I think Terry Fenwick is worth a shout⦠Much like when Warnock came over from Palace and immediately made sure that Derry (and Hill) came along with him, when Venables came over from Palace the first thing he did was to make sure he brought over Fenwick (and a couple of others) too. He was a great captain and a central part of the team for 7 years, including the one that won Division 2 and reached the FA and League Cup finals. Plus he scored many important goals for us (including scoring in the FA Cup Final and forcing the replay) and became a regular England International. Obviously not our greatest âflair playerâ of all time, but still, he was a vital cog and someone who I think often unfairly overlooked..
All the above fully deserve their mention, but my choice would be Jim Langley who many thought past it when he joined us.He really bossed our defence particulary Peter Springett who he helped turn in to a top rate keeper.
What about Paddy Kenny? For me it Sir Les, let face it he did carry Qpr for a good few season with his goals
Alec Stock, without him none of our past 45 years of periodical success would have happened and we'd have been scratching about with Orient and Brentford in the nether regions of the League and pretending the Johnstone's Paint Trophy was something worth fielding our 1st team in...
Outstanding Talent got us up last year The boy is pure magic but HH shades it for me ... He has simply never given up and is ICE cool . I just think he has never got the praise yet he has been a brilliant servant to the club and is showing the world at the moment exactly just how good he is .... He moves in just the right time .... In the air he is currently the best in the league ... A great great player
The first name to jump into my head was Don Masson, for exactly the reasons you give Roller. There are a lot of good calls on here, like the reasoning around Marsh, but I will go for Terry Venables signed as player coach and I think as much as Jago shaped the way we played and to a degree changed management/ coaching. Great clip of him and Stan on YouTube doing a bit of ball juggling and then explaining that, having seen Holland in must be 74 world cup, decided everybody should train with a ball from then on!
HB: "What about Paddy Kenny? For me it Sir Les, let face it he did carry Qpr for a good few season with his goals" Hi HB. If you make it, how do you think you'll do in the Europa League next season? Nearly half a billion pounds spent. Sounds like value for money to me.
I have to agree with a lot of the players mentioned above for different reasons and at different times,but for me the one new signing that has changed almost all QPR fans is TONY FERNANDES. Without him i am not sure where we would be now, probably bottom, no Neil Warnock and heading fast into the lower depths of the blue square league if the dwarf and his fat Italian buddy were left in charge. Tony has bought a breath of fresh air to the club and i think made us all proud to be Rangers fans and backing the manager with new signings, sponsers, etc. The crowd now believe again that we are QPR and have something to look forward to and for that fact it has to be him. Long live the QPR that i love and have done so through thick and thin. The memory of taking my son to the Chelsea game will live for me forever, the support was like nothing i have seen at Loftus Road, long may it continue. Lets do what the players are doing and enjoy where we are and where with this man at the helm and Neil in charge of the team, we belong.
Without a question of doubt, the best signing we ever made was Amit Bhatia. At first I was with the Marsh, Stock, Venables etc brigade. That was another era, a completely different, almost quaint time, compared to the World of Football that we now know. When Amit joined us, the position QPR were in which could at best, be described as desperate. ( I'm sure regular poster's will appreciate me not re-itterating the history and circumstances pertaining to this situation. ) It would take little short of a miracle to get a fast falling Championship club. Who were on the verge of dropping into the third tier, for the second time in 10 years, into Championship Winners the following season, thus the Premiership. Amit Bhatia, along with a future vision of progression and stability, convinced Neil Warnock to become manager of QPR. The rest, as they say is history.
