Saint Fan CaM

What. A. Fucking. Goal!!!! Scienza on his own.

Well the subs are somewhat different that’s for sure. Good too as Robinson was fading.

Baz doing a good job of sticking to his goal line.

Equaliser on 92 minutes - mark my words.

Get in - Robinson gets a lucky deflection. They all count.

Too many Haribos being handed out by the manager

Here we go - fk to them - crisp packets are sweaty.

Jander doesn’t seem to be seeing much of the ball - typically because Downes and Manning conspire to pass the ball backwards most of the time. Not sure where we’ll get a chance to score.

Betcha the Board/SR are cocka-hoop with the 0-0 their new Head Coach has delivered. Stopped the rot so far eh? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

QPR are not great, but we’re worse. Unless you want possession and pointless pass stats of course… then we’re the muts fucking nuts.

Rubbish from Manning

26 minutes in - usual boring bollox

They had to go back for Manning - he’d gone missing again on one of his walk-abouts.

I heard that Rasmus considered that the usual pre-match routine was considered not broken…so…

I’ve been trying to get this point across for weeks now - reckon it’s a Group stipulated requirement to ease flow of players from one club to another - i.e. Rasmus retains ultimate control.

You’d think right? But there have been muted messages from people around the club that players either have not followed instructions (or followed them poorly) or taken poor decisions (and that’s been abundantly clear to all of us).

I’d lay odds that you’ll see little to no difference. Same as it ever was.

Fair points. As you say, not his fault - club far too broken for a man with relatively little credit in the bank to sort out all the issues.

How do you know that they were told NOT to do that, but then did it anyway because they didn’t want to take responsibility on the ball?

A very insightful post. As it happens I don’t think there is any single one cause for the decline in performances, but ‘player power’ and dressing room cliques probably contribute. There are players in and around the first team who operated under the shield of RM and his possession based slow football - they are being found out by the new managers coming in and they probably don’t like it. Still really was on a hiding to nothing and nowhere near strong enough to sort out the cultural, performance, fitness and mentality issues that the squad has endured and I would suggest even new players have been sadly tainted such is the influence of the old brigade.

OK that tells me Carrick is another Martin, Still etc apologist…not for me, however it wouldn’t surprise me if SR would think this guy is just the chap to continue with the big group system experiment. 🙄

Yeah feel the same - my pleasure in seeing a player of Romeu’s stature back at the club is tempered significantly by SR’s demonstrable ability to ultimately fuck things up, thereby negating any positive step forwards. Brace yourself chaps - I have a feeling tomorrow night will see the return of some ‘old’ favourites and a lot of aimless possession.

I’m sticking to my prediction that we’ll lose this. QPR are an OK side and our interim come permanent Manager will not have enough time to start turning things around, even if he has the know-how (which I very much doubt). Think the best we might see is a bit more cohesion and fight.

Welcome back Ori - invaluable experience so let’s hope he’s able to stay fit.

Vierra would top my list followed shortly by Carrick, although that’s based purely on gravitas and not on much knowledge of how he approaches tactics. What I want to see is evidence of the exorcism of Russball/SR-ball or whatever it is. I also want to see the acid influence of players like Jack Stephens wiped out - I think certain players have much to do with the demise of the culture at the club.