| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... 19:48 - Feb 25 with 3988 views | CamberleyR |
Never missing an opportunity to twist the knife. Still harbouring the grudge from twenty years ago when whilst watching his beloved Norwich on Boxing Day, he couldn't get a hot drink at LR.
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 19:55 - Feb 25 with 3959 views | bosh67 |
You have to say that £258m is quite impressive in 7 years. |  |
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 20:53 - Feb 25 with 3782 views | Stanisgod |
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 10:26 - Feb 26 with 3364 views | R_from_afar |
I just tweeted an olive branch to him.It really is time he stopped the sniping and grew up. Constant negatives about us, mostly misleading and ill-informed. Let's see if he acts like a big boy or if he continues to behave like a sulking five year old.
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| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 10:56 - Feb 26 with 3313 views | Juzzie |
I'd be upset if I actually knew who he was.
But I don't so I'm not.
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 11:06 - Feb 26 with 3275 views | TacticalR |
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 15:43 - Feb 26 with 2936 views | terryb |
Is his dislike of Rangers worse than many of our fans dislike (to put it mildly) of Norwich?
Most of that is due to Norwich trying & suceeding to win a football match in 1976. And no, I've still not got over Easter Saturday 1976!
Now, if you dilike then because of Ron Saunders & Duncan Forbes, I'm on your side. Never mind Grant Holt, these two deserve hatred! |  | | |
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 16:05 - Feb 26 with 2883 views | makaveli1882 |
The bloke is a sh1t cant
Hi
I first went to QPR in the 1960s, when I was growing up in Hounslow. I used to go to all the West London clubs -- Brentford, Chelsea, Fulham and the R's as well as Hounslow Town, who were a decent amateur team. I did not support any of them, in the conventional sense, but I certainly wanted QPR to win when I was watching them. I used to stand behind the goal at the School End, and I joined in the chant of "Henry, Henry" in awed admiration of the great Terry Mancini.
In the 70s I began work as a journalist and my first job was on the Eastern Daily Press in Norfolk. I could only watch one club -- Norwich City. I became hooked, and although my route to supporting Norwich was unusual, I have been a fan ever since. When I got my first Fleet Street sports reporting job, in 1978, I moved to Hertfordshire. As well as visiting Loftus Road professionally quite often, I have taken my family there for the odd game when work has allowed and when we couldn't get to Norwich.
I have also managed to watch Norwich at your place several times in the last few years -- and yes, we've lost most of those game, but that is not why I came to view Rangers as a badly run club.
That began when, as deputy sports editor of the (London) Evening Standard, I conducted a survey of all the London clubs for ES Magazine. I took my two sons, who were both very young at the time, to every London ground for a match and looked at things like prices and facilities.
Despite feeling well-disposed to QPR, they came bottom of my survey. The unhelpful attitude of the stewards, the prices and quality of refreshments and the poor condition of the Ellerslie Road Stand were all factors, but the clincher was that the QPR match (against Liverpool) was the only time during the entire survey that my boys were frightened.
There was only one toilet we could access from the Ellerslie Road stand, and it only had one door -- for both in and out. My lads were crushed by the mob and both cried with fear. I wrote a private letter to the club about the issue of poor access to the toilet and received an astonishingly rude reply. I am sorry to say that I cannot remember what year that was, but it would have been about 89.
As I say, I have made several visits to the away end as a Norwich fan, and they have all been awful -- not because of the football (Norwich won some of them!) but because, although I have watched Norwich at more than 80 grounds, the QPR experience is among the worst.
The catering facilities are certainly among the worst. I'd say Port Vale are the only ones I have encountered where the staff care less and have worse equipment than at Loftus Road. On one visit, the kiosks were both shut until one, dispirited girl arrived ten minutes before kick-off and opened one. A huge queue formed. She fiddled about for a while and then announced: "Sorry, there's no hot water". Then she closed the kiosk again.
The School End stand IS dank. The area behind both the upper and lower tiers is completely enclosed by concrete and not properly ventilated. I've been dripped on by condensation (I hope it was condensation!) while queuing for the terribly inadequate refreshments. And, since the club was forced to put extra gangways into the seating to comply with safety requirements, there are odd dead-end arrangements and random bits of metal.
