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Originally posted by LanguedocFox
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As an outsider, I would say that the feeling is probably similar to that which people had about City after the Thai family bought us, and appointed Sven-Goran Eriksson. As fans, we hoped it would work out for the best, but I think most of us realised it wouldn't, and we ended up feeling the same kind of frustrations as you guys.
In that first season, every home game was on Thai television, so we could watch it online, with or without the Radio Leicester commentary, and it was so depressing watching a bunch of players who clearly didn't know (or care about) one another, *****ing about pushing the ball across the pitch. The fact that most other fans were sneering at "Big Spending Leicester" was annoying, but made all the more because we were getting nowhere despite the amount of money being spent.
I don't think that other fans dislike QPR, although as someone else has suggested, the managers you've had over the past few years would not have won you any popularity contents. But it's almost certainly true that beating Rangers will give other teams more satisfaction than, say, beating Derby or Wigan. That's just the way it is.
What Fernandes needs to do - and it is going to take four or five years to do it - is to get in a manager who knows about the value of money (and Malky Mackay isn't him) with the brief of (a) getting rid of the "last big payday" merchants - of whom you do seem to have a lot and (b) assembly a team of good, hard-working youngsters mixed with a core of more mature, but well-balanced players. It's what Pearson has done at City, Sean Dyche has done at Burnley, Nigel Clough did at Derby, and what Brian MacDermott has said he wants to do at Leeds. Fernandes can't start on that project yet - Redknapp has to stay until the end of the season - but he should start planning now.
In that first season, every home game was on Thai television, so we could watch it online, with or without the Radio Leicester commentary, and it was so depressing watching a bunch of players who clearly didn't know (or care about) one another, *****ing about pushing the ball across the pitch. The fact that most other fans were sneering at "Big Spending Leicester" was annoying, but made all the more because we were getting nowhere despite the amount of money being spent.
I don't think that other fans dislike QPR, although as someone else has suggested, the managers you've had over the past few years would not have won you any popularity contents. But it's almost certainly true that beating Rangers will give other teams more satisfaction than, say, beating Derby or Wigan. That's just the way it is.
What Fernandes needs to do - and it is going to take four or five years to do it - is to get in a manager who knows about the value of money (and Malky Mackay isn't him) with the brief of (a) getting rid of the "last big payday" merchants - of whom you do seem to have a lot and (b) assembly a team of good, hard-working youngsters mixed with a core of more mature, but well-balanced players. It's what Pearson has done at City, Sean Dyche has done at Burnley, Nigel Clough did at Derby, and what Brian MacDermott has said he wants to do at Leeds. Fernandes can't start on that project yet - Redknapp has to stay until the end of the season - but he should start planning now.
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