Liverpool inflicted a miserable end to a dreadful year on a hapless QPR side at Loftus Road on Sunday, scoring three without reply and spurning the chance to bag at least the same again.

On Sunday Loftus Road echoed to the unmistakeable cracking sound of camels’ backs laden with straw. Some could stand it no longer at half time while others didn’t even last that long. People threw what they could lay their hands on – programmes, tickets, a replica shirt in one case – and booed. There was a feeling of helplessness among the long suffering massed ranks of the home support.

QPR could be forgiven for conceding two goals to the mercurial Luis Suarez who was in perpetual motion and simply far too good for anything Rangers had to offer - the only surprise in the end was that the Uruguayan didn’t score more as his performance warranted a four or five goal haul - but a lot of what took place under the leaden West London skies on Sunday afternoon was not forgivable at all.

Suarez, and the similarly excellent Steven Gerrard, you expect to be difficult opponents, but QPR even struggled to cope with the more meagre talents of Jordan Henderson – previously considered one of the division’s most expensive flops but made to look like the answer to all England’s midfield worries here after being afforded the freedom of W12 to do as he pleased. And while you don’t mind – relatively speaking – if Suarez makes an absolute fool out of an honest old pro like Clint Hill and scores a fine goal, when he’s allowed to stand completely unattended in the centre of the penalty box waiting for a corner to be taken with almost the entire Loft End on its feet pointing at him and screaming at the defenders to do something about it that’s simply not good enough.

I coped with all that reasonably well actually: I got to half time; I watched the three Liverpool goals; I sat and said nothing as Liverpool supporters – some brazenly dressed in their replica shirts – celebrated in the home stands with tickets purchased from the club’s “official ticket partners” Viagogo; I even resisted the urge to tear my seat out of its moorings and hurl it towards the playing surface when a rare chance to put a ball into a crowded penalty box from a corner in the second half was spurned in favour of a chipped delivery out to Shaun Wright-Phillips who then allowed it to run under his foot and set Liverpool away on another counter attack.

I’ve watched this all season in mostly decent humour and always gone back for more. I said nothing to anybody when the club awarded me the Supporter of the Year trophy, took the positive PR that came with giving that to a third generation QPR fanatic with a surname hundreds of people in the support base know because of my late father, but then didn’t actually get round to presenting me with the award itself. I even offered to just go down to the ground one afternoon and pick it up, no need for a presentation or anything, just so I could have something to place next to the same award that my dad won in 1998, nine months before his death. But, again, they hadn’t quite got round to purchasing some £30 trophy from Shepherds Bush Market yet so I decided to leave it.

I also said nothing when I spent several days earlier this season putting together an application for a job at the club for which I was well qualified and ticked every box on the job advert. An application which didn’t even warrant an interview, or even a “thanks but no thanks” reply until I chased it up after seeing via Twitter that they were already onto a second round of meeting with other candidates.

‘Self important, self indulgent prick’ you may think, and you’re probably right, but those two incidents are just a couple of a thousand microcosms of what QPR is at the moment: it’s a club that talks a good game, and cannot deliver; it’s a club that currently has a fundamental lack of footballing knowledge in the boardroom, resulting in a massively flawed squad building and managerial recruitment strategy; it’s a club with a total lack understanding of its own support base, what it means to be a QPR fan, what’s important to those who go to Loftus Road every week and what isn’t.

And I’m saying all this now because Esteban Granero put the last piece of straw on my back yesterday afternoon when he strode onto the field as a second half substitute, marched immediately to a previously awarded free kick on the edge of the area, made Adel Taarabt – who has already done more for QPR than Granero is likely to in his lifetime – step aside and then duffed a pathetic scuffed shot well wide of the post. Later, when another free kick was awarded in the same place, Granero showed no interest, Taarabt walked away and so we had another farcical situation where Stephane Mbia – God love him but he can’t shoot – took a direct free kick while Ryan Nelsen stood in the penalty area screaming at his team mates that the situation was tailor made for Taarabt and they were behaving like little children.

