Minority Report v QPR

We don't want you to accept anything. But that was not a negative team lacking confidence. Surely you have seen enough of that in 50 years to know the difference? Our centre mids are doing great and winning us games, so I hope they carry on doing what they're doing. I don't know much about football, but if they followed your game plan, I can safely say we would have lost.

 

What game plan was that?

 

It was in the 27/8th minute Jay when they won the free kick. We noticed it at the time.

 

Lacking in confidence? A team that sets up with 442 with 2 attacking wingers and beats 2 of the promotion favourites isn't lacking in confidence

 

Genuine question RR, are able to watch a game and just enjoy it with analysing every detail? This isn't a dig a your report mate, I'm genuinely interested?

 

Our centre mids holding hands with the strikers, ignoring Hecky's instructions and being even more adventurous than they were anyway... It's your report, have a read, it's all there...

 

I thought the first 20 minutes or so were as good as we've played in a long, long time. Exciting one touch football, incisive passing, great skill, proper football. There was one move that was simply breath taking and although it didn't lead to a goal, the roar of appreciation from the crowd was almost as if we'd scored. QPR gradually got back in to it as the half wore on, but never to the point where they put is in any danger other than the free kick. We dominated them, outplayed them and for much of it, it was a joy to watch.

 

Aside from all of this is the fact that we have just played two of the clubs that are strongly expected to be challenging for automatic promotion while we are newly arrived from League One. It was absolutely necessary to play in a way that nullified the threat from these two sides before we could think about getting a result. That we did reflects enormous credit on Paul Heckingbottom and on the players. As far as I'm concerned, if they carried out Hecky's instructions then they did so magnificently to achieve two eyebrow-raising results, to say nothing of providing some terrific entertainment. To call this negative is massively missing the point, in my opinion. And it is only my opinion.

 

As much as we beat Derby through sheer effort I thought we matched QPR for physicality, effort and as you say - for 20 minutes we totally outplayed them.

The fact that didn't fit in with RR's pre-conceived mindset is unfortunate, but not reason to report on things that just didn't happen.

This will be a challenging 46 game season - just because we might struggle at times later, does not detract from how good we were last night.

 

It is a difficult question to answer because I do not go to a game expecting to write a report at the end of it. I did not write any report on the play-off final. I really enjoyed the game and was too bound up in it to notice tactics. I thought that we were the better team throughout. However, if I see something that is not right, I find that I have to find out why. I often turn to my friend and tell him that I think x should be substituted by y in order to remedy a problem that I have noticed, and sure enough most managers react within minutes. It appears from the comment that I hear around me that many people can go to a game and turn off their logic circuits, but I cannot do it. Some would argue that this inability destroys my ability to take enjoyment from a game, but I enjoy the game for different reasons. For example, if we lose, many fans would not have enjoyed the game, but if I have understood, or think that I have understood why, then I can take some sort of enjoyment from it. A tactical appreciation of the different systems is key to that understanding.

 

Yes, down the right, it's not on player highlights, but I remember 'Brazil' going up straight after!

 

Aye, they were singing the Brazil song. Which always scares me to death.

 

With the greatest respect surely you are only giving your opinion, and so telling anyone they are 'wrong' is inferring that you are the only one with a valid opinion. I too am in it for the long-haul (this is my 50th season), and I simply disagree with some of the things you post. But that doesn't mean I am right and you are wrong. We just see the same things differently.

 

Why post a response like that when the guy is just expressing a view?

 

People get it. They just don't agree.

In fact it is yourself showing a lack of understanding by extrapolating people's delight at the performance into a belief that we all think top 6 is assured and this team would easily beat Wilson's or Hunter's promotion teams. You are reading things that just aren't there.

 

Did anyone see that kestrel fly past about 5 minutes before kick off?

 

"Wot 'ev you done wi' that lad's 'awk?"

 

Jud, what a ****

 

Aye, I thought it was Ryan Kent warming up...