Things just don't move well in the UK ESP London unless everyone gets paid enough to guarantee the rules are broken . I would like to now hear from our club what the alternatives are unless of course this was always the plan to make Car Giant act and show its hand We are promised a stadium and new training complex I currently have little confidence that either one will start a build within 5 years Anyone can release plans it's really cheap to do so We are in a pit of **** currently IMO and the naivety shown is laughable
Top post. But at least we've had a break from the constant non updates on this stuff. And I know what good looks like now, and am not inclined to settle for second best. On our day we have some of the best fans in the country, we deserve a decent stadium. We don't have 40,000 fans who will turn up and sing every other week, scale down, find some stadium only sites and get a move on.
Hopefully, and the same goes for our R's, we won't all peter away! Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Isn't Life Strange. If it were Chels** looking to build on Old Oak then all of a sudden Mendes changes from being a jumped up little Del Boy and would be seen as the Managing Director of a former QPR sponsoring company who sponsored us during the bad times and whose own son is a massive QPR fan and helps host a QPR pod cast. He would be seen as fighting the Corporate and Local Government shysters trying to destroy a local business that should be supported. We'd be encouraged to rush down to Car Giant and support him. However, because he is stopping us doing what we want to do (well what some of us want to happen) he is the Anti-Christ. Strange world.
Don't agree with that at all. I think what's been remarkable about QPR fans reaction so far to Car Giant's position on Old Oak is actually how even-handed and un-tribal they've been about it. Almost to their own detriment it could be argued.
Maybe not everyone is in love with the new stadium concept. The most positive feeling I'm able to conjure up when considering what the club has presented thus far is that that sort of stadium in that kind of setting may be a necessary evil. On balance, though, if the club could survive long-term at Loftus Road, albeit mainly occupying the 2nd tier of English football, I'd probably be pretty comfortable with that.
You could be right there mate, and I can certainly see the attraction of being a big fish is a small pond, winning more often than losing etc. The trouble with that approach though is that clubs of a similar size to us are not standing still themselves. They're all looking to grow and are moving forward with bigger stadium plans of their own (look at Brentford). So if we don't also show some ambition and look to grow ourselves then we shall end up going backwards. We could soon find ourselves not competing in the second tier, but in the third or fourth, or possibly below. Personally that's not something I want to see.
That doesn't sound so bad to me. We've seen it before. My dad grew up watching (and enjoying) that. Progress isn't always progress.
The main problem these days is that every club owner wants some of the vast sums of cash that are being thrown around by Sky, the days of standing still are long gone and is now no longer an option unfortunately. The days of accepting that the club you support are a decent 2nd, 3rd division side who occasionally have a cup run no longer applies, every side wants to get to the holy grail of the Premiership even though it is a crap place to be most of the time. From our perspective TF wants us as a global brand, whether that is a good or bad thing, and unfortunately Loftus Road is just not good enough for that vision, however I'm not sure a 40K ground is right either, we could end up like Coventry playing before 10k crowds in a ground that hols 30 odd thousand. I would be quite content if we aimed at 25 - 30 k capacity with the intimacy that LR has, and the possibility of expansion should the need arise.....
Yep, Ill agree with that. I certainly wont be happy with watching us play Div 2, 3 or what ever as i want to see us compete against the best and have some ambition. If i wanted to see crap like that i'd follow our A-League thanks. There wil prob come a time when Loftus Road will not be able to fund a professional team given the obscene salaries and demands of todays players. Personally i want to be in the Prem, its the only way i can watch my team every week. Failing that, bouncing betwen the Prm and NPC for a few seasons could be fun. Cant get on board with some outdated memory of watching us in Div 3 playing like crap against another bunch who dont really want to be there. Thats not football, thats just a waste of a Saturday afternoon. Would be like supporting Harrow Borough Each to thier own i suppose
Agree but we knew that getting an investor on board would always mean investment ... You invest to get return TF is getting his by spotlighting himself every chance he gets What does Phil do? It will be a massive pull to leave LR and our generation of fans will not like it unless they get the brand build spot on ... To date it has been complete tosh
DT, Are you back on the meds? because you have been putting up some cracking posts lately Please keep it up Respect EDIT: And a hand full of REP to go with it
