QuoteAnother good day for Armstrong, scoring the winner against Weymouth: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59441117
Great start for the eighteen-year-old, marking his debut in English senior football with his first senior goal in Torquay's 2-0 win over King's Lynn: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/58936477
Another good day for Armstrong, scoring the winner against Weymouth: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59441117
Originally Posted by samhaydenjr
Good news thank you. Interesting to see taylor Croasdale playing for Weymouth. He was at Chelsea and one of the leading scorers at under 18s level at tge same time glen mccauley was also scoring frequently for Liverpool youth teams. Just shows how things can change in a few years even when you have serious talent. Really hope mccauley can find a club in the league of ireland to get himself established
Had a successful loan spell at Torquay judging by their forum comments, and the few goals/assists he got. Very promising. Qpr recalled him and he’s on the bench for FA cup today. Whether their plan is to keep him or loan to L1/2 for rest of the season remains to be seen. He has all the raw ingredients to be a very good striker, pace, power and finishing. And an early successful introduction to senior football will stand to him
Anyone with insight here? Doing okay in the conference, gets recalled (qpr or agent pressure), agent creates some bogus transfer rumors, and now he finds himself with no real pathway to senior football until next season. Unless some bizarre injury crisis at high flying QPR. What happened? There didn’t even appear to be a league 2 loan attempt that fell through which was the original thought
No real insight but I certainly wouldn't be too worried about the recall, especially considering he appeared on the bench for their third-round cup game - actually QPR's squad only has four strikers listed so maybe they thought it's worth their while having him has back-up after he made an immediate impression on loan. He won't turn 19 until summer and already has a couple of senior goals under his belt and while it would be great if he could get some time before the end of the season or an emergency loan, even if it doesn't happen he's still well on track.
Well let’s see what kind of first team football exposure he will get between now and the end of the season. Right now to me, it looks like a terrible decision. He was doing okay starting games in the conference at 18. Let’s see what he does between now and May
A baffling decision, seems like a waste of a second half of a season to me…
Actually looks like he joined Aldershot Town 2 weeks ago for the last few games of the season. No appearance yet, and only 5 games left.
Sinclair Armstrong (19) will travel with the QPR squad for their season opener at Blackburn. (West London Sport).
Remember the days when a teenage Irish striker coming on as a 77th-minute sub for a Championship team on the opening day of the season would cause great excitement? Now we're all like "meh, Costelloe played 73 minutes, Omochere set up a goal six minutes into his game": https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/62274838
Good to see, I like the attributes on Sinclair. Just a shame he didn’t get an additional 5 months of conference football last year, very poor decision was made either by his agent or QPR. Hopefully he will continue to get championship opportunities, looks like qpr are crying out for firepower
Came on for the last ten minutes plus stoppage time of the mad tie between QPR and Sunderland and boy, did he have an impact. At 2-1 down, he tried a bicycle kick to get an equalizer, but completely missed the ball. But a few moments later he was sent a pass to chase down the left and showed awesome pace to completely leave his marker in his wake - he forced a save from the Sunderland keeper which led to the corner that QPR's goalie came up from and scored from. He's definitely becoming one to watch
Another terrific cameo from Armstrong, coming on for the last quarter against Blackpool defence to try to save the game and the Tangerines' will be giving up prayers of thanks that, somehow, he did not succeed - ran them ragged and bullied them physically and every time he ran after the ball it looked like something would happen - definitely has a taste for the audacious, nearly catching out the 'Pool keeper with a snapshot from a ridiculous angle - got to be in the U21s for the playoff and could be ready to step up to senior duty by the time the Euro qualifiers roll around - it's just a shame there may not be a chance to blood him in unless we can organize a couple of friendlies during the World Cup
He seems to be a disrupter. Very raw, but physical, athletic, dynamic and just wholly mad. You wouldn't want to have to have everything riding on him converting a chance late in a big game but he really imposes himself on a game. Could be a real wild card for the U21 playoff.
All that said, he is young though.
He had a good cameo at the weekend and will have improved his chance of getting more minutes off the bench. Thought he had the keeper with that powerful shot at the near post when most though he'd go across goal or look for a team mate.
Have seen others say it was a bad miss at the end but think he was stretching to get on the end of the cross so was never gonna get good enough contact to keep it on target.
Starts tonight.
Won the penalty which put them one up and Cardiff down to ten men. Played 60 mins in what could be Michael Beales last game before he becomes Wolves manager.
The win puts QPR top too, very little talk about Armstrong considering he started for a team playing to go top. Similarly Szmodics, played for Blackburn who went top last night.
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