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[Harry Lime]

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I was hoping that we'd have an energy about us, a purpose, a drive to our game. It'll take a bit of time for some partnerships on the pitch to develop, but that doesn't excuse a lifeless, lacking in energy performance in Bulut's first game.

Track back to Warnock's first game in charge. We'd been rubbish for Trollope, yet under Warnock, we at least showed some guts and desire in his first game. None of that yesterday.

Fair, NW freshened up an underperforming team and struck gold from the off. He added 3 new faces to a stale team. This team has been thrown together over a couple of months.

[blue matt]

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Frankly astonished by the overwhelming negative reaction here, even from seasoned fans and messageboard doyerns. What on earth did you expect?

No I'm not astonished really. We'll sign a few players this week and next stop who knows.

Let's judge it after a dozen games. We could be this season's Coventry or we can carry on wetting the bed after 2 ****ing games, up to you.

100% agreed

I made this post on another thread

Im not sure I saw the same game as some on here ( and on the Call Rob radio show, dont normally listen to that, is it always as negative ? ? )

1st 30 mins were we not great, but neither were QPR

1st goal they scored, Should have never have been robbed like that, 2nd goal, you have to win that slide tackle or at least bring the player down, dont let them skip past you

we hit the crossbar twice, had a few a very decent chances

Rambo looked like he was 100% committed to win, Ollie came on and as ive said in the past, he is exciting, he runs at players

on another day, we have won this game, and we would be thinking everything is good

I came away discussing it with my 2 daughters and it was all positive and I stand by that

Another 24 hours on and I still took positives out of the game, Rambo looked well up for it, if people had doubts he was here just to go through the motions, it certainly looked like he wasnt yesterday

Of course you cant forget on here, we have people who are just negative towards the club by nature, they love to look for reasons to moan, but they are what they are :shrug:

If one of them shots that hit the crossbar had gone in, its a different result

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Fair, NW freshened up an underperforming team and struck gold from the off. He added 3 new faces to a stale team. This team has been thrown together over a couple of months.

We used to have a chant "get into them, fck them up", which can be taken to an extreme, but I remember it being a regular over the years when teams have sat back and invited teams to do what they want.

I'm not pointing fingers but if the new conductor gets the same tune out of the same orchestra, either he's the same as the other conductors or there's nothing more the orchestra can do individually.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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It was a desperate performance

It would have been good to see some fight and some patterns of play

I was very surprised City were not up for this game

We were not unlucky , we were poor and deserved to lose

It was back down to earth with a bump and I think after so many years of rubbish people expected a gutsy performance

But we lay down yet again

[Wash DC Blue]

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We were absolutely terrible yesterday.
We might learn something from it but it was a dire, toothless performance.

Still, early doors no need for bed wetting just yet and hopefully we can strengthen in a few areas.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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It was like a delta blues death march behind the band

New Orleans

And we were late

[Don Corleone]

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I expected us to start fast and on the front foot and take the game to a team who lost 4-0 last week, have been in freefall for some time and must have been low on confidence. If we got caught on the break so be it but at least have a go at them in the first home game of the season.

I expected to see the ball got forward to Grant and Bowler quickly, for them to take on their man and get dangerous crosses in.

Instead we started so slowly and played so negatively that we allowed QPR to grow and then dominate that first half .

I know it takes some time to gel as a team but surely it’s not asking too much to start the first home game of the season at a much higher tempo .

We got better when Adams went off injured and Robinson came on and suddenly Ramsey had someone who was on the same wavelength as him. Thing is , that substitution wasn’t planned but hopefully Bulut and the coaching team have learnt something and will build on it for future games.

To be honest I’m getting very fed up of the away teams fans, players and managers celebrating wildly in that corner of the stadium at the end of games, it’s becoming a very regular occurrence in recent years!

[Des Parrot]

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I expected us to start fast and on the front foot and take the game to a team who lost 4-0 last week, have been in freefall for some time and must have been low on confidence. If we got caught on the break so be it but at least have a go at them in the first home game of the season.

I expected to see the ball got forward to Grant and Bowler quickly, for them to take on their man and get dangerous crosses in.

