Inside The Boardroom

The lessons we can learn from Gregory and Thompson is that we're a small club punching above its weight on occasions and, as a consequence, we need to cut our cloth accordingly.

What we can also learn from those era ls is success is relative We're not going to win the title or many cups so if when we finished as London's top club in 1993 we shouldn't have so carried away with ourselves that we threw a hissy fit that we didn't go further. That was success.

What future owners should also take from those eras is the need to be transparent and explain. Fans threw a hissy fit about Thompson regularly selling the best players and he should have given interviews explaining the reality of QPR and how we can't, financially, compete with bigger clubs.

Of course, we could end up with a Saudi backer who throws enough money at us that the above becomes irrelevant but for me I won't be a QPR fan anymore of that happens and may God forgive you all and all that...

West Ham were FA Cup holders and had European Football to look forward to. They were also out right favourites to win Division 2 - as they did - and had a history of nurturing young talent.

We also had a new stand to build and had failed to be promoted the season before.

It was probably harder to keep him to be fair.

Something else to consider as well - which probably sums up the ethos of QPR under Gregory- that summer we also sold Clive Allen for £1m and Chris Woods for around a quarter of that.

With the proceeds we paid off the construction costs for the new School End and bought, among others, Tony Sealey,
Michael Flanagan, Terry Fenwick, Warren Neil and Ian Stewart who all went on to play a significant role over the next few seasons of success.

Something else to consider as well - which probably sums up the ethos of QPR under Gregory- that summer we also sold Clive Allen for £1m and Chris Woods for around a quarter of that.

With the proceeds we paid off the construction costs for the new School End and bought, among others, Tony Sealey,
Michael Flanagan, Terry Fenwick, Warren Neil and Ian Stewart who all went on to play a significant role over the next few seasons of success.

Acton boy, one of our own.

I think there's an overriding sense that most football boards operate in a manner completely at odds with the way companies in the City can and do.

Although we all hope we're not one of them, it would do the sport a whole load of good if clubs began to go bust so others are forced to accept that they need to change their ways.

Indeed, problem is that our beloved club would be one of those whose future is, you would have to say, more uncertain than most due to the board's incompetence.

Fans (me included) are not entirely innocent in all this either. Virtually everyone was screaming under Warbs to make those four loan signings permanent for example and look how that turned out (and btw the reason why we can't do anything this window).

In some cases, but when you look at the likes of Kieran Dyer and Shaun Wright Philips you didn't have to be a member of Mensa (or this new CEO's data academy) to see this was madness, but on the crowd cheered...

Those who embraced the rich boys and what they did are equally to blame for what happened and continues to.

So don’t cheer the team and support the club in case we can’t afford the players and Fulham shouldn’t be light years ahead of us because they didn’t do it the way football should be played? What a load of nonsense.