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From nowhere to EFL young player of the year in 9 months surpassed all expectations. Fantastic for Max and our great club I wonder who's next 🙃

Just read this: https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/50073 and thought it was very funny. There but for the grace of god and all that. Very complimentary about us but absolutely damning about the Rs. My favourite passage: “...my absolute favourite bit of Saturday, the absolute classic of the QPR away from home collapse genre, was in the 21st minute. Jake Bidwell, absolutely all over the ****ing shop, tried to deliberately commit a foul after being skinned yet again and ended up injuring himself. While prostrate on the ground clutching his leg, his friend and colleague Joel Lynch approached the resulting loose ball and in attempting to clear it downfield completely miscued it and sent it fizzing along the ground at two million miles an hour straight into the side of Bidwell’s head. With the full back now both injured and concussed, and the ball back with Norwich who had an extra man, and Lynch out of position, the Canaries set about us again. Panicked, Lynch vacated his position altogether and came charging out to the man with the ball, committing himself with a big lunge which Buendia was able to calmly sidestep and move onwards with the ball towards a penalty area that now contained half the population of Norwich, two QPR defenders and one goalkeeper. The QPR defenders who were left then, for reasons I daren’t even begin to imagine, decided to creak that ****ing offside trap into life again. Now the penalty box contained half the population of Norwich, all of them onside, and one goalkeeper. Hernandez, almost too easy for him, tried an outlandish chip and missed.”

I'm probably just still bitter. I also cannot see any logic in him getting manager of the year over Farke. They spent marginally more than us in the offseason (transfermarkt predicts £6 million outlay, largely thanks to big money signing Egan, and us at just shy of £5 million). Okay, they lost Brooks but we lost James Maddison and Josh Murphy so had bigger holes to fill in the summer than they. He started the season with a team that had finished 10th and only 6 points off the playoffs, Farke started the season with a team that had finished 9 points further back in 14th and a whole 15 points off the playoffs. So, on what basis has anyone come to the conclusion that Wilder, whose team currently sit 7 points behind Farke's, has done a better job? I know they've spent a bit more, but you could argue that even Bielsa has done a better job this term than Wilder.

"Most of the article" is NOT" about Billy Sharp; did you stop reading when it got to the other divisions and awards? And as regards Sharp, becoming the EFL's all time record goal scorer is actually a more notable achievement than Teemu's outstanding performance for us over this season. Why can't people bring themselves to give proper credit where it's due? Sad display of narrow mindedness; but then what do I expect, it's football fans after all ........

tldr

Gracious? Or mind games? I'd prefer Sheff Utd to go up over Leeds. Both sets of fans are pretty vile to be honest, but I suspect Leeds are more likely to splash the cash. Bielsa is clearly a good manager and I suspect he would take to the Premier League quite well. Wilder has the potential to be another Warnock and find himself out of his depth and I doubt Sheff Utd would open the chequebook quite as wide. Consequentially, Sheff United are more likely to take up one of the three relegation berths than Leeds would be. That's the only reason I want them to go up, because it will probably be better for us next season.

People used to blame Morty for this ..

As a self-confessed pedant, I was always impressed he placed the apostrophe correctly. Maybe his probation officer helped with it.

Borrowed from WOTB: Some more Leeds seethes Bolton equaliser! Norwich are the elf man utd , play till you win 3-2 in the 13 th minute of injury time Bolton 2-2 Norwich to win 6-2 **** norwich ****ing Norwich I don't f**king believe it. There it is Norwich 3-2. **** off. Norwich are officially bastards Norwich c**ts Norwich seem to have scored a last minute winner every single week for the past ten years. Will someone f**king take points off the farmer spaz c**ts And they always seem to be playing someone s**t every week too. Norwich are the jammiest bastards around. I honestly thought I'd only have to live through one spell of Norwich f**king City being a set of annoying c**ts, but it's come round again. I think I hate norwich more than any other team to be fair. Next three league fixtures: Rotherham (H) Havant & Waterlooville (H) Steps (H) I'd happily finish second to them to get out of this f**king league. We'll re-establish ourselves in the PL and they'll get relegated and we won't have to worry about them again. deflated like f**k after coming out of ER and seeing that Pukki winner **** off Norwich - 90+3 again the c**ts! not sure what will happen next week when Norwich turn up at the Reebok expecting to play them for the seventh consecutive week. Norwich actually make me hate my own life i hate them so much...

attendance above having ground only half full removing bush from roof Paul Lambert to not say fantastic at a press interview season ticket sales into four figures Matt Gill to confirm he made the right decision

I don’t think Cantwell is comparable to Emi. He’s really not had that much first team playing time & lost his place due to injury. From what I saw then, I think he had as much natural ability as most of our breakthrough players this season. people would do well to remember that at the start of his career Harry Kane looked like he’d never make it at top level when he played for us! To judge a player’s career potential after a small number of championship starts is just silly.

