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For many weeks and months I have been reading the boards and one thing is painfully obvious.... never before in my 30 years+ as a supporter, have the fans of our club been so unhappy, downbeat and fiercely divided over so many subjects.
All clubs at any given time will have fans disagreeing over certain aspects of their club be it a certain player, the chairman, manager, or tactics for example. But generally they pull together for the good of the club.
Whereas here at QPR we seem to be going the proverbial "t*ts up" with frightening speed.
QPR FC at the moment is simply not a happy place to be.
Managers, for whatever reason have come and gone too quickly.
Players show signs of unrest and under achieve.
Some signings have been both poor and ill advised.
Fans have been charged for the "top of the range" model and been sold the "budget" one.
Fortress Loftus Road is no more......the atmosphere all but gone.
Fans staying away in numbers.
Etc etc.......
Now I am coming to my point.
Fans are spending day after day argueing amongst themselves over who is to blame for all the different things wrong with the club.
It's the Managers fault, tactics, the board, GP, players, fans with agendas etc etc
However the one person who rarely gets the finger of blame pointed at him is Flavio Briatore.
Flavio Briatore, the supposed Saviour of the club!
Sorry, but I do not and never will accept that if he had not stepped in we would have gone out of business. There simply would have been someone else.
Whether we would be in the same boat now or indeed better or worse off we will never know.
For all the things that we are not happy about with the club at the moment surely Flavio has to take the blame.
If he makes mistakes because of poor advice, then it is poor advice from the people he has employed.
Signings, loans, manager appointments, manager sackings, team interference, prices, contempt for fans .........we all know the list.
Ultimately for all the things we are unhappy with the blame has to land at his feet.
As in Pete's own words ..........."Flavio holds the key as he decides absolutely everything."
The problem I think is that he simply has too much say over too many important issues and while he controls these decisions I just can't see us ever moving forward from where we are now. A mid table CCC team.
This is the reason that I firmly believe that the best thing for QPR FC is for Briatore to lose his appeal with F1 and for the FA to enforce the "fit and proper persons " rule.
He would no longer be able to have the controlling interest and if the right people were to buy into the club or existing board members gained more of a say then I honestly believe it would be in all our interests, as opposed to one mans.
I wouldn't like to see him leave as I think he deserves to be able to have some involvement with the "project" he started and hopefully see it through to the promised land.
I actually believe he does want good things for the club but on the evidence of the last 2+ years he has had far too much say and it simply isn't working.
All clubs at any given time will have fans disagreeing over certain aspects of their club be it a certain player, the chairman, manager, or tactics for example. But generally they pull together for the good of the club.
Whereas here at QPR we seem to be going the proverbial "t*ts up" with frightening speed.
QPR FC at the moment is simply not a happy place to be.
Managers, for whatever reason have come and gone too quickly.
Players show signs of unrest and under achieve.
Some signings have been both poor and ill advised.
Fans have been charged for the "top of the range" model and been sold the "budget" one.
Fortress Loftus Road is no more......the atmosphere all but gone.
Fans staying away in numbers.
Etc etc.......
Now I am coming to my point.
Fans are spending day after day argueing amongst themselves over who is to blame for all the different things wrong with the club.
It's the Managers fault, tactics, the board, GP, players, fans with agendas etc etc
However the one person who rarely gets the finger of blame pointed at him is Flavio Briatore.
Flavio Briatore, the supposed Saviour of the club!
Sorry, but I do not and never will accept that if he had not stepped in we would have gone out of business. There simply would have been someone else.
Whether we would be in the same boat now or indeed better or worse off we will never know.
For all the things that we are not happy about with the club at the moment surely Flavio has to take the blame.
If he makes mistakes because of poor advice, then it is poor advice from the people he has employed.
Signings, loans, manager appointments, manager sackings, team interference, prices, contempt for fans .........we all know the list.
Ultimately for all the things we are unhappy with the blame has to land at his feet.
As in Pete's own words ..........."Flavio holds the key as he decides absolutely everything."
The problem I think is that he simply has too much say over too many important issues and while he controls these decisions I just can't see us ever moving forward from where we are now. A mid table CCC team.
This is the reason that I firmly believe that the best thing for QPR FC is for Briatore to lose his appeal with F1 and for the FA to enforce the "fit and proper persons " rule.
He would no longer be able to have the controlling interest and if the right people were to buy into the club or existing board members gained more of a say then I honestly believe it would be in all our interests, as opposed to one mans.
I wouldn't like to see him leave as I think he deserves to be able to have some involvement with the "project" he started and hopefully see it through to the promised land.
I actually believe he does want good things for the club but on the evidence of the last 2+ years he has had far too much say and it simply isn't working.
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