| Your first trip to LR? 12:12 - Feb 28 with 6180 views | TheBlob |
Do you remember it?
Mine was in 1963(Walsall)we were back at home after a short spell at the White City.I'd followed the advice to "turn right past the hot dog stand" into Loftus Road,up past the Ford Zephyr with the flower arrangement in the back window and thence on into Ellerslie.Through the turnstile clutching a pristine programme,Into the gloom behind the stand,up the stairs...
WALLOP.Like being hit in the face by a Turner oil painting.Just stood there for a while taking it all in,the colours,the sounds of pent up emotions,the smell of caramelising onions....I haven't been for a while,maybe the next time will be like the first time - a virgin all over again.
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| Your first trip to LR? on 18:49 - Feb 28 with 1621 views | BucksRanger |
After my previous post about seeing QPR v Bournemouth in 1959, I thought I'd look up the rest of their fixtures that season to see if I could recall any others.
I'm not sure I could (perhaps the Shrewsbury game for some reason) but what caught my eye was the number of times QPR played in March and April - 13 in total. There's even an impressive 3 games in 4 days during April .. and modern footballers think they've got it tough.
March 1960
Sat 5 Halifax Town 3-1 Queens Park Rangers
Mon 7 Queens Park Rangers 2-0 Reading
Sat 12 Queens Park Rangers 2-0 Bury
Sat 19 Port Vale 0-0 Queens Park Rangers
Sat 26 Queens Park Rangers 0-1 Southampton
Mon 28 Queens Park Rangers 3-3 Chesterfield
April 1960
Sat 2 Reading 2-0 Queens Park Rangers
Sat 9 Queens Park Rangers 1-1 Shrewsbury Town
Fri 15 Queens Park Rangers 5-0 Bradford City
Sat 16 Brentford 1-1 Queens Park Rangers
Mon 18 Bradford City 3-1 Queens Park Rangers
Sat 23 Queens Park Rangers 0-0 Norwich City
Sat 30 Queens Park Rangers 1-0 Barnsley
May 1960
Wed 4 Wrexham 1-1 Queens Park Rangers |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 18:52 - Feb 28 with 1617 views | komradkirk |
2-2 Luton Town 1980 |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 20:18 - Feb 28 with 1559 views | terryb |
I was reasonably old at the age of fifteen when I made my first visit to The Loft.
First home game of the 67-68 season against the Yellow Budgies & I believe we finished that game top of Division Two. We won 2-0 with goals (I think) from Ian Morgan & Mike Keen. |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 20:36 - Feb 28 with 1542 views | hamptonhillhoop |
14 January 1978 was mine (just looked up the date) Beat Norwich 2 - 1. I was seven. Don't remember anything about the match to be honest. My dad sat in south
Africa road and just buzzed me over the turnstile. I then had to find a seat. He also used to leave me on the step outside the springbok while he went to the bar upstairs which was adults only. Ah the 70's, a golden age of parenting. I still go with him now |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 21:25 - Feb 28 with 1509 views | WareRanger |
Against Wolves, New Years Eve 1977. Lost 3-1 and I see that the next game's programme describes Rangers' performance that day as rubbish. Needless to say though, I was hooked. Can still remember Don Shanks scoring our goal. Sat in the lower tier in South Africa Road with my Dad and we still sit together in the upper tier in the Loft | | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 21:43 - Feb 28 with 1489 views | qprwpg |
April 2004 vs Stockport. But I didn't get into the ground on account of my huge backpack that I couldn't find a place to store at and the bus from Bristol arrived late, so only got there at HT. So technically it was Coventry in Sept later that year. I'm a newbie/JCL compared to most on here. |  |
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| Your first trip to LR? on 21:55 - Feb 28 with 1486 views | queensparker |
First one I can remember clearly was beating West Ham 3-0 in 1980, old second division, I was six. West Ham had a good team then Brooking, Bonds, Lampard etc. A very spicy atmosphere and I heard a lot of new words for the first time. For my sins I'd decided I wanted to support West Ham so turned up in a Hammers top. That was soon beaten out of me.
But I know my Dad was bringing me down before that, have a vague memory of a 0-0 with Watford and a few more before that. [Post edited 28 Feb 2015 22:05]
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| Your first trip to LR? on 22:37 - Feb 28 with 1459 views | eccles |
Cant remember when or who against. I was about 10 or eleven. It was the days of Stanley, Gerry and Phil in goal.
