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SORRY for the delayed response to the article published in GulfWeekly about our upcoming hospital project 'Royal Bahrain Hospital'. The response was excellent - we received a lot of calls from the business community and it has also created a good impact amongst Bahraini doctors as well. Our management thank you and your team at GulfWeekly for your initiative in publishing the article about our hospital. We hope to work together again in the near future.

G Arun Govind,

Project manager

Royal Bahrain Hospital,

Salmaniya.

WITH reference to Gulf Air-sponsored Queens Park Rangers new captain's exclusive interview in last week's GulfWeekly.

Since the day we tumbled out of the old first division in 1996, the start of every season has begun with a feeling of great anticipation - starting from 'bouncing straight back up' - to 14 years later, 'with all this money behind us we cannot fail'.

Sadly, as all QPR fans know, great expectations quickly turn into the grim reality that escaping from the Championship gets increasingly tougher.

I expect the challenge for promotion to be closer than any in the past. Strangely, there isn't the great air of expectation hanging around my head this year. What I hope for, more than anything else, is an extended period of management stability.

I think the board have done the fans a disservice by throwing out managers as quickly as England departs World Cup campaigns.

I think Neil Warnock is a shrewd, experienced manager and is well respected by the players. Let's hope he can draw out exceptional individual skills from players like Adel Tarabt and, at the same time, blend that individuality into a strong team ethic that believes in itself and can at least carry us to the play-offs for the Premiership.

New player purchases have not been extravagant, which delights me as I would not want QPR to be known as a Chelsea or Man City of the Championship, even though we have some of the wealthiest backers in the world.

So, dreamer or realist in 2010? Probably the latter. But realism wrapped in a dream that perhaps we might just do it this year.

David Baker,

Hoops fan

for 40 years

Editor's note: The dream lives on, after beating Barnsley 4-0 in the opening game, last Saturday QPR travelled to Sheffield United and won 3-0 and sit in second place in the Championship.