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Reply | Points accrued
at 11:56 22 Sep 2026
You are right I could have said a draw with Bolton is better than Norwich managed but we all saw the game and we should have beaten Bolton. The real point I was trying to make is that despite a good start, we have not won more games than Bolton or Lincoln who came up from league 1. It just rankles with me that Bolton can score four away at a ground we constantly fail at while we couldn't score on Saturday on two occasions from point blank range. If just one of those had gone in we would have had more time to get the winner.
I agree we are harder to beat and playing better this season but I don't feel it is truly reflected in the results. Like I said previously we haven't won in the last four and we now have a tougher run of games. By the end of it we could be lamenting another one win in 10 games scenario if we don't put the ball in the net. Hence my lack of excitement as I have seen this script many times before.
If Rangers are going to turn me into a believer we have turned a corner, then I will need to see us win away in London, also win at Norwich and actually beat teams like Sheffield United, Burnley and Southampton at home at the very least. |
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Reply | Points accrued
at 17:48 21 Sep 2026
I must apologise to everyone in advance but I remain unconvinced about our credentials to do well this season. Perhaps it's just me but I worry about stats.
I am troubled we have only won once in 5 home league and cup games.
I am troubled we have gone 4 matches without a win.
I am troubled we haven't played most of the best teams yet.
In reality we have only won 3 out of 8 matches. Bolton and Lincoln have also won 3 games, in Lincoln's case, all 1-0 away which takes some doing.
Only we could go one down at home in 20 seconds to the bottom team which to me is same old Rangers. While we struggle converting chances it annoys me that Bolton can go to the Rangers graveyard of Carrow Road and score four, where we usually lose for fun.
I acknowledge our performances are better but I don't think it is reflected in our results. A really good team would have dismantled Bolton, Charlton and Preston. I fear if we are wasteful in front of goal against the better teams we will pay for it.
Early days I know but I can see the warning signs so I won't be getting carried away that corners are being turned for the season ahead. Sorry folks... |
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Reply | QPR v Pissed on knob end match Fred
at 18:27 19 Sep 2026
I guess I worry too much. Great to see that character today but most of us expected 3 points before kick off. We have played five home league and cup games this season and only won once. If the club have ambitions of being in the top 6 at the business end of the season then we really need to start winning at home. This run of draws has seen Stoke make up 7 points on us to draw level. We are seeing better displays but the end result at home is still disappointing in terms of dropped points as has happened in the past few seasons. |
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Reply | Flair players
at 18:13 19 Sep 2026
From memory Taarabt was not only our best flair player when we won the Championship, he was actually the best player in the division that season. That I feel is the difference between him and Eze as I don't feel Eze was ever the best player in the division. As good as Eze was for us, I don't think he reached the levels of Taarabt under Warnock. Taarabt was a match winner and he was often the difference in us winning or not. Since Eze left we have not had a real game changer with that added quality of creativity and finishing and recent final league positions shows that.
Anyway haven't we been saying since the 70's that flair players are not appreciated by managers? Think back to Don Revie as England manager and how many caps players like Bowles and Worthington got. We want to see them but managers have other ideas. |
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Reply | Good point, bad point - Report
at 18:21 13 Sep 2026
I suppose there is something in Briatore's thinking. After 3 games we had 7 points and Stoke had zero. Now after 7 games we have 12 points and Stoke have 10. So with us starting to draw matches and Stoke have started winning, they have clawed back 5 points on us even though we only lost once. |
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Reply | PNE
at 18:11 13 Sep 2026
If the players are fed up of him they might be lifted by this news and pull their finger out for us. I imagine the caretaker manager will get them into a low block to frustrate us like Bolton and Charlton. |
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Reply | Charlton and the Wheelies Match Thread
at 22:36 9 Sep 2026
Perhaps it's me but we are generally hopeless in winning away in London and tonight, for me, was same old Rangers in a derby. We didn't create much in our previous visit last season to the Valley until stoppage time and tonight felt like a repeat 90 minutes of creating next to nothing. Early days I know, but I fear our lack of goals could keep us in the bottom half of the table particularly in tandem with an injury prone squad. |
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Reply | Ten Mill Will kills QPR's unbeaten start - Report
at 20:55 7 Sep 2026
It was indeed a shot but it highlighted how a £10 million striker kept on the move and arrived at just the right moment to tap in an easy goal from a mis-kick. Our strikers would have been on their heels and watch the ball flash across the goal. We saw that at the end of the Cardiff game when Chair scuffed his chance but our forward had stopped running. If he had kept going he would have had an easy tap in. Too many players stop to watch where the ball is going instead of following in.
