Team for QPR

A couple of adjustments-
1) Moot2 for Crainie, Todorov for Waghorn, so a team with NO loan players
2) Lloyd Sam on the right of the midfield diamond instead of Bailey. Sam has shown SOME creativity, whereas Bailey has lately gone to 'hump it and hope'. It was Bailey giving the ball away AGAIN that gave Derby possession in the 93rd minute last Monday.

There are limited options for wingers now - we're stuck with Bouazza, Wagstaff isn't up to it yet, Yussuf is untried, and Christensen is a mystery to most!

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Glass half empty Hillsys up Ketman Me

AfKa Tavern paulbaconsarnie carter

WSS Stu of HU16 both these guys know how to score!!

Whoever we have playing, I just wish they would shoot on sight.

Elliot
Mouts
Hudson
Mambo
Basey
Gilispie
Wright
Arter
Bouazza
Toddy
Dickson

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Elliot

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Does It -- Really -- Matter -- Who

Could Be ----Anyone----Would It----Change

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No Chances

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No Goals

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Cranie --- Fortune --- Hudson --- Basey

--------------- Semedo -------------------

--------- Bailey --- Wright --------------

---------------Shelvey -------------------

---------Waghorn --- Dickson ------------


That's made me more depressed

I generally can't stand Alan Hansen, but I thought he was spot on about Blackburn the other night. he said when a team is really struggling you keep it simple play 4-4-2 with a defensive midfielder and a slightly more attacking one and two wide men that work hard up and down the lines. It worked for Blackburn, so my team would be this. Let Holland sit give Wright a bit of freedom let Sam work hard up and down the lines only problem is left mid, maybe Shelvey, Bouazza for me doesn't work hard enough, maybe Gillespie and then switch Sam to the left, he can't cross anyway. I'm struggling.

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Elliot

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Cranie --- Fortune --- Hudson --- Basey

Sam

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Holland --- Wright

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Shelvey

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Waghorn --- Gray

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Sinclairs a far better player than Bailey- all Bailey doesis give the ball away in dangerous positions, fouls the player in trying to get it back then spends the rest of the games moaning at the ref for giving the free-kick against him-out of his depth at the moment.

I agree with what you say but why bring in Holland, what is he going to add to the side?

The problem isn't Semedo or Bailey individually it's the fact that we are playing them together. Both are defensive players, so is it any wonder that we aren't creating anything.

I'm not convinced that Shelvey is ready however needs must and with Racon injured, we don't have anyone else so I'd drop one of Semedo or Bailey (probably Bailey) and have a midfield of Sam, Semedo, Shelvey and Bouazza.

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Does It -- Really -- Matter -- Who

Could Be ----Anyone----Would It----Change

-------No Chances-------No Goals-------

I fear Large's team above is probably about right. If we play any football worth watching on Boxing Day I'm going to regard that as a bonus. I'm going with my two (adult) sons , who I only get to take about two or three times a season when they're both at home, and we're going to sing our hearts out and grow mistily, beerily eyed for when I used to take them to Selhurst as nippers. We had no ground then but what spirit that team had - people like Humphrey, Reid, Shirtliff, Peake, Walsh, Lee, Melrose... Even Leaburn. And Steve Thompson? Who remembers him? No way was he a top flight central defender but he gave no quarter and when he headed the ball out of our penalty area he used to do it with such total commitment that it frequently ended up in their half!

I said to AFKA the other day, what would you rather have - no ground and a team with spirit - or a team with no spirit and the best ground in the world? There's no contest really, for me...

I'm going to enjoy myself v QPR even though I expect us to serve up utter sh**e, because I'm going to be in the best company in the world - my two sons. But the team they're going to be watching is a travesty compared to the side they grew up on...