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Post by Marc on Mar 29, 2024 14:01:50 GMT
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Post by gladstone on Mar 29, 2024 17:01:28 GMT
YES 👏🏻
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Post by sharky on Mar 29, 2024 17:03:16 GMT
3 very valuable points!!!!!
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Post by nomar on Mar 29, 2024 17:03:29 GMT
That was some strike by Dunne.
Breathing space for us too.
Hopefully we can start pulling away now and leave the relegation candidates behind.
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Post by Marc on Mar 29, 2024 17:18:41 GMT
QPR 2-1 Birmingham
Saints 12-4 Wigan
If Carlsberg made Good Fridays!
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Post by harr on Mar 29, 2024 17:21:09 GMT
Fantastic effort, solid performance.
What’s that 2 defeats in 12.
Marti is God.
Just need to keep it going for 7 matches.
See if we can pinch a point at Swansea for a great Easter
Only downside today was Stoke winning but everything else good day for Hoops
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Post by Marc on Mar 29, 2024 17:54:37 GMT
Ipswich currently 1-0 up at Blackburn
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Post by spanishal on Mar 29, 2024 18:15:23 GMT
Was always going to take something special to win this and boy did we deliver. Back on earth I think Anderson was not on song today and once again we missed chance after chance despite the apparent emphasis on it at the training ground. For Brum thought Sanderson played really well and definitely saved their bacon on a couple of occasions. End to end stuff,very entertaining and at last a great result.
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Post by rickyqpr on Mar 29, 2024 20:21:30 GMT
We deserved the victory, but there was a degree of good fortune about both our goals.
The ref really didn't help today, and when he awarded Brum a freekick on the edge of the box in injury time, the feeling in the stadium was one of inevitability - our season about to be decided by a dubious decision. He then wasted two minutes messing around before it could be taken. The relief when they messed it up could be measured, but then just seconds later we had taken the lead. Probably the most dynamic couple of minutes I can remember at QPR for a very long time.
The reaction to the goal was just incredible - the place erupted and the extended celebration only added to the scheduled 6 minutes. The stadium was still packed as the team did a second lap - with Jimmy Dunne hailed the all-conquering hero.
But today was all about why we go to football. To savour moments like that.
At the other end of the ground it must have been a dagger through the heart....
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Post by rickyqpr on Mar 30, 2024 9:26:02 GMT
Yeah, the morning after and the relief and euphoria lives on. Just hope that we do not do what we did following the WBA performance and turn up knackered for the next one!
Clearly, if we could finish better, there would not have been a need for Dunne's goal of the season. Anderson had his poorest game, hitting the bar and missing another, but he is the one that has made the huge difference. Anderson for Dozzell has been a sea change.
But we could have easily lost yesterday. The weakest link is Begovic. He puts the fear into the crowd and his teammates.
It really has been a long season for him - and one too many - surely, he knows that it is time to retire.
For such an experienced keeper, he seems to get so much wrong.
Yesterday, the Steve Cook 'own goal' was crazy. He had to go home or concede a corner, he chose home and Begovic whose positioning was madness. He scrambled it away, but his feet were all over the place. Not for the first time, Cook had a go at him. N.B. Cook himself had some rushes of blood himself in the first half.
From corners, balls flash across the box without Begovic taking control, opposition know to put a man on him to block him.
When he comes for it, he needs to get it, but yesterday, his success rate was poor again.
His distribution is shocking. In the warm up, the 3 keepers work on distribution, and Asmir's accuracy is the poorest of the three. Interesting that Archer is no where to be seen now - it is Walsh and Salamon. Salamon looks useful.
For their goal, it was placed in the usual Begovic corner - to his left. It was a decent hit, but his feet are so slow that he is never going to get there.
I am not sure if the problem is that our cover is no better, or that Marti values, or sees something that I do not. But we are not safe, and he is an accident waiting to happen.
With regard to the 4 ex-QPR players at Brum:
Laird - had the best game, he consistently out jumped Paal, and not many do that. He got an assist for the goal. He was played very far forward, but did not use the turn of speed he has very much. He was always a decent player if he was not sitting down asking to be subbed.
Sanderson - he had quite a strange game - just like most of his games for QPR. Quite talented, defended well, but always looks like he has a mistake in him, so worth pressurising. That is what Armstrong did when he came on, and it led to the Dunne wonder goal.
Roberts - Ran around a lot. Fouled a lot, should have been booked long before he was. Got a great jeer when his shot went for a throw in.
Dozzell - Unfortunately, unable to play as on loan. Could have helped our cause greatly had he played.
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Post by robindubois on Mar 31, 2024 13:04:42 GMT
Depressing read Ricky.
Marti has said he will rotate on Monday - I'm sure there were a couple of knocks that will not recover in time and he is fully aware of the need for fresh legs with the run of games to come. Just hope the key players keep going but the Brum game would have been very tiring both physically and mentally so he has a big job to do to get them back up for Swansea.
Re Begovic, Marti has explained a few times why he plays him and I think we have to trust in that for the rest of the season.
We were between a rock and a hard place when we signed him and I'm sure Archer would have been worse. I am also sure that during the summer Marti will be making more changes and a new keeper will be one of them. It could be one of the 2 younger ones we have on the books now. But the thought of dropping Begovic and throwing in an untried untested young keeper for the least 7 games run in would be unbelievable and could even destroy who ever took over if he made a mistake to get us relegated.
We have now reached crunch time. With the few games left we can expect someone to hit a good run someone to hit a bad run and a few 6 pointers to come. Hitting a bad run gives no time to recover and fight back. We are not safe yet but at least we are alive and not bottom of the table as we would have been with Ainsworth. We control our own fate so not the time to start running down our own players as not good enough. We can sort that out in the summer when we know where we will be playing.
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Post by harr on Mar 31, 2024 15:11:16 GMT
4 points from the next three games please, let’s get 47 points with 4 games to play
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Post by hitmanrangers on Mar 31, 2024 20:06:09 GMT
Depressing read Ricky. Marti has said he will rotate on Monday - I'm sure there were a couple of knocks that will not recover in time and he is fully aware of the need for fresh legs with the run of games to come. Just hope the key players keep going but the Brum game would have been very tiring both physically and mentally so he has a big job to do to get them back up for Swansea. Re Begovic, Marti has explained a few times why he plays him and I think we have to trust in that for the rest of the season. We were between a rock and a hard place when we signed him and I'm sure Archer would have been worse. I am also sure that during the summer Marti will be making more changes and a new keeper will be one of them. It could be one of the 2 younger ones we have on the books now. But the thought of dropping Begovic and throwing in an untried untested young keeper for the least 7 games run in would be unbelievable and could even destroy who ever took over if he made a mistake to get us relegated. We have now reached crunch time. With the few games left we can expect someone to hit a good run someone to hit a bad run and a few 6 pointers to come. Hitting a bad run gives no time to recover and fight back. We are not safe yet but at least we are alive and not bottom of the table as we would have been with Ainsworth. We control our own fate so not the time to start running down our own players as not good enough. We can sort that out in the summer when we know where we will be playing. I am expecting the midfield and attack will get rotated but the same back 4, even Cook, should be able to play tomorrow with no fatigue concerns. I think it will be Dykes for Frey, then Chair, Hodge and Anderson behind him with Colback and Field sitting deep. Off to the game in the morning so hoping for another 3 points! |
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