Really sad news only 26 and his future ahead of him. Strange they haven’t mentioned a cause of death yet.
Not sure if this is the right place for it, but we've announced that away fans will all be charged £30 for an adult ticket. Home tickets in the same stand are either £45 or £49 depending on category. Mirrors what teams do in the prem, least it's consistent for each team.
We lost a coach too in Andy Hughes, to Leicester. Amongst other things he was out set piece guy so we'll have to get him replaced soon.
Dan Ballard has signed a new 4-year deal which is excellent news. I tried embedding the tweet like @LordMegson has with his but I have no idea
Genuinely I have no f*cking idea how I’ve managed to do that given I pasted the link URL in and subsequently deleted it a hundred times
Obviously a very youtubey title but as you'd expect from him he puts out reasonable talking points. I don't really think last season was that good when it comes to quality, outside of a couple of squads. There was a lot of parity (through mediocrity) throughout the league which made a decent spectacle though. On average the 6 sides swapping in are indeed weaker this year but does that mean the league will be worse? Quality wise probably but again, who knows about spectacle. Post Covid spending still feels slow too.
From a QPR point of view, spending seems high (for us) this year. We are actually being linked with spending money, which is very rare for us!
Not at all. It just adds to the thought that anyone can beat anyone. I'd rather have 8 or 9, 7/10 sides all fighting for autos & play offs. Every year since I can remember its always "The Worse Ever". Yet in terms of excitement, it's the best league in the world, the PL doesn't come close.
Ideally that is the case but it could also be just like last season (probably Burnley and Leeds running away with it) but with worse quality throughout the league. Hopefully it's much more open, of course. I took a glance through the transfermark list so I'm obviously taking it with a pinch of salt but it seemed like 60% of the league's spend was Burnley. Our parachute payments are finished now so we're pretty much in sell to spend territory. It seems we're happy to keep our 3 that might be worth a bit (Rowe, Sargent, Sara too so we'll only be changing arounf the edges of the squad.
Just watching a re-run of the Watford v Leicester semi-final from 2013 (because it's on Sky and I enjoy knowing they produced all that effort for nothing as we ultimately beat them in the final, haha lol). Hilarious seeing Harry Kane up front for Leicester. He just got dog's abuse from Nigel Pearson and Anthony Knockaert for skying a free-kick into row Z and taking on a shot when Knockaert had an open goal
