Post by marshbowles10 on Feb 3, 2015 5:52:41 GMT
Were he here to report yesterday's shambles he would I'm sure do it in a far more eloquent manner. Therefore please excuse my take on perhaps what he would have said.
Given his time of supporting the Club that makes my 53 years of coming to Loftus Road mean I'm still a junior, he'd probably say he'd seen it all before.
We are a Club in crisis. We have mortgaged our Club on players that with some very minor exceptions appear here just to pick up in one year what 'normal' people earn in a lifetime. Then they don't even play or when they do they are very poor.
Most of the current squad wouldn't be fit to lace the boots of a Stan Bowles. However, they probably do not know how to tie a bootlace, that is probably done for them.
The owner ,and we know he has faced huge other pressures seems to continue to misunderstand the running of a club. He surrounds himself with executives that know very little about the basic fundamentals of football administration and as a result it appears yet again we fall foul of the rules. Les Ferdinand is probably a lovely guy who scored some great goals. But it doesn't make him management material with the intelligence necessary to change the direction that the Club is taking. Harry no doubt would just tell him to 'eff off. I'm the manager son'.
It's not new at QPR of course right up to the wire on our promotion season we still had the spectre of a ruling on Ale Faurlin that could have cost us promotion. Nothing to do with TF, it was the spiv Paladini. But as then tis now, if we had someone that knew how football was run, surely it wouldn't have happened? Paladini was an Agent, would YOU trust an Agent?
They almost single handedly have sucked the game dry. They too earn more in a year than most do in a lifetime.
So we have 'form' on the 'we haven't a clue about admin front'. When will TF bite the bullet, get rid of the Stadium guru Beard and appoint someone that knows what they are doing?
As for the manager. Have we ever had such a high profile but utterly useless, overpaid waste of space?
He is absolutely charming, one of the lads, you'd love to have a pint with him down the pub. However if you did, he certainly wouldn't pay for a round and he'd probably ask you if he could borrow a tenner. Naturally it would never been repaid.
The man is a walking, talking disaster. When he joined he complained that Tony had his pants down and his bottom smacked and he was a lovely bloke that didn't deserve it.
What did Harry do?
He purchased Christopher Samba on £100k a week that almost single handedly became our final nail in the relegation coffin. He arrived at Loftus Road unfit and a liability. He was offloaded a few months later with Rednapp saying it had been a 'nice bit of business as we had got our money back.
We had paid him £100k a week.
He was a liability and not fit, yet it was a 'great piece of business'
Relegated yet 'a great piece of business'. TF would not let Harry make that mistake again would he?
Right, he did.
Sandro £10 million and always injured (for Sandro read Jenus or Johnson or Dywer…..OK not allHarry but a Club trait).
Ferdinand who was obviously looking for a final pay day and doesn't play. Mutch his young hope that lasted was it 11 games before being transferred, again a 'good piece of business'. Loan signings that never played. We just don't seem to learn.
The necessity for the manager to employ his entire back room staff and between them make players worse than when they joined. Apart from Charlie Austin, players signed have become worse. There is no improvement, no advance in their ability. How does that happen?
The Club in its wisdom in awarding huge contracts for below average players made worse by the coaching means that with the Mutch exception, no one wants them. They are second division players on Champions League winner wages.
Why oh why have we allowed this to continue?
SWP, Anton/Rio Ferdinand/Traore/Botswinga the list during the rein of TF under Beards's stewardship is farcical….you'd laugh at how they make the same mistakes again and again and again. Yet this is no laughing matter. We are watching the death of our Club by 1000 cuts.
The soul of the team that Gramps loved is slowly but surely being taken away.
Gramps would say 'I told you so'
A lot of what he says has indeed come to pass.
Yet still nothing happens.
We cling onto the belief that Tony and Phil and Harry know what they are doing.
They don't.
They prove it week in week out.
The press conferences that say the same thin every week.
Nothing changes, the lame excuses for the worst away performance of almost any English professional team are not seen as being an indicator that something is fundamentally wrong. It's all down to someone else's fault. The player had a bad day, the other team hadn't played 4 games in 11 days, the referee was appalling. It is never…'it was my fault, I played the wrong formation'.
Gramps would say as he looks down that his beloved QPR has lost its heart and soul.
I'm sure Gramps will be looking down on Saturday. He like all of us will desperately want us to beat Southampton.
Or will he?
