The Four Year Plan offers an incredible insight behind the scenes at Queens Park Rangers Football Club and would be of interest to all football fans, but confirms many of our worst fears in terms of the way the club was being governed during this period.
The club hope the current owners learn from the mistakes covered in The Four Year Plan and that more professional conduct and measures are put in place to allow us to prosper. It’s clear from this documentary that we lacked the foundations to grow properly and at times, despite the best intentions, the club was treated like a playground for rich people and that communication between internal departments at the club was poor, let alone communication with the fans.
The appointment of Neil Warnock was crucial to the club and his experience within football and his character allowed us to find the success we craved when it seemed unlikely. The board deserve credit for identifying Mr Warnock as the right man for the job, but it took far too long to reach that consensus and the strategy to hire a strong and experienced character when they could have done that from the outset.
And while Mr Amit Bhatia deserves credit for supporting Mr Warnock and allowing him to do his job properly, it’s evident that the lack of footballing expertise on the board was a hindrance overall, and we urge our current owners to engage more regularly with their supporters and ensure there is a greater understanding of our expectations and that healthy and mutually beneficial relationships are developed both internally between different departments and externally with the fans.
You can read reviews of The Four Year Plan at LoftForWords and QPR Today.