| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 10:55 - Sep 6 with 5970 views | Dorse |
Hard Talk:
'Do you want some?'
'Are you looking at my bird?'
'Did you spill my pint?'
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 11:12 - Sep 6 with 5922 views | ichbinnaughty |
Against the grain of many opinions on here, I think the amount of shid that Tony gets is really way OTT.
Undeniably, with the power of hindsight, you can look back at decisions taken, certain signings, events that have and haven't, social profile and so on, in a dim light.
But he is undeniably a decent, open, well-intentioned bloke; and when many of the decisions were taken, or spending sanctioned on most players - I think that the fan-base at large was supportive, excited, and on-board with it.
Replacing Warnock with Hughes - at the time, accepted to be 'necessary' to safeguard our place in the Premier League.
Allowing Hughes to spend - at the time, supported, as we had only just avoided relegation.
Replacing Hughes with Redknapp - awful start to the season, and a man who was largely the preferred choice for England manager (IMAGINE) (after his exploits with Spuds - in the Champions League) was available - seemed a no brainer..........
Signing the likes of Caesar (World Cup winner, Brazil's no1), SWP (decent scoring record for the scum, City & England), Ji Sung Park (Champions League winner, and big profile in Air Asia/Tune's home continent), Samba (we desperately needed to plug a leaky defence) etc etc etc . mostly made sense.
YES they didn't fit in with QPR's profile and traditions - but we were in a new era of Premier League glamour/money/profile = and were trying to compete with other clubs....and this is how it was (and is, and continues to be).
Big Tone has only ever tried to do what's best in the club's interests.
I look at some owners, and am grateful he's not a monster. It would be so much 'more QPR' to get saddled with an asset-stripping, name-changing, club-merging ego-maniac.
He's not perfect, but he's a decent man (if occasionally misguided and/or ill-advised). | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 11:46 - Sep 6 with 5815 views | daveB |
He's made a pigs ear of it but whether it was by accident or some sort of plan I like the way the club is working now and what they are trying to do. Will be interesting to see what he does if QPR ever get promoted again | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 11:49 - Sep 6 with 5802 views | FDC |
Yeah that would be quite telling. | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 11:50 - Sep 6 with 5798 views | Northernr |
Would very much depend on whether Hoos is here or not. I'd love us to go up with Hoos even if we lost every game and came straight back after one season because I think he'd make sure the TV money and the parachute payments would set the club up for life. | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 12:07 - Sep 6 with 5725 views | Dorse |
That strategy can certainly pay off. WBA did this previously knowing full well that they would be relegated, consolidate and go back up after a season in the Championship. I remember paper interviews where they seemed pretty open about it and managed the fans' expectations well. | |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 12:44 - Sep 6 with 5603 views | kensalriser |
Great post ichbin.
The thing we tend to forget is that we were woefully ill-prepared for that first season back in the prem. We had one quixotic playmaker and a team that had somehow played beyond the sum of its parts. Only two of those players have gone on to have Premier League careers, both were loans and neither played the full promotion season. Then we got further in the mire with Briatore and Ecclestone's funding embargo and subsequent scramble for overpriced oddments by the new board.
We were set up to fail. | |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 12:54 - Sep 6 with 5551 views | Spaghetti_Hoops |
Spot on ichbinn
Shock to read a sensible post on this forum. | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 13:02 - Sep 6 with 5510 views | Northernr |
Spot on ichbinn
Shock to read a post I agree with on this forum.
Fixed that for you. | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 13:22 - Sep 6 with 5441 views | PunteR |
And yet those championship players ended up being relied on to keep us up. | |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 13:47 - Sep 6 with 5360 views | BostonR |
He is a honourable person and admits his mistakes.
However, don't be fooled as there is a very savvy businessman under the surface. Would love to know what the OOC position is - suspect the very large investment resources he has access to have driven a position on that land.
I wish him well and I hope it works out for him and the Board - they deserve it. | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 13:50 - Sep 6 with 5348 views | enfieldargh |
TF takes to Twitter a lot and I think the guy takes the twitter trolls criticism with a pinch of salt unlike Briatore who wanted the name of every QPR fan that booed him.
It didnt work all the money throwing antics but thats in the past and thinking about where we might be today had other decisions been made wont make a jot of difference.
One thing that would get his credibility rankings up would be a spade and the word training ground underway. | |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 14:05 - Sep 6 with 5302 views | SimonJames |
I lost my trust in his judgement with his "promotion means everything" post. | |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 14:12 - Sep 6 with 5278 views | AgedR |
Not sure there are people queuing up to buy.
It was a bit of a daft question if you ask me. | |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 14:28 - Sep 6 with 5233 views | BostonR |
Everything has a price. I doubt he will sell - they are in it for the long-term. | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk (n/t) on 14:34 - Sep 6 with 5215 views | johnhoop |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 14:36 - Sep 6 with 5207 views | johnhoop |
Apologies Clive,accidentally downvoted your post above when I meant to do the opposite. Is there any way of correcting a vote when you've done it? | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 15:13 - Sep 6 with 5116 views | simmo |
No but you have to stand by your mistake and genuinely disagree with the post forever. | |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 15:33 - Sep 6 with 5062 views | Churchie |
I tried to upvote twice i liked the post for Tony so much! So much positivity on this site today. | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 16:02 - Sep 6 with 4995 views | johnhoop |
Is ritual disembowelment Japanese style considered sufficient penance? | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 17:21 - Sep 6 with 4865 views | simmo |
Harakiri seems a bit much but it's not stupid if it works | |
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 17:59 - Sep 6 with 4783 views | Northernr |
We're going to get walloped on Saturday aren't we? | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 18:36 - Sep 6 with 4707 views | whittocksRs |
As much as I like Fernandes — and in an era of horrible club ownership he is nowhere close to the worst and clearly cares about QPR — it is damning that literally nothing has happened to improve the infrastructure of the club since he's joined. No training ground, no stadium, not even any real improvements to Loftus Road. Every other London club has managed some type of progress in the past five years, so I'm not having that 'London is hard to do anything in' argument.
But we could be Blackburn, Coventry or Blackpool with someone else, and he was good enough to suck up the overspend and kill the debt himself — so that's to his credit. [Post edited 6 Sep 2017 18:36]
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| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 18:36 - Sep 6 with 4706 views | MelakaRanger |
Here here. Well said! | | | |
| Interview with Tony on BBC Hard Talk on 18:52 - Sep 6 with 4663 views | timcocking |
Tony's cool as fcuk.
He's the only good billionaire alive ffs. | | | |
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