Working together
I post on two boards – this one and Rivals. I post on this one because you usually get some considered opinion (yes even with Gripper) on more serious issues and the vast majority of posts relate to QPR (with the obvious exception of the film thread, which I bloody started!)
You can but help laugh at some of the actions over on Rivals. Yesterday was a classic case in point. The Beeb says Cook is on his way for £1.5M. Immediately there are posts calling for GP’s head, preferably on a plate with a side salad. This morning, GP states on the radio that he rejected the bid for Cook (in fact he laughed at it). So that’s OK then – GP isn’t an idiot after all, and yet no apologies over on Rivals. I would hate to see what was written on IndyR’s or the LSA sites, but I suspect that the Rivals threads were tame in comparison.
There is no doubt that GP gets a bloody hard time form most fans. The reasons are unclear to me. At the beginning there were rumours he was going to sell the ground, that he was only interested in sell off our prize assets and that he was going to run the club into the ground. All of these have been unproven to date, and his actions of yesterday suggest that this will continue whilst he is at the helm. I wonder where the continued venom comes from? I have asked some folk to explain it to me, and the best they can come up with is “he’s just dodgy isn’t he”.
I have spoken to GP twice. Once at the players sponsor’s do (where he was more interested in my female companion!) and once when he phoned me – yes he phoned me! I had sent him an e-mail about my thoughts on the Sponsor’s do and how I thought it could be improved. Within half an hour he had phoned me back and thanked me for my constructive comments and he said he would take them on board. He then went into lots of stuff about the club and proved to me one thing – he DOES care about the club. I don’t agree with everything he’s ever done, and I don’t expect to in the future, but I genuinely believe he has the clubs best interests at heart.
One thing that is for sure is that he has divided opinion amongst QPR supporters more than any other person associated with the club (even George Santos!). That’s not a good thing, because the best way forward is for everyone to pull together. I think that’s what Gallen was trying to say last week, but he’s a footballer, therefore, wont be very eloquent, plus I suspect the journos twisted things a bit. In these troubled times, working together for a change might make the club more attractive to a richer chairman, to whom £20M is nothing and our debts can be written off. But this is one reason why I stick to only two message boards. The more I see and hear about what is happening on the other ones the more I realise how far we are from working together.
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