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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

QPR Report Wednesday Update..."Vesatile as an Egg" Zelic Makes Hall of Fame

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(From the Bushman Photo Archives) (40+ Years Later: Alive and Well in the USA)
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- Comprehensive Details and Stats re QPR Vs WBA: Past Match Reports and Video


Reserves Game: QPR 0 Charlton 3

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- 42 Years Ago: "The Doc" (Tommy Docherty) Resigns after 28 Days in Charge of QPR

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Congratulations to Ex-QPR! "Versatile as an Egg" Ned Zelic: Hall of Famer

- The Australian "AUSTRALIAN soccer greats Craig Moore and Ned Zelic joined a select group of players yesterday when they were inducted into Football Federation Australia's Hall of Fame.... The Australian


- QPR Podcast with Joey Barton

- How to Solve "Who Should Take the Free Kick" Disputes!

"THE FOUR YEAR PLAN" REVIEWS/SUMMARIES

- Neil Dejyothin/QPR Today

- The Four Year Plan Reviewed by LoftforWords' Clive Whittingham

- Portsmouth, once again, in trouble because of Ownership Financial Problems


FLASHBACK TO THE VIETNAM WAR! LETTER TO THE QPR PROGRAMME



(From The Bushman Archives)


- Bristol City Announce Loss of Over 11 Million pounds. To add to the almost 12 Million pounds they lost the previous year.


- The Soccerex Global Convention Set to Begin in Brazil

- The QPR Official Supporters Club (OSC): Is that still in "limbo'?

- The QPR Book By Gramps

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

QPR Report Tuesday Update: WBA Preview...Fernandes' Vision

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- Comprehensive Details and Stats re QPR Vs WBA: Past Match Reports and Video

- Daily Mail on Joey Barton Tweet "Controversy" re Gary Speed

- Also: QPR Podcast with Joey Barton

- How to Solve "Who Should Take the Free Kick" Disputes!

- On this Day: The Amazing Bolton 6 QPR 4 Game...Also On this Day, Gavin Peacock Made His QPR Debut

- Police Interview John Terry

- The Four Year Plan Reviewed by LoftforWords' Clive Whittingham

- Bristol City Announce Loss of Over 11 Million pounds. To add to the almost 12 Million pounds they lost the previous year.


MIRROR

New QPR contract will make Clint's day


Clint Hill is in line for a new deal with QPR - after being exiled on loan at Nottingham Forest early in the season.

The left-back, 33, was sent off in an opening-day defeat by Bolton, fell out of favour and, with his contract up in the summer, looked on his way out of Loftus Road.

But Hill hasimpressed boss Neil Warnock since his recall from Forest to help the Premier League new boys through in an injury crisis.
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/QPR-Clint-Hill-set-for-new-deal-just-weeks-after-being-bombed-out-on-loan-to-Nottingham-Forest-article836070.html


Guardian/Press Association. (Nice Logo they chose for QPR story! )

Now If he thinks we have 100,000 people looking/sending tweets. And if he received 100,000 tweets he'd be able to receive them...I honestly don't think that is the way to go to genuinely get fans from around the world sending in re players they may have seen.

QPR looking for site for 45,000-seat venue to replace Loftus Road

• We would like a bigger ground but it must be in the area
• First thing we are going to build is a new training facility



Tony Fernandes, the QPR owner, says his gut feeling is to go for a venue that can hold 40,000 to 45,000.

Tony Fernandes, the Queens Park Rangers owner, said he is searching for a west London venue that could accommodate a 40,000- to 45,000‑seat stadium to replace Loftus Road.

With a capacity of 18,500, Loftus Road is the smallest ground in the Premier League and, despite its "intimidating" atmosphere, according to Fernandes, he believes the club need a bigger arena.

Fernandes, who also owns Team Lotus in Formula One and the budget airline AirAsia, said: "It's still premature at the moment. The key this season is to survive but we would like a bigger ground and we are looking. It has to be in the area. It makes no sense to move out from where you have spent most of your life and where the fan base is. So west London is where we are and where we'd like to be.

"I've built airlines and Formula One teams, but building a stadium is not the easiest thing in the world. There are opportunities in west London we are looking at. The first thing we are going to build is a new training ground and there are two sites in west London, so hopefully we'll announce that soon.

"The current training ground is really not up to the mark. It has great grounds and we've tarted it up ourselves and got more equipment there, but it's not something for the future."

The key question for Fernandes is deciding on the new stadium's capacity. "Some fans are saying: 'We don't have a fan base bigger than 20,000.' My gut feel is 40,000-45,000. That's double where we are right now, but we're in London and there's a strong catchment area.

"Of course, there is nothing worse than a half-empty stadium, but I'm the king of sizing. If you start an airline with two planes, and then you buy 150 planes, the same question can be asked.

"As I say, it's just a gut feel but we'll do some studies first. We can find the space, although it's not easy, and there are lots of things that have to be put into place."

Of primary concern for Fernandes is ensuring QPR survive, with the Malaysian entrepreneur promising the manager, Neil Warnock, up to four new players when the January transfer window opens.

In an effort to find fresh talent, Fernandes recently sent out a tweet on Twitter asking for fans to come up with the suggestions, with the response overwhelming.

"That was superb. Without blowing my own trumpet, I have to say it was inspired by me," said Fernandes. "You effectively have 100,000 scouts out there for you, and there is no way QPR could know every single player. Suddenly we have players we've never heard of, and Neil is looking at videos and thinking 'not bad'. It was seen as another mad Tony Fernandes moment, but there was no harm, no downside."

Fernandes believes strengthening the defence, attack and finding another goalkeeper are the priorities. "We have to strengthen our squad. It's just not deep enough. I feel we maybe need three, four. We could end up with none if we don't find anyone. We had six or seven in the last transfer window, which is way above what I thought we'd get. It depends. At the last minute some things come up. It's very hard to tell."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/28/qpr-owner-45000-venue-loftus-road

Reuters -QPR eye new recruits and stadium, says Fernandes

Malaysia's AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes speaks during a news conference at Forbes Global CEO Conference in Kuala Lumpur September 14, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Bazuki Muhammad

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Queens Park Rangers could be after three or more players in the January transfer window but are unlikely to revamp the squad at the end of the season if they stay in the Premier League, according to owner Tony Fernandes.

The Malaysian aviation entrepreneur, who runs Team Lotus in Formula One, also told Reuters at the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix that QPR were looking at sites in West London for a new stadium and training ground.

"We have to strengthen our squad. (On Saturday) we had so many injuries, we just don't have a deep enough squad," he declared.

"I was given 10 days to buy players (at the end of August) and we picked up six or seven in that period and did pretty well. We need to keep building the squad, and we also need to keep building the youth squads, which is important as well."

Fernandes, previously a committed West Ham United fan who failed to buy that club, bought the West Londoners in August from Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore.

He immediately brought in highly-rated men like Joey Barton, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Armand Traore, Luke Young and Anton Ferdinand.

Asked what he would be looking for, Fernandes replied: "That's really (manager) Neil (Warnock)'s call, but we need to keep strengthening the back, we are short of 'keepers for a start, and up front we could do with a bit more firepower.

"We're having a meeting in the first week of December to discuss that with the shareholders," he added when asked about the budget available.

"It could be maybe three, four (players), I don't know. You could end up with none if you don't find anyone. We had six or seven in the last transfer window, which is way above what I thought we'd get.

