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Post by obk on Jan 12, 2013 13:25:28 GMT
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Post by obk on Jan 12, 2013 13:04:46 GMT
Yes, stripes is the correct word. At the moment I would say we are the fake hoops
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Post by obk on Jan 12, 2013 12:42:11 GMT
Swedish tv-"experts" thinks our starting 11 is "logical", apart from Hill for whom they don't have much faith.
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Post by obk on Jan 12, 2013 8:32:20 GMT
One question: Why do we have scouts when we obviously are looking at 1. players Harry knows since before 2. the other players we are looking at are well known players who don't want to come here???
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Post by obk on Jan 11, 2013 7:42:15 GMT
Am I the only person here thinking that that its just the same sh*t different day. That we are going to end up again with more overpaid under achieving players, that will again end up p*ssing off our underpaid over achievers. This Habib Habibou bloke. Is it true he had a trial with Brighton last season? If so they obviously didn't rate him then. But now we do? Also Redknapp surely couldn't have seriously expected to stand a chance in hell with 90% of the targets that has been suggested was on his list. FFS! Even on Football Manager it allows you to exclude unrealistic targets. No idea about Habib (at least he is only 25) but yes, seems just like more of the same!
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Post by obk on Jan 10, 2013 10:05:28 GMT
Keep up the good work, your work is very important both to supporters and club (even if the board doesn't realize this!).
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Post by obk on Jan 10, 2013 7:07:22 GMT
Forest seem to like our out of favour keepers, until they go out of favour there as well...Thought Camp had done well there, but haven't been following Forest that close.
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Post by obk on Jan 9, 2013 20:58:45 GMT
Always project. I believe there are no football clubs any longer, only projects.
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Post by obk on Jan 9, 2013 20:56:29 GMT
Good player Olsson and just what we need big strong brave and a threat from dead balls i always thought of him as a premier league version of Gorrks. Im sure Harry wanted him at spurs at 1 point so i guess this could be on. As for the 2 forwards Habib looks a handfull and Gouffran is real quality. I'd guess if we could get these 3 and the lyon fullback then try and get the swap deal for M'vila done Redknapp would think he wouldn't need anymore. Olsson is also a swede, big plus in my book
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Post by obk on Jan 9, 2013 18:23:41 GMT
Depends on the average american football fan and how they look at other nations leagues with world class players playing and look at their own with world class cast offs, how long would they want to put up with that, unless MLS clubs find a raft of young american world class talent that would turn the MLS into a world class league and not a retirement home. It all prob depends on how long fans are prepared to put up with has beens. If you look at our club, the fans here are fed up with the has beens wev'e been hiring and the owner has been getting a lot of stick over it. average fan in North America does support winners abroad; there is a lot of truth to that; just about every person I know that follows English soccer is a fan of one of the big 6 teams; City, United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, or Tottenham; i'll point out there was one team last year in MLS that had an average attendance that was higher than the capacity of 14 of the 20 EPL stadiums there are still a lot of things that need to change in the sport over here, but there has been a consistent, small incremental growth going on for 7 years now; its not perfect, but for us fans, the big draw is having your own local team to support and call your own Your posts provide good insight into football/soccer across the pond. Hopefully you'll do well with Nelsen. I've had a swedish interest in New York since Backe has been there, but apparently he is not going to get a new contract. Will have to turn to LA Galaxy to see how Christian Wilhelmsson gets on.
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Post by obk on Jan 8, 2013 18:58:22 GMT
Or in the Championship - where players would die for a chance to play in the Premiership - even if turned out for only half a season Why, that would be a sensible approach, won't happen at QPR!
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Post by obk on Jan 8, 2013 18:55:51 GMT
Looks as if Nelsen is going to stay on for a while to help the club according to the press conference in canada. Good on im. Yes, then all would be fine.
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Post by obk on Jan 8, 2013 18:43:23 GMT
I’m amazed at some of the comments about Ryan Nelsen. He is one of the few players that we have who has always put in a shift and he has performed far better than expected. Up until a few days ago he was a shoe-in for Player of the Year and now has become, in some eyes, a greedy mercenary just here to line his pockets for minimum effort. Did you actually see him play? Did you see him throw himself in front of shots with no thoughts of personal safety? Remember “he defends on his own”?
