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Comment | QPR take FFP medicine, so when will things get better? Column
at 12:13:24
Very good piece. I agree about fit and proper too. By the time that the damage is done and FFP has been breached and the accounts filed, it could be several years before the rules are applied and a dodgy owner could have flown by then, presumably leaving what is left to pay a fine which it can't afford. What's the point of that? It would be better to monitor FFP on a quarterly basis, effectively in real time. As soon as the situation started to look dodgy the League would have to go in and maybe do something. That would be far better for both clubs and fans.
Also I see that the EFL made the fine and legal costs plus the loan conversion add up to exactly the same amount as our original fine. Almost as meaningless in its aithmetic as our attempt to write off £60m against our FFP losses in the first place. |
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Comment | Bircham's stoppage time winner - History
at 07:44:39
Excellent stuff but did you have to mention that Crewe game though? That's one of the 'rage' games that will never allow itself to be deleted from my hard disk. Andy fecking Hall. And Crewe got themselves a prominent place in my footballing book of grudges for one of those sendings off, but I think that it was Kelly not Carlisle, although i may be wrong. I think that Kelly went up to stop a quick free kick and the Crewe bloke just put the ball down and immediately slammed it against Kelly and got him booked for encroachment, with Hall a willing accomplice. I think that Kelly then got booked again for a minor offence and was off. Dunno why I'm bothering with all this really, it's just one of my all time bastard moments at Loftus Road and I'll never forget it. That was a great season though - I've never seen us play a proper match at Brentford - just a pre-season game when we were singing some stupid song about a loanee (Massimo Morou or someone?) and Macca I think came on in that game after a long injury absence and got a great ovation. |
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Comment | Late Hitchcock thriller seals QPR win — report
at 11:00:51
Nice report there. Hitchcock's goal might just be worth a lot more than the extra two points, and they might still be crucial in themselves. If one or two players decide to sign on the basis of our form/league position, with the window closing next week, then it could have been the goal which made our season. Was a great moment anyway. You R's!! |
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Comment | Resolutions and revolution as QPR embark on 2013 — full match preview
at 09:21:14
Communication is shocking. It doesn't surprise me that Clive hasn't got his trophy. There's something badly wrong with the management structure at the club as nobody seems to be picking up this type of thing and getting a decision and communicating it diplomatically to whoever raised it in the first place. I imagine that Beard is ultimately to blame for that type of situation occurring on a day to day basis.
I know the guy who used to film the games for QPR in the 1980s and he's still got the old tapes and we tried repeatedly to get the club to 'buy' them back by paying for a few decades of storage rental but no matter how often we tried we never even got an answer of any description from the club, not even an 'eff off'. Nothing.
They do need to listen as it's not good. |
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Comment | Liverpool caught in QPR’s Wednesday night lights — full match report
at 12:15:20
QPunkR - of course i've seen Barton play on numerous occasions. I was there myself in the Upper Loft.
Either you find fault with fans for booing Barton or you don't. It's as simple as that. I don't see any benefit to club or player in booing him when he's taken off. It was a negative aspect of the night for me.
He absolutely deserved to go off, no question for me, in fact i'd have taken him off a bit earlier. However, it wasn't just down to Barton that we were so poor in the first half hour particularly. I think that the absence of Clint Hill meant that any cohesion that had been developing at the back was lost and we looked all at sea. We seemed shapeless and rudderless and we couldn't pass the ball at all. Liverpool didn't have to be good to get all of those early corners, we were just paralysed.
I wouldn't pick Barton to start on saturday, if there's a workable alternative. It's up to Hughes to choose the shape and content of the side to do a job up there, not a bunch of half-brained supporters. If he picks Barton or brings him on, hopefully he won't be booed again, but it won't really matter up there as they'll boo him to death anyway for being ex-Newcastle.
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Comment | Liverpool caught in QPR’s Wednesday night lights — full match report
at 08:30:30
'the fact is last night has been coming for a while and while I didn’t boo him myself I wouldn’t say a word against anybody that did.'
This remark puzzles me. Why wouldn't you say a word against them Clive?
If somebody has a go at TF on Twittter then that's considered bad form. If somebody spat at TF's car outside Loftus Road then that would be bad form. But 'gobbing' at his allegedly £80k a week footballer is somehow acceptable.
These are the guys we want to own the club, they've put up untold millions to turn us round, and abusing the investment is fair play.
How come? Why isn't it plain rude? |
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Comment | QPR set out on the hard road against Liverpool — full match preview
at 09:07:51
They don't score many and we don't keep many clean sheets.
What happens when a resistible force meets a movable object?
I dunno but something will happen.
I've a sneaking fancy that we'll win this game and not by the odd goal, but I can't explain how or why. I just think that we will win. |
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Comment | Fernandes gambles everything on Warnock sacking
at 09:26:31
When people take drastic action, everyone says that they gambled, but doing nothing is also a gamble in those situations. Put it another way, if you do nothing, then you are gambling that things will work out.
I'm not sure that Warnock had actually lost the dressing room. MKD were a decent side and they used the ball well. We didn't have much guile in the side, nobody to pull the strings and make things happen, with the exception of poor Faurlin. Everyone else seemed to be giving it to someone else to do something constructive with the ball, but there weren't enough ideas on the QPR side. Little imagination. The ball was passed around like a parcel that nobody wanted to open.
In those circumstances, I think that the players lost their way in the first half, which was as poor as i can remember under Warnock, given the quality of opposition. At the time, I said to my son that we were playing better than that last season.
In the second half, we did come out and play a bit, to start with anyway. Macheda moved wider out on the left and got plenty of change out of their right back. He looked decent - basics like pace, strength, ability to track back and defend when required. What you would expect from a Man Utd player and absent from many of his teammates. But at least we looked lively during that period of the game. Smith wasn't having a great game but was willing. Faurlin was finding the spaces, for Macheda in particular. But Campbell just wasn't at the races at any stage. Had he scored from Macheda's cross, things may have ended up differently, but it was certainly no surprise when Helga replaced him. If Macheda was tired then I can understand his substitution but otherwise most would have preferred Mackie to go off. Macheda at least has some potential and looks a certain starter under the new manager, up front with Helguson or down the left.
If they get the right replacement, then I think it will probably work out for us. If they don't it won't, simple as that. The thing is, we are currently a club without any real core, heart or continuity. We the fans are the only thing of substance that's been here for any length of time. We need players who have come upthrough the ranks, staff coaches and management who know who we are and what we stand for. But that takes longer than we have. At the moment it's just us, the fans. We need to get behind them, as we are all there is that is truly 'QPR'. Cheer them on. Come on you R's.
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Comment | Bolton hand QPR reality check — full match report
at 07:58:54
Northern, I have to take issue with:
'Whatever happens this season will not be the fault of our squad of players that did so well last season and will freely admit themselves that they need reinforcements to be able to cope with this new level.'
Not sure how this reconciles with missed chances, failing to close down Cahill, failing to defend a free kick on the edge of the box, and 'giving up' when 2-0 down. Were the board to blame for that?
If the playerers don't have to take responsibility for their own errors then we really are doomed. |
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