Just read on the Chelsea website that they have recieved 3003 tickets. So they have the whole of the School End. A bit over generous considering our small stadium and the fact that many Rangers fans will struggle to get a tickets...
A post on LFW: ============ Do you know what, as I'm in the mood, I won't bite my tongue. I don't expect a positive reaction to this but fck it. I followed the other thread with interest where my "there are still tickets for Villa left" post got a negative reaction, with interest and now I'm going to have a bit of a rant. I go to every game home and away. This is very stupid because it consumes my life and eats away at every spare penny I have and I cannot afford it but it's what I do. Do I think everybody should do this? Absolutely not. Do I judge people by this standard? Absolutely not. I cannot afford it as a 27 year old bloke who rents a flat and has no wife, no kids, no mortgage, no car, no commitments. Anybody with one or all of those should not be doing what I'm doing and nor should I really. So no bleeding hearted "just cos you go to every game doesn't mean everybody else can" bullsht please. It does not irk me that not everybody goes to every match. It does not irk me that people pick and choose the games they want to go to either because they can't afford to do anything else or because football is, at the end of the day, just football. Football is a hobby, a pass time, a sport, a game. If you want to go to one match this season then great. If you want to go to all of them then great. If you don't go at all for the next 20 years then great. None of that irks me. It does irk me that people feel the need to role out their life story providing great long excuses as to why they want to go to Chelsea at home but not Wigan away because it's absolutely irrelevant. And it does irk me that people who don't go all season but suddenly decide they want to come to the Leeds game last season or this Chelsea game now are going to moan about not being able to get in. It also irks me that whenever we draw Chelsea or Man Utd in the cup suddenly my phone starts buzzing with people I haven't heard from or seen for years asking if I can get them a ticket. No I can't, now fck off. It also irks me that before we have these games there is thread after thread after thread after thread on here of people absolutely desperate for a ticket for this game because this is the game and this is what they've always wanted to see and they have been a QPR fan since 1917 and it's fcking terribly unfair that they cannot get a ticket for this game because everybody in their family is Rangers and they're Rangers and their whole life is Rangers. And yet when Charlie comes on here with a spare ticket for the Villa game this Sunday he can barely give the fcking thing away. I can understand people not being that interested in seeing Wigan and Bolton and Blackburn but fck me 12 months ago we were playing Scunthorpe United and now suddenly people are turning their nose up at Aston Villa and Newcastle at home? "Oooooh it's on the TV". Give me a break. These are massive matches, with a great QPR team, if you can't go to the Chelsea game then bloody well come to this one because it's still a great game and it's still our team out there. I can't ever recall going to a QPR match just because they were playing somebody decent. It also irks me the criticism that our club is receiving for its ticketing policy. I mean let's look at it from the box office point of view. We have our first Premiership away match for 15 years in August. It's at Everton which is a fabulous old ground, a real big Premiership name. It's the first QPR away game of any sorts for four months. It's the first QPR away game in the Premiership for 15 years, the first away game since we won the Championship. We should be taking 3,000 people there easily and asking for more tickets besides. We took the lower allocation and didn't sell it. At Wigan, immediately after the takeover we've all prayed for and a day after we sign a genuine quality player like Joey Barton, we struggle to take 1,500 there. And yet for Fulham people moan like absolute hell because we take the lower allocation. Well what indication have we given to our club that we actually want to pay to support our team away from home? None. And now for Chelsea. We moaned, for years, that clubs were given the whole School End. The club responded by giving us half of it. We repaid them by leaving 3,000 seats empty against Bolton. Now that's fine because we hated the board, the team was crap, the tickets were expensive etc etc even though it was the first Premiership game at Loftus Road since 1996. But for Newcastle, a great opponent and a great game, after the takeover and with lower ticket prices, with the best QPR team in a generation on the pitch, they gave us the lower school end and we didn't sell it. And this weekend against Villa, another top Premiership name in town with the best QPR team in a generation gelling and playing brilliantly. And we can't sell that either. Again, what indication are we giving our club that we want and need that Lower School End? We're not. We're inviting them to give it to other teams and make more money. In my opinion they should fill their boots. Since the takeover they have bent over backwards to do things for the fans and our response has been to bombard them with tweets about the bloody badge, moan that we haven't had our refund yet and fail to sell out a single match home or away.
