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Comment | A way to win - report
at 01:12:22
Hoillet has possesion.....
Mark: (Leans in) Can you imagine if we scored now?
Me: Looking straight ahead, purses lips and nods.
Cue pandemonium
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Comment | Austin keeps ragged Rangers on course - report
at 11:04:02
No doubt had it been Adel Taarabt who tried that gratuitous bicycle kick on Saturday, the waankfest that would've ensued would have turned Loftus Road into something resembling a sperm bank rather than a football stadium. |
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Comment | QPR’s round in the Last Chance Saloon — full match preview
at 16:32:02
Couldn't disagree with any of that clive.
Regarding season ticket prices, if indeed we are relegated, do ya reckon they'll try the "well we're keeping prices as they are but you'll be getting the eight extra games" type scenario?? |
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Comment | Defensive horror show leaves QPR floundering — full match report
at 16:46:31
Pommyhoop, i'm so glad i'm a fool then. The only time we've won two games back to back in the premier league in two seasons Taarabt wasn't in the side and for the want of better finishing and some luck we would have been out of sight at Villa in the first half. We actually looked liked a cohesive team that wanted to play and pass to each other dare i say. The last time i looked, from 25 appearances it was 4 assists and 5 goals from 87 shots and a missed pen from 12yards for Taarabt, which is pretty poor in my opinion for a player who gets the amount of plaudits he does. A very skilful player without a doubt, but nutmegs, dragbacks, flicks, tricks and trying to beat the third man doesn't necessarily win games, hitting the onion bag does and he doesn't do that on a consistant basis. And if we have to put a player whose stats read 7 games, 4 goals out wide to accomodate him then we got all we deserved on monday night. |
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Comment | QPR provide more easy pickings for Michu and his Swans — full match report
at 14:21:26
Well how did it come to this? A cursory look back over the last nine seasons might give us some clues.....
Since 2004/05 we have ended a season in the top half of our respective league just three times. 2004/05 (11th), 2008/09 (11th) and 2010/11 (Champions). The other six, including the current, we have ended the season bottom half and escaped relegation in 2005/06 (21st), arguably 2009/10 when Warnock was appointed (13th), 2011/12 (17th). 2012/13 (20th) we look nailed on to finally be relegated. Other final places have been 18th (06/07), 14th (07/08).
In that time we have had managers/caretakers such as Gary Waddock, Mick Harford, Luigi Di Canio, Gareth Ainsworth, Jim Magilton, Paul Hart and not forgetting the legendary Paulo Sousa, who was welcomed to the club by this particular website with such vim and vigour, i still wonder what managerial credentials that was based on? None of the above were in the position long enough, just not good enough or both in most cases to lay any kind of foundation for the future of this football club.
Then there are the likes of Bill Power, Gianni Paladini, Briatore/Eccleston. None of those people have taken Queens Park Rangers Football Club and moved it on in my opinion. Apart from move it on to the front and back pages for all the wrong reasons.
Now we have Tony Fernandes. The fighting accountant who talks far too much, has loads of money, but no idea of how to spend it wisely, so just spunks it on everything and anything scattergun style.
So all things considered, lets stop the constant barbs at Mark Hughes etc and start looking at the wider picture since we last got promoted to the Championship, which shows that apart from the Neil Warnock era, our football club has been pretty mediocre with no sense of direction.
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Comment | QPR provide more easy pickings for Michu and his Swans — full match report
at 14:21:16
Well how did it come to this? A cursory look back over the last nine seasons might give us some clues.....
Since 2004/05 we have ended a season in the top half of our respective league just three times. 2004/05 (11th), 2008/09 (11th) and 2010/11 (Champions). The other six, including the current, we have ended the season bottom half and escaped relegation in 2005/06 (21st), arguably 2009/10 when Warnock was appointed (13th), 2011/12 (17th). 2012/13 (20th) we look nailed on to finally be relegated. Other final places have been 18th (06/07), 14th (07/08).
In that time we have had managers/caretakers such as Gary Waddock, Mick Harford, Luigi Di Canio, Gareth Ainsworth, Jim Magilton, Paul Hart and not forgetting the legendary Paulo Sousa, who was welcomed to the club by this particular website with such vim and vigour, i still wonder what managerial credentials that was based on? None of the above were in the position long enough, just not good enough or both in most cases to lay any kind of foundation for the future of this football club.
Then there are the likes of Bill Power, Gianni Paladini, Briatore/Eccleston. None of those people have taken Queens Park Rangers Football Club and moved it on in my opinion. Apart from move it on to the front and back pages for all the wrong reasons.
Now we have Tony Fernandes. The fighting accountant who talks far too much, has loads of money, but no idea of how to spend it wisely, so just spunks it on everything and anything scattergun style.
So all things considered, lets stop the constant barbs at Mark Hughes etc and start looking at the wider picture since we last got promoted to the Championship, which shows that apart from the Neil Warnock era, our football club has been pretty mediocre with no sense of direction.
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Comment | QPR fans forum — full report
at 15:11:59
And the moving of fans out of the loft, or in this instance to the upper it seems, isn't a new thing actually, but of course still doesn't make it right.
Around 1988-89 i had a blinding seat in the upper loft and was again unceremoniously kicked out of that (to the ellerslie) for the same reasons as the club are giving now. Although i'm sure in that instance they made the whole end a family stand. |
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Comment | QPR fans forum — full report
at 14:02:12
Great report clive.
