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Thursday, May 03, 2012

QPR Report Thursday: 5 Youth Players Released...QPR on Team of the Year Shortlist...Flashback: QPR and Wimbledon Merger Announced...Remembering Barry Bridges...Flashback: Gallen, Furlong & Tchakounte Exit...Next: Stoke


Courtesy of haqpr1963: A New Way of Looking at the Bottom of the Premiership!


Neck and Neck!

Aston V 36 -14 37
Wigan 36 -22 37
QPR 36 -23 34
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Bolton 36 -31 34
Blackburn 36 -28 31
Wolves 36 -41 24

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- Vote for QPR Player of the Year...Young Player of the Year...Supporter of the Year

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Five Year Flashback: QPR Release Eight Players  Marc Bircham, Paul Furlong, Kevin Gallen, Paul Jones, Steve Lomas, Mauro Milanese, Simon Royce and Armel Tchakounte (And Update: Where Armel Tchakounte is today)



- Blackburn and QPR Deserve to Be Relegated



- World's Highest Paying Sports Teams




QPR RELEASE FIVE YOUNGSTERS

West London Sport -  Keeper among youngsters released by QPR
Northern Ireland Under-19 goalkeeper Gareth Deane is among five youngsters being released by QPR.
Deane, who was on Linfield’s books before being snapped up by Rangers, is leaving along with Danny McDonnell, Jordan Walker, Marcel Henry-Francis and Callum Webb.
Centre-back Ben Brown, on the other hand, has been given a professional contract by the club.
A number of other youngsters, including Bruno Andrade and former Spurs academy player Freddie Champion, signed pro deals with the R’s earlier this year. West London Sport





Congratulations to QPR: Beyond Sport Announces Official Shortlist For Beyond Sport Awards 2012
 
Beyond Sport, the global organisation that promotes, develops and supports the use of sport as a tool for positive change across the world, is delighted to unveil the official shortlist for the Beyond Sport Awards 2012.

30 projects have been shortlisted that reach nearly 40 countries, and use more than 20 different sports. They were chosen from 322 entries from 135 countries that submitted applications to this year’s Beyond Sport Awards.

By reaching this stage of the judging process, each project has secured an invitation to attend the fourth annual Beyond Sport Summit, taking place from July 23rd to 25th in London. Throughout the Summit, the shortlisted projects will have the opportunity to interact with Beyond Sport's extensive network of corporate business, government, philanthropy, international aid organisations and sporting federations, all with the ability to significantly impact the reach and capabilities of the sport and development movement.

The Beyond Sport Award winners, to be selected by the panel of Beyond Sport Ambassadors, will then receive a substantial package of business support to help them grow and become sustainable in the future.

Nick Keller, the Founder of Beyond Sport, commented: “The Beyond Sport Awards unearth leaders using sport as a tool for positive change and provide them with the resources, platform, contacts and opportunities to turbo-charge their growth and impact. We are delighted to reveal this year’s shortlist, which comes after many hours of deliberation from more than 25 experts in their field. To be chosen from more than 300 entries for a place on this shortlist represents a fantastic achievement on the part of all these projects.”

For more information on Beyond Sport, the Beyond Sport Summit and the Beyond Sport Awards visit www.beyondsport.org.

The official shortlist for the Beyond Sport Awards 2012 is below:

BEYOND SPORT AWARDS 2012 OFFICIAL SHORTLIST

Sport for Social Inclusion

•    A Ganar

Parent Organisation: Partners of the Americas

•    Girls Kick It, Chicken House Project

Parent organisation: Global Youth Partnership for Africa

•    Skateistan

•    Sport & Territory

Parent organisation: Positive Futures North Liverpool

Sport for Health

•    Sitball 4Life

Parent organisation: Association des Handicapées Universitaires au Rwanda (AHUR)

•    Sports Training and Outreach Program on HIV

Parent organisation: ONOC

•    WASH United

Parent organisation: WASH United GmbH

Sport for Conflict Resolution

•    AMANDLA EduFootball   

Parent organisation: AMANDLA EduFootball e.V.

•    Dance 4 Peace Philippines

Parent organisation: Dance 4 Peace, Inc.