"It depends. At the last minute some things come up. It's very hard to tell."

NEW STADIUM

A keen user of social network Twitter, Fernandes recently asked QPR fans to recommend potential transfer targets and he hailed his 'mad Tony Fernandes moment' as an inspired one.

"You effectively have 100,000 scouts out there for you, and there is no way QPR could ever know every single player," he said. "Suddenly we have players we've never heard of and Neil is looking at videos and saying 'not bad'."

Come the end of the season, the club should be more settled.

"I think you can see from my life in Formula One that I'm not a revamper," smiled Fernandes, wearing his familiar red AirAsia cap. "I like stability. I don't make decisions and chop and change. That's bad.

"We've a great manager, we've the nucleus of a great team, so I don't see a wholesale change."

Loftus Road, hemmed in by residential streets in West London and with a capacity of around 18,500, is another matter.

"The key this year is to survive, but we would like a bigger ground and we are looking," said Fernandes.

"It has to be in the area. It makes no sense to move out of where you have spent most of your life, and where the fan base is. So West London is where we are and where we'd like to be.

"Building a stadium is not the easiest thing in the world but there are opportunities in West London.

"The first building that we are going to do is a new training ground, and there are two sites we are looking at, also in West London, so hopefully that will be announced soon."

How big a stadium is needed remains open to debate.

"Some fans are saying 'We don't have a fan base bigger than 20,000'...My gut feel is 40-45,000. That's double where we are right now, but we're in London and there's a strong catchment area," said Fernandes.

"We'll do some studies on that. The beauty of Loftus Road is that it's so intimidating."

The Malaysian also joined in criticism of FIFA president Sepp Blatter for recent comments on racism in soccer.

"His comments were said without a lot of thought, and with a little bit of nonchalance that shouldn't be there for someone who is FIFA president," said Fernandes, whose defender Ferdinand is at the centre of a police investigation after Chelsea's John Terry was accused of racially abusing him.

"He (Blatter) probably didn't mean it the way it came out, but he's the president of FIFA so he's got to be gooder than good.

"Football administration has to sort itself out. It's too big a sport, there is too much money around," added Fernandes.

"When countries are changing and asking for freedom and democracy, and you have organisations such as FIFA, there just needs to be more transparency. The world demands it, and the world should get it."

(editing by Mark Meadows) Reuters


Ian Cooper/London 24
- The QPR Monday Verdict: Rangers manager is faced with a midfield conundrum

Lack of goals from Rangers’ middle men is a problem Neil Warnock must solve in January
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Neil Warnock has stated that signing a midfielder will be one of his priorities in January and it is difficult to escape the conclusion that such a player will come as a replacement for Adel Taarabt.

Taarabt has seemingly sealed his own fate at Loftus Road with a series of indifferent displays on the pitch and ill-discipline off it that have surely paved the way for his exit when the transfer window reopens.

There may yet be scope for his return to the first team but every game that passes with the Moroccan on the bench sees him edge another inch out of the exit door. The truth is that his attitude has rarely been one of a player ready to show the commitment and desire to earn his place in the side, it has been on of an individual desperate to secure a transfer.

But since Tony Fernandes’ takeover this season was never going to be about Taarabt, and the upside for his manager is that in Taarabt’s absence, his team-mates have produced displays of expansive football, playing within in a new, more attacking 4-4-2 system that is bringing the best out of strikers Jay Bothroyd and Heidar Helguson.

The negative is that Warnock now presides over a midfield which though defensively strong and attackingly creative, does not carry a goal-scoring threat to match the strikers.

Shaun Wright-Phillips is a potent weapon both on the wings and through the middle, in many ways taking on the mantle from Taarabt, but has faded after his flying start.

Handed a ‘free’ role by Warnock, Wright-Phillips has been unlucky not to break his duck, but history says that throughout his fluctuating career the former Manchester City and Chelsea man has never been a regular on the score-sheet, and is unlikely to be so for Rangers.

Jamie Mackie has also found form, particularly in the last two games against Stoke and Norwich. It was his shot which cannoned back off the post allowing Luke Young to net QPR’s equaliser at Carrow Road. But though a reliable and hard-working figure, Mackie is similarly unlikely to get anywhere near double figures this campaign.

Alejandro Faurlin’s performances from deep have drawn many plaudits already, but his is a role which allows few forays forward, while the same can be said for skipper Joey Barton, who has looked far more at ease in his deeper role of recent weeks.

Indeed, QPR’s only goals from the middle so far this season came in that 3-0 win against Wolves at Molineux in September. Since then, Helguson has scored five, Bothroyd two, and right-back Young two.

Come January, Warnock will certainly have greater concerns than his midfield, namely plugging the gaps in a defence which in the last few weeks has been beset by injuries and become alarmingly porous, conceding 10 goals in the last four games. One, if not two versatile defenders will be added to bring much needed strength in depth.

The lack of a goalscorer from the middle of the park will not make of break QPR’s season, but it could yet be a deficiency which hurts them.

There is an argument to suggest that as long as the likes of Wright-Phillips, Mackie and Barton continue to lay on chances for the strikers, the dearth of goals from further back matters little.

But Bothroyd and Helguson will almost certainly go through periods without a goal, and they are the moments when the presence of a midfielder capable of taking over that responsibility becomes invaluable.

Warnock does have Akos Buzsaky to call on, but has been reluctant to play the Hungary international, whose 12 minutes at Norwich were his first since the defeat at Wigan in September.

DJ Campbell’s return from injury this month will bring an additional option, the former Blackpool man capable of playing up front and in the hole behind the front two if required.

That makes Warnock’s recent assertion that, as well as a midfielder, he is in the hunt for not one but two strikers somewhat hard to fathom. In Bothroyd, Helguson and Campbell the manager would need only one more addition to his front line to be considered rich with options in that department.

Rather, a goal-scoring midfielder is one of the missing pieces in Warnock’s puzzle. Many will still harbour hopes that Taarabt is the man to solve it, but he is clearly craving his big move and is unsuited to a formation which is no longer constructed around him.

It is a problem which, when Fernandes opens his chequebook again in January, will be high on his manager’s list to solve.

Follow me on Twitter @QPRTimes London 24

Gary Speed (RIP)

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- Photos from Norwich-QPR

- Update: QPR Poppy Shirts For Sale

- Six Year Flashback: The QPR Staff & Board

- Five Year Flashback: "Questions. Questions. Questions!"

- Vinnie Jones Update


- The Four Year Plan "re #thefouryearplan - news coming as soon as possible. We have signed with a distributor & exciting news is around the corner! It's coming." AdHocFilm
- QPR Official Site Match Report


- Year Ago: The Mugging of Bernie Ecclestone

- The Soccerex Global Convention Set to Begin in Brazil

- The QPR Official Supporters Club (OSC): Is that still in "limbo'?
- The QPR Book By Gramps

QPR's Former Chairman at Old Trafford on Saturday

Monday, November 28, 2011

QPR Report Monday Update: Fernandes' QPR Plans...QPR's Goalkeeping Plight

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QPR's Former Chairman at Old Trafford on Saturday
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- Throughout the day, the QPR Report Messageboard has news updates, comments and perspectives - even links to other board comments of interest re QPR matters (on and off the field) along with football (and ONLY football) topics in general....Also Follow: QPR REPORT ON TWITTER
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Reuters -QPR eye new recruits and stadium, says Fernandes

Malaysia's AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes speaks during a news conference at Forbes Global CEO Conference in Kuala Lumpur September 14, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Bazuki Muhammad
By Alan Baldwin
SAO PAULO | Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:14pm GMT

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Queens Park Rangers could be after three or more players in the January transfer window but are unlikely to revamp the squad at the end of the season if they stay in the Premier League, according to owner Tony Fernandes.

