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Reply | WE WANT NOURRY OUT SAID WE WANT NOURRY OUT
at 15:47 13 Mar 2026
It's literally his self-described job-description. You can watch him say it out loud in numerous interviews...
He is a "Sporting Director CEO".
He appoints the coaches and oversees recruitment. It's not my "opinion". It's his.
I really can't believe you think this is a made up conspiracy.
Or, put it this way: if he doesn't appoint the manager and oversee signings, who did? Who signs the players and appoints coaches at QPR, Gazza? |
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Reply | WE WANT NOURRY OUT SAID WE WANT NOURRY OUT
at 11:34 13 Mar 2026
Because every time a player leaves or signs, every time a coach leaves or arrives, it is Christian Nourry on the website welcoming or thanking them or sending them on their way. It's not a secret. There's only ever one official quote about any departure or arrival. So...he gets the credit and the brickbats. |
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Reply | WE WANT NOURRY OUT SAID WE WANT NOURRY OUT
at 11:13 13 Mar 2026
Who appoints and buys all those managers, players, coaches? And who went to great pains and expense to manage the previous set of managers and coaches, including QPR diehards, out of the door to get all these guys in?
He wants all the praise, so he gets all the brickbats. (as does his boss) |
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Reply | Latest WLS podcast
at 10:23 13 Mar 2026
I think it could work if the DOF/Sporting Director is exactly that: an older, graduated manager - someone steeped in football management or coaching who oversees it and who a younger head coach leans on. So, a Warburton or S Gallen type, people who've been around players and teams a long time. Though, at Millwall, Gallen works seemingly well with a very experienced and gnarly old manager used to building his own squad so...
But it probably doesn't work with a 27 year old guy in his first job at a football club, who is also involved with exploring whether the pitch can be rotated 90 degrees and sitting in community meetings with the local authority, negotiating for players in Norway with one hand, the cheapest h/t pies while the first team squad falls to bits around him... |
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Reply | Latest WLS podcast
at 10:05 13 Mar 2026
There's that story Ray Houghton tells about being signed by Liverpool on Thursday, then put straight in the team on Saturday. Just before he goes out, panicked, he asked Ronnie Moran what he should for set-pieces. Moran replied, "You work it out, that's why we've spent all that money on you!" |
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Reply | Latest WLS podcast
at 09:50 13 Mar 2026
I'm sure they were: Jago and Sexton would have had probably an assistant, a trainer and a physio. All hands to the pump! No set piece coaches and performance experts then.
I wonder how different the drills Warburton/Eustace put on were compared to, say Holloway/Bircham or McClaren/Eustace...probably the same, right?
But: Jago, Sexton, Warburton, Holloway, Francis, Venables...big personalities, like Warnock. Some of those also incredible man managers at times.
Dave Mc's banged that 'big personality managers succeed at QPR' drum for decades and it's hard to disagree with. |
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Reply | WE WANT NOURRY OUT SAID WE WANT NOURRY OUT
at 09:05 13 Mar 2026
He's a 59-year-old multi-millionaire who was employed in football at a top level nearly 40 years. He does a bit of media, lots of golf, goes on plenty of holidays...he was a DOF for ten years, being abused every week.
Why on earth would he go work at, dunno, Huddersfield now? He's retired, there's probably only a job at the FA he'd take. And he'd do a much better job than Adrian Bevington, no doubt.
Just saying. |
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Reply | Latest WLS podcast
at 08:56 13 Mar 2026
I thought it was really interesting, and both Dave and Kevin were super insightful about what a manager does.
Kevin explaining that all training at all clubs is basically the same, there's no innovation possible really. Asking his brother Joe when he was Jackett's assistant what training they did: "Football training!" Love that.
So then Dave's long bit about how good management is about personality painted a whole world between the lines. I've been thinking about it ever since.
Kevin saying that he was a youth coach at QPR when Warnock was here and he barely came to training, players rarely saw him - but he earned his money in the half hour before the game and at half time. That's management. Coaches take care of the rest.
I guess it's a bit like having Adel in your team: you need Derry, Hill, Helgusson, Korkss to run the team, which allows you to have Adel to weave his magic. QPR need that figurehead manager with a big personality and top man-management skills, with hard-working coaches.
