Fabrice29

If you're on here criticising the club for not giving Ballard a chance, you might not want to be seen frothing at the mouth at us not signing someone the moment our next goal scoring youngster gets a sniff.

I would be surprised if there's anything else. Given Archers/Downs minutes were low, there's no reason why you cant give those to a youngster. Especially if you're a club who sells itself as having a pathway and is also actively talking about cutting the squad size.

The daftest thing Dom Ballard needs right now is to be back in our squad as an option a few months into playing some first team football and finally scoring.

It's funny to think Alfie House especially was advocating Tyrick George as an obvious loan signing a few weeks back. Pitched a point that wasn't realistic and now "expectation has not been me with this signing" will be the next wave of content.

Think Fofana has had more than enough chances to prove his worth elsewhere in fairness. Including Goztepe. Not sure thats fair about Lookman. Think he fell out with Juric possibly but his record for Atalanta has been very good. Oh that'll be true then.

Has Ronnie Edwards kicked a ball for QPR before today?

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What was that stat about shot conversion in the first 6 games of TE and the last 6? How did we do today on that front?

Don’t necessarily disagree about the quality of the journalism but just on Edozie, they have absolutely asked about it previously. You could argue more could be done but I think it’s quite clear the club and Edozie both don’t want it out there especially whilst trying to sell him. I suspect finding out is probably quite easy but reporting it against either sides will is probably the challenge. I also don’t think the answer is going to be much more juicy than ‘he doesn’t want to play because he nearly left last summer and neither the club or him want him injured’

I know.

Our passing statistics are as good as most in this league fwiw. Possession, pass success, accuracy, creativity, goals scored in open play, whatever pass based metric you want to use. He's a fascinating player because statistically he has more shots than anyone in the league which means he's wasteful and yet racks up numbers. No player has had more shots on or off target than him. Given the above about our creativity both this season and last time we were in it, I'd suspect his numbers would drop significantly elsewhere which is what happened at WBA. Anyway, the main reason we shouldn't fear letting him go is he's not got the quality of where we presumably want to be. The main reason we should fear letting him go is replacing him.

That’s not nonsense, it’s you not understanding how it’s calculated. Given a penalty is 0.75/0.8 in most models because that’s roughly how many times they are scored you can start working out the logic from there. Not sure about ours but they scored from a yard out, so it’s no surprise their XG is higher.

It also forgets that we have another 17 games at least to sit through as fans. The people who say it won’t be sat there next week telling everyone the season is over and the missed chances and dropped points they are witnessing doesn’t matter because ‘the season is over’. Didn’t happen last season and won’t happen this season.

I’m quite happy to see the back of Armstrong (as long as we replace him properly) but the idea that he goes to Wrexham and suddenly turns into Ronaldo/Gets his arse in gear is quite funny. He’s got plenty of goals this season and if he continued to do that at Wrexham it wouldn’t be some up turn of quality, it would be a continuation.

Don’t remember the manager missing sitters all season but might have missed it.