It was at that moment, when Granero mooched away from his failed shot, that I stopped standing up and yelling and to a large degree stopped caring. QPR is not any kind of football club at the moment. It’s sort of a mixture between a cash cow for Mark Hughes and his friends, Kia Joorabchian and his overpaid, underworked, over rated clients, and an advertising vehicle for faraway airlines and businesses. A club that cannot even find 18,000 people to come and watch it without resorting to marquee Korean signings and the subsequent tourist trade (Ji Sung Park currently leads the online vote for Player of the Month by the way despite him only playing for 45 minutes v Aston Villa on December 1) and Liverpool supporters in the home end.

QPR is not actually a likeable club any more. Even if it had a team that won every now and again it’s a club whose positive points can be counted on the fingers of one hand. It’s a club that after everything that has happened this season so far thinks season ticket holders should pay £25 (plus £3.50 booking fee) this Saturday to watch an FA Cup game with West Brom. I found myself hoping Liverpool scored more in this game, partly because Suarez was so wonderful I wanted to see him go home with the matchball, but mainly because QPR deserved a good hiding. They deserved everything they got here and more, both for the way they played on the day and the manner in which they’re approaching their work on and off the field in general. They were an embarrassment to the good, loyal people who keep turning up and wanting the best for their team only to be repeatedly treated poorly. This was a shambles, a nadir of a dreadful season so far, and for a great many QPR fans who’ve been going to Loftus Road for decades it was too much to bear.

You’ll forgive me I hope, on New Year’s Eve, if I rattle through the facts of the matter quite quickly from here. Harry Redknapp – who surely would never have taken the job on had he been aware of just what a rotten state the club is in – was able to return Nelsen to the defence alongside Hill after a bout of flu. Nedum Onuoha also returned at right back after injury and was one of the few to emerge with any credit from the match for at least keeping a grip on former R’s trainee Raheem Sterling. Julio Cesar was recalled in goal suggesting that, for all Redknapp’s public support of Robert Green and lambasting of Chris Foy over the controversial second West Brom goal on Boxing Day, he too thought it was a dreadful piece of goalkeeping. Armand Traore was, ostensibly, the left back. In midfield Rangers tried to counter the threat of Sterling and Gerrard with a pairing of Stephane Mbia and Samba Diakite, but both were miles off the pace and totally overrun with Diakite in particular unable to produce a single piece of positive play to affect the match. Jamie Mackie started on one wing, Adel Taarabt played off Djibril Cisse in attack, and after several weeks of improvement Shaun Wright-Phillips’ form took a cliff tumble from the left flank. He, like Diakite, couldn’t stand up for falling down.

Mbia may have been slightly more use had he not spent the entire match diving pathetically to the floor and feigning injury under minimal, or sometimes non-existent, contact. This began as early as the second minute and when referee Anthony Taylor rightly ignored his pleas for a free kick Suarez tested Cesar with the first shot and the Brazilian keeper was lucky that Joe Allen – recalled to the Liverpool midfield – scuffed the rebound wide after the ball was spilled out to him.

At the School End Jamie Mackie almost latched onto a through ball from Taarabt but was offside in any case. That was about the only piece of possession QPR had in the first ten minutes and rarely has a goal felt as inevitable as Suarez’s ninth minute opener, cooly finished after tricking Clint Hill with speed and skill on the edge of the box. Five minutes later it was two, Suarez again revelling in the wide open spaces of the QPR penalty area and finishing well from an acute angle after his initial cross had bounced back to him off a defender. It was like shelling peas.

Mbia had play stopped for treatment on a mythical facial injury after another shameful piece of play acting in the nineteenth minute, but did win a free kick on the edge of the area a moment later which Taarabt drilled into the wall. Taylor turned down half-hearted appeals for a handball penalty.

