The Board

[BUSHRANGER1982]

No not having that, all big clubs go on a marketing tour, man u have been to asia, america etc etc, even talking about going to Australia ffs. You don't see them having a problem with kicking a football.
You can't blame the owner, it's mark hughes and more importantly the players that are a major problem here.

Agree about the tour, and Mark Hughes to a certain extent, but the players carry the heaviest burden of responsibility for the perilous position they have placed our club in.
They aren't the best players in the world by a long chalk, but they are better than a crowd rock bottom with a paltry 7 points to their names.

[Stanley]

Oh come on Stanley. Normally think you post sensible stuff. We;re not talking about "the pillock willock", the players signed were well known players.
Any anti-board crap gets right on my nerves. They don't sign the players, the manager does. We've come from a place where we were annoyed by too much board involvement in the playing side. Now they leave it to the manager and we're annoyed?? Some people forget too easily.

Forgotten nothing James. I was referring more to signings with zero PL experience eg Cesar, Diakite, Granero, Mbia. That was always going to be a big gamble. 1 or 2 maybe, but not 4 all thrown straight into the 1st team. The majority of the blame for that goes to the incompetence of Hughes though, not the board.

[Shania]

I'm in agreement with Harry Redknapp's assessment of our predicament.
We can't fault the board, they have pumped money into the club, the team, the last couple of transfer windows, and the business done in them, was the best I'd ever seen in all the years I've supported the Rs.
They trusted the manager to put together a team capable of being in the top half of the table, he wasn't able to.
Despite that, with the squad we have now, we probably couldn't muster a top half finish, but we sure as Hell shouldn't be rock bottom with a measly total of 7 lousy points.
My feeling is, and yesterday at Wigan, watching the body language of players, and their interaction with each other, confirmed this for me, we have too many players letting shallow, petty differences they may have with each other, making the team as a whole less effective than otherwise would be the case.Any other time, a point at Wigan would have me optimistic about our immediate future, now I'm not so sure.

Spot on. I have also noticed that for a while. Itīs embarrassing to watch.

[BUSHRANGER1982]

Spot on. I have also noticed that for a while. Itīs embarrising to see.

It is embarrassing, Shania...... And as such, makes us fans bloody angry, too.

[QPR Richard]

What a fickle lot we are. We moaned when managers under the last regime were sacked regularly, we moaned when that board didn't spend money, and now we're moaning about a chairman that has spent money and tried to bring stability to team management affairs.

Unbelievable really....