And Graham Dorrans on the left of midfield to put the crosses in for them.

No, the whole point is to go batsh it crazy at that point. It is to get carried away with it, just as I did after our third goalon Saturday. I fact I was thinking of six or seven by the end. Bsed on what ? How we had played in the first half, that's what. Of course a piano could fall out of the sky and squash the ref so they game might be stopped. It is up to each supporter how they react as regards optimism, blind faith or serious delusion. As far as my belief is concerned on this matter it is one of having watched some of the consistently finest play I have seen a City team play. From last years tippity tap to this years rippity rap as they tear opposition teams apart. And as certain as I am about us being Champions I am also certain that nothing I do, or anything else anyone else on here does, will make a blind bit of difference to how things turn out. They say you should not look back with regrets about what you might have done - well if we do fail to get promoted then I don't want to look back and think I could have been as happy as a pig in sh it during those weeks leading up to that failure, so I will continue to believe we will be champions as either way it turns out I will have had had some great weeks celebrating it, come what may 😋

"Lorem ipsum" is Latin placeholder text that publishers use when they don't have live content. It's basically what I read when Lakey goes off on one.

Why is this even a question? No-one, I repeat NO-ONE outside of LS1 wants to see a team followed by a bunch of knuckle-dragging, arrogant pr1cks promoted.

Glasgow Rangers. You heard it here first!

FTFY

Yeah, I didn’t see it coming. Like many others. His ascent from not making a first team squad to being an ever present is incredible, and pretty unusual for a young player - who will often drop in and out and rotate from the bench for a while. Like Todd Cantwell has done. People who call others out for their incorrect predictions completely in hindsight and having offered no view of their own at the time though... Oh dear...

The glue factory? Apples

Where now for Andy Carroll? Normally, its hospital

I've mentioned on here a few times Wilder drinks in the same pub as I do in Sheffield, and any conversation we've had after the initial p#ss taking (carrot crunching type of thing) he's been complimentary about us, in fact his questions have sometimes been a bit too fact finding for comfort. The latter shows his passion for the game, he's never off duty as such, but still a lively guy to share a pint with. He also wants us to go up ahead of Dirty as well, as all fans in Sheffield do, despite what you may have read. Unfortunately my son has succumbed to peer pressure from his mates and has decided to hang his hat with the Blades (despite dragging him to many a Norwich away game and the play-off final), so for family harmony it has to be Blades for runner up position. One of the perils being based in another city!

Interesting stuff Generation A47. Just increases my hope that Farke plumps for Vrancic as a like for like replacement. i don;t really see why people think that will cause any more harm to our fluidity as a team than Cantwell will, Vrancic has played that advanced role at times earlier in the season and its not like Buendia is an orthodox wide man who stays out wide.

Mildly disappointed that the awards ceremony didn’t have an award for manager with the best equestrian skills award

I agree with the "optics" thing. Farke has done an amazing job, but arguably underperformed last season with what looked like a decent squad. Wilder has done very well, Sheff Utd have stuck with it and winning at Leeds at a key point was massive- they have stayed in the hunt and may now be slight favourites to go up with us (if we do 😀). Alex Neil has been pretty good at Preston also Lee Johnson and weirdly I also think Darren Moore was doing OK at West Brom to keep things together after relegation- we know very well how hard that it. But my outstanding candidate has to be Paul Lambert. How he has managed to keep Ipswich firmly at the bottom, with no new manager bounce and no hope for so long below a poor Bolton side not even being paid properly has been truly remarkable and takes a special kind of talent. PL is the messiah for two reasons now!

Whatever it is it's bloody stupid. And I actually think it's rare that a team deserve all three so I see no issue with it happening when it's on merit. It's made even more farcical when they actually gave the award to the coach that won the league, despite the fact that had Wolves not won the league it would have been an appalling reflection on the coach given the war chest he was allowed. In fact, Wilder probably had a bigger shout last season, guiding a newly promoted team to 10th; however, the real manager of the season last year was Neil Harris for doing a similar thing with Millwall. 6th in League One to 8th in the Championship 12 months later and only three points of the playoffs was a phenomenal achievement that makes a mockery of Nuno Espirito Santo's award. That's an even bigger mockery of the award than Wilder's this year.

