Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

have been

I'm at a loss myself nbs. Cabaye went off at that point, but I don't think that alone would have of had that effect. I think it might have been a combination of the forward players suddenly realising that they needed to commit, and Suarez thinking 'fuck this' and trying to do everything on his own. Very possibly the latter leading to the former.

Anyway I'm a bit gutted at the result. I wanted it to be one kind of season, but it's the other kind.

feelin that

The race for fourth is where I see the thrills being this year. Top three and bottom three look settled already, depending how much more Reading have got.

http://epl.squawka.com/matches/english-barclays-premier-league/04-11-2012/liverpool-vs-newcastle#stats320

Good lord. I've been perplexed at times by Bren's focus on width, keeping the fullbacks high up and right on the touchline, always available as an inappropriate outball. I never realised quite how inappropriate though.

whoa that volley from fellaini saved by schwarzer

best i've seen in ages

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lol

http://www.anglersmail.co.uk/uncategorized/carp-fishing-with-bobby-zamora/

it's everything you want it to be

love how the qpr player in the middle just doesn't bother moving and stays stood there with his hands on his knees thinking 'this could take a while'.

haha reading guy on the edge of the box decides to have a go too.

good related headline

CARP ANGLER ZAMORA PLAYS FOR ENGLAND!

ok i know who zamora is but who are those other two players who play for england?

Four further swims were unfishable due to weed

I'll not read a more enjoyable article this year.

it's what you've been waiting for - Savage and Lawrenson's team of the season so far

http://i.imgur.com/bzjhs.jpg

Torn between "stick a steak knife through this season" and desperately wanting our current squad to turn it round. It'd just be that bit sweeter if Maya Yoshida suddenly started being good.

brilliant "my day at the funfair" feel off that bobby z carp fishing diary

"when I got home I was absolutely exhausted from all the carp fishing, and I went straight to bed! I can't wait to go carp fishing again soon!"

maya yoshida has a very long face, but i don't think he will be troubling the upper reaches of english football long enough to earn the soubriquet and 'why the long face' bantz afforded to a previous and more reknowned eredivisie import

hitherto stable career has stalled in england

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DMac will have enjoyed GNev's take down of Gallas on the MNF.

dmac was working on his own defensive patterns in tallaght, but he will now have known to look it up, ta

And fuck Tony Fernandes for tweeting that "true fans" are behind Hughes. Listen, buddy, owners don't get to choose who supports the club. Or what they think.

eh for the number of kneejerk morons on at it him on twitter i can't really blame him for overstepping the mark sometimes

just feel sympathy towards him really, fate is fucking him mercilessly for little more than being unfailingly positive. and any silence on his part now will be deafening

any more bullshit contortions like "Players getting used to premier league and different type of teams" though and i will lose my rag with him

Problem for Fernandes may be that neither he nor any of his executive team have any experience of football, and appear to think you run it like a fantasy football club - get in enough talented individuals and it will all be fine. And presumably they let Hughes have a free rein. Dave McIntyre's interesting about this - I don't think he's written it up for West London Sport yet, but he keeps tweeting that the culture at the club is being set by the owners, and the performances on the pitch reflect that culture.

Today, 7 November, Mark Hughes is still manager of QPR.

www.haveqprfiredmarkhughesyet.com

i like the gif maker's slanderous assumption that was taarabt

re dave mcintyre he's good but i take his forever sceptical views with a pinch of salt, imo the basis seems always to be "this isnt how gerry would've done it in 93". he is unfair on fernandes too; overaccelerated ambition does not automatically equal culture of short-termism

big picture i would argue we are suffering under the curse of briatore's last lunge; we had a settled side and decent targets when we came up, then he strangled any funds til it was nearly too late, then warnock in desperation and vanity goes too far with fernandes' enthusiasm and money, and from then on we're always patching new layers on failed old layers. i don't begrudge much if any of this summer's overhaul (well ok bosingwa can always fuck off and i'd still have had taiwo) but the execution since then by the management has been woeful and that's all it is really

Today, 8 November, Mark Hughes is still manager of QPR.

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Walcott gets a start today, Vermaelen moves over to left back, and Wilshere is rested.

suspended you mean

faurlin starts, alrighty then

for mackie though who mightve been handy here

Yes I forgot about that tackle, xp. Probably needs a rest already anyway.

all part of the plan no doubt

"10 foreigners in the qpr starting line up", helpful commentator infos4u

The stream on the Arsenal game keeps crapping out, I'll have to wait for MOTD.

Giroud heads in from a corner, 1-0.

looking sharp skilful and committed, traore in the swashbuckling mood, good stuff

just need the first goal now and we can hit em on the break all day

"Berbatov quicker than Mertesacker there" - true enough, but they both looked to be moving in .75 speed instant replay. A lumbering foot race.

granero's frequent unchillness always startles

huth's pencil stache is back :)

all over them now, natives getting rowdy

shots on goal still not forthcoming though

jol out

Podolski made it 2-0, now Berbatov heads in laconically from a corner, 2-1.