Flashback 4 Years: Strong Words re QPR

[QPR Report]

Four Years ago...

Obviously a QPR hater!

TIME OUT/LONDON - NOAM FRIEDLANDER
Coca-Cola Championship Queens Park Rangers v Burnley...

- Rangers are still limping along. Somehow. And now here come Burnley, who memorably whipped them 4-2 nine months ago at Loftus Rd. The tactics have changed slightly since then with interim manager Gareth Ainsworth trying to encourage a passing game, but the Clarets are up against a team with little direction. QPR has become a club containing huge egos off the pitch – and it seems that anyone with a dominant personality, from Ian Holloway through to Iain Dowie, just won't survive.
- So what's the answer? They tried the quiet Italian approach with Luigi Di Canio last year. He didn't last. For all the money, most fans feel they support a club in decline because it has become the plaything of wealthy boys with their toys. A mere lobbying centre for Formula 1 addicts and friends. They need to remember that those people turning up every fortnight actually pay the overpriced ticket prices because they love the club and love their football. That love needs to be respected by W12's czars. And soon. Because the soul of the club will go the way of Jude the cat if they're not careful... "

[Her piece last week qprreport.blogspot.com/2008/11/qpr-what-mess-what-utter-mess.html elicited some heated comments!
Friday, November 07, 2008

"QPR. What a mess. What an utter mess"
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TIME OUT/Noam Friedlander - Coca-Cola Championship Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City Sat Nov 8 Rangers Stadium, South Africa Rd, W12 7PA
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"QPR. What a mess. What an utter mess. Having fired Iain Dowie, the club is currently stuttering along with Gareth Ainsworth in charge. As a player, Ainsworth gave his all; since many of the current squad played alongside him, they know that he would demand nothing less from his squad. However, the managerial ins and outs at the club are something Rangers fans are having to come to terms with and, while he wouldn't be the worst choice in the world, if the side are truly aiming to fly high and match the glamour that Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore bring to the club, he won't last long. A shame. A shame about Dowie, too. Without meaning to sound ungrateful for the cash that the boardroom fat cats have pumped into the club, things really don't look positive in this part of west London just now." - Time Out

-[About Noam Friedlander (thanks to the poster who provided the link) - Noam Friedlander]

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According to posters who responded, she apparently a strong QPR fan with her own views. Her site - www.noamfriedlander.com

[Zamoraaaah]

Blimey, she is a very angry young lady!

[cpr]

Didn't get free entry to the "C" club perhaps?

[londonranger]

It is what it is. The old qpr went broke she is not alone in her feelings and there are many many angry fans right now. . But she is right. But thats called the nature of change. But we are in 7th place in a division we ve had trouble getting and staying in and have a chance to get back to the land of plenty.

[QPR Report]

Well I don't know if she's right or wrong. And opinions very evidently differe about what fans are prepared to accept in return for success. For me, I do care that the quintessence of QPR not be lost in this new era/new regime.
As it says in the Bible "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

[Zamoraaaah]

She is entitled to her views but I think venting them in the preview section of Londons Listing Magazine is wrong.

[londonranger]

The sole "soul" we have to live with is under the boot of Italy.

[QPR Report]

I wouldn't put it quite that way...but even if it's a benign embrace, it's a change in what QPR is.

[londonranger]

You mean like the Neapolitan song "Oh sole mio"

[Macmoish]

Bump...

And maybe it's coincidental (presumably) but TIME OUT LONDON stopped having - at least online - match previews- which is kind of bizarre.

[Macmoish]

Bump four years ago.

Glad everything is smooth now at QPR!