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Reply | Our crowds these days compared to years gone by....
at 14:44 24 Jan 2025
In the good old days, it was always cash only entry through a turnstile. Who knows haw many were really watching?
In 1963/4 I went to the White City for most of the home games - travelling there on the 105 bus that often failed to run. The White City was a ground totally lacking in atmosphere, you could have a dozen rows of terraces to yourself because most attendances were around the 6,000 mark.
The teams used to appear out of a tunnel in the ground to the tune of "The Entry Of The Gladiators" that you could barely hear. Separated by the running track and the greyhound track and no one went behind the goals because, with the track and greyhound curve, one end was in Shepherds Bush Market and the other end was in Ladbroke Grove. Atmosphere was worse than Sunday School.
We lost to Millwall and even they couldn't be arsed to make any trouble.
In 1964/65, The R's moved back to Loftus Road. In the first home game in September, there were supposedly 10,000 in the ground to see the R's beat Peterborough 3-0 and the noise was fantastic because the pitch was so close.
However, results didn't improve on the pitch. I was there in 1965 when there were only 3,250 present (which I believe is a record for the lowest attendance ever at a QPR game) to see Brian Bedford score a hat trick to beat Oldham 3-2.
I've never ever heard a crowd make so much noise as when the R's beat Leicester 4-2 in the League Cup Quarter Final in 1967. The papers said 15,000 were there but I'm sure loads more got in over the fences.
Attendances in the 60''s 70's and 80's were even more unreliable than the weather forecasts were, because it was cash only entry on the day. Once you sell tickets, the attendance figure is more accountable.
It was so much fun in those days. "In those days", means mid sixties to mid seventies. After mid seventies, I moved away, and I could only go a few times a year and that time seems to be when crowds got really nasty.
This is the first time in 50 years that's it's starting to feel like the good old days again, because it's a proper team- playing as a team - and no-one watching game after game, can believe what they see is happening on the pitch.
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Reply | Chair
at 13:12 23 Jan 2025
Correct, I was allowing for a lengthy VAR at Stockley Heaven which involved lots of lines being drawn across Golgotha city’s ground before the thumbs down was shown. [Post edited 23 Jan 13:39]
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Reply | Chair
at 09:05 23 Jan 2025
But it took seven days for the revival, and after that, he took an upwards direction that amazed everyone. [Post edited 23 Jan 9:06]
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Reply | Chair
at 21:09 22 Jan 2025
Jesus would struggle to get Into the starting eleven this year - but there’s always a place for him on the bench. Has trouble with some crosses though! [Post edited 22 Jan 21:23]
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 22:32 8 Jan 2025
It will be Alfie. Followed up by the 50 year old ghost of John Motson screaming:- “Oh yes for the youngster!”
2-1 to the R’s it will be! [Post edited 8 Jan 22:38]
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Reply | Happy Christmas Loftforwords
at 20:10 24 Dec 2024
We got used to supporting the cxxnts when Redknobb was here and he hired his mates from the 365 betting shop.
The different in the quality and positivity in crowd support between now and then is amazing. That's because every player now seems to be playing for the team and not themselves,
It's almost like it's the sixties and seventies again. Is Marti the new Alec? Sombreros for goalposts anyone?
Thanks to Clive for the fantastic job he does with LFW, with a great sense of humour using proper English grammar and syntax too.
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Reply | Morrison, anyone notice?
at 07:36 1 Dec 2024
Getting such a positive press now that he lives on love street, lingers long on love street, he has a house and garden , I would like to see what happens….
He has wisdom and knows what to do - he has me and he has ……….. YOU!!! [Post edited 1 Dec 2024 7:38]
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Reply | Marti/Nourry
at 14:21 6 Nov 2024
And the Major also asked Basil - "Why do we bother, Fawlty?"
That is a question that only the supporters who loyally turn up at Loftus Road week after week can answer. And why are the QPR management not publishing attendances anymore? What is the management trying to hide?
Answers have to match quality of previous posts, such as "One flew into the Chelscum net" and "Shaun's Shanked Redemption" - to stop me going nuts. "Whos' Nourry now?'" for starters?
By the way, my sign off below never seemed more relevant than today.
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Reply | Sent to Coventry match thread.
at 08:30 22 Oct 2024
I’ll have a couple of pints of what you’re drinking, please. Name that brew. If it’s sodding lager, then we really are phoooked tonight. |
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Reply | Sent to Coventry match thread.
at 22:35 21 Oct 2024
I’m starting off midday tomorrow at the Market Porter in Borough Market and working my way across London until I get to the White Horse about six.
Then two hours later - unless my eight year curse is broken - the ref blows his whistle - and the day goes downhill.
Been going since 1962- and I wonder why I bother now. Will I feel any differently at ten tomorrow evening?
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Thread | Sent to Coventry match thread.
at 16:12 20 Oct 2024
I go to see the R’s several times a year - but I am like an albatross when it comes to seeing them picking up three points. The last time I saw them win was Ian Holloway’s first game back as manager, when they beat Naaarch 1-0 at Loftus Road about 8 years ago. I’m going to see the R’s on Tuesday night. What odds on me seeing them finish winning a rare 3 points? [Post edited 20 Oct 2024 16:14]
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Reply | Best debut goal?
at 21:51 20 May 2024
Just when I'd forgotten that the complete useless sodding waster R'SWiPe ever turned up in W12, where he was never prepared to put in a shift in the hoops ...... and then Fred Man Rave stirs up the memory banks.
SWP didn't even bother to celebrate his one and only lucky R's goal at Scumford Bridge, as he still considered himself to be a Chelscum player of some repute. Taraabt put the goal on plate for R'SWiPe and so he finally got one toe poke in to beat the keeper.
The real positive of note was that his goal led to some of the best one liner headliners ever posted on this site : "Shaun's Shanked Redemption", "One flew into the Chelscum net" ,"The lack of Commitments" for starters.
You'll notice that, like the epitaph on a gravestone, I've kept the legend at the foot of my posts, to remind myself that, for all the wasters we have had on the books, SWP was the pits when it came to the epitome of "can't be arsed" massively overpaid footballers.
And all this written in the calm knowledge that we shall never see his like again. Please God. [Post edited 20 May 2024 22:04]
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Reply | line from a lyric
at 22:31 31 Mar 2024
Sounds like the Smiths, as does ..... "Did a military two step down the nape of my neck". What a fantastic line that one is. [Post edited 31 Mar 2024 22:34]
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Reply | line from a lyric
at 22:27 31 Mar 2024
Agreed the Smiths were just as good as the Doors.. but somewhat different.
"Please, please please please let me get what I want this time". 53 points that is. |
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Reply | line from a lyric
at 21:39 31 Mar 2024
"When you're strange .... when you're ........... strange."
Just stay with the Doors.... Love the Doors. So, here's a count down of lines of lyrics from their albums to the end of the season.
"She has a house and garden, I would like to see what happens," (line for 7 games to go in the championship.)
"I've down so doggarn long, that looks like up to me" (line for 6 games to go in the championship.)
"Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run, let's run" (line for 5 games to go in the championship.)
"Another flashing chance of bliss" (line for 4 games to go in the championship.)
"Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why" (line for 3 games to go in the championship.)
"White City, tonight, White City tonight, yeh!" (line for 2 games to go in the championship.)
"Five to One" (song for 1 games to go in the championship.)
Fo the Leeds game - The last game of the season - "Come on Rangers, light my fire"
After the Leeds game ...... "This is the end ........" 53 points,
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