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just a heads up if you bought tickets to the SC Heerenveen game next week, i got 4 in the lower loft but have been sent tickets in the South Africa Road stand instead with no explination. Have emailed the box office but anyone else who bought tickets in advance maybe keep an eye on your emails as maybe the loft isn't open now
Remember when it used to be just a Winter game? Oh sure there were a few home internationals and a relative short World Cup in Summer every few years, but that was before the climate began to change. Now it's a year-round money-making proposition.
Summer sports — cricket, baseball — are slower paced, consequently longer in length but less physically demanding. How come we've forgotten that? Does a famous footballer have to die of heat-stroke before we remember?
No I DO NOT want another 9 page thread - but hey Oasis are topical at the moment. But after all Jules our (new) wonderfully- on hols in Portugal ( too many beers)
Refreshingly honest and not scripted, love the story about the Superstore. I know we go on about the money they earn and all that but he knew he was letting us and himself down. The value of confidence is priceless, hope he delivers. I remember my Watford mate saying he was the best passer on the pitch at their place. Good luck Nico!
having reached a very unexpected age of 88 I said goodbye to my dad, Martin Reed, this morning.
by the time he couldn't get up to the upper loft a few years ago, at the age of 82, he'd been going to Rangers for over 70 years. Born and bred in Hayes with family in Acton he was a regular at both QPR and Hayes all of his life; even going to games at Hayes with neighbours in later years when we were playing away. I'd offered to switch to a lower seat but he decided it was a bit too much anyway.
for the last 20 odd years we sat in Upper Loft JU, with Dad moaning at people standing up once his legs didn't get him up quick enough! We did countless away days together and i have so many happy memories of going up and down the country, just the 2 of us. This all culminated in the play off final and having finally seeing us win a final in his company ticked the final box for me; I never expected him to last this long as even then his health wasn't great.
we got to the stage that i'd buy his season ticket every year as a combined birthday, fathers day and Xmas as he genuinely wanted for nothing else apart form that and his sky sports subs! I worked on the basis that it's his fault i support this club and if i was going to watch this rubbish i was going to make him endure it too!
although a lifelong R he never pressured me into supporting us, but as i'm 57 now and grew up at the time of Gerry, Stan & co it wasn't a hard decision.
he was one of the kindest and most gentle people you could wish to meet. Never had a bad word to say about anyone and also had a sense of comfort with his lot. As long as my mum was happy, so was he. Spent endless years ferrying me around to any football i played and then taking my to HQ when work permitted and always had time to keep me company with whatever pointless away game i decided to drag him to.
Later on my travelling in to HQ always meant a stop off in Hayes to pick him up, lunch in the cafe in Bloemfontein Road and a couple of bets in William Hill.
His inability to pronounce foreign players names was an endless source of amusement to me; Chris Kiwomya being 1 that stood out like a scene from the Fast Show and the Unpronounceables sketch.
I can say without any doubt that i've not only lost my Dad today, but my best mate too. RIP Dad xx
I put this question on the Kolli thread but I think it's worth it's own thread.
Whenever there's a discussion about selling one of our players I keep reading that a large sell-on clause should be a condition in any player sale we make.
It sounds like it makes sense. But does it really help the selling club?
Five years ago we sold Eze with a decent sell-on clause.
And we're still waiting...........
Given where we are now, trying to get back on track as a development/selling club, wouldn't be better off waiving the sell-on for our next few sales in favour of a bigger up front fee?
It would mean more money to play with now and someone else can take the risk of developing that player's potential.
I wonder how much the sell-on for Sinclair Armstrong was? And will we ever see any of it!?
The U18s were at Manchester United's Carrington training complex yesterday for a pre - season friendly. Unfortunately there were no teamsheets so I have no real idea as to the make up or age of our lads. Not surprisingly the United team was by far the better side and dominated the possession throughout the 90 minutes. Rangers did equalise to make it 1.1 following a mistake by the Utd keeper from a first half corner, but it was pretty much one way traffic as the first half continued. 4.1 down at half time and Utd brought on a brand new eleven - including Michael Carrick's son Jacey. Rangers also made a number of substitutions at the break, much needed too as the weather was above 30 degrees. United had the bulk of possession again and finished the half strongly, scoring more late goals to win the match 8.2. Special mentions to Charlie Street who defended admirably and also to the young striker (whose first name was Skylar) who scored an absolute screamer from 20+ yards out in the 2nd half to make the score 5.1.
The boys had travelled up from London yesterday morning for the 13.00 kick off, so although the scoreline was disappointing the travel, heat and number of substitutes available need to be considered. As does the fact that the development team were also playing yesterday, with several of their squad out in Spain.
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