•    Twinned Basketball Clubs

Parent organisation: PeacePlayers International - Middle East

Sport for Education

•    Craig Bellamy Foundation Youth Development League

Parent organisation: Craig Bellamy Foundation

•    Sports for Education, Education for the Future

Parent organisation: Policy Center for Roma and Minorities

•    Tiny Toones Breakdance School

Parent organisation: Tiny Toones

Sport for the Environment

•    NHL Water Restoration Project

Parent organisation: NHL

•    NRDC Sports Greening Project

Parent organisation: Natural Resources Defense Council

•    The Council for Responsible Sport’s ReSport Certification

Parent organisation: Council for Responsible Sport

Best New Project

•    Global Outreach and Love of Soccer (GOALS) Haiti

Parent organisation: Global Outreach and Love of Soccer

•    Isiqalo - Waves for Change

Parent organisation: Isiqalo Foundation

•    Sports for Change

Parent organisation: Groundwork West Midlands

Federation or Governing Body of the Year

•    Australian Rugby League Commission

•    Commonwealth Games Association of Canada (CGC)

•    Premiership Rugby

Corporate of the Year

•    Standard Chartered Bank

•    Telkom South Africa

•    Visa   

Team of the Year

•    Boston Celtics

•    Memphis Grizzlies

•    Queens Park Rangers FC

•    RIHP NTH QLD RUBIES

•    Tottenham Hotspur  Beyond Sport

- Congratulations to QPR: One of Teams Shortlisted  by "Beyond Sport" for SportsTeam of the Year

- About "Beyond Sport"





Reading Chronicle- Connolly uncertain on Reading FC future

READING FC and Queens Park Rangers are set to be involved in a tug-of-war for the services of defender Matt Connolly.

The 24-year-old joined Royals on loan from parent club QPR in January and went on to make five appearances before suffering an ankle injury at Millwall.

He returned to play the final game of the season at Birmingham City, but now faces an uncertain summer after admitting he is not sure where he will be next season.

"Right now, I have no idea what the future holds. I still have one year left on my contract at QPR and I respect and honour that. I don't know how Mark Hughes [QPR manager] feels or has in his mind or what players he wants to keep, but I will go back there for pre-season and train," he said.

"Until I speak to them I don't know what's going to happen. Whatever happens over the summer happens, I'm not sure."

With QPR battling relegation from the top flight, Connolly is not even sure whether he will be playing Premier League football next season or not.

But asked whether he would like to stay at the Madejski, the defender said it 'felt like home' from the moment he joined.

"They are an amazing group of players and staff and it helped a lot. Brian [McDermott] is a great manager and I've had a great time here. But I have one more year with QPR," he commented.

"Every player wants to be wanted and I'm not sure what Brian is thinking at the moment but it's nice to have options."

While Connolly's future is unclear, Reading have confirmed that Andy Griffin, Brian Howard and Tomasz Cywka will not be staying with the club this summer..." Reading Chronicle

 

NICK WARD REMEMBERS

The West Australian - Ward keen for Glory at home

Among the memories collected over the six years since Nick Ward last played for Perth Glory is a brief dressing room encounter with supermodel Naomi Campbell.

After earning the A-League's young player of the year accolade for his impressive 2005-06 season with Glory, Ward had signed for English club Queens Park Rangers, then under the ownership of Formula One tycoon Bernie Eccle-stone and Italian businessman Flavio Briatore.

After one particular QPR defeat, Ward recalls Briatore walking into the changing room, with his former partner Campbell at his side, to let the players know the performance had not been good enough.

Briatore's "if you don't perform, you're gone" message was typical; Campbell's presence among the sweaty shirts and shin pads, not so.

"I said hi to her and she said hi back," Ward recalled yesterday, still amused by the peculiarity of the circumstances.

The 27-year-old might have learnt nothing from that particular exchange but the often bizarre experience of being at the Loftus Road club prepared Ward for the game's roller-coaster nature.

"I was a bit nave," he said. "I went to a club that had a lot going on and still has a lot going on."

Soon after Gary Waddock, the manager who had signed Ward, was sacked, the youngster was farmed out from QPR to Brighton and Hove Albion before his English sojourn came to an abrupt end.

"I don't regret going to England because I came back (to the A-League in 2007) and went into a Melbourne Victory side that played in two grand finals and won one," Ward said.

But he does regret making a hasty decision to cut short his Victory spell to join Wellington Phoenix in September 2010.

"I went to Wellington to play more games and to get back overseas," he said.

"I was chasing this dream that wasn't there. There's a great group of lads (at Wellington) and I really enjoyed being with them but with the lifestyle and that sort of thing, I wasn't the happiest.