At the midway point of the half Glen Johnson – an obvious threat as anybody who watched Liverpool’s recent win at West Ham could have identified – accelerated into an acre of space down the right and whipped in a dangerous low cross that Ryan Nelsen turned over his own bar from close range. Rangers left Steven Gerrard unmarked from the resulting corner and Cesar needed to make a smart, if slightly nervous and unorthodox, save to deny him.

Three minutes later, with lessons not learnt, Rangers allowed a two on one situation to develop from a short corner and then left centre back Daniel Agger unmarked in the centre of the goal and he notched the third goal with a firm downward header that Cesar may have done better with. Two minutes after that, with lessons not learnt, Rangers allowed a two on one situation to develop from a short corner and then left central midfielder Jordan Henderson unmarked in the centre of the goal but he shot wide. Five minutes after that, more space for Suarez in a wide area, a further penalty box farce after he cut the ball back, and Nelsen had to clear Gerrard’s shot off the line. Gerrard then shot over after Taylor allowed Enrique to play on after what appeared to be a deliberate hand ball.

Two weak long range shots – one at the keeper, one wide – from Adel Taarabt were all Rangers had to show for their first half “efforts” and rarely has a QPR team deserved to be booed at half time quite as much as this one. Outclassed is acceptable, but this was so much worse than that.

Harry Redknapp knew it as well. He took off Djibril Cisse at half time and threw on Shaun Derry, an old hand to sit in front of the back four and try and stop the tide of possession Liverpool had enjoyed in the gap between the midfield and back four. The tide was stemmed, but this was more down to Liverpool putting the cue on the rack. If I was a Scouser I’d actually be quite annoyed at this second half performance, because this could and should have been pretty much any score they liked. Credit to Cesar for a fabulous save four minutes into the half as Suarez wriggled free again but a better team would have run the sword a little bit deeper given the same situation – Liverpool, easy to forget, were tenth at the start of play.

I actually saw more in the second half to upset me than the first in many ways. The Granero free kick primarily, but also after 50 minutes a set piece worked short by Taarabt and Traore after a foul by Joe Allen for which he really should have been booked which resulted in a cross into a penalty area populated by Jamie Mackie and six Liverpool players. One v six for an attacking free kick when QPR were, presumably, meant to be chasing the game.

Normal service was quickly restored as Samba Diakite – heavy legged, off the pace, patently low on confidence – sloppily lost possession in his own half and Suarez crossed for Gerrard who came steaming in but was an inch too short to power home a close range fourth. A corner was awarded for that, and with lessons not learnt Rangers left Jordan Henderson unmarked in the middle of the goal and he met the ball at the near post with a shot that flew over the bar. Mindblowing. Basic stuff this.

Mbia was then yellow carded for diving, and much like the Liverpool goals there was a masochistic part of me that enjoyed seeing it. Taylor rightly pointed out that it was the third or fourth occasion he’d fallen to the ground theatrically and the yellow was richly deserved.

Jamie Mackie’s positive run into the area set Traore up for a shot that he dragged across the face of the goal, and then Taarabt hit a low shot at Pepe Reina to hint at a revival but then there was the Wright-Phillips miscontrol on the edge of the area from a Rangers corner quickly followed by Granero’s free kick after he’d replaced the hapless Diakite and many took that as their excuse to head home, with half an hour still left to play.

Granero further endeared himself to the home fans by interrupting a rare Rangers attack to kick the ball out of play because Jose Enrique had sort of pulled up with a bit of cramp. Words fail me on that one I’m afraid but, credit where it’s due, a Shaun Derry interception midway through the second period did spark a neat five pass move through to the area and Mbia curled a shot a yard or so wide. That was better.

Wright-Phillips was booed as he left the field to be replaced by Fabio, and Anthony Taylor was cheered for finally producing a yellow card for Lucas Leiva after two quick fire fouls on Taarabt moments after he’d generously let Allen off again for kicking the ball away down the field a long time after the whistle had blown. The Leiva free kick only created another opportunity for an argument over the taker though and although Mbia had earlier tested Reina with a shot the Spanish keeper needed two attempts to hold, he was way off target with the set piece and I took that as my cue to leave with five minutes left on the watch.

