QPR v PNE Friday 7Apr23 0 - 2 FT 21st/42pts

I Felt very optimistic going into this game. We had our strongest team playing apart from the possible exception of Clarke-Salter. The same team were top of the championship and we were all dreaming of at least a playoff place.  Maybe we were a little bias as how good our team was but it was fun a the time.  I do not think that our 1st team is as bad as our league position. but all the injuries have taken there toll. and the biggest problem now is the lack of confidence.

We created very little against a very competitive Preston side that new how to work the ref. Chair Willock and Johansen are on longer working the little triangles that made some of the teams in the early games look silly.

This IS the same group of players and they should be playing at a much higher level. I am no longer very optimistic of staying up but anybody that thinks it is better to go down and rebuild is kidding themselves. I would be disastrous !

Lower income. selling off our better players at a knockdown price to reduce the pay load. and playing teams that will fancy there chances against a bunch of flash harries from the championship. There is no guarantees that we will bounce straight back up and the longer it takes the harder it will be.

We need to get some of the swagger of the early games back but that will be extremely difficult. we need a lucky break. A ball going in off a Knee. Charging down a clearance from the goalkeeper and then it rebounding in. I am keeping my fingers cross but it is now getting painful. Can I please have my old team back.