| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 23:30 - May 1 with 1945 views | ted_hendrix |
| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 22:28 - May 1 by daveB |
As everyone has said outstanding writing as ever, we are so luck to have Clive writing about QPR, such a talented bloke
On the game I thought a few things worried me looking ahead to next season. Players likely to still be here were the midfield and they were awful, dominated all game never in the game, they offered no protection to back 5, couldn't keep the ball and rarely supported the forwards. Chair & Austin/Dykes were so isolated all game was worrying.
Also Dykes concerns me, every striker goes through barren runs in front of goal but thought first half Austin was getting a bit dominated by their centre half in the air but he left a few challenges on him, refused to get bullied and found a way to get a goal, Dykes got a one handed shove second half and went flying, no strength or desire, see that far too often from him, he's very easy to defend against at times. Like all our strikers he gets very little service so don't blame him for a lack of goals but the difference in his all round game now to the first 3 months of the season is massive, he needs to get back to that. |
*Dykes got a one handed shove second half and went flying, no strength or desire, see that far too often from him, he's very easy to defend against at times. Like all our strikers he gets very little service so don't blame him for a lack of goals but the difference in his all round game now to the first 3 months of the season is massive, he needs to get back to that.*
I acknowledge that he's had injuries this season but to be brutally honest I don't actually rate the bloke all that highly, as has been said many times the club have got a huge amount of work to do player wise in the coming Months and should Dykes be transferred It wouldn't bother me, to my way of thinking and unless I'm mistaken he hasn't improved his game at all this season. |  |
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| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 23:39 - May 1 with 1930 views | Match82 |
The faking injury thing. I have some sympathy for the refs there's only really so much they can do without the little man with the clipboard in the stands assessing them marking them down. I wonder... it feels like if there's a free kick, and a player requires treatment as a result, that's fair enough. But a player that goes down off the ball, to kill time? Maybe instead of just waving them on at the first opportunity the ref has to ensure that they sit out at least until the ball next goes out of play? At minimum that means that the team wasting time has to give the ball back to the opposition. |  | | |
| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 00:42 - May 2 with 1861 views | johnhoop |
| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 23:30 - May 1 by ted_hendrix |
*Dykes got a one handed shove second half and went flying, no strength or desire, see that far too often from him, he's very easy to defend against at times. Like all our strikers he gets very little service so don't blame him for a lack of goals but the difference in his all round game now to the first 3 months of the season is massive, he needs to get back to that.*
I acknowledge that he's had injuries this season but to be brutally honest I don't actually rate the bloke all that highly, as has been said many times the club have got a huge amount of work to do player wise in the coming Months and should Dykes be transferred It wouldn't bother me, to my way of thinking and unless I'm mistaken he hasn't improved his game at all this season. |
I never rated Dykes when we first signed him and in the first half of last season he and Macauley Bonne seemed to be our worst striking partnership since the dismal pre-Warnock days of Marcus Bent and Tamas Priskin.
Then, for a couple of months at the beginning of this season he really started to look the part, like the player we must have thought we’d signed, culminating in that epic performance against Preston when he headed the ball into Charlie’s path on the floor then got up to poke it through to Ilias to set up that extraordinary winner.
And then he picked up that injury which he Ill-advisedly tried to run off, went off to Scotland with it and has never looked like the same player again, to the point where he now appears to be going through the motions a lot of the time.
If we could get any remotely significant fee for him which would give us a greater chance of holding on to the players we really need to build next season’s team around then I think it would be a good deal. |  | | |
| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 01:24 - May 2 with 1820 views | Loftgirl |
| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 00:42 - May 2 by johnhoop |
I never rated Dykes when we first signed him and in the first half of last season he and Macauley Bonne seemed to be our worst striking partnership since the dismal pre-Warnock days of Marcus Bent and Tamas Priskin.
Then, for a couple of months at the beginning of this season he really started to look the part, like the player we must have thought we’d signed, culminating in that epic performance against Preston when he headed the ball into Charlie’s path on the floor then got up to poke it through to Ilias to set up that extraordinary winner.
