Loftus Road. 10:21 - Jan 22 with 37698 views | Esox_Lucius | IF, and it's a big if. the club were forced away from H&F to build a stadium which could provide income 360+ days a years to generate the revenue to make us competitive as a team again would you be for or against it. Yes or No will suffice, there's no need for comments like "knowing QPR they'd fück it up" etc. Just Yes or No. | |
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Loftus Road. on 13:55 - Jan 22 with 2304 views | Nov77 | Or, more likely, we will lose a lot of the support that we currently have. | |
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Loftus Road. on 13:55 - Jan 22 with 2303 views | quickpassrotter | Well articulated TK1. Spot on with everything you've written here. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 14:01 - Jan 22 with 2273 views | kernowhoop | Yes. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 14:11 - Jan 22 with 2250 views | CamberleyR | You would absolutely not get a brand new, state of the art 25,000 stadium on the current footprint of LR were you to demolish it. Planning permission on a site that size, modern building regs and H&S you'd be lucky to get half that capacity. [Post edited 22 Jan 2023 17:12]
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Loftus Road. on 14:37 - Jan 22 with 2192 views | DylanP | Yes We absolutely cannot compete now. We are condemned to Championship mediocrity AT BEST. The other London teams are leaving us in the dust and it won't get better. The people who complain about the owners are, frankly, idiots. These owners write checks int he millions every year to cover the losses. That isn't sustainable. Nobody, however rich, is going to keep writing those check indefinitely. So what is the solution? 1. Luck into a great player (like Taraabt), have a couple of great season before they move on and then sink back into mid-Championship mediocrity. 2. Muddle on as we are hoping for a genie to stop by with three wishes.3. Do something proactive to make the club sustainable. I opt for number 3 | |
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Loftus Road. on 14:44 - Jan 22 with 2162 views | Esox_Lucius | Good to meet you and chat too. | |
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Loftus Road. on 14:50 - Jan 22 with 2148 views | Lanhoop | Yes, with misgivings but still yes. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 14:55 - Jan 22 with 2137 views | Sonofpugwash | Yes. Somewhere with parking and leg room. Aberystwyth would be nice. | |
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Loftus Road. on 15:05 - Jan 22 with 2124 views | colinallcars | It really depends on whether you look at it subjectively or objectively. Objectively yes, the club pretty much has to move out. Subjectively no, not for me. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 15:06 - Jan 22 with 2120 views | BushRanger82 | No | | | |
Loftus Road. on 15:07 - Jan 22 with 2118 views | NW5Hoop | No. Not out of sentimental attachment to LR. More that I "chose" to support QPR when I moved to London. And it being a place that's easy to get to —Â that I can walk to if I fancy the exercise — is important to me. And also I like the association of football with city areas. I really don't enjoy going to out of town bowls. I'd like it even less if I had to do it 23 times a season. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 15:25 - Jan 22 with 2087 views | E15Hoop | It has to be a "Yes" for all the commercial reasons that everyone's already brought up. When the club was founded all those years ago, the borough boundaries were completely different to what they are now. Plus, of course, the club wasn't even in H&F originally, anyway! One of our claims to faim is the nomadic existence we had in the early years, and every ground we've held up until LR has been in border country so to speak. My girlfriend lives just across the road from Harvist Road, where we played in the early years. That's in Brent. It's a 5 minute walk from Queen's Park library, which is in the City of Westminster. If you want to go to the local Sainsbury's, which is a 10 minute walk, you end up in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Sadly none of these areashavr the capacity for the R's to be re-housed, as we know, so I think we're all going to have to accept that it's most likely going to be somewhere in Ealing that we're likely to end up. I would imagine somewhere in the shadow of Heathrow, which would, I agree, be a little ironic, considering hoiw close to Chiswick Brentford's new ground is.. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 15:33 - Jan 22 with 2070 views | TK1 | "The people who complain about the owners are, frankly, idiots" Interesting perspective. The current owners bought a newly promoted team, the champions, nearly debt free and about to embark on a first season in the Premier league for 15 years. Nearly twelve years later we have been relegated twice and are are roughly where we were in 2007, and saddled with a world record fine for their FFP disaster in chasing promotion to boot (The training ground is a definite plus though). Loftus Road however is the club's only real asset. Why give that up to a Malaysian business consortium who've nearly bankrupted the club already and squandered not one but two promotions, and an American businessman who has not spoken once about QPR since joining the board, just so we *might* end up ten or 15 places higher up the pyramid? As an aside, how would QPR leaving W12 personally affect you, Dylan? How many games do you get to? | | | |
Loftus Road. on 15:50 - Jan 22 with 2023 views | TK1 | I would be amazed if soon after the lovely new training ground is completed the club don't suddenly stumble upon a perfect site for a new ground nearby, perhaps near Hatton Cross tube or between there and Heathrow. I'd also be amazed if that wasn't the plan for several years and that that is why they keep servicing the (their) debt. And then, ironically, QPR will be the bus stop in Hounslow. It should be resisted at all costs because it would be the end of QPR. I don't understand how people can talk about this in the abstract. Car Giant site, HS2, Linford Christie are locations I can understand (and that HS2 site would be outside H+F) as they are a short hop from the historical base camp, but just saying, yeah, Heathrow would be good. What?! It's crazy talk. It's Chris Wright talk. It's a different club. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 16:01 - Jan 22 with 2006 views | HAYESBOY | Yes, within reason. | |
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Loftus Road. on 16:20 - Jan 22 with 1972 views | dmm | To move to that dire and dreary area would be utterly awful and feel like the heart had been ripped out of our club. I sincerely hope you're totally wrong. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 16:30 - Jan 22 with 1951 views | TGRRRSSS | Prefer to stay within H&F I am sure it can be done, wouldnt be surprised if we end up somewhere nearby. Spurs and Arsenal have managed it and looks liek Chelsea are going to be able to rebuild STF . I agree vision and determination is needed, sham Mittal isn't really interested because he's the one who could make things happen | | | |
Loftus Road. on 16:52 - Jan 22 with 1923 views | Toast_R | Bumping between League One and The Championship which is where I fear our current means will eventually put us, will almost certainly do that by its own accord. I dont particularly enjoy Shepherds Bush these days, most the decent pubs have gone and the ones that are left are too bloody busy on a match day to enjoy. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 16:58 - Jan 22 with 1905 views | HuckerMOTM | Absolutely no. The real QPR died about around a decade ago and the familiarity of Loftus Road and the routines around match day are the only reason I still go. Take that away and this tribute act masquerading as 'QPR' loses the small appeal it has. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 17:06 - Jan 22 with 1877 views | PinnerPaul | I think the very articulate views on here show that's it not an easy decision and that any actual course of action or indeed inaction isn't easy. Yes or no? you say......No idea! | | | |
Loftus Road. on 17:10 - Jan 22 with 1864 views | BrianMcCarthy | Same as that. I don't have enough actual information to decide. | |
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Loftus Road. on 17:29 - Jan 22 with 1825 views | Spaghetti_Hoops | YES The only hope to stop long term decline. The likes of Bournemouth and Brentford will be back where they belong in Division One soon enough. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 17:34 - Jan 22 with 1811 views | NorthantsHoop | Yes the club needs to move, re-generation of the current site looks impossible and not even sure if Hammersmith and Fulham are supportive of QPR and the quest for a new ground. We are lagging behind all other London clubs with our ground, even going down to League 2, sure they have all had a revamp or new stadium in last 25 years, our last major revamp was over 40 years ago. | | | |
Loftus Road. on 17:36 - Jan 22 with 1805 views | TGRRRSSS | Oh I don't know, Flavio put in those chandeliers a few years back... | | | |
Loftus Road. on 17:48 - Jan 22 with 1782 views | QPR_Jim | Maybe a new ground in Windsor, really lean into the royal connection to our name. Personally I wouldn't mind if we moved to a different borough but it needs to have good transport connection. | | | |
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