"I should've played out the rest of the season with Victory."

The game time he had hoped to get under Phoenix boss Ricki Herbert was also in short supply last season and Ward was relieved when he was given the opportunity to return to Glory.

"It's been a tough two years and that's why I saw coming back here as a good opportunity," he said.

"It's a good time for me to come back home.

"I've got the support of my family and I will be in a good frame of mind so I can focus purely on football. I've got a one-year deal and I've got to prove my worth.

"My body feels good and I feel like I've learnt a lot about the game since I was here. I think I've got a lot to offer."

Ward, who made his Glory debut in the 2003-04 National Soccer League season, is confident the club can maintain the high standard set this season when it reached the A-League grand final for the first time, only to be beaten by a late goal against Brisbane Roar.
I feel like I've learnt a lot about the game since I was here. I think I've got a lot to offer." The West Australian


FROM CHELSEA'S PROGRAMME: REMEMBERING BARRY BRIDGES



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And also from Haqpr1963: How Last Season's Final Table would have looked!



QPR's TERRIBLE AWAY RECORD - Even Worse Under Mark Hughes!

QPR Away Results this season. Now obviously stats can lie. Or results don't + performance. But overall, statistically seems our home record (results) have improved under Hughes. A lot. And our away record has declined. (This with various additional players). And our first two away wins were largely with last season's team...



QPR FAN FORUM COMING?

- Last Thursday on QPR London Call In, asked about QPR Fan Forums (the last one held five years ago), QPR CEO Philip Beard said there should and would be Fan Forums. (The exact comments can be heard some 25 minutes into the broadcast."  QPR London Call In (April 26)

















































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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

QPR Report Wednesday: Dunga Wants Money...Next Stoke...Dean Released







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It's Bolton vs Spurs Tonight...G-d - and Harry Redknapp: help QPR!

Aston V 36 -14 37
Wigan 36 -22 37
QPR 36 -23 34
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Bolton 35 -28 34
Blackburn 36 -28 31
Wolves 36 -41 24










David McIntyre /West London Sport - QPR served with writ by Dunga

QPR have been served with a writ by Dunga, who claims he is owed over £1m by the club.

The ex-Brazil player and coach was listed as a Rangers director prior to the Flavio Briatore-led takeover of 2007.

He was part of Antonio Caliendo’s Monaco-based group which owned QPR, and says he has not been repaid money he loaned the club.

After being unveiled by Caliendo and former chairman Gianni Paladini, Dunga’s involvement was minimal until he helped them win a bitter battle for control in 2005.

He unexpectedly flew in from Japan to vote at a crucial board meeting that led to the ousting of Bill Power as chairman and the departures of director Kevin McGrath and chief executive Mark Devlin. West LondonSport




WEST LONDON SPORT Langley column: We really cared. Do these guys feel the same?
by Richard Langley, former QPR midfielder

The pressure is on Mark Hughes and his team.

