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Posted: October 17th 2008
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It’s going well. I genuinely feel refreshed, cleansed. It’s not really anything to do with QPR...more that my enforced absence from the Rs ‘boards has helped me get on with my life. Mixing house husbandry and working from home makes the internet an ever-present threat both to sanity and actually getting anything worthwhile done with my day...and my voluntary withdrawal from the hooped infosuperhighway has certainly aided productivity.
Despite the increasingly Pravda-like tendencies of the official site, where the world is permanently viewed through rose-hooped spectacles, I do feel in touch with the gossip. When a rumour reaches the BBC site, it’s worth taking some notice of...yeah, it may be nicked from a tabloid, but they don’t nick ‘em all, only the interesting ones. I’ve also allowed myself a peak at the Kilburn Times website’s Rangers section (there’s no messageboard, so that’s ok).
Clearly something is afoot with the goalkeeping department. “Fans’ favourite” Lee Camp, permanently benched so far this season, may or may not be available for transfer. We have been linked with relatively big money moves for both Peterborough’s Joe Lewis and Sunderland’s Martin Fulop. All of which suggests Dowie, Paladini, Briatore or whoever makes the decisions is less than convinced by both Camp and Radek Cerny. Me too. A totally dominant ‘keeper can be found at the base of most great team’s spines. Thing is, I do believe both Camp & Cerny are decent enough Championship keepers...whether either Fulop or Lewis is better, I know not...and whether either of them, or another “should be in the Prem” keeper wants to make their way to W12 is open to question...
And inevitably, after one point from the last twelve has sent us plummeting from upper mid table to...er...mid-table, the manager’s position is allegedly at risk. I’ve picked up on three ‘names in the frame’. Peterborough’s Darren Ferguson and Millwall’s (ex-Rs no.2) Kenny Jackett have steered their teams to in or around League One’s Play Off zone, whilst QPR legend and all round famous old bloke Terry Venables has done nothing in particular for some time since he avoided all blame for his role (or not) in McLaren’s England fiasco. Clearly, all three are thus better equipped than Dowie to reignite a promotion push the owners insist isn’t a must.
So I’m up with all the latest nonsense, but have spared myself indulging in 300-post messageboard threads about it. Result.
Forest tomorrow. They’re in even worse form than us, so it’s bound to be mind-numbingly dull. However, exiled as I am in the city that doesn’t really have six girls to every boy, it’s a big game for me. All the Forest fans I know are preaching doom & gloom...but they do that at the best of times. Crossing Trent Bridge as the red hoards pile out from the City Ground after a game, I’ve often commented that they are the only set of fans in the country whose faces don’t give away the result. Mardy bums all round, to coin the local phrase made famous by that mob from 40 miles up the M1.
I’m predicting a 1-1 bore draw, followed by being turned over 3-1 at Swansea...then Dowie surprises all by extracting the knives from his back by masterminding a 2-0 smash & grab raid at Reading on Saturday week.
Nick Gordon Brown