Will he say 'I told you so. We need to start again. Get rid of all these parasites that rob us week in week out and start again?'
God bless you John.
Given his time of supporting the Club that makes my 53 years of coming to Loftus Road mean I'm still a junior, he'd probably say he'd seen it all before.
We are a Club in crisis. We have mortgaged our Club on players that with some very minor exceptions appear here just to pick up in one year what 'normal' people earn in a lifetime. Then they don't even play or when they do they are very poor.
Most of the current squad wouldn't be fit to lace the boots of a Stan Bowles. However, they probably do not know how to tie a bootlace, that is probably done for them.
The owner ,and we know he has faced huge other pressures seems to continue to misunderstand the running of a club. He surrounds himself with executives that know very little about the basic fundamentals of football administration and as a result it appears yet again we fall foul of the rules. Les Ferdinand is probably a lovely guy who scored some great goals. But it doesn't make him management material with the intelligence necessary to change the direction that the Club is taking. Harry no doubt would just tell him to 'eff off. I'm the manager son'.
It's not new at QPR of course right up to the wire on our promotion season we still had the spectre of a ruling on Ale Faurlin that could have cost us promotion. Nothing to do with TF, it was the spiv Paladini. But as then tis now, if we had someone that knew how football was run, surely it wouldn't have happened? Paladini was an Agent, would YOU trust an Agent?
They almost single handedly have sucked the game dry. They too earn more in a year than most do in a lifetime.
So we have 'form' on the 'we haven't a clue about admin front'. When will TF bite the bullet, get rid of the Stadium guru Beard and appoint someone that knows what they are doing?
As for the manager. Have we ever had such a high profile but utterly useless, overpaid waste of space?
He is absolutely charming, one of the lads, you'd love to have a pint with him down the pub. However if you did, he certainly wouldn't pay for a round and he'd probably ask you if he could borrow a tenner. Naturally it would never been repaid.
The man is a walking, talking disaster. When he joined he complained that Tony had his pants down and his bottom smacked and he was a lovely bloke that didn't deserve it.
What did Harry do?
He purchased Christopher Samba on £100k a week that almost single handedly became our final nail in the relegation coffin. He arrived at Loftus Road unfit and a liability. He was offloaded a few months later with Rednapp saying it had been a 'nice bit of business as we had got our money back.
We had paid him £100k a week.
He was a liability and not fit, yet it was a 'great piece of business'
Relegated yet 'a great piece of business'. TF would not let Harry make that mistake again would he?
Right, he did.
Sandro £10 million and always injured (for Sandro read Jenus or Johnson or Dywer…..OK not allHarry but a Club trait).
Ferdinand who was obviously looking for a final pay day and doesn't play. Mutch his young hope that lasted was it 11 games before being transferred, again a 'good piece of business'. Loan signings that never played. We just don't seem to learn.
The necessity for the manager to employ his entire back room staff and between them make players worse than when they joined. Apart from Charlie Austin, players signed have become worse. There is no improvement, no advance in their ability. How does that happen?
The Club in its wisdom in awarding huge contracts for below average players made worse by the coaching means that with the Mutch exception, no one wants them. They are second division players on Champions League winner wages.
Why oh why have we allowed this to continue?
SWP, Anton/Rio Ferdinand/Traore/Botswinga the list during the rein of TF under Beards's stewardship is farcical….you'd laugh at how they make the same mistakes again and again and again. Yet this is no laughing matter. We are watching the death of our Club by 1000 cuts.
The soul of the team that Gramps loved is slowly but surely being taken away.
Gramps would say 'I told you so'
A lot of what he says has indeed come to pass.
Yet still nothing happens.
We cling onto the belief that Tony and Phil and Harry know what they are doing.
They don't.
They prove it week in week out.
The press conferences that say the same thin every week.
Nothing changes, the lame excuses for the worst away performance of almost any English professional team are not seen as being an indicator that something is fundamentally wrong. It's all down to someone else's fault. The player had a bad day, the other team hadn't played 4 games in 11 days, the referee was appalling. It is never…'it was my fault, I played the wrong formation'.
Gramps would say as he looks down that his beloved QPR has lost its heart and soul.
I'm sure Gramps will be looking down on Saturday. He like all of us will desperately want us to beat Southampton.
Or will he?
Will he say 'I told you so. We need to start again. Get rid of all these parasites that rob us week in week out and start again?'
God bless you John.