| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:32 - May 13 with 5233 views | WokingR |
Depressing isn't it |  | |  |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:35 - May 13 with 5198 views | daveB |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:32 - May 13 by WokingR |
Depressing isn't it |
most depressing bit is he's right again |  | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:38 - May 13 with 5173 views | francisbowles |
Should be read by everyone involved with the club from supporter to owners! |  | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:40 - May 13 with 5160 views | Herzog |
ticket prices will be very important, won't they?, in terms of preventing a really ugly atmosphere developing
supposedly - acc to this article — lack of money is not the main issue
people will surely be much more open to putting up with fighting to be midtable rather than for promotion if they offer bargain ss renewal prices? |  | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:42 - May 13 with 5140 views | JacksDad |
Cut n paste? cannot access from work | | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:43 - May 13 with 5140 views | EastR |
It doesn’t make great reading, and is very depressing, but the core argument that the current ills can be traced back ten years plus is a bit tenuous.
The fact remains that the current owners have been in place for long enough, and with untold financial resources available, to put the club in a much better place then we find ourselves.
Shocking stewardship, mis management and incompetence 2011 to 2015.
No need to look beyond that. | |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:45 - May 13 with 5111 views | TacticalR |
Good stuff from Mr. McIntyre. |  |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:56 - May 13 with 5034 views | essextaxiboy |
The Paladini era started the rot . He got rid of staff members that are missed to this day , split the fanbase and lurched from one embarassing crisis to the next .
IMO we have never recovered from the short term ,last minute ,ego massaging culture that he introduced .
Amit and Warnock have been the only positives in a decade of "winging it" |  | | |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:06 - May 13 with 4964 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Well, the truth hurts alright. That's floored me.
Excellent article. |  |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:08 - May 13 with 4951 views | PhilmyRs |
I didn’t read that and get depressed. I read it and sensed right now, with Les heavily involved, Ramsey to be appointed Manager and an acceptance among the board that an immediate return to the Premiership is not such a priority (a mid-table finish would be acceptable), there’s hope for the club. How long the board will maintain that mentality does concern me though.
If we accept 3 or even 4 years in the Championship, putting the club in decent shape on and off the pitch, I think there are positives to take from this relegation. That’s not to say an immediate return to the Premiership would be impossible. 2 or 3 good signings and you never know, sneak up via the play-offs again. But simply by ridding ourselves of a mentality that getting up at the first attempt is the be all and end all is progress and will serve us well in my opinion.
A lot of players contracts are up. Changes are taking place off the pitch, with hopefully a Head of Recruitment soon to be appointed. I think there is reason for optimism but it’s down to the board to stick to this new vision/mentality and Les and Ramsey to implement it. It’s about holding your nerve — the Chairman not pandering to requests via social media, the ‘right players’ being brought in, even if immediate on field success is not achieved, fans more involved with the club with ticket prices reflecting the Division we are in. Get those things right and you never know, we may get the good old days back — an unknown centre forward from Hayes over an ageing big name perhaps… | | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:11 - May 13 with 4921 views | ActonOccident |
He lined up that category 3 revelation at the end very nicely. Proper sting in the tail. |  | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:18 - May 13 with 4856 views | Hunterhoop |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:43 - May 13 by EastR |
It doesn’t make great reading, and is very depressing, but the core argument that the current ills can be traced back ten years plus is a bit tenuous.
The fact remains that the current owners have been in place for long enough, and with untold financial resources available, to put the club in a much better place then we find ourselves.
Shocking stewardship, mis management and incompetence 2011 to 2015.
No need to look beyond that. |
I think the point Dave makes, albeit in quite a verbose way (accepting it's an excellent article) is that the club has been mismanaged in a very specific way since 2005.
This specific way is that QPR simply hasn't been managed as a Football Club entity (on the pitch and off the pitch) with a clear vision, clear strategies to achieve that vision, and the right people in place in the right positions to implement those strategies through competent tactical execution.
This undoubtedly started in 2005 with Paladini, who was IMO, frankly, a manipulative moron. He didn't understand the first thing about leadership and managing an organisation. It showed. The same has been true of people since, regardless of their personal wealth or backgrounds.
