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Reply | Andy Belk
at 10:49 22 Nov 2024
free hand in terms of he had a far bigger say and can be held accountable more than at any other stage. |
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Reply | Player Arrivals
at 09:40 22 Nov 2024
usually between 12 and 1, if you go by the club shop thats where the players usually walk in after parking their cars, its fenced off with stewards but the players always stop for photos and autographs |
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Reply | Andy Belk
at 09:35 22 Nov 2024
He's been here a long time and can take credit for some good signings and a few stinkers as well. This summer was to my knowledge the first time he got a free hand on things and was able to bring in who he wanted without a manager or dof saying no and the end result has been a disaster.
The one good thing about the new structure is there is no hiding place anymore, if the recruitment is great we know where the credit goes, if it's crap we know who to blame |
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Reply | 1973/74 Season
at 22:15 21 Nov 2024
Joe Walters returned again when we played Grimsby in the FA Cup in 1982, thankfully we won that time |
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 21:35 21 Nov 2024
I'd argue we did better under Jim Gregory winning a cup, finishing second, getting to a few cup finals, european football and top 5 finishes
Those good times in the 90s were not because of Thompson at all
I just don't buy the demise was inevitable,Fulham have spent most of the last 20 years in the top flight showing it was very possible to stay at that level |
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 18:19 21 Nov 2024
Wright did it in the Championship rather than when we had a brilliant team to build on , thats the major difference.
They were the glory years but they could have lasted a lot longer and been a lot better. |
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 13:08 21 Nov 2024
Long term though balancing the books was the wrong thing to do which I know sounds mad but within a few years we were in division two and in administration so selling those players never really benefited us that much.
We were on the brink of the game going mad. I'm not saying they should have put the club at risk but a few additions around then rather than selling every year and we could have achieved so much more and set the club up for the next 20 years
Honestly if Quantum Leap was real and I was Sam Beckett I would be begging to leap into Richard Thompson in 1991 and run QPR for a few years with the knowledge of what happened. And when I'd done that and QPR were sorted I'd start leaping to fulfil the pervy fantasies. Sorry that went in a bizarre direction, it's been a long week |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 11:51 21 Nov 2024
Thing is what people on here are moaning about are pretty obvious problems that need fixing so I'd hope they can see it as well and do something about it |
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Reply | Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread
at 08:15 21 Nov 2024
this feels like a massive week ahead, 3 games, 2 of them against sides likely to finish bottom half, we need to be getting at least 4 points here possibly 6 but you look at who is available and genuinely can't see how we win any of them |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 08:12 21 Nov 2024
I'm hoping this is a change of strategy for the long term but I am a bit skeptical of the timing ahead of a big game which we'll probably lose and you can certainly see the fans getting angry and going after the owners or ceo rather than the manager and players |
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 08:02 21 Nov 2024
even under Wright they did spend quite well at first, Spencer was brilliant and Peacock very good but they appointed the wrong manager time and time again and what should have been a 100 point championship winning squad finished mid table. |
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 22:59 20 Nov 2024
all of this is with hindsight of course but when we did spend the money it was just money we had brought in, they never pushed the boat out when it was needed.
By the time we spent on those players the team had already been broken up. We'd lost Peacock, Wilson, Ferdinand, Sinton etc and Wilkins was pretty much done as a player and didn't play much that season, Mcdonald was injured as was Bradley Allen for a lot of that season
The signings we made were crap and we know all too well from the last 10 years it doesn't matter how much you spend its how well you spend it
I do agree it was all about the people making the signings and look if we had spent and got those players it could have still gone wrong, we tend to find a way to mess it up but it will always feel a missed opportunity to me
Just imagine if after 1992/93 we sign a good goalkeeper, a midfield partner for Wilkins and a back up for Les. It just could have been so much better and then the loss of Les wouldn't have been the final straw.