So someone has quit his employment because he was offered a better job, what’s new? Maybe Redknapp has already told him that his contract was not going to be extended past the end of the season. Who here would not change their job if a better one with longer term security was offered? Yes, I’m disappointed too, but big enough to thank him for his unstinting efforts and wish him every success in the future. It is because he has been one of the very few pros in the squad that I feel so betrayed and let down. He knows what situation we are in and how important he is to us. He earns big money playing for us and let's face it this will hardly be his one and only chance at a manager job. He has been a good player for us, but in the end nothing more than a mercenary. Of course, going on what little I know. Could be Redknapp has told him, "I'm bringing others in you're out" or something.
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Post by obk on Jan 8, 2013 5:49:54 GMT
Well, if we replace mercenary Nelsen (with cpr on this one), please could we sign someone not yet 30 years of age? A centre back doing well in the Championship perhaps?
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Post by obk on Jan 5, 2013 18:59:16 GMT
Then you lower the prices...bring in more people That is if you understand football fans and/or you learn from your mistakes. Buying a grands worth of drinks at the pub does not a good chairman make. True, let's say the lowered the adult prices to 15£ and got perhaps 2000-3000 more in attendance. They would get alot more food and drink sales, plus a better match day experience for both players and fans. And not least important, they would also get some goodwill.
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Post by obk on Jan 5, 2013 17:56:00 GMT
A good draw, scoring like that should boost confidence, replay or not! Can I borrow your rose-coloured glasses? ;D Usually though, those glasses are painted black....
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Post by obk on Jan 5, 2013 16:56:57 GMT
A good draw, scoring like that should boost confidence, replay or not!
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Post by obk on Jan 5, 2013 12:41:00 GMT
Expect the unexpected, that's always been my qpr mantra, sometimes good sometimes bad. Well put, hopefully we can bump this thread and say we made it! I think he is a stupid person but probably right in what he says this time. But hopefully I'm wrong.
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Post by obk on Jan 4, 2013 8:46:12 GMT
So he seems to suggest only 2 teams will be relegated this year...and we're supposed to take him seriously? I suppose you jest, but anyway he clearly sees Reading and QPR to be almost certain for relegation. The third spot there is a fight to avoid. Otherwise I'm afraid he is correct. But as you probably know by now, I'm a glass half empty sort of man.
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Post by obk on Jan 3, 2013 19:38:08 GMT
Our only hope is that less than 40 points will be enough. Lets see what happens during the first half of january. If Harry has actually got the team together and get a string of results, by all means keep them and maybe even buy a player or two that Harry wants.
But, if we continue to play like we have most of the season, under Harry included, then I think we would actually stand a better chance of surviving if we could somehow get hungrier but perhaps not as skilled players in instead of the "stars" we have now.
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Post by obk on Jan 3, 2013 12:43:13 GMT
Just about worth £55. Now I hope I don't hear any more fans saying we need to rebuild for the Championshp in the next few weeks! Sadly I still think the wise thing would be to rebuild for the Championship. As Mac has said we need the form of a top 6 team for the rest of the season to be able to stay up. To get to the 40 point safety mark we need 9 wins out of 17 matches! We have played decently well against most top teams but failed horribly in matches we should be able to win. And to be honest, even if it is great to win against Chelsea (makes a relegation season almost ok), can you really say we deserved to win yesterday? Yes the players fought well and played as a team, but Chelsea still had the most chances and deserved at least a draw. We can't expect to get away with that every week, or even in 9 of 17 matches. So, yes rebuild for Championship!
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Post by obk on Jan 2, 2013 21:46:30 GMT
Finally some spirit in the team. Just when you thought all hope was lost, and an away win against Chelsea almost makes the season
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Post by obk on Jan 2, 2013 12:32:57 GMT
Cesar has been pretty good, but not as good as expected perhaps? Apart from that minor thing, a superb article all based on common sense...you would think someone at the club should have some common sense, no? Or it is as bad as Ingham sometimes suggests it might be
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Post by obk on Jan 2, 2013 10:30:55 GMT
I for one am happy about having DJ back. Should at least be a player that cares about the club.
