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Reply | New Kit 2026/27
at 16:16 14 Jun 2026
Dh Gate from China will sell them. Only cost a tenner then. |
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Reply | The Loftus Road Ceiling: Why We Are Trapped in Infinite Mediocrity
at 09:29 12 Jun 2026
Disagree with this to be honest.
Brentford - new stadium, whilst small, has tons of corportate and brings in lots of extra money. It also costs less to run.
Bournemouth have a small ground and doing very well but they are being held back by it and have plans to expand it. If it wasn't holding them back, why would they bother?
Derby - bigger budget than us, have had success in their ground.
Reading - managed to get to the prem in their stadium. They still average around 12k so whilst looks empty, that isn't too shabby for a club that averaged what, 6k before moving? Imagine how low they would be without it.
MK - can't use that club ffs. |
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Reply | The Loftus Road Ceiling: Why We Are Trapped in Infinite Mediocrity
at 14:25 11 Jun 2026
I have said the same thing in the Car Giant thread.
We do need a new stadium. We cannot improve our revenue, therefore budgets, without one. We will continue to stagnate and not go anywhere particularly fast.
We sell out a lot of game but we still out our non restricted view every game.
Unless our player trading is pretty much bang on each year, we will eventually go down before we go up. The likes of Cardiff have a new stadium (newish anyway) and they average more than us in the league below. Things like that mean that even if we go down, there is no way we would expect to go straight back up as we wouldn't have the budget.
We would get new fans though, or just more of our actual fans through the door. Happy to be proved wrong and Wimbledon to MK dons a side, I don't think a club has ever moved to a new stadium and see their attendances drop? They all rise.
Even clubs like Bristol City have a far great match day revenue than us.
Obviously player sales and doing that right should go with it. |
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Reply | New Championship kits 26/27
at 13:30 4 Jun 2026
Was it Preston who were sponsored by the spudking or something random like that.
Huge online presence for something so small, yet they sold the most that they have ever done. Might have even been more than the last 2 combined or something like that, purely down to the sponsor. |
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Reply | New Championship kits 26/27
at 10:58 4 Jun 2026
Agreed. Bloody awful top. I am not against the colour scheme or the vertical hoops but the kit itself is just basic and bloody terrible. |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 11:25 28 May 2026
Back on topic then. So this site has gone out to tender, is that right? When does that close and then how soon after that would we know who the winner (?) is? |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 16:54 19 May 2026
Answered your own question there. Without the council and being able to build out over SAR, we cannot do anything drastic that will have a impact on size. |
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Reply | Summer transfer rumours 2026
at 15:23 19 May 2026
Not what I was saying.
Ill use example figures as I have no idea of the real ones but just with how it would work.
We get 20% of the fee that Palace get. Lets say he was sold for 60m but they agreed to a sell on fee of 20% as well.
They then sell Eze for 100m. That means that they would get £20m from that, which means the total sale of Eze got them 80m, meaning we would be entitled to 20% of the 20% that they got; in these figures, another £4m.
That above logic works for anything, like wining a prem. They get another £1m? We get 20% of that. Anything that Arsenal pay Palace, we would get our 20% worth.
Likewise if he flopped and left on a free, we get nothing extra as Palace didn't get anything more.
Hopefully that makes sense! |
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Reply | Summer transfer rumours 2026
at 13:36 13 May 2026
Sorry but that's not correct.
If part of the transfer was to have this, then that gets added to the overall transfer fee and we would be entitled to that part of it.
Otherwise all clubs would sell the player for pennies and then get a £30m fee after the player has played 1 game.
Even if Arsenal sell him for 200m, and Palace have a sell on (not saying they do) then we would also be entitled to a percentage of Palace's percentage. |
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Reply | Julian Stepháne…stick or twist
at 19:32 24 Apr 2026
Hes not wrong. Look at Chelsea, they need experience as well and no managers have been able to consistently win with youth. |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 16:48 21 Apr 2026
We wouldn't need it all and it will all be part of a regeneration that will bring in millions a month, though rent, sales, events and so on. |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 16:43 20 Apr 2026
I still don't really understand your points.
You mention other grounds that were falling down, yet you say LR is fine. Last season, part of the roof blew off in a storm when a game was playing!
It's very expensive to keep running and those costs go up as everything gets older. Evening Birmingham had to shut 2 stands as their ground was unsafe. They are now building a new ground.
At some stage, we will need a new ground whether you like it or not. And no one likes it as we all love LR but you have to be realistic. |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 13:44 17 Apr 2026
"It would also allow us to continue to talk of digging down for a while longer".
Brilliant line. |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 09:29 17 Apr 2026
Disagree, on the stadium part (they are clearly well run).
Brighton, new ground in 2011, promoted 2016.
Fulham had a bigger ground than us at the time and now it's bigger still and loads of extra money coming in.
Brentford obv well run but now getting loads of extra money and an established club.
The likes of Cardiff etc got promoted, got loads of money and guess what, they are still getting loads of money that they could re invest if they had decent owners. |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 09:23 17 Apr 2026
They have always wanted to move stadium, and any good owner should!
Point 1. Clubs bigger than us have moved from more historic stadiums and made it work. Think Arsenal, Spurs are the obvious prem ones. Even Milan, Athelico are moving.
If we could develop LR then I think 100% of the fan base would be all for it. The only way to do that is by the council helping us out. We can't simply buy the school, buy the homes etc. We would need SAR to be able to be built on and then be able to pretty much knock down and start again.
LR where it is, legally, we cannot make bigger as if we knocked any stand down, we would then have to build to current regs and we wouldn't be allowed for it to be as steep.
2. Not really sure what your point is. Of course the owners of the club can do what they want with it. Ruben & co could have bought LR from us, own it, then cause loads of damage. They haven't done that and it would make no finantial sense for them to build something unuasble with no crowds as they would lose money.
3. The strategy is to be more sustainable. Look at the training, look at who we are buying. All young, potential players rather than just players who have played for half of the league already.
I genuinely fail to see why fans wouldn't want us to have a new stadium. Everyone loves LR and it will be a shame to eventually move but we need to unlock our potential and stop being so scared of change, just because LR means so much. |
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Reply | Rail seating expansion approved (always check the small print)
at 14:37 15 Apr 2026
The response to me from the BO was to move to lower school end for their blue pricing.
I am not a fan of being behind a goal.
Hopefully they offer a good early bird discount to make it worthwhile. Somewhere between Blue and Silver pricing, I can accept that. |
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Reply | Rail seating expansion approved (always check the small print)
at 13:15 15 Apr 2026
Yeah we did get an email about it and I was all for rail seating. I stand anyway, so makes very little difference to me.
They didn't say anything about a price increase.
I can cope with a price increase. I can't agree with them doubling the price.
Someone further down hit the nail on the head as to why this area was brought in. No one sat there, it was empty and a waste. By bringing it in, its helped increase the attendance, atmosphere, match day revenue etc.
Not sure how many people will want to pay 'silver' pricing to be near the away ends if they didn't go there before. |
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Reply | Cargiant site
at 11:52 15 Apr 2026
That's just Millwalls with more, different colour seats. |
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