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One comment by Neil Warnock in Sky studio sums it up. He noticed Rs players
laughing on the bench when substitutes were being made.

That is an appalling situation and shows disrespect to the club and the manager
has obviously lost the players.
0-11 goals aggregate in three games.

I really cannot see any more points this season and we might as well forfeit the
remaining games.
We are toothless up front and we keep conceding the same goals every game.

We just are unable to hold on to a ball and create anything from midfield.
30/70% possession sums it up!

I thought it was a truly shocking performance, gutless, spineless, shambolic and
we are a team sleepwalking into the relegation zone.

I saw Koki Saito sitting on
the bench after being substituted after another abysmal performance, laughing
and joking with Norrington-Davies when we were 4-0 down at home.
He didn’t give a toss and I hope he never plays for the club again.

Take Jimmy Dunne out of this team and the rest are as weak as piss, I thought
we got away with conceding only 4 goals.

Neil Warnock said the whole team needed a kick up the backside, well until we
get a manager who has the balls and backbone to fire some spirit and gumption
Into this shambolic squad we have no chance.

There are ways of losing football matches and the way we lost today wasn’t one
of them, the stadium was flat from start to finish and the gulf in class was immense.

But the minimum requirement in any team is maximum effort, but none of that was
on display at Loftus Road.

Surely Julien Stephan has now reached the end of his employment at QPR, he stood
on the touch line this afternoon looking like Mr Bean totally clueless and showed no drive,
passion, or desire to get more out of this woeful squad of players.

He can’t even use the injury excuse now for not having a team that can at least
play like a team. It has been so long now without certain players surely by now we
can put together a side that can perform to a standard to avoid these humiliating
defeats.

We have a team playing in the main without passion and with no passion being shown
by our so called manager. Only Plan A whatever it is and substitutes used far too late to
influence the game.

We can’t afford to have yet another ‘ learning on the job manager’ as we slowly slide
back to the relegation zone. We need a home grown manager who knows the Championship
and what is required to be consistent.

Looking at some of today’s lineup.

Walsh - Very low on confidence and should have been dropped after Southampton.

Mbengue - A truly shocking player with absolutely no technical ability, erratic and
a bomb scare when the ball comes near him. The only thing I can say in his defence is,
he’s not and never will be a full back but Stephan continues to select him there. Why ?

Dunne - The only player with any leadership skills in the team today, I think we
would be in real trouble without him.

Norrington-Davies - Laughing and joking on the bench with Saito when 4-0 down.
Loan player who doesn’t give a toss.

Saito - Weak as piss and looks out of his depth at this level, probably get bullied
in an U12 boys game. Showed how much he cared when he was laughing and joking
on the bench with Norrington-Davies when 4-0 down.

Edwards - Him and Dunne are a good central defender partnership.

Hayden, Varane, Morgan and Vale - Totally outclassed by the Middlesbrough midfield.
Morgan gone backwards this season in my view.

Kone - Lacks pace, incapable of holding the ball up and bringing players into play.
He has found the Championship very difficult.

Smith - Came on as a substitute and in the space of 5 minutes, gave away a needless
penalty and got caught the wrong side of an attacker for another Boro goal.

Just my opinions on some of these sub standard footballers, stealing a living from QPR
and bringing nothing to the club whatsoever.

The goalkeeper position has gone from a club with a long history of great goalkeepers
to one you just do not notice the goalkeeper until he is frequently picking the ball up
from the back of his net. That will be the next injury back strain for Walsh.
Why do we keep playing him?
He does not command his area so putting more strain on our defence.
He seems slow to react to shots from distance.

One defeat after another can’t be good for his development and he should be taken
out of the firing line.
I just hope Walsh and Nardi before him are not playing to orders and are being told
to stay on their line as that assumes our defence will be first to the ball which is far
from the case.

All of the above comments by Tommy and Essex are valid viewpoints and sadly
outline a current sad state of affairs.

My take on the situation as we speak is as follows. A few weeks ago the faint play
off hopes vanished into the proverbial ether and because there is (at the moment)
no sign of a serious relegation threat the players now don't give a stuff and our
Manager/Coach is unable to remedy matters or at least install some motivation.

I reckon there will be no maximum effort from players management and staff until
if or when we fall into the fringes of the relegation zone.

Really there should be no need of that sort of a wake up call to make personnel get
their finger out! Poor attitude and somewhat disgraceful!

Hard to watch games being given away with little plan, conviction nor learning in evidence.

So many goals scored by unmarked or very loosely marked opposition players.

Too many goals scored with keeper not close to saving.

Too little evidence of getting the basics right to give ourselves a fighting chance.

Players being used wrongly or looking like they don't understand the assignment.

What has gone so wrong in the short timeframe from the Leicester 4 - 0 until now?

Weakened squad - yes. But not to the point that progress should be paralysed. And if attributing squad depletion to recent capitulation, how can Morrison and Field absences be justified?

QPR fans have learned to take the rough with the rough----- but there has got to be fight, there has got to be pride on show, there has got to be players sticking to individual task and team looking like they are playing to a collective, practised system.

You can't beat Coventry and keep a clean sheet and then follow up with such inept, embarrassing and quickly-becoming-predictable failure.

Defence- keep it tight, organised, together and damage to minimum.
Play out to nippy wingers tasked to feed onto forwards' runs.
Wingers - get the crosses / passes completed asap and as your priority.
Kone / Kolli --- be on the run to be found and finish not stuck in the traffic where you can't create danger.
Midfield -protect first, don't get overrun and attack with intent when opportunity presents.

We may be missing some first choice players but every person putting a shirt on must be able to give a professional account of themselves or should not be there at all. This should not be as bad as it is.

Must be hard for Jimmy to captain in this situation.