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HeathrowHoop
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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject: Are you like me starting to get sick of.. |
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The incessant stream of no mark former Man City players constantly turning up in the assorted media and having a collective w@nk over the success of "our Citeh". Fat as butter to a man and desperately trying to bathe in reflected glory despite the fact most of their supporters could easily pass them in the street. Enough already. No, just me then.
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Esox Lucius
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Summerbee, Lee, Bell ... errr that's it. Oh wait... Rodney Marsh. I'm done.
I'm guessing Denis Law isn't pitching up as a former City 'star' 
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:36 am Post subject: |
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| Esox Lucius wrote: |
I'm guessing Denis Law isn't pitching up as a former City 'star' |
hahaha, quite!
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yes agree completely .
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Esox Lucius
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| RLHOOP wrote: | | Would we have any different? |
QPR's history is littered with legends. Karl Ready, Darren Peacock, Tony Hazell... the list is almost endless.
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| Esox Lucius wrote: | | RLHOOP wrote: | | Would we have any different? |
QPR's history is littered with legends. Karl Ready, Darren Peacock, Tony Hazell... the list is almost endless. |
Darren Peacock's leg-end was slightly higher than his other. |
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Good luck to them. My telly has an off button and, in extreme circumstances, I can change channels.
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| Esox Lucius wrote: | | RLHOOP wrote: | | Would we have any different? |
QPR's history is littered with legends. Karl Ready, Darren Peacock, Tony Hazell... the list is almost endless. |
Not sure how you can put Ready in the same grouping as Peacock and Hazell  |
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| Don wrote: | | Good luck to them. My telly has an off button and, in extreme circumstances, I can change channels. |
Blimey, the things you can do wi these new-fangled Digital tellys 
That "Ceefax" I think its called is great |
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Esox Lucius
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| DAVEf wrote: | | Esox Lucius wrote: | | RLHOOP wrote: | | Would we have any different? |
QPR's history is littered with legends. Karl Ready, Darren Peacock, Tony Hazell... the list is almost endless. |
Not sure how you can put Ready in the same grouping as Peacock and Hazell |
I liked Karl Ready amd he was nowhere near as bad as the revisionists would have you believe; fpr every PMG moment there is race to the other end to score a vital goal for us.
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| Esox Lucius wrote: | | DAVEf wrote: | | Esox Lucius wrote: | | RLHOOP wrote: | | Would we have any different? |
QPR's history is littered with legends. Karl Ready, Darren Peacock, Tony Hazell... the list is almost endless. |
Not sure how you can put Ready in the same grouping as Peacock and Hazell |
I liked Karl Ready amd he was nowhere near as bad as the revisionists would have you believe; fpr every PMG moment there is race to the other end to score a vital goal for us. |
I also liked Karl Ready. To begin with. And I publicly defended him for a long time but it it gradually dawned on me that I had to admit I was wrong and, though he appeared to have what was needed to be a top level footballer his (not so apparent) flaws held him and us back. And that's not revisionist. Performances and results are pretty good indicators and my memory of having to swallow my pride at the time to back down and accept the view of the majority is still quite clear as is the record of his time playing at QPR which was hardly our most glorious.
Once he'd left the "protection" of LR his career took him to Motherwell, Aldershot Town, Aylesbury United, Crawley Town and Farnborough Town. A very swift downward spiral and none of those much lower level clubs put up with him for very long.
Maybe I'm still a bit annoyed about the time I spent defending him while watching him play a part in so many poor performances (and maybe I still think he could/should have done much better than he did) but I too dislike revisionism and in this case, I'd say you were the guilty one.
