| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 16:59 - Jan 27 with 5447 views | QPRDave |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 16:52 - Jan 27 by toboboly |
We'll probably get it wrong and go for Oak Park in Illinois. |
 ...Yeah if it can go mammaries vertical we seem to find that way |  | |  |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:06 - Jan 27 with 5436 views | BklynRanger |
Old oak shmould oak. Just get our Norwegian architecture student to redesign Loftus Road. |  | | |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:13 - Jan 27 with 5415 views | Nov77 |
Hmm, stay at our current home with all its history and memories and good transport links, or move into Harlesden's anus?
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:15 - Jan 27 with 5402 views | stowmarketrange |
Maybe the famous institution is us? |  | | |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:27 - Jan 27 with 5354 views | Mytch_QPR |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:15 - Jan 27 by stowmarketrange |
Maybe the famous institution is us? |
They didn't use the term 'mental institution'. |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:36 - Jan 27 with 5326 views | Pommyhoop |
The digging around OOC , Park R etc is shit btw.
Just thought I'd let you know that..  |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:37 - Jan 27 with 5327 views | CamberleyR |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 16:54 - Jan 27 by toboboly |
Having seen Cardiff a few times on the TV they get bugger all to their new ground, never seen fans drop off so quickly. All happy clappy in red then *bang* a ghost town. Couldn't happen to a nicer club. |
Cardiff's average attendance has only really dropped this season, last season it was around 21,000
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34650363 |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:40 - Jan 27 with 5318 views | Match82 |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 16:52 - Jan 27 by toboboly |
We'll probably get it wrong and go for Oak Park in Illinois. |
I could get behind this idea :) |  | | |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:48 - Jan 27 with 5297 views | CamberleyR |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:06 - Jan 27 by BklynRanger |
Old oak shmould oak. Just get our Norwegian architecture student to redesign Loftus Road. |
Indeed, as my picture of Boavista's 28,000 capacity ground shows, surely LR's footprint isn't any bigger than that?
This is the ground before it was re-developed
http://gloriasdopassado.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/estdio-do-bessa.html | |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 18:02 - Jan 27 with 5272 views | Brightonhoop |
Does look like a similar footprint size, not sure planning at HFBC would ever allow Ellerslie to be built higher than it already is due to the proximity of the houses. Our Norwegion Architecture Student is on the case.  |  | | |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 18:41 - Jan 27 with 5213 views | Gloucs_R |
They wont spend millions for an additional 8k capacity |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 18:41 - Jan 27 with 5210 views | Boston |
They didn't get around to installing CCTV until the summer. |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 19:33 - Jan 27 with 5132 views | NW10Hoop |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 17:13 - Jan 27 by Nov77 |
Hmm, stay at our current home with all its history and memories and good transport links, or move into Harlesden's anus?
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Shepherd's Bush will soon be Harlseden's Anus if all the talk of development, transport housing etc happens. 3 bed houses are already close to the million pound mark in BLOODY HARLESDEN!
Seriously though, I do love Loftus Rd but the toilets, bars, legroom, restricted views aren't going to remain charming forever. As long as they get the design and size right, a new stadium in Old Oak wouldn't be so bad. If there was any way of improving Loftus Rd that would be preferable though |  | | |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 20:59 - Jan 27 with 5020 views | RSoul |
Knowing our luck it will be the scum! Then tone('ll fcuk it up) will say got your 40,000 seat stadium . | | | |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 21:36 - Jan 27 with 4972 views | derbyhoop |
For all the love for our cramped little enclave, long ago I realised that if we are to progress we will have to move at some time. There aren't likely to be many sites in West London becoming available so OOC would be a short move away. Nothing in that mess of an article, apart from the claim that it represents a blow, should deter us from pursuing it as an option. |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 21:47 - Jan 27 with 4942 views | PunteR |
I can't see this happening. Not on Fernandes watch. |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 23:01 - Jan 27 with 4849 views | isawqpratwcity |
Agreed it's a bullshit article. But I am concerned that OOC is Tune's best hope of profit since Premier status doesn't look like being regained any time soon. |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 23:20 - Jan 27 with 4823 views | TheBlob |
The club will be worth a lot more with planning permission.TF may hang around just long enough to achieve this.
