saintds Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/36364/ What is a training ground? Is it a Rolls-Royce training ground? You can give me the best football boots but it ain’t going to make a big difference. What makes a difference is the coaching or the player. Of course you have to have basic facilities, but do we need a training ground like Spurs or Southampton ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 Our billionaire is better than their billionaire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsland Red Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 Probably the most perceptive article I have seen about our club. Someone who can ignore the media spin and work out the facts for himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 That's rather good actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 Good article that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 I didn't know Redslo posted on the QPR forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 Better than rather good. It was surprisingly insightful! This guy needs to spend more time worrying about his own team, and less time becoming so knowledgable about other teams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/36364/ Just read that, absolutely brilliant article - one which a few on here could learn from ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintAndy14 Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 Excellent article. Enjoyed reading that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwsaint Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 Very good article. He had a good way with words that kept you engaged and, through own research and thinking, produced a piece better than half the **** the daily mail or savage comes up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 28 September, 2014 Share Posted 28 September, 2014 Best thing I've read about Saints for a long time. Very perceptive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
positivepete Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Best thing I've read about Saints for a long time. Very perceptive. Indeed. Thanks for the link saintds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benali Saint Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 That was a really good read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Excellent, well thought out and well written. Impressive knowledge. All true as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucks Saint Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 was posted on the build up thread on Sat AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waggy Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 very enjoyable read, anybody tweeted a link to martin samuel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 very enjoyable read, anybody tweeted a link to martin samuel? It'd never get through his big club filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 He openly stated his disdain for the Europa League and allowed the final few months of the season to drift by with five defeats and two draws from the final 13 games when Southampton could easily have qualified for it. At whose expense would that have been at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 At whose expense would that have been at? Cups or league, does it matter?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Cups or league, does it matter?. At whose expense? Spurs. Not saying there was anything dodgy going on from our manager who had been hawking himself about since January, goes to the team that we would have been replaced in Europa League a competition he now loves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Our billionaire is better than their billionaire. ?? .....is their " billionaire " really a " billionaire"? ......or, just a very rich millionaire ? Anyone got a copy of the latest Forbes ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Cups or league, does it matter?. ....must say that I think we might have qualified ...had we had a decent no.2 goalie when Boruc was out injured or 10 games. KD and PG let in 20 goals between them and we won only ONE league game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 I enjoyed reading that. Seems to know more about our club than some of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Brilliant article. Was that really written by a QPR fan? If so, it's extraordinarily insightful from a fan from another club. I would say he should become a journalist for one of the big papers, but he's too talented for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalek2003 Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Good article, if not premature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-Fred Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 At whose expense? Spurs. Not saying there was anything dodgy going on from our manager who had been hawking himself about since January, goes to the team that we would have been replaced in Europa League a competition he now loves. Surely it would have been in place of Hull not spurs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 At whose expense? Spurs. Not saying there was anything dodgy going on from our manager who had been hawking himself about since January, goes to the team that we would have been replaced in Europa League a competition he now loves. Good call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redslo Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Our billionaire is better than their billionaire. ?? .....is their " billionaire " really a " billionaire"? ......or, just a very rich millionaire ? Anyone got a copy of the latest Forbes ???? Their majority owner appears only to be a rich millionaire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fernandes Their 33% minority owner is one of the richest people in the world: http://www.forbes.com/profile/lakshmi-mittal/ I didn't know Redslo posted on the QPR forum. I don’t, but I wouldn’t have minded writing nearly all of that article. I have posted on Portsmouth and Swansea forums though. I sort of decided not to stick my head onto London team forums. I assumed they would be a snake pit. Was I wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Their majority owner appears only to be a rich millionaire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Fernandes Their 33% minority owner is one of the richest people in the world: http://www.forbes.com/profile/lakshmi-mittal/ I don’t, but I wouldn’t have minded writing nearly all of that article. I have posted on Portsmouth and Swansea forums though. I sort of decided not to stick my head onto London team forums. I assumed they would be a snake pit. Was I wrong? LOL. Yet you posted on a Pompey forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redslo Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 (edited) LOL. Yet you posted on a Pompey forum! Well, they started it. http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=556374 Also, at one point more than 10 percent of the page views of my blog came straight from the Pompey boards. Even now it is more than 5 percent. My recent article about Portsmouth's transfer window attracted more interest than anything else I wrote this month except the first Martin Samuel thing and the majority of that interest was from them not us. If I were trying to monetize my blog, I would probably write about Portsmouth in a close to even-handed way once a week. It would infuriate them, but they would still come to read it. Edited 29 September, 2014 by Redslo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Well, they started it. http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=556374 Also, at one point more than 10 percent of the page views of my blog came straight from the Pompey boards. Even now it is more than 5 percent. My recent article about Portsmouth's transfer window attacked more interest than anything else I wrote this month except the first Martin Samuel thing and the majority of that interest was from them not us. If I were trying to monetize my blog, I would probably write about Portsmouth in a close to even-handed way once a week. It would infuriate them, but they would still come to read it. They aren't reading it. They are pointing at the pretty light the magic screen makes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian lord Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Superb summary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxford_lou Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 I did laugh at this little exchange: Redslo Posted: It is not clear to me what part of my article qualifies as total bullocks--unless it is my difficulty in locating your recent financial reports. I was informed as to how I can purchase them on line and have done so. Aside from that, what did I get wrong? Is your team not improved in this past transfer window? Are the fans themselves actually at fault for the financial mismanagement of prior ownership? Would Portsmouth fans not have liked their club to have been bought by Markus Liebherr rather than the various people who did buy your club? Other than being a Southampton fan, what did I get wrong? Cressers Posted : Being born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plumstead_Saint Posted 29 September, 2014 Share Posted 29 September, 2014 Great article - sums it up beautifully for me and sees through much of the press myths. Thanks for the link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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