• CO CountryRoyal 7 Oct 2022 · 10:00pm

  Yeah I think everyone is pretty magnanimous. We were deservedly beaten, no shame in that! We weren’t at our best but I thought QPR played well.

• YO YorkshireRoyal99 7 Oct 2022 · 10:01pm

  Hardly a disaster, we've lost one game where we played pretty well but lacked quality in the final third. It's not like our away record is particularly fantastic despite our position. Just got to concentrate on the home games and keep the points ticking over there. If we get can to 35 points by the halfway stage, I'm very confident we survive.

• HO Hound 7 Oct 2022 · 10:06pm

  Didn’t watch sheff utd but thought rangers were the best I’ve seen this season otherwise And we could have got something there. Nothing to fear in this division, we should be aiming for top half min

• FD From Despair To Where? 7 Oct 2022 · 10:07pm

  Disappointed but not disheartened. I know we've got a hard run of games in the next month, purely from the volume of games, but looking a bit ahead, we will have played everyone once by Christmas. In the second half of the season, we play Norwich, QPR, Sheffield Utd and Swansea, 4 of the current top 6 in the first 6 games. We then have Watford 7th game. That's a lot of the potentially difficult games out of the way early doors. I know it doesnt always work out like that but, on paper, our run of fixtures looks pretty kind from the second week of February to the end of the season.

• BR Brogue 7 Oct 2022 · 10:08pm

  Wow carrol last took a peno in 2016 :shock: great composure from the big man

• YO YorkshireRoyal99 7 Oct 2022 · 10:11pm

  Hardly say I fear Swansea (in either game) or any team at home. Watford and Norwich away I'm expecting defeat, but all the rest we can quite comfortably pick up points in. Seen enough to know we are capable of hurting teams and beating them. Just need to do a little bit more in front of goal than we did tonight.

• WI windermereROYAL 7 Oct 2022 · 10:11pm

  Mate, we are sitting in 4th place, we need 28 points from 33 games to get 50 pts, 0.84 ppg. we lost tonight but talk of us surviving is just so wrong. Of course we won't be top six, but I wouldn't expect us to near the bottom either. 7 wins and a few draws should do it.

• GE genome 7 Oct 2022 · 10:12pm

  Please remember that finishing in the top 10 this season would be a ridiculous achievement.

• RJ Royal_jimmy 7 Oct 2022 · 10:41pm

  Well that was a bit shit. Thought we were outfought and tactically outsmarted, especially 2nd half. Can't play well every game, credit to QPR who stopped us playing.

• FD From Despair To Where? 7 Oct 2022 · 10:45pm

  All I'm saying is let's not go all knee jerk if we hit a sticky run, either in the next 4 weeks where we have 2 games a week, or in December-January where we have a run of more difficult fixtures. We've shown more than enough to suggest we can have a relatively drama free season.

• WI windermereROYAL 7 Oct 2022 · 10:51pm

  In some ways playing AC blunts us a bit, they doubled up on him and we relied too much on the long ball, we need a plan B. Joao not for the first time this season was poor, Meite needs to given a chance.

• RJ Royal_jimmy 7 Oct 2022 · 11:04pm

  QPR showed (like we have) that you don't need a lot of quality to be near the top. Good work ethic, tactics and management can get you up there. They've had a great week to be fair to them, 3 straight wins. Frustrating tonight. We weren't completely at it, the moment they changed to 3 centre backs to match our formation and they were all over us really. Onwards and upwards and let's beat West Brom next week.

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