What do we want to be, realistically? What is our achievable vision of our ideal club?
Because we don't have a clear, concise, communicated vision, everyone connected with the club doesn't know our strategies are to get there - you can't get somewhere if you don't know where you're going!
We don't have a club ethos.
We have few mgt staff who know the club's traditions.
We have few mgt staff who know the area.
We simply aren't managed, at an basic operational level, effectively. How many times have the club shop run out of sizes, how much stock are holding on each product vs our sales volumes? Could we increase bar staff numbers on matchdays to sell more? Why do we run out of certain lines when our attendances (and therefore demand) varies so little. Who is responsible for club comms? Who is the "go-to" contact point for all fans? How many fan forums have been held in recent years? How regular and structured are they? Who let it get to court with QPR fans suing the club over the stewarding? The Viagogo farce, the issues around the family stand...it goes on.
These are all little things. But, to me as someone who's managed decent sized teams and operations, they are absolutely cast iron evidence of a systematic problem of management that exists at a club. This comes from the top. The above should not be happening and certainly not on an ongoing basis. If the club's customers were other companies or the general public (rather than "fans") they would not have stood for it.
We're being run extremely amateurishly precisely because we're a "football club" and the board, ever since 2005, has simply seen it as a "get the manager right and get a new player in and problem solved". The point Dave's making is, the problem isn't solved. It's not even been addressed.
We need to be run much more professionally with a clear vision, strategies and tactics; clear accountability from top to bottom, clear standards, a much better club structure (off the pitch), a clear set of values and behaviours that are for all employees (on and off the pitch)...all to create a clear ethos and direction for the club.
It's not easy, but it is entirely necessary. You cannot cut corners on managing an organisation even at the Small-medium sized enterprise level, even when it's a football club.
It can also be achieved. But it requires someone to be appointed MD with the Board's (inc. TF, if he stays Chairman) full backing to implement this stuff. At present, TF wants to make the decisions (not what a Chairman should be doing) but doesn't want to get his hands dirty, at all. |  | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:34 - May 13 with 4752 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 12:56 - May 13 by essextaxiboy |
The Paladini era started the rot . He got rid of staff members that are missed to this day , split the fanbase and lurched from one embarassing crisis to the next .
IMO we have never recovered from the short term ,last minute ,ego massaging culture that he introduced .
Amit and Warnock have been the only positives in a decade of "winging it" |
Yes, that is the point he is making I believe. |  | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:52 - May 13 with 4661 views | Mytch_QPR |
It's all very well people moaning about Ramsey being appointed, but given the uncertainty re: FFP / Academy / transfer embargos etc, who else is likely to want the job?
At worst, we could end up starting the next campaign rather like Blackpool did this season - short of players and scratching around for loans / freebies.
If we can have some organisation / motivation from the coaching staff and a squad who want to play in the hoops and give 100% then I won't moan - expectations are low for next season so I'm prepared for the worst but hoping to be pleasantly surprised. |  |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 14:04 - May 13 with 4598 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:52 - May 13 by Mytch_QPR |
It's all very well people moaning about Ramsey being appointed, but given the uncertainty re: FFP / Academy / transfer embargos etc, who else is likely to want the job?
At worst, we could end up starting the next campaign rather like Blackpool did this season - short of players and scratching around for loans / freebies.
If we can have some organisation / motivation from the coaching staff and a squad who want to play in the hoops and give 100% then I won't moan - expectations are low for next season so I'm prepared for the worst but hoping to be pleasantly surprised. |
I agree with this.
Back to basics. | | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 14:21 - May 13 with 4511 views | essextaxiboy |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:34 - May 13 by CroydonCaptJack |
Yes, that is the point he is making I believe. |
Is it ? I only bothered reading the headline . | | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 14:29 - May 13 with 4492 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 14:21 - May 13 by essextaxiboy |
Is it ? I only bothered reading the headline . |
Yes mate. He says that the rot effectively started in 2005. It is worth a read when you have the time. | | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 14:36 - May 13 with 4461 views | JonDoeman |
Great piece Dave. |  |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 15:55 - May 13 with 4307 views | toboboly |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:52 - May 13 by Mytch_QPR |
It's all very well people moaning about Ramsey being appointed, but given the uncertainty re: FFP / Academy / transfer embargos etc, who else is likely to want the job?
