| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme 09:34 - May 1 with 6684 views | StevenageRanger |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43955431
Not sure how many we sell?
I haven't got one for years (unless a photographer who sits in front of me hands me one!)
What with online, it seems most of the info can be found elsewhere. |  | | |  |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 10:24 - May 1 with 6611 views | Northernr |
Be a real shame IMO. Part of the game's history. |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 10:26 - May 1 with 6606 views | Petros |
Essential part of match ritual. Bring back Bovril too. | | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 10:35 - May 1 with 6582 views | stowmarketrange |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 10:26 - May 1 by Petros |
Essential part of match ritual. Bring back Bovril too. |
I bought both on Saturday.I don’t always buy a programme but a Bovril with a sachet of pepper in it is a ritual I won’t be giving up just yet.Especially as Saturday seemed like a return to the dark days of winter. |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 10:38 - May 1 with 6576 views | Toast_R |
A massive shame if this stops. I always buy one when I go just because I know I'll look back at them in 20 years or so and remember at least something about the day. |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 10:39 - May 1 with 6572 views | Stanisgod |
Still buy one. Got them going back to the sixties, keep meaning to sell them but its like letting your youth go.
It wins awards year after year and the articles on the 100 years of Loftus Road have been excellent. Yes you can get some info on line but it's all in one place here. |  |
| It's being so happy that keeps me going. |
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| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 10:40 - May 1 with 6569 views | colinallcars |
I had no idea it was a requirement. I believe donkey's years ago it was possible to buy an unofficial programme outside some grounds - it was half the price of the official programme, or “programme official” as they used to shout. |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 12:27 - May 1 with 6486 views | smegma |
Saturday's programme is one of the best issues you will read with some superb photos in the 100 Years Of Loftus Road articles. | | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 12:32 - May 1 with 6474 views | MoonshineSteve |
It's funny, I stopped buying them back in the 80s, but as I'm bringing my youngest son as from next season I was planning to start buying them again for him. |  |
| I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham. |
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| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 12:48 - May 1 with 6442 views | LunarJetman |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 12:32 - May 1 by MoonshineSteve |
It's funny, I stopped buying them back in the 80s, but as I'm bringing my youngest son as from next season I was planning to start buying them again for him. |
i always used to get one until a couple of years ago. Turned up and went into the ground thinking I could get one from the usual seller at the top of the stairs in SAR, but for some reason the club decided to stop selling them in the ground for some reason so there was no-one there.
That broke the habit and I stopped from then on. Mainly was read by the kids though and maybe I'd flick through it but didn't lose out anything. Everything you want to know is on the internet, twitter, facebook, etc anyway.... |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 14:17 - May 1 with 6318 views | extratimeR |
Yes, always buy one, I think our programme is excellent, very handy diary wise, and their is a real community feel about it.
Will miss it if it go's | | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 14:23 - May 1 with 6299 views | SydneyRs |
Still have the one from my first game at LR in the late 70s. What will future kids have to look back on when older, a facebook post?
Would be a real shame, and another sign that football as we used to know and love it is changing, and not for the better. | | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 14:46 - May 1 with 6266 views | essextaxiboy |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 12:32 - May 1 by MoonshineSteve |
It's funny, I stopped buying them back in the 80s, but as I'm bringing my youngest son as from next season I was planning to start buying them again for him. |
I used to get No 3 son to go and line up to buy a programme when he first started coming aged 7.
I used to wait a few yards away , it got him confident walking through a bit of crowd on his own, lining up with adults and contributing to the matchday ritual . We used to have a game guessing which player would be on the front... Happy Days
Now aged 23 he walks in front of me with with his brother while I struggle to keep up .. |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 14:52 - May 1 with 6255 views | paulparker |
I only get them to put in a box now really my daughter asks for one and when I bring it back she cant be bothered to read it , then again they haven't been the same since the eighties when they had the pictures on the back of the starting line ups , plus the whale report etc |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 15:18 - May 1 with 6218 views | qprxtc |
Bring back Ron Phillips. |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 15:21 - May 1 with 6205 views | Mick_S |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 15:18 - May 1 by qprxtc |
Bring back Ron Phillips. |
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| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 15:54 - May 1 with 6179 views | oldmisery |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 15:21 - May 1 by Mick_S |
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Bring back Martyn Busby. Is he a Forever R? Can't say I remember seeing him being inducted at half time since the former players society was established. | | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 16:22 - May 1 with 6153 views | timcocking |
i usually get the official one and the AKUTRs one when i go... |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 17:26 - May 1 with 6100 views | ozranger |
Some will know I am a avid collector of these programmes. I have many thousand at home in Oz but only properly started to collect QPR programmes three years ago. Thanks to the kindness of some and the keenness of certain past programme sellers nearby, I now have over 1500 (including four complete seasons) QPR which equates to more than half of all the programmes (home and away) from the 59-60 season onwards. For the past three seasons I have organised these to be delivered to make sure I do not miss out, although I did miss out on the first issue of this season. I am really looking forward to when I properly retire so that I can slowly go through them all and learn/remember what happened in the past. Getting them all home from here is a slow process.
I also go out to non-league games regularly and to pick up the programme so that I can read it on the train or bus home, which is vital. It will come that programmes will be considered too costly - the national federation in Australia stopped producing programmes some years back for their internationals. Some non-leagues already allow clubs to no longer produce programmes and only have them online. Others have started to have both an online version and a paper version. It is sad, but the time will come when they will be no more. |  | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 18:29 - May 1 with 6048 views | essextaxiboy |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 17:26 - May 1 by ozranger |
Some will know I am a avid collector of these programmes. I have many thousand at home in Oz but only properly started to collect QPR programmes three years ago. Thanks to the kindness of some and the keenness of certain past programme sellers nearby, I now have over 1500 (including four complete seasons) QPR which equates to more than half of all the programmes (home and away) from the 59-60 season onwards. For the past three seasons I have organised these to be delivered to make sure I do not miss out, although I did miss out on the first issue of this season. I am really looking forward to when I properly retire so that I can slowly go through them all and learn/remember what happened in the past. Getting them all home from here is a slow process.
I also go out to non-league games regularly and to pick up the programme so that I can read it on the train or bus home, which is vital. It will come that programmes will be considered too costly - the national federation in Australia stopped producing programmes some years back for their internationals. Some non-leagues already allow clubs to no longer produce programmes and only have them online. Others have started to have both an online version and a paper version. It is sad, but the time will come when they will be no more. |
Do you need any from the last 10 years or so? . I have loads in the "Loft". You are welcome to them . | | | |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 22:45 - May 1 with 5941 views | Boston |
Another part of the future I'm not looking forward to. I've hundreds of programmes from the games I attended, the majority of the home matches and a goodly number of the away. Also picked up a some from other fixtures I was at, Wembley FC's one page team sheets are particularly nostalgic for me. Sprinkled in the among them are a few rock gig productions, Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare and Sabbaths Technical Ecstasy still get read every now and then. Always buy one at the games when I'm over and it pee's me right orff (as at Burton), I couldn't find the bloody prog seller(my fault really, as I'd gone up early and had no problem finding the pubs). | |
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| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 04:40 - May 2 with 5876 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Not sure about the first programme I bought, but I know when the last one was: 20 April 1986. |  |
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| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 05:25 - May 2 with 5864 views | smegma |
| Is this the beginning of the end of the Matchday Programme on 15:54 - May 1 by oldmisery |
Bring back Martyn Busby. Is he a Forever R? Can't say I remember seeing him being inducted at half time since the former players society was established. |
The club have been trying to contact him for a while. Apparently he emigrated. | | | |
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