| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan 21:54 - Apr 17 with 7871 views | sdm1508 |
Saw this on a podcast and got me wondering.
Name a player that when they left the club it hurt. This could either be because you loved them as a player or the way they went about it to get out of the club
For me it was Les. Just because I hadn't seen a player like that at the club and I grew up watching him. With him, we stood a chance and when he went you kinda knew it was over |  | | |  |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 09:49 - Apr 18 with 1383 views | DWQPR |
Stan. Absolutely devastated. Think he played his last game against Wrexham in a 2-2 draw in. Early December 1979. Kept him and with the likes of TC, Allen, Goddard, Roeder, Hazell, Gillard, McCreery and Woods we would have got promoted right back. | |
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| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 09:57 - Apr 18 with 1340 views | JPC |
I think I always felt the losses most keenly when the player was moving ‘up’ when we are actually good, thereby hurting us the most. I never really begrudged a player moving if we were crap or on a downward spiral.
So, Phil Parkes, Clive Allen (2nd time), Terry Fenwick and Les | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 10:02 - Apr 18 with 1325 views | izlingtonhoop |
Rodney obviously.
But was really floored when Ian Dawes left. |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 10:23 - Apr 18 with 1265 views | WokingR |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 09:57 - Apr 18 by JPC |
I think I always felt the losses most keenly when the player was moving ‘up’ when we are actually good, thereby hurting us the most. I never really begrudged a player moving if we were crap or on a downward spiral.
So, Phil Parkes, Clive Allen (2nd time), Terry Fenwick and Les |
I was also thinking of Clive Allen but he made it a lot easier by instantly acting like he’d been a lifelong Spurs fan and had never played for anyone else. |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 10:26 - Apr 18 with 1264 views | terryb |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 00:02 - Apr 18 by Myke |
Parkes for me too, but another off to West Ham hurt more for some reason - Paul Goddard. Thought he and Allen could have been major. |
I'm another one for Paul Goddard!
I could understand how they couldn't turn down the offer for Clive Allen, but to then sell Goddard gutted me.
I've still not forgiven the club for how Ale Faurlin was allowed to drift away without us being able to say our farewells. Thankfully, the Evening with Ale a couple of years ago & his Forever R's induction did address this.
Manager wise, it will always be the trio of Alec Stock, Gordon Jago & Terry Venables that got to me. | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 10:38 - Apr 18 with 1239 views | mart_Goblin |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 10:26 - Apr 18 by terryb |
I'm another one for Paul Goddard!
I could understand how they couldn't turn down the offer for Clive Allen, but to then sell Goddard gutted me.
I've still not forgiven the club for how Ale Faurlin was allowed to drift away without us being able to say our farewells. Thankfully, the Evening with Ale a couple of years ago & his Forever R's induction did address this.
Manager wise, it will always be the trio of Alec Stock, Gordon Jago & Terry Venables that got to me. |
Completely agree about Ale Faurlin .
So sad that a player as good and as committed as Faurlin was here in a period where we completely lost our soul as a football club |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 10:43 - Apr 18 with 1233 views | QPROslo |
It was the all too quick break up the 75/76 greatest ever team. Started with Gerry's injury followed by the departure of the key players without good enough replacements, Sexton, and then the first and worst ever relegation for me just a few seasons later. | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 11:03 - Apr 18 with 1178 views | gigiisourgod |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 09:38 - Apr 18 by R_from_afar |
Lee Cook, when he went to Fulham.
I know we needed the money, but it was so heartening to watch a player of that quality playing in the hallowed hoops.
His ball control and dribbling were astonishing and his crossing pinpoint.
I thought he would make it at the highest level but injury sadly put paid to that. I feel really bad for him about that, it must have been very hard to take. |
There was a period, roughly around the time him (mainly) and Dexter tore apart Crystal Palace that I felt he had a chance with the England squad as one of the best left midfielders in the Country. For me, other than Cooky:
Andy Sinton (still not forgiven him. 1st player that I loved leaving the club and just couldn’t understand it as a young child)
Darren Peacock
Sir Les
Alan McDonald
Paul Murray (think he ended up injured and released?)
Jermaine Darlington (bizarre one)
Crouchie
Danny Shittu
Feel bad not mentioning Clive Wilson as it seems obvious now how important that / he was to us, but I never realised at the time. Quashie also to a lesser extent.
Trev was a funny one because at the end of his time here, rightly or wrongly, felt like he was getting a bit of flack… but then to let Redknapp pull our pants down like that, was criminal and that almost hurt more than losing Trev…. F**king Trev to Dowie and the other donkeys, still makes me angry 20/30 years on.
It defo hurt all that much more as a child though. | | | |
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| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 11:10 - Apr 18 with 1171 views | GaryHaddock |
I wonder how many of these people regretted it. |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 11:37 - Apr 18 with 1142 views | SW_Ranger |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 11:10 - Apr 18 by GaryHaddock |
I wonder how many of these people regretted it. |
The good:
Rodney was the first, as a young boy I’d just joined his fan club. Received my goodies and poster and then he left a week later. I was gutted as a kid.
Phil Parkes going was a real loss as shown with his career at WH (interestingly he made exactly the same number of appearances for us and them - 344). No nonsense keeper and always popular with the fans.
The bad:
Terry Fenwick, a huge fan of TF when he was with us but a few disparaging remarks about us when he was at Spuds left a bitter taste.
David Seaman: his leaving felt bad and ‘spunky’ / ‘Judas’ always got his stick when back at HQ (certainly from me) and remember him not enjoying his goal kicks at the Loft end with the stick he received. Funnily enough though it was still good to see him have a strong career. | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 12:19 - Apr 18 with 1082 views | connell10 |
Players , Les , Stan and Eze. Manager El Tel |  |
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| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 12:35 - Apr 18 with 1070 views | Clive_Anderson |
Les, Tarbs and Wegerle were the main ones for me.
