Last night, prior to the game against Swindon, and following calls for fans to protest peacefully about the demise of our club, around 200 supporters assembled outside the main entrance. There were banners focussed on Chris Wright/Chrysalis with radio coverage and 3 TV crews, including the local BBC interviewing fans.
At the same time, following an appeal to exiled/overseas fans, 70 emails were sent from overseas fans to QPR FC and the radio station five live, all outlining their dismay at the demise of the club, and urging Chris Wright, and his advisers, to do the right thing for QPR. Thank you to everyone who sent those messages of support. We have asked the club to auto forward them all onto Chris Wright.
On Tuesday this week Nick Blackburn told QPR 1st and the LSA that he wanted to meet us after the Swindon game and asked us to call off the protest. We declined to cancel the demonstration but agreed to meet him. So, following last night’s tremendous win, five representatives in all from QPR 1st and the LSA met with Acting Chairman Nick Blackburn, Chief Executive David Davies and Ross Jones who is a non executive director.
The main points to emerge were:
* the Melzack consortium’s lock-out finished two weeks ago
* talks with the Melzack consortium are continuing but they no longer have exclusivity
* the Melzack consortium is not proposing to put any of its own money into the club. All the funds would be borrowed
* Nick Blackburn once again denied that Richard Thompson had submitted a bid for the club
* Nick Blackburn, Ross Jones and David Davies again refused to tell us the names and business histories of the individuals who make up the Melzack consortium. We asked “Is that because you are bound by confidentiality agreements or is it because you think the fans have no right to know?” and they replied “Both”
* The administrators have confirmed that we have enough funding to complete the season.
We are in the process of rescheduling our main meeting between the Club and QPR 1st, hopefully for a date within the next two weeks.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those that supported the protest both in person and via email, although the protest has been disparaged by some notably the “Standard” we believe that the protest will have served notice to Mr Wright that the supporters patience with the current situation is running out.