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The man who increased ticket prices by a phenomenal amount after promotion back to The Championship (League One at the time).
That doesn't mean that he didn't know anything about football, but I feel that due to Paladini & "the guns in the boardroom" he has been given a pass for his stewardship.
As you know, I can usually follow & understand your financial breakdown, but you've surpassed that this year! From memory, this was the easiest set of figures you've produced to understand.
What genuinely surprises me is that many people don't have any interest in League, but have some knowledge of Union. At least, the Six Nations.
Look at any game from either code & I can't understand how anyone doesn't think that League is faster & more skilful. And you don't waste half the playing time in mauls, rucks, scrums, throw ins!
So it doesn't include that Norwich took 6 points off of Rangers when they were in 23rd position.
I do agree though that it isn't the very top teams that we tend to do better against. In my mind it's the teams that we are close to in the table, as Leicester were at the time.
In the same way as I'm appalled at the ground being called "Loftus", I'm in a minority (perhaps of one) at the club being referred to as QPR!
When I started following the club almost everyone called us Queens Park Rangers or Rangers. You were going down The Bush or going down the Rangers, never going down to QPR.
It was the 1967 League Cup Final that introduced this abomination when The Football League adverised it as "The Alphabet Final". I've used the initials in songs/chants etc, but I'd be surprised if you found any post from me using them. Apart from to moan about them being used!
For my part, I've seen many a season over the decades that a team (not just Rangers) has gone through the motions when midtable & out of all Cup competitions. Especially prior to the introduction of the play offs.
The 1969-70 season is an example of this as nobody (players, club & a lot of fans) gave a toss after the defeat to Chelsea in the FA Cup. That side had experienced players like Marsh, Bridges, Venables, Harris & Ferguson in it. Do I like it? No. Do I understand it? Yes.
Hopefully we've not finished this season yet, but I'm not expecting to see a surge up the league table.
I 'm not someone who "slags him off regardless", so perhaps I shouldn't answer your question, but I weill.
Where would we be without the imjuries in the league? Top half , three or so points below the play off positions. Even if everyone was available, we don't have enough good players at the club to be higher.
You have constantly posted that we have nowhere near the creation needed in midfield to improve us to that extent. I agree with you! Who do we have at the club that would change this? Chair is the only possibility from those that we have used. Morgan has regressed from last season (maybe due to his lack of minutes, maybe second seasonitis etc), but to counter that, Madsen has improved our creativity a lot from last season.
Personally, I think attitude has a lot to do with our performances & the gulf between our best & worst. Whether, that is mainly down to players, football management or club executives I have no idea.
What is required for next season depends on what is the aim of where to finish.
I would say that we have only five players (Dunne, Madsen, Chair, Burrell & Kone) that MIGHT be good enough for a top six position, with the rest being middle Championship players at best.
Where I think we need to change is signing different types of players for the same poition, rather than our four "wingers" who are very similar.
I'm sure that the injuries contributed to the delay of the subs, but they shouldn't have! Make the three changes you were going to make & take the injured player of later if need be. Kone & Madsen were not going to be the ones replaced!
We also delayed the subs a third time so that we could take a "long " throw with the current players on the pitch. I'm sorry, but the delay & not making the changes at half time, was poor management.
I couldn't tell from the Upper Loft, but I'm told that the Hayden caution yesterday was bordering on being a sending off. What are the views of those of you that were closer to the "challenge"?
As far as the match went yesterday, I assume we were surprised that Blackburn played the ball on the ground rather than to our defensive strengths. The game also highlighted (again) that we don't have a wide player above mid Championship standard. I'm not including Chair in this as he is a very different type of player to the others.
The biggest problem to me though, is that we gave the same "performance" as we have against all the teams near the bottom of the league. Is this because we're not good enough to impose ourselves on them? Or because we think we think we can beat them with minimal effort?
I do expect that we will perform better in the next few games than yesterday as they are against better teams!
He also gave it away at the start of their move for the first goal. Admittedly, Norrington-Davies, Cook & Dunne were equally woeful for the goal.
I still can't believe he was on the pitch for the whole game. Personally, I thought he should have been taken off at half time along with Bennie & Cook.
A very enjoyable Podcast, especially the last twenty minutes when discussing the ambition needed to win football matches.
I also liked the discusssion on our goalkeepers & was reminded that this is a position where we've had a lot of mediocrity in the past sixty years! Watching an over the hill Ron Springett, Mike Kelly & Alan Spratley in the late sixties should have been enough of a warning to me of what I should expect!
I would suggest that Alex Smithies (who I liked a lot), being in our top five (possibly) in my lifetime tells us all we need to know about the position.
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