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Post by marshbowles10 on Jan 29, 2014 21:05:56 GMT
I was quite close to it. Whilst I am absolutely convinced that Austin didn't intend such an injury he certainly went in very hard and it was undoubtedly a foul where a yellow card would have been expected.
I thought we were really poor yesterday against an equally poor Bolton side. The luck we are having cannot last forever and had we been playing a decent side last night we would have lost by two or three goals.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jan 11, 2014 12:10:43 GMT
I'm afraid this should have been titled '3 things you loved' about QPR.
-The Number 10 and its association with some footballing magicians.
-The humbleness and approachability of the players. They would always talk to you and they played such attractive football.
-The 'real' supporters you got to know week in week out. They came not because we were on TV every week or we had a Korean player, they came because.....well just because.... the magic of supporting QPR was over and above any 'marketing hype' or telling us 'we were QPR'. We came because 'We were QPR'
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jan 8, 2014 20:03:30 GMT
Ji-Sung Park - the one-time QPR captain who is reportedly earning £100k per week ............. I really hate that word "earning". "Getting" is rather more appropriate because he is earning damn all as far as we are concerned. 'Stealing' is the word I'd use Gramps and it's not only Park that deserves that description. Whilst on the subject the term 'he has been a great servant' should be banned too......servant my R's
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jan 5, 2014 11:38:32 GMT
Whilst I appreciate and stated that Southampton and Stoke are not up to Everton standard. I didn't go, so yes it is paper talk but I'm reading the report from The Sunday Times a newspaper where reporting is better than most and it states
"It was a question of damage limitation. The gulf in class and more unsultingly for the gallant band of Rangers fans, in industry was close to embarrassing. Everton should have had 8"
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jan 5, 2014 8:10:06 GMT
I think additionally we can look at the two of the teams above us fared against Premiership teams. Both Burnley at Southampton and Leicester at Stoke appeared to at the very least give their Premiership opposition a run for their money. Whilst Everton are a much better outfit than Stoke or Southampton the fact is that they weren't outclassed or over run.
Like the discussion of yesterday, apart from perhaps a goalkeeper we will need 7-8 players to come into the Club if we are going to have a chance to succeed and stay in the Premiership next season.
It always interesting to read the 'inside transfer' gossip and apart from Cesar, none of our players are ever mentioned as being a target of other Clubs. You can only conclude from this that either other Clubs know the contracts that our players are on and therefore there is no point as they won't be able to afford them....or they are just not good enough. I suspect it is a mixture of the two.
No doubt the Club will be saying that we can now 'focus on the league' and rightfully so, but my fear is that we will again go on an ill-judged spending spree and despite Harry telling Uncle Tony that he had his 'bottom smacked' in transfer dealings, the exact same will happen again.
In continuing the discussion from yesterday, I'd rather have another season in the Championship and bring in new and younger players. But this doesn't appear to be a policy that is at the heart of Harry's thoughts. So for me, it appears that it will be 'sh*t or bust' and therefore we will see some manic transfer dealings at LR in the coming days to guarantee as far as possible the promised land. However I'm not sure there is a Plan B.
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Dec 26, 2013 21:43:43 GMT
Post by marshbowles10 on Dec 26, 2013 21:43:43 GMT
It's a sad day when this board that has very genuine fans that revert to cheap shots off each rather than discuss the questions from today
1 We were shocking in all areas of the park and have been most of the season.
2 We have moaned about Young earning £30k a week, Zamora is on double. Yet the culprit, the CEO who authorised these ridiculous contracts still writes his sugar candy notes in the programme.
3 It was obvious to everyone that having to rely on the two most injury prone forwards in football was always a very risky strategy. Why take the guy from South America and not play him? Why loan out other forwards?
