| QPR going after Ainsworth 13:01 - Feb 20 with 4708 views | itfcjoe |
Will make play off qualification in League One a bit easier for anyone not called Wycombe you'd imagine.
I wonder if they, in turn, look at the decent start to life Matt Bloomfield has made at Colchester |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 13:05 - Feb 20 with 4337 views | homer_123 |
I think Bloomfields approach to football is very much suited to Wycombe - having taken in a few matches at Col U. |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 13:06 - Feb 20 with 4321 views | Asa |
I seem to recall Ainsworth being mentioned a few times before when the QPR job has come up.
Surely with the way QPR are apparently being run, the job would be less attractive now than it was before, unless he was never seriously in the frame before but is now.
Would be entirely likely Wycombe would target Bloomfield.
If QPR are looking at former players, then Ian Evatt could be another one. Hell, they may as well just interview Schumacher, Moore and Duff as well, just to really unsettle things! Lol. |  | | |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 13:52 - Feb 20 with 3978 views | bournemouthblue |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 13:06 - Feb 20 by Asa |
I seem to recall Ainsworth being mentioned a few times before when the QPR job has come up.
Surely with the way QPR are apparently being run, the job would be less attractive now than it was before, unless he was never seriously in the frame before but is now.
Would be entirely likely Wycombe would target Bloomfield.
If QPR are looking at former players, then Ian Evatt could be another one. Hell, they may as well just interview Schumacher, Moore and Duff as well, just to really unsettle things! Lol. |
Aren't QPR trying to play football, that all goes out the window with a relegation threat? |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:20 - Feb 20 with 3821 views | SitfcB |
Compensation agreed, all down to him now…
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:30 - Feb 20 with 3738 views | FrimleyBlue |
Well that's Andre's career gone there then. |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:38 - Feb 20 with 3685 views | Slimitfc91 |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:30 - Feb 20 by FrimleyBlue |
Well that's Andre's career gone there then. |
Are you on first name terms with all players ? | | | |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:46 - Feb 20 with 3620 views | davblue |
They've only got Barnsley to play who are up the top of the league so not many favours they can do us now which is a shame.
Im not sure he would leave Colchester yet, wouldn't be a great look after joining 5 months ago and is close to his family as well.
I think the assistant manager will get the job at Wycombe, if Ainsworth leaves. I don't think both can leave at the same time unless QPR push some money Wycombe's way to release him also. |  | | |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:49 - Feb 20 with 3576 views | davblue |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 13:52 - Feb 20 by bournemouthblue |
Aren't QPR trying to play football, that all goes out the window with a relegation threat? |
Ainsworth deserves a chance at a bigger club, he's done an outstanding job irrelevant of what people think of the style of play.
He doesn't suit QPR's perceived style of play ethos but he will get 11 players on the pitch who will work their socks off. | | | |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:14 - Feb 20 with 3383 views | tractordownsouth |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:49 - Feb 20 by davblue |
Ainsworth deserves a chance at a bigger club, he's done an outstanding job irrelevant of what people think of the style of play.
He doesn't suit QPR's perceived style of play ethos but he will get 11 players on the pitch who will work their socks off. |
He may also be willing to play more expansive football. Wycombe’s style was dictated as much by budget as Ainsworth’s personal preference. |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:24 - Feb 20 with 3317 views | chicoazul |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:20 - Feb 20 by SitfcB |
Compensation agreed, all down to him now…
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Bet he doesn’t go. Easy life at Wycombe and he’s on good money. |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:32 - Feb 20 with 3267 views | Sharkey |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:46 - Feb 20 by davblue |
They've only got Barnsley to play who are up the top of the league so not many favours they can do us now which is a shame.
Im not sure he would leave Colchester yet, wouldn't be a great look after joining 5 months ago and is close to his family as well.
