Rob_Ashley

Effort made in my pub! A right old mix of QPR, Millwall, Chelsea, West Ham, Charlton, Spurs and Arsenal in here and somehow we all get on!!

After three years, the time has come to move on from QPR. In my career, I have been fortunate to win promotions and enjoy successful campaigns in the Premier League. But ‘success’ is relative. And my time at Loftus Road really highlighted to me what fans want from you as their player. It isn’t always about winning leagues, achieving promotion. It’s about giving absolutely everything for their shirt, respecting the badge and respecting the fanbase. If you do that, proper fans will have your back. I have always seen QPR as a proper football club with proper fans – my time at Loftus Road confirmed it. It is far easier to be a fan when things are going well on the pitch. But it takes a special fanbase to stand with you during the hard times. We have had three tough battles at the wrong end of the table. On each occasion, the QPR fans turned up when we needed them, stood with us and successfully helped us across the line. To be named Supporters’ Player of the Year in my first season is something I will always be proud of, and to captain the club was an honour. As a player, you want to leave a club in a better state than when you arrived. I feel I achieved that with the help of all the coaches and team-mates I have worked with over the last three years. As I move on to the next chapter of my career, I want to say a huge thank you to the owners, the board, the management, coaches, staff and the R’s fans. It has been one hell of an adventure. We have had ups and downs but I have loved the journey. QPR will always have a special place in my heart and I wish you nothing but success in the future.

@Kelly_QPR @QPR 💙

Wishing a very happy 89th birthday to my lovely Nana Pat. 3 points today for her please @QPR 💙🤍 #QPR

Bluffers - football is full of them and two of the biggest are running QPR into the ground. One is a cyclist the other signs the players.

@johnMyaWilliams 💙

Cheers, I always love 3pts at Hull! What a day 😀

@johnMyaWilliams What a pub 💙

Not a great game but a brilliant afternoon with the best people

#OTD in 1989 @QPR 4-2 @ChelseaFC Les Ferdinand 2, Mark Falco and Colin Clarke score for #QPR in front of 17,935 at Loftus Rd.

30 years ago today: Aston Villa v QPR in the Coca-Cola Cup. Here Tommy Johnson stupidly kicks out at Ray Wilkins, but the 39-year-old takes the sting out of the situation by shaking his hand and telling the ref it’s no big deal. Lovely stuff from Butch.

@UKPowerNetworks Still no update 24 hours later….

@robashley81 Hi Rob, I'm very sorry to hear that this is ongoing for you. If you could please DM us your full address, I can take a look into this for you? Thanks, Talie

@UKPowerNetworks Can someone update me in when I might see an engineer at my property? I have had a generator on the driveway for 11 days now. Someone finally turns up this morning and promptly gets called away! Zero communication from anyone.

@jamie_perry2000 Great write up mate 👍

Chaos, goals and fun 👇

Morning qpr family. Looks like I’m being made redundant and was just wondering if any of you lot know of any work floating about. I’m living in kings Langley near Hemel Hempstead. Bit of a long shot but you never know. #qpr

@ryanqpr_ @RuislipR Agree mate, should not be him fronting it up. A lot of frustration from those of us left. Let’s hope it get better from here

@robashley81 @RuislipR He’s a kid what do you expect and what can he say? They all know it was shit, let them do the talking on the pitch Friday

Any lip readers about? #qpr

@MattWinton2 @RobertR19535817 No mate, just wondered what the criteria was to be a ‘proper fan’.

@RobertR19535817 @robashley81 Do you live in the midlands Rob? Must’ve been a real heavy lift for you to go today 🤣

Looking for positives. I don’t think we can play any worse second half

@MattWinton2 Did you go today?

@robashley81 Rob nobodies happy with today but the world hasn’t ended, we’ve not been relegated and life goes on. Tomorrow is a new day and I will be there next week cheering my team on as I am most weeks. Traveling for hours and spending fortunes in the process. Because I’m a proper fan!

@MattWinton2 Not even close to being manically depressed but if you are happy with that today then good for you mate.

@robashley81 Bigging this project up? I call it being optimistic and positive, not one of these manically depressed middle aged men 🤣

@RuislipR What he didn’t say said more than what he did.

@robashley81 That's what I thought at the time - just pure frustration

@mrsimmo1984 @LoftforWords Disgusting mate, not fit, injuries an absolute joke,no plan on the pitch. Sunday morning teams are run better than this.

I was all for looking towards Sept with some optimism. But tossing off everything until then is digging a hole we might not get out of. This is an utter disgrace of a start and completely unsurprising for those of us that were paying attention.