Bleak Future

[Markybabar]

It's beginning to look a lot like a bit of history repeating. A club hero coming back to a club that he was adored but couldn't stop the rot no matter how hard he tried. Shades of 2001 and Holloway taking us down to the old Division 2.

I do feel very sorry for Gareth Ainsworth & Richard Dobson as I believe they are genuinely trying everything to improve things but coming in with less than a third of the season and desperately trying to get a tune out of this lot when it's clear for all to see that we are such a busted flush that It's just not going to happen. The players are simply not good enough from front to back. Our recruitment has been utterly horrendous and the only decent players we did have are either injured or have never recovered from the 'Project' they were sold by Michael Beale before he turned his back on the club and the players despite stating that he wouldnt. We need to hope that there are 3 worst sides come May as we are now 1 win in 20 games played and only 9 points taken since October. Also it's 3 goals conceded for the first time in our last 5 games since 1959. It really doesn't get a lot worse does it?

If we are relegated, I genuinely don't know what would happen to our club. It definitely wouldn't be an immediate League One title charge and I'm pretty sure of that.

All sellable assets leaving for pennies, no genuine youth players to develop. These truly are the scariest of times. Not sure where we go from here.

[222gers]

We'll be lucky to get pennies for our sellable assets.

[UxbridgeR]

“The scariest of times” ?

How long have you been supporting this club ?

[Markybabar]

“The scariest of times” ?

How long have you been supporting this club ?

40 years.

Do enlighten me then. What's not to be concerned about if we find ourselves relegated? I can only see a mass exodus of players and very little quality coming through our youth setup to fall back on who would be capable to mount a promotion push at the first attempt.

Putting this scenario alongside the ongoing financial issues going on with the club right now, I feel that it is most definitely a concerning and scary time that could well be on the horizon for the club if we continue this downward trajectory.

[UxbridgeR]

40 years, and this is the scariest time that you’ve encountered supporting QPR ?

We were in administration and begging for donations in buckets, so I think things have been significantly worse in recent memory. And we’re not even in the bottom three. Is there really no hope ?

[Markybabar]

40 years, and this is the scariest time that you’ve encountered supporting QPR ?

We were in administration and begging for donations in buckets, so I think things have been significantly worse in recent memory. And we’re not even in the bottom three. Is there really no hope ?

What I mean by the comment is that the future is looking scary from both a footballing and financial perspective for the club. Who knows what's around the corner? Will our owners be happy to continue funding the club if it's mid table in league one? Could we see another administration situation again? Unlikely but not impossible.

There is hope. It's what kills us, as the cliché states. I just have very little faith that we are going to win another game this season based upon the last 3 months performances and the fact that the majority of our squad look as disinterested in fighting for the cause as I can remember from any struggling team in recent memory.

[Rbee]

Is there really no hope ?

There is hope, Gareth says that the Cavalry is on the way. Just how long the Cavalry remains match fit is another matter all together.

We have three games in a week coming up and then a two week break. Hopefully during that two week break most of the injured will come back although we may not see Dykes and Willock again this season.

We then have four games during the first two weeks of April and I think these games will define our season.

[ANDREW1302]

If we get relegated from what i heard last week there is serious consideration by the owners to throw the towel in. Everything that Les has been asked to do in terms of player recruitment has basically failed. All this talk of bringing players thru has not happened. We sign players who end up in league2 or worse. The owners do not grab the mettle which good owners do - usual examples Millwall, Luton, Brentford and even Fulham. They just sit on the sidelines without any real input. The problems like the rest of the country lie more with the upper management of the club rather than the workers in it.

[SM]

If we get relegated from what i heard last week there is serious consideration by the owners to throw the towel in.

Care to elaborate?

[Nw6ranger]

We might pinch a few draws but I really don't see us getting another win this season.

[deadendjob]

This is pretty grim..

[222gers]

This is pretty grim..

And as mere fans we are completely impotent. People have spoken of protests outside the ground, not renewing STs, booing/cheering the players on/off the pitch - but we can only look on as the club dies. And we can't even hold its hand as it goes under.

[Montag]

Whatever happens - Keep Gareth and his own staff - clear out ALL other coaching staff at every level starting with LF. All total failures. I suppose that should include the scouts too. And shove your algorithm up ya a****. Clear enough?

[222gers]

It's a desperate situation alright.
They say time heals all wounds and time wounds all heels, but it will take a helluva long time for me to see the club in a favourable light after all this.
I wonder how some of the people running the club find their way downstairs in the morning.
In any other field of endeavour they'd have been given the bums' rush ages ago.

[bwhoops]

This is pretty grim..

And as mere fans we are completely impotent. People have spoken of protests outside the ground, not renewing STs, booing/cheering the players on/off the pitch - but we can only look on as the club dies. And we can't even hold its hand as it goes under.

The idea of protests at this stage of the season is a stupid idea. We have just got GA in and he needs all the fans help and SUPPORT for his players that he can get whilst he turns things around. The time for any protest is when we are mathematically doomed to relegation; and not before.

I still think that relegation can be avoided but it needs everyone to pull together - fans included. If the players are hounded by the fans it isn't going to help one little bit.