Great memories of happier days, this is a quality video [video=youtube;_WKHf-XT6vs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WKHf-XT6vs&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Can't bring myself to watch it. It would make me even more bitter about what has happened since. Warnock found the magic recipe.
Oh what happy days they were - even Rob Hulse notched one up, we really missed out not signing Routledge when we had the opportunity - hard to believe and how ironical that our cast offs, Connolly, Smith, Helguson, Gabbidon, Delaney and Ramage all end up back in the Premier League two seasons later. In hindsight TF should have just stuck with Warnock, showed him some money to finance a few decent transfers.
We now have the opportunity to do it all again, can't say I'm too depressed about our relegation. It was almost a happy relief when the inevitable was finally confirmed, you wouldn't put your worst enemy through what we all had to suffer last season.
Happy memories...brings an excitement i haven't felt whilst watching QPR for a while. I know it's been said before, but oh how I wish a lot of those players had been given a proper chance in the Premiership. It may have led to the same result, but I think we'd have at least seen some fight.
Ephraim's and Routledge's goals were class - Taarabt was majestic, Hill and Derry looking assured, Kenny 23 clean sheets, Mackie and Helguson full of confidence, big smiles and a happy squad. Breaks my heart to see what we have become.
Hope Swords is watching I told everyone that this team spirit would carry us on ... And it would have ! ... But NW had other ideas and sold Kasper and brought in DJ NW has to still go down as the man who built it then ruined it Hughes had an idea and it didn't work Harold as predicted by a few hasn't got a clue Those were great days and one thing I will always thank NW for ... Alas he just got what it takes to manage at a top level . Hughes by his own admission wanted to run before we could walk such is the state of the top tier of football in the UK We will have to do it all again But we will be stronger fitter and wiser for it ... Like WBA but without the boring football ?
In fact that brought a tear to my eye NW built a perfect team there We had it all Why o why We ate ourselves and my French and English mates said at the time we were playing total football We were the team to watch in uK football I said we would go on and finish 8th on this wave when I joined this forum I was wrong and was laughed at but I explained how the league would pan out ... Next season 8th will be contested as winning the middle league and five teams will struggle The QPR story should show all what sort if football club we are when we play ... I won't pay to watch them them if we lose that flair A manager has to now build that spirit and belief again How's Harold doing that at the moment ? For those posters who wanted Harry I hope the penny has dropped now For those posters who wanted our players from this team gone as they were passed it ... Hope you are happy ? I will back any manager once kick off is started in Aug as like everyone we love our club more Harold FFS go or get to ****ing work and show the world what you think you can do . We are a club that will and should make the big time The name QPR belongs at the highest level of UK football We start winning then good times will return and whatever happens play the best and strongest team in all comps
Don't agree on these two points as I recall NW needed a striker and the only option our owners gave him was to sell therefore he was forced into selling Kasper and as they had just received an offer for him therefore he was the obvious choice. I personally believe that NW still has not had a proper chance to manage at the top level, he had 10 days to buy whatever was left in the pre-season if he was allowed to buy some players in January we may have seen him start to build something but as we all know it is a notoriously hard window to try and build. He's only other chance to manage in the top tier was on shoestring budget with Sheffield Utd and he even nearly pulled that off only to lose out on goal difference under the cloud of the Tevez fiasco. I don't think it is fair to judge him on these examples its like saying, I knew a great boxer once and there was no way he could become world champion the fact that he had one arm tied behind his back shouldn't make any difference!
Thanks Roller.... Great memories and brought s tear to my eye watching that. Maybe a little homesick right now too!!
I concede on the striker maybe but he had it in his head that we needed new players ... Believe me in any team in any world at any level you do not **** around with a successful defensive partnership: he brought in Joey Barton, Luke Young, Armand Traore, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Anton Ferdinand which at the time looked OK except for Barton who most with any sense knew would be a mighty gamble ... In high sight Traore is the only one who has done well. Yes he was unlucky not to manage more but my point remains and is the same as TF's it started the rot .. upset the apple cart, had us linked with everyone because we had money... we still have money but it was not wisely spent by NW and then by Hughes who by then was building a fantasy team which has seen the best players ever at QPR but the worse team of recent history. This film should remind us all what is required to build a team and I thank NW for that and the goons who got us here in the first place! ... The team was made and killed by NW and that in itself shows exactly his failings and i am sure in time that will be the settled view of an autopsy. NW gave us a wonderful time and his best moment is his career .. i love the bloke but somewhere down the line he got lost when he tried to tinker which something that wasn't broken... I would have purchased cover for the positions in the team NOT replacements as he started to do. Kenny Orr Connolly Gorkss Hill ... would not of conceded 4 against Bolton I will never have it. He sold Kasper the bloody rock of our team and we started with Dyer Hill Hall and Gabbidon .. and Dyer lasted 7 bloody minutes! Gabbidon was dreadful netting a goal just when we were getting in a game ... we were shockingly set up by NW ... he deserved the bloody sack then if it was up to me but i take your point with the selling of the club his hands were tied ... who knows what damage he would of done if TF came in earlier in the summer ... I am still furious over him selling Gorkss then. The foundation was there to see and him and hughes got it completely wrong by suggesting these players were not good enough ... it's complete rubbish and the game has proved me right. How Harold now builds a team from nothing? he can't he has lost the dressing room FFS he thinks they are rubbish ... we are now selling Granero FFS we have posters on here rubbishing him ... christ on a bike what have we become ... this video doesn't lie it shows clearly how to destroy a football club in two years
Dear MR TF Get back NW and Bircham/Gerry Francis and dump that idiot Harold Get this team back now including Kenny, HH and Kasper and esp. Tommy Smith and buy Routledge! ... they will win you promotion again ... then and only then you can invite Flyer and myself to the club and we will sit face to face with the players and ask them who they think should slowly replace them for the shirt. We will then deliver you and the board the players you need to buy as by then there may be an argument that we wont cut it second time around ... Hill, Derry , HH will all then stay with the club to coach any new replacements and step in once again if required. Taarabt must be captain also as he is the best player ever to wear the shirt and bollocks to any of those who didn't believe this was a real team who would have come 8th!!
Lost 6 and only let in 32 goals all season ... and you sell Gorkss? I have to say that Walker helped the good start .. should of brought him we had the money ... we didn't ****ing lose until Dec 20th and i was there against Watford 1-3 .. we were dreadful and still the boys never gave up! so what did you do? took of Taarabt at 60 mins for bloody Clarke and Hulse on HH ... the signs were there then NW ... I remember at half time saying we will still win this but NW bloody tinkered again!!! took off Adel at 3-0 down to do what save him??? Only Game Graham has played well and then we lost to bloody Leeds next match. NW was good but christ he did make a few howlers ... On boxing day it was Adel that got us back on course not NW when he destroyed Swansea. And some on here rubbish Taarabt ...FFS he is modern QPR
Cheers Roller. Excellent video indeed. I wonder when we will next see that passion and cohesive unity in our team? I hope it is this August but I fear it will be longer than that.
I share your pessimism mate, but Warnock produced that team over the summer break. By the way, I think there is only 1 goal that features twice in that video, anyone else spotted it?
