QPR News Snippets

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It's Season Ticket renewal Deadline Day (5:00 pm). And while some messageboard posters have expressed some skepticism (as well as discontent about the price increases), according to Club statements, season ticket sales are going fabulously.


Windsor and Eton, July 22: As noted on the QPR Messageboards (but not yet on the Official Site), a QPR XI is set to play Windsor and Eton, July 22: Windsor Announcement


Competition for Blackpool Defender Kaspars Gorkss
It was reported on one messageboard a few days ago, that he had already signed for QPR; but that seems not to be the case.

Ipswich Evening Star/Mike Bacon - Blackpool defender is Town target
IPSWICH Town face a battle with fellow Championship sides, including rivals Norwich City, as they step up their interest in Blackpool's towering defender Kaspars Gorkss.
Latvian Gorkss is one of the Championships' most wanted defenders and the Lancashire club are looking to cash in on the giant centre half who so impressed last season....
However Ipswich are not alone in their interest in the defender, who scored six times as Blackpool managed to avoid relegation last season.
Big-spending QPR are understood to be one of those looking to land the 26-year-old, but Watford, Norwich and Preston are also very keen.
Blackpool have insisted they want to keep Gorkss, but they can do little to prevent him leaving as the impressive Latvian has a buy-out clause in his contract of just £250,000. And it is a case of 'when' and not 'if' he goes.
That figure is a knock-down price and is why the likes of Ipswich and Norwich City are so interested.
Blackpool manager Grayson wants to keep Gorkss, but knows with a buy-out clause so low, he has little chance of doing so.
"We have to make sure we are prepared for one or two players going," Grayson said.
"You have to be aware that players mentioned, like Gorkss, and others who have attracted interest, could well leave the club.”
With Magilton back from holiday next week, things are likely to start moving at Portman Road, as the search for new signings commences. Ipswich Evening Star


QPR Italia Blog - Fiorentina: Lepiller ai QPR o in Serie B... Fiorentina: Lepiller to QPR or in Serie B
"Continue the final phase of the Spring Italian Championship and continues the court of the major teams for young talent emerging.
. As already mentioned, Iain Dowie is following with particular attention consignments of these days and Pantaleo Corvino, DS of Fiorentina, has virtually admitted the interest of the Rangers for the young Matthias Lepiller, 20 years, attacking French viola (see photo) which says a large well and that will still leave the team for spring age limits.
Its use in the first team to Fiorentina is excluded from the same Prandelli: "I am young important, but before we are already well developed. In general I do not delude ourselves like a young boy or buttarlo in the melee to do so ', and then it will check the possibility of give on loan: Livorno, Bari and QPR are second Corvino the three main hypotheses for the young Matthias. QPR Italia Web Translation

QPR Italia Original: Continua la fase finale del Campionato Primavera italiano e continua la corte delle principali squadre ai giovani talenti emergenti....." QPR Italia


Nostalgia Flashback: One Year! To Dave McIntyre's assessment a year ago of how the various players in the 2006/07 squad performed. (So few of these players remain at QPR)So many of these players have since moved on!) Players Assessment