Instead we started so slowly and played so negatively that we allowed QPR to grow and then dominate that first half .

I know it takes some time to gel as a team but surely it’s not asking too much to start the first home game of the season at a much higher tempo .

We got better when Adams went off injured and Robinson came on and suddenly Ramsey had someone who was on the same wavelength as him. Thing is , that substitution wasn’t planned but hopefully Bulut and the coaching team have learnt something and will build on it for future games.

To be honest I’m getting very fed up of the away teams fans, players and managers celebrating wildly in that corner of the stadium at the end of games, it’s becoming a very regular occurrence in recent years!

Well said. I can’t add too much to that. We need some signs of change from the malaise of the last 3 seasons

[Dave Blue]

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I expected us to start fast and on the front foot and take the game to a team who lost 4-0 last week, have been in freefall for some time and must have been low on confidence. If we got caught on the break so be it but at least have a go at them in the first home game of the season.

I expected to see the ball got forward to Grant and Bowler quickly, for them to take on their man and get dangerous crosses in.

Instead we started so slowly and played so negatively that we allowed QPR to grow and then dominate that first half .

I know it takes some time to gel as a team but surely it’s not asking too much to start the first home game of the season at a much higher tempo .

We got better when Adams went off injured and Robinson came on and suddenly Ramsey had someone who was on the same wavelength as him. Thing is , that substitution wasn’t planned but hopefully Bulut and the coaching team have learnt something and will build on it for future games.

To be honest I’m getting very fed up of the away teams fans, players and managers celebrating wildly in that corner of the stadium at the end of games, it’s becoming a very regular occurrence in recent years!

This is a great summing up, totally agree.

[Des Parrot]

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If you are basing your opinion on the bookies then us getting 3 points against QPR is pretty far from being in the bag. I'm not sure if I expect any result in this league, especially in August

Nothing to do with the bookies. QPR are the worst form team in the division is 2023, having only won 3 out of 21 games. They got thrashed by Watford in their first game and their own fans expect them to be relegated. It was a game where City could & should have gone for the throat, instead of being passive. Of all of the home games this season, it should have been a priority to bag the win.

[Father Dougal]

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Fair, NW freshened up an underperforming team and struck gold from the off. He added 3 new faces to a stale team. This team has been thrown together over a couple of months.

Great point. We can all remember walking into and walking away from that friday night Bristol game under neil thinking this is different, this is going to be fun. Was instant.

Balls to needing time to gel. I don't buy it.

All we got from bulut was the players were nervous and he doesn't know why. Promising!

[Father Dougal]

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Nothing to do with the bookies. QPR are the worst form team in the division is 2023, having only won 3 out of 21 games. They got thrashed by Watford in their first game and their own fans expect them to be relegated. It was a game where City could & should have gone for the throat, instead of being passive. Of all of the home games this season, it should have been a priority to bag the win.

They lost 5 0 to Oxford in their final pre season game also with their strongest side.

They are awful.

[the other bob wilson]

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I reckon Bulut would have been really shocked by that performance and I’m not blaming him much for it, but I challenge any City fan who has watched us play at home over the past three seasons to say it came as a total shock to them. Blue Matt says he thought the first thirty minutes were pretty even, I didn’t- I’m not claiming any special expertise, but I had a good idea about what was going to happen after ten minutes as QPR, just like virtually every side that comes here were given plenty of opportunity to knock the ball around under minimum pressure by a City side that always forgoes the advantages that playing at home should give you.

We’ve been starting our home games like an away team for far longer than the last three seasons - you would have thought by now that the penny would have dropped that it doesn’t work, but I’m starting to believe the players can’t help themselves. I’m deadly serious when I talk about the need to consult a sports psychologist about our home performances. We’re not talking about seven home league games here, we’re talking about seventy of them in which we’ve been beaten thirty four times, while winning twenty two, this is a long term problem, not a panic reaction after two matches!

[Carl Dale's Mole]

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I blame the drums.

[Nobody's Rep]

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I blame the drums.

Well it's their turn as everyone else has had the fault between sat and this morning

I blame the fans for not turning up in their thousands and scaring the feck out of the opposition as that was what worked during the old days apparently

Oh by the way there were no drums on Saturday