And then he picked up that injury which he Ill-advisedly tried to run off, went off to Scotland with it and has never looked like the same player again, to the point where he now appears to be going through the motions a lot of the time.
If we could get any remotely significant fee for him which would give us a greater chance of holding on to the players we really need to build next season’s team around then I think it would be a good deal. |
I'd be happy to see the back of him. I find his neck brace tattoo embarrassing.  |  | | |
| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 09:02 - May 2 with 1631 views | PunteR |
A QPR report that cuts deep. A very accurate assessment of QPR at the moment tied up in 2000 words.
This club(shakes head).
I've been reading this QPR forum for about 15 years and a couple of things I've learned is when murmurs and rumours start about goings on behind the scenes it's usually because the fans know, I don't know how we know, we just do.
There's a vibe or something.
The glass half full fans will bat the problems away from the half empty fans and vice versa. Standard football chat, except we're QPR and when we're 3rd fom top ,3 points behind 2nd with a game in hand we know there's something lurking around the corner. Unfortunately the board hasnt read the script and it seems they jumped the gun with promotion dreams. Don't they read paulparkers and Lblocks posts on here.. ? Lol.
I know I'm drifting back into speculation territory again but this ownership shift does seem to have effected the dressing room. IMHO. The handling of future contracts does seem to have upset players. It all seems disjointed, with lots of moving parts but whatever it was, injuries to keys players was obviously a key component to our collapse. The club doesn't seem to be in a good place.
Time for the owners to get their house in order(again) and get next season up and running. We do have things to build on, a slightly out of square footing but a footing nonetheless.
Anyway bank Holiday ramble over.. lol
Thanks for the report Clive. |  |
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| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 09:46 - May 2 with 1526 views | derbyhoop |
Pathos by the bucketful.
Where did it all go so wrong? Why? And how is it going to be fixed?
Huge Summer of major decisions. New manager needed. Does MW's backroom staff stay? How much of the blame do they accept for the collapse? Many player contracts to be sorted - 1 way or another.
Let's be honest. If we start next season the way we are ending this one, we'll be in a relegation fight. |  |
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| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 11:13 - May 2 with 1421 views | R_from_afar |
Great piece. Man, it's exhausting supporting this club. Every game, every season, every signing, every new manager, you hope and pray will be the dawn of a new and glorious era in which we make progress not only up the pyramid but in terms of infrastructure, identity and togetherness.
Like Robinson Crusoe hopefully scanning the horizon, day in, day out, desperate for rescue.
Like a game of snakes and ladders with all bar one of the ladders removed.
It's brutal.
Of course, we could turn it around and start to make real progress. Things looked so good earlier this season. Other clubs have dragged themselves out of slumps and gone on to prosper.
My greatest fears are that we have let Warburton go with no plan for how to replace him and that our owners' patience is wearing thin. I have no idea of either if these are true, I'm not in the know.
If those things are true, though, we could be waving goodbye to developing our own players and building steadily and saying hello to a chaotic period in which a succession of managers are given a minimal amount of time to stage do or die attempts to get us promoted, by any means possible. Who knows, but it's all very concerning.
Right, where did I put that spyglass? |  |
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| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 15:33 - May 4 with 1074 views | Dean |
*Doffs cap *
What a way with words. Brilliantly sad | | | |
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| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 15:38 - May 4 with 1047 views | toboboly |
| Standing on the platform, watching you go — Report on 23:39 - May 1 by Match82 |
The faking injury thing. I have some sympathy for the refs there's only really so much they can do without the little man with the clipboard in the stands assessing them marking them down. I wonder... it feels like if there's a free kick, and a player requires treatment as a result, that's fair enough. But a player that goes down off the ball, to kill time? Maybe instead of just waving them on at the first opportunity the ref has to ensure that they sit out at least until the ball next goes out of play? At minimum that means that the team wasting time has to give the ball back to the opposition. |
Just wave the physio on like in rugby - soon enough only actual injuries will occur |  |
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