West London is R's?

So you 'regularly sold out Loftus road' but had three sell outs in two seasons. Two v Chelsea (one in the cup) and one v Sours where away fans owned your ground.

Pleased to educate you.

 

PS feel free to check for yourself how 'regular' your sell outs were in the 80s.

I would guess as regular as once or twice a season.

And due mainly to away fans. Qpr in the 80s was a free for all for away fans. Like wimbledon in the 90s

 

If that was the case, we were re-born when we went down to Lge1 and had to pass around buckets just to keep the Club alive. Ever since, you'd find it hard to go to a game and see a significant amount of empty seats.

As a matter of fact, I will guarantee that if we build a new bigger Stadium, we'll pack it out every other week.

 

In the mid 70s we had 35k for the last game of the season against Leeds. There were 5k away fans, all in the away end. This is all bollocks isn't it? It's all subjective and attendances differ wildly across the decades.
Main thing is.........we out-played you guys for much of the 2nd half yesterday, particularly in midfield and I bet that really pissed you off eh?

 

So you sold out your ground when you were challenging for the title at the end of the season. Well done.

Pleased with a point. Top of the league and hopeful we can be top three this season behind Manc clubs.

 

Now there's ambition

 

Oh dear..me thinks the game didnt got to plan for the Chumpions league winners and fat frank and the racist got found out....!!

Rytan Nelson had 50 million quid in his back pocket and your the dive for the penalty should make all chelsea fans embarrased....up thiere with Ashley Young at the moment...

hope you do get top 3 but also jhope you lose to us...good luck !!

PS..i'm sure i remember Chelski getting around 6 k fans against orient or someone..i did go to the game as my brother is Chelsea..I'm sure your resident historians will know as i cannot be arsed to look it up..?

 

Ignore him. He'd been looking forward to mocking our performance all week so when we actually play reasonably well and match them he reverts to type and finds something else to mock. All clubs have struggled for crowds at some time or other and all home grounds were infiltrated by away fans back then. Whether Chelsea had a couple of hundred in our end, as you'd realistically expect, or the tens of thousands all over the ground as he'll claim before and after every QPR v Chelsea match until he dies, does it really matter?

 

Here is a nice pic of the Ellerslie erupting in 94 when Wise scored.

Only 15,735 there that day, and when you think Chelsea would have sold out the Schools End, and owned the Ellerslie, it does not look like many of your fans turned up. Maybe a 50/50 split; 60/40 at best!

 

We were challeging for the title in april 1976. That record attendance (35.353) was in april 1974 agains Leeds Utd. We ended 8th on that season (1973-74). Just to be accurate.............

 

before my time but good side that season Leeds by all accounts. Did Leeds receive the Div 1 trophy that day?
bet they brought five figures down.

They took 5k away to most games and 10k plus to very big games in the 70s. Famously they reckon they took 30k to Wolves for a night game title decider, more fans than Liverpool did when they denied you the title in 76 at Molineux

 

Leeds r scum but you can't deny their away following is up there with the best

 

I don't know why you keep harping back to that era. I explained already how the Club was re-born in Lge 1 and that if we build a new Stadium twice the size, we'll fill it no bother.

Also, I remember seeing your ground half empty once or twice during that time.

You sound awfully bitter that you didn't win mate. Get over yourself.

 

I believe on 1973-74 we had a better average home attendances than you. You have some incredible differences with your attendances. In your home match against Leeds you got over 40.000 but in the same season in your home match against Burnley your attendance was just over 8.000.....! So we havent ALWAYS been smaller than you. Also the big part of 70's, 80's and the early 90's we were better in the footballing department too

 

Agree, you were a much better team than us for many years.
Your support has always been very poor though.

73/4: We averaged 26k, our lowest since 1915. You averaged 22867.

Don't forget due to Powercuts all games had to kick off at 2pm some even during the week, so some games were played during the working day and poor attendances resulted

 

I think we all know HammersmithBlue/LF spent his childhood in the 70s sat in the "crumbly bit" next to the away fans at Stamford Bridge, with a flask of weak lemon drink, an anorak and an A5 notepad jotting down the away fan numbers. This was because the other trainspotters were Palace fans and wouldn't let him sit with them at Clapham Junction ticking off train numbers.

 

Is there something wrong with your brain?

You're having a go at us averaging 3k less than you in 73/4 even though Chelsea are a far bigger Club. If anything, you should be embarrassed that a Club less than half your size was almost equalling you at the gate. Its a fairly pathetic argument mate.

That's like us having a go at Brentford because their crowds aren't as big as ours. Can't you see how absurd that is?

I do hope DL comes on soon and talks a bit of sense into you because you're making yourself out to be a right mug, pal.

 

Attendances all fluctuate depending on success/profile of clubs.

When Chelsea won the league in 1955 we had the highest attendance, same for Spurs in 61. That's just the way it is, fans will come and go.

Chelsea had huge support for home games up until the late 70s, gates then dipped due to the team doing poorly and other factors such as the rise in unemployment and hooliganism.

QPR broke into the football league in the late 60s, had a fantastic young team in the mid 70s (and really ought to have won the league). Since the profile of the club grown so has the fanbase, that's the same with any club. One relegation in 96 set the club back years. I genuinely believe had QPR not gone down and were in the PL around 2000-2005 when football began to go mainstream globally they'd have gates well into the 20,000s (possibly 30s) and would have had to have moved out of Loftus Road years ago.

The thing is though kids these days want to support a Premier League club. With Chelsea, Fulham, Arsenal and Spurs on your doorstep and then further afield United/Liverpool (who seem to be the default team of any 1st generation football fan) its hard to compete when your a 2nd/3rd tier. But now QPR are back in the big league and have assembled a good squad I fully expect local kids to turn their back on United/Liverpool and follow QPR.

One of my friends was a United "fan" and choose to support Fulham simply because he said he couldn't get passionate following a club like United, he'd much rather go to games and follow a local side. I'm not a fan of people that change teams but had enough respect for him for that.

The long and short of it is that QPR will grow as a club, just like Chelsea did, United did and others before them.

Remember back in the 60s/70s/80s Spurs had a larger fanbase than Arsenal, so did Chelsea. Then the Wenger generation of fan came along and Arsenal probably have a bigger domestic fanbase than both. Things change over time

It will take time but City

 

Great post DL. I think that explains everything.

Now, EC, surely you now see what we're saying mate?!!!