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Post by QPR Report on May 5, 2009 21:58:41 GMT
Well I hope BP gets my gift!
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Post by scottjones on May 5, 2009 22:00:39 GMT
you're saying bill is slimy!
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Post by QPR Report on May 5, 2009 22:03:27 GMT
No, it comes with a sticker of select names. BP can stick whatever name he feels most appropriate. (Of course as he's very clearly proven, BP is far too nice. But I sure I can find some board posters who will already be going for the toothpicks...!)
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finney
Dave Mangnall
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Post by finney on May 6, 2009 6:20:42 GMT
Nico, Good to see you back on the boards. Is this statement by GP true or false
"The Club is in a better financial position than it has been in for a number of years. Things are still tough, but we have reduced the annual debt by millions and intend to reduce it further. Yet ridiculous rumours still seem to be invented by a few people for reasons beyond me.
But yet under GP the debts at the club never went down but in fact if you look at the accounts they went up, So why say something that in fact is not the case?
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Post by weavie on May 6, 2009 6:46:21 GMT
PAUL SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE TO SPINDOCTOR UP THE SITUATION perhaps to attract investers as you know ive become almost infamous getting banned from god knows how many web sites trying to protect gianni BUT IF IM HONEST I AM ONLY GOING ON MY GUT FEELINGS and im praying that gianni is for real the only thing i can tell you paul is that gianni did tell me that he had plans to bring in investers and he deliverd HE HAD A DREAM PAUL surely youve had dreams let us all start to bury the hatchett let us grow as a unit let us be united in our love for qpr let scott jones embrace bill power let paul finney embrace gianni let us all embrace peace love and harmony let us shut our eyes at night and dream of rodney marsh beating the whole team and scoring a goal lets deam of stanley bowles lets take all these politics out of football and remember all our dads took us to loftus road as children so we have become genetically obsessed with these blue and white hoops look at poor q block pete he has only gone to football and banged his drum to increase the atmosphere BECAUSE HE LOVES QPR HE DOSNT HAVE AN AGENDA when scott jones started this thread i was furious with scott but if this thread is the start of the new begining then let us grasp this with both hands LET US GET BACK TO SIMPLICITY IS GENIUS LETS GO TO THE PREM UNITED FOR RANGERS......FOR RANGERS ARE YOU WITH ME...........................
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Post by weavie on May 11, 2009 10:34:42 GMT
peace love and happyness we must all stick together bill power is cool he helped us in bad weather somethings in life are hard to explain you get things right then they go bad again
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Post by Lonegunmen on May 12, 2009 0:16:17 GMT
If one wants to get confused, be like me and try reading it from the beginning again!
Good to see BP here, Good to see Nico again - agree with him or disagree with him, he adds colour. His loyalty to his friend is to be respected, just because some dont like it, dont dislike the the guy for it.
Nico and BP have come out of this entire thread very well IMHO. Perhaps with the squad in need of an extreme make over, our pitch is getting one and our management team desperately needs one, perhaps it is a gooid time to be discussing the future than dwelling on the past too much. Scott I noticed your PM comment, good. Let's try and make this site just like the old offial MB before it got all screwed up in part by PTV and the club. (Billy Rice being exempt)
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Post by weavie on May 12, 2009 5:51:20 GMT
onwards and upwards bring back bill power he brings love then look up at the blue skies above bill can do miracles the impossible taker a little longer when bill returns our team spirit will get a much stronger lets all dream to night and imagine bill power as a pure white dove
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Post by QPR Report on May 12, 2009 14:46:20 GMT
Flashback:
BBC - Wednesday, 9 July, 2003 Cash boost for QPR Queens Park Rangers fan Bill Power has joined the Loftus Road board after pumping £200,000 into the club. Power becomes the third supporter to be offered a directorship after injecting cash into QPR, following Harold Winton and Kevin McGrath.
"It's a dream come true to join the board and I'm really pleased," Power told BBC Sport.
"I'm from White City and have supported Rangers all my life. To be able to help QPR in this way means a lot to me.
"I haven't been part of any of the bids to take over the club and I don't have any agenda other than wanting to help the club as best I can."
Meanwhile, Rangers have formally completed the signing of French forward Eric Sabin and are giving a trial to Australian midfielder Michael Kathopoulis.
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Post by QPR Report on May 12, 2009 14:48:12 GMT
And from Irish Abroad
Power behind QPR - By Ian McCulloughIt has often been said, usually in dreamy tones, by many a football supporter, that they would give money to the club they love and support when they win the lottery. London Irishman Bill Power is someone who has fulfilled the first part of that dream although the money he has invested in Queens Park Rangers is his very own hard-earned cash and not the type made by buying a lucky dip ticket from the local supermarket. While London football is now dominated by the nouveau-riche Chelsea courtesy of the billions of Russian oil magnate Roman Abramovich and the charismatic, free-flowing on their day, but enigmatic Arsenal under Arsene Wenger, there was a time when QPR were the talk of the capital. At a time when Irish emigration to London was rife during the late 1960s and through to the ’70s, many settled in west London areas such as Hammersmith, Shepherds Bush, Kensal Rise and Greenford and the team whose ground sits just off the Uxbridge Road became the focal point for a many of the new settlers in the capital and their offspring. Power, the son of Wexford parents and an Irish passport holder, was one of the many who were hooked by players such as Rodney Marsh, Les Allen and Mark Lazarus lighting up the pitch that the youngster could see from his bedroom window overlooking Loftus Road from the White City Estate adjacent to the ground. Forty years on and with memories of Marsh, Stan Bowles, Don Givens, Gerry Francis, Les Ferdinand et al, just that, Power stepped in to help out the club that had been such a huge part of his life. Less than 10 years after finishing as top London club in the Premiership, Rangers were on the brink of going out of business as they slipped into the third tier of English football for the first time in 40 years. Years of fecklessness both on and off the pitch had taken the club into administration and the only way it was able to get itself out of the parlous situation was by taking out an ill-advised £10million loan with a little-known Panamanian company ABC Loans. The repayments were costing the club £1m-a-year in interest alone and after failure to reach the old First Division after a play-off final defeat by Cardiff, the club spent the whole of last season on the verge of slipping back into administration despite an average gate of 16,000 and record season-ticket sales. Various parties had expressed an interest in putting money into the club, but to no fruition. The reluctance of former chairman Chris Wright to sell his shares to interested parties despite having declared he was no longer interested in the club proved a stumbling block and QPR needed investment ASAP. Step forward Power, a season-ticket holder of over 20 years and an electrician who made his money by setting up Datasat, a Satellite communication company.