I think the assistant manager will get the job at Wycombe, if Ainsworth leaves. I don't think both can leave at the same time unless QPR push some money Wycombe's way to release him also. |
"I'm not sure he would leave Colchester yet, wouldn't be a great look after joining 5 months ago and is close to his family as well."
i think he's put in a longer shift than Burley did. |  | | |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:32 - Feb 20 with 3255 views | davblue |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:14 - Feb 20 by tractordownsouth |
He may also be willing to play more expansive football. Wycombe’s style was dictated as much by budget as Ainsworth’s personal preference. |
that will be the acid test for him abandon what has been very successful for him and risk it not going well. | | | |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:34 - Feb 20 with 3219 views | Swansea_Blue |
QPR seem a basket case; he'd be nuts to take them on. |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:36 - Feb 20 with 3202 views | itfcjoe |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:32 - Feb 20 by Sharkey |
"I'm not sure he would leave Colchester yet, wouldn't be a great look after joining 5 months ago and is close to his family as well."
i think he's put in a longer shift than Burley did. |
Matt Bloomfield only played 488 games for Wycombe, Burley played exactly 500 for Ipswich so was always going to move....! | |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:44 - Feb 20 with 3113 views | ITFC_Forever |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:34 - Feb 20 by Swansea_Blue |
QPR seem a basket case; he'd be nuts to take them on. |
Ainsworth wouldn't give QPR a second look if it wasn't for the fact he is a bit of a cult figure there from his spell as player in the mid-00s. |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:17 - Feb 20 with 2877 views | jayessess |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 15:44 - Feb 20 by ITFC_Forever |
Ainsworth wouldn't give QPR a second look if it wasn't for the fact he is a bit of a cult figure there from his spell as player in the mid-00s. |
I think as a manager you're always going to look twice if a much bigger club come looking, aren't you?
In terms of facilities, ground capacity, fan base and structure, Wycombe are a middling League One club with a ceiling of about 22nd in the Championship and floor of the National League. QPR are a mid-table Championship club with a Premier League ceiling. In their entire history, I don't imagine Wycombe have ever managed to finish higher than QPR in the EFL. |  |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:24 - Feb 20 with 2825 views | ITFC_Forever |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:17 - Feb 20 by jayessess |
I think as a manager you're always going to look twice if a much bigger club come looking, aren't you?
In terms of facilities, ground capacity, fan base and structure, Wycombe are a middling League One club with a ceiling of about 22nd in the Championship and floor of the National League. QPR are a mid-table Championship club with a Premier League ceiling. In their entire history, I don't imagine Wycombe have ever managed to finish higher than QPR in the EFL. |
At the moment, QPR are a L1 club in all but name.... even LFW readily admit that.
They have an enormous fine to pay off over 10 years, lose £1.8m a month, and a squad of players who completely downed tools for Critchley - he hated them and they hated him.
They are also right on the line of FFP, so have no scope to significantly improve the squad without selling anyone for a large sum of money - Eze was the last one they did, and they've now blown all the money that brought in. | |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:31 - Feb 20 with 2765 views | tractorboy1978 |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:24 - Feb 20 by ITFC_Forever |
At the moment, QPR are a L1 club in all but name.... even LFW readily admit that.
They have an enormous fine to pay off over 10 years, lose £1.8m a month, and a squad of players who completely downed tools for Critchley - he hated them and they hated him.
They are also right on the line of FFP, so have no scope to significantly improve the squad without selling anyone for a large sum of money - Eze was the last one they did, and they've now blown all the money that brought in. |
That's just silly fan exaggeration. They were 7th when Beale left after spending most of the time up to that point in the top 6. They might be a bit of a shambles off the pitch but their squad is nowhere near 'L1 in all but name' and they are nearly as close to the top 6 as the bottom 3. [Post edited 20 Feb 2023 16:31]
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:35 - Feb 20 with 2697 views | BlueDouglas |
Good appointment for them, good opportunity for Ainsworth. Best of luck to him. |  | | |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:49 - Feb 20 with 2558 views | itfcjoe |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:24 - Feb 20 by ITFC_Forever |
At the moment, QPR are a L1 club in all but name.... even LFW readily admit that.
