Queen’s Park V Pars

[bridgeofweirdo]

7) All throw ins going directly to opposition via inability to clear feet as ball always goes back to player who takes throw in.

PLEASE gonna train up somebody to take long throw ins !! --not difficult.

[spiders4ever]

1 hour ago, bridgeofweirdo said:

7) All throw ins going directly to opposition via inability to clear feet as ball always goes back to player who takes throw in.

PLEASE gonna train up somebody to take long throw ins !! --not difficult.

Perhaps we need a long throw in coach first.

 

[Heaton]

If you grant us 9 more points you can have Edwards for a day teaching your guys.

[DAFC.]

Dom Thomas will have a quality game then go missing the next two. Rinse and repeat. And that’s when you play him out wide. Playing him through the middle…you’d be as well just playing with 10 men. Really shocked at how poor QP were yesterday, although we are quite decent, so shouldn't forget that.  

[qpfc]

6 minutes ago, DAFC. said:

Dom Thomas will have a quality game then go missing the next two. Rinse and repeat. And that’s when you play him out wide. Playing him through the middle…you’d be as well just playing with 10 men. Really shocked at how poor QP were yesterday, although we are quite decent, so shouldn't forget that.  

In fairness, Thomas has been very consistent since he joined us, understand that wasn’t the case prior and probably a massive factor as to why he’s still a championship player in his prime years. Just typical he picked one of his worst, if not worst game against yourselves

[Bring Your Own Socks]

5 hours ago, Stuntiethumper said:

See here for Haughey's "donation"  

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12017/11495265/scottish-fa-agree-deal-to-remain-at-hampden-park

Thanks. According to the annual reports for the limited company responsible for Hampden Park there’s an entry for the money they owe to QP which shows £2M payable in annual instalments over 8 years. The rest of that £5m is unexplained. There’s no trace of Haughey or any City Holdings contacts in any of the four SFA limited companies but that would be his style. No liability, just buying influence.

imho, QPFC will never play another league fixture at Lesser Hampden.

[HoBNob]

2 minutes ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:

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imho, QPFC will never play another league fixture at Lesser Hampden.

With regards to this, what happens if Haughey passes away? The rent at Hampden won't be cheap.

[Bring Your Own Socks]

4 hours ago, parsforlife said:

5) Play a high line but have at least one drop far too early and therefore play everyone else onside by a few yards

He’s been culpable of that over the last two seasons. Thought someone on the training field might have had a word by now.

[Bring Your Own Socks]

4 minutes ago, HoBNob said:

With regards to this, what happens if Haughey passes away? The rent at Hampden won't be cheap.

It’s a rule of life that every one of us pass away so it’s when, not if. But our President confirmed, when asked at an AGM, that “everything is in writing”. But then so was the construction contract.

[Salvo Montalbano]

1 hour ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:

imho, QPFC will never play another league fixture at Lesser Hampden.

If that is the case then why build the overside Chairman Mao box?

[williebraveheart]

48 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:

If that is the case then why build the overside Chairman Mao box?

Indeed. Why build it at all?

Edited September 17, 2023 by williebraveheart

[Cardle is Magic]

1157 home fans - which I’m assuming includes tickets given away for free - has got to be a huge disappointment for QP on their first game back at Hampden.

[Salvo Montalbano]

12 minutes ago, Cardle is Magic said:

1157 home fans - which I’m assuming includes tickets given away for free - has got to be a huge disappointment for QP on their first game back at Hampden.

Aye, a total crowd of less than 1700... couldn't they have all fitted into Lesser the City Stadium?

[Zanetti]

2 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:

Aye, a total crowd of less than 1700... couldn't they have all fitted into Lesser the City Stadium?

No, it holds less than 1000. You'd have been given a very limited away allocation.

[Ben Reilly]

3 hours ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:

Thanks. According to the annual reports for the limited company responsible for Hampden Park there’s an entry for the money they owe to QP which shows £2M payable in annual instalments over 8 years. The rest of that £5m is unexplained. There’s no trace of Haughey or any City Holdings contacts in any of the four SFA limited companies but that would be his style. No liability, just buying influence.

imho, QPFC will never play another league fixture at Lesser Hampden.

My understanding if it is that it was exactly what was described in the article. A donation.

Effectively, he gave us a £2.5m donation to accept a £2.5m offer from the SFA (paid in instalments) for the sale of Hampden.

Why? Apparantly to stop the SFA moving to Murrayfield? (Not that I'm complaining about that)

[Ben Reilly]

3 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:

Aye, a total crowd of less than 1700... couldn't they have all fitted into Lesser the City Stadium?

BBC has attendance as 1,968 (not that that is much better)

[Ben Reilly]

2 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said:

If that is the case then why build the overside Chairman Mao box?

Simple. So that the stadium has suitable facilities to host Uefa/Fifa youth internationals, and SFA events.

1000 seats is plenty for that, and

A) the rental from the SFA is a nice earner

b) it's a good bargaining chip for the use Hampden

c) all of the above.

We won't play many, if any, league games at Lesser until either we fall out with the SFA again (certainly not impossible) and/or we build up enough money to increase the capacity and it's more financialy viable to play at our own stadium.

[Spider1975]

22 hours ago, CallumPar said:

Also, just to add… just seen Dom’s interview. I loved him when he was with us and he’s a great player. I’d love to see him do well in his career, just not against us. But he mentions our 3 or 4 game losing streak… we’ve lost 1 out of 5 so far, and drew our last league game before yesterday. We’re also unbeaten away from home in almost a full calendar year.

Also talks about QP dominating possession, but having been at the game I definitely thought we had more of the ball and completely dominated the game. He’s never taken defeats well, but he’s just making up nonsense in that interview.

His interview annoyed me more than Veldman's. I'll be honest, I thought QP had more possession than the BBC stats described, but certainly didn't play anywhere near as well as he seems to think.  His 'patterns' for me were turgid side-side-back-side-back etc etc.

I'm not entirely sure what he reckons a 'clear cut chance' is, other than the ball being two yards out in front of an open goal and to say that opposition teams will only get 'a few chances' against us is pure fantasy at the moment - could have shipped several against Rovers and Dunfermline.

[Cyclops van Gogh 1867]

15 hours ago, Ben Reilly said:

My understanding if it is that it was exactly what was described in the article. A donation.

Effectively, he gave us a £2.5m donation to accept a £2.5m offer from the SFA (paid in instalments) for the sale of Hampden.

Why? Apparantly to stop the SFA moving to Murrayfield? (Not that I'm complaining about that)

Not 100% certain, but I seem to remember at the time, half of the £2.5 million donation was being provided by Sir Tom Hunter.

[Hampden Diehard]

I don't know who edited the highlights, but we looked better than I remember.

Poor defending for the first goal (Thomson maybe unlucky with a bad bounce) and the second was a cracker. Didn't see any red card offence, same as what I remembered from the game, and I was very surprised that we had 14 shots. 

We were poor and the Pars were deserved winners.

It's six games in, a fair change in playing staff who are being asked to play in a way that's probably different to anything they've played before. No cause for alarm.