Their 'cup final' is virtually meaningless to us compared to the Luton game and even Bournemouth. I'd put it on the same level as Brentford and Wycombe. All 3 are derbies but nothing compared to the Scum up the road, Boscombe w@nk€rs or Palace when we play them.
Every game lower division teams play against our Premier League stars is a cup final for them. (If we have any Prem stars left on our books next season, of course.)
Loftus Road will be full for the first time in about 2 years when Deeney comes to town, 18,000 people will choke back the tears and be able to say 'I was there!'
Not true if you come from south of Watford, particularly if you remember the era when Venables was their manager.
Despite being from that neck of the woods originally, I've never cared too much for the QPR 'rivalry' (apart from giving my PE teacher stick when we beat them!) as I grew up in North Watford, but it is interesting to see how perceptions of rivalries can change depending on location and time
Used to love goin up the Bush for some cheap beer, easy 3 points and the 207 bus back home again. Always started in the Wonder Cafe for a fry up. Best place in the world for a full English
Just like with Arsenal. 5 games against Arsenal before Deeney's cojones comments: Won 3 Lost 2. 5 games after 'cojones' Drew 1 Lost 4 (including our relegation decider). The guy is a complete moron! Villa also said they were motivated by his celebrations to come back from 1-0 down to get the result that ultimately relegated us. But as long as 'brand Deeney' is getting the attention, it's all ok right?
That's harsh. Our results against Arsenal after Deeney made that comment (and he was being interviewed, so had to say something) are purely coincidental. The first one was when we were on a terrible away run, during which even Huddersfield and a very poor West Ham side beat us - Arsenal needed no motivation to beat us, we were just ****. The last four we largely played well but were unlucky and made bad defensive/goal keeping mistakes, again I don't think you can credit Arsenal for being extra motivated. As for the Villa game, blaming Deeney for the loss is nonsense. If it was one of the players who said they were motivated to win by his celebrations I wouldn't put too much credence in that because most footballers are stupid and also it simply doesn't reflect how the game went. We were in control of the game long after Deeney's goal, him almost scoring a second at 55 minutes, but then Villa made a vital substitution bringing on Douglas Luiz (who scored the winning goal) and we made the mistake of taking our foot off the gas, something you can't do against any opponent at this level. By your logic any time we score first and the team makes a comeback, the player who scores is to blame for celebrating.
As Herr Flick would say "This is true" however I will offer Alan Mullery too. I was allowed to interview him as a cub reporter and he was unintelligible. This was before Sir Harry Stocracy perfected such 'speech'!
That's because it's all his fault. I asked my Amazon delivery driver why he was a day late, he said it was down to Deeney's celebration against Newcastle. Who cares about my AAA battery delivery as long as 'brand Deeney' gets a pundit slot on MOTD in the future?
I saw it, and have just watched it again (at 1:40) - don't see anything wrong with it, doesn't seem any more provocative than the usual goal celebration:
Is that little Lee Cook who always got nosebleeds still playing for them? Always enjoy visiting Queens Pork Stranglers. Like their ground (except getting flobbed on from on high), like the cosmopolitan Kremlin-friendly surrounding area. Even quite like the fans of theirs that I've known over the years. For example a salute to 'Furlong for England' if he should happen to stumble across this.
CookIsARanger. Along with several other twits whose combined intelligence amounted to less than an amoeba they were swiftly banned.
The two cup finals does refer to Watford https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/qpr-to-travel-almost-6000-miles-in-202021/
And he did it against Villa at home a few weeks before but clearly didn't motivate them that much in that game as we won 3-0. QPR seem to have history going back to the 70s with us - even seen Brentford fans claim they don't like us. Mind you after the Pearson situation not sure anyone does !!
We will never know exactly what happened with Pearson, but personally I don't think he would have made an iota of difference to what happened in the last two matches, in fact I think we might even had done even worse if he had still been around. Lets face it plenty of people on here were already disillusioned with him before "THE INCIDENT" and calling for him to go, and I was one who would have been happy to see the back of him at the end of the season. Therefore most of us know all the fuss "The Media" made about him leaving when he did is a load of "Bolarks" as most of thought he had lost the plot anyway, therefore for whatever reason he went when he did is basically irrelevant.
I don't know if a lot of people wanted him out as there was surprise he got sacked but yes I agree having him here probably would have made no difference. Certainly those claiming in the media we would have done much better with him were being a bit misty eyed. They all seem to think we now sack 3 managers a season each time and deserve to go down etc. Had it been an overseas manager they would have just gone with the "lost the dressing room etc " angle like with Gracia and Flores.
Even longer, actually. We’ve played QPR loads of times over the years, going back to the 3rd Division South days and even the Southern League pre-1920. But I know, although before my time, that a particular animosity surfaced in the mid 1960s. Both teams were pushing for promotion to the Second Division and Watford’s style under Ken Furphy at the time was based on a strong defence and physical tactics. Rangers, meanwhile were seen as a flamboyant attacking team scoring lots of goals with Rodney Marsh their star player. At the start of the 66/67 season Watford beat them 1-0 at Vicarage Road and QPR felt they had been unfairly bullied out of the game. They actually published a photo in their programme of one of their players with a severely torn shirt by way of proof. They ended up Champions that year and it took Watford two further years to follow. The animosity lasted for many years afterwards and was certainly still around in the early 1980s when the clubs’ two styles clashed again: this time Venables’ offside trap against GT’s supposed ‘long-ball’ game.
