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Ron Phillips RIP 11:09 - Apr 15 with 6349 viewsQPRSteve

Sad News

https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/club-news/ron-phillips-rip-150423/
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Ron Phillips RIP on 11:16 - Apr 15 with 4900 viewsloftus77

Oh that's really sad news.

He was the 'Voice of QPR' to many of us - the Voice of my youth.

He was the man for a crisis - whether trying to avoid Stan for money (!) or holding things together the night the floodlights failed...

RIP Ron Phillips and Best Wishes to his family.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 11:31 - Apr 15 with 4798 viewsdmm

RIP Ron and thanks for all you did for our club.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 11:37 - Apr 15 with 4769 viewscolinallcars

RIP Ron.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 11:41 - Apr 15 with 4757 viewspaulparker

RIP Ron

I hope we win for you today

And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles Brian Moore

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Ron Phillips RIP on 11:54 - Apr 15 with 4725 viewsLogman

I met him when I was a schoolboy and asked to visit the stadium and see the players once in my school holidays. He let me spend as long as I liked there.

The funniest thing was that when I went to meet him in his office he put a tape of the music that the team ran out to on match days at the time and he asked me 'What do you think of this ?'. I said 'It sounds a bit like quiz show music' and it seemed to be exactly the answer that he wanted to hear and consequently he seemed to take an instant liking to me.

Rest in peace Sir
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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:00 - Apr 15 with 4707 viewsHooping_Mad

Thank you for your hard work Ron.

Chairman of the Junior Hoilett appreciation society
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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:01 - Apr 15 with 4702 viewsPinnerR

RIP Ron. Memories of my youth. A great servant to the club.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:06 - Apr 15 with 4687 viewsQPRSteve

Here is a thread where he joins in and talks about the programme he edited.

Ron Phillips by RonPhillips 6 May 2014 11:31
Well, honestly, Nick, over the 23 years I worked at Rangers, our gates must have totalled trillions of spectators. You can scarcely expect me to remember you!

And yet I do. Many thanks for the photos you gave to the club. What on earth happened to The Nick Kidd Portfolio?

Just as well you didn't tell the Manager that story about Stan. There would have been consequences...

Yes, I still write plays - although lately I've been concentrating on screenplays. One film in post-production to date and another coming up..



I hope they have a minutes applause for him today.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:08 - Apr 15 with 4681 viewsBushRanger82

A club legend in his own right.
God rest his poor soul.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:10 - Apr 15 with 4673 viewsted_hendrix

Club stalwart literally part of the furniture, very-very sad news; RIP.

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:40 - Apr 15 with 4594 viewsE15Hoop

A true gent with an amazing sense of humour and a quick mind.
However, as a languages graduate, I'm still not sure I've ever quite come to terms with his decision to drop the apostrophe from Queen's in our name!
One of those guys whose contribution to our club's history should be celebrated more widely and openly. I guess this is now the time and the place..
RIP Ron. Those who worked with you will undoubtedly have some great stories of their own to tell.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:44 - Apr 15 with 4582 viewsqpr_1968

rip ron.....in my eyes, a true legend.

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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:49 - Apr 15 with 4554 viewsPlanetHonneywood

This.


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Ron Phillips RIP on 12:55 - Apr 15 with 4540 viewsStanisgod

Dittto RIP Ron.

It's being so happy that keeps me going.

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Ron Phillips RIP on 13:08 - Apr 15 with 4503 viewsmylot50years

Bringing back memories of some great times Ron was involved with at Rangers in my youth
A great representative of our club

RIP Ron.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 13:10 - Apr 15 with 4493 viewsqprxtc

Ah man.

I loved what he did with our programme. Ron made it the best in the country and during our golden years he kept a wonderful record of that time.

Some of the things he wrote about in his ‘Bush Telegraph’ column were fairly idiosyncratic and he was definitely ‘old school’ in his outlook but that is not necessarily a criticism, it’s certainly a world away from todays media school led, anodyne gloop.

Thanks for the chequered cover, the little football men and the missing apostrophe ( duck!).

God bless yer Ron.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 13:19 - Apr 15 with 4455 viewsNed_Kennedys

Thanks for posting that: lovely that he briefly joined the forum and interacted with us so well.
Seemed a lovely guy and a big part of QPR during our best decades: RIP sir.
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Ron Phillips RIP on 13:19 - Apr 15 with 4453 viewsBrianMcCarthy

That's very sad. Gave the club a gravitas and a dignity with whatever he did.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Ron Phillips RIP on 13:25 - Apr 15 with 4421 viewsKingstan

I am genuinely really emotional on receiving this deeply sad news, Ron gave me an extraordinary opportunity to be club photographer when I was 17. I was allowed to serve my apprenticeship for many seasons with the club and I went on to have a wonderful career as a sports photographer. I have so many happy memories of Mr Phillips. He allowed me to play a very small part in the history of my beloved R's.

Nick
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Ron Phillips RIP on 13:28 - Apr 15 with 4413 viewsBoston

Legend.

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Ron Phillips RIP on 13:42 - Apr 15 with 4344 viewsCateLeBonR

RIP Ron. Thanks for all your hard work.

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Ron Phillips RIP on 14:12 - Apr 15 with 4253 viewsSonofpugwash

Just do it for Ron.

R.I.P. Mr. Phillips.

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Ron Phillips RIP on 14:12 - Apr 15 with 4253 viewsSimonJames

Very sad. RIP Ron.

100% of people who drink water will die.

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Ron Phillips RIP on 19:53 - Apr 15 with 3953 viewslightwaterhoop

Very sad news indeed.Great servant to the club in good times.

RIP Ron
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Ron Phillips RIP on 19:58 - Apr 15 with 3939 viewsmacclesfieldman

I loved RP. I remember as a 16 yr old in Manchester sending off for my 1st ST and asking if midweek games could be refunded because I couldn't get to them. 1. He agreed. 2. Sent me a bunch of photos of the 75/76 season which I still have and 3. I sat in the Directors Box as his guest for the opening match of the 76/77 season (0-4 v Everton) i was hooked for life

Wild horses couldn't drag me away...

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