Are we still the best promoted team this year???

[Factamondo]

dont matter who's best..........the table dont lie.........only four wins............one home win in almost a year and push the self destruct button in the summer imho!!!

[Gtleighsr3]

well that's just calling for a response. of course we were the best last year. not even a contest.

granted we're no good now, fact. but don't bring up our best season since our near league winning one decades back simply because we're struggling now.

we were by far the best last year and deserved all the praise it came with. end of. no one is taking our outstanding performance over 46 matches away. we were outstanding and rightly so crowned champions.

we're not that good now, but we were...we really were.

think we were lucky and dogged last season,but best mmmm

[QPR_NW10]

think we were lucky and dogged last season,but best mmmm

swansea home, reading away, leicester home, cardiff away...etc etc etc etc...games where we played like champions, before the crown.

I'm sorry but that was a better season that the Div 2 to Div 1 in 03/04.

we were top every single week but for 2 w/ends for the entire season.

simply unstoppable we were.

[paulmason]

well that's just calling for a response. of course we were the best last year. not even a contest.

granted we're no good now, fact. but don't bring up our best season since our near league winning one decades back simply because we're struggling now.

we were by far the best last year and deserved all the praise it came with. end of. no one is taking our outstanding performance over 46 matches away. we were outstanding and rightly so crowned champions.

we're not that good now, but we were...we really were.

We were not the best team last season, we had the best player and Norwich and Swansea have continued it this season.

[QPR_NW10]

how were we not the best team last season? what have I missed?
how did the team who finished top not become the best team?
derby away? smells like team spirit to me....
what more could a squad do to be considered the best in the league? win in the playoffs? finish second?....
come on - i understand we've not improved since, i understand we are rubbish at best atm, but come on boys, last year we really were the best in the league.

why so negative?

[Gtleighsr3]

we had shed loads of luck,best player and in the end momentum and will power got us over.However our actual squad was poor and wasnt improved enough in the summer and we are bearing the fruits now.We all beleived the hype of last season.

[zuluop]

Well the table do not lie so we were the better team last season, BUT we did not won because we had the best team but because we had the best player. Norwich and Swansea became promoted because they had the best teams and were not solely dependent on one player (to make it black and white).

[QPR_NW10]

....wow....to the above...

[bushcelt1]

we fell over the line last season not that all this matters a fl uck now.....

[Rebel R's]

Have a look at the table. Theirs your answer.

Had it not been for the awfulness of the 3 loftusroadlad threads today this thread would have stood out,as it stands the answer is so obvious i dont think it deserves one

[LoftusRoadLad]

Had it not been for the awfulness of the 3 loftusroadlad threads today this thread would have stood out,as it stands the answer is so obvious i dont think it deserves one

[zuluop]

Rofl please look up rhetorical question for heavens sake

[Ric-Roc]

Had it not been for the awfulness of the 3 loftusroadlad threads today this thread would have stood out,as it stands the answer is so obvious i dont think it deserves one

Been some shocking threads today.

Thinking of starting my own.

Maybe... 'How many carriages was your train' or how about 'how many feet & inches difference is Newcastle's pitch compared to Loftus Rd?'

[SuperHoopNik]

We were not the best team last season, we had the best player and Norwich and Swansea have continued it this season.

It weren't all down to Tarbs, even though he was a vital player just like Holt was to Norwich and Sinclair was to Swansea...Kenny probably got us about 10 points with his brilliant saves, Helguson got us a few wins with some of his goals, Mackie also played a big role in our amazing start to the season...Face it (probably difficult for u), we were better than both them teams; that's why we won the Championship...

[stainrodisalegend]

No Nicky you are completely wrong and for once I agree entirely with Paul Mason. Take Derry out of the side and replace him with Watson say and I think we would have gone up. Mackie was injured and we brought in Routledge who was actually a considerable improvement. Kenny was good but probably no better than Speroni. But take Tabs out of the team - which he has been for most of this season for whatever reason - and you are left with a Championship side. No one we cd realistically have afforded to buy wd have come close to him. He often had three, four players marking him last season - he was probably twice as good as the Championship's next most effective player (Chopra/ whoever).

Sadly Hill/ Derry/ Mackie have now been exposed for the average championship players they always were - brilliant work rate/ professionalism etc that all three have and for which I shall always be grateful.