The Malaysian aviation entrepreneur, who runs Team Lotus in Formula One, also told Reuters at the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix that QPR were looking at sites in West London for a new stadium and training ground.

"We have to strengthen our squad. (On Saturday) we had so many injuries, we just don't have a deep enough squad," he declared.

"I was given 10 days to buy players (at the end of August) and we picked up six or seven in that period and did pretty well. We need to keep building the squad, and we also need to keep building the youth squads, which is important as well."

Fernandes, previously a committed West Ham United fan who failed to buy that club, bought the West Londoners in August from Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore.

He immediately brought in highly-rated men like Joey Barton, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Armand Traore, Luke Young and Anton Ferdinand.

Asked what he would be looking for, Fernandes replied: "That's really (manager) Neil (Warnock)'s call, but we need to keep strengthening the back, we are short of 'keepers for a start, and up front we could do with a bit more firepower.

"We're having a meeting in the first week of December to discuss that with the shareholders," he added when asked about the budget available.

"It could be maybe three, four (players), I don't know. You could end up with none if you don't find anyone. We had six or seven in the last transfer window, which is way above what I thought we'd get.

"It depends. At the last minute some things come up. It's very hard to tell."

NEW STADIUM

A keen user of social network Twitter, Fernandes recently asked QPR fans to recommend potential transfer targets and he hailed his 'mad Tony Fernandes moment' as an inspired one.

"You effectively have 100,000 scouts out there for you, and there is no way QPR could ever know every single player," he said. "Suddenly we have players we've never heard of and Neil is looking at videos and saying 'not bad'."

Come the end of the season, the club should be more settled.

"I think you can see from my life in Formula One that I'm not a revamper," smiled Fernandes, wearing his familiar red AirAsia cap. "I like stability. I don't make decisions and chop and change. That's bad.

"We've a great manager, we've the nucleus of a great team, so I don't see a wholesale change."

Loftus Road, hemmed in by residential streets in West London and with a capacity of around 18,500, is another matter.

"The key this year is to survive, but we would like a bigger ground and we are looking," said Fernandes.

"It has to be in the area. It makes no sense to move out of where you have spent most of your life, and where the fan base is. So West London is where we are and where we'd like to be.

"Building a stadium is not the easiest thing in the world but there are opportunities in West London.

"The first building that we are going to do is a new training ground, and there are two sites we are looking at, also in West London, so hopefully that will be announced soon."

How big a stadium is needed remains open to debate.

"Some fans are saying 'We don't have a fan base bigger than 20,000'...My gut feel is 40-45,000. That's double where we are right now, but we're in London and there's a strong catchment area," said Fernandes.

"We'll do some studies on that. The beauty of Loftus Road is that it's so intimidating."

The Malaysian also joined in criticism of FIFA president Sepp Blatter for recent comments on racism in soccer.

"His comments were said without a lot of thought, and with a little bit of nonchalance that shouldn't be there for someone who is FIFA president," said Fernandes, whose defender Ferdinand is at the centre of a police investigation after Chelsea's John Terry was accused of racially abusing him.

"He (Blatter) probably didn't mean it the way it came out, but he's the president of FIFA so he's got to be gooder than good.

"Football administration has to sort itself out. It's too big a sport, there is too much money around," added Fernandes.

"When countries are changing and asking for freedom and democracy, and you have organisations such as FIFA, there just needs to be more transparency. The world demands it, and the world should get it."

(editing by Mark Meadows) Reuters


Ian Cooper/London 24
- The QPR Monday Verdict: Rangers manager is faced with a midfield conundrum

Lack of goals from Rangers’ middle men is a problem Neil Warnock must solve in January
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Neil Warnock has stated that signing a midfielder will be one of his priorities in January and it is difficult to escape the conclusion that such a player will come as a replacement for Adel Taarabt.

Taarabt has seemingly sealed his own fate at Loftus Road with a series of indifferent displays on the pitch and ill-discipline off it that have surely paved the way for his exit when the transfer window reopens.

There may yet be scope for his return to the first team but every game that passes with the Moroccan on the bench sees him edge another inch out of the exit door. The truth is that his attitude has rarely been one of a player ready to show the commitment and desire to earn his place in the side, it has been on of an individual desperate to secure a transfer.

But since Tony Fernandes’ takeover this season was never going to be about Taarabt, and the upside for his manager is that in Taarabt’s absence, his team-mates have produced displays of expansive football, playing within in a new, more attacking 4-4-2 system that is bringing the best out of strikers Jay Bothroyd and Heidar Helguson.

The negative is that Warnock now presides over a midfield which though defensively strong and attackingly creative, does not carry a goal-scoring threat to match the strikers.

Shaun Wright-Phillips is a potent weapon both on the wings and through the middle, in many ways taking on the mantle from Taarabt, but has faded after his flying start.

Handed a ‘free’ role by Warnock, Wright-Phillips has been unlucky not to break his duck, but history says that throughout his fluctuating career the former Manchester City and Chelsea man has never been a regular on the score-sheet, and is unlikely to be so for Rangers.

Jamie Mackie has also found form, particularly in the last two games against Stoke and Norwich. It was his shot which cannoned back off the post allowing Luke Young to net QPR’s equaliser at Carrow Road. But though a reliable and hard-working figure, Mackie is similarly unlikely to get anywhere near double figures this campaign.

Alejandro Faurlin’s performances from deep have drawn many plaudits already, but his is a role which allows few forays forward, while the same can be said for skipper Joey Barton, who has looked far more at ease in his deeper role of recent weeks.

Indeed, QPR’s only goals from the middle so far this season came in that 3-0 win against Wolves at Molineux in September. Since then, Helguson has scored five, Bothroyd two, and right-back Young two.

Come January, Warnock will certainly have greater concerns than his midfield, namely plugging the gaps in a defence which in the last few weeks has been beset by injuries and become alarmingly porous, conceding 10 goals in the last four games. One, if not two versatile defenders will be added to bring much needed strength in depth.

The lack of a goalscorer from the middle of the park will not make of break QPR’s season, but it could yet be a deficiency which hurts them.

There is an argument to suggest that as long as the likes of Wright-Phillips, Mackie and Barton continue to lay on chances for the strikers, the dearth of goals from further back matters little.

But Bothroyd and Helguson will almost certainly go through periods without a goal, and they are the moments when the presence of a midfielder capable of taking over that responsibility becomes invaluable.

Warnock does have Akos Buzsaky to call on, but has been reluctant to play the Hungary international, whose 12 minutes at Norwich were his first since the defeat at Wigan in September.

DJ Campbell’s return from injury this month will bring an additional option, the former Blackpool man capable of playing up front and in the hole behind the front two if required.

That makes Warnock’s recent assertion that, as well as a midfielder, he is in the hunt for not one but two strikers somewhat hard to fathom. In Bothroyd, Helguson and Campbell the manager would need only one more addition to his front line to be considered rich with options in that department.

Rather, a goal-scoring midfielder is one of the missing pieces in Warnock’s puzzle. Many will still harbour hopes that Taarabt is the man to solve it, but he is clearly craving his big move and is unsuited to a formation which is no longer constructed around him.

