QPR Weekend Overview...Ex-QPR Vinnie Jones Acquitted...Mark Dennis Remembered

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- Vinnie Jones Acquitted
- England U-19 Preparations (including Dean Parrett)
- Marking Three Years Since Kiyan Prince RIP
- President Obama Further Helping Popularize Football (Soccer) in the USA
- Flashback: Blackstock on not playing - Under Iain Dowie
- Ipswich Fans' View of Magilton
- Repost: "The QPR Managerial Merry-Go-Around" and "The Byzantine World of QPR"
- QPR Player Contracts: How long?
- QPR's 2009/2010 Schedule

QPR QUOTES OF THE WEEKEND?

"....It's a difficult one at QPR, you never know if to go through the manager or the chairman" - Barnet on QPR

"....With a backlog of Season Ticket applications to process, the Club have opted to extend the Early Bird Season Ticket deadline. With the feel-good factor ahead of the new campaign continuing to build..." QPR Official Site


QPR Official Site- "KEEP YOUR SEAT - DEADLINE EXTENDED!
- Posted on: Sun 17 May 2009
- With a backlog of Season Ticket applications to process, the Club have opted to extend the Early Bird Season Ticket deadline.
- With the feel-good factor ahead of the new campaign continuing to build, R's supporters will now have until midnight on Friday 22nd May to renew their Season Ticket at the Early Bird five per-cent discount rate.
- As of Saturday 23rd May, subsequent prices will be available at a 2.5 per-cent reduction on the 2008/09 Season Ticket prices, which reflects the VAT reduction this year.
- So don't delay, renew your Season Ticket today!" QPR


QPR1st Statement re Extension
QPR1st - Further extension to early bird announced
Written by Peter Gridneff
Sunday, 17 May 2009 19:50
- The club posted the following anouncement on the official site today.....
- Whilst the Trust welcomes any extension to the early bird cut off date we are confused as to how this decision is related to a "backlog of applications". Our understanding is that the number of renewals so far this season is significantly down on last season, on that basis alone it makes sense to extend the deadline to encourage more renewals.
- With a much lower than anticipated take up we are however suprised that a "backlog of applications" has built up and we will be asking the club to help us to understand why such a backlog is related to the decision to extend the renewal deadline. QPR1st


REMINDER: TONIGHT (MAY 18): Bowles, Thomas and Francis
- Sky Sports - Sky Sports is showing a new series of one-hour football chat shows called Time of Our Lives.
- Presented by Jeff Stelling, the show offers a series of considered, nostalgic discussions featuring true legends of the game.
- Jeff will reminisce with guests, telling stories that have made football history.
- Famous names from the past will talk about their clubs, characters they played alongside, the most memorable matches and their particular rivalries - experiences that illuminated their careers....
- Fans of Queens Park Rangers should put 18 May in their diary - Stan Bowles, Gerry Francis and Dave Thomas will be in the studio recounting the glory days of the Super Hoops and their second placed finish in 1975-76 and their exploits in Europe the following season. SkySports


MARK DENNIS REMEMBERED
[From a great Guardian Series: Football - The Seven Deadly Sins)

Dennis the menace - Queens Park Rangers, 1988
- Mark Dennis was always a bit of a bad boy. So much so that he had been sent off 10 times in a 10-year career by the time he'd reached the age of 26. But then he really started to test the authorities' patience. First the QPR defender received the 11th red card of his pro career in 1987 after elbowing Ossie Ardiles in the face; he was given a 53-day ban. Then he was handed an official warning by QPR after going on holiday to Spain without club approval while recovering from knife wounds received while out one night in Croydon. Having been told he had no more "second chances", he was then sent off for a 12th time in 1988 for spitting at Fulham's Leo Donnellan in a reserve match. Dennis was quietly offloaded to Crystal Palace, his top- flight career never to recover. SM - Guardian


QPR REPORT WEEKEND POSTS

- QPR Want Tugay and Webber?...Briatore as QPR Manager?!...Rehman Profiled

- Barnet Want Jake Cole - "[A]t QPR, you never know if to go through the manager or the chairman"

- Helguson Speaks....Family Fun Day, July 29....Santander Thank QPR

- The London Football Report 2009: QPR - Questionnaire

- QPR Vice Chairman, Amit Bhatia Spoke about QPR's Managerial Search, the 2008-2009 season and the coming Season