QPR Promotion Odds

Aaaahhh! Well, at least we're not firm favourites - and I guess it's better than the last few years, when we were firm favourites for relegation!

So that's mid table nothingness again? Glad to see that your owners are splashing the cash around well.

With a decent manager at the helm fives is indeed worth a punt.

I feel that those odds are far more realistic, I like the 5-1 against promotion bit. Newcatsle and M'boro are typical of the bookies, big names, so automatically short prices. For me, the smoggies are going to be a much bigger threat than the skunks who need to rebuild from the ground up. WBA will be threeabouts but still lack the goalscoring threat they had until they let Kevin Phillips leave. Ipswich could be interesting, but I worry about the bottler who's in charge, Reading look destined for a period of decline now that Coppell has gone. Sheff Utd will still be angry bullies who will moan about injustice etc so cannot be ruled out of the race and PNE will still be giants in physical terms and will have to be dealt with. Brizzle will start going backwards, but the Swans will be a nuisance, Cardiff though, I fear for. I think their time has come and gone and the PL vultures will pick off the cream of their players. As for the promoted sides, Leicester will be fine, potentially awkward, but not a real promotion threat, P'boro will be OK, nothing else, Scunny will struggle but may well stay up. Will wait and see until the squads/managers/budgets/ financial situations etc are known before offering anymore thoughts on next season.

I wouldn't even stick a Lady on us unless we get in at least 2 half-way decent strikers

Very glass-three-quarters-full in my opinion there... Hell-guson couldn't score in the proverbial with a thousand pound note. He should be a reserve striker at best, kept at the club only to boost the spirits of the remaining strikers when they see they're nowhere near as bad as him.

Well I happen to think Dexter's been given an unfair amount of stick by the other half of the fans. Hell-guson's goal return, never mind his lack of effort or understanding of the rules of offside, has been abysmal. One goal doesn't make a player, and if that one goal persuaded you that he's a good player somehow then what about Dexter's goal against Preston? And the fact that he's scored 30 goals in 109 games for us?? I think this club has treated him shabbily for his service and I hope he comes back to bite us on the proverbial for letting him go. (When he does eventually go, of course)

Ainsworth doesn't have as much licence to be himself while under Flav's thumb and has to tow the party line. He even said that he thought last year was a successful season! Only Delaney and Vine have come out honestly and stated that last season was a failure. Not abject by any means but still disappointing.