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[Bill Elkins]

Last time I looked it was 5-0 to the home side.

I wonder how Ainsworth is going to explain this defeat away. Did the BOYS give him everything?

[Bill Elkins]

Final score 5-0 !!

[ESSEXURs]

Followed it on Twitter but it sounded like a truly awful performance which seems to
be no different to the end of last season.

What is worrying is no pride in performing well and no leadership on or off the field to correctt
hings when not going well.

As you say I await GA’s comments with interest as that was our last game before the season start
and presumably close to being our strongest team played.

If that’s our starting eleven God help us when we play teams in our league.

[Tommy Cunningham]

I was at the game chaps and I will repeat what I said on this forum recently, it is gonna be
a long long hard season for our beloved R’s.

Today’s performance was absolutely shocking and it has to be said we are an extremely poor team,
we don’t possess an ounce of quality anywhere in the team. Full backs, central defenders and midfielders,
absolutely woeful and totally outclassed by players that play for a club who finished 19th in League One last season.

Ilias Chair and Chris Willock strolled around going through the motions, totally disinterested and obvious to
many that they don’t want to be at QPR.

If anybody has any doubts about Gareth Ainsworth as manager of QPR, they will be confirmed today on that
performance. Ainsworth’s game plan was to play 60/70 yards diagonal passes all game, it was a disastrous tactic
and in all honesty was “ale house” football.

Sadly I think Gareth Ainsworth is out of his depth managing at this level.

[Steve Russell]

I was at Bedford today & was getting updates throughout the match

Thanks for those comments Tommy..

[Steve Russell]

From West London Sport...

Dunne stretchered off as QPR are thrashed by Oxford in friendly
By West London Sport 29/07/2023

QPR were thrashed 5-0 in a pre-season friendly at Oxford United, where Jimmy Dunne
was stretchered off with a shoulder injury.

Rangers’ options at centre-back are currently limited, with Rob Dickie and Leon Balogun having
left the club and Jake Clarke-Salter continuing to be troubled by injuries.

And their worries in that position have worsened with Dunne, who boss Gareth Ainsworth expected
to be reliant on, having suffered what appeared to be a serious injury.

There must also be concern, a week before the start of the new Championship campaign, about
QPR’s performance against the League One U’s, albeit in a friendly. They were woeful.

Dunne was replaced after 23 minutes by Trent Rendall.

West London Sport revealed on Friday that Rendall, 21, was set to be involved after impressing
Ainsworth in a friendly against Reading this week, and that recent signings Morgan Fox and
Paul Smyth might not feature.

Neither player was selected. Fox is building up his fitness after being without a club during pre-season,
while Smyth has not played since Rangers’ opening friendly against Slavia Prague.

Dominic Gape came on for QPR as a second-half substitute.

The midfielder is on trial ahead of a possible move, having recently been released by Ainsworth’s
former club Wycombe.

QPR: Begovic, Kakay, Dunne (Rendall 23), Gubbins, Paal, Field, Dozzell (Gape 77), Chair,
Richards (Kelman 45), Willock (Adomah 77), Dykes.

[Tommy Cunningham]

To think the club released Conor Masterson who was a decent defender, to keep players
like Gubbins and then trial the awful Trent Rendall is extremely disappointing.
They are plain and simply not good enough.

[Steve Russell]

Francis Peacock commented on Indy's Facebook group...

Oxford: Well... a very poor performance. Frighteningly so. Dozzell was a little boy lost in the middle.
Worrying injury to Dunne. Willock and Chair both pushed so wide in a tight midfield that they were
wholly ineffectual.

Dykes anonymous. The only plus for me was Kelman's energy second half. No creativity. No sparkle.
Their keeper never made a save. Abject defending.

With just a week to go before the season starts I have had my fears confirmed. Players merely trying to
confirm their position by not making mistakes rather than trying to win a game of football.

Our side just lacks genuine ability. Simple as that. Saw several fans wearing the Brookes shirt.
Never has the great Ray Wilkins been so sorely missed. RTID.

[ESSEXURs]

Despite the overloading of midfield players at the expense of goal scoring forwards in the past few seasons we
now seem to have very few midfielders who can impose themselves and be creative. It’s no wonder we score
so few goals.

There must be an experienced midfielder somewhere who could fill that position.

[Kerrins]

Bill in answer to your original question...Did the boys give him everything?

NO!!.....just like the vast majority of fixtures from November up to the end of the season in the last campaign.

Somehow there were two freakish miracle wins at the death away against Burnley and Stoke which kept us
in this Division