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16 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
I would say we only looked organised in his first season. After that his increasingly negative, defence first, tactics didnt actually stop us conceding goals.
His league record in 21/22 and 22/23 was...
Played: 70
Won: 17
Drawn: 16
Lost: 37
Scored: 57
Conceded: 104
How much would you say you've improved since he left?
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2 hours ago, williebraveheart said:
With all the imposters gone or going I think next week will either make or break our club.
If you think that's all the imposters gone or going, should meet the board and the people in the background.
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39 minutes ago, GloriousHoops said:
https://queensparkfc.co.uk/leeann-dempster-departs-queens-park/
Lennon it is then.......?
Dempster taking credit for the academy going to Elite status is wild.
That was Beuker and his staffs work. Dempster has been known to have shown zero interest in the academy in her tenure.
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I've heard rumours that Dempster is leaving.
Maybe a sacrificial lamb before any AGM etc.
It leaves David Hunter to be the guy negotiating transfers.
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Scott Brown as manager with Charlie Mulgrew would help build toward Haughey's dream of turning QP into a wee Celtic.
Already lets Celtic B play at Lesser over any QP team so makes sense for him to continue down that path.
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16 hours ago, QP's in my DNA said:
It's not only Beuker that left because of the committee's lack of ambition, but I'd put Owen Coyle in that category too.
This sums up our club's failings off the park. It's simply down to an amateur committee.
Fans on here quite rightly express their opinions on Queens seriously aspiring to get to the Premiership, that's never been my own belief. As BYOS says above , the objective of not only the committee but also of Haughey, was to avoid the trap door and stabilise in the upper first division. Owen Coyle created a "meltdown" in the committee's plans by showing how good management could allow us to dream beyond their abilities to rebuild Lesser.
In all the talk of compensation for Beuker going, I would imagine the committee's main plan now is to erect a covered walkway from the Club offices direct to their "Vanity Bunker" so that their blazers don't get wet.
As for the rest of us............well we all know what they think of those outside their own inner circle.
Coyle never left through his own choice, he was initially hired because he knew Haughey so wasn't an anti-board person at all.
He wasn't going to be committed to developing youth players and the programme over the next few years and he made that clear and it was decided it was best that he goes for those reasons.
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11 minutes ago, Zanetti said:
Means he's away imo.
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On 27/11/2023 at 22:02, Southsideforever said:
Money has gone into structures rather than established players' contracts to build for the future rather than short-term success.
A lot of structural stuff has been ballsed up as well.
The stadium is a white elephant that looks like it will never be used or up to scratch. It lacks basic football amenities but has a dedicated hospitality area for Haughey's cronies. Neither Young Queen's Park or the U18s even are allowed to use it to play games every other week but has been rented out to Celtic's B team and Aberdeen to train on. The club looks like it will never address this with the fanbase.
The training facility at Lochinch is largely just the same as it was when acquired. They've only recently hired a groundsman to maintain and improve the grass pitches as Veldman said early doors that they're not up to the standard for a professional team to train on with regularity. They also haven't upgraded and put in another all weather pitch that was promised to Beuker to help run the youth system to it's full potential.
There's been a lot of broken promises and failures to deliver in the structural side, the upside is the work done by Beuker on the youth programme side should come fruition in a few years time but there's no doubt part of the reason he'll be leaving shortly is due to the bowling club amateuristic nature of the board.
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Having no Scottish coaching staff around Veldman has been a disastrous decision which reeks of hubris.
Veldman and his assistant Paul Nuijten don't have a clue how to navigate the division.
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1 hour ago, Anonymous Spider said:
Ajax or Rangers?
Ajax.
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Expect Beuker to be announced as away soon.
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1 hour ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
The kids we just brought in need to learn from someone.
Too old for him to be interested in.
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1 hour ago, Anonymous Spider said:
Ambitious Queen’s Park at it again. #Appointamanager
All the community engagement chat is going to be shown to be a bit hollow if they sign him.
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14 hours ago, an86 said:
Half price sale on the kits coming soon, which I assume means new ones next season. Admiral stuff is cracking, so I hope we stay with them and the away shirt is exactly the sort of thing we need to do to get some publicity/make some dosh.
Would be happy enough if we made imaginative/mental/daft away kits our thing. Failing that, pair up with a worthy cause. The home one should remain as simple and classic as possible.
Think the Admiral contract finishes at the end of this season.
Likely to be Macron under Dempster.
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On 06/01/2022 at 08:57, CathcartSkins said:
Evidence: loads if you care to look.
As for being totally neglected - that sir, is a laughable statement.
Do you have any examples of the loads of evidence to have a look at?
The academy has been neglected. They don't have a training facility or even a block booking with one and have been training significantly less than every other club involved in Club Academy Scotland for well over a year now.
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On 07/12/2021 at 15:46, an86 said:
Not saying it’s perfect, but we could be in a much, much worse nick without him. Bailed out the poor management of the initial stadium project and stuck a substantial amount onto the pittance offered by the SFA. The club is also competing a level above our normal environment.
Hospitality also had 100+ in at the weekend, so there’s a clear positive on that front. In the region of six grand brought in on one Saturday is great going. Doing well commercially with the number of sponsors/partners as well.
There are legitimate questions and criticisms to be aimed at the club for sure, but I’m more confident that we have people with a history of running successful professional operations and administrative competence at the helm. Whilst I’m not at all happy with the levels of communication, it’d be fair to say they inherited a bungled operation at the worst possible time.
There’s the obvious questions around the structure of the club. We’re essentially in limbo. The committee structure, as it was, is all but obsolete. I would hope to see solid proposals or the beginnings of discussions on that side of things at the AGM.
Some things are improving, some things still need substantial improvement and more transparency/clarity. I’m still on the cautiously optimistic camp, but the club have to talk to/involve punters more.
The structure at the club is it's Haughey's money and he's calling the shots. Doubt he'll have any interest in communicating or answering to the average punter and the people in official roles aren't going to go off message at all to upset him.
He's given his mate Jim Simmonette an unoffical role running the youth academy despite him being unqualified to do so and there already being Gardner Spiers and a host of qualified coaches who were running the academy beforehand.
The club is pretty much a plaything now. I don't think it will end well.
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On 03/12/2021 at 00:34, QP145 said:
Well said I agree with a lot of this. Every statement that seems to come from L Dempster now says we have a history of having a strong youth set up well before anyone in the new regime arrived. So surely what we have been doing is working up to now and the whole fact we can now keep our best young players, why not give the staff, coaches, volunteers who ever they are the chance to develop these youngsters for our own club instead of ours like the past. I get the new guy from AZ is an exciting prospect but people shouldn’t be quick to forget that he’s coming into a successful academy with a lot of good staff by the looks of things!
also good to see 18s match reports altho a bit of notice before games of when they are happening would also be good for fans wanting to see them for themselves
The new regime have done next to nothing to support the youth academy so far. The Lesser Hampden debacle has meant the youth academy has been without a training ground for over a year now, the club has been incapable or unwilling to find or fund a replacement facility so the youth academy squads train roughly 2 hours a week in total on half a 7 a side pitch at Toryglen (as they cram as many of the squads on one pitch as they can). Substantially less time and in poorer conditions than any other club in the Club Academy Scotland system, in fact behind the set-up for most well run boys clubs.
The academy was training on public parks earlier in the year to try and make up for the hours of training the club wouldn't fund or find. The club love to use the U18s and the academy for a bit of a PR and buzzwords in statements but are doing very little to support it.
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The Big Queen's Park FC Thread
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He was enquired about earlier in the window, he'd need to take a big drop in wages.