Brentford v QPR 11JAN20 3 - 1 FT

Result as expected
Brentford get their usual 6 points this season
Why the hell has warburton not got any defenders in yet
We are desperate and we have a chance to strengthen
We got Leeds next and they might as well take the 3 points now
Good side Brentford a tidy little club that I’d like us to be like

It all comes down to the 16-45 minute period of the game, where Brentford were given permission to tear us apart. I do agree with stoatey that this has a lot to do with the selection of the starting eleven. I know that we were stretched at CB - but Cameron? Can anyone tell me that Masterson was worse or the same as him when he came on? Can anyone tell me that Cameron's height, passing and tenacity in midfield did not make a difference in the second half (when we were on a par with Brentford)? When I saw the selection I wanted to change my (optimistic) prediction of a 3-2 win because I knew there was no chance with that selection! Aerial battles with that midfield was never going to happen!!

So, onto the selection of both Eze and, his replacement, Chair in the same side. This has also been proven to be risky and, sure enough, it happened. Here I disagree with stoatey in that I felt Eze had a poor day, whilst Chair did work hard and used his energy to prove to be a pain for the Brentford players. I honestly believe that playing both Eze and Chair is a luxury we cannot afford, especially when you are dropping Hugill for one of them. We need to be stretching Brentford - not playing into their strengths! We have reached that time of the season where suspensions and injuries are impacting upon selecting a balanced side, but Warburton chose badly in my opinion for this game...

Talking of which, why was Kelly replaced after his performance? I do not think he did anything wrong and deserved to continue. Instead we had Dumley fluff over kicks and generate anything but confidence! Another poor selection by Warburton for me... 

The last selection problem is not Warbuerton's fault - 100%! This was the most blatant bias by a referee to a home crowd I have seen in a long time. Pushes and hack-downs by Brentford players were ignored, whilst the slightest whiff of contact was usually enough for the ref to award a fould to Brentford, or even a yellow card! If we get such poor officials in the Championship what must it be like in League 1 or League 2!?

Warburton says the first half wasn't acceptable!

Well it was you that picked the team Mr Warburton. If you pick a bloke who has been awful when playing as a Central Defender this season what did you expect to be different?

Mr Warburton tell me this,

What did Wallace do to be dropped today?

Leistner is injured so who do you replace him with, Masterson a central defender who did brilliant last week or a midfielder who has been a liability every time he has played in central defence?

If a team has only 2 fit central defenders (Hall and Masterson in our case) wouldn't it be idiotic to send one of them out on loan?

In the game at LR Chair and Wells were bullied and totally negated by Jansson and Jeanvier. In addition we know from previous games that Wells struggles when playing the loan striker role. This being the case surely we should be starting with Wells and Hugill.

If you decide to go with Wells and Chair as your main strikers it would be stupid to watch your players playing high balls into them, wouldn't it?

Today really highlighted our need for at least one decent central defender as well as a clinical striker. Whether it's in this window or in the summer the club has to recruit. 

I see that Lawrence Shankland scored a hatrick today to get his 25th goal of the season. It really pains me to think we could have got him for free at the start of the summer. 

TF has been a disaster for QPR and whilst he continues to have control then languishing in the bottom half of the Championship is as good as it will get.

We wasn’t moaning last couple of games
The Cardiff and Swansea fans would be like we are tonight
Probably wonder how a poor side like we were today thrashed them now
It’s a reality check and maybe we really did fancy our chances and warburton picked chair because we done well in our last game with him in the side
It was no surprise today and I was more worried trump had started world war 3 this week than football results to be honest
We have to take the rough with the smooth and if you’ve been a QPR fan as long as I have its always been like this and will never change
Take it on the chin lads,and pray we beat Leeds in the next game

It says a lot when the inexperienced Masterson comes on and plays better than the first-choice Cameron; but equally says a lot that Ball coming off to be replaced by Cameron as the DM prop worked better too. Then there was the decision to replace the in-form Kelly with the wobbly Lumley. (There must have been some rationale behind this in regard to Brentford's strikers you would hope?) Add to that the huge mistake of playing Eze as well as Chair, instead of Hugill up front with Wells against the best defence in the Championship, and you have a Warburton c*ck-up! His substitutions were good, although we had lost the game by then! Had we had the right starting XI then this £350k squad could have taken them on and either drawn or lost by a single goal.