Beard: Relegation won’t wreck our future

[Stanley]

QPR chief executive Philip Beard believes the club remain on course to achieve their long-term ambitions under Tony Fernandes – even if they are relegated.

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[Shania]

Well said.

I hope Mark Hughes will stay on.

[ArcticHoop]

if we can keep Hughes and majority of our squad even if we go down then we have good foundation to try come back after one season and be better prepared for PL than this season. Call me crazy, but even if we go down i still see our future bright,because we finally have a board with sense.

[QPRDave]

Good to hear i need to hear these things again at the mo

[Shania]

if we can keep Hughes and majority of our squad even if we go down then we have good foundation to try come back after one season and be better prepared for PL than this season. Call me crazy, but even if we go down i still see our future bright,because we finally have a board with sense.

[sirduncs]

well, isn't hughes on like mega money relatively speaking given the stature of our club vs the bigger clubs in the prem? if that were the case, he'd be mad to walk away from a good old pay packet.

here's hoping IF we go down, most of the current lot stay. one pre-season unmolested for us will make a hell of a lot of difference....

[nuffieldranger]

thats nice to hear lets hope we can stay up or come straight back up as champions

[wicksta]

He's hardly going to say anything else though is he like "If we go down we're screwed basically".

[nuffieldranger]

He's hardly going to say anything else though is he like "If we go down we're screwed basically".

i had a nice warm feeling reading that and then you came along wicksta

[Rich]

My guess is he wouldn't lie. So he wouldn't have said anything if we were in the brown smelly stuff.

[Gerryhatrick]

Isn't it about time for another new stadium rumour?

A planning application or plan would help convince me that Tony is long term....

[scuberry]

He's hardly going to say anything else though is he like "If we go down we're screwed basically".

Can't see how we'd be screwed,as parachute payments come into place and we'd deffo be strong favourites to come straight back up !!

[QPRWEBBIE]

I feel its only been over the past few weeks we have started to get to grips with the pace you have to play in the prem and IF we did go down we should be able the rip teams apart in the championship if we play with the same passion. Look at the first dozen games we were chasing shadows as its a different tempo with much better calibre of player against us.

[Terry-Mancini-123]

Isn't it about time for another new stadium rumour?

A planning application or plan would help convince me that Tony is long term....

I'm the sort that needs plenty of reassurance, could be from my childhood, I don't know; when I listen to PR gurus I don't hear anything, saying ain't doing.

Beard sounds like he means what he says, I'm not so sure when/if we go through the trapdoor the mantra will follow us but in QPR I trust.

[Westbyfleetr]

I read an interview with Amit about six months ago where he said he'd formed a good friendship and taken a lot of advice from Mike Ashley on running a top football club.

Wouldn't be surprised if we follow the Newcatle model if we go down. Keep the best players and core of the squad, get rid of the fringe driftwood, bring in a few youngsters on the cheap, take a short-term hit on wages against drop in turnover and aim to go straight back up.