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Whoops, I forgot to add in the actual home wins when calculating! I thought 40% looked high.
28%... ye gods that just emphasises the point more. My kids love the day out we have but boy is the journey home tough.
As with paddyhdog, my son loves playing football. Trains and plays every Saturday & Sunday mornings (U10 level) respectively for out local youth club and is a very integral part of the team (last weejend had a great lobbed goal from the outside of the box not given because the ref didn't see it cross the line. Everyone saw it, even Frank Lampard saw it) but he's getting less inclined to go to QPR. My daughter loves the day out and hasn't quite got to the the "naaaaah...." stage yet but if home form carries on it will only be a matter of time.
I know nothing is guaranteed nor should be expected in football but home form really does need addressing.
Last two seasons we have W13 D11 L22 or.... W13, not won 33. 40% home win rate, is that acceptable? I think not.
I want to bring my kids more often but at around £100+ per visit I ain't going to do that if we just keep losing or drawing all the time. This is not about having kids not being able to handle not winning but we would actually like to enjoy the day out. My 6 1/2 year old daughter has been to 4 games (home to Sheff Weds & PNE end of last season, Spurs & Reading in pre-season) and seen 1 win and just 1 goal scored (PNE for both) and she missed that 'cos she was in the toilet!
Wasn't expecting much from the Spurs game and I did warn them of that but Reading away was awful.
There is so much to distract kids these days away from the likes of QPR to being a Man City, Man Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, Chelsey etc fan and even the likes of Barca, Real Madrid, PSG (though probably not any more), clubs really need to get their home form in shape otherwise it makes it so much harder to have them want to go again.
Met a Brazilian family (they were asking for directions) in Westfield prior to the Sheff Weds home game end of last season. They were on holiday and wanted to take in a game at a 'proper' club/ground, they weren't interested in all that Tourist FC shite. I think they supported Botafogo back home.
really thought this would be a good opportunity to gain some international ground but after that awful display and results I doubt they'll be back. Who knows, maybe the charm of the ground/club made a mark but my god it was an awful game.
edit: and, again..... going down is never an option. Why always the immediate assumption we'd just simply come straight back up? Brum seem to be making a good fist of it so far (but they should do having broken the divisional transfer record by a massive amount) but many clubs have taken quite a few seasons to get back up again, took us 3 seasons last time. Many don't.
I was never a big drinker but once my son was born (almost 10 years ago now, gulp!) I pretty much stopped. One or two bottles (330ml, not 5L!) a week, usually a low-ish %abv too. Sometimes none.
Don't smoke either and I know people same age as me who do both regularly and look 10-20 years older. They really do cause a lot of damage.
We all knew Briatore and Ecclestone were unpleasant people but happy to take the filthy lucre too.
Unpleasantness comes in many forms. The above two could just be utter cnts which itself isn't a crime.
Everyone knew Fayed was unpleasant but to what extent? There were no allegations/suggestions that I'm aware of at the time that he was doing what has now come out. It seems it was very well kept under wraps and those that contributed, such as Dr Coxon, should be charged as and when (and hopefully there will be) enough evidence to throw the book at all of them.
If you take the stadium as it is and rotate it 90o it will already protrude well into the White City estate. The site is currently wider than it is taller so a non starter.
Absolutely though with hiding places harder to find I’m hopeful there will be an about turn and they’ll actually do something positive, sort of poacher turning gamekeeper, or at least just stop being involved which will greatly reduce these things happening.
I just hope that anyone recently or currently experiencing something like this can have the courage to come forward. It’s a very difficult and brave thing to have to do but there will be support, not judgement, I’m sure.
Started off when text messages were originally limited to, I think, 256 characters per text and text-speak was born. Problem with it is that people were unable to separate it and continued to type like that when it's no longer necessary.
Back in the Jimmy Saville days it seemed virtually impossible for the poor people to do anything about it and if they did (via the police, the newspapers etc) it was clearly shut down and they had no other outlet.
Forward wind to the early noughties with Al Fayed and it probably wasn't much easier as there wasn't any social media platforms to that degree.
Now we're approaching the mid 20's and on the back of this latest revelation I think the government, the monarchy and the police should come and say if anyone is going through this situation here and now that they can contact the appropriate authorities without fear of repercussion, blame or judgement. Money should be set aside to help people if they think they'll lose their job or at least have to leave.
Something has to be done to stop the cycle and deal with these monsters at the same time.
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