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Post by rangerjake on Jul 31, 2017 16:21:39 GMT
I'll take a pass on Hoban.
Last thing we need is another player we can't get fit.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 29, 2017 15:49:26 GMT
You can see how he wouldn't endear himself to a guy like Ollie.
He goes to ground easily. Always looking for the foul but for me he just has a nose for goal and we're desperate for that.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 29, 2017 15:16:13 GMT
Ollie doesn't fancy Sylla.
His only skill is scoring goals where we value "putting yourself about" and "dying for the shirt" above all else.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 29, 2017 14:45:37 GMT
I'll take a hard pass on Perch playing in a back three thank you very much.
Midfield looks decent IMO, Mass playing in a more advanced role which is good to see.
Still lack a cutting edge.
Need a CB and a striker, I would settle for Bogle.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 24, 2017 15:19:47 GMT
Maybe Sylla is Ollies "bomb". No disrespect to anyone on this board but with all the hype, badly worded misleading management statements (eg bombs), press speculation and unfounded social media frenzy I have given up expecting or believing anything until it actually happens. I know what I think may happen (based purely on personal observations) and I think Sylla may well leave because of the reasons stated in my previous post. I also believe it will be a mistake for the club if he goes. If Sylla is unhappy we need to ask the question why? The answer (imo) is simple - the way he has been treated publically by management and because he is not being played and he wants to play football As I have said before Sylla is a goal poacher who comes alive in the 6 yard box and his game is not based on endless running, playing out wide, and chasing back. That is quite often the case with goal poachers but that does not fit not Ollies idea of a good player. If all the rumours of him wanting out are true, is leaving Sylla out of a pre-season squad the best way to put him in the shop window and sell him? Does telling the world he is lazy etc help to attract interest and push up his transfer fee? Common sense should answer the questions. If Stam at Reading is interested in Sylla there is a reason - Stam is far more astute than our management. Personally I would prefer to have Sylla play 40 odd "lazy" games and score 20 goals than watch headless chicken Mackie play 40 odd games (if he can stay fit that long) run 4o marathons in the process and score one goal. I think Ollie would not even sign Charlie (if he was available) Charlie did put himself about but not to the levels that Ollie demands. I have said it before and been criticised for saying it but our approach is out of balance (imo) with too much emphasis on effort and running and not enough on skill and quality. If and when we get that balance right we will do better but I have my doubts if we will reach that balance under Ollie and Bircham. I would love to be proved wrong but if I am not proved wrong we will hit Novemeber with the usual "change the manager" hype. Then I will find myself defending Ollie only because we need stability, whatever the outcome, and not another year of "everybody change please" IMO we are a top 6 team in the "Putting yourself about/die for the shirt" table. In the league table on the other hand, where you have to actually score goals to win games, we'll be lucky to avoid relegation. As Clive correctly pointed out on Loft for Words Sylla's return on a per minute basis is better than a lot of strikers most supporters would welcome to the club with open arms. Only front men like Chris Wood, Dwight Gayle and the £15 million Britt Assombalonga did better despite the fact that he was playing in a new league, learning a new language and playing for a coach who threw him under every bus, train or other conveyance that came anywhere neat the W12. If you ask me (and I am admittedly far from an expert) he is a technically limited player with a nose for goal and that's what we need. Despite our pathetic displays in this regard last year I think players like Wszolek, Freeman and Manning could get him some decent supply and if you tucked Washington in behind him and let him play he could probably score you 15 or 20 goals in a season. Add in 10 or 12 from Washington feeding off his scraps and you're headed in the right direction.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 24, 2017 14:11:13 GMT
I have to say those first half ratings seem awfully kind. I thought we looked awful.
Much better in the second half. Pawel and Freeman clearly a class above.
Wouldn't mind seeing them on either wing with Yeni in the mix as well. Then Manning and Luongo in the center of midfield with Hall playing his hybrid position as well if he ever gets fit.
What we do with the other 900 midfielders we have and the two or three more we seem destined to sign before the window closes I have no idea. That can play with the U23's I guess.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 23, 2017 13:05:31 GMT
Pretty poor first half.
