Interview with Tony in Telegraph

Here is Tony discussing his love for the club .... comes across as someone who still cares.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...-made-mistakes-feel-like-qpr-finally-getting/

 

Great read. Thanks for posting.

 

Very nice!

 

A very enjoyable read. Thanks for posting.

Sounds very genuine.

 

Than man obviously has the clubs best interests at heart. I know that some people knock him and I have never understood why. Seems like a decent bloke to me. Interesting comment about Mark Hughes, for me the worst manager we have had in recent years. And he is a ****.

 

Come on Sheff.

Best interests - agree.
Decent bloke - agree.
Net result - club in the black in the PL taken to broke in the Championship on his watch, with some really ugly, embarrassing stuff in between. That is why people knock him.

I’m not suggesting he should go, perhaps he has learned what the ‘best interests’ really are now. It’s just a shame that his learning has been so traumatic and damaging to the club.

 

Stan, we all talk bollocks sometimes (have a look at some of my posts)! I guess the difference is, TF posts his thoughts on Twatter and therefore hits a wider audience.

 

Sums up well my feelings towards Tone.

 

Good read & I do believe Holloway was the right appointment for this time to sort things out & which he is slowly doing, it will take time & I’m with him & the club to see this through, ok we will have rough times but believe we will succeed in future, just bare with the management.

 

What’s it got to do with twitter? I’m not on it. All I was saying is nice bloke, tries hard, has ****ed the club up. Now he has the chance to make amends.

 

This about sums it up. Hope his loyalty to QPR is as undiluted as he says it is, and his approach to football people (particularly agents) more mistrustful than it has been in the past.

 

I have always liked Tony (bar the Twitter rants), however, he has made some bloody stupid mistakes. It took us 16 years to get back to the Prem and we blew it twice, twice FFS! Not many teams get one chance let alone two? When you think of the teams that went up and stayed up, they spent a fraction of the money we did. Sorry but the buck stops with Tony there.

One thing that the article mentioned was stadium and training ground and lack of progress. When will Tony actually give us a committed site and time frame? He has been here 6 years now and needs to get something concrete in place. maybe if he did that then fans would believe what he says.

AS things go, I have been very vocal about Holloway and would now say that for the time being that he probably is the best man for the job (other than Warnock). I think TF sent out mixed signals re where he wanted the club to be under Ramsey and JFH. Holloway has done better than I thought he would have. I will be the first to say 'well done' Hollow, keep it up.

 

Bloody hell that is plagiarism! They would have kicked me out of Uni for that one.
On another note have we noticed the stadium capacity has gone from a 40K down to 35K then 30k and now according to the Times 25K. If you are planning for the future of Premiership football and a modern ground then surely you must be thinking a bit more than 25K? what would be the point of moving for 5-6K more seats?

 

Comfort.

 

Perhaps it is to initially get a modern ground, but longer term to have a stadium where we have the option of expanding in the future...so 25k and 40k could both be right, depending on where we are in the journey

 

The point surely is that he is now (at last) the right man for the job. Yes, he has had to learn the extremely hard way and both the club and the fans have suffered badly because of his naive mistakes. But those mistakes came about because of a passion to deliver success for our club and he now has the experience to go along with that passion. He also has the resources and contacts to make sure we can build on any future success although hopefully in a more measured, sustainable way. For me a new stadium will be the benchmark test for the longer term project he has now embarked on. In the meantime, I really can't imagine a better option for QPR owner than Fernandes in our current circumstances.

 

Couple of bitter replies at the end of that article - any guesses that Greenfly may be a Derby fan?