They have an enormous fine to pay off over 10 years, lose £1.8m a month, and a squad of players who completely downed tools for Critchley - he hated them and they hated him.
They are also right on the line of FFP, so have no scope to significantly improve the squad without selling anyone for a large sum of money - Eze was the last one they did, and they've now blown all the money that brought in. |
QPR are 14/1 to go down, Wycombe are 10/1 to go up
QPR are a Cat 2 academy, with big assets like Willock and Chair
They really aren’t a L1 club in all but name, if they came here they’d be a giant in the league like us Derby, SW etc | |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 17:46 - Feb 20 with 2291 views | jayessess |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:24 - Feb 20 by ITFC_Forever |
At the moment, QPR are a L1 club in all but name.... even LFW readily admit that.
They have an enormous fine to pay off over 10 years, lose £1.8m a month, and a squad of players who completely downed tools for Critchley - he hated them and they hated him.
They are also right on the line of FFP, so have no scope to significantly improve the squad without selling anyone for a large sum of money - Eze was the last one they did, and they've now blown all the money that brought in. |
They're nowhere near going down (8 points clear, 13 games left). They're also just a way bigger club than Wycombe in every aspect.
There are National League clubs that pull bigger attendances than Wycombe. That's just no basis to go anywhere further than Ainsworth has taken them already. | |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 17:51 - Feb 20 with 2243 views | pointofblue |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 14:46 - Feb 20 by davblue |
They've only got Barnsley to play who are up the top of the league so not many favours they can do us now which is a shame.
Im not sure he would leave Colchester yet, wouldn't be a great look after joining 5 months ago and is close to his family as well.
I think the assistant manager will get the job at Wycombe, if Ainsworth leaves. I don't think both can leave at the same time unless QPR push some money Wycombe's way to release him also. |
Got us to play as well. Though Ainsworth leaving may not disrupt them at all. | |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 18:06 - Feb 20 with 2166 views | ITFC_Forever |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:49 - Feb 20 by itfcjoe |
QPR are 14/1 to go down, Wycombe are 10/1 to go up
QPR are a Cat 2 academy, with big assets like Willock and Chair
They really aren’t a L1 club in all but name, if they came here they’d be a giant in the league like us Derby, SW etc |
Have a read through LFW last few match previews and reports.
They’re dropping like a stone and it’s only the incompetence of those below them that may well save them.
Edit: from the preview of the ‘Boro game:
Everything about the club’s revenues is League One, and if we paid a wage bill commensurate with the money that came into the club we’d be paying around £8m p/a as opposed to the £20m+ we fork over now, which is somewhere around sort of Portsmouth/Oxford level and exactly where the team would likely go in that scenario. We can literally only support the salary bill we're currently paying because one rich bloke writes a cheque for £1.8m a month. If they walked away from it without replacement you'd see exactly what happened at Caterham - another well-meaning sporting venture that proved to be a money pit because they didn't know what they were doing.
A buyer would have to take QPR on knowing the following things...
1 - You're on the hook for £1.8m a month, every month, starting this month in 11 days' time. Eight years of austerity under Hoos has only managed to wrestle it down that far.
2 - You're on the hook for the remaining five years of a £17m FFP fine, which we agreed to pay in ten yearly instalments.
3 - You're on the hook for whatever remains on a £20m+ training ground development — the bond raised an impressive £7m+, but that’s still a decent chunk of change to make up.
4 - You can't spend money to improve the team, because of the FFP rules of the league you play in.
5 - If you ignore the FFP line and try to financially dope it up a division anyway then you'd have to go up and stay up for a long period of time. Try to do it and fail to get promoted, it's another Derby and Sheff Wed with multiple points deductions and transfer bans to come. Succeed but come back, you're on the hook for another raft of fines and points deductions when you get back. This is how these owners got us here in the first place.
6 - The stadium that is expensive to run and is strangling your income needs extensive, expensive work doing to it, and you can't move out of it easily because there is no alternative, you're stuck here for at least ten years and that's if you identify a site and start the planning process now. You inherit a non-existent relationship with the local council who think the club is just a vehicle for foreign property speculators.
