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Post by Macmoish on May 17, 2023 21:01:03 GMT
Amazing (and good for football)
Coventry just beat Boro and will play Luton
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Post by rickyqpr on May 18, 2023 7:44:12 GMT
I hope Coventry win. They have done so well (as begrudgingly have Luton). Both have very good managers, buy sensibly and modestly, and operate as a team and not as individuals.
I guess we need to keep the faith - it can be done!
Copied over from another thread:
In May 2013, Luton won the Conference League with 101 points. Andre Grey was their top scorer with 38 goals.
QPR finished bottom of the Prem in May 2013. Redknapp (who had replaced Hughes) was the manager. The club made a loss of £65m with a wage bill of £68m that season. The following year QPR splashed the cash again to win the play-off final against Derby. But Redknapp was gone early 2015, with Les Ferdinand appointed February 2015 to try to bring some footballing sense to the club’s crazy expenditure.
So QPR were 4 leagues higher than Luton in 2012/13. They were 3 leagues higher in 2014/15.
QPR were close to being 2 leagues lower than Luton for 2023/24.
Meanwhile, back in 2014, Coventry City were losing to non-league Worcester City in the cup and were playing their home games at Northampton’s Sixfields stadium.
Their nomad existence continued on and off until 2020 and their takeover was only completed earlier this year. At the start of the current season, their playing surface was substandard, and they had to postpone their home games, leading the club to be stranded at the foot of the division.
Coventry or Luton will be playing Premier League football next season.
QPR will be embarking on a big rebuilding of their squad.
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Post by harr on May 18, 2023 7:57:50 GMT
(QPR will be embarking on a big rebuilding of their squad.) Yet again and there lies the problem.
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Post by robindubois on May 18, 2023 13:23:36 GMT
(QPR will be embarking on a big rebuilding of their squad.) Yet again and there lies the problem. I think there is preceding problem. Take Coventry for example - they have had Mark Robins as manager since 2017 and stuck by him. They have been patient and let him build a team and improve on it slowly at low cost and are now near reaping the reward. In that same period how managers have we had, how impatient have the fans and owners been for success. Look back on posts even on this board from the last couple of months and you see a stream of self perpetuating calls for clearing out the team, management and even the owners (how?) and starting again. The same can be seen many times in recent years. Maybe the people calling for constant change will now earn but maybe they just see Luton and Coventry briefly, criticise us for not doing the same but by Christmas will be back on calling for heads to roll if things are not going well. I would dare to say there are a few kettles calling the pot black. I posted this before but if we keep Dieng, Dickie, Dunne, Clarke-Slater Paal Field Richards Chair Willooc and Dykes. we have 9 players as a core squad capable of doing a good job as a team in the Championship. Add in a bit of pace up front or whatever Ainsworth thinks we need and there is no need for big rebuilding. The most important big rebuilding I see is a change in attitude, commitment effort, fitness and tactics and I think when Ainsworth talks about wanting big changes he has those things in mind probably just as much as personnel change. Of course that is unlikely to happen. New manager will want his own men, some players will want to go and we are back to another "rebuild"- with no cash to use to do it. Pity we cannot afford free agent James Milner for a season long contract, getting on at 37 but great leader by example who would sort a few people out, especially if he came as player/coach. Brighton are lining him up for another year in the PL according to reports. |
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Post by harr on May 19, 2023 7:02:52 GMT
Well Peterboro let a 4-0 leg slip away and lost to Sheff Weds on pens with a play off final place at stake to get in the Championship.
I’m not a lover of Peterboro owners so can’t say I’m unhappy about this, would have stopped us losing twice to them as well.
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Post by londonranger on May 19, 2023 11:07:02 GMT
Coventry were in the old First Division for over 30 yrs.
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Post by sharky on May 27, 2023 16:22:35 GMT
Luton all over Coventry like a rash in the first half
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Post by Lonegunmen on May 27, 2023 17:59:21 GMT
Extra Time.
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Post by blatantfowl on May 27, 2023 18:49:44 GMT
It’s Luton
Yuk
6-5 on penalties. What an awful moment for Dabo to miss a penalty worth £180m
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Post by nomar on May 27, 2023 18:51:10 GMT
Actually really happy with that result. Hope they go and bloody a few noses up there too! |
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Post by Lonegunmen on May 27, 2023 19:17:13 GMT
If they are allowed in to the EPL. Their ground needs some serious work and they have 3 months to do it.
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Post by Macmoish on May 27, 2023 21:17:40 GMT
Think it shows (again) how much QPR owners have failed...And how blaming FFP and small stadium is shown up
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Post by Lonegunmen on May 27, 2023 22:54:53 GMT
Luton have dropped into the Conference and bounced back up to play in the EPL. and we've done......? Gone through more managers than a hooker on a Saturday night.
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