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Major FFP Reforms coming
at 09:48 19 Mar 2024

Jim Gregory put a few bob into QPR over the years obviously, but I wouldn't say it was the main driver of our success. The best thing he did really was get the youth team working well - we produced an awful lot of of our own players from the mid-60's to mid-90s, and Gregory would wheel and deal to top that up with signings. The instinct that made him very rich at a young age also allowed him to buy and sell for good prices at the right times. Lots of players sold for good profits when he was in charge. And he got all of his money back when he sold up.
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Should Sheff Weds get whole school end ?
at 11:41 15 Mar 2024

I get that we need every penny, however, I do think we could do more to fill Loftus Rd on our own and not rely on visiting fans to fill the lower tier. Ticket offers, youth groups, heck even winning more than we lose(!). Do that ourselves and we're only talking about a couple of hundred seats in the front rows that would be unsold.
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Should Sheff Weds get whole school end ?
at 11:30 15 Mar 2024

For league games (both Championship and Premier League when we eventually return) I'd only ever give the away team the absolutely minimum - which is 10% of capacity. That means giving them the top tier and we use the lower tier, even if that means a couple of rows unsold at the very front. We should never give our opponents a helping hand.

Cup games are different, I think you have to offer 15% of capacity, so for practical purposes that means the whole of the School End.
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Hot N Boro'ed QPR vs Middlesbrough Match Thread
at 17:54 9 Mar 2024

Frey, Field and Cook all looked completely shagged out. Wilock and Chair back to their ball-hogging worst, unwilling to put crosses into the box. Begovic at fault for both goals - just collapsed for the first one and should never concede a header from that angle for the second.

Best thing we can do is forget it and move on. Take a few days rest, then prepare for Sunderland.
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Frey
at 15:40 28 Feb 2024

I like Viktor Johansson a lot, he's possibly the best keeper in the Championship, but thought he was poor for winning goal. I was sitting directly behind it in the lower loft and, although the ball moved a little bit in the air, he really should have saved it.

Either way, if he leaves Rotherham in the summer I doubt he'll be too interested in us.
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Beer advice
at 22:54 25 Feb 2024

Yeah, it's a decent pint is Landlord.
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Benham potentially selling Brentford?
at 20:28 21 Feb 2024

£2.5billion for Chelsea
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Benham potentially selling Brentford?
at 20:26 21 Feb 2024

No, this is not what Rothschild's has valued the club at. It's what someone (probably connected to Benham) has told a journalist the club is valued at.
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Benham potentially selling Brentford?
at 16:28 21 Feb 2024

I don't think Ashley was desperate to sell, he took his time to find a right buyer at the right price. He wasn't interested in throwing his own money in (which is what the Newcastle fans meant when they called for 'investment') to fund transfers and wages but I'm pretty sure he made money whilst owning the club.

Brentford are not worth 10% of Man Utd. The latter is a money-making machine, for the owners, and always will be. The former has had a great few years but what they're doing relies on a never-ending supply of young players they can sell on. We, and lots of other clubs across the history of the game, have operated that model and it always comes undone at some point. Once that happens, whether in 1 year or 10, they go back to being a small club in a small ground with a small fanbase.
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Benham potentially selling Brentford?
at 14:13 21 Feb 2024

Newcastle Utd were sold for £300m and now someone thinks Brentford is worth £400m? Give over.
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Rotherham at home
at 20:45 19 Feb 2024

I'm sure we've gone over this before. If you demolished the School End and rebuilt it as a single-tiered stand - on the same footprint as we currently have - the capacity would be reduced.
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So, according to CEO Nourry
at 22:04 6 Feb 2024

I said after his first interview that Nourry speaks fluent MBA and I haven't changed my opinion on that. Some people like it, I guess.
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FA Youth Cup 4th Round
at 23:00 22 Jan 2024

Not sure about that tbh. Furlong did talk about getting more crosses in, but by that point we were just looking for a chance to nick one and put some pressure on. Prior to that everything he said was about controlling the game but being a little quicker to pass forwards.

Disappointing result, but not the end of the world. Burnley were physically stronger and very well coached, but I think we had the more interesting players in terms of development potential.

Tuck's got two good feet, a range of passing and actively wants to get the ball and be positively involved. Kennedy, only 15, with good pace, attacking intent and, for someone obviously left-footed, put in some nice crosses with his right. Sutton with pace and skill. Hassan up front, again only 15, could be a real handful. Leahy at LB good on the ball, composed, tackled well.

