Charlie Austin scores on his return to QPR. I guess sometimes you can go home again.
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Colossal shitshow going off again at Wednesday even by the low standards we've come to expect from Our Dear Leader, he's pretty much reached the point where he's stuck pencils up his nose and underpants on his head judging by the bollocks he's come out with now.
In his rambling press call on New Year's Eve Chansiri proudly announced that some bloke called Erik Alonso from WBD Sports was working with us as an advisor. It seems one of his roles was to advise on who should be our new manager following the sacking of Pulis on December 28th. Names were put forward, including Paul Cook - you may have seen the report in the Athletic earlier in the week which stated Cook had turned down the job in a contract to the end of the season. There were no quotes from Cook in this report (or indeed, at all on the position) and there's some debate in the local press about the accuracy of it (i.e. whether Cook actually was offered the job). Meanwhile our regular advisor to the chairman, the useless Amadeu Paixao was busy recommending various names himself, clearly operating entirely independently from Alonso.
Earlier this week Alonso announced that he was no longer working with us, blaming "irreconcilable differences" and "forces around the club" and has spent the days since liking enormous numbers of anti-Chansiri tweets. Chansiri has this evening claimed "Alonso was never an official advisor" in direct contradiction of previous comments and accusing him of "trying to make himself look important and big". Chansiri also decided to criticise Cook for some reason, labelling him "unprofessional" and claiming he doesn't interfere in footballing matters which is in direct contradiction of all the available evidence with previous managers. There's also stuff about how coaches under him have had too much authority, so we're going to end up with some yes man. At least it won't be Roy Keane then.
We had a Covid break in January and during it the club announced a new supporter engagement strategy, which on the face of it sounded pretty reasonable. The first of these panels apparently took place last week. Seems any hopes of this being of use were misplaced, the supporters trust has just released an update which almost makes you wonder if the purpose is not to have to deal with the Trust.
We can share with you though that the Trust is disappointed with the club’s approach to the engagement panel process, particularly:- Rigid confidentiality rules that mean what happens in the meetings will be kept secret apart from what the club agree to put in the minutes
- Whilst there will be an attempt to agree minutes with fans organisations they will be drafted by the club; the Trust’s prior experience suggests these could be bland to the point of being meaningless to anyone who didn’t attend
- The meetings will be recorded, and will be available to the club for the purpose of club minute drafting, but the recordings will not be made available to participants. This seems unfair.
- There are currently sixteen participants on the fans element of the panel and six have been chosen by the club, which undermines independence.
- The Trust knows of fans who applied to join the panel and did not receive a response. No one knows the criteria the club used to choose participants.
- It has been set up without any prior consultation, rules, constitution or process and is being developed organically
The Trust is a democratic, accountable, and independent Supporters’ Trust. We believe the arrangements for the panel are not democratic, not fully independent of the club and that the process will not be accountable due to the secrecy rules imposed by the club.
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Originally posted by longeared View Postrumours that we were going to appoint David Webb (ex Huddersfield, not the bloke who scored the winner in the 1970 cup final).
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Originally posted by pebblethefish View Post
I know nothing about the ex-Huddersfield David Webb, but I believe any Brentford fan will reassure you that he could be nothing like as bad as the ex-Chelsea twat.
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I haven't really been that bothered with Wednesday's results this year. It's obviously a relegation season and pretty much deserved. But today I really wanted us to flatten those racist cunts from Millwall and their celebration of the murder of black people. So I'm dead pissed off now.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI haven't really been that bothered with Wednesday's results this year. It's obviously a relegation season and pretty much deserved.
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A strange but exciting game at Boro. Brentford were the better team but the 4-1 scoreline flattered them. David Raya made up for his early blunder - possibly fouled, just as he was at Swansea, but he's got to be stronger in those situations - with some remarkable saves.
Without wanting to tempt fate, I can't deny it's looking good. 20 unbeaten, 52 goals, Ivan Toney up to 22 now but most significantly, this was Brentford's first league win over a Neil Warnock team since 1998.
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It's tightened up an awful lot at the bottom in recent weeks. A while back it looked as if relegation would be three from Wycombe, Wednesday, Rotherham, Wayne Rooney's Derby and Forest. Now the latter four have gathered a few results, Wycombe look doomed and they'll be joined from two from about half the division - Preston in 11th are closer points-wise to the relegation places than they are the play offs. Norwich's little wobble at the top means the division as a whole looks a lot more interesting than it did.
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