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Thread | Caption Competition
at 14:17 22 Mar 2025
'Even if I was offside again, rock beats scissors, doesn't it?' [Post edited 22 Mar 14:18]
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Reply | A turn of Frey's
at 17:02 20 Mar 2025
I don't get what it is about Frey and his legs 'going'. Where the fcuk are they going, and why? He's 30, not 38, and in fact, according to his Wiki stats, he's played fewer than 300 games in his whole career (including barely 70 apps in 3 years with Royal Antwerp and his loan club before he rocked up in W12). Considering he told us humself when he arrived physical hustle/hard work is a big part of his game, take that away, and what have you got exactly? He's not exactly a technician or a fox in the box, is he?
It's the same thing with Andersen, who's the same age as Frey but looks (and often plays) like he's come out of retirement to take part in exhibition games.
I know we've been stretched in both positions, and I know one or both may have shown glimpses - Andersen looked fleetingly silky and swashbuckling when he arrived, and Frey's scored a smallish handful of goals - but surely Marti can see they're not what we need.
I'll say it again: Both need to be moved on in the summer and replaced with upgrades if we're to aspire higher than 16th for the first time in years! [Post edited 20 Mar 17:03]
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Reply | Dave Thomas
at 16:51 20 Mar 2025
Sending you blessings, Dave, from one Thomas to another. Very much enjoyed my little spell of writing for the splendiferous AKUTRs under your editorship. Hurry back (but not too fast)! |
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Reply | Liverpool Newcastle Cup Final
at 22:52 18 Mar 2025
'Look at his face! Just look at his face!'
'Interesting! Very interesting!'
'Poor old Southampton just don't know what day it is! Oh, look at that! It's almost cruel!' |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 14:46 18 Mar 2025
For what's it worth, and of course we're all just speculating as usual, I don't think Marti will go (or not yet at least) as he hopefully has enough humility to realsie he is still trying to prove himself at a half-decent level in the Champ - and the 'project' is clearly far from finished at QPR. I thyink he as a lot of the makings, but if he feels he'd be happier elsewhere, so be it - adios! |
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Reply | (No subject)
at 12:39 18 Mar 2025
All very sensible and balanced, let down only by your continued misapprehension (despite clear messages from both Nourry and Marti himself) that Marti doesn't have a significant input on all incoming players, even if CN signs them off. It's mystifying how anyone feels the manager wouldn't be pivotal to the building of his own squad! Otherwise, I couldn't have put your post better myself.
As for nuance, that poster (and his simplistic ilk) who tried to have a go at me lately for cultivating complexity will no doubt have you in his sights too, which tells one of course that one is doing something right. Keep pushing the nuances against the black and white thinkers on here who mainly just baa like sheep, brother! [Post edited 18 Mar 14:41]
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 23:01 17 Mar 2025
Saito has been defending Japanese dietary habits, quoting the Nagano proverb: 'Don't feed your wife autumn monkey – to do so would be to waste a fine-tasting delicacy.' It started as a joke, but Chair got a bit stroppy when he was fasting for Ramadan, and it all kicked off on the dressing room floor.
Frey accidentally poked Nardi in the eye when he was doing his unicorn schtick on the back seat of the team bus, and Paul now refuses to room with him on away trips, telling anyone who'll listen it's the real reason he can't kick straight.
Colback put Yang in a headlock after Jimmy D tricked him into calling Jack a ginger ninja, telling him it was a compliment in English. Marti had to break up some fisticuffs and got a knee in the groin for his trouble.
I can't identify my sources but can confirm it clearly all proves that Nourry is the devil's spawn, and everything wrong at the club is down to him, even when it isn't. [Post edited 18 Mar 10:50]
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Reply | A turn of Frey's
at 18:15 17 Mar 2025
But would you trust Marti, Belk, and Nourry to do it? Their record in the market so far hardly convinces me. |
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 14:59 16 Mar 2025
Not forgetting a sprinkling of malice, scapegoating, and self-righteousness. |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 14:55 16 Mar 2025
Annoying comments! Why this need for professional football clubs/managers to allude murkily to clandestine doings? I think it's just a rhetorical tactic to make them look like they're doing better than they are. He's done it before, and it gets on my tits.
Just front up, deal with what's been happening/not happening on the pitch, and rein it in with the smoke and mirrors, Marti! |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's draw
at 14:51 16 Mar 2025
He hustles and bustles, but that was about it yesterday. What's the point of working hard (which is the minimum anyway) if you can't/don't shoot, win headers, hold t/he ball up, or lay it off? Not good enough, not fit enough, and just not enough unless we want to stat the bottom half Champ team we seem to have become. [Post edited 16 Mar 14:56]
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 14:46 16 Mar 2025
Colback's good when he's good and gives us some good glue, but his lack of availablity, whether injury- or card-induced, really brings down his value and is a persistent headache. Marti and the club will take their view on him for next year, but a lot depends on who comes in if we shake hands. |
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Reply | Steve Cook...
at 14:43 16 Mar 2025
Unless his injury is catastrophic, I think he should be retained for another year at least, especially given the fragility of JCS. |
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 14:40 16 Mar 2025
Well, as I live in Ireland, it nearly always is ;-) And, like the Jesus and Mary Chain, I'm often happy when it rains!
However, today, it's lovely ultraviolet sunshine over at beautiful Loughrea, which I'm soaking up for my sins. |
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 14:39 16 Mar 2025
No he didn't, no it wouldn't, and your cynicism (more 'taking one for the team' guff, even though he'll now be out for 3 important games at a time we've also lost Chair for Lord knows how long) is as tedious as it is short-sighted. I'm a big Saito fan, but that was stupid and malicious. Still, if it offers the usual suspects yet more twisted ammo somehow to scapegoat Paal for somone else's red card, I'm sure all's well in their little world. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's draw
at 20:18 15 Mar 2025
Correct! Either Marti's got an incredibly low bar for Frey, or he's desperate to keep him onside (metaphorically speaking). He was like playing with 10 men today. |
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Reply | Leeds Reflection
at 20:05 15 Mar 2025
Oh, take a chill pill, and lighten up, you self-righteous bore! Have you never heard of tongues and cheeks? It was a kung fu chop like Cantona's attack was a kung fu chop! Like it would be a kung fu chop if I'd run on the pitch and committed the foul myself. Does that help make things clearer?
Otherwise, by all means go on trying to make me into someone I'm not out of your ongoing vendetta against me (which you're obviously determined not to scrutinise)! |
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Reply | First Head Over The Parapet Leeds Match Thread
at 15:27 15 Mar 2025
Yeah, I was watching on a stream (with multiple replays/angles on key moments), and I draw an opinion based on watching QPR (in person and not) for nearly 50 years, but obviously my view is worthless on that basis, and I must bend the knee to your oracular truth-telling.
More pathetic snobbery/entitlement from the self-appointed 'live' crowd. Give us a break! |
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Reply | First Head Over The Parapet Leeds Match Thread
at 15:25 15 Mar 2025
So what? He couldn't trap the ball, lay it off, head it, or trouble the keeper, and topped it all off with a yellow card for shirt-grabbing in his frustration. Apart from that, you're right, he was mint! |
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