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Tony stepping down as chairman? 08:29 - Aug 10 with 16613 views

This is from 5 hours ago but can't see it on here, apologies if I missed it

Doesn't seem to be reply to Clive, so not quite sure why it's directed at him. There's a whole load that are the same. Maybe it's a catholic-style twitter confession? Forgive me Clive for I have sinned

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 09:59 - Aug 10 with 8181 views

sevenhoop

hope not. for all his faults, he's always tried to do the right thing, and he cares.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:00 - Aug 10 with 8171 views

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Interesting!

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Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:01 - Aug 10 with 8172 views

Northernr

I presume it's a response to the article we published last night, but yeh odd experience to wake up to a load of Tweets from him.

Really enjoying being copied into all the replies to him as well. That's just great. More like that please.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:02 - Aug 10 with 8167 views

daveB

Lovely bloke and will probably regret this if a replacement is worse but would be for the best to have a quiet out of the public eye chairmen and just let Lee Hoos run the place

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:03 - Aug 10 with 8155 views

daveB

he was on one this morning

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I’m very proud of our squad and the work ethic . We will strengthen . But give them you best support. Be positive. Come on you rsssssss

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@LoftforWords good luck to all of us this season. Been an honor and lots of fun and pain Hahahaha . Wish us luck in the loan window. I love our squad and it will only get better. Signing off now.

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@LoftforWords finally I applaud you in asking @QPR fans to have style and don’t use foul language. Criticism is fine and wanted. You tweet other tweet so allow us to respond sometimes.

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@LoftforWords got a good ceo who tries and cares and good backroom staff and shareholders that care. We Look forward not backwards.

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@LoftforWords academy is in a good position and is getting better. I can’t do much on UK planning or local goverment . We could and should have had a trainning ground and stadium by now and lots of affordable housing.

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@LoftforWords the priority was to sign up our young players. I got a lot of abuse for that. Quickly forgotten as you pointed and to be continue to build. Loans can be transferred to permanent by the way.

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@LoftforWords we tried hard for centreback and we wil continue. But one player felt the championship was to hard other one was offered a 3 year deal at a wage we were not prepared to do.

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@LoftforWords twitter willl be an endless debate. Right or wrong it’s how I am. From Crisis in AirAsia I have always believe in being transparent. But my time as chairman is fast coming to a close. So I’m sure there will be less.

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@LoftforWords Offer from Birmigham and middelsborough were real. Didn’t meet our expectations and neither did we want to weaken our squad. We are ahead of the curve in FFP. Clubs may learn the hard way next season. Club has to be sustainable .

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:04 - Aug 10 with 8136 views

Northernr

Tony, it's over, stop calling me.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:15 - Aug 10 with 8065 views

hopphoops

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:04 - Aug 10 by Northernr
Tony, it's over, stop calling me.

Apart from the slightly awkward not-letting-go man hug he's got you in, all those tweets are sensible.

And it suggest he thinks LFW is the place to go for reasonable debate, maybe he'll sign up if he retires as chairman...

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Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:16 - Aug 10 with 8054 views

Myke

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:04 - Aug 10 by Northernr
Tony, it's over, stop calling me.

lol It's not him it's you Clive. Good bloke though. Incredibly naive and way too 'out there ' but wanted nothing but the best for the club

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:22 - Aug 10 with 8006 views

johnhoop

Interesting that in the tweets that Dave has quoted above Tony seems to give the reasons why Sainsbury and Hefele didn’t sign for us. It appears Sainsbury thought the Championship was “too hard”( I suppose compared to sitting on the bench at PSV it would be!). With Hefele we couldn’t compete with the wages he was offered on a three year deal at deal hi-jacking, player hoovering, megabucks Notts Forest which is hardly surprising.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:24 - Aug 10 with 7990 views

stevec

'lots of affordable housing'... nearly fell off me chair with that one.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:34 - Aug 10 with 7914 views

peejaybee

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:24 - Aug 10 by stevec
'lots of affordable housing'... nearly fell off me chair with that one.

Why.???

If at first you dont succeed, pack up and f**k off home.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:48 - Aug 10 with 7830 views

paulparker

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:03 - Aug 10 by daveB

he sounds like a desperate woman who's just been dumped & who cant stop texting her ex after consuming 4 bottles of Pinot Grigio

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Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:50 - Aug 10 with 7810 views

blacky200

Looks like he reads LFW which is good. Is he a secret member? Wonder who it could be? Any suggestions?