At worst, we could end up starting the next campaign rather like Blackpool did this season - short of players and scratching around for loans / freebies.
If we can have some organisation / motivation from the coaching staff and a squad who want to play in the hoops and give 100% then I won't moan - expectations are low for next season so I'm prepared for the worst but hoping to be pleasantly surprised. |
We only had 12 players for Ireland after all  |  |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 16:18 - May 13 with 4221 views | westberksr |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 15:55 - May 13 by toboboly |
We only had 12 players for Ireland after all |
and no right backs! |  | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 18:54 - May 13 with 3941 views | paulparker |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 13:52 - May 13 by Mytch_QPR |
It's all very well people moaning about Ramsey being appointed, but given the uncertainty re: FFP / Academy / transfer embargos etc, who else is likely to want the job?
At worst, we could end up starting the next campaign rather like Blackpool did this season - short of players and scratching around for loans / freebies.
If we can have some organisation / motivation from the coaching staff and a squad who want to play in the hoops and give 100% then I won't moan - expectations are low for next season so I'm prepared for the worst but hoping to be pleasantly surprised. |
Funny enough there is someone out there who can start from scratch
Who can work with freebies , transfer embargoes , fines, etc , this blokes demands 100%
has QPR in his heart and has worked miracles before his name is Ian Holloway ,
We have come full circle to 2001 again and who better to get some pride back , add Birch and furlong as assistants get in Mel Johnson to oversee the scouting with Les , and we are some way in becoming QPR again
Who Am I kidding that melt Fernades is going to fcuk things up again by appointing Ramsey |  |
| 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
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 19:52 - May 13 with 3775 views | CiderwithRsie |
It's a great article, if depressing, and I find it pretty convincing.
What strikes me is that a lot of the issues that have got the goat of many on here but which I've tended to see as side issues, add up to a big deal.
I'm talking about cr*p kits and badges, Fernandes on twitter, the perception amongst other fans that we're trying to buy our way to the top, things like that. You can add in Discodroid's critique of Chris Ramsey's dress sense if you like! None of them will lose us a match, but they all undermine the sense that this is a proper football club, that we may not have won the league but we have real traditions and a sense of community that, say Chelsea will never have. Without those things, players signing for us will tend to see us as just another pay cheque or a step in their career on the way to somewhere else (if only to the retirement villa). They allow anyone involved in the club to say "ah well, feck it" when things go wrong instead of busting a gut to get things right. (There are honourable exceptions - Clint Hill, obviously; Warnock speaks highly of the club and I think got what we are about.) | | | |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 20:06 - May 13 with 3729 views | WeaverQPR |
Im not sold on rambo but will give him the opportunity to have a go with his own squad or our youth team if theres an embargo. Its a fcking mess, at least rambo will have a head start on anyone else.
Great write up by d.mc |  |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 20:12 - May 13 with 3713 views | AgedR |
| Blog by Dave Mc on 18:54 - May 13 by paulparker |
Funny enough there is someone out there who can start from scratch
Who can work with freebies , transfer embargoes , fines, etc , this blokes demands 100%
has QPR in his heart and has worked miracles before his name is Ian Holloway ,
We have come full circle to 2001 again and who better to get some pride back , add Birch and furlong as assistants get in Mel Johnson to oversee the scouting with Les , and we are some way in becoming QPR again
Who Am I kidding that melt Fernades is going to fcuk things up again by appointing Ramsey |
I like Ramsey and would keep him in the role that he was originally brought in to fulfil, but, your Olly shout is absolutely spot on. Anyone who thinks he is somehow beneath us, or past his sell by date now, really doesn't understand what an utter clusterfxck of a mess we're in.
Ramsey, Les and Olly or just Ramsey and Les for me. |  |
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| Blog by Dave Mc on 20:27 - May 13 with 3680 views | PunteR |
A great article.
He's got TF bang to rights. Surely the mittals have to share a bit of blame as they've been here before TF. |  |
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