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Post by marshbowles10 on Aug 14, 2017 7:35:01 GMT
......just for a few days and until reality returns us from this parallel universe, this is the time to bask in the sunshine.
It could not be much better than this.
A very satisfactory home win against a team that were one of the favourites for promotion. Forget it was Northampton and forget perhaps we didn't deserve it, but we actually won a cup game. A decent result against Sheffield Wednesday another club that just might have promotion aspirations. Life has started well in this part of West London.
It makes it even more satisfying that our near neighbours had 2 men sent off and lost their opener.
Monday morning and a smile on my QPR face........doesn't happen that often but boy lets wear that smile........until Wednesday at the very least and hopefully longer.
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Post by terryb on Aug 14, 2017 7:56:12 GMT
......just for a few days and until reality returns us from this parallel universe, this is the time to bask in the sunshine. It could not be much better than this. A very satisfactory home win against a team that were one of the favourites for promotion. Forget it was Northampton and forget perhaps we didn't deserve it, but we actually won a cup game. A decent result against Sheffield Wednesday another club that just might have promotion aspirations. Life has started well in this part of West London. It makes it even more satisfying that our near neighbours had 2 men sent off and lost their opener. Monday morning and a smile on my QPR face........doesn't happen that often but boy lets wear that smile........until Wednesday at the very least and hopefully longer. Wednesday night. I supose that we will have to see what the Norwich reaction is to their defeat yesterday. I can't remember losing when I've been midweek to Norfolk, or perhaps it is selective memory! A boring 0-0 in 1973 (typical Saunders type of game) & a Martin Rowlands goal in a ten man win.
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Post by harr on Aug 14, 2017 8:29:04 GMT
......just for a few days and until reality returns us from this parallel universe, this is the time to bask in the sunshine. It could not be much better than this. A very satisfactory home win against a team that were one of the favourites for promotion. Forget it was Northampton and forget perhaps we didn't deserve it, but we actually won a cup game. A decent result against Sheffield Wednesday another club that just might have promotion aspirations. Life has started well in this part of West London. It makes it even more satisfying that our near neighbours had 2 men sent off and lost their opener. Monday morning and a smile on my QPR face........doesn't happen that often but boy lets wear that smile........until Wednesday at the very least and hopefully longer. Wednesday night. I supose that we will have to see what the Norwich reaction is to their defeat yesterday. I can't remember losing when I've been midweek to Norfolk, or perhaps it is selective memory! A boring 0-0 in 1973 (typical Saunders type of game) & a Martin Rowlands goal in a ten man win. I never went to that away win in 2009 when Rowlands scored, think Dowie was the manager at the time. Remember listening to the game on the radio that night and when Connolly got sent off early after about 15-20 mins I feared the worse. But it was a really gutsy performance that night, really great to listen too even though I wasn't there. 4 points from the first three gates has been grand, anything we can pick up over these next three tough games is a bonus. If we could win one of the Norwich,Hull or Cardiff games, I would have bit your arm off to have 7 points on the board after those 5 first tricky fixtures.
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Post by Ashdown_Ranger on Aug 14, 2017 8:31:29 GMT
Thursday morning, the smile will be even wider, as we bask in the glow of an away win at Norwich. I think the Canaries are flapping, not sure their new manager has settled and we're on a roll, in teams' faces - I'm confident of 3 points Wednesday night.
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Post by bowranger on Aug 14, 2017 9:09:13 GMT
Winning at home, winning a cup game, drawing an away game against one of the better teams in the league. Really happy with that.
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Post by Macmoish on Aug 14, 2017 9:50:06 GMT
I think there are a lot of teams of roughly equivalence. What you can't buy - and is worth points in itself - is the confidence you get from a good start And the knowledge that promotion is possible and worth chasing - itself a boost
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Post by bowranger on Aug 14, 2017 12:49:20 GMT
I think there are a lot of teams of roughly equivalence. What you can't buy - and is worth points in itself - is the confidence you get from a good start And the knowledge that promotion is possible and worth chasing - itself a boost Definitely and I think the promotion thing is interesting because part of that is down to how we deal with that aspiration as fans. Reminds me of the interview Baptiste gave recently when he arrived. Interviewer essentially saying it's a re-building season and him saying that he's always going to be aiming for promotion because as a footballer in this league, doing as well as possible is the right mentality. It's not a promise and it's certainly not very realistic but the momentum of good results and always aspiring high is, like you say, a boost in itself. So even if we all know going up is really far against the odds and we keep that expectation in check, it's nice to know the players are hopefully always going to be gunning for the very top regardless. For all the strengths and weaknesses in our squad this season, I don't look at that set of players and think any of them aren't here to work hard and try. The roughly equivalent teams is also something I see a lot of in the Championship. There'll always be some teams a league ahead of the rest of the pack but it's easy to forget that there's plenty of dross in this division, particularly when you consider how competitive the play-offs were last season and how a lot of the teams who do well do so essentially by having a good year with a settled team, a settled system of play and simply managed to put a decent run together. I feel like our league gets over-complicated/over-egged by pundits who barely watch it talking about how it's "the most exciting division" - yeah, maybe for the last few weeks of the season! But they're not sitting through Birmingham v Barnsley or Burton away to Barnsley week in and week out. It's mostly a bloody slog of a division most of the time!
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Post by egranger on Aug 14, 2017 12:50:40 GMT
A great start to the season - haven't we always considered Norwich a bogey team going back as far as 1976? That said I still predict a win on Wednesday as IH goes out to prove all the doubters wrong
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Post by bowranger on Aug 14, 2017 12:56:00 GMT
A great start to the season - haven't we always considered Norwich a bogey team going back as far as 1976? That said I still predict a win on Wednesday as IH goes out to prove all the doubters wrong I always consider them a bogey team, though mostly because the last time I went Norwich away it was New Year's Day, I'd fallen out with my partner during the evening, the trains were messed up so I had to rush and get a bus replacement on about two hours sleep, threw up in a bin en-route, the game was crap and we lost 1-0 AND I was travelling with a Norwich supporting mate so he was an absolute joy to deal with on the way home.
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Post by Ashdown_Ranger on Aug 14, 2017 13:50:19 GMT
A great start to the season - haven't we always considered Norwich a bogey team going back as far as 1976? That said I still predict a win on Wednesday as IH goes out to prove all the doubters wrong I always consider them a bogey team, though mostly because the last time I went Norwich away it was New Year's Day, I'd fallen out with my partner during the evening, the trains were messed up so I had to rush and get a bus replacement on about two hours sleep, threw up in a bin en-route, the game was crap and we lost 1-0 AND I was travelling with a Norwich supporting mate so he was an absolute joy to deal with on the way home. Well Bow, given the theme of this thread, you could look at your New Year's Day experiences in a positive light. The year could only possibly have gotten better for you (hope it did anyway...)!
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Post by bowranger on Aug 14, 2017 14:24:04 GMT
I always consider them a bogey team, though mostly because the last time I went Norwich away it was New Year's Day, I'd fallen out with my partner during the evening, the trains were messed up so I had to rush and get a bus replacement on about two hours sleep, threw up in a bin en-route, the game was crap and we lost 1-0 AND I was travelling with a Norwich supporting mate so he was an absolute joy to deal with on the way home. Well Bow, given the theme of this thread, you could look at your New Year's Day experiences in a positive light. The year could only possibly have gotten better for you (hope it did anyway...)! Haha true, it probably did, but it had a pretty low bar for that first 24 hours.!
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