Flashback 10 Years: "The Suits That Never Were"

[QPR Report]

Bump - As I posted 5 years ago this from 10 years ago


One of the smaller things I used to focus on! But there was a larger reason

December 10, 2006 QPR Report Blog


The Players' New Clothes?-

QPR confront some rather serious problems on and off the field. Among these: Four losses in a row; near the bottom of the Championship Table; declining attendances; a very large squad of players, and a ten million pound Loan from the "mysterious" ABC Group, at 10% annual interest; along with additional millions in other loans.

Over the past year-and-a-half, this blog has sought to "report"/document in a variety of areas of interest concerning QPR-related matters, current and past. One of the things this blog has sought to do is to take note of what has been said by the people involved with this great club; and then to look back with the benefit of some perspective and compare what was said with what transpired. And when there is some confusion or some questions, to seek clarification just by posting (or reposting this material).

There are the very large issues - such as our debt and league position. And then there are the extremely small - some would claim insignificant -issues, but are interesting in terms of how fans are told things. But if they are QPR related they are of interest to this blogger.

Over the past couple of weeks one of those relatively small issues was the query about what a reserve player called Ugo Ukah was doing back at the club, six months after his transfer to Italy had been announced by the club. Although the club has yet to issue an official explanation, a number of other posters have offered what is presumably the unofficial "official" explanation. Ukah Explained

An admittedly even more peripheral issue was just a extremely simple query which was posed on the messageboards (and scoffed at by a fair number of messageboard posters although not by all) - but was never actually answered by anyone in know in the affirmative. In the Summer, the Chairman spoke about the new suits the players would be getting. My query: Did the players get their promised/fitted suits and if so, are they worn to pre-match games? And what's the situation re suits for new players who subsequently joned the club? (And if per chance, they haven't yet received them, when will they be arriving?)

". ..When we go to Italy in the pre-season all the players will have tailor made suits, with the club badge on so the players will really look the part for next season. That's another deal we've done. " May, 2006 Rivals Interview with Chairman Paladini

Paladini's post-Italy tour statement "ROLL ON THE NEW SEASON" "...Having just returned from the R's pre-season tour of Italy, QPR Chairman Gianni Paladini "Despite the players staying in one of the town's grandest hotels, and having been fitted with brand new QPR tailor-made suits for every player, ...."
QPR

Official Site - QPR's pre-season trip has begun....."Today a home sick Scott Donnelly told qpr.co.uk...A local tailor then came to measure the players for matching suits and then it was off to Sorrento.... QPR

LSA Reported on their July meeting with Paladini "We were told that the trip to Italy was sponsored by the Mayor of Sorrento and this will include hand made suits for the players and staff." LSA

Just a query.

qprreport.blogspot.com/2006/12/players-new-clothes.html

[Macmoish]

Bump a year

I used to get mocked/denigrated by the REAL "Usual Suspects" when I focused on things that were said and then compared to what actually occurred. (Actually I'm not sure the term "used to" if fully accurate! But there was a reason. Because on a microscale, it exemplified or epitomized the way certain things were.

Anyway, whatever! Onwards and Upwards

[Macmoish]

Ah...Five Years ago (less a day)

Some people were too obtuse (or didn't want to understand)...It was never about the suits per se. It was a microcosm example of how things at QPR were being said as fact...and then when you actually looked closer and attempted to see what actually occurred, something rather different.

To continue the cloth analogy: It was a pattern. Just as there was a pattern of defense and attack from the Paladini boys, when one tried to point to...The Emperor wore no clothes!

And of course when truth did come out. Here..The Training ground...many, many other things: The response/refrain was either bitter personal attacks or "Let's move on." Or even the ban from the message board!

[superckat]

"It was a microcosm example of how things at QPR were being said as fact...and then when you actually looked closer and attempted to see what actually occurred, something rather different."

"Just as there was a pattern of defense and attack from the Paladini boys"

It will be interesting to see after the eventual screening of the 4 year plan whether those fans who accused others of not being real fans because they refused to accept the way the club was being run, will be embarrassed. There is a saying that goes "where there's no sense, there's no feelings". But surely now they must see that they were wrong.

[bowranger]

Dec 9, 2011 17:19:33 GMT superckat said:

"It was a microcosm example of how things at QPR were being said as fact...and then when you actually looked closer and attempted to see what actually occurred, something rather different."

"Just as there was a pattern of defense and attack from the Paladini boys"

It will be interesting to see after the eventual screening of the 4 year plan whether those fans who accused others of not being real fans because they refused to accept the way the club was being run, will be embarrassed. There is a saying that goes "where there's no sense, there's no feelings". But surely now they must see that they were wrong.

It's hard to tell now, as the lord of fantasy island has seemingly ingratiated himself with the club enough to survive without Paladini's patronage anymore. As for the rest, who knows... I'm all for moving on and enjoying what we have now, but we shouldn't forget what certain people did and we can try and learn from that.

[Macmoish]

Bump - 10 Years ago