That's an incredibly difficult situation. You'd literally have to be so rich that money didn't matter. With the monthly losses, the training ground, the fine, it would probably cost you north of £50m just to get the keys.
In all honesty, who's going to buy that? Your best case scenario is a Newcastle or Man City situation attracted by the location. Your worst case is somebody who looks at Loftus Road, looks at Batman Close, looks at the all-weather pitch and looks at the army barracks and thinks 'you could put a hell of a high rise development on that if only you could be rid of the pesky football club'. Your most likely case is nobody at all, because, as I say, it's a money pit.
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 18:56 - Feb 20 with 1947 views | itfcjoe |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 18:06 - Feb 20 by ITFC_Forever |
Have a read through LFW last few match previews and reports.
They’re dropping like a stone and it’s only the incompetence of those below them that may well save them.
Edit: from the preview of the ‘Boro game:
Everything about the club’s revenues is League One, and if we paid a wage bill commensurate with the money that came into the club we’d be paying around £8m p/a as opposed to the £20m+ we fork over now, which is somewhere around sort of Portsmouth/Oxford level and exactly where the team would likely go in that scenario. We can literally only support the salary bill we're currently paying because one rich bloke writes a cheque for £1.8m a month. If they walked away from it without replacement you'd see exactly what happened at Caterham - another well-meaning sporting venture that proved to be a money pit because they didn't know what they were doing.
A buyer would have to take QPR on knowing the following things...
1 - You're on the hook for £1.8m a month, every month, starting this month in 11 days' time. Eight years of austerity under Hoos has only managed to wrestle it down that far.
2 - You're on the hook for the remaining five years of a £17m FFP fine, which we agreed to pay in ten yearly instalments.
3 - You're on the hook for whatever remains on a £20m+ training ground development — the bond raised an impressive £7m+, but that’s still a decent chunk of change to make up.
4 - You can't spend money to improve the team, because of the FFP rules of the league you play in.
5 - If you ignore the FFP line and try to financially dope it up a division anyway then you'd have to go up and stay up for a long period of time. Try to do it and fail to get promoted, it's another Derby and Sheff Wed with multiple points deductions and transfer bans to come. Succeed but come back, you're on the hook for another raft of fines and points deductions when you get back. This is how these owners got us here in the first place.
6 - The stadium that is expensive to run and is strangling your income needs extensive, expensive work doing to it, and you can't move out of it easily because there is no alternative, you're stuck here for at least ten years and that's if you identify a site and start the planning process now. You inherit a non-existent relationship with the local council who think the club is just a vehicle for foreign property speculators.
That's an incredibly difficult situation. You'd literally have to be so rich that money didn't matter. With the monthly losses, the training ground, the fine, it would probably cost you north of £50m just to get the keys.
In all honesty, who's going to buy that? Your best case scenario is a Newcastle or Man City situation attracted by the location. Your worst case is somebody who looks at Loftus Road, looks at Batman Close, looks at the all-weather pitch and looks at the army barracks and thinks 'you could put a hell of a high rise development on that if only you could be rid of the pesky football club'. Your most likely case is nobody at all, because, as I say, it's a money pit.
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But there are still half a dozen teams in that league with smaller revenues, and that £8m revenue is levels above an average L1 club. They are a smaller championship club by those measures | |
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| QPR going after Ainsworth on 19:02 - Feb 20 with 1915 views | Vic |
| QPR going after Ainsworth on 16:24 - Feb 20 by ITFC_Forever |
At the moment, QPR are a L1 club in all but name.... even LFW readily admit that.
They have an enormous fine to pay off over 10 years, lose £1.8m a month, and a squad of players who completely downed tools for Critchley - he hated them and they hated him.
They are also right on the line of FFP, so have no scope to significantly improve the squad without selling anyone for a large sum of money - Eze was the last one they did, and they've now blown all the money that brought in. |
Just sell young Dozzer and it’s all sorted |  |
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