v Queens Park Rangers (h) - 26/11/25, 19:45 k/o

[London blue]

A very beatable team at home, confidence after a good away win and they serve that shite up.

Of those that featured today, how many should be championship players? Not fucking many.

Fucking dross.

[Torgeir]

Just now, Roverthechimp said:

I remove Pratt from any criticism - thought he was ok throughout. Montgomery not the worst and spent the 2nd half covering for Miler and Alebiosu, Gudjohnsen should have scored but was still getting in the right places and looked like our only hope of a goal.

Rest looked pretty shagged out and generally crap. Subs just crap (ironically Forshaw and Tavares probably the best). Think the substitutions were more precautionary for the coming games than genuinely believing the players coming on could actually do anything of use
 

I agree regarding Pratt, but:

He's obviously playing a very low-risk game, and with McLoughlin in the middle he doesn't quite get the angles he would normally get in the wide LCB position. He's the best passer out of the three CB's tonight, and we struggle to get going when Miller is so sloppy and Pratt plays it so safe.

Disappointing night but didn't think that performance warranted a clean sheet.

[Torgeir]

3 minutes ago, J*B said:

These cannot be your substitutions if you’re trying to change a game. 

Baradji was the only one who half resembled a player. Guess which one we don't own?

[Ferrit]

Tavares will go down as one of the worst signings in the clubs history. Considering some  of the shit we’ve seen, that’s some going

[neophox]

Todd needs to be back on Saturday and hopefully a miracle return from Trondstad 

[TonyM]

Dreadful, just a spineless ineffective performance.

[J*B]

1 minute ago, Torgeir said:

Baradji was the only one who half resembled a player. Guess which one we don't own?

Baradji isn’t good enough. Calling it early. 

[Herbie6590]

Just now, neophox said:

Todd needs to be back on Saturday and hopefully a miracle return from Trondstad 

Andy Todd ? 👀

[Roverthechimp]

1 minute ago, Herbie6590 said:

Andy Todd ? 👀

At this point i'd take Colin...

[Fraserkirky]

QPR well worth their win. We didn't even get started, beaten all over the pitch. Chair, Saito and Dembele, the two squads that played tonight looked a league apart. 

The debacle at CB is there for all to see. Not sure this on Ismael, but he needs to figure out something quick. First half worst half of the season so far, couldnt get the ball.

 

[bazza]

Miller's jet lag clicked in. Ohashi and Morishita are too lightweight for the referees in this league. The ref was poor again; Gueye had every right to complain after he was penalised having been fouled by two of their players.

But Rovers didn't deserve anything from the game. QPR were far better overall.

[LDRover]

2 minutes ago, Roverthechimp said:

At this point i'd take Colin...

I'd take Todd off Corrie. And he plays for the other side...if you know what I mean

[DanielMB]

What’s happened to Axel? Has he been sidelined after his interview?

[Gamst]

Defeat to mediocre opposition at home is really poor. Should be holding out for a draw. The quality on display for both sides was appalling. Surely we have one of the poorest squads in the league and now with a few injuries it’s literally threadbare. A remarkable achievement for our billionaire owners given our 7th place finish last year. Very limited options on the bench. Absolutely no creativity on the pitch with an ageing Forshaw on set pieces. We didn’t look like scoring all night. We have so many matches back to back in the next 4 weeks and it doesn’t seem that any injuries are close to a return. The effort is always there and we just have to hope that it’s enough to get us enough points to scrape by. 

[G Somerset Rover]

7 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Andy Todd ? 👀

He wouldn’t last 2 minutes playing with this current crop without landing one on someone.

[Fraserkirky]

1 minute ago, Gamst said:

Defeat to mediocre opposition at home is really poor. Should be holding out for a draw. The quality on display for both sides was appalling. Surely we have one of the poorest squads in the league and now with a few injuries it’s literally threadbare. A remarkable achievement for our billionaire owners given our 7th place finish last year. Very limited options on the bench. Absolutely no creativity on the pitch with an ageing Forshaw on set pieces. We didn’t look like scoring all night. We have so many matches back to back in the next 4 weeks and it doesn’t seem that any injuries are close to a return. The effort is always there and we just have to hope that it’s enough to get us enough points to scrape by. 

Forshaw on set pieces was some laugh. 

[roversinmyblood]

3 minutes ago, DanielMB said:

What’s happened to Axel? Has he been sidelined after his interview?

Who cares, he’s not good enough. 

[Devon Rover]

3 minutes ago, Gamst said:

Defeat to mediocre opposition at home is really poor. Should be holding out for a draw. The quality on display for both sides was appalling. Surely we have one of the poorest squads in the league and now with a few injuries it’s literally threadbare. A remarkable achievement for our billionaire owners given our 7th place finish last year. Very limited options on the bench. Absolutely no creativity on the pitch with an ageing Forshaw on set pieces. We didn’t look like scoring all night. We have so many matches back to back in the next 4 weeks and it doesn’t seem that any injuries are close to a return. The effort is always there and we just have to hope that it’s enough to get us enough points to scrape by. 

The effort wasn't there from De Neve. He was an utter embarrassment.

[roversfan99]

That team that finished the game was an absolute embarassment. Only Alebiosu would get in any other Championship side. Many others would struggle to get into a League 1 side.

[Blue blood]

After Rovers wearing me down to apathy this season, watching the Preston game revived my interest somewhat.

My biggest question is how on earth are those two performances from the same team? We battered a team in the playoffs yet laboured against a struggling team. Against Preston we played some fantastic football and looked fairly threatening. Today... 

Looking back across the two games as well as being gloriously (horrifically) inconsistent. On reflection though there are probably a few consistencies within our inconsistency. 

1) We aren't ruthless enough. Against Preston we should have won by more. When on top we should get more goals,  when we are struggling we create little and don't have any "something out of nothing"/take the one chance we have.  In wins and losses it feels like we lack a clinical edge. 

2) As everyone knows and has said the squad quality is poor. Too many who aren't cut out for this level making us overly reliant on our best 11 to always be fit and performing at their best. We can't afford to have so many passengers in the squad and the substitutions significantly lower the quality of the team. 

3) We don't seem to defend crosses too well. Preston in their sole 20 min spell had a free header their CB should have got on target. Today was a shambles. Definitely something to work on. 

Not sure #2 is redeemable with Venkys and mid-season.  But 1 and 3 surely can be worked on.

[Miller11]

3 minutes ago, Fraserkirky said:

Forshaw on set pieces was some laugh. 

I don’t know. Forshaw has nearly 100 premier league appearances to his name. Don’t think many other of this cobbled together rag tag bunch have enough quality to do that in their careers.

[Cherry Blue]

As this season goes that was the most disappointing performance.  In fact we were really bad, wrong footed, no ambition and no ideas. 

Some of those young lads our there tonight need a bollocking.

[J*B]

Just now, Miller11 said:

I don’t know. Forshaw has nearly 100 premier league appearances to his name. Don’t think many other of this cobbled together rag tag bunch have enough quality to do that in their careers.

We signed 5 (five) central midfielders this summer and there’s a chance he’s the best of the bunch. 

[Miller11]

Has Ismael blamed the fans yet? They’ve been planting that seed all week.

[Leonard Venkhater]

14 minutes ago, Roverthechimp said:

At this point i'd take Colin...

I'd take Richard