No changes from the team that was shat on at Burnley, and quite frankly it was a crap decision from Dario. Mark Rivers shouldn't even be at this club, he signed by chance and how he gets ahead of Reg Varney is anyone's guess. Yes, Mrs Rivers can argue he scored four goals but that's his peak. Move on. He's bench bound and should become bench ridden.
He shows no interest in actually trying something remotely different to his last run. You know the one, run to the byline and making sure his cross doesn't reach/get past (delete as appropriate) the first man.
So, swiftly moving on we come to King Lenny. His partnership with Neil Sorvel is about as bad as it gets in the team. Kenny can't actually play football to save his life at the moment and Neil Sorvel is a second rate footballer using techniques never seen before in football. Credit though, he's making a living out of it.
As for the defence. Shambles. Foster is playing well below par, Adie Moses is the typical average football league defender, Billy Jones is seventeen and being relied upon too much and Tonkin. Well. I don't know. You forget about him. The fact is it's 17(Seventeen(17)) goals since 30 days ago. That's nasty.
That's disgraceful.
As for Ben Williams. You, yes you, are trying to turn him into a scape goat. Don't let it happen. None of it is his fault. Lets rest him for Ince, let him recover from the traumatic events. So. There.
Vaughan, Ashton and Steve Jones were left out of the rant for a reason. The reason being obvious; they are the only ones who are fully there at the moment. Vaughan is a miracle. You almost want to cry he's that good whilst everyone else is that bad. As for Deeeeeeeeeaaaannnooo. You can see the frustration creeping into his game, almost asking himself why on earth he should sort of these losers inept performances. Of course, he's not really thinking that. He's actually thinking about the hob-nob in block D of the Railtrack who continually slags him off for absolutely no reason. Baffles me as well, Dean.
Stevie Jones. 100% every time. Expect no less. Good lad.
Oh, the game. QPR. Well they scored a free kick from about 35 yards. It was a good'un, although Williams was stuck in action replay mode. Before that; Dean Ashton had a free header from 10 yards but somehow he headed over. He was then assaulted in the box by smug thug Santos when he ran free on goal. Nothing was given, ref didn't want the hassle. As was the case when Marc Bircham picked up the ball inside the area, ran back down the M6 with it before returning to place it strategically at his feet.
Second half saw pretty much the same thing. Georges Santos headed home from a corner. (I know, conceding from corners isn't very us is it?) Then came the defining moment of the game. If you had any doubts before hand then you wouldn't later on. The officials really were nutters.
Steve Jones. Ball. Inside area. BANG. Santos. Jones in several pieces scattered on the floor. PENALTY!. Whistle blown. Referee talks to Santos. Yellow card - ohh. FREE KICK!.
What a disgrace. Jones was a good yard inside the area, he was assaulted by Santos, it was a foul. Referee saw it as a foul. He booked Santos for it. Why oh why oh why oh why did the referee give a free kick? And why did the linesman not have the guts to tell the referee "Oi, twat. You're wrong. It was a penalty to the red team".
Tell me. Someone tell me.
Wait, tell me after I tell you this. Varney, who was brought on for the now crippled Steve Jones, takes the urine out of Q.P.R's defence and is free on goal. Tackle from behind sees him crippled as well. Now, apart from the linesman and the goalkeeper there was no one beside or in front of Varney. Therefore the last man is the one nearest to him and surely the only one who can tackle him is the one nearest to him.... and Padula tackled him/took him out. This leads to the obvious question, what sort of hair cut is that Padula??!!
So anyway. We're not good enough. We need battlers out there. We need to revert back to 4-4-2. 4-3-3 means that if a team can cancel out our attack then we are up that same creek as Cardiff. Try and sign a defender before Saturday, please Dario. I know it's not easy but you say you have a short list so lets get those offers in.
My team on Saturday, ideally, would include Bell, Cochrane, Varney and Ince. Unfortunately, Dario's ideal team would include Walker, Tait and Bankole.
This team is going down without improvements. I fear the worst at the moment.
No player ratings today, sir. They don't deserve them. Naughty.