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Cardiff away: David Davies informed us that, QPR had been approached by Cardiff City who wanted to sell tickets for the game solely on the night. Due to recent problems with Cardiff, Davies felt that QPR should be given an allocation which should be sold just at Loftus Road. Davies made it categorically clear, that fans safety was his primary objective. The LSA agreed with Davies on this matter.
Last season's video: Mark Devlin announced there will be a video compilation of last season's action, plus interviews and this season's pre-season games which will be out at the end of February or early March.
Relocation: Davies made it categorically clear that the club are NOT seeking relocation-It's in no ones interest to move when a club is in administration and is not selling out every game. Fulham ground share- QPR and Fulham are still in talks and a deal should be reached by the 31st January. Davies announced Wasps will have to move and are in talks with Wycombe and Harlequins. Davies stated if Wasps moved to Wycombe it could be a permanent move because of that area of England being more rugby than football-he highlighted it was near to rugby clubs such as Henley and Marlow who are in the rugby first division. Should Fulham move in, the reserves would move to either Hillingdon, Harrow Borough or Hampton and Richmond.
Fulham matchdays: Fulham merchandise will be sold in our club shop on match days. They would sell their match tickets from their shop in Fulham Road, however on match days they will use our box office to sell tickets.
Fulham residency: Davies feels the reconstruction of their ground will take 18 months-2 years. The ground- Loftus Road is worth 15 million pounds and the club will NOT sell it.
Internet: With the new football deal involving the more hits to the official QPR website the more money we make, we currently lie in 7th place out of 74 non Premiership teams including Blackburn, Bolton and Fulham. However, we lie in 10th place out of 74 teams in terms of how much we have made-money is distributed on how many individual people click onto the website. So far we have made 300k from the deal. Mike Hartwell added, the more we as supporters use the discounts on the website the more money we will make.
Takeover: There has been no offer for the club from any group. Should we go up the situation could change. It appears Chris Wright is still holding out in the hope we are now in a better state for a potential buyer. Chris Wright is on holiday and will be back at the end of the week. Wright wants £6.7m pounds for the club and our debts are £3.3m pounds.
Trevor Sinclair: QPR received a letter this week from West Ham offering 150k to right off the clause in his contract saying we should receive 10% of any potential sale. Davies turned this down and added if it was 650k he would consider it. This leads us to believe that West Ham have had a sizeable bid for Trevor.
Sponsorship: JD Sports who are out of contract at the end of the season are coming back this week to discuss renewing their contract. Rangers would ideally like a 3 year contract for stability reasons. Rangers would like if possible to sell more lines of Rangers clothes in JD Sports in Rangers areas like Hammersmith, Ealing and Uxbridge. Devlin added that next years away strip will definitely be like the old red and white quarters.
Andy Thompson: It's well documented his other half wants to go back to Scotland. However, the club have begun contract negotiations with him. The club want him to stay. There has been no offer from any club for him. Davies added he did not play against Bury because of a problem to his lower back (on going problem).
Contracts: The club begun contract negotiations with Ian Holloway on Wednesday. The club want him to stay and he wants to stay. They discussed who they want to keep at the end of the season-20 players out of contract. Davies feels 10 players will inevitably leave.
Kenny Jackett: Davies feels he has been our best signing and he is a good foil for Holloway who is a good team motivator.
Should we go up: Some players can expect a pay rise should we go up and the club will stand by their contracts.
Administrators: QPR have paid them 250k from April - September 2001 and 15k from October to now. Davies runs the club with Blackburn.
Davies on Blackburn: They have a good relationship and Davies added he runs the club as a business. Blackburn has been away in Chile for 3 weeks.
Swansea cheque: a sum of 11k is owed to us, after a cheque bounced. Davies said it will be paid shortly.
For a full transcript of the meeting visit the LSA website.