Whitey Grandad

Whoever is supposed to be in charge of the ticket office has dropped a serious clanger. It's a very silly thing to do when the club is looking to reduce its staffing levels.

If that is the case then I agree with you. I prefer to assume that everyone on this forum is a gentleman/lady and would not deliberately do such a thing. Until it was pointed out I had not seen the connection.

Sorry, I meant that we have had too many managerial changes since Rupert took over. What is it now? 14 in as many years?

Do we have to go through all this again? We've had too many managers, it's as simple as that.

'Bipolar' is used in many fields apart from the medical one. To those of us in the electronics world the medical condition is the last thing that would come to mind.

Very good. It even made me chuckle.

I'm still in shock at this figure. Why on earth is anybody fiddling about closing the corners to save a net £15k when there must be astronomical sums that can be saved in this amount? I can understand reducing the salaries of the playing staff but they fade into insignificance compared to this sum!

You mean for 'artistic impression'? What a great idea!

Let's say it again but more slowly this time.... after agent's fees, player's salary, golden hellos, golden goodbyes etc. there is no profit. Now if he had been sold for £3m I might have been tempted.

More than Chelsea? QPR may have wealthy backers but it appears that they are no more dipping their hands into their pockets than RL & MW

We're in a lose/lose situation.

Agreed. I wonder if he knows what he's walked into?

Paul Sturrock's record wasn't that bad. It was what came after that did the damage. And all because he wouldn't wear a tie! (allegedly)

Out of interest, does anybody have this year's calendar? It's usually a guaranteed guide to who is leaving and when.

You must be the RCA Victor!

Were there two of them? Wow.

Would a chalet in Austria count as woodwork?

The Everly Brothers. I never liked them.

When he could have been on the pitch! Thanks for letting us know.

Contractual terms are normally the chairman's remit.

Lowe was part of a previous administration.

That is the fullback's job.

And who might that be? I'm struggling.

And how much have we paid him since he was injured at Blackpool and has not been playing? Not his fault, I grant you, but it comes out of the 'profit'

At the time that the stadium was being built I remember references to a specialist finance company, based in Suffolk I believe, who loaned the money against the security of future season ticket sales. As I recall, there were other stadiums that were being financed in a similar manner. These are likely to be long-term financial arrangements on higher than normal interest rates with expensive get-out terms. Its not like other property loans because the only practical use for the stadium is to hold football matches. This loan is one of the factors that sets us apart from other clubs in the same division who own their own stadiums. The turnover for some of these is around £8m.