OTF

Glad Mbemba was there, made him change his shape for the shot resulting in him pushing it wide.

Take a bow Colback, great defense. Tiote and de Jong are not match fit.

That's how you win a defensive header.

The real fault was giving them so much time to cross, though yes, Janmaat was too flat footed.

How many seconds to get a yellow on debut?

That hard tackling, speedy winger we've brought in in the off-season is looking good.

Insightful.

That and the ball was shit. If you've got a guy with pace to burn make him use it to get to the ball in a good position.

I wasn't putting it down to Williamson, though I was saying he is incapable of playing it out from the back.

Yeah, there's something differ about it. The intent to play it out is the antithesis of Williamson and most of last season. Refreshing.

Get those lottery tickets, Cisse just made a successful tackle and insightful pass in quick succession (we'll forget what he did immediately before).

Mbemba has some toe about him, it will be nice to finally have a central defender with pace. Can't decide whether Colback is doing nothing out there or if he's helping to keep our shape and give our forward men space to work in. Kind of the same with Anita.

There is no substitute for pace. Obertan really did extremely well there, Widjnaldum's run, timing and header were all top notch. I'm liking the cut of our jib spare for our defense.

Fucking brilliant! Great ball. Amazing run and header!

Brilliant Krul.

Obertan was in good form when he was injured last season. He's in there for his pace alone I would say and will likely be subbed at some point for Aarons or Perez.

It's good that they're actually talking about it, even if they don't implement it properly. It needs to be punished consistently and to the extreme because that's the only way to get it removed from the game. The saddest part is that it's so ingrained that it will take a full generation to eradicate fully, and that's being optimistic.

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Disappointing that that's the deserved feeling one day into a new season.

It's frustrating isn't it? It would have been a fresh start for him with a new manager.

I'd be mildly shocked if QPR don't sell him because he won't sign a new contract there. If he's not committed to the QPR promotion cause then they might not get the best of him. If you sort the midfield out competent strikers will score goals in the championship (look at Lovenkrands' record for us) so they should be able to bring someone in to score goals. The flip side of that is if his goals win them promotion next year then it's worth foregoing the 10m+ fee.

I'm disappointed in the overall performances of Haidara in the preseason, I had hoped he would come along with some consistent games. Good pace strong left foot and a desire to beat his man were good signs. If he's rubbish we need to bring in a new left back.

The price of the fee that he's worth is heavily dependant on what level of wages he's willing to accept. 13m on reasonable wages is fair IMO.

... As you do.

Wouldn't be surprised if the rumours are just a ruse to drive up his price before he inevitably goes elsewhere.