| Nourry on new H&F board 11:19 - May 9 with 25947 views | Rangersw12 |
Surely this must be good news in respect of redeveloping Lotus Road or sourcing a new ground
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 19:34 - May 9 with 2764 views | stainrods_elbow |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 17:14 - May 9 by Beckenhamhoop |
There’s no chance of that! |
That's the spirit! Damn the guy whatever he does/doesn't do! That'll really help with the QPR/LfW re-engagement process. [Post edited 9 May 19:36]
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 19:41 - May 9 with 2790 views | Northernr |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 19:34 - May 9 by stainrods_elbow |
That's the spirit! Damn the guy whatever he does/doesn't do! That'll really help with the QPR/LfW re-engagement process. [Post edited 9 May 19:36]
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Think you might have used your world class editing skills to mis-read the post there chap.
Or I have. |  | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 19:55 - May 9 with 2714 views | Esox_Lucius |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 18:21 - May 9 by Northernr |
I’ve got one more week writing for you lot then I’m disappearing travelling  |
Looking forward to your cup final report. A whole new world of opportunities awaits. |  |
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 20:22 - May 9 with 2616 views | gigiisourgod |
I hope the little prick sorts out the bridge | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 20:34 - May 9 with 2556 views | Hunterhoop |
It’s an interesting development and one that, at first, appears quite positive.
My suspicion is this is linked to potential new investment, and that, again, at first, appears positive. I’m always wary how many other investors/owners would continue to convert debt to equity vs borrowing against the club and loading the entity with debt, mind.
Anyway, the main thing here that no one seems to be mentioning - the elephant in the room. The person who was the CEO for the past 8 years, during much of the documented failings with the council and worsening in relationships there is the Chairman and Nourry’s mentor/sponsor. |  | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 20:34 - May 9 with 2555 views | Rsole |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 19:34 - May 9 by stainrods_elbow |
That's the spirit! Damn the guy whatever he does/doesn't do! That'll really help with the QPR/LfW re-engagement process. [Post edited 9 May 19:36]
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Nice one Centurion, like it. |  |
| Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 20:35 - May 9 with 2552 views | Beckenhamhoop |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 19:30 - May 9 by Northernr |
Well I hope it does, and I hope your theory is proven wrong, because to be unhappy with QPR doing well because you don't like the CEO would be proper mental.
I hated the manager and most of the players in 2014. You talk to anybody that was with me at Wembley, I was deliriously happy.
I hated Flavio, Bernie, Gianni and Ali Russell, 2010/11 was my favourite ever QPR season.
These people come and go. The club sustains. If the club's doing well, that's all that matters.
Your "Nourry derangement syndrome" is playing out the opposite way around on Twitter, by the way, where the guy can do no wrong. It's just different demographics, thinking differently, as happens in politics and everything else.
What our club doesn't need, and what happened under Paladini, is the support to divide. We're a small club, too small for that. It's not "Cifuentes FC" or "The Nourry Haters". We are QPR. Asking legitimate questions of the people running it is not taking sides, derangement, personal, or anything else.
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Legitimate questions are fine. Rooting out a negative angle for the sake of it, as some seem intent to do, is a bit of a downer. Enjoy your break. Where you off to, anywhere nice? [Post edited 9 May 20:44]
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 20:37 - May 9 with 2526 views | Ned_Kennedys |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 20:34 - May 9 by Hunterhoop |
It’s an interesting development and one that, at first, appears quite positive.
My suspicion is this is linked to potential new investment, and that, again, at first, appears positive. I’m always wary how many other investors/owners would continue to convert debt to equity vs borrowing against the club and loading the entity with debt, mind.
Anyway, the main thing here that no one seems to be mentioning - the elephant in the room. The person who was the CEO for the past 8 years, during much of the documented failings with the council and worsening in relationships there is the Chairman and Nourry’s mentor/sponsor. |
You really think that’s the elephant in the room?
