Losing to Oxford United in the league cup final, a bit like the start of this season, had such high expectations!
It was the fact that tens of thousands were going to pile out and all try to get on a train home, it was worth doing it just to avoid that. I dont leave early in other games unless we are total turd and 3 or more goals behind with 10-15 to go. Even then Ive done it less than 5 times.
That was the start of my negativity, I was a kid and thought it was going to be a walkover, unfortunately so did the players.
I lived in Oxford at the time and on the rare chance I managed to forget about the loss there was always someone on hand to remind me. Character building.
we walked to the park n ride, but on leaving Cardiff they were hanging banners from the motorway bridges takin the piss about how far we had to go, not the best of days but we have had worse, i know it hard to be positive with the position were in but lets hope for 3 precious points Saturday and the start to our survival with or without MH'S HELP.
Ironically, as a relatively young poster, my favourite memory pertaining to QPR is Furlong's goal against Oldham. Nothing has come close to matching that feeling quite yet! I honestly doubt much will top that. It was probably a combination of me being so young, the tension in the stadium being so palpable, the match being on a knife-edge and the promise of potential promotion which that goal gave us! My second favourite memory has to be the whole of the NW season which got us promoted - what a ride! With so many twists and turns, and after such rubbish from Flavio and Bernie. My least favourite experience is...well...now. I don't really post anymore as it's all too depressing. I'm used to supporting a 'small' club, who might get beaten more often than they win, but have a plucky character and don't get too carried away with themselves. The problem I have now is that we were promised so much, and I (perhaps foolishly) took it all on board. I believed the hype, and now it's come crashing down to reality. I really had hope for this year, which turned out to be silly! I guess as they say, that false hope really is worse than no hope at all. Edit: I realise I didn't make it explicit that the irony is that my highs were when the club was low, and the lows are the technical 'highs' for the club!
1968/9 was a really difficult season which tested my loyalty. I first went to Loftus Road in the season we won the League Cup and were promoted from the old Third Division. Another promotion the following year into the top flight meant that I only knew success. However, I'm still here after 45 years so I guess, like most QPR supporters, I've had to be able to stand a few highs and very many lows. I got my son supporting QPR in the early 1990's so until the Warnock season, he'd known a very great deal of heartache and a very great deal of abuse from his Manure-supporting friends. I still want Hughes to be given the chance to keep us up and, on balance, I believe he'll do it. If he fails, winning the Championship the following season wouldn't be too bad, would it? Me, I'm here for the long run. What about you?
Lowest - three come to mind Relegation to League 1 or whatever it was called then, Vauxhall Motors, and especially the League Cup loss to Oxford Utd, and how badly they outclassed us. The last was especially unpleasant becuase I worled for a firm based in England with a lot of people around who knew my allegiance.
FA Cup replay '82 .......... the clock seemed to whizz down at the game which was bad enough, and then afterwards we never really got the credit for having a real go.
The worst used to be that time Manure scored in the 95th minute to all but guarantee our demotion... ...but then I randomly strayed on here on a Saturday night this season after a match and the combination of infighting like rabid hounds and the overriding feeling of doom spread by fellow Rs - like a meeting for the bereaved at the point where everyone had just collectively and inadvertently dropped their anti-depressants down the drain while simultaneously the convention centre had just been ignited by lightening - was just too much to take. I think we might have drawn that game.
Being a young'un the worst I have felt going to games was under Sousa - that was a terrible terrible time. Even under the likes of Ollie the team had a spirit and fight about them and the same with Gregory and Harford. Paul Hart would have been equally as bad as Sousa had he been given time - thankfully he left!
Funnily enough I feel the same under hughes as I did sousa, the football is so negative and dull that they both would have been happy with 0-0 every game. Even winning was boring.
I hope on Sunday the morning when i wake from the one or to the night before will be the worse i willl ever feel as a qpr fan. just after seeing us beat saints 4 - 1 and the start of the recovery........ onwards and upwards.
This isn't making things any better. I was holding this in reserve for Sunday morning if things go badly, but time to deploy now, before Flyer's on the phone to the Samaritans after leaving LR 20 minutes in on Saturday. Time for a futile and stupid gesture! [video=youtube;q7vtWB4owdE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE[/video]
For me no cup loses are as disappointing as relegation. Saddest memories are of beating West Ham 3-0 but still not avoiding the drop, then losing 3-0 to Stockport county (if my memory serves me right) and being relegated to division 2...sad times. Trying to currently blank those memories out and convince myself all will be okay, and I won't experience that horrid feeling again this year.
Milk Cup Final loss to Oxford. Our end emptied in about 5mins flat!! Going back down the M40 with all those Oxford fans (for the day) was a nightmare. '82 FA Cup Final Replay....deserved to win!! Also remember us selling Stan....I was gutted!!