4 Why does it appear that there is no passion in the side?
5 As for Benoit, he is a liability, I have never seen a full back that never tracks back.
6 Why isn't Cesar ever on the bench to give Rob Green competition?
7 Why was Tom Carroll taking corners that he effectively passed to their keeper?
These are some of the key questions that we need to discuss as a board as I'd be interested in everyone's opinion, especially those that travelled to today.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Dec 26, 2013 19:02:49 GMT
Zamora hasn't started in how many games? Haven't heard about any 'behind closed doors' friendlies to check fitness. I really hope I'm wrong but it snacks a bit of desperation from Harry. I hope it works but why wasn't he a used sub against Leicester a mere 5 days ago if he was that close to fitness?
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Post by marshbowles10 on Dec 8, 2013 15:59:20 GMT
What about the Gino Padula cock up too? That cost £300k. Paladini has convinced a lot of fans that he was our salvation and many believe it. If only we knew the truth.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Dec 6, 2013 14:49:46 GMT
But they don;t need to groundshare. They will play at Griffin Park until the new ground is built and ready.
Seems to me that they as a Club have their heads firmly screwed on. They didn't crow about their stadium until they had the plans in place. They have quietly gone about their business and have succeeded. There is a lot that Philip Beard could learn from Mark Devlin and it is just a bloody shame that Mark isn't our CEO.
Still he is a football man and that's not what the Board want.
I just think there could be another serious competitor in West London football within 5 years. Championship for sure.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Nov 30, 2013 12:28:40 GMT
Club confirms amount the club paid to agents between October 1st 2012 to September 30th 2013 ... QUEENS Park Rangers Football Club has confirmed the amount the club paid to agents for the reporting period from October 1st 2012 to September 30th 2013.
The total was £5,668,932
10,000 season tickets at say average of £566 per ticket= um £5,668,000
I am so pleased that we season ticket holders effectively paid these parasites.
Tony, sack the idiot Beard who seems to be single handedly destroying this club with his ridiculous expenditure.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Nov 19, 2013 11:52:47 GMT
The sad part of it is irrespective of the article being correct or not, whether it involves UEFA or not or The FA or the Premier League rules of financial management or should that be mismanagement.
The amazing fact is that senior and highly paid executives that allowed this to happen are still running the Club...........this must be financial mismanagement on a scale never seen before.
Our Club and thankfully for the moment it still is ours, has been exposed to such an extent that we are lucky we have a club.
I remain staggered that when you and I knew when all this crazy spending was going on, when the journeymen on salaries that didn't cover a stadium of 35,000 let alone 18,000 were arriving on cue on transfer deadline day....... that eventually it would catch up with us. Living beyond our means doesn't get close.
We might have changed our manager, the playing staff.......but strangely those that made these crass executive decisions in the first place still sit in their padded chairs, writing sweety-pie nothings in the programme and thanking the supporters for being magnificent. Like mugs we lap it all up.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Aug 5, 2013 18:28:14 GMT
My cynical side just says that these people who don't want to play such as Granero/Adel are just delighted as they have contributed nothing... yet have just got a great win bonus in their pay packet.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jul 10, 2013 12:21:49 GMT
I feel sorry for your family. When you came here you said it wasn't the money it was because you wanted to be near your kids. So what will your kids think as you return back. 'Hey Dad's gone back to Russia....but it's not for the money...we will see him sometime at the end of November'.
You came to Loftus Road on a bumper pay packet that I'm sure made other players question the wage structure and thus caused discontent and jealousy. You were also unfit and your performance against Fulham was woeful. You were then 'injured' for the final games and didn't play.
You typify footballers with your pathetic tweets about how you love the Club/fans. Complete and utter rubbish. We can see through you as we have more intelligence than you will ever have.
Thank God you have gone.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jul 8, 2013 14:32:57 GMT
Apart from the first, here are 10 pre-season wishes in no particular order.
1 We get promoted.
2 Someone is appointed to the Board that understands football and coaches TF about the differences between running an airline and running a collection of millionaires that are worth more than his airline.
3 Getting rid of the players that don't want to play for the Club.
4 To get some pride back both on and off the field.
5 To play attacking football.
6 To encourage younger players to develop/come to the Club and in turn they are given a chance to progress.
7 To only read about QPR on the back pages of Daily Newspapers.
8 To have less 'spin' from the Club if we hit a bad patch and for players/coaches/manager to be truthful in their explanations about poor performances/results.
