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Reply | Donald Sutherland RIP
at 22:16 20 Jun 2024
Another piece of my misspent youth gone to the Big Green Room in the sky! Nic Roeg's 'Don't Look Now' still one of the finest British films ever made. |
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Reply | Richards.
at 19:33 19 Jun 2024
Can't tell us whether one of our players is coming to work. Nor how long players are contracted for, or not. Nor whether we're twisting, sticking or throwing the cards up in the air with when it comes to leaving/staying/digging up/digging down at LR. And so this weirdly narcissistic, over-protected, professionally deviant club/industry - bar the odd Fans Forum - goes on its own largely accountable way - that WE help finance and support. |
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Reply | Richards.
at 15:16 18 Jun 2024
Neither do I. Mentally ill or not, he simply cannot be basically continuing to draw a salary for doing nothing. |
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Reply | Armstrong extended
at 14:38 18 Jun 2024
I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'll eat my QPR scarf if Armstrong hits double figures for us or anyone next season. And probably the season after that to boot. |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 14:37 18 Jun 2024
A couple, perhaps, I'll grant you, though the club generally doesn't sell all its seats for 'safety' and other reasons, actually, and we had those annoying seat coverings over the lower tier of the School End in a couple of those games at least.
Anyway, you're nit-picking. My argument stands, I'm afraid. |
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Reply | Armstrong extended
at 22:21 17 Jun 2024
10-15 goals in preseason would certainly get us all going!  |
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Reply | England QPR XI
at 22:17 17 Jun 2024
Thomas's last cap for England was April 1975, apparently, which I find perplexing, given how high flying we were the following year. Anyone remember what happened?
Re Rodney's ridiculously small number of 9 caps for his country, I laughed again at the story on his Wiki page:
'It has been reported that the England manager Alf Ramsey told him "I'll be watching you for the first 45 minutes and if you don't work harder I'll pull you off at half time," to which Marsh replied: "Crikey, Alf, at QPR all we get is an orange and a cup of tea."' |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 19:30 17 Jun 2024
Nice try, but you're still delusional.
We haven't had any sell-outs this year, despite very healthy crowds. Even in our near-Div. 1-winning season, we only averaged 23,000 or so. Ron Phillips (you're probably too young to remember, but never mind) actually ran an editorial in 76/77 asking the fans why we weren't turning up in numbers much greater than c.20,000 to see us play FC Cologne in the UEFA Cup. So you're obviously someone who learns nothing from (QPR) history.
If you're in love with top-notch burgers and cream over wide concourses, and that is more important to your 'matchday experience' than watching football at a gorgeously crumbly cave of a ground that is inseparable from all our finest moments - go and watch Tottenham! |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 19:23 17 Jun 2024
Post of the year! (Unless people don't care about fans' fathers' ashes in their relentless fear of being 'overtaken'.) |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 19:22 17 Jun 2024
At last - a voice of hooped sanity! And yet some of us - myself included - are accused of being moony-eyed romantics just for not falling for Hoos' 'argument' about not leaving LR equating to the club's failure to be 'competitive' - which has been far more linked to an incompetent Academy, dipstick/thick as shit Chairmen/CEOs, and a 'hire and fire' (or be shafted) approach to management recruitment that would make a brothel madam wince.
Type up your post, fold it into a paper aeroplane, and ping it to LH as the door hopefully hits his arse on his (belated) way out!
You Rs! |
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Reply | Richards.
at 17:58 16 Jun 2024
So a player can not train/apply himself, not play, and bob up infuriatingly on social media when he gets the urge, but keep getting paid regardless? What a joke! [Post edited 16 Jun 18:00]
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Reply | I hope this is and stays just a rumour.
at 17:56 16 Jun 2024
I'm confused. Given Marti is under contract to us, he can't leave unless we allow him permission to talk to other clubs, yes? Or have managerial contracts now become as worthless as players'?
Tbh, if he jumps ship like Boil, my interest, after nearly half a century, would be seriously on the slide. |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 23:09 14 Jun 2024
Absolute tosh that yet again drearily wants to turn football fans into consumers. A football ground isn't a 'good venue' because of the kind of beer it sells or how padded its seats are/aren't. If you can't understand this, and WHY it's isn't, I pity your soullessness too much to explain to you. If it were me running the club, I'd pack the seats in even tighter, bring back smoking in the stands (even for those who don't smoke) and reintroduce leaking corrugated iron on the Loft, just to feck people like you off.
As for our fan base, we had our biggest average home crowd last season since 2014/15 (when we were in the Prem), despite fighting relegation almost to the end of it and being dreadful to mediocre for much of it.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/queens-parkrangers/besucherzahlenentwicklung/ver
If fans really felt as strongly as some ludicrously claim that they're so disenchanted with the facilities they're staying away/not coming back/not coming at all, then they'd be doing the opposite and voting with their feet. And if you and others of the ilk think our crowds are somehow going to magick the way to 25-30k if we move to a bowl in Hounslow, I suggest you read some QPR history and go away and have a long think, but here's a clue: They won't. [Post edited 15 Jun 4:56]
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Reply | Armstrong extended
at 14:17 14 Jun 2024
A low level Prem club!? What happy drugs are on you on, sir?
Succinctly,, he needs to step up by Xmas, or be shipped out. |
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Reply | Armstrong extended
at 14:14 14 Jun 2024
This with brass knobs on - let's hope that's how he (and his agent) see it! |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 10:59 11 Jun 2024
Sigh! Don't you just love smart alec one-line answers (is it stupidity or wilful misreading?) that manage to miss just about every point you've carefully crafted.
Next! |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 23:20 10 Jun 2024
I don't want to go anywhere just to upgrade our 'brand', widen a few concourses and stage social events, and I've laid out the reasons here several times why I don't buy that idiot Hoos' (and others') arguments that it's financially necessary for us to survive/be competitive either. We won't go under if we stay as we are, and could feasibly be promoted and even prosper in the Prem at LR. I want to rip out the seats, bring back loud terracing, and play with flair and panache with our traditional sprinkling of mavericks. You could call it back to basics, rather than onward and 'upward', or, as Jung puts it, 'reculer pour mieux sauter'. In that sense, I'd rather see us 'regress'.
A continuous relationship to time is intrinsic to the building of spiritual wealth, whether we're talking about football grounds, playing the piano, or working at a marriage. Whenever I visit LR in W12 (unfortunately rarely now as an Irish R), that experience is inseparable from all my other visits over nearly half a century. And for whoever wears the shirt, similarly, and at whatever level of mystical/quantum chaos, the games are molecularly inseparable from the performances of their predecessors on one piece of earth in one place. In short, a football club is not a moveable feast. Fans who don't get that are on the same spectrum as those who support overseas league games in my book. Personally, I won't stand for it.
Has ANY pro club moved to a new ground in recent years and NOT experienced a loss of soul in terms of the atmosphere/setting from their 'old-fashioned' former homes? I think of Southampton at The Dell (with its fab name and lovely tightness), West Ham and Upton Park, Brighton's Goldstone Ground, and that wonderful old East Terrace at The Valley, and shed a few inner tears for all of them.
But it's not all about me - it's about making new (blander/more corporate/more profitable) memories. I get it. But I'd rather be a happy nostalgic (literally, a 'sufferer for home') than a chairman (or even fan) who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. [Post edited 10 Jun 23:24]
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Reply | EDB Signs new contract
at 22:55 10 Jun 2024
Interesting choice of phrase, Brian. Who do you/we think is/isn't a 'Cifuentes-type' player? |
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