480 season ticket holders moved from the lower loft. But with all due respect, those seats are still there for QPR supporters
280 seats lost due to television. Unfortunate.
What a shame as much wasn't made of the 368 seats lost to season ticket holders, of which i was one, in the South Africa Road stand to make way for coporate hospitality. |
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Comment | The great unloved — opposition focus
at 11:39:48
There's much to admire about........
Given that opening gambit i wont be reading on further i'm afraid, however puerile that may be. When people talk about the FA Cup being devalued by allowing Man Utd to opt out, fielding of weakened teams, semi finals played at Wembley etc, they should also remember that this tawdry excuse for a football club is allowed to take part also.
Peter Winkleman, you are a disgusting f..ker. |
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Comment | Thank you Derry much — Open All R’s Podcast
at 12:31:39
The word legend is bandied about all too often these days to describe people / players that maybe flatter to deceive. But Shaun Derry, you deserve that moniker when it comes to playing for Queens Park Rangers Football Club. Without the likes of yourself, Clint Hill, Paddy Kenny and Neil Warnock this club would not be in the Premier League of english football. A position that the current board have done their best to f..k up royally with thier collective knowlegde of not knowing how to run a football club. You've never asked to be subbed when it's not going right. You've always sat on the bench when subbed and not stormed off thinking that's beneath you. You've kept your head down when cast aside but have always given 100% when called upon and that marks you out as not only a decent player but as an all round top fella. You have the same qualities as the man top right of this sycophantic rant and also share that same No.4 shirt and thats about as higher praise as i can give.... |
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Comment | QPR hail Cesar after escaping West Ham with a draw — full match report
at 05:02:08
Just to clarify. I wasn't criticising cesars performance over 90 mins. Only the fact that, in my opinion, he should've done better with the initial header from Carlton Cole. I've watched it numerous times and i havn't changed my mind. Cole rose 6-7 yards out and placed the header rather than smashing it. A little while before, Chamakh had a identical header which was probably harder for cesar to see but he caught on the line. This is not the first time this season i've criticised cesar for parrying a shot when it could've been held. But i can see why others would think that was harsh. I'd wager that if Robert Green had parried the same header into the path of Joe Cole then the comments would not have been so forgiving. |
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Comment | Our friends in the north — LFW Awaydays
at 12:05:52
When Harry Redknapp said he fancied David Beckham at the club i thought he meant in a football capacity and not holding a camera filming talkin heads for the official website. |
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Comment | Mackie’s best efforts in vain as Villa game slips away — full match report
at 11:37:25
So our current predicament is all down to Mark Hughes eh? I think thats a cheap shot actually and a tad misleading. Who would be the answer to these questions......
Who sacked Neil Warnock and with it destroyed the team spirit and work ethic we had?
Who appointed Mark Hughes? (Lets not forget the interveiwee interviewing the interviewer!)
Who sanctioned the purchase of players during the hughes tenure?
Who spent £6,818,688 on agents fees in the last calender year when we supposedly couldn't afford a decent centre half during the summer? (Only Man City and Liverpool spent more. Norwich, Swansea and Southampton spent £2,995,676 between them.)
If the answer to all the above is Tony Fernandes and Co then thats who the ire should be aimed at.
Mark Hughes will probably go down as one of the worst managers at this club granted, but the way it's been run over the last few years, if there was a club not prepared for life in the top flight, it's this one. |
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Comment | Beware the pitfalls of a Redknapp coronation
at 05:46:19
Whats going on at Rangers at the moment has got me thinking of some parellels with another london premier league club around 1998-99......Crystal Palace. They were taken over by a excitable chairman by the name of Mark Goldberg in jan/feb 1998 who had a few quid to spend and was spouting nonsense like being in europe in five years etc etc..... Hmmmm. He also said that the only manager he wanted to manage his club was Terry Venables, who some would describe as a cockney wideboy who also had links with a club on the south coast called Portsmouth FC. They didn't interview anyone else......Hmmm. (I must say at this point, I'm penning this in bed, and i've put the pillows down the side of it just in case i fall out laughing at the similarities.) He then offered said manager/cockney wideboy an unbelievable contract, which, laughing down his sleeve at the owners naivety, he promptly accepted. A media frenzy ensued and there was much hope for the impending success. But that was as good as it got as i remember. At the end of that season Palace were relegated. In the following january Terry Venables, aka cockney wideboy, left the club amid much acrimony as palace went into administration and were lucky not to go out of buisness completely. Now i'm not saying any of that could happen down W12 way but food for thought indeed. Welcome 'arry, and good luck. |
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Comment | Hung by his own players, Hughes now in untenable position — full match report
at 12:35:24
While things down in W12 aren't altogther as they should be at the moment and haven't been for sometime, pre fernandes included, i do think that the news that Mark Hughes will be staying on for the forseeable future is the best way forward for the longer term ambitions of this football club. For far too long we have changed managers far too frequently as soon as things look to be going wrong, or the manager was totally the wrong appointment in the first place and its done no good whatsoever. Mark Hughes record as a manager, while not outstanding when compared to others, is pretty decent nontheless. Tony Fernandes should be applauded for sticking with him. |
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