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The fact that you need an explaination underlines my point.
Ray Wilkins is a Rangers Legend. One of the best, and most influential, midfielders to put on a Rangers shirt. Gerry's team would be nothing without him, Les Ferdinand career would be nothing without Ray's influence.
We were fifth from bottom when Ray took over as manager, finishing the season in the top ten. The only reason we were relegated was because Les and Clive Wilson left the club. D(R)FE, who really comes across as rather dumb, talks about the defence he ruined. We had the best defence under Gerry, ruined by Richard Thompson when he sold Darren Pea****. Ray couldnt prevent Wilson from leaving and we lost David Bardsley to injury in the relegation season. Rufus was never going to be the next Wilson but he later returned to the Premier League with Fulham and West Ham so I guess he wasn't all crap eh? Gregory Goodridge lost his work permit? Wow what a loss. Guess he should have played a player that wasn't good enough just so he could renew his work permit? A player like Les was always gonna be impossible to replace for a small club like QPR. Remember Baggio to QPR? Going for Hateley was not a bad move on paper. He had a great career north of the boarder and great experience. So it didn't work out for him at QPR, sometimes that happens. Ned Zelic was a very good footballer, went on to have a great career in Germany, unlucky for us and Ray that he wasn't mentally ready for the bright lights of London. Sure Ray made mistakes, should have hung up his boots earlier and given Simon Osborn the chance. But to ramble on about how he destroyed the club and we must seek revenge...just plain and simple *****talk
Here is what Alan McDonald had to say about it:
"It was then that the club started going downhill, not because they got rid of me I hasten to add! That’s when the rot started to set in, personally speaking, if I’m going to be totally honest with you, the rot set in when they got rid of Ray Wilkins. He came in during a difficult period, Gerry had left, everybody was concerned about that ‘cause Gerry had been so popular so they appointed Ray to appease the fans.
Ray was a new manager and of course he made mistakes, we all make mistakes, Ray is one of the nicest guys you’ll meet in football, lovely man and he said himself there’s things he would change but he was an inexperienced manager, straight into a difficult period then of course we got relegated from the Premier League. That was difficult, then three games into the new season we were top of the league we’d won two and drawn one and they sack him!
I must admit the disappointment of being relegated was one of the lowest points of my life and we all went away in the summer, had a good break, and we came back pre-season and we had a real good chat in the training ground with Frank Sibley and Ray Wilkins and all the squad. I’d never seen a more determined bunch of lads, we felt we’d let Ray down, we’d let the club down and we hadn’t performed well that year in the Premier League. So we had a really good chat, everybody worked so hard, it’s the hardest I’d ever seen us work pre-season and we were absolutely flying in pre-season and we started the season brilliantly we went down and beat Portsmouth, unfortunately Kevin Gallen got that injury, we’d beaten Oxford at home and went up and drew with Wolves. So were sitting with seven points out of nine from three games, then they drop a bombshell that they’d sacked Ray. They lads were so deflated after that, we’d all pulled together in pre-season so we couldn’t understand why they’d done it."
Richard Thompson, Chris Wright and Stewart Houston are the ones you socalled supporters should be blaming :anger:
Ray Wilkins is a Rangers Legend. One of the best, and most influential, midfielders to put on a Rangers shirt. Gerry's team would be nothing without him, Les Ferdinand career would be nothing without Ray's influence.
We were fifth from bottom when Ray took over as manager, finishing the season in the top ten. The only reason we were relegated was because Les and Clive Wilson left the club. D(R)FE, who really comes across as rather dumb, talks about the defence he ruined. We had the best defence under Gerry, ruined by Richard Thompson when he sold Darren Pea****. Ray couldnt prevent Wilson from leaving and we lost David Bardsley to injury in the relegation season. Rufus was never going to be the next Wilson but he later returned to the Premier League with Fulham and West Ham so I guess he wasn't all crap eh? Gregory Goodridge lost his work permit? Wow what a loss. Guess he should have played a player that wasn't good enough just so he could renew his work permit? A player like Les was always gonna be impossible to replace for a small club like QPR. Remember Baggio to QPR? Going for Hateley was not a bad move on paper. He had a great career north of the boarder and great experience. So it didn't work out for him at QPR, sometimes that happens. Ned Zelic was a very good footballer, went on to have a great career in Germany, unlucky for us and Ray that he wasn't mentally ready for the bright lights of London. Sure Ray made mistakes, should have hung up his boots earlier and given Simon Osborn the chance. But to ramble on about how he destroyed the club and we must seek revenge...just plain and simple *****talk
Here is what Alan McDonald had to say about it:
"It was then that the club started going downhill, not because they got rid of me I hasten to add! That’s when the rot started to set in, personally speaking, if I’m going to be totally honest with you, the rot set in when they got rid of Ray Wilkins. He came in during a difficult period, Gerry had left, everybody was concerned about that ‘cause Gerry had been so popular so they appointed Ray to appease the fans.
Ray was a new manager and of course he made mistakes, we all make mistakes, Ray is one of the nicest guys you’ll meet in football, lovely man and he said himself there’s things he would change but he was an inexperienced manager, straight into a difficult period then of course we got relegated from the Premier League. That was difficult, then three games into the new season we were top of the league we’d won two and drawn one and they sack him!
I must admit the disappointment of being relegated was one of the lowest points of my life and we all went away in the summer, had a good break, and we came back pre-season and we had a real good chat in the training ground with Frank Sibley and Ray Wilkins and all the squad. I’d never seen a more determined bunch of lads, we felt we’d let Ray down, we’d let the club down and we hadn’t performed well that year in the Premier League. So we had a really good chat, everybody worked so hard, it’s the hardest I’d ever seen us work pre-season and we were absolutely flying in pre-season and we started the season brilliantly we went down and beat Portsmouth, unfortunately Kevin Gallen got that injury, we’d beaten Oxford at home and went up and drew with Wolves. So were sitting with seven points out of nine from three games, then they drop a bombshell that they’d sacked Ray. They lads were so deflated after that, we’d all pulled together in pre-season so we couldn’t understand why they’d done it."
Richard Thompson, Chris Wright and Stewart Houston are the ones you socalled supporters should be blaming :anger:
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