Or maybe not. |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 00:28 - Jan 28 with 4761 views | Feldy |
There's really no point in moving until we have a side that can have the potential to fill the stadium, I'd persevere with Warren Farm before the new stadium, TV money blows ticket sales out of the water nowadays. |  | | |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 07:02 - Jan 28 with 4643 views | PunteR |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 00:28 - Jan 28 by Feldy |
There's really no point in moving until we have a side that can have the potential to fill the stadium, I'd persevere with Warren Farm before the new stadium, TV money blows ticket sales out of the water nowadays. |
I think this is spot on and sums up my opinion.
We've got to stop wasting money on crap players(which it looks like we're doing now) and live within our means.
I also think we shouldn't be looking at a 40,000 seater when the time comes ,but a lovely,comfortable, 20-25,000 seater with room for expansion to 30,000 if we ever do become successful.
The training ground should be priority at the moment though. | |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 08:59 - Jan 28 with 4543 views | loftboy |
Our investors wont develop Loftus rd, the ground is a small cog in them.earning hundreds of millions from the house and flat building that will also go up in the area,they bought into us as they assumed it would be a shortcut through the planning process, after seeing how quick the emirates went up, they have had there fingers burnt big time. |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 09:16 - Jan 28 with 4522 views | vblockranger |
Training ground should be the priority if the club is the number one priority of the board (which it isn't) |  | | |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 09:59 - Jan 28 with 4486 views | SomersetHoops |
As an occasional visitor to Stade Rennais Brittany France I notice that the stadium there extends over the pavement with heavy steel columns at the outer limit of it and the pavement retained underneath. It doesn't make the pavement area seem dark or oppressive as the height and slope of the structure is way above it. If a similar arrangement was applied along South Africa Road the Loftus Road stadium could have a substantial increase in capacity and other facilities could be improved at the same time.
I suppose the problem with a scheme like that is that there is no opportunity for a lucrative property deal to go alongside it and it would just mean spending money for the benefit of the football club. If the current owners had spent some of their wasted money on a scheme like this there would have been some tangible benefit for the club rather than memories of past it duffers of so called footballers and their agents taking the cub and its owners as idiots.. Unfortunately I don't think they now have the resources to do it and an opportunity to make Loftus Road a really good stadium while retaining its history is probably lost for ever. |  |
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 10:20 - Jan 28 with 4453 views | CamberleyR |
| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 09:59 - Jan 28 by SomersetHoops |
As an occasional visitor to Stade Rennais Brittany France I notice that the stadium there extends over the pavement with heavy steel columns at the outer limit of it and the pavement retained underneath. It doesn't make the pavement area seem dark or oppressive as the height and slope of the structure is way above it. If a similar arrangement was applied along South Africa Road the Loftus Road stadium could have a substantial increase in capacity and other facilities could be improved at the same time.
I suppose the problem with a scheme like that is that there is no opportunity for a lucrative property deal to go alongside it and it would just mean spending money for the benefit of the football club. If the current owners had spent some of their wasted money on a scheme like this there would have been some tangible benefit for the club rather than memories of past it duffers of so called footballers and their agents taking the cub and its owners as idiots.. Unfortunately I don't think they now have the resources to do it and an opportunity to make Loftus Road a really good stadium while retaining its history is probably lost for ever. |
Similar to what Aston Villa did with the Trinity Road stand at Villa Park.
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| Blow to QPR - Old Oak Common on 11:35 - Jan 28 with 4387 views | nadera78 |
Assuming that safe-standing comes into play in the next few years, and it's undoubtedly gaining momentum, then we could increase capacity significantly at Loftus Rd.
Remove the corporate boxes from SAR and re-install seats there - as it was originally. That would add about 2,000 to the capacity. Then remove the roof and stanchions and replace with one that is supported from the back, like Villa did, and include a new third tier with another 2,000 seats.
Demolish Ellerslie Rd and replace with a safe-standing - which would take up less space but have a similar capacity - and include a tier of corporate boxes at the top, alongside the TV gantry and a new press box.
We'd be up to about 22,000 at that point. | | | |
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