It is a problem which, when Fernandes opens his chequebook again in January, will be high on his manager’s list to solve.

Follow me on Twitter @QPRTimes London 24

Gary Speed (RIP)

- Earlier Reports/Comments from Norwich vs QPR

- Photos from Norwich-QPR

- Update: QPR Poppy Shirts For Sale

- Six Year Flashback: The QPR Staff & Board

- Five Year Flashback: "Questions. Questions. Questions!"

- Vinnie Jones Update


David McIntyre/West London Sport - QPR plan to release youngster Elvijs Putnins as a consequence of the Premier League’s refusal to allow them to take a goalkeeper on loan.

And manager Neil Warnock claims he will opt against giving teenagers professional contracts in the future because it could limit his options if his established players are injured.

Rangers asked for permission to make a temporary signing after learning that Paddy Kenny is likely to be sidelined for several weeks.

With stand-in stopper Brian Murphy also sidelined and Radek Cerny hampered by longstanding fitness issues, the club believed they had a strong case.

But the verdict went against them because Cerny is part of their 25-man squad and they also had the option of recalling Latvian keeper Putnins, 20, from a loan spell at non-League Boreham Wood.

Players under the age of 21 do not need to be included in the squad lists submitted by top-flight clubs, so Putnins was eligible to play and was a substitute against Norwich at the weekend.

Putnins was told during the summer that he was being released, but was desperate to stay so QPR agreed he could remain on their books until his contract expires at the end of this season.

Kenny’s condition is still being assessed.Warnock says that agreement meant he was subsequently unable to make a loan signing ahead of Saturday’s game, so Putnins will soon be shown the door and other youngsters can expect no favours from the R’s boss in future.

A furious Warnock said: “We couldn’t sign anyone else and they said it was because we’ve got other goalkeepers on the books.

“We gave the lad a free transfer last year but he didn’t want to go anywhere. He wanted to train and stay with us.

“So, to be nice, we said ‘Just train with us if you want, son. You won’t play but we’ll carry on paying you until your contract’s up.’

“We’ll now have to pay the lad up in January. We only kept him out of the goodness of our hearts because he’s a good lad and we don’t mind him training with us.

“They told us that as well as him, we have another kid on professional forms. Well I won’t sign a youngster on professional forms again – and I’m sure that’s not what the Premier League envisaged. Can’t we have commonsense?”

Kenny has had an injection in a bid to speed up his return, but he is expected to be out of action for at least a month.

The club are yet to establish the exact nature of his injury, which is causing pain in his side and upper hamstring.

His absence is a major blow for Rangers and leaves them reliant on the 37-year-old Cerny, who has been nursing a back complaint.

Curiously, should Cerny be unable to play, Warnock may then be able to make a loan signing.

Warnock added: “They won’t let us sign anyone unless Radek gets injured. I could tell them he’s injured but I’m not going to lie to them.

“I think they thought I wanted to sign Jens Lehmann or Petr Cech. We only wanted someone to sit on the bench.” West London Sport


TELEGRAPH/David McIntyre
Queens Park Rangers manager Neil Warnock fuming over goalkeeper row after defeat by Norwich City
Neil Warnock’s latest brush with the football authorities ended in defeat, but the Queens Park Rangers manager says the real losers will be young players.

Elvijs Putnins, a 20-year-old Latvian goalkeeper, has failed to make the grade at QPR and during the summer was told he was being released.

He was desperate to stay, so the club agreed he could remain on their books until his contract expires at the end of this season.

Their benevolence apparently resulted in the Premier League refusing them permission to take a keeper on loan after Paddy Kenny suffered an injury ahead of Saturday’s game. With Kenny’s deputy Brian Murphy sidelined and Radek Cerny nursing a back condition, Warnock believed he had a cast-iron case.

Instead, he was advised to recall Putnins from a loan spell at non-League Boreham Wood. Putnins was on the bench at Carrow Road.

“They told us that, as well as him, we’ve another kid on professional forms,” Warnock said. “Well, I won’t sign a youngster on professional forms again, and I’m sure that’s not what the Premier League envisaged. Can’t we have commonsense?”... Telegraph


INDEPENDENT - Warnock Furious Over League's Goalkeeper Snub

Elvijs had left the building at Carrow Road on Saturday and Neil Warnock, the Queen's Park Rangers manager, was not a happy man. That the Premier League fortunes of his team could yet hinge on Elvijs Putnins, his raw fourth-choice goalkeeper, had left Warnock all shook up.

Putnins, a 20-year-old Latvian whose most recent playing experience amounts to a loan spell with Boreham Wood in the Conference South, remained on the bench, observing Radek Cerny, QPR's No 3 custodian.

But with Paddy Kenny out for weeks with a side strain, Brian Murphy, his deputy, suffering from a calf problem and Cerny plagued by a long-standing back complaint, Putnins could conceivably get a mid-match call.

The Premier League has denied Warnock an emergency keeper on loan and he is not happy: "They said it was because we had other professionals," Warnock said. "We gave Elvijs a free transfer but he didn't want to go, he wanted to train and stay. So, being nice, we said 'Carry on, son. You won't play, but we'll carry on paying you until the end of your contract'.

"We've been told we can't have an emergency keeper unless Cerny gets injured. But there should be some sort of common sense. It's not as though the injuries are false, is it?"

Cerny was hardly at fault as Norwich ended a four-match sequence without a win with goals from Russell Martin and substitute Grant Holt. Luke Young had raised hopes of salvaging a draw, when guiding home the QPR equaliser, but Wes Hoolahan and Holt, the 70th-minute substitutes, combined to secure the victory. "That's why the manager has built a squad," Holt said. "It's a squad game, no one ever plays 11 men for the whole season."

QPR suffered another storm in cyberspace, in which striker Jay Bothroyd was the target for alleged racist abuse. "Racist people are shameful," Bothroyd tweeted back. "I will report this incident." Independent


- Three Year Flashback: Gary Borrowdale Joins QPR

- Managers Calling for Extending Loan Windows...Warnock Wants Windows for Managerial Changes
"...Warnock, who has more than 30 years' experience in management, said of a system in which clubs had only two opportunities to change their manager in a year: "It would be ideal for managers if they could only lose their job at a certain time of the year. Managers should be like players – you should be able to change them in January if that's what is wanted, or the end of the season..."

- Rowlands Injured


- The Four Year Plan "re #thefouryearplan - news coming as soon as possible. We have signed with a distributor & exciting news is around the corner! It's coming." AdHocFilm
- QPR Official Site Match Report



- "The Horror. The Horror." - Nine Years Ago: Vauxhall Motors: The Replay

- 12 Years Ago: Sammy Koejoe Joins QPR

- Year Ago: The Mugging of Bernie Ecclestone

- The Money to be made from new Stadiums/Naming Rights

- Interview with QPR Youth Player (Ex-Chelsea) Bradley Simmonds

- Three Year Flashback: QPR Axe Long-Serving Club Secretary Sheila Marson

- Three Year Flashback: Journalist Defends Flavio Briatore re QPR Stories

- Five Year Flashback: Ugo Ukah Back on the QPR Programme

- The Four Year Plan: Dutch Review of the Film (Translated into English)

- Ask Vinnie Jones: Call-in

- The Soccerex Global Convention Set to Begin in Brazil

- The QPR Official Supporters Club (OSC): Is that still in "limbo'?

