| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 16:44 - May 2 with 4362 views | OldPedro |
Great writing again
"Weeks like this are not good enough. Not good enough by half. And a thousand of us go to Sunderland regardless.
To them, enjoy your summer. To the custodians of our club, and that’s all you are, sort it out." |  |
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 17:30 - May 2 with 4155 views | colinallcars |
Smashin' |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 17:41 - May 2 with 4109 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Fúck me.
That's superb. Agree with you all the way.
Unreal writing.
Thank you. |  |
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 17:43 - May 2 with 4095 views | rbee |
Triffic |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 18:16 - May 2 with 3944 views | sparkey |
QPR fans are very lucky to have you. |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 18:22 - May 2 with 3894 views | hertshoops |
It's uncanny how you manage to write my thoughts down better than I think them 
Thank you |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 18:41 - May 2 with 3827 views | mart_Goblin |
So good I had to read it twice .
More passion and love and care about this bloody club in one sentence of that piece, than all those p*ssing about on the ‘upper floors’ of LR put together .
I hope to god someone somewhere reads that and it hits home with someone .
I’d say no chance, but I feel we will come to a point very soon where we have to get Clive and a few others heard by the people that matter .
Our voices matter more than they realise .
Exceptional writing Clive . [Post edited 2 May 18:42]
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 18:47 - May 2 with 3795 views | E15Hoop |
Isn't it amazing that we're all sitting here watching this conglomeration of wills and oversized egos staking their claim over what is at least in pure P&L terms a failing business?
You would have thought that these supposed captains of industry would have worked out by now that for any business to succeed it needs everyone pulling together and on message, but, as we've mused on here many times before, football seems to give these suited wonders an excuse to behave poorly in a way that simply wouldn't be tolerated in any other context.
To adapt Mario Balotelli's well-chosen phrase slightly: "Why always us?" | | | |
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 18:51 - May 2 with 3777 views | G_Ottershaw |
very true..
'every time' or more accurately 'every bloody time' should be the new club motto | | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 19:14 - May 2 with 3714 views | camembeRt |
Brilliant, think it sums up perfectly what most of us think about the top echelons of the club. You should be CEO. | | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 19:30 - May 2 with 3636 views | charmr |
Wow, nail hit firmly on the head with such eruditeness. | | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 19:57 - May 2 with 3548 views | PunteR |
Let's hope the owners read this.
Smashing preview Norf. Sums it all up really well. |  |
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 20:13 - May 2 with 3499 views | Harbour |
Thanks Clive great report hope tommorow is better than last week hard to be worse. It’s nearly over hope you can put your feet up and enjoy the break you deserve it. | | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 20:51 - May 2 with 3346 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
Great piece, Clive, but I do think our supporters are partly to blame. We need more of an ultra mentality - don't clap us off when we lose 5-0 at home; go to Heston and tell the players how crap they are. Steal Nourry's steering wheel. Chuck tomatoes at the coach (or airplane if we lose a 4-0 lead in Europe).
Probably too late for the older generation but let's hope the younger fans you mention show more substance and the CP Company/Stone Island garb isn't the only thing they have in common with the ultras. | | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 20:52 - May 2 with 3358 views | NewYorkRanger |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 19:57 - May 2 by PunteR |
Let's hope the owners read this.
Smashing preview Norf. Sums it all up really well. |
Powerful and moving.
I truly hope you keep doing this for many years to come. |  |
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 20:52 - May 2 with 3358 views | eastside_r |
Absolutely nailed it, as usual. |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 21:12 - May 2 with 3305 views | stevec |
Us fans have contempt for the owners who oversee a failing football team, the owners show contempt for us knowing the fans aren’t the solution to the one and a half million they lose every month.
The consistent factor in both the above issues is overpaid players, that holds the key to all of this.
Average players are earning far more than is justifiable. We’ve got a decent bunch here, it feels difficult to call this out, but is £400,000 to £500,000 a year, as an average, really warranted?
If you look at most sports very few earn those kind of sums, only the relative world elite. Here at QPR, say 35th in this country, forget about worldwide, there’s probably 20 here alone earning around half a mill.
The whole set up is mad. |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 22:07 - May 2 with 3129 views | rbee |
Disappointing to read about the lack of the Player of the Year and Shirt Sponsors events.
