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Reply | Saints charged with spying
at 20:48 19 May 2026
Bristol City have complained as well apparently.
Seems pretty systematic to me. |
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Reply | Saints charged with spying
at 20:09 19 May 2026
EFL strap a pair on for the first time in history.
Haven’t had this much fun on socials since that bloke’s wife copped off with an 18 year old in the bogs at Norwich. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 17:52 19 May 2026
I really appreciate that mate.
Silly thing is it was me who said to Paul Morrissey in the first place that the group was a bit ‘pale, male, stale’ and it would be good to get younger voices in there. I think it’s right people with big social media followings are involved. Same as we pressed Lee Hoos to always have a general sale of away tickets because loads of youngsters who are going home and away were getting shut out of games like Reading, Luton, Fulham etc.
I’m not the hostile force they seem to believe on Twitter etc. it’s tough to read. (And yeh, I know, don’t read it. Easier said than done, particularly when you’ve got an internal monologue like mine)
I hate this website wars stuff. Hate it. Think Ted said it as well, these ‘,”culture wars” around our club atm are so depressing. We’ve been through it once before at this club and I’ll be gutted if we’re about to go through it again. I don’t know what the answer is but I am v open to suggestions. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 13:25 19 May 2026
Spot on in the first line. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I want everyone to feel confident that they can express it here.
This site is getting dragged on social media this week and it breaks my heart having put so much into it for so long. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 12:11 19 May 2026
Well, look, I am listening, I take on board what you're saying.
Everyone that works on this site has met up a couple of times already since the end of the season, and we'll do so again this weekend, talking about what next season looks like for LFW.
My overall thought is that we need to 'make it fun again'.
I do agree with you the overall atmosphere around the whole online fanbase at the moment is quite negative, quite adversarial, and it's very wearing. It's especially wearing on me, I haven't enjoyed the last 12 months at all.
So next season we're going to aim for a broader range of voices, more guest columns etc.
More of the funny, stuff. Bring back the Awaydays pieces.
More nostalgia, interviews with former players etc.
Interviews with well known famous fans etc.
So it's not just a website churning match reports and match previews with the same bloke pontificating two or three times a week.
We will still hold the club to account when we see fit, because I think that's the job of the site. But, I hear you, and others who've said similar, and we are working on it already so bear with me and we'll get there together. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 11:39 19 May 2026
Well, you're entitled to your view, and to express it. All views are welcome here, anybody is free to register and post them.
I would refute pretty much everything you've said about me here. You've made some assumptions about what I think and feel and stated them as fact. You've no idea what I think of Christian Nourry as a person.
We have been scrupulously fair in our coverage, going out of our way to praise the club in a number of areas - this season's recruitment versus last season's, learning from the mistake of the behind closed doors pre-season and reversing that, getting the average age of the development squad down so you don't have the likes of Owens, Shodipo, Hamalainen hanging around into their mid 20s. I also agree, and have said, that the team is far better now than the shower under Beale/Critchley/Ainsworth - I've raved about us finally having proper strikers. I think we could easily go top ten next year with a few well placed additions.
We have also called them out when we think they're wrong, and on the season ticket pricing and the way it was communicated I think there are elements to be concerned about. They're going after people who can afford it the least, and demographics we need to be encouraging the most.
I do agree with you that it is nasty out there at the moment. There's an unpleasant atmosphere in the support base again, we're seeing rows between fans and fan groups. I hate all of that. Hate it. But I refute that asking perfectly reasonable questions of the club, or levelling fairly held opinions or criticism of them, is causing that. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 10:39 19 May 2026
Haha I promise solemnly it wasn't intended as such.
It seemed a pretty obvious question to me. They said the ticket concession was being misued, but couldn't put even a vague figure on it. He then volunteered that he was disappointed in the stewarding which doesn't police abuse of concessionary tickets. So... how do you know? It just seems like a really obvious question to me and I was surprised it got the catty response that it did.
There's something that doesn't ring true about this claim, to me anyway. And, look, if we don't push back on season ticket price rises then you can be sure they'll be running their finger down that price list thinking 'I wonder what we can get away with next year?' Get rid of the U23 concessions? Double the kids prices? Stick everybody's season ticket up £200? After all, nobody really said anything last time, apart from bloody Clive again who thinks the CEO of the company should be across the numbers. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 11:32 18 May 2026
The really big mistake was wasting the money for Les. He was always going to be impossible to replace, we were always going to struggle without him, but you'd do well to sign a bigger load of dross than we did with that money - Zelic, Hateley, Sommer, Osborn and Gregory fcking Goodridge.