QPR's Ice Cold Treatment!
Goal.com - LATEST QPR SIGNING CHILLS OUT PLAYERS

- QPR owner Tony Fernandes has put his money where his mouth is during his three-month reign. But the latest example of his commitment to improvement might not necessarily be one welcomed by the players.-
A demountable ice bath, housed in a cabin the size of a portaloo and used to aid fast recovery of over-worked muscles after exercise, is the newest addition at the Harlington training ground.
- Yet it is a luxurious facility compared to the[b] home-made ice baths Rangers used in pre-season. During the penny-pinching Briatore-Ecclestone regime's reign, household dustbins were loaded with ice and up to three players at a time would stand nose-to-nose in their underpants while shivering their way to recovery." Goal


- The QPR Book By Gramps

QPR of 1897 (From the Bushman Archives)

Sunday, November 27, 2011

QPR Report Sunday Update: Norwich Reports and Comments...Warnock Wants Managerial Window...Bothroyd Reports Abusive Tweet

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Zimbio Photos from Norwich-QPR

- Throughout the day, the QPR Report Messageboard has news updates, comments and perspectives - even links to other board comments of interest re QPR matters (on and off the field) along with football (and ONLY football) topics in general....Also Follow: QPR REPORT ON TWITTER
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- Five Year Flashback: "Questions. Questions. Questions!"

- Three Year Flashback: Gary Borrowdale Joins QPR

- Managers Calling for Extending Loan Windows...Warnock Wants Windows for Managerial Changes
"...Warnock, who has more than 30 years' experience in management, said of a system in which clubs had only two opportunities to change their manager in a year: "It would be ideal for managers if they could only lose their job at a certain time of the year. Managers should be like players – you should be able to change them in January if that's what is wanted, or the end of the season..."

- Rowlands Injured

- Supposed QPR-Summer Signing Danny Graham, Profiled

- Update: QPR Poppy Shirts For Sale

- The Four Year Plan "re #thefouryearplan - news coming as soon as possible. We have signed with a distributor & exciting news is around the corner! It's coming." AdHocFilm


QPR OFFICIAL SITE - KENNY SET FOR SPELL ON SIDELINES

Posted on: Sat 26 Nov 2011

R's number one Paddy Kenny is set for a prolonged period on the sidelines owing to injury.

The former Sheffield United custodian injured his gluteus maximus at The Britannia Stadium last weekend and in the words of Neil Warnock is set to be 'missing for a while.'

With Brian Murphy also injured owing to a calf complaint, Radek Cerny started at Carrow Road, but Warnock was less than pleased with the Premier League's decision not to allow him to bring in a keeper on an emergency loan.

"Paddy is going to be out for a while," he told www.qprt.co.uk

"He injured his side at Stoke, as did Murphy - they're both going to be out for a while.

"We asked the Premier League for permission for an emergency loan, but they took two days to tell us no.

"That really disappoints me."

Cerny - according to Warnock - was 'faultless' in the R's 2-0 defeat at Norwich, and the R's gaffer added: "Raddy has a long-standing injury himself, which is why he's only played a couple of games for the Reserves over the last 12 months.

"I'm really disappointed with the Premier League to be honest." QPR


NORWICH 2 QPR 1

QPR OFFICIAL SITE - GAFFER: TWO POOR GOALS COST US
Posted on: Sat 26 Nov 2011

Neil Warnock lambasted the R's defending, as QPR slipped to a narrow 2-1 defeat at Norwich City.

The R's gaffer was critical of both goals Rangers conceded, as Luke Young's second goal in as many matches proved scant consolation at Carrow Road.

Warnock told www.qpr.co.uk: "I'm disappointed we haven't come away with all three points, let alone one.

"We should've won the game but we've come away getting mugged.

"Of course the goals we conceded really disappoint me, but I can't be too critical with the overall performance.

"I thought at 1-1 we were the only side that was going to go on and win the game, but we didn't defend properly and it's cost us."

Warnock was ultra-critical of the two Norwich goals, adding "The comedy bam-box for the first goal and then our failure to clear our lines five or six times for their second goal is soul destroying.

"I'm very disappointed and I've told the lads how I feel.

"Norwich got out of prison today." QPR


OBSERVER
Substitute Grant Holt scores winning goal to send Norwich above QPR


Press Association at Carrow Road

Neil Warnock has hit out at the Premier League's "scandalous" decision to prevent QPR from signing a keeper on an emergency loan after seeing Grant Holt's goal give Norwich victory over his side.

With his first choice Paddy Kenny out for up to two months after picking up a side strain, and backup keeper Brian Murphy also injured, Warnock had to play third-choice Radek Cerny.

Warnock revealed he approached the Premier League for permission to sign an emergency keeper, but had his appeal rejected, forcing QPR to recall 20-year-old Elvijs Putnins from a loan spell with non-league Boreham Wood.

"They told us we had to bring back a lad from Boreham Wood who has never played in the reserves. If not, we had to play a 17-year-old who has not played a reserve game yet, which I think is scandalous not to get any help. "

Holt came off the bench to bundle home the winning goal in the 73rd minute, Norwich having deservedly taken the lead when their captain, Russell Martin, reacted quickest during a melee in the six-yard box. Shaun Wright-Phillips had a strong call for a penalty turned down seconds later as the visitors searched for an equaliser, which came in the 59th minute when Luke Young struck his second goal in two games.

The Norwich manager, Paul Lambert, was delighted with the attitude his side showed. "I have trust when we go on the field of play that they are going to perform and I've done that for the past two years," he said. "I have trusted them and they have just been a brilliant, brilliant group to work with."

The QPR striker Jay Bothroyd said he will report a Twitter user who allegedly called him a "useless lazy nigger" after the game. The message came from the account of a user named Karl Martin, using the Twitter handle KarlMartin16, though Martin later said that the message was sent by friends without his knowledge. Bothroyd tweeted: "Thanks my tweeps, I will report this incident. Narrow minded people can't get away with that sort of behaviour". Observer


West London Sport - Holt’s winner sees off QPR

Grant Holt’s 73rd-minute goal gave Norwich victory at Carrow Road.

The striker bundled home fellow substitute Wes Hoolahan’s right-wing cross only three minutes after the pair were brought on.

Norwich had taken the lead when Anton Ferdinand’s miscued clearance from Andrew Surman’s corner fell to Russell Martin, who smashed home.

Ferdinand had earlier been rescued by Radek Cerny after the defender’s hesitation gave Steve Morison a sight of goal.

Third-choice keeper Cerny played because Paddy Kenny, whose deputy Brian Murphy is sidelined, was himself ruled out with a muscle problem.

Rangers were denied permission by the Premier League to sign a keeper on an emergency loan deal ahead of the game after learning that Kenny could be out for several weeks.

Without Kenny and captain Joey Barton, who was suspended, the R’s battled spiritedly and equalised just after the hour mark, when Luke Young netted from the rebound after Jamie Mackie’s shot hit the post.

But seconds after having a header blocked on the line by Shaun Derry, Holt was set up by Hoolahan for the winner.

“I feel like we should have won that game,” said R’s boss Neil Warnock.

“At half-time I said to the players I’d be disappointed if we drew, never mind lost. I feel robbed.

“But then when you defend like we did, you probably don’t deserve to win. For the second goal we had chances to clear the ball.

