Bidwell

[Jimmy Floyd Rabbit]

We acquit ourselves with aplomb at Villa and Fulham and then play @rap against a Reading side who we kept up today. Bad management.

Tinkerman just couldn't help himself.

One step forward 3 steps back.

[Tarbie]

Tinkerman just couldn't help himself.

One step forward 3 steps back.

Frustrating yesterday. We'd have won that game by 2 or 3 goals if we had someone on the pitch who knew how to finish.

Always tough these Easter games though. With 2 games in 4 days, there is always a temptation to rotate the squad. Problem for us is that we are so short of goalscorers that we were always gonna be in trouble dropping Smith and Eze.

Personally I would have kept a winning team together and taken stock on Sunday as to who was fit to play on Monday.

[Artful]

One step forward 3 steps back.[/QUOTE]

Don’t know what game you watched but same shape as in previous games and as well as giving the youngsters a go, we have to see how the likes of cousins do actually playing in their correct positions. We murdered them yesterday but were not clinical.

[WeAreQPR12]

Frustrating yesterday. We'd have won that game by 2 or 3 goals if we had someone on the pitch who knew how to finish.

Always tough these Easter games though. With 2 games in 4 days, there is always a temptation to rotate the squad. Problem for us is that we are so short of goalscorers that we were always gonna be in trouble dropping Smith and Eze.

Personally I would have kept a winning team together and taken stock on Sunday as to who was fit to play on Monday.

I'm glad it wasn't your mindset as going on Monday;)

[1973 ranger]

Shows how much they practice penalties when our left back steps up in the last minute yet after the game the manager questions why a forward never took it. Only at Rangers

[Abseits]

Very poor to ask a defender to take a pen. It's not like he's Leighton Baines - an acknowledged penalty specialist. I lay blame at foot of so called attackers and ball-players who went AWOL: cometh the hour, the man did not cometh! It was an absolute stinker of a penalty kick but I wouldn't dig him out for it. I reckon 80% of penalty kicks are pretty poor but most still go in by dint of keeper guessing wrong and diving the other way but people then trot out an aphorism like "it went in ergo it was a good penalty kick".
I've always felt goalies could be good penalty takers.... they spend game making quite a few dead ball kicks that require power and accuracy plus they wont be overly fatigued, especially late in game. They could at least train for taking them. I suppose the massive problem would be if it were saved they'd have to scamper back 100 yds pretty sharpish!

[West Acton]

The gamesmanship from reading for pen knocking ball out his hand then kicking it away was pretty poor. It’s instances like that where sin bin would be perfect punishment as it would stop it happening

[wortonranger]

Tinkerman just couldn't help himself.

One step forward 3 steps back.

Didn’t see the game but the match statistics are remarkable. Really unlucky - and I thought Bidwell scored the last time he took a penalty ? Seems like Ollie can’t win with some of us. Still going to reserve judgment.

[BarryBarry]

The gamesmanship from reading for pen knocking ball out his hand then kicking it away was pretty poor. It’s instances like that where sin bin would be perfect punishment as it would stop it happening

Sin bin wouldn't be much of a deterrent in the last minute

[West Acton]

Sin bin wouldn't be much of a deterrent in the last minute

Get point but stil two three mins to play and already with ten men

[Qprtanpa1]

Doesn’t the manager decide who takes a penalty kick? If not, who does???

[Stanley]

Scored this superb one last season. I thought he was the designated penalty taker ever since?

[Tarbie]

Scored this superb one last season. I thought he was the designated penalty taker ever since?

I'd forgotten about that to be fair.

[gator]

Scored this superb one last season. I thought he was the designated penalty taker ever since?

Yes, that puts a different spin on things, there was nothing wrong with that penalty and I could see why he would take one after that, shame he didn't strike yesterday's that well, there would be a whole lot less doom and gloom on here today!

[72bus]

if we get one tomorrow or should i say later who will take it