he does not have any solid appendages and can walk through walls and stuff like that, this is quite embarassing as clearly this person can't kick a ball or tackle or do anything really being of the 'spirit world', do you:
A) Send him to the reserves, and hope to god nobody notices.
B) Let him sit on the bench, afterall he isn't going to take up much space.
C) Play him everyweek instead of your star midfielder, reconfigure the whole team to accomodate him, And hope that this will create an illusion that the player is still alive, even though people are begining to notice that he dosen't do anything and has never touched the ball once.
8. Your best defender acts like a silly beef bayonet and gets sent off one match, you decide, being the kind of stand up guy you are, to slag him off in public, after this the player is obviously a bit peeved, do you:
A) Make up with him, for the good of the team, everyone ****s up, and you should know being the king of it.
B) Ensure that he knows you are pissed off, but bring him back into the fold as soon as his suspension runs out, afterall your team could do with him at the back.
C) Refuse to play him again, don't even name him on the bench, have a massive fall out with him and let him just walk out of the club. Afterall you did the same thing with Danny Cullip, and as we all know, fights in the dressing room improve team morale, as we can see after the success of the 2003 play-off final where you managed to piss off your assistant manager before hand so much he walked out.
9. You accidentally sign too many strikers, now you have a dilemma when it comes to picking the side, do you:
A) Carry on with the same front two that got you to where you are in the league in the first place, after all they have done nothing wrong.
B) Give the new blood some time to establish themselves by giving them a run out from the bench.
C) Chop and change and panic to try and accomdate everyone, drop the only signing that looked any good and continue with your old Multi-million pound striker became you spent to much money on him, and it would make you look a total tit for not picking him after he cost so much money, even though he now looks so frightened he literally couldnt wait to get off the pitch in your last game. Don't allow any of your old strikers to go out to find new clubs, just carry on with 10 disaffected strikers not getting a shirt, having there confidence wrecked and not knowing when or what they have to do to next get a shirt.
10. Your club has spent millions on a new academy, it is producing some talented players, do you:
A) Give the lads a chance when there are injuries and suspensions
B) Give them a run out from the subs bench to boost confidence
C) Make sure they know they never have a chance of ever breaking into the starting squad by signing lots of hasbeens who will get a shirt before them, then loan them off to Rotherham and Boston.
11. Your team is hitting relegation form, and it's putting a big dent in your promotion chances, do you:
A) Ride it out, carry on with what you were doing in the first place.
B) Change the team around a bit, drop the underperfoming players, but generally keep the nucleus the same.
C) Panic like a 13 year old in a brothel.
If you answered C) for every question you win a copy of Warnocks self publicising DVD 'Warnock' a documentary about himself, for himself, by himself.
The Warnock Quiz
1. You are comfortably clear of the chasing promotion pack, with a settled side crusing to promotion. In the january transfer window you look to strengthen your squad, do you:
A) Scout around for an even mix of defenders, midfielders and strikers to ensure that all positions are covered?
B) Just go for some young talented up and coming players, who will be an asset in future years?
C) Squander thousands of pounds of the clubs money tossing it off going on stupid fruitless scouting jaunts to Portugal and Israel, forget signing any promising youngsters and instead spent millions Signing four big aging strikers with no resale value whatsoever and then faff around with the team everyweek, upsetting everyone trying to accomodate them all?
2. Your constant tinkering is upsetting the balance of the squad, at the start of the season you had a solid settled starting line up, now you are chopping and changing and wonder what to do, do you:
A) Select your strongest line up and stick with it, knowing that this sort of cohesion and togetherness will build a solid team which will gain results.
B) Rotate certain players, make sure there is some creativity on the bench incase things don't go as well as expected.
C) Make 6 changes to the starting line up every game, mess around with tactics (albeit non existant ones) formation and squad selection every match, and make sure that nobody has a ****ing clue where or how they are supposed to be playing.
3. Your star midfielder has been awarded. by many other respected proffesionals in the game, the honour of being crowned 'Championship player of the year'. For your next game do you:
A) Play him in his honoured midfield role.
B) You are having some defensive problems, so play him in his equally strong fullback position. Afterall he is a man of many talents.
C) Play him at rightback, where he has never played before and dosent really know what he is doing.
4. After a home defeat and a draw against the worst away side in the country, your promotion hopes are starting to look a little fragile, luckily the draw was on a Friday night, so you have the whole of saturday free, do you:
A) Use this time to your advantage and scout on your next opponents who are playing the next day.
B) Call in your players for an impromptu training session and try and boost confidence and morale.
C) Forget your current job and do a bit of punditry on BBC 1 and give your 'expert' views on a Premiership game.
5. You need to pick a formation for your next game, do you:
A) Stick with 4-4-2 which has served your so well for most of the season.
B) Stick with 4-4-2, but perhaps have a midfielder in a more attacking role playing behind the strikers.
C) Experiment with a revolutionary, and as yet unseen and untested 4-3-3 system with no wingers at all, instead just aimlessly run at defenders, and perhaps use your strikers to cross balls in, albeit cross them into empty space as they are all playing as wingers.
6. Your side loses a game at home, you were winning quite comfortably until you made a totally stupid substitution, moved everyone out of position to accomodate it, and then lost the plot, do you:
A) Take responsiblity for your error like a man.