“The disappointing thing for me is that Norwich didn’t have to work for the goals – they were given them.” West London Sport


- QPR Official Site Match Report



- "The Horror. The Horror." - Nine Years Ago: Vauxhall Motors: The Replay

- 12 Years Ago: Sammy Koejoe Joins QPR

- Year Ago: The Mugging of Bernie Ecclestone

- The Money to be made from new Stadiums/Naming Rights

- Interview with QPR Youth Player (Ex-Chelsea) Bradley Simmonds

- Three Year Flashback: QPR Axe Long-Serving Club Secretary Sheila Marson

- Three Year Flashback: Journalist Defends Flavio Briatore re QPR Stories

- Five Year Flashback: Ugo Ukah Back on the QPR Programme

- The Four Year Plan: Dutch Review of the Film (Translated into English)

- Ask Vinnie Jones: Call-in

- The Soccerex Global Convention Set to Begin in Brazil

- The QPR Official Supporters Club (OSC): Is that still in "limbo'?

QPR's Ice Cold Treatment!
Goal.com - LATEST QPR SIGNING CHILLS OUT PLAYERS

- QPR owner Tony Fernandes has put his money where his mouth is during his three-month reign. But the latest example of his commitment to improvement might not necessarily be one welcomed by the players.-
A demountable ice bath, housed in a cabin the size of a portaloo and used to aid fast recovery of over-worked muscles after exercise, is the newest addition at the Harlington training ground.
- Yet it is a luxurious facility compared to the[b] home-made ice baths Rangers used in pre-season. During the penny-pinching Briatore-Ecclestone regime's reign, household dustbins were loaded with ice and up to three players at a time would stand nose-to-nose in their underpants while shivering their way to recovery." Goal


- The QPR Book By Gramps

Saturday, November 26, 2011

QPR Report Saturday Update

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Photo from the Bushman archives- Next: Norwich vs QPR - Players who played for both Clubs
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- Throughout the day, the QPR Report Messageboard has news updates, comments and perspectives - even links to other board comments of interest re QPR matters (on and off the field) along with football (and ONLY football) topics in general....Also Follow: QPR REPORT ON TWITTER
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QPR's Ice Cold Treatment!

Goal.com - LATEST QPR SIGNING CHILLS OUT PLAYERS

- QPR owner Tony Fernandes has put his money where his mouth is during his three-month reign. But the latest example of his commitment to improvement might not necessarily be one welcomed by the players.-
A demountable ice bath, housed in a cabin the size of a portaloo and used to aid fast recovery of over-worked muscles after exercise, is the newest addition at the Harlington training ground.
- Yet it is a luxurious facility compared to the[b] home-made ice baths Rangers used in pre-season. During the penny-pinching Briatore-Ecclestone regime's reign, household dustbins were loaded with ice and up to three players at a time would stand nose-to-nose in their underpants while shivering their way to recovery." Goal


- Update: QPR Poppy Shirts For Sale

- The Four Year Plan "re #thefouryearplan - news coming as soon as possible. We have signed with a distributor & exciting news is around the corner! It's coming." AdHocFilm

- Faurlin Happy at QPR: Independent/Rory Smith

- Warnock's Weekly Column

- "The Horror. The Horror." - Nine Years Ago: Vauxhall Motors: The Replay

- 12 Years Ago: Sammy Koejoe Joins QPR

- Year Ago: The Mugging of Bernie Ecclestone

- The Money to be made from new Stadiums/Naming Rights

- Interview with QPR Youth Player (Ex-Chelsea) Bradley Simmonds

- The Premiership Managerial Sack Race - David Lacey/The Guardian
"...The odds against the next to go are often not so much a reflection on the man's managerial capabilities as the trigger-happiness of his employers. Just before the present season began there was a feeling that Neil Warnock might be an early casualty at Queens Park Rangers. Warnock, an experienced and able manager, had just brought QPR back into the Premier League but the gossip was that the owners wanted a bigger name. Then the club was sold, more money became available for new signings, Warnock bought well, the team is in the top half of the table and now the idea of his leaving Loftus Road is absurd..."


SKY -Warnock still wary of the drop
QPR manager not getting complacent despite good start to season


Neil Warnock: QPR manager aware of the stiff test his side faces at Norwich

Queens Park Rangers manager Neil Warnock insists that the newly promoted clubs in the Premier League have not been lulled into a false sense of security by their promising start to the season.

QPR, Swansea and Norwich City sit in mid-table after defying expectations that they would struggle upon their promotion to the English top flight.

But Warnock, who will take his QPR side to Carrow Road on Saturday, knows that the landscape can change between now and the end of the season.

Rubbish
"We've all acquitted ourselves well, but we're not daft," he said. "We're looking at the bottom three and are hoping to finish above them.

"We might talk a load of rubbish about Europe when we have a few good results, but apart from the top six, from Aston Villa down, everyone's in it.

"I don't see any breakaways. All season it's going to be lose to them, beat them. It'll be up and down all season.

"It's probably the most even division for a long, long time - apart from the top six."

QPR have won three times away from home this campaign, but Warnock believes that his side have still been targeted as the source of Norwich's fourth league win.

Tough test
"Something always happens to us when we go to Norwich, we have to be wary there. We wrongly had a man sent off last year," he said.

"The crowd are quite vociferous. We haven't had many things go for us at Norwich over the years.

"But it's a great place, I love the club. Norwich have done ever so well, they have some good players.

"It's always a good game against them, they're a footballing team and don't know any other way.

"They're under pressure and, listening to their comments, they see us as the game they want to win.

"We look to win every game and treat nobody differently. We haven't won at Norwich for a while so they'll be feeling buoyant.

"We've acquitted ourselves quite well - we could have had more than four away wins if we'd been a little bit lucky.

"Some teams in our league won't win three all season away from home, but we've done that already."
Sky


- Three Year Flashback: QPR Axe Long-Serving Club Secretary Sheila Marson

- Three Year Flashback: Journalist Defends Flavio Briatore re QPR Stories

- Five Year Flashback: Ugo Ukah Back on the QPR Programme


- Interesting Article: Football and the 1936 Olympics

- The Four Year Plan: Dutch Review of the Film (Translated into English)

- Ask Vinnie Jones: Call-in

- The Soccerex Global Convention Set to Begin in Brazil

- The QPR Official Supporters Club (OSC): Is that still in "limbo'?


- Behind the Scenes at QPR in the Community


London 24/Ian Cooper - QPR Chief Executive hints at location for new training ground

Beard says ‘two or three’ sites are being looked at close to the club’s current facility

QPR Chief Executive Philip Beard has revealed the club could move to a new training ground a couple of miles from their current facility in time for the start of next season.

Beard and QPR chairman Tony Fernandes are keen to keep any new ground within close proximity to their base in Harlington, and have identified several potential sites in the area.

The Rangers CEO, who was appointed by Fernandes in August, insists upgrading is crucial if QPR are to compete successfully in the Premier League in the coming years, and believes that if the land can be secured, the club could aim to complete a move in time for the 2012-13 campaign.

"At the moment were putting together a plan to do two things, Beard told London24.com.

"One is to improve the facility we have got in the short term, because you cant have a training ground overnight.After that, were looking at two or three options.

"The main criteria will be which one we can move quickest on, but the most interesting one is within a couple of miles of where we are now. I think if we can secure the land then it might be something we can move very quickly on.

"Staying within a short distance of where we are now would have its benefits. For one, it would mean the players and coaching staff would already be familiar with the area.