There were plenty of Kasey Keller, Alex Rae, Matt Elliott, Kevin Phillips, Clive Mendonca, Andy Booth types around at that point, several of whom had played very well against us in cup games. They got hoovered up by the likes of Sunderland and Leicester who went sailing past us.
Compounded by the decision to only give Clive Wilson a one year deal just as the Bosman ruling came in. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 18:29 17 May 2026
Yeh, it’s a shame, I saw this forum described as “AIDS” a week or so back. There’s nothing to be gained here, we should stand together. Everyone is allowed to think what they think and express their opinion.
The divide is basically people who lived through and experienced Paladini and are hyper aware about it happening again, and people who didn’t and can’t understand why were choosing to scrutinise rather than cheer lead. |
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Reply | Sweaty socks
at 14:07 17 May 2026
Michael Salisbury was a lousy referee at our level so not sure what he’s doing up there. Like letting the Teletubbies edit the Today programme. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 11:49 17 May 2026
I'm not sure I'm the most popular person in that room at the moment mate TBH with you, but I appreciate the support and kind words.
Pre-season was one of the things I had on my list but decided to leave, apologies. No word on that. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 11:42 17 May 2026
Hi mate, the three issues you raise here, in summary...
Injuries - CN said "There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic about this group, ultimately pretty much every partnership on the pitch was new this season. What this group has been able to produce has been exciting and interesting and ultimately we want to improve and build on that. If you ask me have we had many incremental steps forward this season versus last season I think we have. Could we have done better and are there things we need to improve this summer? 100%. Some of that has nothing to do with the players, some of that is making sure we have our significant and key players available more of the time. Some of it is... set pieces this season we haven't been good enough, we have to address that if we want to make another 7/8/9 points up the table to be in the top eight conversation next season.
"Please don't think we do anything other than sleep, breathe and eat QPR, 19/20 hours a day. Have there been reviews of certain situations that have resulted in certain players missing time? Yes. Did we have review meetings the week after Ipswich? Yes. Are there areas people are going to go deeper into in the next couple of weeks to then come together so four weeks before we start pre-season we have a clear plan? Yes. Know that we know that we have to try and squeeze absolutely everything we can out of every situation possible for us to be as competitive as we can."
Player sales - CN said that "probably the best way to check the temperature rather than mark your own homework is how many offers we get for some of our players over the course of the summer transfer window. I'm a realist in that regard, we can say we think we're doing well, we've brought players in and they've scored goals and that's great, but ultimately the market decides what those players are worth and then it's up to the board to decide this summer ultimately what direction they want to go in terms of when we get those offers what our strategy will be in terms of player trading over the course of the summer. There is a desire to try to keep this core group together for the coming season without negatively impacting the club's future financial sustainability which is why we've adopted this approach.
"I appreciate the point of view (that experienced players are important) and certainly there are teams that have got promoted out of the Championship with very experienced squads and there are teams that have had success, in terms of Sunderland, having a Luke O'Nien, Mepham and Browne and that was it in terms of significant Championship experience. There is no written rule that you need X experience to be successful in the Championship. If being a good Championship team was anything to do with age then we would have had a worse season this season than the previous season because the team got younger. Ultimately it will be down to how the head coach sees the squad versus the budget we have available, decide what the priorities are and work from there with Andy Belk, Julien to define those things.
"We have an ownership group that has the highest ambitions for this club, but doesn't want to do it by gambling the bank in one season signing 5/6 guys on loan for no return if you don't go up, or signing a bunch of guys who are 'in the prime of their career' and that gamble doesn't pay off. They want to do this incrementally and they believe signing young players is the right way to do that and I agree with them."
Car Giant - couldn't speak about at this time. |
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Reply | Fan sites meeting with Christian Nourry
at 19:02 16 May 2026
The attendance list was (apologies where I don't know surnames)...
In Person
Matthew Woolf - Fantasy Island message board
Connor Richards - Hoopsa YouTube
Mark - AKUTRs
Steve Russell - Indy Rs
Steve Bernard - LoftusIQ blog
Saffa Michail/Andrew Scherer - Open All R's
Oli - UpTheRs Twitter account
Myself - LFW
Sarah - Planet QPR and the disabled supporter association
Brian - Hoops and Dreams
QPR - Paul Morrissey head of press/media, Chloe Tong supporter relations manager, Christian Nourry, CEO
Remotely
Dunstan Bentley - QPR NYC
Ben Platt - W12 Podcast
Jack Supple - W12 Podcast
Steve Sayce - QPR 1st
Mike - QPR Report
Matt Winton
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Reply | Sweaty socks
at 17:13 16 May 2026
The refereeing decisions today were spot on.
The decisions that have happened over the prior week are among the worst I've seen. |
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