Whether you're right or wrong is dictated by the facts. I don't have them because I'm not arsed looking them up but I don't know when the last time was that the three promoted teams went right back down. I think it may have only happened once or twice in the PL's 22 year history. So your fears are not based on owt, Goldie. It might happen this year but I still don't think it will. Besides, just look at who's coming up this year. Of the three who went down last year only Norwich are competing so we'll have at least two new teams up next season. I still think this is a case of everyone turning on the PL now that they're realising we might not be a member for much longer. Just chillax Goldie. The league is fine and all's right with the World
Agree. I was just using them as an example of money buying quality if buying policy is managed right by clubs.
I'll try to chillax, Swords old mate! But the fact is that all this TV money flooding the Prem could make established clubs more difficult to oust. Look at what is happening in rugby in England. There was a suggestion, hopefully quashed, that promotion and relegation would be abolished to leave the top teams to compete together in the same league without interference... Elitism or what?
I think we'll have to settle for just shuttling backwards and forwards between the two divisions, Goldie, as the cock left 'cos of dodgy knees.
I wouldn't say I hate the PL, but too many matches leave a bad taste in the mouth. Yesterday, was a typical example, two penalties that would have had Mourinho quoting numbers and no comments, the way the ref and linesman were busting a gut to give Spuds a free kick as soon as they asked for one. The final active ten minutes of the game was a joke. Four minutes of extra time, in those four minutes we had three substitutions and an injury. 32 seconds played over the four minutes! If it was the other way around... Tottenham were not guilty of this, but look at how the big clubs' players are allowed to influence the referees, Rooney being the prime example. This would be stamped out, but it is not because the PL and FA do not want to upset the guilty parties. When a few QPR players asked why Austin's goal against Citeh was disallowed we got fined. Different rules for different clubs is what I hate about the PL.
I thought it was an actual rule that a sub adds 30 seconds to a game. At Loftus Road, Rooney should have been given a yellow card for his constant bollocking of the ref. and another yellow if he carried on.
Personally I would love to be a yo-yo club.........excitement every season, relegation or promo, rather than a mid table prem club each year with nothing really to play for from about Feb/March onwards.
Austin will be out the door, but I wonder about Fer, this injury may not make him as attractive as he could be.....wouldn't be surprised if he was still here next year But Isla and Vargas will have gone (cannot remember which one we own and which one we rent....but regardless both will go)
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, the EPL, UEFA and FIFA are hardly at the forefront of doing anything new, exciting or the least bit technological. It beggars belief that, with so many other sports adopting video review, football is still stuck in the last century.
I think for them, nothing is broken so nothing needs fixing. The money is coming in all the same so they don't see a problem. If these issues were costing them money, we'd see the changes. I'm not holding my breath. With that said, the only other way they'd change is if there was a lot of pressure from the right people. But there isn't much pressure.
You do realise that precisely how many people see QPR, right? Not without reason, either. Ours is a lower-leagues, back-streets club that's had a few fairly short stints in the top division. Throw in the tiny stadium and the fact that many people outside the UK have barely heard of QPR and you may see our club for what it is - small beer. The gap between Brentford/Bournemouth and QPR is smaller than the gap between QPR and the likes of Spurs, let alone Chelsea and Arsenal. Why be grandiose? QPR is what it is.
I always consider us to be a unique club with a very special following, long may we be just that little bit different...
I agree TIME. QPR have no right to expect to survive in the Premier League either. Why should we? We're a smallish Club (albeit not as small as the two mentioned)
Really? I don't think this thread would exist if we were 15th 6 points above the relegation spots. Some clubs are set up to yo yo - WBA a few seasons ago, and I suspect Leicester and Burnley now. We are not, our finances are so screwed that premiership football is essential. If we go down there will be close to no funds for new players, we will lose I think 8 players out of contract in the summer (most can push off sooner), the loanees, Austin, Fer, possibly Furlong and others. We will be a mid table Championship team if we are lucky, more likely to do a Wolves or Wigan and plummet. The first 4 transfer windows after the Fernandes consortium took over and the consequences of his decisions about managers will live with this club a very long time indeed. It would have been better for us to have been relegated in 2011-12 and rebuilt properly then, now we are in a death spiral. It's not really a matter of what we'd like, its more about what the implications of what happens. TIME is right, we are not a big club, but neither are Swansea or Southampton. There's space for us as a permanent irritant to the big clubs in the Prem, probably the most we can hope for with the way the money flows in the game at the moment.
Despite it's many flaws I don't hate the prem. The only good thing about being in the Championship is if we have a good run and with hope of winning the league or a playoff place/ day out at Wembley. Mid table prem mediocrity or mid table Championship mediocrity? Premiership wins for me, no contest.
Come on Sylvia! No call for such pompous we are qualifying for Europe optimism... We are just 3 points off safety with 10 games left or similar, and a programme that is better than Hulls at least. If we continue to play with the fight we been showing since CR came in, and our support continues to give the same there's absolutely no need for all this Armageddon Bollox.
