As 2015 draws to a close, how do we assess our performance over the past 12 months. We were 16th in the Premier league when the year started with 19 points. We all know how it finished and we currently find ourselves 13th in the championship with 30 points as the year ends. I would say that our expectations were about right at the start of the season, most predicted a mid table finish as we expected to lose Austin & co. As that didn't happen expectations went through the roof, understandably but it hasn't panned out like that as we know. Personally what disappoints me most is the apparent lack of effort from what on paper is a very good squad. Ramsey was a mistake and the jury is still out on JFH. To sum up, I really enjoy my trips to W12, a few beers with family and friends from this site, a burger in the C&S the day has only been spoiled over the past 12 months [and before that] by the atrocious football that has been served up.
Apparently it's unreasonable to want to watch a committed side play with a well drilled game plan that includes a striker. What an unreasonable bunch we are. I think we should be higher, but are about right for a team that's had 3 mangers before Christmas. Jimmy has to stay or it's just ridiculous, Les may be the negative influence that needs addressing.
I think good ol' Uncle Tony Fernandes sums the year up for me. When you consider the position we were in from your graphic of the table above, we weren't inhabiting one of the three relegation berths. TF decided he didn't want to spend any money in the January transfer window to enable to give us a better chance of survival. He then waits until we go down and the summer transfer window to shut and we kept Green, Phillips, Fer and Austin, and then Tweets '' The Premiership means everything to me.'' Why wasn't that the bloody case in January then you bloody buffoon? We were better placed to do it then, not stuck halfway down the f**king Championship.
Highlights how Reading have turned to **** since we beat them, and we've become the bore draw specialists - we really should have added Ipswich to that list.
For me Les needs to go, Directors of Football never works. When we have been in the Premiership we have always kept an old defence that has cost us dearly, and both times we have been relegated quickly. In the championship we nearly missed out on the play offs because we didn't get striker support for Austin, and we have done the same again this year.. So basically we don't learn from the same mistakes time and time again. The new training ground and new stadium seem to be taking forever. Also it is about entertainment and since Warnock's team the football most of the time has been just awful. Vale for money 10 out of 100.
Must try harder. Get players in that want a chance to actually play for us and maybe use the club as a stepping stone to go to a Man U or Arsenal. Use Charlie as the example - from non-league to being picked for your country...it is possible IF you apply yourself in the right way and listen to the professionals. Mr TF - let those that know about football run the club for you after all, they do not offer advice on airplanes. And give them time and the necessary resource. An don't change the goal posts. Fans - patience. We are QPR. We always do things the hard way..........it may not be right, it may not be pretty, but it is after all the QPR way. SLF - give some of the youth payers a chance - just as you had when you were younger. Maybe even send some overseas as that appeared to do the trick for you
Maybe Mr TF will look to invest in a scouting system that will identify players of the future. How long has it been since we had a youngster come through and keep hold of them. Sterling we found and then sold on but before that is it Ferdinand?
I'm a bit numb to it all these days, I go go to games not really expecting much and that is usually what I get. In a few weeks time it will be the 48th anniversary of my first visit to Loftus Road and I don't think I've ever felt so indifferent to our results as I do at present.
forgotten about someone else who wasted his talent. Didn't one of his "teams" play in shirts with arrows?? hm prison team?
Good thread Hoops E. I understand how we all feel and I feel quite the same. At the start of the year, I was a die hard supporter and spent a lot of hard earned supporting the club. Now, I am ambivalent and rarely go due to the direction the club is taking. I have only been to one game so far this season and will not be going again until February where as last year I attended 18 games. I enjoy the social aspect of going to the games but I can not enjoy what is being served up and I just feel a lack of enthusiasm at how the club is being run. I think most of our problems lie at the top and the utter incompetence and acceptance of mediocracy run right through the club. The board haven't a clue how to run a football club and the people they have appointed below them to date have been shocking. Our youth set up is amateurish and not very professional. This is all a shame really as this club has great potential with a lot of dedicated staff and the fans are really hard core, unless they become disillusioned like me. Solution, we need big changes at the top of the club.
maybe Tony has too many yes men around him and maybe he needs a Neil Warnock person - someone who won't suffer fools glad to remind and guide him when he is going wrong. I don't mean have Neil back as manager - family and his wife come first but hope you all know what I mean.
Move the year forward a month and look at it from when Redknap left. Then I see roots for improvement have been laid down. Young promising aquisitions not pensioners. Not often such changes bring great success in the 1st year, unfortunately it usually takes longer. I'm far happier with what we been doing the last 11 months, and how we are trying to go forward than when both Hughes and Redknapp were mismanaging us. Stop moaning and get behind what you were demanding weekly under Hughes and Redknap.
If you said that Leicester City would be at the top of the PL this time next year, people would commit you to a nut house, you'd have no friends and you'd have 'TOSSER' branded on your forehead ................... funny that.
I hate to say it but as long as Tony Fernandes is running this club we'll never get anywhere. There is something at the club that is seriously wrong, we've had supposedly good, successful managers who've come to us and failed abysmally. We've had supposedly good, successful players that have come to us and failed abysmally. It can't be coincidence or bad luck, it's continuing to happen despite all the changes. Add to that the fiasco surrounding the training ground and new stadium and we have gone backwards from the time the Goons took over in 2007, that's eight, soon to become nine, years and our prospects both on and off the pitch have rarely looked bleaker. I fear given another 8-9 years we'll still be at Loftus Road and probably yo-yoing between the Championship and League One if we're lucky...