I've gone back and forward on those protests over the years, i was part of it stood outside shouting we want thompson out, when it went tits up under Wright I thought I was wrong to do that and now 30 years on I think the fans were right to do it as thats how we felt at the time, we could all sense we were close to doing something and it felt like we were being asset stripped.
Ultimately though Thompson left a year or so after the protests had died down after we'd been relegated. |
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Reply | 1973/74 Season
at 21:42 20 Nov 2024
7374 Rewind by DannyPaddox 20 Apr 2020 13:02https://i.ibb.co/Y3MTmzM/F86-BDA53-0-AA4-44-C4-A1-BC-8-BD76-D636-F04.jpg
The Rs second season back in the top flight finishing as top London team for the first time in the club’s history. Was looking good for Europe too but ran out of steam towards the end. Nonetheless a magic season. One I’m particularly fond of as I made my debut - in the Shed. A six-goal ding-dong baptism of fire.
My Grandad was pushing Liverpool on me at the time, and he almost succeeded, but I defy you show any 8 year-old that team in that kit back then and they would end up Rangers for life. The tracksuit (above) was pretty special too.
I’ve trawled YouTube and found approximately a third of the season in various shapes and sizes. Will post below.
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 18:49 20 Nov 2024
I'm not for a second saying Wright was any good he was a disaster but we neded that investment when we were on the up
All we did every year was weaken the team and it came back to bite us in the end
Thompson was the right owner at the wrong tine, he comes in after Flavio I actually think he'd have done well
Blackburn of course spent a lot but on players we could have got, likes of Sherwood, Ripley and Tim Flowers were all gettable if we wanted to do it. Andy Cole when he was at Bristol City was another we could have taken a chance on
It wasn't the Premier League we see today or even the one of the 2000's, the opportunity was there for us and we didn't go for it. Was never going to take fortunes to do it, we were so close to a very good side just needed some depth to the squad and a bit more quality in midfield alongside Wilkins |
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 18:02 20 Nov 2024
if Chris Wright had been in charge in 1993 I think history would have been very different, Thompson was more suited to what we needed after we went down
Football was on the brink of booming to ridiculous money and we missed the boat, it didn't need much, we were already a very good side. Blackburn won the league signing players from Southampton, Norwich and Middlesbrough.
I just look back on that era thinking what if |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 18:00 20 Nov 2024
what this does is buy them support on Saturday imo, no more bollox that Frey might be back or JCS is on the grass we know it's bare bones and that the team needs us so I genuinely think revealing this stuff will actually help the atmosphere at the weekend.
Saying all that god knows how we win a game of professional football with what we have left |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 17:14 20 Nov 2024
Blimey, been a while since we were told something, a positive move
Shame about Frey, could have done with him at the weekend |
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 15:13 20 Nov 2024
Look at what we could have done though with some investment., Chelsea were a club going nowhere, Arsenal and Spurs were pretty rubbish but they all started to invest in players rather than sell and grew from mid table teams to clubs regularly in the top 6 and in Chelsea and Arsenals case winning trophies.
1993/94 season we went into it selling Sinton and bringing in Sinclair.
Other transfers that summer that could have really pushed QPR Andy Townsend to Villa, Marcus Gayle to Wimbledon, Des Walker to Sheff Wed, Gavin Peacock to Chelsea, Peter Beardsley to Newcastle. We could have been in for any of them, none of them mega money and really kicked on after finishing 5th but stood still and then went backwards very quickly
We were so close, finishing 8th and 9th was great but look at the clubs who finished above us in that era, Sheff Wed, Wimbledon, Blackburn, Forest. It could and should have been a lot better
Brighton spend quite heavily to maintain what they are doing but you are right it is comparable and them selling so many players when they have never had so much money coming in might end up being a wasted opportunity to them when they have one bad transfer window and end up relegated |
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Reply | 1973/74 Season
at 15:00 20 Nov 2024
Thanks so much for these, a massive help to read some of the stories around these games to help bring them to life
I did wonder why the Chelsea game was a Monday game |
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