Among their clients are governmental departments from numerous countries, including Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and the Buckinghamshire-based company are now among the world leaders in their field.
“It was a complete stroke of luck that I got into the business,” he admitted. “I was working as an electrician and I had just moved into a new house and a new family moved in next door and Phil Emmel, who is now my business partner, asked me if I could have a look at some circuit plans for a job he was about to embark on.
“He then asked me to help him out on a few jobs abroad and shortly after we set up the business and were very fortunate just getting in at the right time and we have done well to get where are, thanks to some hard work.”
While business was booming for Bill, the team he followed was not. A family called the Wintons had bought two players for the cash-strapped club so Bill made a phone call to QPR’s former chief executive to offer some further help and ask about the possibility of purchasing another player.
He explained: “Apart from my family, QPR have been the biggest part of my life and something I have dedicated a great deal of my time and support to.
“So I picked up the phone and couldn’t believe it when I was put straight through to chief executive David Davies.
“I made an initial investment of £200,000 which was accepted and was invited to sit in on a couple of board meetings, but I realised shortly after that there were a few things that didn’t make sense.
“There were some steps being taken that were costing us more money than was being brought in, like planning to install a whole new computer network with new equipment for staff, and bringing in even more personnel to an already oversized staff.”
In addition to Power an Italian former football agent Gianni Paladini had also become a shareholder along with another London Irishman Kevin McGrath — a senior partner in an asset management company in the City.
With the club losing money hand over fist, a number of changes had to be made with the first being at the top where senior staff were ousted followed by a number of redundancies.
“Basically I had put my money into the club which was gratefully received but I was being ignored and decisions were being made without my knowledge,” said Bill.
With the new board in place, Power was asked to become chairman of the club.
“It was a great honour to be asked to be chairman and something myself and my family are very proud of but not something I ever envisaged or was aspiring for when I made that phone call last year.”
So with the club’s long-term future looking far rosier than 12 months ago after a tax bill was paid off in the summer and investment being made in players and money available to manager Ian Holloway to spend, optimism is high in W12 after a respectable return to the Coca-Cola Championship.
“I am very confident that we will be back in the Premiership within three years. We have a very long way to go at the moment but we are making the right progress,” he said.
“The loan is still a major millstone around our necks and we looking to get a plan agreed to re-structure the payments as at the minute and hopefully that will be resolved.
“We are also very close to securing a site for a new training ground. This will not come out of club funds and will be a gift to the club and a sign of our intentions.
“Myself, Kevin and Gianni are not in the Abramovich mould, none of us have money to chuck away, but we all believe in what we are doing and, hopefully, that will see us back where we feel we belong.”
www.irishabroad.com/news/irishpost/sport/powerbehindqpr.asp
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Post by weavie on May 13, 2009 7:57:04 GMT
yes the lovlyness of bill and his beautifull mind hes indeed a brilliant bloke and very very kind lets get him back on the board then some good ideas will stem and you know what bill will get us back in the prem
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Post by weavie on May 14, 2009 6:49:20 GMT
my campaign to bring back bill power is gaining momentun
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Post by haqpr1963 on May 14, 2009 6:54:53 GMT
Really?
Have just heard we are interviewing the dream team of Wilkins and Sousa today ;D
(Is baiting the battologist allowed?)
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Post by weavie on May 14, 2009 10:54:57 GMT
no no no not that anything but that im having nightmares about those two there sending me off my head
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Post by Lonegunmen on May 14, 2009 11:02:05 GMT
Really? Have just heard we are interviewing the dream team of Wilkins and Houston today ;D (Is baiting the battologist allowed?) Modified to read proper.
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Post by weavie on May 15, 2009 6:03:06 GMT
cant live if bill powr isnt installed cant live if hes not put on the board i cant forget that feelingn when bill power said he was leaving but i guess thats just the way the story goes but qprs days of glory are related to the kind london irishman but he didnt want to tread on any ones toes cant live if living is without you cant live cant live any more or or TO THE TUNE OPF NEILSON WITHOUT YOU
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Post by weavie on May 16, 2009 11:43:03 GMT
bill come back to your home and bring holloway with you
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Post by QPR Report on May 16, 2009 11:47:56 GMT
Look just as Paladini has Olga as his rep...and Mittal has Bhatia as his rep and Thompson has Ellis as his rep and... - (No I won't say it Why not just make QPR Report Chairman - and I'll represent BP
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Post by weavie on May 16, 2009 11:51:44 GMT
ol ill never forget holloway and bill power they worked so well together bring them back i want holloway to be there when we go back into the big time
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bigade
Gerry Francis
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Post by bigade on May 16, 2009 19:06:05 GMT
jeez reading your "bring back holloway" bit made me shudder.
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Post by cpr on May 16, 2009 22:19:16 GMT
Don't encourage him ade.
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