So with 271 midfielders in the squad...

[davman]

...how do you think all of them will be kept happy with an insistence of 4-4-2 from the board and the Loftus Road faithful?

This unbalanced squad is a f-in embarassment. How can the large number of midfielders who just CANNOT play on a given game be justified?

Okay, I AM impressed by Watson, but how can we accommodate Rowlands, Faurlin, Leigertwood, Mahon, Ephraim, Alberti, Buszacky, Cook, Routledge, Taraabt (yes, Pete, he IS a midfielder), Watson, Ainsworth and Ramone Rose?

Top heavy and excessive come to mind.

[Quaz]

...how do you think all of them will be kept happy with an insistence of 4-4-2 from the board and the Loftus Road faithful?

This unbalanced squad is a f-in embarassment. How can the large number of midfielders who just CANNOT play on a given game be justified?

Okay, I AM impressed by Watson, but how can we accommodate Rowlands, Faurlin, Leigertwood, Mahon, Ephraim, Alberti, Buszacky, Cook, Routledge, Taraabt (yes, Pete, he IS a midfielder), Watson, Ainsworth and Ramone Rose?

Top heavy and excessive come to mind.

they did say the goals would come from midfield and magilton likes to play players out of position....so perhaps 10 midfielders on the pitch and do away with the other players

[ScottJones]

...

Okay, I AM impressed by Watson, but how can we accommodate Rowlands, Faurlin, Leigertwood, Mahon, Ephraim, Alberti, Buszacky, Cook, Routledge, Taraabt (yes, Pete, he IS a midfielder), Watson, Ainsworth and Ramone Rose?
.

Rowlands will be injured again soon
Faurlin i would have in
Legs - bench
mahon - flog
Ephraim - in
Alberti - loan
Buz - in
Cook - will be injured again soon
Taraabt - he wants to play in a free role
Watson - in
Gaz - release
Rose - loan

simples

[ollyhoops]

Yes but some will be loaned out when the window reopens

[Sleeping Giants]

271?.....That's the new team formation isn't it?

[Quaz]

271?.....That's the new team formation isn't it?

pmsl

[ScottJones]

pmsl

ditto

[qpr-buzsaky]

Keep

Rowlands
Faurlin
Buszacky,
Cook,
Routledge,
Taraabt
Watson
Leigertwood

Loan

Ephraim
Rose

Sell

Mahon
Alberti

Release

Ainsworth

cut down on wages and then we bring in a striker and left back.

[davman]

271?.....That's the new team formation isn't it?

Congrats - nice to know that the irony is not lost on some...

Releasing players is not 'simples', Scottski - it costs. AND the money to pay off those contracts could have been pooled and spent on an increased bid for Hooper, Cox, Beckford or even Morrison or Phillips, but no, the Sporting Director continues to get away with the inbalance he has generated within the squad.

Ben Watson will create stuff, but unless the previously unproven Simpson steps up or our mis-firing, embarrassing strike force get their s*h*i*t*e together we will be faced with the same old problem.

Honestly, why can't the masses see the problem within our squad????:shame:

[ZANNEYQPR]

1 we could play 3 5 2 gorrks connolly stewart all at the back

2 sell some of the jokers who are useless and try get some money for them

[swanleyhoop]

We can't release Ainsworth.
We'll need him for another role sometime between now and Christmas...

[stanistheman]

Stuff 4-4-2.

Watson & Faurlin in the centre,with Buzsaky as the attacking midfielder.
Routledge & Taarabt can play on the flanks and provide support for Simpson.

Leigertwood, Rowlands, Ephraim on the bench along with 2 from either Vine, Helguson or Pellicori plus a defender and Heaton.

Alberti needs games, so I'd send him on loan to perhaps Doncaster because they play a passing brand of football.

Mahon can go out on loan and be sold in January, if any takers
Rose & Ainsworth can also go out on loan.

Balanta can get a place when someone is unavailable for whatever reason.

Agyemang can go out on loan, sold or even given a free.

We'll see about Cook when he is fit again. He can fill a place on the bench when one of the others is either injured or banned.