Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 19, 2021 4:48:37 GMT

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Post by northwesthoop on Oct 19, 2021 4:48:37 GMT

Great post ranger-boy and you are right to highlight that losing to Fulham is 1) to be expected 2) won't define our season.

It is now about how we respond.

Also worth repeating that 3 of our 4 defeats have come against the top 3 all away from home. That is important context. If we now go on to lose to Blackburn and Peterborough questions can be asked, but as it stands there is no panic.

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 19, 2021 9:50:23 GMT

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Post by jimjams on Oct 19, 2021 9:50:23 GMT

Yes, totally agree.

I predict a lot of goals this evening and I think its important for morale that we come away with a win. Then Peterborough who are no slouches going forward and have strong home support...these are the away games you want to win because Posh are one of the weaker sides that we should be too good for.

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 19, 2021 12:51:02 GMT

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Post by stoatey on Oct 19, 2021 12:51:02 GMT

Oct 18, 2021 22:43:03 GMT ranger-boy said:

It's taken me a couple of days to really clear my head and post some thoughts after that game, I left Craven Cottage wanting to put rocks in my pockets and throw myself in to the Thames.

stoatey the only part I'd disagree with is about Dieng. He made a couple of superb saves to keep the score down, and couldn't really be blamed for any of the goals. It's natural he'll have been a lot busier this season when opposition realise they just have to walk to our RB (whether it be Kakay or Moses) and they're through instantly.

We've shown from our start this season that we have a promising shape of a team who should be looking for a comfortable top half finish, but we're not ready/good enough to go up with how we play against the top sides (West Brom, Bournmouth etc).

One important thing to remember about Fulham is that they should be beating us. They literally have crazy money coming in every year (from winning the play-off final every other year and all of the parachute payments). Their front line against us is probably earning more than our entire squad combined. We literally can not compete with teams like that (although I do fully agree with people saying it would've been nice to make them work hard to earn the win).

One huge positive to mention though is how well we're keeping up our goalscoring run. It at least means we know we're not out of any game when we go 1-0 down, which is a lovely feeling compared to what we've had for years. Go behind and then the opposition are effectively celebrating the win! This new feeling is so much nicer!

We all know the Championship schedule is absolutely ridiculous, but this could be the best thing for us at the moment. We now have 3 games in a week (Blackburn, Peterborough & Sunderland). Win all 3 of those games, and suddenly the Fulham result is forgotten. Thankfully we got the 2 wins before the International break to effectively make this one a free hit.

It's horrible when we lose games like this, but just remember our season won't be defined by losing to teams like Fulham and West Brom.

Whilst Dieng made mistakes against West Brom, Preston and Barnsley I totally agree that on Saturday he had no chance with the goals or that in the game as a whole he made 3 decent saves but my point is more to do with his distribution.

Warburton is very keen that we play out from the back and that the goalkeeper is the starting point of our attack, He made the point when signing Liam Kelly that he wanted a goalkeeper who could pass the ball and help us build things from deep. Not sure that Kelly ever proved that he could pass the ball or was even a confident as a stopper but if that's the Managers tactics then the goalies distribution has to be spot on or you just invite pressure. On Saturday I thought Dieng's passing wasnt great with 12 of his attempts giving possession back to Fulham.

What is probably not helping Diengs confidence is that we are conceding from every other shot and the defenders in front of him are also making mistakes.

Last Edit: Oct 19, 2021 13:27:14 GMT by stoatey

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 19, 2021 18:12:08 GMT

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Post by kingfisher on Oct 19, 2021 18:12:08 GMT

Oct 18, 2021 22:43:03 GMT ranger-boy said:

It's taken me a couple of days to really clear my head and post some thoughts after that game, I left Craven Cottage wanting to put rocks in my pockets and throw myself in to the Thames.

stoatey the only part I'd disagree with is about Dieng. He made a couple of superb saves to keep the score down, and couldn't really be blamed for any of the goals. It's natural he'll have been a lot busier this season when opposition realise they just have to walk to our RB (whether it be Kakay or Moses) and they're through instantly.

We've shown from our start this season that we have a promising shape of a team who should be looking for a comfortable top half finish, but we're not ready/good enough to go up with how we play against the top sides (West Brom, Bournmouth etc).

One important thing to remember about Fulham is that they should be beating us. They literally have crazy money coming in every year (from winning the play-off final every other year and all of the parachute payments). Their front line against us is probably earning more than our entire squad combined. We literally can not compete with teams like that (although I do fully agree with people saying it would've been nice to make them work hard to earn the win).

One huge positive to mention though is how well we're keeping up our goalscoring run. It at least means we know we're not out of any game when we go 1-0 down, which is a lovely feeling compared to what we've had for years. Go behind and then the opposition are effectively celebrating the win! This new feeling is so much nicer!

We all know the Championship schedule is absolutely ridiculous, but this could be the best thing for us at the moment. We now have 3 games in a week (Blackburn, Peterborough & Sunderland). Win all 3 of those games, and suddenly the Fulham result is forgotten. Thankfully we got the 2 wins before the International break to effectively make this one a free hit.

It's horrible when we lose games like this, but just remember our season won't be defined by losing to teams like Fulham and West Brom.

Exactly ranger-boy! (Why I must get you on the podcast!!)