Gary Waddock Talking: Football League - WADDOCK FIRING SHOTS UP FOR LEAGUE RETURN
After leading Aldershot Town into The Football League as Blue Square Premier champions, manager Gary Waddock is looking ahead with confidence as the Shots prepare for life in League 2 some 16 years after the club's predecessors Aldershot FC played their final match in what was then Division Four.
It was a long way back for the re-constituted club but no so for former Queens Park Rangers and Republic of Ireland midfielder Waddock, who steered the Shots to promotion in what was his first season in charge at the Recreation Ground. And that's just for starters, says the determined 46 year-old manager.
Waddock says: "We're not going up thinking, 'that's it, we've done it,' the aim is to build on what we achieved last season. I look at what clubs like Carlisle and Hereford have done in recent years after being promoted to The League and they've shown that you don't have to just think about consolidation when you go up.
"Only time will tell how quickly we can push on and certainly, if we make a good start then expectation levels will go through the roof. But hopefully we can carry the momentum on from our run to promotion and with only a tweaking rather than a major overhaul of the playing squad."
Since the close season began Waddock's 'tweaking' has seen the arrival of several new players, among them defender Chris Blackburn from Swindon Town, midfielder Dean Howell from Rushden & Diamonds and striker Marvin Morgan from Woking. But the manager will retain the core of his promotion-winning squad.
He said: "When I arrived at the club there was already a group of talented players and although they were a young group, they did brilliantly in a very difficult league to get out of. We went top around the middle of October and that put extra pressure on the youngsters, but they handled it really well and deserved to go up as champions."
Waddock was also deserving of praise for his work after returning to the management fold following a difficult seven-month spell as first caretaker then full-time manager of QPR between the tenures of Ian Holloway and John Gregory in 2006. "I learned a hell of a lot in a short space of time," notes Waddock.
"I've certainly had my ups and downs in professional football," he adds, "and winning promotion with Aldershot was right up with the highs like playing in an FA Cup Final and representing the Republic of Ireland. After what happened at QPR, Aldershot gave me the chance to prove I can manage - and I'll never forget them for that." Football League


Bosnich Football Comeback:
The West Australian: Central Coast Mariners try to snare Bosnich
Controversial former Socceroos goalkeeper Mark Bosnich has been offered a guest stint with A-League club Central Coast Mariners.
With regular goalkeeper Danny Vukovic suspended for the first seven games of the season, the Mariners are understood to have approached the former Aston Villa custodian about a short term deal.
Fairfax Newspapers reported Bosnich, 36, had discussions with the club's deputy chairman Peter Turnbull, when he was in Australia attending the FIFA Congress.
While coach Lawrie McKinna denied there had been an approach to Bosnich he said the club would happily consider him.
“He's been a quality goalkeeper over the years,” McKinna said.
“You never say never and Mark Bosnich was one of the best keepers in the world on his day, and if he was fit and back in shape, of course you’d look at him.”
Bosnich struggled for regular first team football after moving from Aston Villa to Manchester United in 1999, then briefly Chelsea.
He developed a cocaine addiction and was regularly featured in the English tabloids with ongoing relationship dramas.
Bosnich last played a professional match in 2002 but trained with the Queens Park Rangers last year. AAP


Marcus Bean Update: Richmond Twickenham Times/Stuart Amos - Disillusioned Bean jumps at Bees offer
Brentford new boy Marcus Bean is hoping he can repay boss Andy Scott for freeing him from his Blackpool nightmare with a crack at the League Two play-offs.
The 23-year-old, who has just returned from a summer break in Miami, completed a switch from Seasiders Way last month, having been watched by Scott's brother during a spell at Rotherham.
Bean, a former QPR trainee, had been left to rot in the reserves under Blackpool manager Simon Grayson, despite showing impressive form at the Millers earlier in the season.
And the Hammersmith-born midfielder thinks home comforts can rekindle his love for the game.
"Blackpool was a nightmare. It is fair to say I was treated pretty badly," he said.
"I was doing pretty well at Rotherham and enjoying my footbaIl, only to be recalled from the loan and told to train with the kids and play in the reserves.
"It was frustrating and it got to me mentally and physically. I never felt I was really wanted.
"It may have been a mistake, but I have no regrets.
"I surprised a few people by stepping down a couple of levels but, to play your best football, you need to be settled. I am near my parents and the people who love me now.
"It is a fresh start for me. It is a chance for me to rack up the games again and I am hungry for success."
Bean had been tracked by Scott since helping Rotherham to a flying start to the League Two campaign prior to going into administration.
He made 103 first team appearances, but was delighted to join the Bees after Scott spent time running the rule over him at Brentford's training ground.
And the new man, who describes himself as a box-to-box midfielder, admits the brief stint back in west London, and the prospect of promotion, played a key part in the deal.
"I was very surprised at how good Andy's training sessions were compared to those at supposedly a higher level," he said.
"It is a young squad with a good vibe and I think I will add some experience to the side.
"It feels nice to be wanted after the experience I have had. I probably would not have signed for the club if I didn't think there was a chance of making the play-offs." Richmond Twickenham Times