Our board is a strange place at the moment. Lots of arguing and one poster in particular seeming to lose the plot entirely (Cerny, if you're reading this, I am sincerely worried about you mate. You seem to be having a breakdown before our eyes!! If you have some personal problems going on I trust they sort themselves out mate...we all react differently to these things). I've been accused of not being a proper QPR fan for not being "gutted" that we lost yesterday!! There seems to be angst and bad feeling everywhere. Quite unbelievable. I think I have the answer to this. I believe we are all suffering a little from the "after the Lord Mayor's Show" syndrome. I have some experience of this in the theatrical world....you rehearse a show/play for months on end, full of nerves, doubts, arguments, hopes, fears....then you finish the last performance and "BANG", all that adrenalin disappears and you are on a massive downer!! That's the only explanation I can come up with. As for this season....well I think it's been fantastic. I've been to every home game and seen some of the world's best players. I've also witnessed some great moments. Who will ever forget beating Chelsea; that last minute winner from Mackie against Liverpool and Cisse's late winner last week which put us in with a great chance going into the final game! Other great moments were beating Spurs and Arsenal and it was indeed our home form, once turned around that kept us up, taking 16 points from the 18 available from our last 6 at home!! The atmosphere at Loftus Road has been amazing and we, the fans have played our part to the full. Our away support has also been superb all season....well done to every one both home and away. Awesome!! Of course there have been many downs too! So many bad decisions against us; Barton; stupid red cards; Barton; games we should have won, but didn't; games we should have drawn, but didn't; Barton!! But all in all, we have achieved what most said they would settle for.....survival in 17th place!! So to yesterday and to be honest, I'm not sure I can go through another afternoon like that. Huge highs to massive lows and back up again!! My youngest was in tears as Barton was shown the red card, believing that we would go down as Bolton were winning. Watching him close his eyes and plead for a Stoke goal and then watching him, along with me and my other son run around the house after Mackie's goal was something I will never forget. Hearing the fantastic Rangers fans cheering when Stoke got their second was fantastic too! So.....those last few minutes!! We heard the Rangers fans celebrating before Aguero scored the winner, but we were stood, in silence watching the drama unfold, hoping and preying for confirmation that we were safe. After his amazing description of the title winning goal, Martin Tyler finally said the words we wanted to hear...."QPR are safe!!". Cue unbridled joy and copious hugging and cheering, not to mention the odd tear of joy!! I can understand people being disappointed that we didn't hang on, I am too. But it pales into insignificance compared to the magnitude of staying up!! I can't understand some being "furious" and "gutted". We had 10 men guys....come on!! Staying up means all the board's plans can continue unhindered because, mark my words, despite all the fighting talk of the last few weeks, relegation would have thrown a huge, but probably not terminal spanner into the works!! All in all.......it has been a typical season supporting QPR and wasn't it just like us to be so involved at both ends of the table on the last day? Roll on next season....I suspect we may be in for another cracker!! (But please.....a little less stressful!!) Never has Roller's moniker been more apt.............Rollercoaster doesn't even get close does it?
That sums it up brilliantly Col. Must say that I still feel on a high here (but I think there may be a touch of comedown because I basically slated my company's corporate strategy for an hour to my boss and may have marked my card).
Yep, overall a great and successfull season. Lets hope next year isnt as nerveracking though unless its in the form of a cup final. Cup final?? I must be deluded??
Agree with you col. Mind you im still having mixed feelings about yesterday. I thought that with winning or gettin a draw we would have done some football history and the result from stoke-bolton would have been relevant. Well now we lost it and our hard work was not even worth of mention in the public media. Then again its nice to stay up and have a new champion so maybe its better that way after all.
Perfectly put Col. I share your emotions 100%. It's funny but i thought more about the game during my last sleep than i did whilst sleeping on Saturday night. I kept reliving the game in my mind. One thing though - whilst i feel 100% that we survived and that's what was important about yesterday, however that occurred - i couldn't help waking up this morning feeling a little deflated that after putting in such a monumnetous performance, we ended up losing. It leaves me feeling a little bit disappointed despite the fact that we survived the drop and that's what was key yesterday. So on the one hand i'm elated, but it's tinged with a slight frustration that we couldn't have held out in that extra time. I think it's probably the anti-climax kicking in, Col as you say. I mean, i would taken a 5-0 loss yesterday if i knew we'd survive the drop - so i suppose it's just disappointment that after playing so well for 90 minutes, we couldn't just hold out. But i'm sure the feeling will pass when i see the fixtures for next year's PREMIERSHIP announced in June!!!
Igor...we stayed up because we got more points than 3 other teams....not just because of events at Stoke yesterday. WE did enough....just!!
Good post Col think it probably sums up 99.9% of all R's fans, left room for the odd wierdo. My other half came into my study about three quarters through the match with a cup of coffee and said she couldn't believe I was shaking so much will not forget this match in a hurry and by the way had a dream last night that the fixture list came out for next season with our last match drawn against City at home and could hear a butch of mancunian accents doing a collective Oh No!! Made me laugh
Yes of course col. Changing the history that would have been was that helping manu to win the title. Now everybody remember us just for those two late goals for city.......
Cheers mate. Mrs Rangercol came in after the game, (she didn't come near throughout!!) and said she'd never heard us shouting so loud and that she was looking forward to the summer......upon which I pointed out the Euros!! She wasn't happy!
good call col, i've said all along if we finish 17th that i'll be fine by me & how we got there is irrelevant, me daughter came round to watch it with here other half & he's newcastle fan & me wife being chelsea fan! but on the day it was all high five's when we scored & then the stoke result came in place errupted, would have put icing on the cake if we got a result at citeh, but i was only interested in staying up & being in prem & those sundays & mondays & indifferent kick off times it will be great.
Great post as always Rangercol. I'm more "gutted" about losing 6-1 to Chelsea, than losing to Man City, and also no Q.P.R. games for 2 ish months. I also had tears of joy/relief when the word "safe" was mentioned. We played out of our skin for the whole game yesterday, but it was just 5 minutes too long. They came at us all game.
If you turn this into a novel, Col, let me know, I'll buy it! A season of two very different halves, and I know which I preferred. I was sorry for NW, he was shafted by the Goons and was living with injury after that. He didn't get a fair crack of the whip because of them, and he deserved it because of his truly excellent work bringing us up. Nevertheless, there's little time for sentiment in business, and TF and the Mittals played a blinder in bringing in Hughes. If they hadn't made that call, I honestly think we'd be down around the Wolves points total. Clever. So the project continues...
Great post, it exactly matches my thoughts. We stayed up after running the champions close on the're own patch. Oh and our last minute loss prevented the red "cheat" Young from getting his hands on the trophy, so the cloud does have a silver lining.