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 19, 2021 21:40:05 GMT

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Post by singlespeed on Oct 19, 2021 21:40:05 GMT

Personally didn’t think Fulham or West Brom looked that good,Bournemouth the only team so far I’ve thought yes maybe they could go up from this league
Fulham are a one trick pony mitrovic and he can’t score in the premier league and that’s why they go down everytime they go up,same with matey from Norwich pukki can’t score in the premier league but will when they are back in the championship next season

Last Edit: Oct 19, 2021 21:42:25 GMT by singlespeed

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 20, 2021 9:08:28 GMT

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Post by kingfisher on Oct 20, 2021 9:08:28 GMT

Oct 19, 2021 21:40:05 GMT singlespeed said:

Personally didn’t think Fulham or West Brom looked that good,Bournemouth the only team so far I’ve thought yes maybe they could go up from this league
Fulham are a one trick pony mitrovic and he can’t score in the premier league and that’s why they go down everytime they go up,same with matey from Norwich pukki can’t score in the premier league but will when they are back in the championship next season

...and none of our strikers would cut the mustard in the PL either!

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 20, 2021 11:07:05 GMT

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Post by stoatey on Oct 20, 2021 11:07:05 GMT

Oct 20, 2021 9:08:28 GMT kingfisher said:

Oct 19, 2021 21:40:05 GMT singlespeed said:

Personally didn’t think Fulham or West Brom looked that good,Bournemouth the only team so far I’ve thought yes maybe they could go up from this league
Fulham are a one trick pony mitrovic and he can’t score in the premier league and that’s why they go down everytime they go up,same with matey from Norwich pukki can’t score in the premier league but will when they are back in the championship next season

...and none of our strikers would cut the mustard in the PL either!

In respect of strikers who are deadly in the Championship but couldnt step up in the Premiership I would add Dwight Gayle. I know Warburton prefers to only sign his mates but I would have much preferred Gayle to Gray.

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 20, 2021 12:52:31 GMT

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Post by singlespeed on Oct 20, 2021 12:52:31 GMT

I too prefer the championship it’s a tighter league and the games are so unpredictable at times
I also used to like league one as we were always going to get promoted no matter how we played
League one had some good crowds too especially at our ground

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 20, 2021 13:34:30 GMT

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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2021 13:34:30 GMT

again agree

it did feel like we were always going to get promoted from league 1

even when we had no team and no money yet we still managed to sign Kevin Gallen, Paul Furlong, Tony Thorpe and Jamie Cureton

not a bad bit of firepower despite financial restrictions

can you imagine what we could have done had we any money???? LOL

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Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th Oct 20, 2021 22:48:58 GMT

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Post by ranger-boy on Oct 20, 2021 22:48:58 GMT

Oct 19, 2021 18:12:08 GMT kingfisher said:

Oct 18, 2021 22:43:03 GMT ranger-boy said:

It's taken me a couple of days to really clear my head and post some thoughts after that game, I left Craven Cottage wanting to put rocks in my pockets and throw myself in to the Thames.

stoatey the only part I'd disagree with is about Dieng. He made a couple of superb saves to keep the score down, and couldn't really be blamed for any of the goals. It's natural he'll have been a lot busier this season when opposition realise they just have to walk to our RB (whether it be Kakay or Moses) and they're through instantly.

We've shown from our start this season that we have a promising shape of a team who should be looking for a comfortable top half finish, but we're not ready/good enough to go up with how we play against the top sides (West Brom, Bournmouth etc).

One important thing to remember about Fulham is that they should be beating us. They literally have crazy money coming in every year (from winning the play-off final every other year and all of the parachute payments). Their front line against us is probably earning more than our entire squad combined. We literally can not compete with teams like that (although I do fully agree with people saying it would've been nice to make them work hard to earn the win).

One huge positive to mention though is how well we're keeping up our goalscoring run. It at least means we know we're not out of any game when we go 1-0 down, which is a lovely feeling compared to what we've had for years. Go behind and then the opposition are effectively celebrating the win! This new feeling is so much nicer!

We all know the Championship schedule is absolutely ridiculous, but this could be the best thing for us at the moment. We now have 3 games in a week (Blackburn, Peterborough & Sunderland). Win all 3 of those games, and suddenly the Fulham result is forgotten. Thankfully we got the 2 wins before the International break to effectively make this one a free hit.

It's horrible when we lose games like this, but just remember our season won't be defined by losing to teams like Fulham and West Brom.

Exactly ranger-boy ! (Why I must get you on the podcast!!)

of course mate any time you want!

I am a QPR fan for life, sometimes happily!

Fulham v QPR 16OCT21 4 - 1 FT 18pts/8th

Post by northwesthoop on Oct 19, 2021 4:48:37 GMT

Post by jimjams on Oct 19, 2021 9:50:23 GMT

Post by stoatey on Oct 19, 2021 12:51:02 GMT

Post by kingfisher on Oct 19, 2021 18:12:08 GMT

Post by singlespeed on Oct 19, 2021 21:40:05 GMT

Post by kingfisher on Oct 20, 2021 9:08:28 GMT

Post by stoatey on Oct 20, 2021 11:07:05 GMT

Post by singlespeed on Oct 20, 2021 12:22:18 GMT

Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2021 12:23:13 GMT

Post by singlespeed on Oct 20, 2021 12:52:31 GMT

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Post by ranger-boy on Oct 20, 2021 22:48:58 GMT