Can remember the feeling when I first glimpsed the pitch.
I remember the goals (that had a unique style of back support making the net hang down straight at the back, not angled like every other team)
I remember the crowds, the noise was like nothing I'd ever heard.
I remember walking down the concrete steps of the loft towards the pitch trying to find a place where I might actually see bits of the game. Standing so close to the pitch that I could actually hear the players swearing!
I remember the feeling of being with my family of thousands of like-minded souls.
I was home.
I remember the feeling of anticipation. That tingle down the spine that I still feel today as I get the first glimpse of the pitch. Forty years later it still gets me every time.
I know we may have to leave, I understand the finances. I know you should look forward, not back. I just don't want to go. |  | | |
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| Your first trip to LR? on 22:49 - Feb 28 with 1452 views | Pommyhoop |
| Your first trip to LR? on 22:37 - Feb 28 by eccles |
Cant remember when or who against. I was about 10 or eleven. It was the days of Stanley, Gerry and Phil in goal.
Can remember the feeling when I first glimpsed the pitch.
I remember the goals (that had a unique style of back support making the net hang down straight at the back, not angled like every other team)
I remember the crowds, the noise was like nothing I'd ever heard.
I remember walking down the concrete steps of the loft towards the pitch trying to find a place where I might actually see bits of the game. Standing so close to the pitch that I could actually hear the players swearing!
I remember the feeling of being with my family of thousands of like-minded souls.
I was home.
I remember the feeling of anticipation. That tingle down the spine that I still feel today as I get the first glimpse of the pitch. Forty years later it still gets me every time.
I know we may have to leave, I understand the finances. I know you should look forward, not back. I just don't want to go. |
That pitch when your line of vision comes above the steps.Unreal..
Even better on a night match. Dirty grey,cold London then BANG, a glistening green oasis.. |  |
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| Your first trip to LR? on 23:09 - Feb 28 with 1435 views | PunteR |
86/87 ,Liverpool. My dad, who doesn't really like footie, took me but went to the wrong end of the stadium ,so i watched the game with my QPR hat n scarf with the scousers,who actually were a good laugh,made sure I could see the game(I was about 9 or 10) and chatted to my dad who obviously wasn't a QPR fan.
After a few beers my dad probably started talking about the Beatles or something. |  |
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| Your first trip to LR? on 07:50 - Mar 1 with 1391 views | qprmeath |
I'm young compared to most of ye surprisingly. Mine was a 1-1 with Man City 1991, Mike Sheron scored for them, whatever happened to him? | | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 07:55 - Mar 1 with 1389 views | joolsyp |
Not sure what year it was (would love to find out) but it was against Leyton Orient and we lost 2-1 (I think). I was 8. I remember Mick Leach scoring with his trademark celebration and then I remember crying when we lost. Hooked from then on in really ... |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 08:38 - Mar 1 with 1377 views | Sudbury_Hill_R |
| Your first trip to LR? on 07:55 - Mar 1 by joolsyp |
Not sure what year it was (would love to find out) but it was against Leyton Orient and we lost 2-1 (I think). I was 8. I remember Mick Leach scoring with his trademark celebration and then I remember crying when we lost. Hooked from then on in really ... |
There are a couple 2-1 scores on the list but unlikely to be the game you were at as Leach wouldn't have been playing in either.
My first game was also against Leyton Orient. Oct 1966, we won 4-1. Dad took me as I wasn't old enough to go on a Cub Scout outing with my brother. We sat in the old rusty Ellerslie very close to where I now sit in X Block.
http://www.clarets-mad.co.uk/head_to_head/queens_park_rangers/vs/leyton_orient/i |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 09:21 - Mar 1 with 1359 views | stowmarketrange |
| Your first trip to LR? on 07:55 - Mar 1 by joolsyp |
Not sure what year it was (would love to find out) but it was against Leyton Orient and we lost 2-1 (I think). I was 8. I remember Mick Leach scoring with his trademark celebration and then I remember crying when we lost. Hooked from then on in really ... |
If you were 8 years old,would it be easier to count 8 years from the year you were born and that might tell you what year it was? |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 10:54 - Mar 1 with 1328 views | eccles |
| Your first trip to LR? on 22:49 - Feb 28 by Pommyhoop |
That pitch when your line of vision comes above the steps.Unreal..
