Barton talks....

[MattyRangers]

Talk is cheap.

I think us as fans have just about had enough of players giving the old rallying cry only for it to all end in tears.

THIS!

Usual cr@p from all the players spouted midweek before the usual pathetic performance where & when it matters come Saturday afternoon. Yawn.

[stanistheman]

but if you give up, how can you expect the players to care? I know they should be doing it in the first place but it is a downwards spiral.

I expect the players to care because they are very highly paid professionals, however it seems that many don't really care anyway as they will still receive their pay regardless. Also, if relegated many will be sold off to another club like Caulker, Mutch & Fer were sold to QPR last summer.

As for Barton, talk is cheap. Perhaps if he had performed better this season, QPR would not be in such as mess. When the Captain is sloppy on the pitch how can he expect more from his team mates?

[surrey_hoop]

Joey Barton has spoken and like Ramsey, Henry and many other players, he thinks that the R's will survive. One of the reasons is because he is getting back! Also said that both Dunne and Fer will soon be back in contention. I really hate these statements from our players. It is true that Barton may add a bit of physicality to the team and maybe help to increase the fighting spirit within the team. However, I feel that's its too late now. We have a mountain to climb and the showing against Crystal Palace just shows how doomed our players are. Which is quite strange! Watching Burnley beat Man City, I just hated our players. Now there is a team fighting like their lives depended on that result. We never....never watched the R's playing that kind of staff. And they are not going to start now.

Joey Barton, the great Messiah of football, is returning to save our season. What a load of pish.

[Jimmy Floyd Rabbit]

but if you give up, how can you expect the players to care? I know they should be doing it in the first place but it is a downwards spiral.

Blind faith is different from facts as you well know.

I'll leave you to ponder this.

29 games played

Five defeats on the spin at home.

One win away

Five wins at home

Atrocious.

[Jimmy Floyd Rabbit]

I expect the players to care because they are very highly paid professionals, however it seems that many don't really care anyway as they will still receive their pay regardless. Also, if relegated many will be sold off to another club like Caulker, Mutch & Fer were sold to QPR last summer.

As for Barton, talk is cheap. Perhaps if he had performed better this season, QPR would not be in such as mess. When the Captain is sloppy on the pitch how can he expect more from his team mates?

Spot on.

Plsyers care? Give over. They only care about how many 0's are on the end of their pay every week.

[stanistheman]

Im at literally every home match and try to go to as many away matches as my uni coursework schedule allows me to. I may have misphrased what I said about heart and that probably wasn't the word but people have given up alot more easily than they should have. Don't make random suggestions about my use of stats just because it suits your arguments. I go to a game, come back, have a think about what I saw, look at the stats and try and see where we went wrong, what we can improve on and where we are going right. Just because I'm not fervently ranting and raving about each and every thing we did wrong, doesn't mean I don't notice and analyse it.

Nasser, you might go home and do that, but do the players do that? From what I and many have seen this season, they clearly don't. the defence still gives soft goals away the midfeilders still give the ball away or don't close down quickly or put enough pressure on the ball, lack creativity nor have they scored enough goals.
The wingers rarely beat their man or put in a decent cross (apart from Phillips in a few games when selected to play in his best position). And apart from Austin, the forwards have been nothing short of pathetic in their goalscoring efforts.

[Hubble]

Palace game has given me 99.9% assurance we will go down.

It's that 0.1% that kills you Yousef!

[Rangersw12]

Not long now till that scouse cretin will be out of the club for good

[Shepherds Mush]

No such thing as too late until it is totally out of our hands.

It was too late to avoid a season fighting relegation when Booby Zamora scored at Wembley!

[Shepherds Mush]

but if you give up, how can you expect the players to care? I know they should be doing it in the first place but it is a downwards spiral.

If you go to all the home games as you say, at what point do you hear the fans chanting that they have given up or people stopping cheering the players on?

[nasser95]

If you go to all the home games as you say, at what point do you hear the fans chanting that they have given up or people stopping cheering the players on?

It isn't about at the match, the players are more aware of everything thanks to the internet. All the anger directed on twitter and the posts saying we have given up and all that will be noticed by players.

[West Acton]

It isn't about at the match, the players are more aware of everything thanks to the internet. All the anger directed on twitter and the posts saying we have given up and all that will be noticed by players.

I don’t think any of the current crop have the motivation or gumption to google QPR websites and see what the fans are saying which is a sad state of affairs

[nasser95]

I don’t think any of the current crop have the motivation or gumption to google QPR websites and see what the fans are saying which is a sad state of affairs

But that is an assumption of it. The fact is, relative to the past, players are more socially aware and will notice stuff on twitter a lot more.

[Shepherds Mush]

It isn't about at the match, the players are more aware of everything thanks to the internet. All the anger directed on twitter and the posts saying we have given up and all that will be noticed by players.

If that was the case they would have jacked it in after Hull in August !!

Paper reports and articles from those in the game are all they really listen to. Same for any professional really - you listen to your peers not some pr*ck on twitter.

[72bus]

green came over to us at palace , traore at hull , a couple of weak claps from a few others from a distance , thats how much they care for the travelling support that go up and down the country in all weathers . barton lives in his big gated house in kew , owns racehorses and will proberly educate his kids in private school . i have nothing in common with him i hurt when we lose i doubt he does