It makes absolutely no difference as Hoos is not involved at all is he. |  | | |
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 21:05 - May 9 with 2441 views | nadera78 |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 15:24 - May 9 by Beckenhamhoop |
I wonder what the reaction on here would be if in a year or so’s time Nourry was regarded in the football world as an obvious rising star, had clearly demonstrated that he was doing an outstanding job at QPR and got poached by a Premier League team.
Just saying 😉 |
I'm glad some other people called you out on this because it's exactly the sort of snide remark that did the rounds when Paladini was ripping the club apart, and it fed directly into the horrible divisions within the fanbase that made that period so awful.
For what it's worth, I'm one of Nourry's biggest doubters - I don't think he's in any way qualified to be the CEO of a £100million business, nor is he qualified to be Director of Football at a Championship club. And I especially don't think he's qualified to simultaneously hold both of those roles at my beloved Queens Park Rangers Football Club. To add to that, I think he's a liar. The first words out if his mouth were to claim that he had 11 years experience in football and, added to some of his behaviour over the past 18 months, I think it's more than fair to question everything he says. THAT SAID....if he does go on to do an outstanding job at QPR I'll be delighted because it'll mean we've had a great 2025/26. And I think we all deserve a good season by now. | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 21:15 - May 9 with 2379 views | Esox_Lucius |
Just musing, the club, through subsidiaries such as Kingfisher, bought 102 acres of OOC which was developed so I was wondering if any of the money from that was being channeled back into QPR. | |
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 21:19 - May 9 with 2372 views | Beckenhamhoop |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 21:05 - May 9 by nadera78 |
I'm glad some other people called you out on this because it's exactly the sort of snide remark that did the rounds when Paladini was ripping the club apart, and it fed directly into the horrible divisions within the fanbase that made that period so awful.
For what it's worth, I'm one of Nourry's biggest doubters - I don't think he's in any way qualified to be the CEO of a £100million business, nor is he qualified to be Director of Football at a Championship club. And I especially don't think he's qualified to simultaneously hold both of those roles at my beloved Queens Park Rangers Football Club. To add to that, I think he's a liar. The first words out if his mouth were to claim that he had 11 years experience in football and, added to some of his behaviour over the past 18 months, I think it's more than fair to question everything he says. THAT SAID....if he does go on to do an outstanding job at QPR I'll be delighted because it'll mean we've had a great 2025/26. And I think we all deserve a good season by now. |
It’s not a snide remark at all and I can’t see how anyone can take it as such. I’m merely presenting an alternative view for the sake of balance. In a way you’re going some way to illustrating my point. | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 21:34 - May 9 with 2301 views | nadera78 |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 21:19 - May 9 by Beckenhamhoop |
It’s not a snide remark at all and I can’t see how anyone can take it as such. I’m merely presenting an alternative view for the sake of balance. In a way you’re going some way to illustrating my point. |
You didn't present an alternative view on Nourry at all, you made a comment on QPR fans. And I clearly wasn't the only person who saw it as a snide remark. | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 22:58 - May 9 with 2118 views | Whip_It |
Returning to the matter at hand for a moment. Interesting development, and, as someone else has said, I wonder if this brings the LCS back into the frame. It is still the only viable site in the vicinity, and remains attractive because of the restrictions on its use - it can't be developed for housing. It's financially unsustainable in its current form, and our previous attempt to procure it was undone by some clunky PR. But it's not going anywhere, and presumably nobody can make a better offer. If this is just about redevelopment of LR, then surely that is relatively small potatoes, and wouldn't require this kind of move - it's more of an engineering and logistical conundrum. But then again, there was talk of us buying the school site, so maybe that would enable a partially redeveloped School End and offices, etc, while SAR stand gets a bit more room to play with. | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 22:59 - May 9 with 2109 views | Hunterhoop |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 20:37 - May 9 by Ned_Kennedys |
You really think that’s the elephant in the room?
