Pre-Season Friendlies

Well if we didn't have many last season it coincided with our worst ever start and we had a manager who clearly hadn't recognised that the system he wanted to play wouldn't work. Alarm bells are therefore ringing given we have even less games this year.

Don’t football clubs usually announce any behind closed doors games as well though? So surely we’d have heard about them already

But hopefully it will be more than just 4!

I see that the club are hiding behind more smoke and mirrors by only saying the game ended level. They obviousliy don't want to publish the actual score in case we all get scared. It's either ended 0 -0 because we don't have any strikers or it's ended 10 - 10 and all our new defenders have turned out to be useless. At least if it was the latter score we should have unearthed a goal scorer!

Hmm

Hall Scowen and Furlong are the only players left who have played 50+ games for QPR

We now have a bunch of strangers trying to play in no doubt a new system that Warburton wants to introduce.

When will the club learn that changing the system and players so drastically does not work it will take us until Christmas to iron out all the problems, and by then it my be too late.

   

So we only have 3 players who have made 50 or more appearances and I doubt any of them will get a starting place in the team that plays Stoke on the opening day of the season.

Hopefully the current tour to Austria is the start of the bonding sessions that the squad will need to get to know each other. As you rightly say it's the on pitch understanding that is the prime concern and as mentioned elsewhere by northwesthoop it's a bit surprising we haven't arranged a few more friendlies. 

The lack of a goalscorer or two has been an issue for several seasons and this year it's even more concerning because the 5  main goal scorers from last season are no longer at the club. We can only hope that discussions are happening to bring in some hot pot strikers but whether we could afford to buy one let alone two is negligible. I suspect that we will end trying to loan a couple of strikers from the Premier League. 

I couldn't agree more northwesthoop. As a club we dont seem to learn the lessons of previous seasons.