As said on another thread totally agree, it was truly awful, like a morgue. It doesn't excuse the performance but it must translate to the players when you have a full away end singing and barely a whisper from us. Having felt a plonker for leaping out if my seat a few times I did my best but frankly gave up. It didn't help having some doughnut continually shouting shooooot from distances of 40 yards and then screaming at Charlie trying from 25 yards 'how are you ever going to score from there?' MU it was an experience, but never again!
Beth Beth, I posted something similar after the Palace match. I was in the school lower for first time ever and never again!!!! BUT THAT WAS A SOLD OUT PL GAME!!!!! I heard people asking what we were singing after "Come on U Rrrs............
Shame for them that it turned into a reserves game as well wasn't it? Especially for the poorly researched commentary team with their repeated claim that McShane was 36. I know he seems to have been around for ever, but he's still in his 20s.
I think the rule about members only access to The Loft does only apply to league fixtures, but I have to take a different stance to the complaint about all the tourists. I think it is fair enough that people get the hump if season ticket holders are regularly cashing in on their unused or unwanted season tickets for league games and making money on it and Rangers fans get out priced because a bidding war happens and tourists end up beating genuine fans to tickets - I can understand that, but that should be the case for all league games and not just when the big 4-6 clubs come to town, but it is often the case that fans come on pleading for any spares for the big club games. For the SUFC game I came back from Ireland after Christmas with a prolapsed disc, had not taken up the offer of upgrading my season ticket for the cup game in advance and was just going to pay on the door and go to my usual seat, so I couldn't go. I very much doubt my seat was resold as it was so high up in the Gods of SAR, but if it was sold to a tourist then I am really happy for them. The seat next to me and my old man has the same season ticket holders name on it for the last few years but we never see him. We always have a tourist next to us. We have met some great people, who are not supporters of any team in particular, love English football and have never been to a English game before. Earlier this year we had a young guy in his 20's from Iceland, he conversed away in broken English and it was clear he was off his head with excitement at the thought of being at an English football game, I think it was the 2-2 with Stoke. I imagined it would be the same feeling for some of my mates and their kids who every couple of years will have a dad's and kid's trip to Barcelona, Milan, Madrid, Munich. These are Rangers fans, gooners and Brentford fans who love their football and want to go and savour the atmosphere abroad at some of Europeans better known teams. Imagine how you would feel if you were stood in Camp Nou, did not understand the chants, were chatting away and taking in the atmosphere and you and your kids were getting daggers from everyone around you for nicking tickets from genuine Spanish fans - you get my point. And I don't buy the argument that they are huge stadiums that have spare capacity and we only have 18K seats and need a bigger stadium - yeah that argument might wash for the last couple of seasons, but for the 15 previous years when we were down in the lower leagues, we had plenty capacity for every game, be it a Saturday or a Tuesday night in January. I have never bought into this thought process that Loftus Road is a Private Members Club, one which you have had to proven you have been a season ticket holder of member since you were conceived and God forbid we get Tourists swamping the place. If we do move to a bigger ground, YES, it will be different, it wont be Loftus Road, the atmosphere will not be like it is most home games AT THE MOMENT, but it probably won't be much worse than what it was like for lots of years in between 1997 - 2009/10 when there was plenty of room for loads more Rangers fans to fit in and the atmosphere was often poisonous.
