29th October

Meeting with club/plc board confirmed

Following the latest QPR board meeting, the meeting between the Trust and board has been rescheduled for the day of the Plymouth home game.

This is a good four months after we first attempted to schedule a regular monthly meeting with the board. Since then much has happened. We are naturally very concerned at the difficulties associated with setting-up this meeting, but remain committed to direct communication.

Members are invited to submit any questions they would like to present to the board to info@qpr1st.co.uk.

We have already submitted these questions in advance:

a) Is the club currently solvent?

b) Have all creditors been paid up to date including interest and tax payments on the loan from ABC Corporation, PAYE and VAT ?

c) Have financial projections been prepared and agreed for the current year?

d) If so, on what basis are they drawn up? Please comment on:
(i) forecast cup runs
(ii) forecast gate receipts and attendance figures
(iii) forecast players wages
(iv) forecast non-players salaries
(v) other overheads

e) If the projections forecast a loss, how is this to be funded?

f) If wages, salaries and overheads are to be cut, what proposals are there to achieve this?

g) With regard to the ABC Corporation loan, what terms are built in to the contract to allow for early redemption?

h) What measures have been put in place to safeguard the ground in the event of default in interest or capital payments?

We expect the focus of discussions to be around the finances of the club, what the board are doing to address that situation, and what QPR 1st and the supporters as a whole can do to help.

QPR 1st speak to the Gazette re the Ian Wright incident

QPR 1st Chairman Justin Pieris said: "There is simply no excuse for racist abuse, full stop. This may have been an isolated incident, and not representative of QPR supporters generally, but that cannot excuse it.

"Condemning racist behaviour is a very easy thing to do, but stamping it out is somewhat harder and everyone has a responsibility to do their bit. The club needs to make sure its staff and stewards intervene swiftly and the police need to back this up too - so that reasonable, normal supporters feel able to challenge the racists if and when they hear anything untoward."

2nd October

Committee Member William Wall Resigns

Sadly William Wall has resigned from the management committee of QPR1st, we would like to take this opportunity to thank him for all his efforts on behalf of the Supporters Trust.

Will has asked us to publish the following statement on his behalf.

To all fans Of Queens Park Rangers FC

I've been a proud committee member of QPR 1st for nearly two years, having been co-opted for the first part, then a full committee member for just over a year.

It is with great sadness on my part that I have now resigned from my post on the committee.

My reasons for leaving are these:

- My continued contempt for the present board of QPR regarding how they attempt at every opportunity to ignore the fans of the club when we are the ones who employ them to look after OUR club, yet will not listen to the fans who pay their wages every week .

- The way the club hide information which should be available to ALL fans of QPR and yet some of the board of directors have not even been allowed to see information which they are entitled to view, as well as not being permitted to attend even certain board meetings

- The way the club seems to be heading for the biggest fall in its history. The possible loss of Loftus road saddens me to the pit of my stomach, so much so that I have begun to question my continued support of the club after over 30 years of supporting them


The COMMITEE of QPR 1st are some of the hardest working bunch of people I've ever had the privilege of coming across and the work they do in their own time beggars belief and I'll miss every one of them.

I'd like the trust and ALL of the fans groups to get together from now on and to make sure we have a club which we can continue to support for another hundred years and more, but the way the club is being run right now makes me doubt that will ever happen.

Thanks to everyone on the committee and to wish them the best of luck for the future.

regards

william wall (aka Wombat)

QPR1st meets Bees United

Reps of QPR1st met with reps of Bees United last week. Topics for discussion included Brentford's progress with plans to develop a new stadium as well as trust membership, fundraising initiatives and Martin Rowlands extra time goal at Wrexham in detail using a couple of chesterfield couches and a coffee table to illustrate. We have agreed to arrange another meeting around the turn of the year as a follow up. We are also currently arranging a meeting with the Fulham Supporters Trust in order to keep abreast of developements regarding Fulham's planned return to Craven Cottage.