9 To progress in a Cup competition further than the 3rd round.
and finally
10 For the very large bloke that sits next to me....not to renew his season ticket, move somewhere else.....or please buy 2 season tickets...there is not enough room!
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jun 25, 2013 22:51:11 GMT
Knew we were coming to a town called Adel so had the camera ready. Didn't expect the 'Bushmaster' reference or the fact the Yanks want Adel to go now!
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jun 21, 2013 13:07:50 GMT
Saw Nedum on plane and whilst I respect the privacy of players 'off duty' I reckon we deserve to try and get some real explanation about what is happening..... so yes I did have a chat with him at 35,000 feet!
Anyhow, he appears to be a very nice and articulate guy and I guess for someone earning north of a £million a year pretty 'down to earth'. I guess because he is one of the more educated footballers his responses about the season were guarded. He said that he DID NOT expect a major clear out in the summer. Players have contracts and unless someone else offers the Club a way out and/or the Club pays off the players, then they will stay. He seemed very committed to the Club and said that he believed that we could challenge for automatic promotion. Interesting point that he made was that after the result against Chelsea there was a feeling that they 'wouldn't go down' despite what everyone was saying. I came to the conclusion that even at the highest level there was a totally unrealistic optimism that we would survive.
He looks a very fit guy, has massive shoulders and muscles (my Mrs was very impressed) but he wasn't as tall as I'd expected so perhaps full back is his best position.
He had a very pleasant wife too!
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Post by marshbowles10 on Jun 10, 2013 11:17:08 GMT
Those of us old posters may remember Tony Williamson who was number 2 to Jim Gregory in the 'good old days'.
Tony also wrote a number of books on QPR.
He passed away yesterday following a short illness.
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 24, 2013 16:30:30 GMT
We will be the club they will all want to beat.
As previous winners of the competition and with world class players the Capital Cup first round will be a treat for football fans.
Imagine a team full of internationals such as ours against some of the worst professionals in the game.
OK.....out on the first round.
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 24, 2013 16:23:57 GMT
Have they seen him play?
God they must be rubbish
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 24, 2013 16:22:15 GMT
We should NEVER EVER sign a player from them.
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 24, 2013 16:19:13 GMT
This is not a shock to me. When he joined, 'Arry said he was only on £15,000 a week. How can anyone live on that sort of pathetic income?
No wonder the poor boy had to have a bet...be interesting to know what his betting selections were?
-QPR '0' -QPR to miss penalty? -QPR to be relegated? -Boswinga to be in the team?
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 21, 2013 14:35:27 GMT
Since they picked most of our bloody home games wouldn't it have been great for the Club, given the garbage we had to watch to rebate the season ticket holders for each game shown live?
£5 voucher for each game televised to spend in the Club shop would have cost bugger all but would have made us love Uncle tone.
Sorry gotta go outside there are pigs flying over my house.
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 21, 2013 14:28:54 GMT
Their scouts must have seen something we missed.
He has been a bit of an invisible player to me.
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 16, 2013 20:10:59 GMT
Judging by their belief that the 'Reading match was incredible' I just wonder what barrel we are scraping.
-Practicing on such amazing grounds with so many facilities is great, and we were able to go to the QPR match against Reading which was another incredible experience. It has been out of this world.
-The coaches are fantastic and the young QPR players have really helped us all. The match against Reading was incredible, it was the first time we have ever been to see a football match like that so it was so good. I am a QPR fan now!
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 14, 2013 2:27:09 GMT
Firstly let us see him back to his old self.
He reminds me a bit of Langley in some ways. He is a very skilful player, or he certainly was before his cruciate but would need to make less mistakes and score more. I think he lacks a bit of confidence when up against quality players but his vision is a huge asset.
A captain that will motivate those around him? I don't think so but given that QPR made Barton and Park captains then anything can happen.