I’ll pre-empt some criticism now if I may. LoftforWords is a site that gives supporters a chance to air their views. I write most of the stuff, and while I try and do so as neutrally as possible I am, at the end of the day, a dyed in the wool Queens Park Rangers supporter. I go over the top when QPR win, I get all melodramatic when QPR lose, but all I ever do is say it as honestly as I can from what I’ve seen having been to the match and spoken to other supporters and set it in the context of however many other thousands of games I’ve seen since I started coming to Loftus Road as a small lad. I’m not for one moment going to say that these are the worst QPR players I’ve ever seen because they’re obviously not – although pound for pound they probably are given their wage packets – or that this was the worst performance I’ve ever seen, or even the worst performance this season.

Yes, I could be more positive about the situation – eight points behind, 56 points left to play for, nine wins needed, it’s still doable however unlikely that may seem. Yes, I said Rangers would be relegated last season, and they weren’t. Yes, I probably am a little bit bitter about how I’ve been treated on a couple of occasions by the club this season – although judging by the recent Tweet from club sponsor Apex Car Rental to Tony Fernandes I’m not alone in that.

But, I’m afraid, that’s how I see it tonight, the final night of 2012 which has been the worst year of my QPR supporting life. Whatever lies in store in 2013 it begins with a trip to Chelsea on Wednesday, followed by a home match with West Brom on Saturday for which I’ve paid just shy of £90 to attend. This game, wherever you feel it lies on the all time list of disasters, felt like a big moment for many supporters and it needs to be exactly that for the club as well. QPR needs to remember who it is, what it is, and start working towards becoming that again. It needs to be a club that people like me are you are proud to support. At the moment it’s not even a club I like very much.

They’ll win at Chelsea now of course. Happy New Year.

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QPR: Cesar 4, Onuoha 6, Nelsen 5, Hill 3, Traore 3, Wright-Phillips 2 (Da Silva 80, -), Diakite 2 (Granero 63, 3), Mbia 3, Mackie 4, Taarabt 4, Cisse 2 (Derry 46, 6)

Subs not used: Green, Ferdinand, Faurlin, Hoilett

Bookings: Mbia 56 (diving), Da Silva 90 (foul)

Liverpool: Reina 6, Johnson 7, Agger 7, Skrtl 7, Enrique 6 (Suso 71, 6), Allen 7 (Carragher 87, -), Henderson 8 (Lucas 64, 6), Gerrard 8, Downing 7, Sterling 6, Suarez 9

Subs not used: Gulacsi, Coates, Shelvey, Assaidi

Goals: Suarez 10 (assisted Henderson), 16 (assisted Downing), Agger 28 (assisted Gerrard)

Bookings: Leiva 82 (foul)

QPR Star Man – Nedum Onuoha 6 Very tempted to just put this down as not applicable but I felt Onuoha deserved credit. He’s had a tough time in his personal life, and has been very poor for QPR since arriving, but selected out of position at right back again here he had a job to do on Sterling and did it reasonably well. He can at least look himself in the mirror knowing he did what he was asked to do.

Referee – Anthony Taylor (Manchester) 7 Very little to referee in such an uncompetitive game. I thought he called the Mbia simulation card exactly right and should have produced a card sooner, but was rather generous with Joe Allen all afternoon and might have given a foul on Adel Taarabt in the area more consideration than he did – would have been a soft one though.

Attendance 18,303 (3,200 Liverpool approx) Now we’ve all had to sit in a home end before as an away fan – behind enemy lines and all that – so I don’t begrudge Liverpool fans who couldn’t get tickets in the away end doing that, but there is an etiquette to observe in such situations. Wearing colours, for a start, is a no-no and you certainly shouldn’t be openly celebrating the goals as they go in. That there were Liverpool fans doing this presumably thanks to Viagogo – a ticketing agency promoted by the club selling match tickets above face value – sticks in the craw somewhat. That there were some doing it in the Lower Loft, where several QPR fans who’d had a season ticket there for many years were forced to move in the summer and have found it difficult to purchase tickets there ever since because of the draconian ‘family stand’ rules the club have imposed, is simply not good enough and needs looking at.