Very disappointed the way that the shirt sponsors have been treated. In a way it reflects 21st century life. We can remember the time when the club would do almost anything to accommodate the fans. The shirt sponsors this year seem to be nuisance.
You mention that some people at the club are perhaps ''too cowardly, too afraid to do it themselves'' you could also add lack of confidence to that. So many young people these days would rather send a text or email rather than actually to talk to someone.
I remember both the Player of the Year and Shirt Sponsors events slowly getting more difficult as the years went on. Reading reports from the attendees saying that it was blatantly obvious which players were happy to be there and those that weren't with an increasing number of weren't as time went on.
I am not making excuses for the club, far from it. There are always solutions to problems. Hold a shirt sponsors event after a game, divide the players in to pairs putting any young nervous players with a Steve Cook or Jimmy Dunne.
Whoever sponsored Marti, or players not around, should receive proper apologies and be given other shirts and training gear, made to feel special. You reap what you sow. | | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 22:18 - May 2 with 3080 views | PunteR |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 22:07 - May 2 by rbee |
Disappointing to read about the lack of the Player of the Year and Shirt Sponsors events.
Very disappointed the way that the shirt sponsors have been treated. In a way it reflects 21st century life. We can remember the time when the club would do almost anything to accommodate the fans. The shirt sponsors this year seem to be nuisance.
You mention that some people at the club are perhaps ''too cowardly, too afraid to do it themselves'' you could also add lack of confidence to that. So many young people these days would rather send a text or email rather than actually to talk to someone.
I remember both the Player of the Year and Shirt Sponsors events slowly getting more difficult as the years went on. Reading reports from the attendees saying that it was blatantly obvious which players were happy to be there and those that weren't with an increasing number of weren't as time went on.
I am not making excuses for the club, far from it. There are always solutions to problems. Hold a shirt sponsors event after a game, divide the players in to pairs putting any young nervous players with a Steve Cook or Jimmy Dunne.
Whoever sponsored Marti, or players not around, should receive proper apologies and be given other shirts and training gear, made to feel special. You reap what you sow. |
Ive never even heard of sponsoring a players shirt. Whats all that about? | |
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 22:21 - May 2 with 3063 views | joolsyp |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 22:18 - May 2 by PunteR |
Ive never even heard of sponsoring a players shirt. Whats all that about? |
A brilliant preview. I just hope somebody high up in the club reads it and, more importantly, acts upon it. We deserve better. |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 22:55 - May 2 with 2940 views | BristolR |
 
Outstanding writing and once again better encapsulates how I feel than I could write myself. Bravo Clive, enjoy the summer |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 06:34 - May 3 with 2377 views | Lblock |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 20:51 - May 2 by Wegerles_Stairs |
Great piece, Clive, but I do think our supporters are partly to blame. We need more of an ultra mentality - don't clap us off when we lose 5-0 at home; go to Heston and tell the players how crap they are. Steal Nourry's steering wheel. Chuck tomatoes at the coach (or airplane if we lose a 4-0 lead in Europe).
Probably too late for the older generation but let's hope the younger fans you mention show more substance and the CP Company/Stone Island garb isn't the only thing they have in common with the ultras. |
You know what? I agree!
Said for years we’ve become Apathy Park Rangers
It’s oft noted in these ere pages how in the past we’ve been on the pitch or storming the doors of SA Road due to Thompson or mergers etc. Not so these days.
A fantastic piece to close another turbulent season |  |
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 08:19 - May 3 with 2160 views | GaryBannister86 |
Amazing words Clive, love the last paragraph. Almost got me invigorated again, even at the end of this terrible week.
Full credit to the 1,000 going up there, personally I hope a couple of anti-Nourry songs start doing the rounds.
Apart from that - thanks so much for all the brilliant writing, viewpoints and entertainment throughout yet another season. Safe travels. |  | | |
| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 08:21 - May 3 with 2152 views | kropotkin41 |
Another great piece of football writing.
I do so hope that some of the stuff that we are all lucky enough to read on LfW reaches the powers that be at QPR. |  |
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| Keep Calm and carry on - Preview on 09:06 - May 3 with 1971 views | thehat |
Probably the best write up preview of a game of football I have ever read. A very powerful and honest article that somehow captures the current situation at our beloved football club.
We are so lucky to have such talent as one of our own. | | | |
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