Even better on a night match. Dirty grey,cold London then BANG, a glistening green oasis.. |
that's it exactly. glad i'm not the only one | | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 11:26 - Mar 1 with 1214 views | izlingtonhoop |
| Your first trip to LR? on 10:54 - Mar 1 by eccles |
that's it exactly. glad i'm not the only one |
28 th March 1970, six years old. v Bristol City. In my memory we won, looking it up it was 2-2.
Smells of roll-ups and onions, mmmm! |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 11:42 - Mar 1 with 1204 views | WatfordR |
16 September 1972. Home against Forest. Won 3-0 with Stanley making his home debut. I was awestruck. Met him a few times in person and have turned into a starstruck child each time.
Never really had a chance did I. |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 12:44 - Mar 1 with 1184 views | paulparker |
| Your first trip to LR? on 15:24 - Feb 28 by Lblock |
QPR v Liverpool 85/86 (?) we won 2-1 I think -- sure Leroy Rosenoir scored but dont really remember much apart from being in the paddock and all manner of trouble.
Went with my mates from school and we were tanked up (2 pints each!!) and I just could not believe the atmosphere.... up until then I'd only been to Griffin Park!
Not a lot's changed in 30 odd years - still get tanked up with the same mates but different part of the ground, great atmosphere few and far between and we dont win as many games but i still wouldn't swap it for the world |
Was at that game LBlock , the same season we done em in the milk cup
Dogleish really hated us and our plastic pitch
Anyway 1st game for me was 85 vs Watford went with my dad and grandad upper loft
We won 2-0 I think fenwick scored one of them
After that I was hooked and went and got a season ticket the 86 season
Loved going with my dad & grandad and a swift shandy in the Greenford legion after
Started going with my mates in 89 , Its only the last few years I feel gutted I stopped going with my dad & grandad as Essex said I would give anything to have one more match with them |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Your first trip to LR? on 13:07 - Mar 1 with 1172 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I was a babe. Couldn't even walk when my Dad brought me first. 4-0 at home to Bolton, in the 71-72 season apparently. Rodney scored two. |  |
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| Your first trip to LR? on 13:09 - Mar 1 with 1172 views | QPR1882 |
Been to most of the games mentioned on here after my 1st trip. I can hardly remember the wife's birthday or our anniversary but just the mention of a date,team and score line of a game 30/40 years ago and I can recall the game as if it was yesterday. |  | | |
| Your first trip to LR? on 13:50 - Mar 1 with 1156 views | DWQPR |
Mine was the last home game of the 1971-72 season at home to Carlisle United. Sat in the upper tier of the SAR and remember Dad just pushing me through the turnstiles with him whilst he paid for his ticket. From the upper tier everything seemed so big, the pitch, the terraces and the old Ellerslie Road stand which was to be knocked down that summer. Rangers won 3-0 and playing for Carlisle that afternoon in their number 10 shirt was God himself. | |
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| Your first trip to LR? on 14:15 - Mar 1 with 1134 views | TheBlob |
| Your first trip to LR? on 13:57 - Mar 1 by QPR1882 |
It's silly things, like for some reason it always seemed they played Band of Gold by Rita Payne. Every time I hear that song I recall the boys enclosure on a Saturday at 3 o'clock in the 70's. Or monkey nuts and I'm ducking from a bag of them flying across the loft. I guess whe something is a big part of your life for so long memories stay longer.
Still recall the 1st time I walked up the stairs at that Wall game and saw the pitch,it's like a photo burnt in side. |
There does seem to be a commonality of experience - up the steps to that window on the world,like a curtain going up at the theatre,and then to find you're almost a part of the entertainment.Standing on the SAR terracing didn't quite have the same impact initially,but it was better than the White City where you had the athletics and dog tracks to contend with - just too big. | |
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| Your first trip to LR? on 14:47 - Mar 1 with 1120 views | HordleHoop |
1980 v Birmingham. 1-1. Injury time equaliser by Steve Burke.
Late goals always exciting, my Grandad was going mental! |  | | |
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