As far as I know Lankshear has scored 7 so far as he got a couple in the League cup so he is still averaging a goal a game. As I said before in another thread, it is infuriating we have lost four in a row at home to Boro. Even Man United and Liverpool in their years of dominance couldn't do that to us. Another annoying stat is it is Middlesbrough's first away win since March, when of course we were the victims again. I mean they have been so dodgy in their travels since March that even Blackburn beat them the other week. |
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Reply | Gutted...
at 20:30 5 Sep 2026
I am gutted because we have lost four consecutive home games to Middlesbrough. Such things never used to happen pre big money where it didn't matter whether you were a big club or small club. You never had the disparity where one team was worth £50 million and the other side five grand. I watched Falkirk totally outplay Rangers midweek in the second half but Rangers still got the winner late on. That extended Falkirk's record to one win in the last 46 matches against Rangers. They lose to them when they play rubbish and lose to them when they play well. I am getting that feeling whenever we play Boro these days...The principal difference today was they had Lankshear and we had Kone then Burrell up front.
Which brings me onto my biggest worry about us and that is goalscoring at home. Four games at Loftus Road and only Burrell has scored in just the one game. If Millwall hadn't scored for us we would have drawn a blank in three of the four games. Since our failure to score against Bolton, they have conceded 7 goals in two away games. Even our old mate Mr Dykes got a brace today. Then you have Stoke, made a bad start to the season yet today they won 4-0. We have been playing better than them but we can't win 4-0.
I am cerrain we won't be in any relegation scrap this season but I do fear our goalscoring will be a problem and that could be where we scupper ourselves trying to get into the top 8.
I see Wrexham are live again. It feels like they want to show all their games live. Are they the new Leeds? Still things could be worse, I could support a team who lose 4-0 at home to Oxford... |
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Reply | Blueballs Us or Them Edition. QPR vs Cardiff City match thread
at 22:39 2 Sep 2026
The Hull assistant manager, Dean Holden, watching the game reckoned it was the best game he has seen so far this season.
It is frustrating we can't finish off chances and win more comfortably. You see Swansea win 3-0 at Derby and Wrexham win 3-0 at Millwall and think we should have done that at least twice this season. Of course if you listen to Chris Sutton, a team is only as good as it's main striker. Anyway, having lambasted us for our propensity to follow up away wins by not winning the next game at home, I have to be content this time we won against a team up from league 1.
We have conceded three cracking goals already but why is it opposition players seem to be able to hit a ball far sweeter than we can when it comes to shooting? Is anyone capable of putting their foot through the ball and ripping the net off? If we could only get some power in our shots we might score more goals... |
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Reply | Do we need another striker before the window closes?
at 14:18 30 Aug 2026
If we are not going to use Kolli then we probably do require another striker. Middlesbrough brought in Lankshear from Spurs who has sc than last season ored 6 in 5 games which could be the difference in them going one step further now they have a goalscorer. It will be interesting to see how we contain him on Saturday. |
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Reply | Simon (Barker) Says...Ewood score a goal. Blackburn Vs QPR match threads
at 18:29 29 Aug 2026
As Blackburn beat Boro and drew at Wolves, I have to admit that was a good win despite my reservations last week that we still have bad habits. One of these faults has been when we win away, we don't win the next game at home. Once again we face a team up from league 1 so this time there must be no slip ups like Bolton who lost at home to Lincoln today. Then we have Boro who have wiped the floor with us on their previous two visits. They were saying earlier that Boro had £33 million pounds of talent on the subs bench against WBA. Not bad for a club with no parachute money so let's see if we can get our home form up and running.
You don't expect me to get carried away now do you even with two away wins from being behind?  |
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Reply | A concert six months from now – Report
at 14:15 24 Aug 2026
I guess it's a flaw in my character as I am not so optimistic things are getting any better as the early signs are different season same old crap. Can't win a London derby, check. Can't win a cup tie, check. Can't win a home game early in season against a newly promoted team, check. Can't win a game with more possession, check. Can't put their laces through the ball with shots, check. As the game goes on we get worse after making subs, check. All the usual boxes we have ticked in previous seasons still very much in evidence after just three games.
It is very possible that Bolton is one of the easier home fixtures and we botched it. We should dominate a team who came up via the play offs on our own pitch which we did but no end product. We have failed to win these type of games in the last few years against league 1 new arrivals and gone on to have wretched home form. I sincerely hope this is not another season to follow suit.
