The Ron Around
Welcome back to another, albeit a little shorter, Ron Around.
It has been a hectic couple of weeks with Rangers playing six times in the last twenty days but hey we made it to the top half of the table! Well for twenty four hours anyway.
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The last couple of games have been both strange and worrying, why is it we fall to pieces as soon as we concede a goal? Luigi De Canio must be tearing his hair out on the training ground at the moment.
Normally I get over a bad game fairly quickly, especially this season when I’ve seen so many positives but Sheffield Wednesday really pissed me off. You could excuse the collapse if it only happened every now and again but it’s happening all too often. What’s more annoying is you can see it coming a mile off!
We tried our best to throw things away against Blackpool as well, how you can end up clinging on for a win with eight defensive minded outfield players on the pitch after being three nil up is beyond me but that’s QPR at the moment.
We have such a soft underbelly it’s untrue, it isn’t like teams carve us up for a period of time then make the breakthrough, they score, we fall apart.
When you watch us play so well for long periods then try and commit football suicide it’s bloody annoying and something we have to sort out because we can’t rely on getting three up just to be sure of winning a game.
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That said what an achievement it has been to get up to twelfth in the league. Gigi has taken us from rock bottom to the top half and if it hadn’t been for some dodgy results we would be right up there scrapping for a play off place.
It’s all the more amazing when you consider we were the last team in The Football League to win a game this season!
It would be interesting to see a table based on games played since Gigi took over, I might try and work that one out for the next edition as I’d love to see how we compare against the rest of division under De Canio.
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I was sad to read on the official site that Frank Sibley has retired from football and is suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
Sibley spent so much time at Loftus Road through the 60’s to the 90’s he became part of the furniture. Always an unsung hero he has made a massive contribution to the club on and off the pitch across four decades and I wish him well for the future.
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Performance manager Joe Dunbar has left the club today giving credence to the rumours that Gareth Ainsworth has now been installed as De Canio’s deputy.
The Kilburn Times reported that he has signed a new contract in a player/coach role although there has been nothing official said on that yet.
If true that can only be good news, Wild Thing seems like an infectious bugger to be around and hopefully that’ll rub off well on the players. Good luck to him.
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Finally I’ve had to disable the comments section on the blog site for now, it seems there is no stopping crazy Chinese Viagra sellers whatever you do!
If you want to get in touch the email remains the same, ron@qprnet.com
‘Till next time….
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