Also letting Sinclair, Brevett and Wilson just leave for almost nothing was almost as bad. | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 12:36 - Apr 18 with 1065 views | Snipper |
Can’t believe nobody has mentioned the great Dave Thomas.
I was only 10 when he left for Everton. I was on holiday in Ireland, and I was absolutely gutted.
Edit: Clive Wilson, quite rightly so, getting a few mentions. As a pair, him and David Bardsley were the best pair of full backs we’ve had in my time. They were very very good. [Post edited 18 Apr 12:39]
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| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 12:50 - Apr 18 with 1039 views | Nov77 |
Phil Parkes by a country mile, no one else comes close for me. |  |
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| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 12:52 - Apr 18 with 1035 views | DannyPaddox |
Dave Thomas leaving was a major rug-puller-awayer for me. He was in the first Rs XI I ever saw and with his socks rolled down to his ankles was as quintessentially QPR as any one - then he’s running around in an effing Everton shirt. I was baffled and heartbroken in equal measures but of course I still love the man.
Then for decades I just accepted players leaving as that’s what happens. Also growing up you’ve got other things to worry about to get too miffed. But I was surprised, after all these years, how gutted I was when Eze left. It was an inevitable thing but still brought back early memories of Thomas, Masson, Parkes, Goddard etc. |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 13:00 - Apr 18 with 1007 views | ozexile |
Paul Parker. Was on holiday and saw it on the back of the paper round the pool. Ruined the trip. | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 13:12 - Apr 18 with 994 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Another one for Dave Thomas. Absolutely sickened. He was my hero, even above Stan at the time. I remember my Mom buying me an Everton schoolbag because she didn't understand that I couldn't follow Thomas to his new club.
In later years, Eze leaving really sunk me, even that we all knew it was coming. It just rammed home how we'd slipped as a club. Losing our best player. To Crystal poxy Palace. |  |
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| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 13:25 - Apr 18 with 961 views | MrSheen |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 13:12 - Apr 18 by BrianMcCarthy |
Another one for Dave Thomas. Absolutely sickened. He was my hero, even above Stan at the time. I remember my Mom buying me an Everton schoolbag because she didn't understand that I couldn't follow Thomas to his new club.
In later years, Eze leaving really sunk me, even that we all knew it was coming. It just rammed home how we'd slipped as a club. Losing our best player. To Crystal poxy Palace. |
Wegerle, Bannister, Byrne...just given away. |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 13:38 - Apr 18 with 924 views | ennisR |
Steve Wicks, the 2nd time, leaving for a bang average Chelsea, I was heart broken |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 13:39 - Apr 18 with 916 views | GaryHaddock |
A generational thread this one.
Les for me. No other departure has really compared in damage and sadness caused IMO.
You would have thought Taarabt would be on this thread a lot more, but for me I was so tired of the drama and unreliability I was almost glad to see him go.
The conspiracy theorist in me would suggest Redknapp managed him out to get Krancjar and a more ‘favourable’ agent in. | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 14:02 - Apr 18 with 859 views | ManinBlack |
Looking through all the names listed I would have to agree with everyone how significant they all were at each time. Sadly it emphasises why we will never win a major trophy as we sell our assets. The big influx of money into football now means players are impatient to play in the Premiership so a talent like Eze won't be around for long. Sterling didn't even kick a ball for us before Liverpool took him for a bag of spanners.
Even if our academy produced another Maradona, word would get out and the vultures would be circling very quickly to snap him up. I cannot ever see us having a quality player
for 7 years again as happened with Stan Bowles.
Whether we like it or not, the only way we will keep hold of any talent and quality players for any period of time is to be in the Premiership. In many ways the Championship quality gets worse every year because anyone with ability is signed up by Premiership clubs. It used to be the case the big clubs would steal your best players but nowadays it is more likely to be Wolves, Bournemouth, Brighton, Fulham etc doing the raids who can offer themselves as established top flight clubs. I can't see us having quality unless we go up and stay there as right now we are lingering in this division with clubs like Preston and Bristol City. |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 14:03 - Apr 18 with 856 views | NorthLondonR |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 09:38 - Apr 18 by FDC |
Managers-wise, I'd have been 13 or 14 when my school PE teacher - a fellow R - came and told me Gerry Francis had left (the first time), I was crestfallen and we stood, adult and child, looking sadly at each other. |
This is exactly what happened to me with Clive Wilson, for a long time I imagined my dad texted me that he left, but then realise that 1995 was before technology existed and in actual fact it was my English teacher/ football coach Mr Wilkes who broke the news to me on the playing fields of Hadleigh High School in Suffolk, I was literally crestfallen... he was a fellow Rangers fan |  | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 14:12 - Apr 18 with 839 views | Logman |
Surprised no-one has mentioned Richard Langley.
He was the epitome of what we aspire to - confident, skilful, came through the ranks - and just about the only player in the team worth any money at the time.
Hated it when we sold him to Cardiff. | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 14:13 - Apr 18 with 836 views | GaryHaddock |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 14:12 - Apr 18 by Logman |
Surprised no-one has mentioned Richard Langley.
He was the epitome of what we aspire to - confident, skilful, came through the ranks - and just about the only player in the team worth any money at the time.
Hated it when we sold him to Cardiff. |
Great point.
He and Carlisle leaving felt like a disaster at the time. | | | |
| Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan on 14:46 - Apr 18 with 800 views | Boston |
The only player departure that really surprised me was Phil Parkes.
Disappointed by a number, but the only other move that jarred was managerial, that being the early exit of Gordon Jago. [Post edited 18 Apr 14:48]
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