It makes absolutely no difference as Hoos is not involved at all is he. |
Hoos is still extremely involved at the club. He’s the Chairman and only Board member who has permanently resided in the UK the last year. | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 23:15 - May 9 with 2078 views | GroveR |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 22:59 - May 9 by Hunterhoop |
Hoos is still extremely involved at the club. He’s the Chairman and only Board member who has permanently resided in the UK the last year. |
I think you're both right for different reasons.
Hoos has been a massive disappointment to me. I think Norf described him as the "grown up in the room" we so desperately needed with the utter goat-rodeo of a board we have and finally got. Look at his pedigree, track record - he's been there, done that.
And we reduced him from a tough, experienced, professional executive to a nob flipping the bird at some coçk on a scooter. I'm actually terrified to ask, but how bad are things behind the scenes? |  | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 23:58 - May 9 with 2009 views | JamesB1979 |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 20:34 - May 9 by Hunterhoop |
It’s an interesting development and one that, at first, appears quite positive.
My suspicion is this is linked to potential new investment, and that, again, at first, appears positive. I’m always wary how many other investors/owners would continue to convert debt to equity vs borrowing against the club and loading the entity with debt, mind.
Anyway, the main thing here that no one seems to be mentioning - the elephant in the room. The person who was the CEO for the past 8 years, during much of the documented failings with the council and worsening in relationships there is the Chairman and Nourry’s mentor/sponsor. |
🤦♂️…you’re obsessed | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 06:32 - May 10 with 1786 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 19:30 - May 9 by Northernr |
Well I hope it does, and I hope your theory is proven wrong, because to be unhappy with QPR doing well because you don't like the CEO would be proper mental.
I hated the manager and most of the players in 2014. You talk to anybody that was with me at Wembley, I was deliriously happy.
I hated Flavio, Bernie, Gianni and Ali Russell, 2010/11 was my favourite ever QPR season.
These people come and go. The club sustains. If the club's doing well, that's all that matters.
Your "Nourry derangement syndrome" is playing out the opposite way around on Twitter, by the way, where the guy can do no wrong. It's just different demographics, thinking differently, as happens in politics and everything else.
What our club doesn't need, and what happened under Paladini, is the support to divide. We're a small club, too small for that. It's not "Cifuentes FC" or "The Nourry Haters". We are QPR. Asking legitimate questions of the people running it is not taking sides, derangement, personal, or anything else.
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Got to back this up 100%. It definitely appears to be a generational divide within the club as well with the youngsters loving what Nourry is doing but not questioning anything.
My son is one of them, and i keep having to point out the inconsistencies within the club. He is having none of it, though, and I get it. It's all very exciting for them and they, the youngsters, are absolutely desperate for the club to get back to the PL. Even 18yo are sick of watching Preston and Stoke.
I actually think Nourry is doing a really good job, away from the 1st team, and I like the new coaching framework and what is happening within the Academy and DS.
Yet, as I keep explaining to my son we have had false dawns and promises to often over the past 30 years. We are perhaps a little cynical, so we keep questioning.
Oh, and the youngsters take a screenshot of some of the meltdowns on here (MC sacking last week especially) and then post them on TwitteryX and laugh at us oldies. Just a heads up. | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 08:23 - May 10 with 1609 views | Gloucs_R |
What happened to the LCS plans? Did they get their stadium upgrade? |  |
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 08:36 - May 10 with 1561 views | Northernr |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 06:32 - May 10 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
Got to back this up 100%. It definitely appears to be a generational divide within the club as well with the youngsters loving what Nourry is doing but not questioning anything.
My son is one of them, and i keep having to point out the inconsistencies within the club. He is having none of it, though, and I get it. It's all very exciting for them and they, the youngsters, are absolutely desperate for the club to get back to the PL. Even 18yo are sick of watching Preston and Stoke.
I actually think Nourry is doing a really good job, away from the 1st team, and I like the new coaching framework and what is happening within the Academy and DS.
