Players came and went from Loftus Road this week and the entrance doesn’t look like stopping revolving anytime soon. We suffered a stonking defeat against Forest and have an upcoming protest against the board to look forward to this weekend. Just another quiet week in the life of Queens Park Rangers.

First up is the news that two first team players left us this week for pastures new so let's look at both in the depth they deserve.

Patrick Agyemang has joined Bristol City on loan until the end of the season.

The big news though was the sale of Wayne Routledge who completed his surprise switch to Newcastle on Tuesday, bringing to an end a year long stay at QPR.  His sale has caused much debate not helped by the clubs three paragraph official statement on his departure and their insistence on declaring transfer fees as undisclosed.

If we’d read something along the lines of “Wayne Routledge has today joined league leaders Newcastle United after the clubs agreed an x million pound transfer fee for the player. Chairman Flavio Briatore felt the offer was too good to turn down for a player who had declared an interest in moving away from Loftus Road and will allow manager Mick Harford to use the funds generated to bring an additional two or three players to replace Wayne and strengthen our squad overall” then I don’t think anyone would complain.

Of course you could only say that if it were true but the problem at QPR seems to be everything has to be cloaked in secrecy and mystery.  That can only be for a two reasons, either there is something to hide or there isn’t and they simply don’t give a toss about keeping us informed. Either way it’s not good and just leads to speculation and allegations of asset stripping and the start of a Briatore exit strategy.

For Routledge it’s undoubtedly a good move and possibly, along with Agyemang’s switch to Bristol City, perhaps a sign that there are as many players fed up of recent developments at Rangers as there are fans. Routledge hinted at as much in an interview this week.

“I know I have had a lot of clubs but it’s not like I have not been trying to settle over the last few years,” he said. “I thought QPR was going to be the answer and I would be staying there for a while. I signed for them and thought that would be it but things happened that were out of my control. I wanted stability but there is only so much you can do about it. I don’t really want to talk about the politics there because this is a fresh start for me and a huge opportunity at a massive club. I’m excited and this is the perfect place to put down roots, I’d have been mad to turn it down.”

“I thought QPR was going to be the answer”. So did I Wayne but I’m stuck with it son. Not to worry as the loss of the second highest goal maker in the division was offset this week by the arrival of a reserve left back from Wolves, so that’s something.

Things don't look like settling down anytime soon either as the exits are rumoured to continue throughout the month. Next up to leave seems to be Fitz Hall who is heavily rumoured to be on his way to either Burnley before the end of the month. Brian Laws must be mental.

One player sticking around is Rowan Vine who has received glowing praise from Harford in the local press this weekend. He told The Ealing Gazette he was particularly keen to get the striker back to full fitness. "Rowan is flying in training. He’s not ready for 90 minutes, but he’s recovered nicely from a clean-up operation on scar tissue affecting his groin, and he’s beginning to look sharp,” he said before adding "Rowan fits the bill of target man, and he’ll be given the chance to show what he can do."

Harford is still on the look out for another striker though, as he told the official website after the 5-0 defeat at Forest "It was clear from watching that performance that we need a striker”. However it doesn’t look likely to be any of the names linked recently. Hull’s Daniel Cousin has moved to Greek side Larissa after it looked set in stone that he would link up with us this week whilst interest has cooled in other targets such as Stoke’s Dave Kitson and Hull’s (again) Caleb Folan.  It’s not all good news though as this weeks hot targets are Ipswich’s Tamas Priskin and Derby’s Rob Hulse. Be still my beating heart.

Meanwhile we have the potential arrival of Moritz Volz to look forward to, the German right back has spent time training with Rangers in the hope of securing a move following his release from Fulham last summer and we also have been linked today with a bid for Crystal Palace's in demand youngster Victor Moses. I think that one falls into the who are we kidding category.

Finally a look forward to Saturday and the visit of Scunthorpe United to Loftus Road. This will be my first Rangers game for some time having missed the last two games against Blackpool and Forest. It's been quite a gap without a QPR game and what's worrying me most is I've not really missed it either.

I’ll be back in the saddle on Saturday although right now I’m struggling to contain my indifference. It’s a strange old time to be following Rangers and will possibly be all the stranger with a large portion of the crowd dressing up like clowns on Saturday to attempt to show Briatore and co what they think of them.

It should make for an interesting atmosphere and certainly the game itself could end up taking second billing to what exactly goes on in the stands. I just hope R's fans don’t start turning on each other. We’ve seen it in the past when we’ve got in situations like this, differences of opinion explode as tensions rise and all of sudden people are squaring up to each other. It’s never pleasant when it happens and actually makes me sadder than anything Briatore could ever do.

Unfortunately I doubt the protests will cut much cheese with Flavio as he’s already made his thoughts about the twenty quid brigade very clear. He doesn’t care what we say or think, we don’t spend enough to warrant an opinion. The fact that seats at Loftus Road don’t cost twenty quid has escaped him of course. Maybe he’s pissed off that he’s having to flog off his £120 boutique QPR trainers for a third of the price.

I really don’t understand Briatore’s brain, and there's a sentence that's probably been said a lot over the years. Right now he has an unhappy set of fans, players, coaches, backroom and office staff so how is this in anyway fun for him? How does he get any kind of pleasure out of running a football club when the vast majority of people who should be respectful or even thankful to him can’t stand the sight of him. What joy or happiness can the current situation possibly bring him? The pleasure in listening to ten thousand people boo at the end of every half? The joy of being ridiculed by his peers in the game and by the media? The happiness that being remembered as meddling, moronic megalomaniac brings? Or the fun of taking something so many people hold dear and slowly turning it into something they are embarrassed to be a part of?

The whole thing is so frustrating mostly because we are wasting so much potential while Flavio messes around. Things could have been so different and he’s had ample opportunities to turn things around but I fear it’s now gone too far for him to ever win any kind of support back now.