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simmo added 11:22 - Jan 1 Really good sentiment and point there isawqpratwcity. The fact is qpr should be employing people like Clive actively, of course I am not suggesting that you should simply appoint qpr people regardless, but if you are qualified and competent and also have an affiliation for the club it makes sense to bring you in. Apat from anything else surely you would do the best job possible simply because you care?? But the club won't because it probably knows Clive would not sit idly by while it systematically rips the heart out of it. They hav got rid of all the old background stalwarts over the years and replaced them with lap dog spurs supporting spin merchants and it stinks. The fact that this site provides a platform for people like Clive to do that job anyway but without having to adhere to any politics or rotten club rules makes me grateful, I understand everyone in the club is aware of what Clive does and perhaps some are quietly sympathising with a real care for qpr but from the outside it looks what it is, a club that doesn't give a shit. For selfish reasons I hope this site and these publications continue, I have been reading them for a long time now and frankly like some kind of 'resistance publication' we need them. Although I wouldn't blame Clive if he packed it in and saved himself the endless hours to do something a little less like smashing his testicles with a meat tenderiser. Also I was unaware of the Supporter of the Year farce and bearing in mind I am fortunate enough to get to know Clive personally and still didn't know is testament to the lack of attention he seeks when in his position I would be banging down doors and complaining to anyone that came near me. I have rambled a bit here in a half drunk half hungover kind of way but ultimately I take comfort in the fact that at least we are all in this together, the football itself is the worst part of my recent match days, the people i share these experiences with are what I really care about and havin someone that can articulate my thoughts and present them via this site still puts us above every other club so we are winning at something. Kind of.

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JB007007 added 11:55 - Jan 1 Thanks Clive. Reading this and all the other posts actually provides some comfort to our situation. I will never give up on my QPR, its in the blood, but worringly I couldn't have given a hoot if it was 3-0 or 6-0. Everything stinks at the moment and we have botched this premier league thing up since the day we were promoted. I cant stand the two clowns pre TF, but what business men they are. Who buys a club in a mess, spends less than most four and a half years to turn it into a Premier League Club and then makes a tidy profit in the sale? We all thought it was great when the Fernandes lead takeover went through and I'm still massively in support, but whatever the outcome of this miserable season they have to sit down and start working out how to get this club back and take it forward on so many levels. We've discussed over the last few weeks about what to do come January. Do we buy, loan, what sort of player do we try and go for etc. Its a massive call for the board and manager. In my opinion, I think we're down as in a few games time without winning we'll be counting games and points and the mathematics will be coming into it. For that reason, I think we have to look at a completely new recruitment policy. Sign players who want to have a good a go at it next season and get them bedded in with the players we want to (if we can) keep. At the same time I'd find a way of cutting our loses and trying to recoup some of the wasted money on those that are simply not QPR. Happy new year to all.