Best part of the commentary was when we were told that "on another day" it could be 2-2 or 3-2 to the R's it's just that for some strange reason Greco-Cox missed two sitters. I can't imagine why? Maybe it's because he plays for QPR and so is pathologically incapable of taking his chances.
It's like if my nan had balls she'd be my granddad. Actually scoring goals is a pretty critical part of the process.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 22, 2017 15:54:17 GMT
Watched Brentford-S'hampton live on You Tube instead.
Brace for Charlie.
Brentford should finish comfortably above us.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 17, 2017 17:11:28 GMT
Every time I see an article linking us with someone in the transfer market it's with a midfielder.
I'm baffled by this as we have signed loads of mids in the last couple of years (see list below).
Actually as I see it this just a list of the central midfielders, I've left out N'Gbakoto and Wszolek as they are clearly wingers. I've also left of Grant Hall in his duel central defender/midfielder roll.
So this is essentially 8 guys for 2 positions depending in the set up I guess?
As an excerise, and since I don't get to see the team as much living overseas as I do, can commenters tell what kind of midfielder they think each of these players is? Defensive, attacking, box-to-box, ball winning etc and so on. I would be interested to hear people's takes.
Thanks
Luke Freeman Ariel Borysiuk Jordan Cousins Sean Goss Massimo Luongo Michael Petrasso Ryan Manning Josh Scowen
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 15, 2017 15:39:04 GMT
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 15, 2017 14:50:27 GMT
I don't take it as a great sign that the name I'm hearing the most is Mackie.
I LOVE Jamie, he works so hard, and the one good run we had in the latter half of last season was largely down to him IMO.
That said a 31-year-old journeyman is not a player that's going to carry us into a brighter future.
Hoping to hear more from Manning and Washington.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 12, 2017 14:54:02 GMT
I'm coming around to this being a good thing.
We've been revamping the team every transfer window for years now and throwing the players the last manager, or the manager before him, signed into the waste bin to start all over again.
This is unsustainable and it needs to stop, maybe it has. If they haven't performed IMO it isn't that they can't play.
Luongo is a regular international for a World Cup level team, Cousins (though injured) clearly has the ability to play at this level. Freeman, Wszolek, Manning, Scowan, Sylla, N'Gbakoto, Smithies, Ingram these are good players who should be capable of competing at Championship level if they are properly organized and get good coaching and the leadership the levels above that is competent as well.
What we don't need (again in IMO) is 4 more midfield castoff from Ligue 2 and articles about what a great pre-season we had and how fit the lads are. As much of a legend as Ollie is I just don't know if he is what we need at this point. What we need is someone who can take the many professional, international footballers on our roster and turn them into a team that can compete in the upper half of the league and get them to the point where, when the winter transfer window rolls around, we just need to find that one missing piece not re-make the entire team AGAIN!
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 6, 2017 15:48:41 GMT
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 6, 2017 12:15:44 GMT
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 5, 2017 18:31:55 GMT
God I hope I'm wrong, but this season already has the distinct aroma of a November sacking followed by lots of talk of letting someone (player or manager) "bed in" and we need 12 more transfer windows to get the right mix.
It's exhausting, it really is.
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Post by rangerjake on Jul 5, 2017 16:11:00 GMT
I was thinking we might struggle to make mid-table this season, but now that I've seen this article on the official about the "Hill of Hell" I reckon we're nailed on for a top two spot as fit as we'll be. They actually swam back from Portugal instead of flying. Lost Sean Goss somewhere off the coast of Guernsey I understand, but the guys who made it back can run for days. "The work they've done is more than any other squad I've had at this stage of pre-season." says everyone who ever managed a football team, in this case Ian Holloway. "Diabolical fit delighted right type, lads lads lads," the Rangers skipper continued. "Togetherness, embraced, fitness top notch." www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/the-hill-of-hell-gallery/
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Post by rangerjake on Jun 22, 2017 21:52:15 GMT
I feel like last year they signed two or three people right out of the box. Like as soon as the season ended.