B) Blame it on the refferee, afterall, nobody likes those pricks.
C) Blame it on the fans, who obviously have everything to do with your constant ****ing about.
7. You accidentally sign a player who is in fact a ghost, he does not have any solid appendages and can walk through walls and stuff like that, this is quite embarassing as clearly this person can't kick a ball or tackle or do anything really being of the 'spirit world', do you:
A) Send him to the reserves, and hope to god nobody notices.
B) Let him sit on the bench, afterall he isn't going to take up much space.
C) Play him everyweek instead of your star midfielder, reconfigure the whole team to accomodate him, And hope that this will create an illusion that the player is still alive, even though people are begining to notice that he dosen't do anything and has never touched the ball once.
8. Your best defender acts like a silly beef bayonet and gets sent off one match, you decide, being the kind of stand up guy you are, to slag him off in public, after this the player is obviously a bit peeved, do you:
A) Make up with him, for the good of the team, everyone ****s up, and you should know being the king of it.
B) Ensure that he knows you are pissed off, but bring him back into the fold as soon as his suspension runs out, afterall your team could do with him at the back.
C) Refuse to play him again, don't even name him on the bench, have a massive fall out with him and let him just walk out of the club. Afterall you did the same thing with Danny Cullip, and as we all know, fights in the dressing room improve team morale, as we can see after the success of the 2003 play-off final where you managed to piss off your assistant manager before hand so much he walked out.
9. You accidentally sign too many strikers, now you have a dilemma when it comes to picking the side, do you:
A) Carry on with the same front two that got you to where you are in the league in the first place, after all they have done nothing wrong.
B) Give the new blood some time to establish themselves by giving them a run out from the bench.
C) Chop and change and panic to try and accomdate everyone, drop the only signing that looked any good and continue with your old Multi-million pound striker became you spent to much money on him, and it would make you look a total tit for not picking him after he cost so much money, even though he now looks so frightened he literally couldnt wait to get off the pitch in your last game. Don't allow any of your old strikers to go out to find new clubs, just carry on with 10 disaffected strikers not getting a shirt, having there confidence wrecked and not knowing when or what they have to do to next get a shirt.
10. Your club has spent millions on a new academy, it is producing some talented players, do you:
A) Give the lads a chance when there are injuries and suspensions
B) Give them a run out from the subs bench to boost confidence
C) Make sure they know they never have a chance of ever breaking into the starting squad by signing lots of hasbeens who will get a shirt before them, then loan them off to Rotherham and Boston.
11. Your team is hitting relegation form, and it's putting a big dent in your promotion chances, do you:
A) Ride it out, carry on with what you were doing in the first place.
B) Change the team around a bit, drop the underperfoming players, but generally keep the nucleus the same.
C) Panic like a 13 year old in a brothel.
If you answered C) for every question you win a copy of Warnocks self publicising DVD 'Warnock' a documentary about himself, for himself, by himself.
LOL !
:l
:lcheshunt seagull
Well-known member
- Jul 5, 2003
- 2,595
Just back.
Plenty of huff and puff, some lucky breaks but we were technically pretty awful and devoid of any ideas. Okay it was a hard pitch and it was windy but we looked very ordinary. Playing against ten men, we didn't manage a single shot on target in the second half, and the set pices were as crap as always. Seb had 2 on-target efforts in the first half and Frutos looked capable of taking men on... both were withdrawn by McGhee in the second half. Nice one !
Plus points;
- We didn't lose
- McShane developed a real swagger when faced with a lot of abuse
- Dodd grew in confidence as the second half progressed.
Plenty of huff and puff, some lucky breaks but we were technically pretty awful and devoid of any ideas. Okay it was a hard pitch and it was windy but we looked very ordinary. Playing against ten men, we didn't manage a single shot on target in the second half, and the set pices were as crap as always. Seb had 2 on-target efforts in the first half and Frutos looked capable of taking men on... both were withdrawn by McGhee in the second half. Nice one !
Plus points;
- We didn't lose
- McShane developed a real swagger when faced with a lot of abuse
- Dodd grew in confidence as the second half progressed.
Uncle Spielberg
Well-known member
" but we looked very ordinary. "
You don't say
You don't say
chicken run said:
and? its not just after christmas is it - its a shite result even more so as wed won and they had 10 men.
Kinky Gerbils said:
We know all that but if you had heard that at the beginning of the season you would have taken it.
When you haven't won at a place since 1957 then a draw is acceptable.
I'm not talking about the relegation battle in this context.
cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Uncle Spielberg said:" but we looked very ordinary. "
You don't say
Would 'inept and cluelessl' put it better?
bottom or 3rd bottom - doesnt really matter does it?Yorkie said:
Arthritic Toe
Well-known member
If only Frutos could defend he'd be great.
He just stood there while the QPR guy stepped forward and nodded the ball in. He really needs to make some effort in our box.
He just stood there while the QPR guy stepped forward and nodded the ball in. He really needs to make some effort in our box.
Edward Scissorhands
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- Feb 20, 2005
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Shocking game.
No way we can stay up.
No way we can stay up.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Uncle Spielberg said:
Yeah we were poor to be honest but could have won it at the death...
how exactly are we the worst side in the league by some considerable margin but not be bottom? Me thinks you lie