Do we have that? I reckon we have the reverse. That's what the pod suggest. Definitely my favourite football pod because it always makes me think. |
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Reply | Richard Kone
at 20:49 12 Mar 2026
Dykes turned 25 on October 7, four games into the season. Kone is 23 this July. Come on man. They're at different stages. Kone is 22 this season, Dykes was 25.
Dykes got 12 goals in his first season playing for a QPR that finished 9th, with Willock, Chair, Johanson and for four months BOS providing assists. He started the season poorly, neither he nor Bonne could score, so we signed Austen to help them out. That team would beat the QPR we're fielding in 2026 every time. We'll never know for sure, but I reckon Kone scores 15-20 in it.
Look, time will tell. We'll know more when he's 25, I guess. But now he's the only striker we have, who's been available every week, and is now playing with absolutely no service from out wide or through the middle in a dogsht team with zero confidence or know-how. I don't see the value in slagging him off. |
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Reply | Richard Kone
at 20:10 12 Mar 2026
On today's excellent West London Sport, it was interesting to hear David Mc say that a "year two Richard Kone could well score 20 goals" and that even though he's younger than Cook or Dunne, he should be part of a leadership group.
I think this career path, while not guaranteed, is more likely than Lyndon Dykes's.
Dykes came to QPR when he was 25 having never hit double figures in a season in three seasons in the weak Scottish Championship nor his one season in the Scots Prem. Since then, he has only once hit double figures, for us, in 2020. During his 25 appearances for the free-scoring L1 title winners, he scored once.
Lyndon Dykes is now 30. Richard Kone is 22.
This is Richard Kone's third season as a professional footballer. In his second season, playing for Wycombe in L1, he scored 18 goals from 40 games (the same season Dykes scored once for a better team in 25).
Let's revisit their careers when Kone is 30. But if Dykes was really as good as Kone is now while playing 40 games and scoring 4 times for Livingstone at the same age then, wow. |
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Reply | Same Time Next Year
at 15:33 12 Mar 2026
I've said this before, but Sam Field was being offered to other Championship clubs before Stephan joined. It's game model biz, which has nothing to do with the coach.
We have Stephan because he's a guy who can accept whichever player is given. Many coaches wouldn't. Who'd accept being told who his number 1 is, for example?
When Dave Mc asked Stephan if he was picking the team, there was outrage, particularly on X. Dave Mc was not trolling. That's not him. He was getting that on the record because he also knows the parameters that the QPR coach must operate within under the current administration.
"Ripping everything up" would be less apocalyptic than you imagine. It would be healing. And better than going again like this next season. Bu most of it, the uneven squad, the lovely training ground, the players we spent far more on than they're currently worth...that all stays. Hopefully everything is managed more sensibly, with less insane narcissism and we can resurface sooner. |
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Reply | WE WANT NOURRY OUT SAID WE WANT NOURRY OUT
at 11:23 12 Mar 2026
I think it's too easy to say "it's all been terrible for a decade, it's all the same thing."
On the pitch, yes, it has mostly been meh. Really, though, we could and should've done a Sheffield Weds.
When Les Ferdinand was appointed DOF in Feb 2015, QPR were about to be relegated, rock bottom of PL, with several players on £50k a week, including the likes of Sandro, who had no resale value nor intention of contributing to QPR. The wage to turnover was 198%, the highest in football. QPR were also about to be given a world record fine and potential embargo with a squad of over-paid and old losers. Meanwhile, the club trained in L1 standard rented facilities on different sites for each age group...
When he left - which it was time for after sacking Warburton so disastrously - the wages to turnover had reduced by over 100%, to 92%. We'd sold several youth graduates for actual money for the first time in decades, including the club record fee. We also owned our own top-of-the-range new training facilities.
QPR of 2024 was a blank slate. A totally different club. Its most healthy in many ways in a long time. Nourry got the keys to an entirely different vehicle, with finally some playing investment available. At the moment it looks like he's driven that into a ditch.
That's on him and whoever appointed him. It definitely didn't need to be like this. |
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Reply | Gaffer on tonight's defeat
at 08:41 12 Mar 2026
Playing fantasy football here...
