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Yeah, I've been delighted to get points with poor or, err, basic, performances, but worried that if we kept playing like that we'd sooner pr later get found out.
The opposite possibility was that a run of decent results would build confidence, give time for team-building, and that we'd start to get better.
Dickie was the one that sprang to my mind, and thinking it over still is.
The decline of Johansen and Austin was awful and unexpected, but in hindsight you have to ask what we thought we were doing. But Dickie looked a class act and unlike the older pair was going to be an asset we'd sell.
What's really interesting is that Dunne, who was bought at about the same time, apparently as a squad player, more or less matched Dickie at his best and then at his worst, but has since risen like a phoenix from the flames [(c) Baddiel and Skinner] while Dickie doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
Don't really think I'm accepting Stuart Wardley in this category.
I don't feel like it's a case of "where did it all go wrong?" so much as "how on earth did it go so right? How did a non-League big lump central defender, who never looked good enough in that role, bought in part-exchange for a load of old kit because both parties were skint, turn into a goal machine when played out of position for 6 months?"
I don't suppose he mopes over what might have been, more like he remembers that one glorious time in his life when he was a hero.
Don't think anyone's mentioned Bend It Like Beckham, but if I recall correctly the entire QPR Ladies team of the time appear as extras, both as Keira Knightley's team mates and as the opposition in the cup final, in which they are wearing the hoops.
(It ought to be a matter of some embarrassment to the club that the QPR Ladies were - as I understand it, and I'd be more than happy to be corrected - effectively binned off, despite a pretty impressive history that QPR should be proud of - and evolved into Hounslow Women, when the current side was reinvented.)
Posted at about 5 p.m. on the match Fred (qv), quoting someone who came up with an insanely optimistic scoreline prediction 17 hours previously which has bizarrely turned out right.
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In hindsight, I'm not sure it wasn't worse than 95-6 - going down from the Premier League had felt like the inevitable result not only of the Ferdinand sale but of years of previous sales - sooner or later one was going to be irreplaceable.
At last we had a new owner willing to put up the cash, the kids who'd been just too young to keep us up would get their chance, it'd be the 80s all over again.
If we'd gone straight back up, as so many clubs have, and which arguably we should have, the whole history of the club would have been different.
Had to laugh - just went to google something on my phone, and Google's algorithm thought I'd want to read a story about QPR and Kolli.
Not a bad guess, Al, what's that you have for me? Football League News, you say? Sounds promising, I'll venture a click on that.
Shame it's an article from two days ago saying we should ship Kolli out in the transfer window in order to gamble (their word) on a 19 year old kid from Spurs who has hardly scored any goals.
In other news: Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr Epstein.
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