Yet, as I keep explaining to my son we have had false dawns and promises to often over the past 30 years. We are perhaps a little cynical, so we keep questioning.
Oh, and the youngsters take a screenshot of some of the meltdowns on here (MC sacking last week especially) and then post them on TwitteryX and laugh at us oldies. Just a heads up. |
Yeh I know, I occasionally get copied into the "dinosaurs" and "OAPs" insults, like I'm responsible for everything you lot post 
Fun game is searching their past posts for "Richards" and reading all the Tweets from a couple of years ago when the OAPs and dinosaurs were getting it in the neck for throwing shade at such an obvious "baller". | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 08:58 - May 10 with 1485 views | GaryBannister86 |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 06:32 - May 10 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
Got to back this up 100%. It definitely appears to be a generational divide within the club as well with the youngsters loving what Nourry is doing but not questioning anything.
My son is one of them, and i keep having to point out the inconsistencies within the club. He is having none of it, though, and I get it. It's all very exciting for them and they, the youngsters, are absolutely desperate for the club to get back to the PL. Even 18yo are sick of watching Preston and Stoke.
I actually think Nourry is doing a really good job, away from the 1st team, and I like the new coaching framework and what is happening within the Academy and DS.
Yet, as I keep explaining to my son we have had false dawns and promises to often over the past 30 years. We are perhaps a little cynical, so we keep questioning.
Oh, and the youngsters take a screenshot of some of the meltdowns on here (MC sacking last week especially) and then post them on TwitteryX and laugh at us oldies. Just a heads up. |
I do think there is something in the generational thing. When I was in my yoof and able to do pretty much nothing else with my free time than follow the Rangers around with my mates, I don't remember too many worries or discussions about hierarchy and balance sheets and plans. It was all about the craic and winning football matches.
I think back to me passionately believing Chris Wright was the man based solely on the fact that he had a season ticket in front of me for a few years. And I stuck steadfastly to that view for far too long, I don't think I had the interest to really analyse the situation.
Now I am old and boring, these Nourry type issues appear far more important to me to worry about! |  | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 09:09 - May 10 with 1437 views | Rsole |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 08:36 - May 10 by Northernr |
Yeh I know, I occasionally get copied into the "dinosaurs" and "OAPs" insults, like I'm responsible for everything you lot post
Fun game is searching their past posts for "Richards" and reading all the Tweets from a couple of years ago when the OAPs and dinosaurs were getting it in the neck for throwing shade at such an obvious "baller". |
‘Bawler’ or ‘Bailer’ surely.
From a club perspective a Balls-up, rather than -deep. | |
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 09:19 - May 10 with 1393 views | Northernr |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 08:58 - May 10 by GaryBannister86 |
I do think there is something in the generational thing. When I was in my yoof and able to do pretty much nothing else with my free time than follow the Rangers around with my mates, I don't remember too many worries or discussions about hierarchy and balance sheets and plans. It was all about the craic and winning football matches.
I think back to me passionately believing Chris Wright was the man based solely on the fact that he had a season ticket in front of me for a few years. And I stuck steadfastly to that view for far too long, I don't think I had the interest to really analyse the situation.
Now I am old and boring, these Nourry type issues appear far more important to me to worry about! |
Well it's also lived experience isn't it? I've lived through the Thompson Out stuff, Chris Wright and admin, and Paladini. Others have the Fulham merger on their slate.
And I think that's what makes a lot of us very wary. If you don't have that experience then why would you be? You thought Les Ferdinand was a bit sht, this guy is new, young, and exciting.
I was on the wrong side of the Paladini thing to start with. I was 20 years old, I'd just taken over this website, he got in touch through a mutual friend and offered me an interview and from there started feeding us transfer gossip about who we were after. Which, to me, at that age, with a new QPR website on my hands, I thought was great. I was able to drop names like Nick Ward on here that nobody had heard and lo and behold two weeks late her turned up. I remember sitting in Paladini's office and he took me through all the players we were signing, got the wage bill out and showed me what everybody was on. I remember at the time people like Finney, and particularly Wombat who became a good friend to this day, getting in my ear telling me to be very, very careful about what was going on, but I couldn't see it. What's not to like?