F**ing hell Northolt, thats one hell of a rant! Well said though to whoever wrote it. Whats Joey saying- he wants three of the crowd to kiss his ring?
Guys... I'm a member so I can buy a ticket to the Chelsea home game. But when will I be able to buy 3 tickets for me and two guests?
I am one of those whe seldom manage to get to matches but I heartily agree with Northolt. "Cherrypicking" matches is fine, but complaining when it doesn't work your way, is selfish - even elitist Personally if finances and geography were different I'd be happy to help Charlie with that spare ticket
I agree with everything said in that rant. I used to go to every home and quite a few away games. As you get older, have a family and other demands on your time you don't go as often. My work means a season ticket would be a waste of money so I go to a handful of games where they fit in with my spare time. For years I've been able to get a ticket for any match I've wanted to see in the 2nd and 3rd tier leagues, the big difference now is the age old 'supply & demand' situation in the Premier League. Everyone wants tickets for the big matches and there clearly aren't enough to go round. So many of the tickets on offer are 'restricted view' so are less than saleable, as for the school end, I used to stand there many many years ago quite regularly and I'd have no problem sitting there now if the seat was not one of the crap ones. The main problem is the ground is just well past it's sell by date for the fans that, like myself, can get to occasional games but are nearly always left with the seats in extreme positions. I knew this would happen when we got to the Premier League so you won't find me moaning about it, I'll just end up going to matches like Wigan, Blackburn, Norwich etc which actually are the games we really need to win and will still be as exciting as playing the big guns. The answer to the problem is obvious, time will tell whether the new stadium is a real prospect in the next two or three years.
I won't be able to look at that gif in the same way now! Good luck with that! No , it's Clive 'LFW' Whittingham
I like the way he writes...it made me laugh... I would rather have as many rsss fans in against chelsea as possible. When i was a kid in the early 80's Chelsea used to come to loftus road and take over... They were everywhere...It's hard to admit it but it's true. I'm still mentally scarred from it...
Thoroughly agree with Clive Whittinghams sentiment in the rant . I wish i didnt live in oz now Rangers are playing like they are and with such fantastic owners, i would gladly watch them against anyone . It is pathetic so called supporters wont go to Villa or Newcastle at home .
I agree with most on this thread. Obviously some fixtures are more lucrative than others but I would gladly go to any game my team is playing against. Sometimes the games against lesser opposition are where support is needed more hence why I prefer going to the likes of Sunderland, Newcastle, Wigan etc as opposed to the big games like United, Spurs, West Ham, Arsenal, Liverpool and now City. I can guarantee the OP that if he checks the Chelsea website within 30 minutes of the tickets going on sale to Chelsea Season Ticket Holders (I.e 7.30am tomorrow) they will be gone. Football these days is run like a business, supply and demand. They don't care who is coming in as long as someone does come in. I would be surprised if QPR vs a top 4 team didn't sell out, as I would for any club. Games like Man U and Liverpool etc are what some QPR fans have waited years for.
Northolt - Spoken like a proper fan. My team took over 30000 to Wembley a couple of years ago. Yesterday, despite winning 6-1 AWAYfrom home last week, the attendance was under 5000 - but come next May ( please not the dreaded play offs again!)----- you know what I mean. Good luck for your season - from what I've seen you're playing attractive football. Oh I bet if your manager was SAF you'd get loads of penalties -- and as for the one conceded today - one of the worst decisions I've seen. ps Think yourself lucky to be in the EPL ====It will never happen for my team in my life time - but that does not stop me travelling to all matches ( & a home game is a 100 mile trip for me !)
