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Reply | Gab & Clives deep-dive
at 09:03 5 Aug 2026
This all works until the club has dropped down a league or two and suddenly the stadium is 60% full at best for a home fixture against some small northern team taking 250 people at most and they're back begging for the "legacy" fans they've spent years pissing off to come and fill them.
I think Clive's words all make sense too, although it is bonkers for a club like QPR IMO. We are not a Man Utd/Liverpool/Arsenal that will always be able to sell out a full stadium.
If we end up rubbish this year attendances will be well down by November/December.
Be interesting to see what sort of crowds Leicester/Wednesday get with those prices, although if the teams are doing well and winning sadly they'll probably get big crowd numbers as people want to watch winning teams regardless of cost. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 26/27
at 14:06 24 Jul 2026
Not really Championship (sorry) but ex-Championship forward Britt Assombalonga has pitched up at my new local club Harborough Town in the National League North.
I'll be surprised if he's still there come Christmas though. |
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Reply | Larry the Cat ( Non QPR )
at 10:21 24 Jul 2026
I've felt this way ever since the BBC got forced to move to Salford for being too London-centric, so now its in media city with all the other TV companies being Manchester-centric.
Manchester seems to be the only definition of "north" so everywhere else that you'd consider "north" will continue to get forgotten about, and forget about us Midlanders, we might as well be absolutely nowhere...
Too Southern for the Northerners, too Northern for the Southerners...(trying to think how to link that to the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode of Bart's evil twin but it probably needs someone cleverer than me to finish it off...) |
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Reply | Training ground expansion approved
at 21:05 23 Jul 2026
I wonder how much revenue the club makes from hiring the facilities out for overseas teams visiting London for their European fixtures (or internationals against England). I know we've done it several times due to our proximity to Heathrow and it makes 100% sense for them and us. Perhaps this extension will also help us corner that market a bit as well, a USP we have that not many other clubs can match. |
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Reply | Amit Bhatia
at 15:49 21 Jul 2026
Can we bring back the South Africa Road stand in that case then? |
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Reply | The ultimate World Cup thread
at 08:51 20 Jul 2026
I'd be interested to know what the general Argentinian public make of that final. Not so much the histrionics etc, but more the complete lack of attacking ambition.
Any coach who gets their team to a World Cup final and can't muster them to get even a shot on goal in 90 minutes should get absolutely pilloried. |
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Reply | England Thread 🏴
at 22:53 18 Jul 2026
England have been brilliant here. Why couldn't these outlets have been on Wednesday...arghh.
French atrocious, that third goal is criminal for how many goes England had before scoring without more defenders arriving on the scene.
A shame we didnt get to the Final but glad we're playing like we really want it still. |
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Reply | England Thread 🏴
at 21:06 15 Jul 2026
I'm half expecting Ben Pearson to pop up in midfield with an Argentina shirt on yet. |
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Reply | England Thread 🏴
at 20:55 15 Jul 2026
This Argentina side is like watching a decades worth of Preston and Stoke on steroids rolled into one.
The frustrated fan in me just wants to see Simeone snapped in half. |
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Reply | ITV's coverage last night...
at 16:42 15 Jul 2026
Not sure about Ivory Coast but the Turkiye one is a global change made by the country itself, so it is being called on a global level what the country wants to be called. |
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Reply | England Thread 🏴
at 13:31 14 Jul 2026
Could have sworn they wore it in 2002 when we beat them in the World Cup, but nope, a quick Google search very decisively proves it was in fact us in a change strip, not them. |
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Reply | The Most Pointless Meaningless Event in World History
at 15:15 10 Jul 2026
Unlikely IMO, but certainly not nil.
In any event, could we possibly stick Binface at centre back? He would surely be a great aerial presence for defensive duties, and potentially a threat from set pieces too? That bin must be a good foot taller than everyone else! |
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Reply | Calum Ward
at 13:44 9 Jul 2026
For the betting person, Motherwell could be a good outside bet for relegation in the SPL next year, that squad of theirs that punched above its weight last year is really getting broken up, particularly with the manager gone too. |
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Reply | The ultimate World Cup thread
at 08:52 8 Jul 2026
I saw a text describing it as "Charlie v The Chocolate Factory" last night which I thought was pretty funny. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 26/27
at 16:36 7 Jul 2026
Not transfer related, but it seems Preston have agreed a deal to play their EFL Cup 1st round tie at Goodison Park as their new pitch won't be ready.
That must be an interesting one for stattos in years to come, playing at a ground still standing, but no longer in regular use (and despite Everton saying they will keep it in use for the womens side I suspect at some point it will go when the economic realities of a 40,000 seat stadium having 2,000 people rattling around inside it a handful of times a year bites...) |
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Reply | QPR Squad 2026/27
at 22:24 2 Jul 2026
Kieran Morgan has been around the first team long enough now that this is the season he needs to properly break out and become a strong 35-40 game player, so I see some logic in targeting him as such.
That said, he absolutely cannot do it alone and if we have Varane, Madsen and Morgan as our main three central midfielders it has potential for carnage, especially when one or two are injured as is bound to happen at some point, so we definitely need another bod in there. |
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Reply | Pubs allowed to stay open until 5am this Sunday night / Monday morning
at 22:22 2 Jul 2026
I'm not sure if I'm a minority but being in the pub for football at that time really doesn't appeal.
Also, I get really annoyed at the absolute patronising language used by all politicians around pubs and football tournaments. If ever there was a sign that these people don't live in the real world at all, its the way they assume as long as the pubs are open for football, the plebs are alright because obviously that's all any of us are bothered about. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 26/27
at 22:20 2 Jul 2026
Another big signing for Stoke, Luke Graham from Dundee now. No fee quoted but Dundee have said its a club record for them, and given they once sold Claudio Caniggia to Rangers for a few million its obviously going to be more than that.
Bet365 must have had a bumper financial year! Not much money swilling around the Potteries for the regular folk... |
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