PS (quoting from Loftforwords):
"Karl Ready was a professional with Queens Park Rangers for 11 very long, very hard, very trying years. During that time he scored 11 goals from centre back and QPR actually never lost a game where he did find the net. But he went through roughly twice as many ridiculous haircuts in that time too and cost us at least four times as many goals as he scored. He was a dog of a centre back: gangly, awkward, lacking in confidence, accident prone, indecisive and so on. He was a nightmare. And so it’s understandable that the Sky coverage of our trip to big spending Blackburn Rovers in 1994 featured several vox popped QPR fans heading into the away end expressing their ire that chairman Richard Thompson had seen fit to sell Player of the Year elect Darren Peacock to Newcastle for £2.7m and forcing Gerry Francis to replace him with youth team graduate Ready.
The task looked especially daunting for a chronically out of form QPR team that day because Blackburn, now at the height of the Jack Walker revolution, were pushing Manchester United all the way for the league title. They had however already been beaten at Loftus Road 1-0 earlier in the season thanks to a Les Ferdinand goal.
With Ferdinand in the QPR team anything was possible, no matter how bad the situation was elsewhere within the club. Blackburn knew this only too well, and had tried to buy Ferdinand several times prior to this to partner with Alan Shearer. Having failed to do so they then nullified his threat here through one of the worst tackles ever committed without receiving a yellow card. Midway through the first half Ferdinand, turning on halfway, suddenly found Tim Sherwood heading his way with one intention in mind. Sherwood was airbourn when he connected with Ferdinand, two feet off the ground with his right foot outstretched straight out in front of him. He planted the soul of his boot square on Ferdinand’s knee and pushed off like an Olympic swimmer turning for home and kicking back off the wall. It was a horror, probably the worst tackle I’ve ever seen in a football game. Sherwood received a quiet word from the referee while Ferdinand left the scene on a stretcher to be replaced by Simon Barker.
The refereeing didn’t get a lot more favourable for QPR either. In time added on at the end of the first half for the Ferdinand injury Karl Ready was penalised for a foul on the edge of the QPR penalty box and while Tony Roberts was lining his wall up Alan Shearer hooked the free kick over the wall and into the corner. Rangers turned to the official, who turned and headed for halfway.
Behind against what would turn out to be the second best team in the league, relying on a strike force of Devon White and Trevor Sinclair, out of form and facing the prospect of a second half with Alan Shearer attacking a centre back pairing of Ready and Steve Yates I can’t imagine there was much support among the television audience for QPR’s chances.
But strangely (because he was crap and shouldn’t really have been up there in the first place) Ready redeemed himself with seven minutes of this encounter left. A QPR free kick from a similar position to Shearer’s earlier goal rebounded off the wall into the penalty area and Ready, rather sheepishly, poked it past Flowers and in for the equaliser.
Blackburn finished second, eight points behind champions Manchester United, but closed the gap and won the title a year later. QPR rallied in the closing weeks and finished ninth. Karl Ready was eventually, mercifully, released in 2001 after Rangers were relegated to the Second Division. He played briefly, and unsuccessfully, for Motherwell and now runs a Christian mission in Mali.
And he should definitely be in an all time worst QPR XI." |
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Esox Lucius
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Steve Morrow and Andy Tillson would be the centre back pairing in THAT team not Ready. He was a sight better than Steve Yates too IMO
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| Esox Lucius wrote: | | RLHOOP wrote: | | Would we have any different? |
QPR's history is littered with legends. Karl Ready, Darren Peacock, Tony Hazell... the list is almost endless. |
Trevor Sinclair! Even if it is just for a wonder goal. |
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DAVEf
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| Esox Lucius wrote: | | Steve Morrow and Andy Tillson would be the centre back pairing in THAT team not Ready. He was a sight better than Steve Yates too IMO |
Yates was another one who should have been better but never quite seemed to get the hang of decent defending. I remember him piling into Tony Cascarino from the first minute at LR when TC was really flying but ended up being subbed very early due to Yates' dominance of him.
Weren't he and Ready (or Morrow) the central defensive pairing in that debacle at Oxford (or have I finally managed to erase some of the correct painful detail)?
I also feel a wind blowing towards Matthew Rose as another in that infamous group. |
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