I think this is fair comment, to be honest. Sharp has been outstanding for many years, plus he's had to overcome the tragic death of his baby son. Much as I dislike Sheffield United, anyone who can't offer some magnanimous congratulations to Billy Sharp is a pretty poor sport. Deserves all the praise he gets, and then some. And the way he graciously 'big-upped' Pukki was a classy touch.

Apart from that rant last season Wilder has been complimentary about us and Farke, it's about time we recognised he appreciates that we've got where we are on merit. His comments last night at the EFL awards were gracious and I'd like to see him in the Premier League next season along with us.

Very good. We have the internet to thank for this level of relatively up-to-date, in-depth grassroots-specialist game analysis. You just couldn't get anything like this in the past, unless you had a pal who was particularly football-clever. It illuminates the game in the way that the commentators, pundits and reporters of the traditional media don't / won't / can't do.

Haven't seen this mob before. I thought Marco was popping up out wide more than usual ... https://footballbh.net/2019/04/08/norwich-qpr-championship-tacticalanalysis-analysis-statistics/

There is much anguish concerning Emi being unavailable for the next three games against teams who will be beaten rather easily. Emi has been a revelation and is surely an important cog in the City wheel but the gnashing of teeth on here is over the top. Emi could well have badly injured on a number of occasions this season from the attention he receives. But now we need to replace the talisman the pantwetting on here is embarrassing. Just enjoy the ride and look forward to the next seven victories.

Good manager but his whining after we beat them was outrageous. He literally blamed our bus turning up late for their defeat. Sorry, I respect what he's done, and appreciate he appears to have learned some humility, but I still think he's a c0ck

This, this and this again.

This, coupled with the knowledge it was not worth reading anyway.

Most threads ended up in a Morty/Lakey 'post-off' and it got a bit silly before Morty flounced off. I still miss it somehow though.

They got a battering with 3 successive relegations over the last decade due to money issues and were in the conference for number of seasons. They have rebulit stonger with 2 good managers whomanaged to replace good players when they go and now the managers has gone they continue on for maybe for successive promotions.Of course I don't know the exact details. Temp manager is in charge and likely to be promoted. Bound to be lots of championship managers around to go for them.

My personal preference. I think McLean prefers a more attacking position anyway so should be comfortable playing AML. Hernandez is clearly comfortable playing both wings and is a more natural replacement for Buendia. Vrancic then slots into his natural position with Trybull.

I agree Tumbleweed. Mario is both a creator and goal scorer. I like Todd but at this crucial stage of the season we need to give ourselves the best possible chance and those stats firmly point to Mario.

Please dear god not here.

It will be interesting to see how DF handles this. My feeling is to bring on Leitner and put McLean in the Buendia role. Basically Emi has licence to roam, with Max being so good down the right we don't need a traditional winger, just look at the first goal from Saturday. So McLean can just take on a similar attacking role. Then Leitner goes alongside Trybull at the back. I would be confident that will give us plenty of attacking threat against Reading without causing any wider issues around the team. I agree 100% that Buendia has been a standout player for us this season, but I am confident we can overcome his absence. I can also see arguments for Vrancic coming in... Also I rate Cantwell very highly but it's quite a while since he had serious game time, whereas Vrancic and Leitner both had outstanding spells before they were injured.

George Davis Is Innocent. (Younger viewers may need to Google that.)

He's behind you...

Fine. Can you not celebrate more quietly, please, and let the rest of us get on with it? Cheers. Olé olé, olé olé, going up up up

I love to think this was genuine. Farke is too cool for mind games anyway whereas some managers get worked up too easily...

Or alternatively they think the point is stupid. You're the only person who seems to think fans being too positive or negative on this forum has any bearing on what happens on the pitch.

Everywhere is Man Utd territory, you see kids in Man U shirts in the Castle Mall walking along with their Dads. Personally I think that's child abuse, or at best, neglect, the child should be taken away and re educated.

Mike I think you’ve lost mate. I wasn’t super confident when I took your bet but this team have outdone where I thought they’d get. I was kind of wishful thinking on 6th maybe 5th. Am I right in saying we are now guaranteed a play off place? I am so thrilled I’ll even split the bet with you. Happy Days.

Re Buendia stat - it's also true we haven't won a game that Krul hasn't started in either....

An apt last post. A pessimistic prediction and an allusion to a barely detectable fart.