It has been a week of quotes and interviews with QPR figures past a present talking about their time at the club.

Full back Peter Ramage again incurred the wrath of the Loftus Road crowd for a lacklustre performance against Watford at the weekend. Despite looking very low on confidence at the moment the summer signing from Newcastle always speaks so well and enthusiastically about his time at the club so far.

Ramage told the Evening Standard: “Everyone else expects us to do well, but it is not easy because this is one of the toughest leagues in world football. But that does not play on our minds, we just go out there to do what we get paid for and that's to win football matches.

"The new manager has changed a lot since he has come in. The style of play we have adopted is a little bit unfamiliar to us, but we are slowly getting there. Now the Christmas period is over, we can get back to playing one game a week and getting on the training pitch to work on a few things."

Another person who could be forgiven for speaking with some bitterness about life at Loftus Road is Iain Dowie who was overlooked for the manager’s job during his first spell here and then sacked after 15 games of his second this season. Again that has not proved to be the case as the Northern Irishman spoke on Sky’s Goals on Sunday programme.

Dowie said: “I have to say, from minute one on the training ground, I couldn't have enjoyed it more. The lads were ultra-responsive, me and Tim sat down in the summer, felt they probably needed a little bit of tightening at the back. We ended up with the third best defensive record in the league when we left.

"It's not too often you get removed with a 53 per cent win percentage, so we can't have been that bad - and we were in the last 16 of the cup. But I'm not a bitter person, I don't have time for that. You've got to move on and wish them all the best. There are still some great lads at the club and I wish them all the success but he's entitled to run it absolutely how it wants it.

"Flavio was fine with me for lots of the time and then it just became a situation where I felt I had to be very much in control of my own destiny. I had to look the players in the eye and know that the decisions that were being made, were being made by me.

"You don't have to do it all by yourself. You have a scouting network in place and a database you work from, and if a player is tagged up three times the manager goes to see him himself. But the board always have the final say and that's got to be the way for me. That was very much the case and I have no problem with that being taken away, as long as you have the final say.”

Italian midfielder Damiano Tommasi, dropped from the side recently despite seemingly suiting the holding midfield role, has been speaking to an Italian football website about his time in London so frar.

Tommasi said: “I was injured when I arrived and started slowly to get back in shape. Now I am ready to play and I’m sure there will be a chance for me as well. I am extremely happy to be back working after the injury. My contract expires in June 2009, but I hope that this adventure will continue.

“The only real difficulty is being far away from my family who stayed in Rome because the children had already started school. When I am home I spend as much time as I can with them. Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment, but I go to Rome whenever I can. If my contract is renewed, as I hope, they will join me in London.

The thing that struck me the most [about Briatore] is his presence and participation in both victory and defeat, his knowledge of the environment, the players, and the tactics. It seems that this is his only business, but we all know that it isn’t.

“There are many young players here, but I don’t know if I can be an example to them. Of course, I will try to bring the experience that I acquired throughout all these years with various coaches, but it is also true that English football is different from the Italian one. For this reason, I don’t know if my experience will be useful in England. However, I will try to be myself, to do my job and being ready when I am needed. If I can help the young players as well, then I am happy.”

Former R Richard Langley, now with Bristol Rovers, has also spoken about Rangers in his latest blog entry.

Langley, who says he is hoping for another Jamaica call up now John Barnes is in charge, said: “I still have strong links with Loftus Road and I really hope for the fans that it works out the right way. New owners are coming into football a lot and not all of them have the club´s best intentions at heart. I hope they do at QPR.

“It´s not a big-time club like Chelsea, it´s more of a family club. You have the same people going to Loftus Road now as have been going for years and it´s those kind of people who make up the backroom staff as well. As long as they keep those people at the club happy they should be OK.”

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