"If it were possible, wed like to be there by next season. What I don't want to do is rush it, get in somewhere and then discover we havent done what we needed to do.

"I've been down there with Tony and Neil [Warnock]. The important thing is to show to the current playing squad that we understand we need to do something."

Rangers have shared Harlington Sports Ground with Imperial College since July 2005, when they took over from neighbours Chelsea who moved to a 20 million complex at Cobham.

Fernandes identified improving the clubs training facilities as a major priority when he replaced Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone as majority shareholder at the start of the season.

Beard maintains that improving off-field infrastructure will be a crucial factor in the club realising their ambition of attracting top-quality players in the coming years.

Plans are also in place to transform QPRs current Centre of Excellence into a Youth Academy, although Beard conceded that too may be reliant on new and improved training facilities.

"Compared to other Premier League clubs we dont have anything like the facilities that we should have," Beard added.

"When were looking to bring new players at the club they need to know that Harlington is not the long-term facility. When we sign players one of the things they look at is where they are going to be spending 90 per cent of their time.

"The youth academy is a key priority as well, but the reality is that we can do some things at the training ground, but our ability to develop a really first-class academy is limited.

"At a new training ground a significant part of our planning would be to deliver a first-class academy." London 24


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Friday, November 25, 2011

QPR Report Friday Update: Taarabt...Prince...Cook...Ukah...Survival

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From the Bushman Photo Archives - Next: Norwich vs QPR - Players who played for both Clubs
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- Throughout the day, the QPR Report Messageboard has news updates, comments and perspectives - even links to other board comments of interest re QPR matters (on and off the field) along with football (and ONLY football) topics in general....Also Follow: QPR REPORT ON TWITTER
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- Remembering Kiyan Prince

- Scary Headline: "Borrowdale is Back"

- Three Year Flashback: QPR Axe Long-Serving Club Secretary Sheila Marson

- Three Year Flashback: Journalist Defends Flavio Briatore re QPR Stories

- Five Year Flashback: Ugo Ukah Back on the QPR Programme

- Chelsea Move to Battersea?


- Interesting Article: Football and the 1936 Olympics

- The Four Year Plan: Dutch Review of the Film (Translated into English)

- Ask Vinnie Jones: Call-in

- The Soccerex Global Convention Set to Begin in Brazil

- Update: Poppy Shirts Coming Soon! The QPR Poppy Shirts for Charity:

- The QPR Official Supporters Club (OSC): Is that still in "limbo'?


DAILY MAIL/SAMI MOKBEL - QPR run out of patience and offer wantaway Taarabt a way out in January-

Adel Taarabt's days at Queens Park Rangers look numbered, with the club trying to sell him in January. Rangers have instructed third parties to find a buyer for the Morocco midfielder.

Manager Neil Warnock will be handed in the region of £15million to spend to strengthen his squad by co-owners Tony Fernandes and Amit Bhatia and he is keen to supplement that by offloading Taarabt after being given the green light to do so.

No longer A-delight: Taarabt has been angling for a move away from QPR
QPR want £15m for the player, as they would be obliged to hand over 40 per cent of Taarabt’s next transfer fee to his former club Tottenham. The high asking price is proving a stumbling block to a move — he was close to signing for Paris Saint-Germain in the summer but they were eventually put off by the price.

Fulham’s Andy Johnson and Tottenham duo Jermain Defoe and Sebastien Bassong are among Warnock’s targets
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2065868/Adel-Taarabt-leave-QPR.html#ixzz1effXv8Zv



- Lee Cook Joins Orient on Loan


Dave McIntyre/West London Sport - QPR assistant boss pays tribute to Cook

QPR assistant manager Mick Jones has paid tribute to Lee Cook following his loan move to Leyton Orient.

Cook, 29, has struggled with knee problems in recent seasons and as a result did not make a single competitive appearance for Fulham after they signed him from the R’s in 2008.

The popular winger returned to Loftus Road the following year but has been unable to rediscover his fitness and form, and has been out of the first-team picture for some time.

He has joined League One side Orient for an initial month with a view to extending his spell there if he performs well.

“He’d have liked to have played higher up, but at this stage I think the important thing for him is just to play games,” Jones told West London Sport.

“The lad has been a great servant to QPR and it’s a tragedy that he’s had the injury problems he has.

“What I love about the guy is that he’s not bitter and doesn’t feel sorry for himself like you get with some footballers. He doesn’t go around saying ‘Life’s dealt me a bad hand’ or any of that.

“He’s a great person, he really is, and I really hope that in the next stage of his career he can play some games and enjoy his football.”

Cook is expected to make his O’s debut in Saturday’s match at Sheffield Wednesday.

Rangers spent much of Thursday trying to find takers for Rob Hulse and other fringe players in a bid to get them out on loan before the deadline.

Hulse recently turned down a temporary move to Doncaster because he did not want to be away from his family, who live in the south. West London Sport


SPORTING INTELLIGENCE
QPR, Norwich and Swansea’s starts give them at least 76% survival chance
By Brian Sears

24 November 2011
As Swansea City’s manager Brendan Rodgers starts talks about a new contract, analysis by Sportingintelligence shows that Swansea and their fellow promoted teams in the Premier League – QPR and Norwich – each have at least a 76 per cent chance of survival this season, based on their decent starts.
Even before a ball was kicked, history suggests the promoted trio each had a 53.6 per cent chance of survival. This is based on 56 teams previous being promoted to the Premier League since 1992, and 30 of those 56 teams (or 53.6 per cent) surviving their first season. That means 26 of the 56 immediately went down.
This season, all three promoted teams have made promising starts and have gained a total of 41 points, having played 12 games each, with QPR on 15 points, and Norwich and Swansea on 13 points each.
Among the 56 promoted teams in the past 19 seasons, 34 of them amassed 13 or more points from their first dozen games, and of those 34, eight were relegated (or 23.5 per cent), meaning the survival rate for 13 points after a dozen games is 76.5 per cent. (Details of the eight who went down are in the table below).
On this basis, Norwich and Swansea, with 13 points after 12 games, each have a 76 per cent survival chance.
QPR’s chances with 15 points after 13 games, are even better. Among promoted teams, only 24 have amassed as many points from the first 12 games, and only four of those, or 16.7 per cent, ended up relegated. So that means 83.3 per cent survived – and that’s QPR’s survival chance now.
The highest tally for a promoted side after 12 games was amassed by Nottingham Forest in 1994-95 (with 27 points) followed by Wigan (25 points in 2005-06) and Blackburn (25 points in 1992-93).
The lowest tallies were amassed by Swindon (five points from first 12 games 1993-94) and Sunderland (five points in 2005-06), then Derby (six points in 2007-08).

Sporting Intelligence

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- Third Round of the FA Youth Cup: QPR Will Play Huddersfield at Loftus Road

- Ten Year Flashback: Brentford 0 QPR 0

- Video - Behind the Scenes of QPR in the Community

- Arrest Warrant for Portsmouth Owner!


