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Reply | Unbeaten away, struggling at home
at 15:52 13 Oct 2026
Yeah hear what you are saying. We certainly saw in the Warbs era that “looking after the football” (ie passing it slightly nervously back and forth across the back line) didn’t achieve all that much.
The issue tho is different one: how do we break down teams who simply don’t want the ball and sit back? |
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Reply | Unbeaten away, struggling at home
at 15:28 13 Oct 2026
again it’s not shitting any bed; it’s just pointing out that for more than a season now we have had an issue with teams near the foot of the table who sit deep and let us come on to them.
I already said in the OP i’m excited about how the season could go and how there is so much to like about this team, but also concerned that this (along with injuries) could see us falling short of the clear potential and abilities this time has at its best.
If you don’t see any issue here then fine mate |
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Reply | The Starting XI v Derby I think JS will select
at 13:16 13 Oct 2026
Adamson has come on leaps and bounds defensively.
Just wonder if Mbengue gets the nod at home as sometimes good driving forwards (albeit even he doesn’t always seem to know what will follow….) |
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Reply | Injuries
at 13:09 13 Oct 2026
I just don’t agree mate. If we just played players without rotating I think our injuries would be even worse. JCS has never played more than 30 odd games a season and he is 28. The reason why we still have him fit is prob in part because we are resting him in 3 game weeks. Poku is v injury prone, needs kid gloves. Smyth runs v explosively and was getting knocked about a lot mid week. With the benefit of hiindsight we could argue about Kember sure but he stays on, aggregates the groin strain he picked up in the first half and we are without a recognised left back tmrw- then fans wd complain about that too.
Without access to the in play data the backroom staff and coaches have I just don’t see how fans can be quite so definite about how the club should be handling substitutions and rotations differently. |
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Reply | Unbeaten away, struggling at home
at 12:58 13 Oct 2026
Don’t think fans are wetting too many nappies but fail to beat Derby then on top of Bolton and Preston a pattern starts to emerge. Not beating a team when we have over half the possession for 18 months or whatever it is has to be at least a mild concern, surely? At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, with 3 points for a win, an unheralded 3 scruffy points against Derby at home so much more important than a high profile point at WHU |
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Reply | keeper
at 17:37 12 Oct 2026
He is just SO much better than anyone we are likely to get the danger is that this season is the high water mark for us. God knows how many goals to the good we will be thanks to him (at both ends) by the end of the season if he carries on in this form. I'm not just talking goalkeepers, any signing in any position, really hard to see one making such an impact for us as Charles is already doing, he transforms the entire way we can play. Assuming we don't have him next season, that's going to be a massive void to fill. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 17:31 12 Oct 2026
Performance team enjoying too much clout?
Think its very hard to reach that conclusion from the outside.
Beale ruined Willock's career.
Stephan seemed to be calling the shots last year on selection and it was no surprise to me when Burrell did his hamstring because he was clearly being massively over-played (albeit Stephan had very few other options).
The danger of fans assessing things like this is we always react to the last game. Fans are disappointed because the performance-led substitutions cost us againsr the Hammers.
But overplay certain players and that's them out for 3/4 months. Loosing key players for that length of time (Chair for instance) is costing us a lot more points than two points (arguably) lost against West Ham. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 22:14 11 Oct 2026
No worries. And for the record, if you do think the club is badly run, that is your prerogative.
I just assumed you thought the club WAS badly run by the seemingly clear implication of your rugby league comparison, and I was interested if you thought that given you spend a lot of time thinking about QPR.
What I am trying to tease out is that given most of us agree we do have an injury issue, what is the specific cause?
We can’t just say “it’s all the fault of Nourry” or “let’s blame Bicycle Ben” (even if I didn’t warm to him much in that fans forum a year or two ago).
It shouldn’t be about name calling or innuendo; I would hope the club is looking objectively about this behind the scenes (and not just producing dodgy stats to suggest the situation is somehow fine).
Is it about recruitment?
Is it simply bad luck?
Are there particular tweaks we could do to our fitness regime to improve availability?
