QPR view of our 6th win on the spin.

An Excellent Read. Funny. Insightful. And very complimentary.

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/54419

 

Just the opening few paragraphs

“QPR were well beaten at Loftus Road on Wednesday night, run off the park comprehensively by a uniquely energetic Barnsley side on a six game winning streak.

Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up. Maybe if we’d put them up and kept them there Barnsley might have agreed to leave us the **** alone for two minutes.

In this dirgiest of Championship dirges, with two thirds of the league locked in the 52-points-and-out Mykonos slog, here, at last, came something a little bit different. Barnsley, five wins in a row, 15 wins in 25 league games. Barnsley, oldest player 26, average age a shade under 23. Barnsley, apparently missing the memo we all get around our tenth birthday about not all crowding around the football, collectively tearing about the pitch in a giant dustcloud. Barnsley whose players can apparently not only cope with more than two games a week, and with more than an hour at a time within those games, but cope with it at the speed and ferocity of a category five hurricane. Barnsley. Chastening. Eye-opening. I couldn’t believe it either.

Ball in the opposition penalty area? They’ll dispatch eight men there immediately to chase it. Ball given away on halfway? Coming straight back at you, pursued by three forwards and three attacking midfielders. Halfway line and offside line? Same thing mate. Anything within 45 yards of the goal expect to be attacked by the goalkeeper – his vision is based on movement. You think you’ve seen high line, high press? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.

They were a ceaseless, tireless, incessant, rabid pain in the arse from start to finish. It wasn’t unusual for all ten outfield players to be in the opposition half. Super high risk, mega high reward. There was no hiding place, for the ball or any of the QPR players. Tempo off the scale. Two touches without being killed to death was a rare, luxuriant treat. It was like watching a game played on x2.5 speed. The whole thing was migraine inducing. I thought they were absolutely ******* fantastic. I was exhausted watching them. Exhausted and jealous.”

 

Did he Climax?

 

Didn’t you see this on an earlier thread, with lots of comments? Yesterday.

 

I missed it but anyway as per Mark E Smith it’s not repetition, it’s discipline.

 

It's worth reading again. Great report.

 

He may not of have done, but I certainly did
More of the same come 5pm tomorrow!

 

I didn't

Glad he posted tonight

 

Ok

 

Are they due to play the Wendies again, might look for his match report on that if so.

 

Great read that. Funny and insightful. And he/she has summed up the difference between our style of play and traditional long all tactics perfectly. I really think the way we play at min is quite unique. It's not pretty, but it's definitely entertaining.

 

Get within 45 yards of their goal and expect to be attacked by the goalie had me crying

 

I've just watched Hudders v Cardiff and I'd say our football is very pretty and effective.

 

I didn't want to put myself through that. I think our style of play is great to watch. And very effective. But I wouldn't call it pretty. It's messy, chaotic and results in loads of chances. But I would argue it's not for the purists.

 

Enjoyed reading that as made me feel so proud.

 

I would say it's more structured than messy and chaotic, we play our football in areas that will get results and don't worry too much about tippy tappy possession.

 

Jeez, that was a great match report, one of the best I have seen, and a bloody good read from a Barnsley perspective. I had to read it again to lap up the fact they were talking about my club! Happy days indeed.

 

I don't think as a club we've ever been taken notice of in a good way like this before. We got plaudits for promotion to the Premier League and a lot of nicest team we've ever thrashed it was a shame we thrashed you platitudes. I can't ever remember exposure like this before. I'm getting Rotherham and Sheff Utd fans stopping me on my way home from work saying "you'll do it". I replied "we haven't won six in row in Championship before". Sheff Utd fan," fo ok how many you've won in a row, you'll win enough". "Cheers mate".

 

“Rangers unwittingly cast as the alcoholic thirty-somethings, left alone to care for a friend’s brood of kids to see if belatedly starting a family might be for them, despairing as the little horrors tear their house apart around them, legs whirling, screams screaming. Not now Cauley, uncle Geoff is tired”


That’s my fave quote

 

I agree theres a structure to it and I think we're very well drilled. It's not by chance. But what I mean by chaotic is we try to cause as much disruption to the opposition's game as possible. We press high to try and force errors, which results in teams trying to go over the top of our ridiculously high line. And when we win the ball we try to get it forward as quickly as possible. I have yet to see another team adopt the same tactics as we do.