I know this might sound like a silly question and I apologise if it's interpreted the wrong way but I was just wondering what the general consensus is for future aspirations for QPR. Fans of QPR, Wolves and West Ham that I know prefer the Championship for the simple reason it's more competitive and they can go away from home to top of the league and have realistic ambitions of winning. I'm a big critic of the Premier League and would be less inclined to watch it if my own team hadn't played in it for so long. I'm not saying QPR will be the same as Wolves or West Ham, I have long thought that QPR have the finance and infrastructure in place to become a permanent fixture in the Premier League. Just wanted to gather some thoughts on this?
Not a silly question at all District, I suspect many on here are divided on this. There are many things to enjoy about not being in the prem - more honesty, more British players, less bullshit, money marginally less important, easier to get tickets, highly nostalgic trips away. Trouble is all these things get more true the further down the ladder you go, and the football is crap, mostly. I like to watch great players playing attractive football, so I'm keenly awaiting our return, though reserve the right to criticise the venality of it all. It really was better before Sky and the Prem.
Premier league is full of idiots I love the championship But there are about 10/20 class players I have enjoyed seeing live Watching Steven Gerrard not break sweat and destroy the QPR midfield on his own was one highlight Suarez effort was another David Silva Rooney Ashley Cole (sorry) Berbatovs class But I reckon at QPR I've never seen the best of Van Persie Bale The entire Arsenal team plus watching Grant Holt in any league will be sh*te
For me it's simple. I'll allow myself the luxury of lack of ambition and not knowing what I could have achieved if I'd pushed myself. My team doesn't get that same allowance - strive for the top.
Well it's all about expectations I think. We all enjoyed our last season in the championship...because we won it. If we'd finished 4th and lost in the playoffs maybe some of the fondness would be certainly lesser. If we fail this year will we still be happy about our great victories away to some of the other competitive championship sides? Personally..NO. The premiership is where the test lies. The highs are better when beating those we're expected to fall to, but those highs are few and far between. So is getting those fewer big highs better than the many smaller ones? For me YES.....as long as at the end of the season we have enough to stay in the premiership. It's no good beating...for example Chelsea 1-0 away if we still get relegated (apart from being able to mention it in threads like this). I desperately want to get back to the premiership. We limped out of it quite pathetically last season so we have a score to settle. I want this team to get back to when we played good football and got decent results against the best in the country...not the also-rans...which is where we are now.
Definitely Premier League for me, a new stadium, new training ground, strong scouting and youth development squad - only Barnsley away in cup games. Hopefully we can establish ourselves as a consistent mid-table club, e.g. Fulham, West Brom etc. Seems like we always have to fail a couple of times in order to eventually succeed?
IMO the Championship is a purer form of the British game. It's more honest & teams are more evenly matched. Obviously it doesn't have the amazingly skilled superstars & some of the football is dire! I'll take what ever comes, in what ever league as it wasn't long ago we nearly didn't have a club to follow!
The Prem would get boring quite quickly if we ever became a safe mid-table side up there. Fewer games, fewer wins, less likeable players as a rule, more expensive etc etc. but then competing with and occasionally beating the biggest teams gives a feeling that is unparalleled in this division. On balance, long term, I'd rather we stayed down unless we could genuinely break top seven, which is unrealistic of course. A real cup run would be bigger for me personally as I've never seen one. It would be good to have another crack though and there's obviously the high of achieving promotion itself. I could dig out a few dozen threads about us on your board too.
Hey DL, The simple answer is yes - the aim of every fan should be to see their team play, and compete, at the highest level and against the best opposition. Sure, the Championship has a competitiveness and an excitement that doesn't seem to be present in the PL, which is mainly down to the fact that the PL is split into four mini leagues (challengers, hopeful 5th-placers, mid-table settlers and relegation fodder) and making the move between these leagues is entirely dependent on how much cash you have on tap. But would I want us to be part of the biggest and richest league in football? and become established there? Hell yeah....
Whilst I would like to see QPR become the biggest, most successful English football team of all time... (a) I'm unlikely to live that long; and (b) There would suddenly be thousands of new, plastic supporters that are only there because of the club's recent success and unable to find Shepherds Bush on a map
Without wishing to sound glib but in order to demonstrate the nonsensical nature of the question and more still, some of the answers given on this page, allow me to ask a question. We're top of the league with a few games to go. I presume those who prefer the NPC would then be wishing the team would lose the remainder of the games so we could finish 3rd and then throw the Play-offs? Surely they wouldn't want us to leave the division they prefer and go into the one they don't like? Because that wouldn't make any sense, would it?
Brilliantly put Matt. I'll confess that I get more enjoyment watching a winning QPR side in the Championship than a struggling one in the prem, but part of that is because of the prize of potentially getting to the top tier again and ultimately I want to see the hoops go as high as they can.
