STEVE'S RADICAL LINE-UP FOR NORWICH
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What insights does Steve share about the recent QPR match?
So little to talk about with the international break, but that never stops Steve Bone.
You can't stop me talking. I sometimes think there's more to talk about when there's less to talk about.
Yes, yes. so let's start with we have to start with qpr because we've been looking forward to your take on it um yeah and it's it's several days old now but the hurt is still there
Yeah, it was such a dispiriting day, wasn't it? I think it was the day when we realised that if we weren't in a relegation fight before, we certainly are now. Although I think actually, because of the results that had gone before it, I think because we'd lost those, we'd thrown away two points at Blackburn, hadn't we? We managed to turn a win into a draw at Blackburn. And then we had the successive home games against Swansea and Derby, which didn't bring a single point and only brought one goal. I think at that point people thought, right, we've hit the worst form at the worst time. We need to get out of this sharpish. And I think people thought QPR away was a good game to go into next because QPR at home have been pretty poor.
They hadn't won at home for a little while. They hadn't scored at home for a little while. One chap in their team hadn't scored since November but now has... now has done so we seem to do that to other players don't we if you haven't scored for six months get yourself a game against Pompey and you're bound to score because it seems to happen quite often and it was just one of those where another early goal goes in against you I think it was about the same time into the game as we conceded against Derby in the previous game you go 1-0 down after seven minutes and everybody's thinking oh well that's that then we're not going to get back from this And then it just went from bad to worse, didn't it?
3-0 down in half an hour. As ever with pumping, you have a little bit of faint hope.
How does Steve analyze the team's relegation fight?
Comes back into it with John Swift scoring. Good finish from him. Although he owed it to the team after giving away the ball for the first goal. Then you're thinking at 3-1, well, you know, if we get the next goal, it's game on. But we didn't get the next goal. And it ended up as being quite embarrassing. Our annual 6-1 defeat was at Stoke last year, wasn't it? It's keeping our this year. We just have to forget it, really. Yeah, very disappointing. And the fans who were there were quite understandably not too happy about it.
The big data collection organisation, Opta, published something. We carried it as a news story. I thought it was amazing. It really was. It should have been a headline thing. The performance of QPR was the most clinical performance since records began. since records yeah did they have seven shots on target or something and scored six of them it was six touches in the box six goals Never been done before.
Probably never been done again either, will it? So that's Pompey's place in the record books, guaranteed for many years to come, sadly. Yeah, and I think we had more shots than them, didn't we? And I don't know what the possession stats were, but if you looked at all the stats apart from the goals, you would not have said that... No-one would have guessed that QPR had won 6-1. which puts a question mark against the goalkeeper, I think, doesn't it? If they're only having that number of shots and they're all going past the goalkeeper, you're thinking, well, he should have got in the way of at least half of them, probably.
What were the standout statistics from the QPR game?
And it draws a big question mark against the defence. You know, worryingly, that was pretty much our first-choice defence, wasn't it? That wasn't a patched-up defence. That was... Devlin Ogilvie, Paul Shaughnessy, who you would put money on doing a good job and being the people you would want out there in front of the goalkeeper. And they just seemed to fall to pieces. Whether Shaughnessy is not quite 100% yet, he was certainly found wanting for one of the goals, wasn't he, in the second half? but that that is yeah it's quite embarrassing to be on the end or the wrong end of a stat like that uh yeah yeah it just makes you wonder how it's how it can happen but it has three one is bad enough four one is pretty painful five and by the time you get to six
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What insights does Steve share about the recent QPR match?
0:01–2:14
2
How does Steve analyze the team's relegation fight?
2:14–4:11
3
What were the standout statistics from the QPR game?
4:11–7:48
4
How does the team plan to recover after the embarrassing defeat?
7:48–11:07
5
What are the pros and cons of relegation to League One?
11:07–14:48
6
How does the international break impact team dynamics?
14:48–17:08
7
What radical lineup does Steve propose for the upcoming Norwich match?
17:08–19:10
8
How does Steve justify his strategy for the Oxford game?
19:10–30:57