What then started to happen is they'd ask me to refute certain things that had been said on the message board, or put out a 'defence' of something that was going around that they didn't want to mention on the official website. That made me very uncomfortable.
This came to a head in Sorrento on the pre-season tour when I got a load of player interviews (Lee Cook in a small towel a particular highlight) and dinner at the top table with Paladini, Caliendo etc but they told me that some of the players who'd been left behind (a group that included Evatt, Lomas, Bircham and a couple of others) had been deliberately trying to injure the new players in training. And I posted it. And boy did it blow up. Bircham got wind of it and, quite fcking rightly, was not happy.
And I remember having a conversation with Polish Paul and a few of my dad's mates in Sorrento that night over dinner when they were basically like "Clive, you're being played mate". At which point I basically said to them that transfer rumours, interviews, fine, lovely, but I'm not doing this. A certain other website appeared about 20 minutes later and I pivoted into trying to open people's eyes as to what was actually going on.
I actually ended up doing my university dissertation on the whole thing in the end, culminating in covering the court case. A very strange time in my life.
HASTY EDIT - I'm absolutely not saying that's what's happening now, by the way. Don't call the lawyers. I'm just using it as an example of lived experience versus youthful naivety. An example of why I am perhaps over sensitive and over wary about how the club communicates with its fans. When you start seeing multiple anonymous accounts registered by one or two people on here, all parroting the exact same lines and talking points, "just a fan who hears a few things", it just triggers me a little bit because that is the sort of thing that was going on back then.
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| Nourry on new H&F board on 09:21 - May 10 with 1385 views | JamesB1979 |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 08:58 - May 10 by GaryBannister86 |
I do think there is something in the generational thing. When I was in my yoof and able to do pretty much nothing else with my free time than follow the Rangers around with my mates, I don't remember too many worries or discussions about hierarchy and balance sheets and plans. It was all about the craic and winning football matches.
I think back to me passionately believing Chris Wright was the man based solely on the fact that he had a season ticket in front of me for a few years. And I stuck steadfastly to that view for far too long, I don't think I had the interest to really analyse the situation.
Now I am old and boring, these Nourry type issues appear far more important to me to worry about! |
I do worry about the balance sheet issues but I don’t get too agitated by the board room, CEO stuff. For me, it’s mainly about the team. I like a lot of the players in the squad. We have some good characters and I think they do care about QPR. And I think we have some good players too (ignoring the leavers), Field, JCS, Chair, Nardi, Cook, Morrison, Varane. That’s why I’m reasonably happy about the club at the moment. | | | |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 09:24 - May 10 with 1367 views | oldmeadoniansR |
| Nourry on new H&F board on 06:32 - May 10 by Wilkinswatercarrier |
Got to back this up 100%. It definitely appears to be a generational divide within the club as well with the youngsters loving what Nourry is doing but not questioning anything.
My son is one of them, and i keep having to point out the inconsistencies within the club. He is having none of it, though, and I get it. It's all very exciting for them and they, the youngsters, are absolutely desperate for the club to get back to the PL. Even 18yo are sick of watching Preston and Stoke.
I actually think Nourry is doing a really good job, away from the 1st team, and I like the new coaching framework and what is happening within the Academy and DS.
Yet, as I keep explaining to my son we have had false dawns and promises to often over the past 30 years. We are perhaps a little cynical, so we keep questioning.
Oh, and the youngsters take a screenshot of some of the meltdowns on here (MC sacking last week especially) and then post them on TwitteryX and laugh at us oldies. Just a heads up. |
That made me smile. Good on the youngsters for making an effort. It also made me wonder about the age demographic of this forum. I'm 53 and imagining this may be about the average. | | | |
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