...but if they lose at Leicester and bin Stephan as I suspect they may have to just to throw some meat to the mob, they could do worse than give the team to a combination of Cook and Betsy for the last eight games (maybe Bould too, if they can coax him into the dugout). I imagine Cook knows better than most what needs fixing and if that was his hamstring, that's his playing season done. |
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Reply | This Season Almost A Replica of The McLaren Season
at 13:13 10 Mar 2026
I'd copy and paste this and send it to the board, Ruben, sign it on behalf of LFW. I can't see a word of it that can be contradicted, a suggestion that would not improve QPR 26/27. And 26/27 needs radical improvement because a traumatic season feels in the post right now. |
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Reply | WE WANT NOURRY OUT SAID WE WANT NOURRY OUT
at 12:15 10 Mar 2026
The story was originally that a player would never be in the first team, no? Did this definitely happen? Has the player said so? If the QPR employee took exception to people posting about this on QPR messageboards and there is no proof, it is libel. Though I assume everyone here can prove it happened.
Do you think most fans who are upset about the way QPR are playing and operating at the moment know anything about the canteen story?
My point was: getting annoyed because fans were not "riled up" abut an incident at the training ground that the vast majority have no knowledge of nor were not witness to versus getting upset about matches we are watching live and broadcast on TV is daft.
The fans are not the problem. |
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Reply | WE WANT NOURRY OUT SAID WE WANT NOURRY OUT
at 09:22 10 Mar 2026
Because the results and performances happen before our eyes. They are televised. The lies told are happening before our eyes, to our faces and can be contradicted easily by subsequent events.
With the best will in the world, "the bullying of a young player" is an uncorroborated rumour on a messageboard. The player in question has not publicly stated it. The players who witnessed have not publicly stated it. No training ground staff have publicly stated it. If repeated on here in full, with names attached, it would be defamatory and Clive would have to close it down.
So, terrible as the tale is if remotely true - and true does not mean you have a good source for it, it means several corroborated witnesses - most people don't know the rumour. If QPR have 10k season ticket holders, fewer than 100 know about this. They all know the results, they all witness the performances, they hear the dishonesty in interviews.
So that's the difference between being "riled up" about losing 11-0 on aggregate on TV across three games and the rumour on a messageboard. The fans are not the problem. |
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Reply | Boro Post Mortem
at 15:51 9 Mar 2026
The "French football agent" whose dad he says played for Bulgaria, who won't reveal his name, or a website for his agency, and who only started posting about QPR in late 2023, always massively enthusiastic about the current plan (and always very down on Sam Field, funnily enough), was first on X straight after the match yesterday...
"Usual headloss from fans after a defeat".
Just amazing chutzpah. Shameless.
QPR have in the last ten days lost:
0-5
0-2
0-4
"Usual headloss from the fans after a defeat".
There's absolutely nothing usual about any of this, least of all the French-Bulgarian football agent who loves QPR's game model and its noble young prince CEO. |
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Reply | WE WANT NOURRY OUT SAID WE WANT NOURRY OUT
at 15:05 9 Mar 2026
Every new detail about the Steve Gallen non-hire is damning. The guy who presided over that should be first out.
Agree with all your points except for the fans being apathetic. It's not 1987 anymore, the only time you will get fans physically mobilising is for an existential crisis, such as administration. And I think that's right. Bad appointments, playing issues, losing runs - not worth marching or banging the doors about, it lessens the impact should something that threatens the club's existence needs protesting.
The fanbase is pretty split anyway, mostly on age demographics. I don't think LFW is a fair reflection of the youth up in Q or R blocks really.
But the sight of the ground emptying on 82 minutes twice in a week (Christian, how about opening that nightclub for fans to stay and dance the night away under The Loft?!) will spell out a similar message loudly enough.
As will threads like these and some of the posts I've seen on X. Probably more potent and targeted than 50 people standing outside chanting about the CEO or some cringe banner. |
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Reply | Hoopsa on today's horror show
at 12:35 9 Mar 2026
Those were six very stressful and difficult years between Wright stepping down in 2001 and Briatore buying the club in 2007, often straying into real existential fear. And QPR had far smaller debts and was a much cheaper proposition then.I would not return to those days.
A Championship club will fold in the next decade when the football bubble bursts, and one with so much valuable West London land as its only assets but tens of millions of debt with more accumulated each month is a good bet.
Better off just hoping they hire a new CEO and DOF in the summer. |
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