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Post by obk on Dec 31, 2012 14:55:16 GMT
Pommy, Cisse is a strange one. Last year he was great and kept scoring, not so this season though and running offside all the time. Perhaps the service for him is worse as well, but he has been like this much of his career very much up and down. He is hardly the worst of them all.
I don't defend Hill per se, I just think it was about time that someone told how it is in the dressing room. Ideally this would be the manager and Harry has hinted at it, which would perhaps make Hills comments not so good when it comes to timing.
Usually I would be very upset with anyone talking like Hill does to the press and not keeping it in the dressing room. For me though, a big part of the team are just clownes to me and need to be shamed.
I probably feel like this because I really had big hopes for this season!
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Post by obk on Dec 31, 2012 12:56:11 GMT
No, he isn't good enough. Too slow. But, for once, I agree about someone speaking out publicly about our problems. In another thread someone said half our squad are hard working footballers who are sadly not good enough (Hill etc), the other half have the abilities but are primadonnas only looking out for themselves and obviously not caring about the club. That is pretty much spot on imo.
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Post by obk on Dec 31, 2012 11:12:20 GMT
To be honest I still don't believe the answer is to sack managers...still think we should have kept Warnock! On the other hand, when we were losing like we did I don't think there was much of an alternative to sack Hughes...even if I was almost as reluctant as Fernandez to give him the sack I wonder though, will Harry go down to the Championship with us and try to rebuild?
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Post by obk on Dec 31, 2012 11:00:30 GMT
In fairness to Clint Hill, he does say on the BBC that he's tried having a word in the dressing room with the players he feels are letting us down, but they obviously have not responded: "As much as I can, I've spoken to those players. I'm 34, I've played most of my career in the lower leagues and we are talking about Champions League winners, people who have won Premier Leagues, FA Cups."Maybe he feels keeping it in the dressing room hasn't worked and publicly expressing it will have a positive effect. I understand his frustration totally. I don't understand his frustration at all, a limited player who's basically finished but playing due to the failure of a manager/owner to bring in premier league central defenders. Probably more understandable is superior footballers not listening to him. Ability is what is required in this league, grit and determination is not. Also what is more understandable to me is the lack of management skills that means you cannot get the best out of better footballers. I would personally prefer 10 Taarabt's on the pitch than 10 Hills but that's only my opinion on how I'd like to see us playing. You're wrong, Hill is right and this is the time to state the truth about our shambles of a squad. F*** off to all the primadonnas. You are right in that Taarabt has more ability than Hill, but then I don't see Taarabt as our biggest problem.
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Post by obk on Dec 31, 2012 10:56:30 GMT
Crazy carzy crazy to spend MORE money now! I would be ok with spending some of the money Harry would be able to get from player sales, no more than that.
And even then I would hope those changes would lead to a lower wage bill. Problem is, who could he sell? Well I would guess Faurlin, Taarabt, Mackie, Granero and probably Cisse. Maybe Julio an Hoilett as well.
Can't see anyone wanting to buy Green, Boswinga, SWP, our crocked forwards or others.
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Post by obk on Dec 30, 2012 17:46:48 GMT
Well, I think Granero is just as suited as Silva. The only problem is we didn't actually know why we're getting him (a REAL player available?!? ambitious, get him!) and he didn't really understand why he's joining us either (Premiership? Maybe I'll give it a go if they pay me ridiculous money...). If we had Michu we would probably waste his goalscoring talent somewhere deep in central midfield... He's (Granero) a great passer with good vision. In other words, a guy capable of creating chances; and we're not creating enough of them. Maybe Harry sees him as another Taarabt and cannot afford to have two at the same time; but it's disappointing to waste such talent on the bench, even if it's obvious he isn't a natural relegation dogfighter. We can always sell him in Summer. But yeah, we could also invest these 7 million in a striker now. Question is what CAN we get in this window. I can totally see him leaving for Spurs or Swansea and becoming a Premierleague superstar... Good call! We shouldn't "invest money" in anyone. Or rather we should sell in january, if someone wants our overpaid has beens and save the money to keep the club from going bust. We could perhaps use half of what we sell for to buy decent Championship players. Sadly the players we probably could get rid of are the ones we would like to stay edit: sorry for being so miserable.
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