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.”