The Independent - Correction - Jim Magilton
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Independent

- Behind the Scenes at QPR in the Community



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Thursday, November 24, 2011

QPR Report Thursday: Loan Window Closes...Flashback: QPR Axe Long-Serving Club Secretary Sheila Marson...QPR Play Huddersfield in Youth Cup..Injuries

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To Any American QPR Fans: Happy Thanksgiving!
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- Throughout the day, the QPR Report Messageboard has news updates, comments and perspectives - even links to other board comments of interest re QPR matters (on and off the field) along with football (and ONLY football) topics in general....Also Follow: QPR REPORT ON TWITTER
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- Lee Cook Joins Orient on Loan


- - LOAN TRANSFER WINDOW CLOSES TODAY (NOT At The End of the Month)

- Third Round of the FA Youth Cup: QPR Will Play Huddersfield at Loftus Road

- Three Year Flashback: QPR Axe Long-Serving Club Secretary Sheila Marson

- Ten Year Flashback: Brentford 0 QPR 0


- Video - Behind the Scenes of QPR in the Community

- Arrest Warrant for Portsmouth Owner!

- Next: Norwich vs QPR - Players who played for both Clubs


West London Sport/David Mcintyre - QPR eye non-League prospect Chambers

QPR are monitoring Dulwich Hamlet defender Michael Chambers – a 17-year-old who only made his first-team debut a month ago and has already attracted serious interest from Manchester United.

Several other Premier League clubs are aware of the highly-rated centre-back, who caught the eye with his performances as Hamlet’s youth-team captain.

He has continued to impress since recently being promoted to the Ryman League club’s senior side and Rangers are considering making an offer for him in January. West London Sport


Martin Samuel/Daily Mail - Cut and dried for QPR

Seldom misses a trick: Neil Warnock


Not a particularly edifying afternoon at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday, with Stoke City physiotherapist Andy Davies sent off in a row about a towel, but Queens Park Rangers were well within their rights to demand one.

Neil Warnock, never slow to miss a trick having so many of his own, instructed his players to use the Rory Delap gambit and procure linen from the ball boys for drying purposes before launching any throw-in. The ploy worked so well that, with the home side 2-1 down at half-time, the young men were sent out for the second half empty-handed.

Warnock then dispatched his own staff in search of towels, and an argument ensued, resulting in Davies’s dismissal.

Either drying the ball is legal or it is not. It cannot be allowed only until the home side is losing, and the same opportunity must be afforded both teams. The Premier League should either ban the practice entirely, or remind Stoke of their responsibility to fair play. Mail



David McIntyre/West London Sport - QPR are discussing a new contract for goalkeeper Paddy Kenny.


Rangers are set to reward the 33-year-old for his outstanding displays since moving to Loftus Road from Sheffield United in 2010.

Kenny, the club’s current player of the year, looks likely to sign an improved deal in the coming weeks.

He kept 24 clean sheets as Rangers stormed to the Championship title last term and has impressed in the top flight this season.

R’s manager Neil Warnock regards Kenny as one of the best keepers in the country and once recommended him to Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.

The Republic of Ireland international has played under Warnock at QPR, Sheffield United and Bury. West London Sport


The Sun- Tomkins is R’s — Gold

WEST HAM will snub any bid from QPR for talented defender James Tomkins.


Tomkins, 22, has been linked with a £3million move to the West London club following his superb displays for the Hammers this season.

QPR boss Neil Warnock is ready to bring in a number of new players in January and wants to bolster his defence.

Tomkins has played a major role in helping West Ham cement their position in the top two of the Championship.

But West Ham co-owner David Gold said: "He's not for sale for £3m. Nobody is up for sale.

"There's no plan to sell. We'll do all we can to keep our top players. Our goal is promotion." The Sun


QPR Official Site - DJ: RECOVERY GOING WELL

DJ Campbell is hoping to give QPR fans an early Christmas present with a return to action next month.

The 30 year-old striker has been sidelined since fracturing his metatarsal in training almost two months ago. But after coming out of his protective boot last week, Campbell - a lifelong QPR fan - is now working hard to make himself available to Manager Neil Warnock.

"The recovery is going well," he told www.qpr.co.uk

"The foot feels good now, and I am concentrating on doing strengthening work on my calf and thigh."

Campbell didn't waste much time opening his goalscoring account for his beloved Hoops following his summer arrival from Blackpool.

In his third appearance - and second as a substitute - the former R's schoolboy netted the final goal in our 3-0 win at Wolves.

Which makes his non-availability all the more painful - for both himself and the fans.

"Not being able to play has been really frustrating," he admitted.

"I love playing football and throughout my career all I have wanted to do is play, especially now that I am home at QPR.

"It's difficult but it's part of the game. We all get injured at some point but the important thing is to come back stronger. Hopefully when I do come back I can fire the goals in."

With the hectic Christmas fixtures just around the corner, Campbell is looking to be in contention for a place in Warnock's matchday squad.

"Three to four weeks is the target for my return," he added, "and if I can get back sooner that would be great.

"We have always said December and that's looking good at the moment. Touch wood there will be no setbacks, and I will be back soon."

While he has not been able to play, that hasn't stopped Campbell from supporting the R's and, like all QPR fans, he has been impressed with what he has seen.

After beating Chelsea in a fierce West London derby, Rangers produced a competitive second-half performance at Tottenham and followed that up with a great display which ended in agonising defeat against Manchester City.

Last weekend, Rangers continued where they had left off with a 3-2 victory at Stoke.

"We have played really well in the last few games," said Campbell.

"The lads have been superb.

"You can see the quality that we've got and you can see how well the Gaffer is doing.

"Being a fan myself, I have enjoyed seeing how happy the fans are. Even though we lost to Man City at Loftus Road, our fans were superb.

"Hopefully we can continue this good form and get the results we need. We are showing good signs that we are moving forward." QPR


QPR Official Site - WALKING WOUNDED


Neil Warnock has been assessing his walking wounded this week after a series of injuries in the lead up to Saturday's game at Stoke City left him able to name only five subs for the Britannia Stadium clash.

Brian Murphy suffered a calf injury in the warm-up, while Jason Puncheon was sent home on the morning of the fixture with a bout of Tonsilitis.

In the second half of our 3-2 win over The Potters, Luke Young was forced off with a knee injury, while Heidar Helguson played on despite suffering a bad facial injury in the opening minute of the contest.

Speaking at the Harlington training ground this morning, Warnock told www.qpr.co.uk: "Sadly Brian Murphy is going to be out for a few weeks with the calf injury he picked up, but Jason Puncheon is back in training.

"Unfortunately, Heidar has not joined in yet this week and there's a doubt over him for Saturday's game at Norwich.

"Luke came off with a knee injury as a precaution, but we are optimistic he is going to join in training on Thursday."

Warnock revealed after the Stoke clash that Armand Traore had requested to come off in the latter stages but managed to last the game, and he added today: "He has got a persistent thigh problem that we're managing."

Meanwhile, Jay Bothroyd - who missed the trip to Stoke with a hamstring injury - and Danny Gabbidon - who is feeling the effects of an intense introduction from injury - are both expected to resume light training on Thursday.

Long-term absentees Matt Connolly (ankle) and Kieron Dyer (foot) stepped up their running this week, while DJ Campbell (foot) continues to do strengthening work on his calf and thigh. QPR


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The Independent - Correction - Jim Magilton
Tuesday 22 November 2011


Our article,"Inside the 'basket case':the film that will shock football"(29 October 2011) http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/article2377262.ece was a feature on a fly-on -the wall documentary film,The Four Year Plan,which has just been released about the recent turbulent history of Queens Park Rangers FC. In it we mentioned an allegation made in the film by the former QPR Chairman, Gianni Paladini, to the effect that Jim Magilton, the former Manager, had head-butted a player. Mr Magilton has always categorically denied this allegation and we are happy to record his denial. Independent


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