You think these squad members should be professional in their approach whilst still adopting a competitive attitude. Really annoyed that players have let the team, the club and themselves down tonight....
I think it was inevitable that wholesale changes would be made. The manager will be aware that his job is to maintain our championship status this season. But the team should have been able to perform much better than they did. I feel sorry for those who went to the game.
More like Blackpoo We were shite There was a great opportunity to progress to a next round in a cup in years McClaren blew it he thought our reserves could beat them and they couldn't I don't buy this concentrating on the league,we wasn't playing Man City it was Blackpool for Christ sake Wish them well in the next round they beat us fair and square and will probably get a plum tie in the next round It's amazing how the negative vibes come back after a positive run we had
All over. Lost 2-0. A lot of those players tonight had the the chance to push for a first team place but they were all poor. The worst thing was the attitude of Scowen and Cousins whose actions tonight were a disgrace and they have let everybody down by their stupidity.
Post by northwesthoop on Sept 25, 2018 22:12:25 GMT
Ill report more tomorrow but that was just not good enough from the whole club.
The attitude of players was outrageous and concerning.
Clubs have become short sighted. McClaren should be judged on tonight MORE than Saturday, not the other way around. If there were manager transfer windows this wouldn't happen as they wouldn't fear the chop after the next league game.
Since our relegation this club has had nothing to cheer and we blew a great chance tonight. So disappointed and angry.
After I saw the team I am not surprised that we got beat.
OK make some changes put in a few fringe/young players in. put a few of our senior players on the bench but no. Put out a reserve team tell them that this is only the Caraboa Cup and it does not matter. Then tell them to put there bodies on the line because they have no chance of making the first team.
That was beyond abysmal..I thought losing at home to Sunderland in this a couple of years ago was bad, but jeez tonight beat it.
Finally got indoors at 3.35am. Very disappointing overall, but supporting QPR means you have to suffer disappointment multiple times before the occasional jolt of happiness
Thats commited ranger boy,going up there to watch a pub team show up wearing the QPR badge McClaren should of taken up some first team players even if only subs,he rather doesn't care about this competition or he underestimated Blackpool We've only played well once and that was against Millwall and that took two lucky goals I don't know what to think anymore but I think McClaren constantly tinkering with the team and tactics isn't helping
I agree with ranger-boy that supporting QPR is all about being on a roller coaster, and also agree with @singlespeed that McClaren (buck stops there) underestimated Blackpool. If anyone was in any doubt before, last night showed we have fringe players that either lack ability or experience against tough sides, so there is no depth to allow mass changes to the preferred team selection!
POSITIVE: (Fingers crossed) Grant Hall came through the full 90 minutes without any medical issues it seems and, what is more, he and Baptiste did apparently well amidst the car crash that was QPR last night....
Now that the mist is clearing after last nights debacle I think the plus point was:
* Grant Hall who managed 90 minutes and didn't do too badly.
Whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that McClaren gave a number of the fringe players a chance last night what it proved was that too many of them under performed. Ten of the starting line up have played in the first team and have played in the Championship so it wasn't a team lacking experience. The whole first team squad lack quality and the Blackpool game showed that a lot of our fringe players are just not good enough. When you consider that we allowed Manning to go out on loan but kept Goss also proved to me what a poor judge of a player McClaren really is.
The big disappointment for me was the poor attitude and poor temperament of some of our players. Scowen started the game as though he didn't want to be playing and after getting booked he started giving away silly free kicks that should have seen him sent off. Blackpool put in some tough tackles and some of our lads either didn't want to know or over reacted like Cousins.
I honestly don't believe that the players didn't set out to give 100% but you have to question some of their commitment after last nights game.
Blackpool weren't exactly no pushover before we even got there,they are sound in defence and a very organised unit And we took our poxy reserves to go and make a total mockery of themselves and the club All the away fans deserve a total refund end of story,some took time off work and others travelled a long way It wouldn't of mattered if we still lost but even if we showed some balls and a bit of effort it might not had hurt so much My grandsons Sunday morning under 7s would of beat that lot,all the premier league teams had strong reserves when they fielded weaker sides as they didn't underestimate their opposition like we did
Post by northwesthoop on Sept 27, 2018 9:38:31 GMT
You are totally right @singlespeed we underestimated Blackpool and showed them a complete lack of respect.
Teams make changes, they shouldn't need to as we've been discussing in the match report, but fair enough they do.
HOWEVER
Look at Man City, they were playing Oxford, it was a foregone conclusion that they would win as their back up players cost hundreds of millions. Regardless they still took to an away fixture in Oxford a bench that contained Sterling, Gundogen, Sane, Laporte and Walker.
Sterling and Gundogen actually came on when it was only 1-0.
The champions of England paying respect to a League 1 side.
QPR on the other hand had a bench that had fans questioning who the players even were. And we would have needed a good performance with our first team playing.
Why did we not take a bench of first team players?
Why did our players need rest to the extent they couldn't even travel?
We had no plan B on Tuesday because our bench was so limited (to be fair we had to Plan A but that is a different story!)
We were either so arrogant we thought Blackpool would roll over OR McClaren wanted to lose/was happy if we lost.
Either way it absolutely stinks and I am furious with QPR this week.
