im dedicating this season to jim gregory

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last season was dedicated to qpr legend trev kingham this season im dedicating to jim gregory for the following reason
jim had come from such poverty,indeed he couldnt read or write he had been working since he was 12 years of age
he was related to the gypsy family that are very strongly congregated in ash in surrey,but many of them had market stalls in hammersmith
he was obsessed with selling more cars than anybody else,he reckoned to sell two gpo vans every monday to really get his life started
but he first joined fulham board of directors where he became so frusterated by the lack of ambition so he decided to take over his childhood love qpr
he came into qpr rembering a beautifull .looking creature who had played for fulhams first team but had been badley injured
and of course he went back to sign the great rodney marsh for only 15 000 pounds,he contraversialy let brian bedford go to start the re building of the greatest ever qpr side
fasdhioned with les allen,keith sanderson,jim langley,brialiant home produced morgan twins the robust tont hazell
the very under rated ron hunt and the evxperiened mike keen the jim gregory era was going to go off with a bang

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its

its difficult to really explain to you young qpr fans what it was like being a qpr fan,most people veiwed us as a team like barnet are today
we had no fan base ,and no future beyond staying in the lower divisions,i wass too young to feal real embarresssment but everybody laughed when you said you were a qpr fan
take jim gregory away from qpr and we would still have that crazy ground full of stinging netteles and rusty old roofs
for me it had a romantic setting but for the top teams it was a joke.


but much much more it was a statement that

WE WERE GOING KNOW WHERE

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Although i

ALTHOUGH I HAD GONE TO QPR IN 1958 SEASON I CANT REMEMBER TOO MUCH ABOUT THE GAME I WAS ONLY 4 YEARS OF AGE

but as a child i think you do get caught up in the emotion and exitement of the whole team

i remember the 1960-61 season quite well because we had signed towers from brentford and he scored about 15 goals for us
we scored an un imaginable 111 league goals but still didnt go up,our defence was a little eratic so unfortunately
many qpr fans thought thats it then we aint never going up
but we did the double over brentford and towers scored against them that really felt good as they were our main rivals

[Robsondinho]

Good stories Ted. Whos been your favourite Rangers player in all those years? 1958! My old man wernt even born then, that was my grandads era down at the rangers.

[Midgeyboy]

[californiahoop]

Great post, I am for the 75 era but remember Jim G very well, the Barnet reference brings home the magnitude of his achievement, well done that man.

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my

my great hero over the next three seasons was brian bedford who deliverd amazing consistancy,scoring header after header
he was absolutely lethal in the air i think he could have been the greatest ever header of a ball ever in our history

but he was not the crowd favourite

that was a jinky winger from east london of jewish extraction he was a boxer and a singer

and one of the highest ever goalscoring wingers in our history he could play as a creator or cut inside and play as a striker,YES THE GREAT MARK LAZARUS

but my personel favourite was bedford it was because he was so tough nothing stopped bedford he could split his head open but still come back on after stitches were applied,only to reopen the wound and get it stitched again,I WOULDNT MIND BETTING THAT BEDFORD WAS THE HARDEST EVER CENTER
FORWARD EVER TO PLAY FOR QPR amazingly he used to post on this site but he hasnt posted lately im hoping hes ok

[Factamondo]

ted is bang on the money that had it not been for jim gregory we would be no more than
a third tier at best club!....despite a limit education in the classroom he more than made up for it with a business mind and shrewdness alan sugar would be proud of!

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the next three

the next three seasons saw us drifting into oblivion even the great jim gregorys appearance didnt help as we hit 14th or there abouts for three consequetive seasons,the two great icons of brian bedford and mark lazarus,just couldnt get our team to function as a team we could beat someone 4-0 then lose next weel 0-4

the games were entertaining but none of us could ever see little qpr ever getting out of the third division,brentford were looking much more of an emerginmg force finishing a very comendable fifth against qprs 13th

also our average crowd had dropped from 10 000 to 5 000 economically we were going to meltdown

[Factamondo]

ted do you remember the great arthur jefferson!

[LoftusRoadLad]

Great times Ted. Brings back loads of memories.

[Norths]

Ted

[hal9thou]

the next three seasons we were going to meltdown

but then the era of Alec Stock...... changed out club forever.

[vespa]

still remember sprayed on the wall ,down the side of the upper loft entrance " Gregory is a sell out sl ag ,QPR forever "
He built Rangers up from next to nothing ,but wasnt he prepared to sell us out ,into a merger with Fulham too ?

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as gregory

as gregory got older he started to lose his mind comopletely he died a terrible death having both his legs amputated from diabeties

you must not hate gregory he died of a broken heart,he knew the qpr and fulham merger would never go ahead but he launched it to bring solidarity to his beloved rangers


god bless our wonderfull jim gregory and no it wasnt alec stock who got rangers the great rodney marsh it was jim gregory and it was jim gregory who also got us stan bowles

jim had an amazing gift to see a great player