bluebruce

Never......

I think the confidence when it comes to scoring has absolutely deserted us. They will know they haven't scored in a club record 5 consecutive games and it will be playing on their minds. They probably also know the huge portion of our goals that have been scored by the guy who is out for a while. They need to overcome that pressure pronto. When we have a strong first half like this, whether we score in it or not, we usually have a much quieter second half.

Struggling to see it. We are the receive-sucker-punch specialists, and QPR are the late-sucker-punch specialists.

His corner and followup were pretty pathetic. He is scaring them with his pace though...well, he was...they probably feel quite relaxed about him getting in behind them now.

WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT?!?!?

Pickering ball watching and didn't pick up Adomah.

Khadra ffs!! Head has gone.

Diaz's transformation is not only a rare occurrence, to go from so poor to so good in a relatively short time, but he was young with room to improve. Gally is 26. His development years are gone and he should now be operating at his peak. He's an unlikely candidate to start rocking up with a ton of goals. Yes, even unlikelier than Diaz was.

Best thing about this is the one guy who is pointing his arrow at the corner flag instead. Must be John Buckley.

If we don't make the playoffs, I want him gone. If we make the playoffs but surrender meekly, I want him gone. If we make the playoffs, but give a good account of ourselves and are unlucky to lose (in the final) I'll think about it. If we get promoted via the playoffs, I will have my doubts about him still, but the only fair thing to do would be to give him a new contract. Top 2 simply isn't happening.

Not a great start. Kaminski looking vulnerable on crosses so far tonight. Good save there though

I understand the temptation to over compensate, but I don't think the solution to our best attacker being out is to go more attacking. We should play to our strengths not our weaknesses, and that's why I'd rather stick with the current approach. At the very least, it has proven hard for teams to break it down. Even with no goals, every clean sheet is a draw. We are bound to nick goals here and there too. I think it's our best chance of sneaking enough points to make the playoffs.

MGP is still playing so should be one of the fittest, therefore would surely start.

Wow, at the start of that post I thought you were going to predict a defeat, something I can't ever remember you doing. But nope.

And they did. They explained that the referee cancelled the match.

Sure, he was just doing his job. If I just do my job and lots of people were affected and think I'm doing it wrong, I'd be obliged to explain why I'm doing what I'm doing. Some overpaid ref, who by the law of averages in this league very likely doesn't do the main parts of his job very well, shouldn't be any different. The club aren't the ones who cancelled it. It's actually them that doesn't owe us squat, at least until we hear from the man who made the decision. If something he says calls into question the professionalism of the club, THEN the club owe us. And before anyone starts, I am far, far from an apologist for the club.

There's a world of difference between the right decision, which is what you said on the post I quoted, and it being the only decision that matters, which is what you're saying now and I fully agree with. Fair enough if you only meant the latter. I think a statement from the ref on why he cancelled it is imperative, just as a basic courtesy to all the fans who have been inconvenienced. It will just be something generic of course and won't change anything, but it's just simple manners. It probably isn't going to happen at this stage.

Wait, so your argument is that the ref making a decision makes it the right decision? I suspect virtually all football fans would disagree with you, as we have seen refs make decisions before...

If we all just accepted things for how they are, we would still be living in mud huts, at best.

Make cogent points, relevant to what you yourself are saying, and the people you're replying to are saying (not just referring to your replies to me, but others too). That's the best advice I can give you. Rare I agree with Mercer, but I do - you can do better. I'm not having a go either, just your points don't track from one second to the next. I've read enough of the thread to know that.

I count 7....which would be 4-10.

That wasn't in the post in which you said 'let me fill you in on the gaps'.

Not sure what gaps that filled in. You merely quoted something you say is well documented, then speculate.

Why the hell did he pick a spot where there was a load of snow to test it when there was still time to scrape that off? I can't tell if it lands on the snow, the grass, or half and half. But either way it clearly wasn't the best spot to pick. Also, that bounce still looks playable to me.

Especially strange since infrastructure costs are exempted from FFP calculations. We are always told they're happy to sign cheques. Well, them not investing heavily in the playing squad can be explained due to FFP, but things like this just show that really, what they're bothered about is losing money hand over fist, and FFP is a convenient excuse.