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Hoopsa_Carts added 12:30 - Jan 1 Looking at the team-sheet prior to kick-off I thought that HR had made the right choice in putting Mbia and Diakite together at the heart of midfield. What I didn't expect was the utter shambles that the pairing was to become during that first half hour. At times they were both seen to be chasing for the same ball whilst at others they were exchanging perplexed glances toward each other after failing to decide who would take responsibility for meeting the threat. It was toe-curling to watch but probably systematic of a pairing that have had limited opportunity to play that role in competitive matches this season. Now, I'm not one who is given to jeering our own players and I understand the argument that it is probably more counter-productive than anything else but I was actually taken aback by the involuntary whoops of joy that burst forth from my own lips upon seeing SWP being pulled from the pitch. I probably would have been more embarrassed by my moronic outburst if half the people around me had not already left the ground, but nevertheless I found myself looking sheepishly toward my 9 year-old son sitting there with his head in his chest and sadly thumbing his matchday programme for some sort of redemption. Let me tell you the phrase 'the're a bit rubbish aren't they dad?' has never meant more. I suppose on reflection everyone has a limit and mine came after months of watching the plethora of aimless crosses, woeful shots, lamentable tackles and the number of balls knocked down the flank which found touch with more regularity than any rugby union kicker would ever hope to see in a lifetime. I could go on but....aarrggghhhhhhh!!!! Mark Hughes has a lot to answer for. He has left a horribly broken team, a seemingly disaffected support and has tied some extremely large millstones around the neck of the football club that took years to cast off the last ones. It is interesting to note that he seems to have opted for the 'out of sight and out of mind' approach since his dismissal. Even his TV pundit mates who couldn't stop declaring him as being 'a top manager' at every given opportunity have gone very quiet. I'm sure he'll be back (Blackburn were mentioned on the radio on the way home on Sunday- God help them!) and then the whole sickening MH PR roadshow will start all over again. It will be interesting to see if the much used tagline 'you only have to look at his track record' will be removed from any future plaudits though.

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R_in_Sweden added 12:40 - Jan 1 Depressing reading, I won't even comment on the match as it's all been said by you and other posters. The fact that Park is currently player of the month for December due to the large population of South Korea and the shambles surrounding your supporter of the year award just about sums up the club at the moment. We need somebody like you (and a few others) to infiltrate and influence our sorry club. It has all the warmth and feel good factor of a faceless multinational corporation. It's also sad to see how the perception of QPR has gone from the club that people have a soft spot for to being one that is despised or sniggered at due to its overspending on useless shite. Talking of shite I noticed that Barton was in the crowd, as an away supporter he must have used Viagogo as well. Onwards and hopefully upwards. All we have to look forward to is the transfer window at the moment and god knows what that will bring. I'm sure that Tony has done his sums and worked out how much TV money he'll lose once Sky reaches China next season. I'm expecting Harry to be given a reasonable sum but I can also see him being worried about joining the list of managers who've blown a fortune and failed. Have a look in the lower divisions for some hungry, raw talent.

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HastingsRanger added 12:40 - Jan 1 I watched it on TV (with a number of Liverpool fans with very south London accents), and it seemed nothing could get worse at 0-3 as a culmination of this MH inspired campaign. Then they showed an inset of Joey 'in it for the money' in the crowd! Really cannot see what can be done here. Nothing means certain relegation but who should we sign (and wants to come here)? Throwing in the towel is alien to me but new players amongst a non-gelling squad is suicidal. Over to you, HR.

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abutcher added 13:10 - Jan 1 Lower Loft Exile Excellent report as usual & agree with your MOM. I was the only one where I was sitting that could see that bringing on Derry was a damage limitation exercise. Most around me wanted us to go for broke & yes it would have ended up being a cricket score. Nice also to see that those of us exciled from LL are remembered.If things go as I suspect & we are relegated then I for one will NOT be returning next year! The out lay for tickets plus travel & incidentals means over £80 per game plus traveling time of 2/3 hrs! What is currently happening at our club is killing my will to attend on a regular basis.

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thehat added 13:35 - Jan 1 Surely they sort out who takes the free kicks before the game - Basic stuff!!! Maybe its just me but I have not been too impressed with Harry yet he seems to contradict himself a lot and the tactics for this match were pretty poor. Two other things that currently make me sick are: Cisse comes to training in a chauffeur driven Bentley. Apparently Boswinga's agent has asked for 1.8 million to have his contract terminated. I wonder what Marc Bircham makes of it all.

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BushRangerW12 added 14:27 - Jan 1 Absolutley spot on Clive, Just because we love the R's does'nt mean we can't be truthful. I too am concerned about the direction in which the club has gone. Having experienced the ups and manys downs supporting the R's the situation we are in at the moment feels different and things are not right. My latest blog post is similar to your own and encourages R's fans to take a reality check and see what is Realy going on. If your interested you can find it here http://beataboutthebushranger.blogspot.co.uk/ Once again, great piece.