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:59 - Aug 10 with 7753 views

runningman75

I was thinking Tony must be a member here. Am happy to buy him a pint though not a bottle of overpriced lager at Loftus Road.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:01 - Aug 10 with 7733 views

Northernr

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:48 - Aug 10 by paulparker
he sounds like a desperate woman who's just been dumped & who cant stop texting her ex after consuming 4 bottles of Pinot Grigio

I am quite a catch TBF.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:03 - Aug 10 with 7718 views

Antti_Heinola

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:48 - Aug 10 by paulparker
he sounds like a desperate woman who's just been dumped & who cant stop texting her ex after consuming 4 bottles of Pinot Grigio

I'm pretty sure desperate men have been known to do very similar things.

Bare bones.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:04 - Aug 10 with 7705 views

BklynRanger

I've never been to Malaysia but it's definitely somewhere I'd like to go. Just this past Wednesday I was eating my face off at that Rasa Samyang place in Chinatown. My wife would love to go to Malaysia too, ideally on the same flight.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:04 - Aug 10 with 7705 views

qprd

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 09:59 - Aug 10 by sevenhoop
hope not. for all his faults, he's always tried to do the right thing, and he cares.

Its not really a question of whether TF wants to resign as co-chairman or not. He's sunk a load of money into the club- he clearly wants as much as say as possible. No rational person would want to relinquish this kind of power.

Ultimately, its a reflection of his diminishing ownership interest in the club relative to Ruben's.

The reality is that the club has been bankrolled for the past few years by shareholder loans from Ruben and not Tony. With each shareholder loan from Ruben and conversion to equity, Ruben's stake has grown. Even though Ruben's stake is now more than 50% (I believe), there still seemed to be an arrangement between TF and RG where they would be co-chairmen.

However, if I was Ruben with his majority stake, I wouldn't want to share the power. I'd want to be chairman and have the right to nominate more board members.

Tony's likely demotion from co-chairman to just an ordinary board member is likely a reflection of that

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Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:08 - Aug 10 with 7678 views

Mick_S

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:04 - Aug 10 by BklynRanger
I've never been to Malaysia but it's definitely somewhere I'd like to go. Just this past Wednesday I was eating my face off at that Rasa Samyang place in Chinatown. My wife would love to go to Malaysia too, ideally on the same flight.

I went to Malaysia for a day - it was great. Sat opposite a German TV executive who was picking the remains of her fish balls lunch off her serviette for about an hour. Hope this helps mate.

Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:13 - Aug 10 with 7621 views

PunteR

Well... the less TF has to do with QPR the better we seem to becoming... Go figure.

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Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:17 - Aug 10 with 7596 views

SimonJames

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:15 - Aug 10 by hopphoops
Apart from the slightly awkward not-letting-go man hug he's got you in, all those tweets are sensible. And it suggest he thinks LFW is the place to go for reasonable debate, maybe he'll sign up if he retires as chairman...

How many years has he been trotting out the "We will strengthen " comment. We must be stronger than the Incredible Hulk by now!

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Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:32 - Aug 10 with 7504 views

stevec

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:34 - Aug 10 by peejaybee
Why.???

because it's another one of his pipe dreams, and the mention of affordable housing sounds like a final shot at keeping the gullible onside.

I'm no fan of the dildo brothers or Brady, but before we got lumbered read the account of him trying to ease his way in at West Ham.

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:39 - Aug 10 with 7445 views

BklynRanger

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:08 - Aug 10 by Mick_S
I went to Malaysia for a day - it was great. Sat opposite a German TV executive who was picking the remains of her fish balls lunch off her serviette for about an hour. Hope this helps mate.

It does, Mick, it does!...

Anyway, time to look forward to promises of minted power player who 'doesn't do failure' entering stage left accompanied with rumoured impending cash injection to facilitate loan of [insert name of overpaid midsized donkey].

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:42 - Aug 10 with 7427 views

Mytch_QPR

Tony stepping down as chairman? on 10:50 - Aug 10 by blacky200
Looks like he reads LFW which is good. Is he a secret member? Wonder who it could be? Any suggestions?

I think he's LBlock.

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Tony stepping down as chairman? on 11:47 - Aug 10 with 7382 views

runningman75

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45143304

On BBC website now. Is the advert coming on e-bay now. For sale ex Premier League football club , lovely area of West London. Walk past the smell of skunk on the white city estate an exclusive housing development. Some decent football young players and no brown envelopes in sight. Bidding preferable from a foreign oligarch who loves hearing sounds of the Clash at 3.00 p.m on a Saturday afternoon. Compact stadium but mainly friendly locals though around 10,000 armchair managers.

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