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Post by Macmoish on Jun 8, 2011 6:50:31 GMT
Bump 4 Years. What I wrote 2 Years ago re "bump" [Note: Bumped from TWO YEARS Ago...But could easily be talking about the last 30 (or more) days)
JUNE 2011What a crazy, depressing Last 30 Days Since Promotion 30 Days ago (or 31!  ) Since we "won" the Championship (although lost to Leeds) - The FA announcement of fine not points - Mittal/Bhatia on the field and talking re buying rest of club - Paladini also on the field with our trophy - Ecclestone saying maybe not - Waiting for the FA full report - The No Parade Announcement (and the Excuses given which weren't exactly full and complete - The Full FA Report - The defender of Paladini - Slew of Media Leaks re new Manager replacing Warnock. (And even Warnock commenting) - Slew of Transfer Rumours - Done Deal and other messageboard leaks - The axing of Saksena - The resignation of Bhatia - Waiting for the season ticket news - Hearing Season ticket prices - Club spin re season tickets - Rumours re Regular Walk up prices - Waiting for the third promoted team to be decided - Players signing on to other clubs - QPR Re-Signing Helguson and Ramage and releasing others (but not quite a few others yet - Media rumours re how much we'll have to spend - Warnock saying he'd actually like to meet with Briatore/Ecclestone - Waiting for the new shirt - A couple of minor friendlies - Waiting for the new fixtures EDIT: Left out the whole club refusal to meet with Fans.../Attempt to syphon through Official Supporters Club (OSC)....JOint Club/OSC statement re QPR Fan groups and meetings |
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Post by gibraltar on Jun 8, 2011 7:22:22 GMT
love it
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Post by Macmoish on Jun 7, 2012 7:07:43 GMT
Bump a year...What a up-and-down time it was
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Post by gibraltar on Jun 7, 2012 7:18:45 GMT
too right mac, "How to run a club 101" with Professor Fernandes, is the best of all the lessons.
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Post by alfaranger on Jun 7, 2012 8:39:42 GMT
Good stuff that Mac. A timely reminder of how things could be, but ain't thankfully.
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Post by Macmoish on Jun 7, 2013 7:14:13 GMT
Posted this TWO years ago...But could easily be talking about the last 30 Days...
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Post by blueeyedcptcook on Jun 7, 2013 7:44:18 GMT
30days, 30years or 130years, nothing change,s. What is abnormal for other clubs is normal for QPR. At QPR what goes around comes around, it,s whats called Deja-vu. If a QPR supporter was to visit a psychoanalyst, and tell him yours and the clubs foibles, he would immediately declare you insane.  |
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Post by Macmoish on Jun 6, 2014 7:13:51 GMT
Bump: 3 Years....
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Post by ingham on Jun 6, 2014 20:29:26 GMT
Yes, we always seem to be permanently going round and round on the ghost train.
Wright pops out of the wall, and the ghost train is set for the horror of Milton Keynes, and we have to buy off Wright with £10 million of the Club's money as the ABC debt at 100% interest. HE pays Thompson £10 million for HIS shares and QPR goes into debt for twice that amount.
We briefly emerge into the daylight and automatic promotion, only to disappear back into the tunnel with Paladini, guns, and proposals to move the Club to the local park, a nearby dairy, or anywhere really.
World Cup stars are announced, or make ghostly visits to board meetings, until Paladini bankrupts us to safety.
Then it's back into the Tunnel of Lunacy with a racing car magnate with a bird's nest on his head, and someone painted orange who unpacks the subbuteo and takes ovr as manager, kicking supporters out of their season ticket seats, leaving them empty for a season or so, to give us the feel of what a farsighted chairman can achieve.
Briefly emerging into the Champions League, we're back in the tunnel being serenaded by mysterious tweets from all directions. One tries to run the team, this one tries to run the supporters. Inspired by the idea of empty seats, we're treated to a vision of tens of thousands of them, and what is apparently the loss of the entire sum required to build the stadium that contains them.
As we watch the ghostly apparition of one of the most expensive teams in the world, under one of the mostly highly paid managers in the world, taking us down.
And then, as he waits for us to hang on for penalties - always a reliable way of getting yourself off the hook, we score with our only shot on target and we've come out of the slough of despond and into the daylight for a merciful pre-season break.
Why don't we just have someone who can add up. Maybe even someone who has run a few clubs. Just an administrative type. A coaching staff who've got some experience at football.
And why can't we just do the football. Football is a simple game, the man said. Foot. Ball.
Why is it always accompanied with madness? Why always lunatics? You only have to go up - and any number of teams have been doing it for decades, WE'VE done it quite a few times - and you get a LOT of money.
Why can't they just talk football? Explain the problems. Talk about why things don't work. Not just jumping from one bit of good news to the next, stringing them together meaninglessly.
Someone mentioned Magilton. That was one of the spookiest things I've ever experienced at QPR. They do nothing. Then, suddenly, they're awesome. They play a game at Derby where, even 2-1 down at half time, we're so good, all the commentators just take it for granted QPR will win because we're so good.
We just glide all over the pitch, win 4-2, and someone calls us the Arsenal of the Championship. Meaning good football, I think, not that we're in love with big stadiums but can't win anything.
And then it just vanished. I didn't read the thread about it yet, but is it just me, or was that positively eerie?
I can see why the boot room favoured down to earth basics. Football is like chaos theory on a bad hair day. Were Liverpool so successful because they didn't kid themselves that players knew what to do, and could be relied on to do it.
Or did they simply exploit the fact that their opponents hadn't realised this. Play, just play, Ronnie Moran said. But we don't seem to be very much interested in that.
Is it in part down to the cult of the manager. Once upon a time, you hardly knew who the manager was. One or two major celebrities, but many were just initials and a surname in small print underneath the team list.
When did everyone come to believe that the odd genius who could conjure success out of not very much meant that success was the norm just waiting to happen to everyone, and they only had to use the QPR method to achieve it.
Simply appoint every manager you can get your hands on in quick succession, pay each of them more than their predecessor, because that proves that each one is better than the last one, then sack them as soon there are a few bad results, to maintain a positive mood, and the onward momentum.
Perhaps it would be better to be honest. This guy's all right. Sometimes. Sometimes he's hopeless. If their agents don't like it, let the agent pay him £50,000 a week.
Or is it not in our hands now? Are we obliged to sign just anyone who is available for as much as we can pay them, simply because we must be seen to be 'doing something', and ceaseless change means they're not here long enough to see how ordinary they all are, even the better ones.
So we can dramatize them as saints or demons. Brilliant - as good as Gascoigne - or rubbish. Complete clowns.
Still less admit we just don't know what will happen next, and try to develop our teams to cope with the uncertainties and vagaries of the game.
And learn from that. People move around very quickly in football, EXCEPT the supporters. We get through players, managers, board members at terrifying speed, not to mention stadium schemes, and ghostly seating plans.
Maybe someone could explain what they actually know. But maybe they don't actually know anything. It's just that the money is good, and they suspect that if they don't act up all the time, the punters will realise they're being taken for a ride.
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Post by Macmoish on Jun 7, 2015 8:00:22 GMT
Bump....What I initially wrote 4 Years ago...Post-Warnock promotion; but pre- the TONY takeover
(And yes, we were ALL delighted to see FLAV and BERNIE Exit...)
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) Since we "won" the Championship (although lost to Leeds)
