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Poll: Club v Country

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by sb_73, Jul 14, 2018.

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Would you prefer QPR to win the PL or England to win the World Cup?

  1. QPR

    72.3%
  2. England

    27.7%
  1. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    From a Watford perspective I love my club, but maybe less so since the Pozzo's took over and we have become a club of players who had to look for Watford on a map before coming here. In order to win the Premiership we would have to try to become like one of the leading clubs - like a mini Chelsea, and then we would be unrecognizable from the family club I started supporting in the 60s. So, I would prefer to win the cup than the league. As for the international team - I can remember how the whole English league got a spin off effect from the win in 1966 - attendances rocketed, and most clubs profitted. A world Cup win is something which people remember 50 years later but a league win - how many people remember who won the league in 1966 ?
     
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  2. Star of David Bardsley

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    You would if Watford had.
     
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  3. Ninj

    Ninj Well-Known Member

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    I've gone for QPR. However this is the first England squad in years that appears to have a team of players that want to play for each other and actually look like a team.
    I would like to think that in the QPR team that does win the PL will have some home grown players or players that have been developed from 10 years old to the first team.
     
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  4. SW Ranger

    SW Ranger Well-Known Member

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    It’s a tough question... the ‘ride’ of ‘doing a Leicester’ would be phenomenal. I remember the euphoria of that season in 1982 and the cup run (and sadness after the replay). To actually do it in the premiership, as a team, without all the egos and massive spending would be an amazing one-off life journey.

    Winning the World Cup, as England, would be equally a huge experience. The stages and games do bring people together; and the sharing of it with everyone around, especially family and friends, is a unique and wider joy. And even better if one our own could be in the team.

    But the pull of patriotism just edges it for me ... so country first (then the PL title can follow).
     
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  5. Ranger4ever

    Ranger4ever Well-Known Member

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    QPR for me every time.

    I just can't get that excited about England, plus they rarely feature QPR players nowadays, even on the bench/included in the squad.
     
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  6. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    how could you forget

    The 196566 season was the 67th completed season of the Football League.
    This season is notable for Liverpool winning the title – their seventh overall – with only 14 squad players. The Second, Third and Fourth Divisions were won by Manchester City, Hull City and Doncaster Rovers respectively.
     
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  7. igor60

    igor60 Well-Known Member

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    QPR for of course because im Finnish, althought England national football team is my favourite after Finnish national team.
     
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  8. sb_73

    sb_73 Well-Known Member

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    What if the choice is between Finland and QPR?
     
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  9. mapleranger

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    QPR first and foremost and I feel a bit like like Igor except Finland winning the World Cup is of a much higher probability than Canada ever doing so. I too have made England my second team (in spite of my German heritage on my father's side). Anyway my mother traces her family back to Dorset and my wife was born in Oxford so it's England.
     
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  10. mcytiger

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    Easy choice!
     
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  11. DT’s Socks

    DT’s Socks Well-Known Member

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    Has to be club seriously

    The nation team is a nice sideshow every two years

    I thought it was a disgrace with the its coming home rubbish during the World Cup which was brilliant. The World Cup did go home it’s rightful home where it was invented

    England did really well in the tournament but are still way off in footballing terms

    Saw the promise of our youth teams failed big time to the French the other day 5-0
    England the holders of the u19s WC were dreadful and a disgrace that game could of been 12-0 easily

    See the French even sponsor the nation side now

    QPR offers us sustained hope every weekend.
     
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