I remember people commenting on how heartening it was that we were getting our business done early.
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Post by rangerjake on Jun 22, 2017 16:41:54 GMT
West London Sport has had the same top story about Bowler for like two weeks.
We're really burning up the transfer market.
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Post by rangerjake on Jun 13, 2017 18:44:24 GMT
We'll manage to botch it I'm sure..
Judging off the Pickford number I would say we should certainly break our previous record of £12 million for Samba, maybe £15 million?
But being as we are QPR there will be some sort of previously unknown clause or we'll miss a deadline and he'll go on a free.
I'll say we should get £15 but we'll end up with £8 million.
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Post by rangerjake on Jun 6, 2017 13:53:07 GMT
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Post by rangerjake on Jun 1, 2017 18:24:36 GMT
QPR offer Bowler long-term deal and reject latest Everton bid www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/football-news-everton-josh-bowler-latest-contract-010617Of all the young players I thought we might be fighting to keep this off-season (Furlong, Manning) Josh Bowler would not have been on the list because I LITERALLY HAD NEVER HEARD OF HIM before he came on against Norwich. Am I wrong to be suspicious? I'm not sure of what exactly, I just am.
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Post by rangerjake on May 9, 2017 21:07:42 GMT
LFW on the Norwich defeat..
"People have spent the evening at Sweatbox Soho and not been bummed as much as this"
He's really quite good. Is this the only thing he does or is a pro?
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Post by rangerjake on May 7, 2017 13:20:49 GMT
IMO another game that we can all conveniently write off as not that important because we're "safe", but just generally contributes to the rot at the club.
Let me tell you Rangers are a lot a lot of things, but safe isn't one of them, no matter what the table says.
Don't worry though, another ruthless pre-season on the way full of bulls*%t platitudes about fitness and locker room atmosphere, then a tepid start to the season and Mark Whatburton holding our scarf aloft by October/November...and the cycle begins again.
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Post by rangerjake on Apr 22, 2017 15:44:24 GMT
Bristol City both ahead and will go above us.
Honestly it's all I can do not to scream at the top of my f-ing lungs.
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Post by rangerjake on Apr 22, 2017 15:26:20 GMT
3-1...absolutely worthless
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Post by rangerjake on Apr 22, 2017 15:23:33 GMT
And there it is 2-0 to Brentford
They might as well blow the whistle and let everyone get started home.
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Post by rangerjake on Apr 22, 2017 15:03:27 GMT
As we are only capable one goal, best we can do now is a draw.
What an unbelievable pile of hot garbage we are. And I'm so looking forward to doing it again next year when we sack Ollie in October.
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Post by rangerjake on Apr 19, 2017 16:23:50 GMT
What this club (not players mind, but club) needs is an attitude transplant. When you've lost as much as we have in recent years wins matter, no matter where they come from and when. Every game matters in building a winning attitude and an expectation of success.
It seems to me that clubs get stuck in this vicious cycle where they are in a constant state of change and results never matter.
You sack your coach every year at the same time, then claim the results of the 5 or 10 games that follow don't matter because the new guy is getting his feet under him.
Then comes a transfer window and the results of the 5 or 10 games after THAT don't matter because the players have to get "bedded in", one of my least favorite terms in football.
Then once you're "safe" in mid-table the rest of the results don't matter because the manager has to experiment and find his best team.
And of course any cup game doesn't matter because we need to focus on the league.
By the end of the season you've played 50 games, lost 30% more than you've won and you're ready to start the cycle all over again.
It makes me want to pull me hair out.
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Post by rangerjake on Apr 17, 2017 15:57:57 GMT
They should just blow the whistle as soon as we give up the second goal.
Unless we're playing Rotherham two goals is a bridge too far for us, and 3! My god it's hard to even imagine.
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Post by rangerjake on Apr 17, 2017 14:34:04 GMT
1-2
So to draw we'll need our maximum (non-Rotherham) offensive output, 2 goals.
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