| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 12:54 - May 1 with 3447 views | isawqpratwcity |
Thanks, Clive.
This season left me feeling tired and bitter, too. |  |
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| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 13:32 - May 1 with 3391 views | coolranger |
Thanks Clive,
Pretty good angst ridden summation. I wonder how many will be bothered to come back next season. I hadn't been to a game for a while having moved out of London over a year ago. I thought this 'Cup Final' was a good opportunity to check in on things.
Found the whole afternoon underwhelming. Home crowd was flat. Rangers were ordinary. Forest slightly worse. Thirteen years ago I was at Hillsborough where a Holloway side gained promotion amid delirious scenes among a 7,000 travelling support. On Saturday a Holloway side survived and most of the crowd went home before the players came out. A great big circle.
My big question is this ... where do Rangers go from here? I assume until we are taken over by a mega-wealthy consortium from abroad, Rangers must simply aim to become a top ten Championship side capable of flirting with promotion via a Play-Off spot.
I'd be happy watching a young, hungry, committed side of players who want to achieve things at the club and who entertain while they're at it.
We need a few better players. We need more leaders. We need more grit and more flair. We need to change the culture of the club, which is the hardest thing to do.
What we probably need most of all is that Consortium to come in and transform the club. |  | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 14:27 - May 1 with 3282 views | DejR_vu |
The trick is to have very low expectations. This lot still anger and frustrate, but it doesn't feel quite so bad when you're expecting it and are prepared. Also makes the highs far more enjoyable when they occasionally come around. [Post edited 1 May 2017 14:33]
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| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 14:52 - May 1 with 3238 views | DannytheR |
Wouldn't argue with any of that. Still, at least we're not being managed by Mark Warburton. |  | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 15:38 - May 1 with 3146 views | kensalriser |
Aren't we already owned by a mega-consortium from abroad? |  |
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| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 15:45 - May 1 with 3126 views | westberksr |
Thanks Clive
made my decision not to go & rush back for a gig all the wiser. Its been bloody hard work this season and now I'm not supposed to be renewing my Dad's season ticket due to his poor health; but I can't let him sign off with that total shit for his last ever season!
gonna have to make the old git suffer for a bit longer seeing as I'm going to!
why Holloway cannot just pick the best 11 and go out and play to our strengths I'll never know. like you said; its hardly a league of brilliant sides. |  | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 16:52 - May 1 with 2994 views | bosh67 |
Firstly, thanks for another outstanding season of coverage on this site. Top job.
Excellent piece. So I see you are not a fan of Smith playing entire games with his back to goal, taking balls out the stars with ice on them and only being fed by other high balls behind him and only from the right - and never from the leftt? I don't get it, what's not to love and admire about that tactic? The idea of two wingers punching balls into the area for strikers to run on to and score from is just so old hat. Matt Smith is good at running onto a chance and heading it in, but I think it is wise to explore the idea of him 35 yards out being hauled to the ground trying to trap a meteorite on this head for, I don't know, perhaps another two seasons, It is the obvious way forward. Then he can get demoralised and become a boo boy and, as we all know, that is character building. We can take a potential 15 goal a season man and make him a 6-7 goal a season man and break him in the process. Tis the QPR way! [Post edited 1 May 2017 16:53]
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| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 17:05 - May 1 with 2969 views | DWQPR |
Well done Clive for providing some much needed black humour to an abysmal season, and to think that after two games we thought that we had the squad and the manager! You saw Saturday much as I saw it and probably the whole season. I've given up on this one now, given my Norwich ticket away and decided to head down to Lords for England v Ireland weather permitting. Hopefully a long hot summer of cricket will help recharge my batteries and my enthusiasm for next season. | |
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| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 21:03 - May 1 with 2598 views | CheshireR |
Another great write up Clive.
It's been a hard slog watching this year so many thanks for decorating the season with your observations and humour.
Enjoy some Rugby League for the next couple of months. |  | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 09:32 - May 2 with 2229 views | wrinklyhoop |
Thanks for a brilliant season on the page Clive if not on the field. Easy to see how you might be losing the will to live, having to write about what we witnessed this season, but you battled on to the end  | | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 10:25 - May 2 with 2176 views | PinnerPaul |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 13:32 - May 1 by coolranger |
Thanks Clive,
Pretty good angst ridden summation. I wonder how many will be bothered to come back next season. I hadn't been to a game for a while having moved out of London over a year ago. I thought this 'Cup Final' was a good opportunity to check in on things.
Found the whole afternoon underwhelming. Home crowd was flat. Rangers were ordinary. Forest slightly worse. Thirteen years ago I was at Hillsborough where a Holloway side gained promotion amid delirious scenes among a 7,000 travelling support. On Saturday a Holloway side survived and most of the crowd went home before the players came out. A great big circle.
My big question is this ... where do Rangers go from here? I assume until we are taken over by a mega-wealthy consortium from abroad, Rangers must simply aim to become a top ten Championship side capable of flirting with promotion via a Play-Off spot.
I'd be happy watching a young, hungry, committed side of players who want to achieve things at the club and who entertain while they're at it.
We need a few better players. We need more leaders. We need more grit and more flair. We need to change the culture of the club, which is the hardest thing to do.
What we probably need most of all is that Consortium to come in and transform the club. |
Blackburn, Orient, Leeds, Birmingham etc have certainly been "transformed" - be careful, very careful what you wish for. | | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 10:50 - May 2 with 2142 views | Northernr |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 10:25 - May 2 by PinnerPaul |
Blackburn, Orient, Leeds, Birmingham etc have certainly been "transformed" - be careful, very careful what you wish for. |
Yeh that's the last thing we need. As dopey as Fernandes has been I don't think he's malicious. |  | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 11:44 - May 2 with 2097 views | 1MoreBrightonR |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 10:50 - May 2 by Northernr |
Yeh that's the last thing we need. As dopey as Fernandes has been I don't think he's malicious. |
Thanks for everything this season Clive | | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 12:10 - May 2 with 2057 views | PinnerPaul |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 10:50 - May 2 by Northernr |
Yeh that's the last thing we need. As dopey as Fernandes has been I don't think he's malicious. |
Should have added, thanks for all the reports this season.
Didn't agree with tone of Saturday's report, but still enjoyed reading all the match reports - easily the most informative of any that are around.
Have a good summer, I will spend it reading up on yet more law changes for 17/18!
Cheers | | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 12:50 - May 2 with 1998 views | nadera78 |
Good report, as usual, and summed up the general air of disillusionment around the club.
Personally, I'm going to be taking a break from QPR for a while. The combined BS of the past decade has now reached the point where I'm left completely cold by watching us play. I don't even get angry or upset anymore, I'm well past that, I have emotionally checked out. So - unless something absolutely astonishing happens in the next month - I won't be renewing my season ticket. There are, apparently, other things to do in life so I'll give some of them a shot instead. | | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 14:13 - May 2 with 1912 views | CroydonCaptJack |
Yes, thanks for all the great reporting Clive. I always look forward to these reports whether I am at the game or not and they always seem very well balanced and there is always a sarcastic snippet to enjoy as well. |  | | |
| QPR finally safe after hollow Forest victory - Report on 21:18 - May 2 with 1710 views | daveB |
Good report as ever, I thought the game nicely summed up our season.
Bright start but quickly went wrong and looked dreadful for long spells. Then a bright spell of promise and hope where it looked like we'd cracked it before several unnecessary changes and relying on Smithies and the ineptitude of Forest to bail us out |  | | |
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