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LeedsR added 17:12 - Jan 1 Thank you as ever for your reports. Happy New Year and all that, and here's hoping that 2013 is going to be a darn sight better than 2012 as far as Rangers are concerned. Really appreciate the effort, high quality of your writing and humour. This site is a rare tonic for the long suffering Rs supporter. Here's to hoping that the frustration won't get the better of you. If only the club can properly recognise this!!!

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Kaos_Agent added 18:05 - Jan 1 "...Ryan Nelsen stood in the penalty area screaming at his team mates that the situation was tailor made for Taarabt and they were behaving like little children." IMO the most depressing observation among the many made by Clive about this desperate situation. I said months ago that this team needs a professional sports psychologist, but what are the odds of that happening at a club with no conception of the modern game, as so correctly pointed out by Clive in this and recent columns. TF, please drag this so-called "management team" into the 21st century.

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Neil_SI added 18:34 - Jan 1 I can't remember if I've ever seen anybody throw their replica kit and other items onto the pitch before, so I have to say, that was really jaw dropping in a way and spoke volumes for the level of apathy that is seeping in at the moment. It's really sad that it's come to this for some. But that incident with Luis Suarez in the penalty box was astounding and all the more so because the players looked totally confused and unsure of themselves about why the crowd were reacting the way they were. They never really clocked on either until the very last moment in that sequence. The past 12 months have certainly been the worst I've experienced in my lifetime as a fan. It has not been enjoyable in any shape or form and the football has been desperately poor, which is what we're here for. I've been concerned for a long time with how the club is being run, but you do get the feeling it's on a knife edge and almost at that make or break point for the players, and even the club, in terms of its relationship with the fans. I just wonder if any of them even realise. They seem to be in a bit of a bubble about it all and I think that's what's frustrating everybody the most and they seem to be in a "us versus them" mentality and mode, which completely misses the point and isn't the case. It will reach new lows if that relationship deteriorates beyond salvation.

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TeddRanger added 18:56 - Jan 1 "it’s a club that currently has a fundamental lack of footballing knowledge in the boardroom.." I agree ,but look at it another way. How many club's fans think their board know what they're doing? A handful of the 92? People like TF who are new to football are bound to make mistakes. The acid test is whether they learn from them...
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AshteadR added 19:36 - Jan 1 Happy New Year Clive, and thanks for the report. I can't remember feeling less enthused about watchimg us play and although I've only missed 2 games in the last 2 seasons, i just couldn't muster the enthusiasm to buy a Chelsea ticket with the way we're currently performing. With any luck that will mean we'll play a blinder a win. i'll be back for the West Brom game, £25 poorer though!

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Monahoop added 20:22 - Jan 1 Agree with your points saying that QPR are not a likeable club at present. Everything about them at present both on and off the field wreaks of fetid mayhem.That was a shockingly inept performance on Sunday. A Liverpool fan in the pub where us local tortured QPR fans were watching came up to us at the end of the game and pronounced that QPR were a disgrace to the Premier League with that showing. You know, he wasn't wrong and he wasn't saying this with any malice. We kind of all agreed with him and left it at that. Happy New Year.

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highlandbill added 22:04 - Jan 1 Agree with most of the comments about the match but dont feel as pessimistic. Suarez was so fantastic and I think he destroyed any vestige of confidence among the the Hoops. I still feel Rednapp will get results, as for Fernandes,he is a multi millionaire!Nobody gets that without F***ing others on the way ,so for me he is just another owner toying with a footie team.When the fans chant his name it always irritates me, I,m not keen on rich bastards and I see no reason to feel differently about this one just because he happens to have QPR as one of his hobbies.

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JAPRANGERS added 09:17 - Jan 2 Happy new year Clive! Thanks for all your hard work.
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