the captain leads by example

[neetoneeto]

Our captain, Joey Barton has a lot to answer for. He set the precedent for retaliation, at least Cisse has apologised but Barton never did. He did it then and he'd do it now. That's the neanderthal way. For all his fondness for Neitzche and the great philosophers, he remains a thug at heart, and that makes it acceptable for the rest of the team to behave accordingly. Even were he to be a great footballer, this would not exonerate his temperament and expression. For QPR to survive this season and stay up, he's got to go. Game after game, tweet after stupid tweet, he gives every reason for his dismissal. My only worry is, just like Tevez, no one else wants this expensive and hubristic ****.

[rangerforevereastcote]

how can you blame joey for today? cisse not at the club the last time

get off his fkn back till summer 14 games left maybe time to forget all this cr ap time and get behind the team

[Quaz]

f*ck me, is barton the only player ever to be sent off, and now we have copy cats, wow what a good thread.

[rangerforevereastcote]

f*ck me, is barton the only player ever to be sent off, and now we have copy cats, wow what a good thread.

its now getting ridiculous i would now condone banning people for talking so much sh it
though i pprob got myself a ban aswel

[theblackmafia.]

Our captain, Joey Barton has a lot to answer for. He set the precedent for retaliation, at least Cisse has apologised but Barton never did. He did it then and he'd do it now. That's the neanderthal way. For all his fondness for Neitzche and the great philosophers, he remains a thug at heart, and that makes it acceptable for the rest of the team to behave accordingly. Even were he to be a great footballer, this would not exonerate his temperament and expression. For QPR to survive this season and stay up, he's got to go. Game after game, tweet after stupid tweet, he gives every reason for his dismissal. My only worry is, just like Tevez, no one else wants this expensive and hubristic ****.

Come on, you have been writing that all afyernoon....using big words and stringing coherent sentences together....go on, slap yourself on the back; you clever clogs....

[jmelanie]

Maybe we should have bought JT then he could be captain.

[QPRWEBBIE]

Our captain, Joey Barton has a lot to answer for. He set the precedent for retaliation, at least Cisse has apologised but Barton never did. He did it then and he'd do it now. That's the neanderthal way. For all his fondness for Neitzche and the great philosophers, he remains a thug at heart, and that makes it acceptable for the rest of the team to behave accordingly. Even were he to be a great footballer, this would not exonerate his temperament and expression. For QPR to survive this season and stay up, he's got to go. Game after game, tweet after stupid tweet, he gives every reason for his dismissal. My only worry is, just like Tevez, no one else wants this expensive and hubristic ****.

I think you have upset the Joey Barton fan club

[rangerforevereastcote]

I think you have upset the Joey Barton fan club

webbie go back and read my comments about joey , im defo not the leader of his fan club but to blame hi for cisse sending off outfknrageous

he is playing alongside derry ffs , he is constantly covering him, they were up vs 3 in the middle first half
to come on and have a pop at our captain and blame him for the cisse thing just diabolical

[neetoneeto]

Joey, is the captain and an influential figure. It was become of him that Adel got such short shrift in the first part of the season. He's the classic alpha-male full of bristling defensive bravado. He's not the kind of character you want as your captain. He legitimises retaliation and is jealous of talent in others. Warnock made him captain because Warnock was a coward, lets hope Hughes shows more mettle.

[mat72]

How boring and predictable...Let's blame Barton.
Anything else his fault? Economic crisis, famine, wars, the snow maybe?

[QPRWEBBIE]

webbie go back and read my comments about joey , im defo not the leader of his fan club but to blame hi for cisse sending off outfknrageous

he is playing alongside derry ffs , he is constantly covering him, they were up vs 3 in the middle first half
to come on and have a pop at our captain and blame him for the cisse thing just diabolical

Obviously not to blame for Cisse and probably doesnt help playing with Derry BUT at the same time you cant blame the other players for his poor passing and constantly giving the ball away and we have been punished at least 3 times this season

[rangerforevereastcote]

How boring and predictable...Let's blame Barton.
Anything else his fault? Economic crisis, famine, wars, the snow maybe?

snow is his fault cos he was tweeting
i think syria also asking the un to look into his tweets as they believe them to be the cause of the unrest in the region

[rangerforevereastcote]

Obviously not to blame for Cisse and probably doesnt help playing with Derry BUT at the same time you cant blame the other players for his poor passing and constantly giving the ball away and we have been punished at least 3 times this season

no doubt but they have all made mistakes , window closed now hes our captain in our 25 and we aint got many options in the middle berating him is not going to help

[QPRDave]

How boring and predictable...Let's blame Barton.
Anything else his fault? Economic crisis, famine, wars, the snow maybe?

I blame Wolves' 1976 team that crumbled against Liverpool and lost us the league.How different it all could have been if we won the league that year.
We could have been England's version of Barcelona.(sigh) if only.

[mat72]

What makes me laugh is very few people were against us signing him. I don't think he ever claimed to be a world beater, he's a decent player, albeit one that's not in the best of form. We certainly ain't seen the best of him, then again he has spent most of the season in a pretty average team. Then again this is Rangers and we always have to have one or two players to #### off week in week out..