Game 2: QPR 3 Boro 2 (06.08.22 Willock, Dunne, Dykes 15,796)

When he ran the ball to the corner flag with 6 minutes still to play that pissed me off to be honest. 1 or 2 fair enough but not fucking 6, then continuing that for the rest of the game, to the extent Kakay even gets a fucking yellow for time wasting.

Definitely. We showed how intense we could be in that first 40mins, that was the best I've seen us play in a good while. I wasn't impressed with how we seemed to forget how to play football and let them get 2 goals back but after their second I felt we did very well to grind out the win (albeit with a bit of luck ie their disallowed equaliser).
Boro will be right up there this season so this is a very good result.

Gotta remember too that we're very much a club still in transition. We have a new man in charge who needs to be given time, we have players to come back and players to begin with us and to bed in. Once everything and everyone is settled we could see more performances like that and less like the second half.



I hope.

Just read through this thread and am very surprised at the general negative vibe on what I thought was a brilliant gritty win. We've probably witnessed goal of the season and a fantastic save from Seny. I would have gladly settled for a point before the game started but that first half was fantastic. We pressed them and forced mistakes. All three goals actually came from us getting possession from their mistakes. Boro are a good side with a great manager and were always going to have a go to get back. It looked ominous but after the subs we looked far more settled. They should have been made earlier but we now know why the bench was so weak. We are very early in a new managers tenure with several key players out. It was a great deserved win on a truly great day at HQ with everything else that was celebrated. I loved it.

It did and if that were us we would have said we had gifted possession.

Beale discussed this in his post-match interviews. Check the Mick Beale thread. His explanations were interesting and made sense.

He was excellent yesterday

My comment wasn’t particularly aimed at Johansen Shania, we’ve seen under even MW when opponents are looking for an equaliser or winning goal he would bring on somebody like Dom Ball to break up play, that was the type of player missing from the subs bench yesterday.

good post Matty only area debate for me is Dunne. Bloody good defender proper heart and soul but Dickie when he’s on form prob shades Him, but he’s flakey and the cameos of seen of Salter I think he will be better then both.

Lucky to have three such good options and keeper behind them. Build from the back

Good centre backs but woeful at RB. Hard to build with that being the case. I like Kakay but just not good enough

Dunne never sure about. Brilliant blood and guts stuff in the Stevie Wicks, Alan Mac tradition - but unlike them he does commit a lot of errors (harsh to compare him to those legends, I admit). But two big errors again on Sat. Fair play tho - recovered and made some towering headers late on. Really needs to eliminate the stream of errors then he could develop into a great defender.

As others have said great to have the competition - Dickie looking more like his old self too.

this is more or less how I view him. Proper old fashioned blood and guts defender but does give you something if your an attacker. Defo want him in side for a dirty nasty physical battle. I am a big fan of his

MB explained that too in his interviews. He put it down to lack of confidence, following on from end of last season. I'd agree with him as it showed on the pitch. But he definitely sees that as an area we can improve on with more work. A work in progress for sure as it's still so early days in his tenure especially with adapting to all the ins and outs of players. Again, there's so much talent still to return from injury too. Impressed also how he never used this as an excuse.