At the moment it seems to be a) the injury situation is terrible, but b) nobody has produced a smoking gun to explain why. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 16:47 11 Oct 2026
So you think we are still badly run? |
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Reply | QPR Loan Watch 2026-27
at 15:58 11 Oct 2026
Let’s assess at the end of the season (it is v early days) but IF the likes of Morgan can’t get at least, say, 20 games in a team in the division below us that perhaps starts to tell you what you need to know, sadly. And it might then be a case of trying to sell some of these players for fairly modest amounts to L1 and L2 clubs. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 15:45 11 Oct 2026
The record is horrific, no question.
But last season the one clearly “unique” thing we did (as far as I’m aware) was apparently to give players a “soft” pre-season in the hope they would gain peak fitness a bit later, and supposedly be stronger to see out the business end of the season. So much for theories, it was widely ridiculed, clearly unsuccessful and APPARENTLY abandoned.
Fans seemed pretty agreed the first few games of this season that our players seemed much fitter than the start of last season - and stats showed they were running more than other teams and looking stronger towards the end of games.
So if it IS something we are doing to the players when we get them, what is it?
Because it’s nothing obvious to me.
I actually wonder if it’s more the type of players we buy. Big guys like Jimmy and Ronnie look extremely resilient. As to maybe a slightly lesser extent do either tall players like Madders or fairly muscular ones like Mbengue.
A lot of the injured players are these small, nippy winger and full back types.
Maybe they have to be smaller for speed?
But perhaps in the Champ you are better off with six foot four brick out houses (so Kember types rather than Lampetys).
Obvs it’s not always as simple as that (Kember has also been injured for example) but en masse the Dembele, Saito, Poku type signing hasn’t really worked for us simply because they are not available enough.
My hunch (and that’s all it can be) is that this might have more of an impact than anything the physios are doing, but who knows…? |
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Reply | Injuries
at 23:50 10 Oct 2026
Can’t really argue with that.
But is it the players we sign or what we do to them once we are here? |
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Thread | Unbeaten away, struggling at home
at 12:56 10 Oct 2026
Struggling to assess where we are.
We are unbeaten away because that defensive nucleus of Dunne, JCS and Ronnie in front of Prince Charles must be as good as any in the league. Really superb, and in turn protected by Madsen and Kamara who is a revelation in being able to get us up the pitch.
Smyth is also an unsung hero at just driving us forward and relieving pressure.
If we can get draws at the likes of WH and WBA with the occasional 3 points away at teams we get on the break that is more than good enough in terms of away form.
But I honestly don’t know where we will pick up enough wins if we can’t beat those “lesser” teams at home when we have more than 50% possession.
Will enough goals come at home?
We are creating chances but maybe our strikers just not clinical enough?
Can Madsen recapture a bit of that sparkle from last season and really boss a game?
If Chair comes back and Poku continues to grow, might we be OK?
At around the 10 game mark am cautiously optimistic, even excited, but I can’t honestly predict where we finish with even vague accuracy. |
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Reply | Blowing Bubbles Up The R's Match Thread
at 12:40 10 Oct 2026
Last night I felt much like you about the subs but having slept on it not sure Stéphan made obviously bad calls in real time.
With the injuries he had, there were just so few options and some players were out on their feet.
Mbengue and Kone are usually starters so he should be able to rely on them.
Lamptey has looked a class above previously but wasn’t right last night even before his injury. If fit he will prob come into his own in home matches where we want to take it to the opposition. Kember best player on the pitch until he went off. |
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Reply | Blowing Bubbles Up The R's Match Thread
at 22:27 9 Oct 2026
Kember the beast going off changed the game. Even before he got injured Lampty didn’t look fit.
But Charles, Dunne, JCS and Ronnie restricted them to only a few shots all game which is an incredible achievement away to West Ham.
Kamara faded second half but first half it was a joy to have a midfielder able to turn with the ball.
Hopefully Kolli will learn from that and how he needs to work to hold the ball up, but obvs incredibly hard when you are isolated against 3 West Ham players probably worth as much as our stadium. |
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Reply | Do We Know the Injured Players That Might Be Back for West Ham?
at 14:23 8 Oct 2026
Its looking a bit bleak for West Ham, particularly up front.
I'm guessing its going to have to be something like:
Charles
Lampety* Dunne JCS Adamson**
Madsen Edwards***
Poku Vale Smyth****
Lloyd
*Replaced by Mbenge at half time/ 60 mins or vice versa
** Maybe replaced by Kember after 60 mins
*** Assuming Kamara banned
**** Maybe Koki will be challenging Smyth but Smyth earned a start and better centrally IMHO. |
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