Professionally, I've had lots of dealings with QPR. I interviewed Chris Wright for the Standard when he was your chairman and, in response to my outlining some of the above to him, he said that Jim Gregory had put the stands up on the cheap and that there were all sorts of design faults.
John Gregory told me that, on his first day as manager, he was astonished to find a plank of wood, the sort you put on scaffolding, in the middle of the changing room floor at the training ground. When he asked what it was doing there, everyone just shrugged. It had been there for years, someone said. Gregory was definitely of the opinion that the club had been allowed to decay. That was his phrase.
All those accumulated experiences, plus the shambles of the gun episode, the blackmail allegations etc, led me to the view that, over the last couple of decades, QPR have become a shoddy little club. I don't expect you to agree.
Of course clubs in trouble welcome wealthy benefactors. As a Norwich fan, I am hugely appreciative of Delia Smith's efforts on our behalf. She rescued us from the brink of insolvency, but the super-rich backers (Like Abramovich and Mittal) are of an entirely different order. Abramovich's presence in the Premiership has been hugely inflationary, as other clubs have tried to keep in touch, and I think it is a terrible development if that trend is now going to spread to the Championship.
I picked my words carefully when I talked about those who "toiled to pay bills, worked hard to improve the stadiums and striven to get the football right". QPR did not always pay their bills. They went into administration, as a method of welching on debts. They did not work hard to improve the stadium. And now they are not trying to get the football right. They are just going to buy their way out of the division.
I understand your passion and it does you credit. I genuinely thank you for responding to my column.
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 16:24 - Feb 26 with 2845 views | CroydonCaptJack |
Do you think that plank of wood was Devon White?
It would have been about as mobile.
Secondly that refreshments stall lady reminded me of Precious from Come Fly with Me. |  | | |
| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 16:27 - Feb 26 with 2832 views | DavieQPR |
But at least our ground never stunk of mustard. |  | | |
| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 16:49 - Feb 26 with 2789 views | stowmarketrange |
| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 15:43 - Feb 26 by terryb |
Is his dislike of Rangers worse than many of our fans dislike (to put it mildly) of Norwich?
Most of that is due to Norwich trying & suceeding to win a football match in 1976. And no, I've still not got over Easter Saturday 1976!
Now, if you dilike then because of Ron Saunders & Duncan Forbes, I'm on your side. Never mind Grant Holt, these two deserve hatred! |
And Diopter spitting at our fans and the big lanky toothless striker who always scored in the last few minutes against us.And the 6 fingered c@nts in the Barclays stand,and the shit train journey home,even though I only go 2 stops.And that crap kit.Need I go on? |  | | |
| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 20:08 - Feb 26 with 2616 views | paulparker |
People who support Norwich are generally virgins who still bath with their mums I cannot take anyone seriously who follows them especially this silly kunt |  |
| 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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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 20:17 - Feb 26 with 2601 views | Juzzie |
He hates us because of a bad experience 30 years ago? Jesus wept.
We know the ground is well below par, we have to put up with it week in week out.
Has he been to Luton? I can only think he hasn’t. | | | |
| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 20:43 - Feb 26 with 2564 views | kensalriser |
Some years ago I bought a classic car from a guy who'd restored it. He'd done a great job, but I picked up that the plate didn't match the original and asked him why. Apparently the previous owner had a personal plate on it and on the change of ownership the DVLA had issued a new age related plate.
'Couldn't you get the original plate?' I enquired.
'Well, I liked the letters NCF on the replacement as I'm a Norwich City fan, so I just kept it'.
Suffice to say I was straight up the local licensing office as soon as I bought it and sweet talked them into reinstating the original plate! |  |
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| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 22:46 - Feb 27 with 2167 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 20:08 - Feb 26 by paulparker |
People who support Norwich are generally virgins who still bath with their mums I cannot take anyone seriously who follows them especially this silly kunt |
Mate that genuinely made me snort enough to get a filthy look from the missus for disturbing Britain’s Best Sewing Bastards or whatever it’s called. |  | | |
| Our old friend Dick Menace at it again... on 23:58 - Feb 27 with 2088 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
As vvanky as this guy is, what he is saying is true though. Those figures are fcking horrendous and if they were spent on a stadium / training facilities instead we’d probably be in exactly the same position but without the memories of SWP etc and leg room that Warwick Davis would struggle with. | | | |
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