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mark st1

Plastic Manc
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Least you got to see Rafael's goal that was a bit special mate :thumbsup:. Dont understand QPR tbh on paper they have some very good players big name players it just never seems to happen for them even to the extent of when they get a result so do the other 3-4 teams down the bottom with them :wacko:
 

Kins

Über Member
When I watched Swansea v QPR at the liberty they were friggin awful. The two Sambas and the Cesar look the only ones trying their hardest.
 

mark st1

Plastic Manc
Location
Leafy Berkshire
My little boys Sunday league side is looking for someone :whistle:
 
Least you got to see Rafael's goal that was a bit special mate :thumbsup:. Dont understand QPR tbh on paper they have some very good players big name players it just never seems to happen for them even to the extent of when they get a result so do the other 3-4 teams down the bottom with them :wacko:

Yep, there's luck, or the lack of it, ever-present in football but there's been some poor decisions made by a board who mean very well, namely the appointment of Mark Hughes, the board giving Mark Hughes loadsa' money and lastly, the appointment of Mark Hughes. :thumbsup:

Everything else has been a patch and the result is a team that had just come from the first solid season in years under Warnock - who were playing as a team when we won the Championship - to a total disaster in the Premiership.

Why? I'd say largely because Hughes wanted to draft in an entirely new team which was never going to work - look at the top end, it doesn't work there either, you can't replace a team, you introduce new players into a backbone that pre-exists, and ain't that Man Utd all along? Money can't buy overnight success alone and unfortunately the naive board I allude to, fell into that trap, falling prey to premiership myths and some parasitic agents along the way willing to exploit that naivety whilst the likes of Norwich and Swansea took a far more pragmatic approach. West Ham have also fallen into this category this season IMO, despite having more recent premiership experience than the Rs.

As for your lot, I can only reiterate the above in the opposite sense. There are some new players coming through who are going to be very special - they were good before Ferguson got to them but they'll be brilliant before too long. Cleverly springs to mind. Bring the same player in on a team with no backbone, no prior experience of working with each other but just replaced wholesale and you get players worth a considerable sum losing their way very quickly.

One more game to 1000 games for the Giggs isn't it? You have a team to be proud of and fair play to you - I like Ferguson, he's always acted the gent towards QPR in the past and their domination this year is a team at work, not a collection of upstarts.
 

mark st1

Plastic Manc
Location
Leafy Berkshire
It is a shame i have a mate at work who is an avid QPR fan and often seeing him pulling his hair out. He was happy as Larry when your foreign owners took over (cant remember his name) the young Asian fella before Fernandez and i saw the documentry on them with Briatorrie and Ecclestone and you sort of thought thses are going to be going places asap. I never understood why Warnock got the heev ho as much as i hate the arrogant b'stard he is a good manager and does seem to get the best out of players. Hughes was a non starter for me and as you say was very cavalier with the cheque book and seemed to go for quantity over quality.

I hope you can string some results together and stay up.
 
We won't stay up fella, I'm certain of this despite my hopes to the contrary!

The last board were a nightmare because when push came to shove it was Briatore and Eccelestone who were running the show - the Mittals became silent partners for a time and the circus thus continued that had started when Paladini - the Chairman - sacked Holloway in 2006. The managerial roundabout was embarrassing and disheartening from then on.

When the Mittals backed their own chairman in the 2010-11 season, the difference couldn't have been greater when we won promotion and the team spirit was magnificent. Still, Rangers fans spent a tense few weeks before the end of the season wondering whether the FA would dock us points for the, apparently, dodgy signing of Alessandro Faurlin. That summer, after promotion, we still held our breaths to see whether Ecclestone and Briatore could, or would, sell the club to someone who meant the best for it.

It fell through didn't it, only to succeed with around three weeks left of the summer transfer market and so started the frenzied buying. In my book this is where this recent premiership demise all started. Warnock never got the players he wanted and was quoted, after his sacking, saying he'd wished the takeover (from Fernandes) had happened earlier.

All in the past now, like this season.
 
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