There's definitely some potential there. Will be interesting to see what becomes of them.
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Sinclair Armstrong: a bright spot.
at 09:47 16 Jan 2024

Just on the Les Ferdinand thing (and I really need to emphasise he was my favourite ever CF, so I'm not saying Armstrong will ever be anywhere near Les' ability) I've just looked up his stats and it's quite interesting. We all remember it took him a while to get going after he joined the club, but the stats are quite stark.

The season Les turned 20, 1986-87, he played 2 games and scored 0 goals.
Turning 21, 1987-88, he played 2 games for us and 3 for Brentford, scoring 0 goals.
Turning 22, 1988-89, he played 29 games for Besiktas, scoring 18 goals.
Turning 23, 1989-90, he played 9 games for QPR, scoring 2 goals.
Turning 24, 1990-91, he played 21 games, scoring 8 goals.
Turning 25, 1991-92, he played 25 games, scoring 12 goals.

And that's really when he hit his stride, aged 24/25, and went on to utterly dominate defenders and score buckets of goals.

Again, I'm not saying Armstrong is going to be anywhere near Ferdinand's level but, bearing in mind he only turned 20 last summer, we really have no idea what he is capable of. What we do know is that he's still very young, still growing into his body, hasn't had an ideal development plan, and that he's improved leaps and bounds over the past 2 years.
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Sinclair Armstrong: a bright spot.
at 20:34 15 Jan 2024

Willock was directly responsible for one goal yesterday and several break aways that were very dangerous. Each time he put in a half-hearted effort and was brushed off the ball with ease. That 2-3 game burst when Cifuentes first arrived has disappeared completely and he's back to his usual self. He's a wasteman, as the kids would say.
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New CEO appointed
at 23:08 12 Jan 2024

Everything I'm about to write comes with the obvious proviso that I know absolutely nothing about this guy, apart from what's been mentioned today on here and in his interview.

If I had to list the biggest problems facing QPR (apart from the constant losing of football matches, obviously) I'd say there are three that take priority. 1) we have a small, decrepit stadium that is completely unfit for modern sport, has 3-4K seats with terrible views which further limits our options, has a tiny hospitality provision, and must cost a fortune in maintenance, 2) our recruitment, with a handful of honourable exceptions, has been terrible for a decade or more and sees us consistently paying over the odds for players who aren't particularly good and/or don't really want to play for us, 3) our academy, whilst better than it once was, doesn't produce enough players of a high enough quality to make a tangible difference to our club.

All 3 of those problems are, tbh, things that should be the bedrock of any football club. Good venue, good recruitment, good development. They're the basics, the things you simply have to have in place. To do that, I think we need someone from a lower league club (or another, smaller, sport altogether) who is accustomed to working on a budget. Someone who can get the basics sorted - address the overstaffing, find the key appointments like a new DOF, focus on solving our stadium problem.

And yet we've appointed as CEO a 26 year-old with no experience in any of those things. He's never run a business of any kind, let alone a football club. He's never built a sports facility. He's never hired and fired anyone (or even been hired and fired himself for that matter). He is, from everything we can see at the moment, a consultant.

And this worries me because it fits into a pattern of behaviour from our owners. From the day they walked through the door, 13 years ago now, they've looked for short cuts. They've looked for flashy options. They've looked to jump 3 gears at a time. They've now looked at the clubs and journalists wetting themselves over analytics and hired an inexperienced young man, whose only job has been as an advisor, and who speaks fluent MBA and says things like "I am truly excited by the next-generation football project we are building together".

How about getting the basics sorted first, eh? Hmm.
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Nrl 2024
at 12:29 11 Jan 2024

Up the Bunnies!

I'm always confident for a good year ahead, it's the joy of pre-season. The impact of losing Reynolds was greater than expected last year tbh, and I think the club expected the youngsters to fill the gap before they were really ready. They're a year older and wiser now. Wighton is a good acquisition in the backs too. They'll be there or thereabouts.
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Be honest
at 09:40 5 Jan 2024

And Rio Ferdinand did precisely nothing to change things, as you can see from his blustering answer on that clip. He was as culpable as the rest of them.
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Loftus Road renovation/revamp
at 10:33 8 Nov 2023

We don't sell out (or rarely anyway) because 1/4 of the stadium is terrible for watching football.
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Loftus Road renovation/revamp
at 10:32 8 Nov 2023

That makes no sense. A single tiered stand would have a smaller capacity than a two-tiered stand.
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