......to have an opinion. Just airing a little gripe of mine after seeing some comments on here this week. Far too many people saying....."How dare you have an opinion? I bet you were sat at home with your feet up!" Fact is, many people, including myself, struggle to get up to Loftus Road week in, week out, and have to make do with watching online or, now we're in the big time, on Football First - where you actually get a better perspective of the game and the benefits of highlights. Fair play if you're arguing about the price of pies, empty seats or season ticket hikes, but when it comes to team selection and performance we're just as qualified to have an opinion.
True Joey. With all the modern technology (Live streaming, QPR World etc.) you can keep up fairly well in absence. Nevertheless, respect MUST go out to the boys that get down there week in, week out and see the game in the flesh. There are no substitutes for that. What gets on my wick are the "fans" popping up all of a sudden to rubbish the side after the defeat v Bolton yet we never heard from them before!
Well said, Joey. I could have gone Saturday (but at £45 for the cheapest seat they can whistle) - I too watched online and probably got more of an insight due to the immediacy of replays, analysis and decent commentary.
Agreed Joey - ticket prices alone say that many if not most of us, won't be able to afford to attend that many games. Then there's the Rs who live outside London or beyond. HOWEVER, any team needs support from a crowd so there's that bit of respect that should be shown to those who do attend - especially away games - so perhaps the fairest thing is for us armchair jockeys to just accept the attenders have the moral high ground on this. What do others think?
If you couldn't afford to get to the game or simply couldn't manage to get there but still wore the colours while listening to commentary you are as much of a fan as any of us. If you could comfortably afford to go, wasn't too far away to get to LR, and wasn't tied up with something more important but still decided against going to our first top flight game in 15 years then you don't rate full supporter status in my view. Sorry to be blunt.
Empty seats aplenty on Saturday, thanks largely to Bolton bringing fewer supporters than many Championship sides. Different tunes will be sung when Chelski, Utd, Gooners etc roll up no doubt. Having waited so long to get back up to the promised land it seemed churlish not to renew the season ticket. If we stay up and prices continue to rise I'll have to bail and maybe become a member instead and only get to two or three games a season. As much as I love QPR it is getting hard to justify the outlay and as I am on a wage freeze for at least 2 years. It won't stop me being a fan and having an opinion though, fair play to anyone who supports the club and cares enough to comment on sites like these. I may be counted in their ranks if costs keep rising.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking those that do go every week. I'd love to be one of them. I actually would have gone Saturday if my brother hadn't had the absent-minded foresight to get married. But I live in Herne Bay, Kent, so a game for me would be £45 for a ticket and £27 for the train. Add to that a few beers and a bit of grub and you're looking at £100. It's why I'll stick to playing on a Saturday afternoon until my legs say no more...
I have the utmost respect AND jealousy to those that have the opportunity to attend games, home and away. But we the supporters come in all shapes and sizes and we live in all corners of both Britain and the world, and everyone are entitled to their opinion. I go over for maybe two or three games a season, obviously they are my highlights every year. Waking up every saturday and putting on my QPR jersey is a reflex my wife could be without, but it's what work for me . I'm an armchair supporter by force, not by choice. QPR being my cross to bear for more than two decades now, which isn't always easy living in Norway. But life in the Premier League is easyer than in the Championship, now at least i have every premiership game live on TV to choose from. And believe you me, i will voice my opinions on this great board throughout
I've got a season ticket and go to every game but agree that those who dont are still entitled to their opinions and it doesnt make them less of a fan if they dont go. However I believe you do get to understand what is happening on the pitch a lot more if you are at the game rather than wathing it on TV. For instance a TV camera can only follow so much of the game. You cant see players reactions and what is happening off the ball if you are not there. There is actually quite a lot you miss by watching on TV. However that is only for 90 mins and of course everyone is entitled to their opinions on what happens on the pitch and off it whether they go to the games or not.
All fans are entitled to opinions but those who don't go reguarly have less informed opinions. If it really was equally as good or as some are arguing a better perspective then you wouldn't have scouts and managers travelling round the entre world to watch players rather than watching it televised. I can only think of 2 players that were bought on the basis of watching on tele and not at the game: Sammy Koejoe and Bebe. Sums it up really
Nice to see a post sticking up for those of us who can't make it every week. I was gutted not to be able to make it to our first game back in the Premiership, and am so disappointed I only made it to about four or five games last year...but if the wife gets a job in Paris, that's just how it goes...gave up my season ticket for her...and they say romance is dead! It's not the same commenting on games having just watched online or on TV because you do miss a lot, but fans from afar are certainly entitled to their opinions, it almost shows more loyalty supporting your team if you need to hunt down the only pub in your city showing QPR games, and go to it to watch (there is at least one other fan in Paris who I've watched with). I find it most handy hearing from others on here the stuff you don't see on TV, like fans singing abuse at the directors box...funny they never seem to show any of that on Sky.
Most of the opinions I've seen on this forum are on our pathetic owners and the lack of investment in players. Blind freddy could argue that one.
You are right joey, everyone has the right to have an opinion and I see many differing opinions. Take Derry for example, i have seen totally differing opinions on how he played. From what I saw on my computer I thought he had a good game but that is only my opinion. The trouble is I am not an expert as I found out many years ago when I was lucky enough to have a beer with Bill Dodgin Jnr after a game. He had seen a totally different game to me and when I thought about it he was right. Players I thought that had an ordinary game had been part of the make up of the team and had done their job. I learnt a lot in that half hour. For you young ones BD was a highly respected coach back in the 60's. So for me even being at the match wont make my opinion informed but I still have the right to have one even though now I dont express one because I dont see the whole picture. Anyway dont stop expressing opinions just because I probably wont take any notice, opinions are what 606 is all about. Anyway I am off to the pool as it is well in the 30's and I can have a beer and instead of watching lovely Spanish ladies I will weigh up our chances for the next match. Keep the opinions coming.
It would be unlucky for the pundits on MOTD if you had to be at a game to give an opinion. Shocking defending
Joey - i didn't go on Saturday..I worked - (well left home at 2-30 and got back at 4am). I will voice an opinion on what I read, see and hear on my loved QPR. We got our butts kicked on Sat, two deflected goals (well Gabbidon directed a deflected shot pass Kenny) but it's only one game, great shot by Cahill and sloppy 4th. Any QPR fan, whether armchair support or one that goes will know that his season is going to be tough and we will get beaten but, it won't stop my blood being Blue and White.
Whenever I go to Loftus Road I sit in x block of the Ellerslie Road Stand. It's great when the action's coming towards the School End, but when it's heading towards the Loft it's hard to make out what the f**k is going on. The only place I think you can get a true perspective of the whole game is the upper tiers near the half way line - which is incidentally where most matches are filmed from. Koejoe and Bebe were massive flops, but I bet hundreds of players are bought off the back of video highlights - just most managers are clever enough not to admit it. I can take regulars at Loftus Road having the moral high ground, but certainly not a better-informed opinion. That's just ignorant.
