Pre-season matches

Many thanks for the match report stoatey! Sounds like our training has paid dividends as it showed us as having superior fitness? Club stated Sam Field went off with an injury after 5 minutes, which is worrying. Was it serious? 

The Field substitution looked nothing more than a precaution and Marti taking no chances. When Field lwent off he was replaced by Harry Murphy who looked very good. I know the opposition wasn't great and in the heat we were the much fitter team but some of our youngsters looked very good although in that last 15 minutes Lescala were out on their feet.

The only quandary is Sinclair Armstrong who should have been chomping at the bit to score a few goals against sub standard opposition. His miss from a Chair cross was abysmal  because it was easier to put the ball in the net than to actually hit it over the bar.   It seems strange after we win a game 11-0 but we really do need a goal scorer I just can't see Frey or Armstrong getting many goals in the Championship. 

I suppose its no surprise that our best player was Chair. The Lescala players couldn't handle him at all and if he'd wanted he could've scored more but he could see how frustrated Armstrong was getting and kept trying to create chances for the big centre forward.

Very interesting listening to the commentary and to the goalkeepers saying how these matches were for team bonding and employing the Tactics that Marti will be using (as stoatey says above) 

 Psychologically this Girona 2024 Pre Season is exactly what was needed

Next Spurs Reserves for another good win at Home 

The global IT outage could harm the attendance tomorrow as tickets can't get sold.

Whatever happened to paying on the gate.

Now that the Armstrong deal has been confirmed I'd imagine that the Cellar deal will be rubber stamped and he will be introduced asa QPR player before the Spurs game.

Really impressive to sell out a pre-season friendly, billed as against Spurs' development side, especially with the fine weather. I think that is a tribute to Marti's style of play and the optimism he has generated. The Starting XI not having Field (injured) is sad, and Chair's absence is a worry (injured/ off doing community service/ not risked as of interest to a buyer...), but otherwise it is close to last season's line-up. Let's hope Kolli and ED-B do well against what looks to be a star-sprinkled Spurs side. 
Gold strip gets a run out!
Got my QPR+
Got my QPR polo on
Got my Dark Star beer to hand
Roll the credits and let's go!