I'm afraid there is no one in the current squad that deserves the title 'Captain' so I just hope one of the hard men you mention Maud can fulfil this role. I think Ali is a lovely guy but I'm not sure lovely guys make a football captain.
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 13, 2013 14:04:06 GMT
I think it is impossible to find the single reason why we go into the last game of the season as the worst Club in the Premiership.
None of us at the beginning of the season with the 'easy' opening fixture against Swansea would have predicted that we'd start with a 0-5 loss and the Gods of Football that play games with us, it just might be worth having a bet on a similar result from Anfield.
I think the knee-jerk signings made on transfer deadline day by Tony and Co the season before had set the trend. Ferdinand/Barton/SWP on inflated wages that then became the benchmark for the next set of mercenaries that naturally wanted to be paid more than the failures before. Like mugs the Club management in its wisdom continued its upward wages spiral to buy results or in the case of Park to buy a 'brand figure'. To sell shirts? I don't think so. To sell Air Asia airline tickets, probably the key reason.
At times I have felt genuinely sorry for Uncle Tone at other times I have felt he deserved what he got for his arrogance in building a management team that knew nothing about running a football club.
The departure of Hughes and the appointment of Rednapp who has turned out to just be an older version of Hughes also looks to be a real bad piece of recruitment. Witness the Newcastle game yesterday. That looked no different to the way we 'played' under Hughes, or am I missing something?
We should have realised back in December when Ryan Nelson was our best player that something was very, very wrong. I mean Nelson is an OK squad player....but to be the rock on which the team performed? We then allowed him, under contract to leave to manage a team in North America. Think about it, the best performing player allowed to break his contract and we all wished him the best of luck in his new role!
The Nelson replacement, Samba comes in at a mighty £12.5 million and wages to match. He arrives unfit and in the end is not selected. If you wrote a book no one would believe it.
Relegation was confirmed weeks before the end of the season with some of the players and the manager having a good old laugh down the tunnel at Reading.
Here was the chance now to blood some new Loftus Road talent.
The team sheet for Newcastle was an indicator that we may have a lot to fear in the future, zero youngsters available for selection......or was it the manager and his lack of foresight to bring in players of the future?
Can we pin it down to one reason as Harry does.. 'the players ain't good enough'
Harry needs to have a look in the mirror....'perhaps you and Jordan/Bond ain't no good'.
One reason?
No many reasons and I just hope some of the lessons are learned.
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 12, 2013 21:32:22 GMT
Guess it's got nothing to do with season tickets now available to purchase?
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 8, 2013 14:34:38 GMT
Fake hoops just announced their season ticket prices showing approx 25% reductions v's Premiership. Looking at around £400 for a decent ST there.
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 5, 2013 22:15:33 GMT
Just suppose for one minute that Tony had seen enough, for whatever reason his airline or other business interests needed him.
Suppose that those clever businessmen the Mittals decided to buy him out for whatever they believed they could get away with. Remember these are clever Indian businessmen, shrewd and highly money motivated.
Could they claim that the Club without being totally refinaced couldn't pay its debts and go into administration?
Could this be a way of getting out of all the ridiculous contracts that Beard and his merry men have constructed? Whilst it would mean we would start the season at -10 points......long term it may save the Club an awful lot of money?
Cardiff just promoted and had they started with a 10 point they would still have still made it.
Before rejecting this totally out of hand...remember we support QPR and if there is a Club where something totally unexpected is going to happen......
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Post by marshbowles10 on May 2, 2013 19:51:12 GMT
It's down to TV and exposure. With no Premiership coverage there is no Asian market.
Had we survived then the tour would have taken place irrespective of how relevant it is to preparing the team for the season ahead.
Perhaps the Board have finally woken up to the fact that without the rights and coverage of the Premier League, Tony can never have a 'global' brand.
Playing tin pots teams in the UK is one thing, playing them 5,000 miles away is something else.
We should play teams of a similar standard (or better) otherwise what is the point?
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