Anyone who watched the Brentford game Saturday will have seen when Brentford players wellied shots at the Spurs goal, the keeper palmed shots straight back in the danger zone. Two of the goals came from fierce shots that the keeper couldn't set himself in time and was not able to turn the shots wide of the goal. Contrast that with our powder puff efforts that the Bolton keeper had to deal with. Our players need some practice in kicking a ball for starters.
Anyway that's my words of caution about us and the prospects of improvement as I still see some same old failings affecting our game. I hope they prove me wrong as the season develops to justify optimism of fellow fans but as Northen suggests, only time will tell. |
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Reply | R's Taking the Michael of Bolton, QPR vs Bolton Wanderers Match Thread
at 19:28 22 Aug 2026
Absolutely this. Today just seemed to mirror previous seasons, a struggle to beat a newly promoted side, plenty of opportunities but make their keeper look good with poorly connected strikes on goal. When we do have good positions a reluctance to shoot let's the opponents escape.
The excellent match report for Portsmouth suggested our three goals were rubbish in terms of the actual quality of the strikes on goal. This is true, none of them were clean strikes of the ball. Sure they went in but the shots were, if you can call them that, not clean connections and rather scuffed rather like the penalty shoot out with Millwall. Early evidence suggests we need a lot of work on shooting and get their foot through the ball.
So two home games and one own goal for us which threatens to derail our potential if forwards can't kick a football properly. I hope I am wrong but early signs suggest we may have to rely on away wins to keep us up the table in keeping with recent seasons. On paper at least, Bolton should be one of the easier home games but no goals to show for it. We should dominate at home against a side up from league 1 but troubling we could not score for all the good approach play. |
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Reply | We are the record holders!
at 18:04 8 Aug 2026
True, all fair points. Is it a new record for consecutive penalty saves though? Still seems incredible to have four consecutive penalties saved even if we ain't bothered about the cup. The bigger picture is once again we lose to Millwall in the record books and are still pants in derby matches. Hopefully we will carry more of a threat in the league. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 18:34 23 May 2026
That's 6 points we won't get next season. And we have been picking up nil points against Boro in recent times. Oh well roll on season 26-27... |
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Reply | Saints charged with spying
at 17:36 20 May 2026
Quite. Why would you even need to spy on Oxford? I would expect them to spy on all their promotion rivals. I must say though that Southampton were swiftly punished while nothing happens to megabucks Man City in the Premiership. |
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Reply | Sweaty socks
at 23:31 17 May 2026
With around four decades of the title going to a Glasgow club you can't expect the SPL wanting that to change. It is traditional that nobody outside of Glasgow wins the league so VAR is now a useful tool to ensure the status quo.
The reality this season is for much of it, the Old Firm have been a shambles with failed managers. Even St Mirren beat Celtic 3-1 in a cup final. What is soul destroying is despite the Glasgow teams being incompetent for much of the season allowing Hearts an 8 point lead, Celtic still won it. No doubt if O'Neil wasn't there they would not have been champions. |
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Reply | 50 years ago today..... 4th May 1976 Wolves v Liverpool
at 22:30 4 May 2026
It was the mental torture inflicted on us having to wait 10 days to find out if we would be champions and then agonising if Wolves would hang on and reaching 75 minutes and it then all collapsed on us. It has been painful ever since following this club knowing we won't be in that position ever again. |
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Reply | QPR play the perfect promotion party guest once more – Report
at 16:37 4 May 2026
I have to agree with Northern to exclude Hull. I excluded them from the 33 goals we conceded to the top 5. If you want to count Hull then that is fine as we did win but still conceded 3 in the process so 36 shipped to the top 6, nearly half the goals we conceded all season to just six clubs.
Anyway the reason I excluded Hull and focused on the top five, was simply because only the top five were in the hunt for automatic promotion. Hull could easily have been replaced by Derby or Wrexham on the final day for the last play off spot. There was a gap between fifth and the rest so clearly the top five were a cut above. I can't speak for Northern but understand why he would look at the gap between us and Middlesbrough of 22 points. Neither club has parachute money but a huge difference on the pitch.
It is interesting some think we have improved but the final league table doesn't lie that it was negligible on previous seasons. If you want to see an example of an on field improvement then Hull is it. Nearly relegated last season, yet this season they spent most of the season in a play off place and just about stayed there until the last few games before snatching 6th back. |
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