* The Unofficial "Official" Boro v QPR Match-Day Thread *

Teesside87 said:
Was watching the Benjamin Bloom podcast on friday and they had a whole segment on our defending against West Brom. Anyway Sam Parkin mentioned that from 13 shots on target we have faced, 9 of them had went in. If we include todays result, that is 11 goals for 16 on target. That is 68% of shots on target end up in a goal for the opposition
We have had 25 shots on target and scored 3, a 12% conversion rate.
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It was similar at the start of last year too, in fact defensively it was similar most of the season we don't close people down in midfield quick enough giving them plenty of time to pick their spot, or put an easy ball in.
 
xxlshirts_fit_all said:
it’s may be still a bit raw in my mind.. but I feel we could’ve had 80 shots on goal and wouldn’t have scored today…

it just felt to me we didn’t have a clue what to do when one thing didn’t work.. we didn’t know how to change the game…
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The thing is XXL it was working apart from woeful finishing. We opened them up multiple times and Lathe could not finish them.

I hope it comes for the lad, because he has good movement and makes a nuisance of himself. I suspect Carrick took him off to try and salvage something of his confidence.
 
IMO, Last season we seemed to pas pass pass to the point it was getting frustrating to watch, this season we seem to be trying to take opposition players on more, losing the ball putting ourselves under pressure.
 
Laughing said:
The thing is XXL it was working apart from woeful finishing. We opened them up multiple times and Lathe could not finish them.

I hope it comes for the lad, because he has good movement and makes a nuisance of himself. I suspect Carrick took him off to try and salvage something of his confidence.
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Yes! He looks brilliant, that back heel and chase in the right back area was unreal!

He missed chances, we all do, well I do, and I am not writing him off.
 
r00fie1 said:
QPR

Summer In-comings:

Asmir Begovic
The 36 year old spent the last two years at Everton making just 4 senior appearances.
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Taylor Richards
Still only 22, the much traveled midfielder cemented a loan from last season with a permanent contract.
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Jack Colback
The 33 year old Geordie defensive midfielder signed for the "R"s from Forest on a two year deal in June this year.
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Morgan Fox
Released by Stoke after making 70 appearances in three seasons, joined QPR in July 23.
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Paul Smyth
Now 25, the Northern Irishman joined Rangers for the second time from Leyton Orient with a three year deal.
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Ziyad Larkeche
The young Frenchman joined from Fulham, having been on loan at Barnsley.
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Steve Cook
Having spent the majority of his career at Bournemouth, Forest bought him in their spending spree in 2022 where he spent 18 months before joining the Loftus Road outfit on 9th August.
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The Ruthsayer said:
I’ve only seen this in real time, from the North Stand, and Jones was fouled and off balance. Straight red.
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This is the moment Jones was fouled.

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There's certainly a good possibility that this could have developed into an obvious goal scoring opportunity but at the moment of the foul it isn't one. There are too many variables. Jones still has to either beat the defender or make an effective pass to Silvera before there would have been an actual, obvious goal scoring chance.

Much as the fan in me would have liked to see QPR reduced to 10 men, with my refereeing hat on, I'm going to say that no referee is going to give a red card for something that, while it would very possibly have led to an obvious goal scoring opportunity, hadn't yet done so, at the time of the foul.

What this was, was a highly cynical attempt to stop an extremely promising attack. Under the Laws of the Game that is fully deserving of a yellow card (which Colback got) but unfortunately for us, not more.
 
Sounds like the ref was giving out cards and stopping the game y`day?
Inspite of all the usual wailing-wall doom-mongerers, it sounded like we did the right things but were blunt up front?
Now we have time to do the hard work.
 
Colgates_shaving_foam said:
Yes! He looks brilliant, that back heel and chase in the right back area was unreal!

He missed chances, we all do, well I do, and I am not writing him off.
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I wouldn't necessarily disagree. His missess and poor touches in the box is becoming a pattern though. Hopefully he turns that around. Common football wisom is that getting the chances is harder than finishing them so it may be a statistical anomolie.

I do remember seeing Drogba at the riverside just after chelsea had signed him and he missed chance after chance. I mean he looked absoloute dross. He did score the goal that beat us, but that was from about 10 chances.
 
the_holgate_roof said:
I feel sorry for Hackney, he must feel like he is doing it on his own at times, the ref was appalling though, the amount of soft free kicks he gave them.
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Did nothing yesterday and has been pretty average all season. I know he can't be criticized on here but he like many others needs to up his game. In last 5-10 minutes he hit 3 long balls out to wings and all went into touch.

Agree about the soft free kicks but we should know that and be a bit smarter in our play.
 
r00fie1 said:
Hackney works himself into the ground sometimes.
I cant recall the last time he was out injured or not on the starting sheet or the bench?
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Unfortunately he now thinks he’s Glenn Hoddle and has stopped playing the easy pass in favour of some ridiculous balls which just give up possession.
 
dribble said:
Unfortunately he now thinks he’s Glenn Hoddle and has stopped playing the easy pass in favour of some ridiculous balls which just give up possession.
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He looked like Hoddle when he set up Latte Lath with a an excellent through ball yesterday. Not Hackneys fault he didn't finish it.
 
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