01/05/2012 
It’s approaching the end of the season and the pressure is mounting on QPR, who sit uncomfortably above the drop zone – goal difference being the only thing separating them from Bolton.
I was at Rangers when we were close to the bottom of the Championship back in the 1998/99 season and remember what it was like being around the club.
I was nursing a knee injury picked up a few months after making my debut in the first team and I felt powerless to help. Having to watch every game and not being able to contribute was painful.
Being at the club from the age of 12, I had grown up loving QPR, and to be a part of the squad was a dream for me. Seeing us struggle was terrible.
I was travelling to all the away games to show my support to my team-mates. With two games to go we went to Port Vale and lost, which meant we needed to win the last game of the season at home to Crystal Palace.
In the last few months of the season there was a nervousness surrounding the training ground. We all knew the importance of staying up.
On a few occasions the players arranged a meeting. We would sit and discuss the situation we were in.
“With a combination of great team spirit and a nucleus of players that were QPR through and through, we managed to survive.”
Gavin Peacock was the captain at the time and he led a few of these talks with the older pros chipping in.
We would remind ourselves that we had so much to lose; our status as a professional footballer, playing in the Championship, pride and our salary. And of course no-one wants to have a relegation on their CV.
We knew that going down could mean not getting another team. People had responsibilities, mortgages and families, and the wages were not as they are now. It was all about survival and we’re not just talking about football.
The pressure was too much for some guys to deal with.
I remember players who I once looked up to all of a sudden not looking as great as I had once seen, mostly because of the possibility of us being relegated. They played within themselves. They played scared.
Being young and naive was an advantage for me. I was living my dream and didn’t let the desperate position we were in affect my displays, which was maybe the reason I’d managed to impress.
What I did learn was that when there is pressure you can confront it or you can hide away.
We are seeing signs of that this season and understandably so when the ante has been raised so much. Premier League survival is a must.
Looking back at that time, we had a nucleus of players that had a deep rooted loyalty and passion for the club. People like Maddix, Peacock, Ready, Perry, Gallen, myself and Gerry Francis.
This was a group of people who loved the club. We genuinely cared. It was our club.
Maybe the team wasn’t good enough but what we didn’t lack was commitment or fight.
There was also a sense of responsibility. It was down to us.
With the players so united, it ensured that the whole squad maintained the standards of training and discipline. The older pros often kept the young ones in check and made sure the newcomers were buying into the work ethic we had.
In the week leading up to that game against Palace I remember Gerry making the training ground environment as relaxed as possible.
He changed the training regime on a couple of occasions. We did the general midweek preparation but in between there were fun and games. This helped to take the players’ minds off the significance of the ultimate fixture of the season.
There were a few characters that always helped calm the nerves of the players in the changing room – Kiwomya and Dowie being the loudest and funniest of them all.
Gavin Peacock always had a calming voice, putting to bed any worries you ever had about the game.
We had an honest team – no prima donnas – and with a combination of great team spirit and a nucleus of players that were QPR through and through, we managed to survive that year.
That last game of the season versus Palace. I can see it like it was yesterday.
I remember feeling so connected with the club, the players and fans. I had to watch on from the sidelines. I remember the sun was blazing down on Loftus Road and I couldn’t keep still.
George Kulscar opened the scoring with a volley that the Palace keeper generously let sail past his head without moving as much as a finger.
Kiwomaya bagged a hat-trick and there was a memorable goal from Tony Scully too.
The R’s finished the season in style to guarantee safety with a 6-0 victory! It was the greatest feeling I had experienced. The pitch invasion after the final whistle was the first I had ever witnessed. The fans and the players had done it – cue celebrations!
But a lot of things have changed at QPR.
There are so many positives that have come with the takeover. But the identity of the club and players is lacking.
This is the problem you get when you acquire a team of highly-paid individuals in an attempt to buy success.
In the best teams you’ll find a core of players that know what the club represents – what’s acceptable. An enforcer. Someone who can do the manager’s speaking for him.
Manchester United are the best example of this. Throughout the last two decades they have managed to build a team around a loyal group of players that are United ’til they die.
Players would be brought in to improve the squad, but they had to adapt quickly to what the club wanted and expected. Although QPR have some experienced players, I’m not sure how many feel that connected with the club or fans.
The squad at QPR is so big now that many players are sitting on two and three-year contracts and may not be in the first team.
For a lot of these players if the club go down the consequences are not as brutal financially as they would have been 13 years ago.
I’d like to think that pride will drive them on, but if you have the luxury of knowing that you’ll be earning your life-changing money for three years whether you stay up or not, what is there to motivate you?
With the lucrative contracts that have been handed out in the attempt to improve the squad, I fear the players will be thinking they’ll stay put until the end of their contract – regardless of whether they play – or they’ll be thinking about jumping ship. Either way it’s an unhealthy place for the club to be.
There are two games to go and what all Rangers supporters will be hoping for is that we are safe to celebrate after 90 minutes at Manchester City on the last day of the season.
For the future of the club, it is important that they start to keep some players who really understand QPR and want to be there.
This revolving door that players seem to be coming in and out of right now leaves too much instability.
Let’s consolidate and build a team around those that want to commit to the club as much as the fans do. That’s the key to success.





QPR's TERRIBLE AWAY RECORD - Even Worse Under Mark Hughes!

QPR Away Results this season. Now obviously stats can lie. Or results don't + performance. But overall, statistically seems our home record (results) have improved under Hughes. A lot. And our away record has declined. (This with various additional players). And our first two away wins were largely with last season's team...





QPR FAN FORUM COMING?

- Last Thursday on QPR London Call In, asked about QPR Fan Forums (the last one held five years ago), QPR CEO Philip Beard said there should and would be Fan Forums. (The exact comments can be heard some 25 minutes into the broadcast."  QPR London Call In (April 26)








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