[Football] QPR - End of Loftus Road or Bust?

[Beanstalk]

https://www.qpr.co.uk/media/15164/whyqprneedtomove-a4-v5.pdf

Interesting reading from the CEO at QPR.

Essentially, QPR need to move to a new ground or their future looks unstable at best. Problem is the only option they believe is viable, The Linford Christie Stadium, backs onto HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Imperial College and Wormwood Scrubs Park Nature Reserve...

Loftus Road is a rubbish place to watch football but with Tony Fernandes announcing that "his time at the club is coming to an end" are very difficult times ahead for the hoops?

 

[crookie]

Good luck to them

 

[Rugrat]

Didn't like their 'buy to success' approach but nor would I want them to go under.

Not sure where the £M's would come from to get them their stadium but if that what survival means then I hope they get it

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

https://www.qpr.co.uk/media/15164/whyqprneedtomove-a4-v5.pdf

Interesting reading from the CEO at QPR.

Essentially, QPR need to move to a new ground or their future looks unstable at best. Problem is the only option they believe is viable, The Linford Christie Stadium, backs onto HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Imperial College and Wormwood Scrubs Park Nature Reserve...

Loftus Road is a rubbish place to watch football but with Tony Fernandes announcing that "his time at the club is coming to an end" are very difficult times ahead for the hoops?

Screwed over by very rich owners.

 

[Beanstalk]

Screwed over by very rich owners.

Who are seemingly going to do a runner now things don't look so great...

 

[Pavilionaire]

QPR and Loftus Road are like a club stuck in a football timewarp.

It is hard to simultaneously nail the stadium issue, the competitiveness of the club on the field AND foster that community identity that generates fan interest and commitment to the club. Palace haven't managed it and they have the run of South London, so God help QPR who are surrounded by successful Prem rivals, sky high real estate prices and a transient local population, much of the core supporter basis having moved out over the last 20-30 years.

 

[Murray 17]

Who are seemingly going to do a runner now things don't look so great...

'...do a runner'? You mean The Linford Christie Stadium? [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

 

[ac gull]

Or just spend what they can afford on player wages as generated by their income

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Looks like a good plan, site seems ideal.

 

[Eeyore]

Good luck to them. Great club that has always punched above its weight.

 

[Rugrat]

Or just spend what they can afford on player wages as generated by their income

Like lots of other FL clubs

 

[Wardy's twin]

had a great welcome as a Brighton fan when I had my dinner in the CAFE up the road from the ground before the game season before last. Ground itself was a bit poor made worse by our fans p*ssing down the back wall to the low standing area.

 

[Juan Albion]

I remember my first experience of flying on Tony Fernandes's Air Asia in Indonesia. On the outward bound flight from Singapore, the welcome aboard announcement boasted how they were sponsors of Premier League QPR, with visual reminders everywhere. By the return trip, they had been relegated. Not a peep about QPR. I felt quite smug on that return flight, I must admit.

 

[poidy]

Worst away concourse in world football. FACT.

How it continues to pass Fire and Health and Safety regulations I will never know.


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[AmexRuislip]

As previously mentioned, they've been shafted by their owners.
It does ring a loud bell, in regards to what the Albion have been through.
I live and work around QPR fans, (of the Goldstone era ilk), and they've been wanting a new stadium for ages.
Good luck to them.

 

[LlcoolJ]

"We lived the dream" #ridsdale This is always how it ends.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Always an excuse to play this.
Great times

 

[Hammer15]

I wish them luck. Used to work at the BBC buildings up the road and occasionally played football at the Linford Christie stadium, and it is indeed a shithole in dire need of development.

It's important they leave Wormwood Scrubs alone though, it's a fantastic open space and the local community continues to fight hard to stop HS2 encroaching on its north side - it would be a shame to see its south side eroded too.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Ground itself was a bit poor made worse by our fans p*ssing down the back wall to the low standing area.

Were there nine of them? Did they deliberately bang the back of people’s heads on their way to the back wall? Spit on anyone? Just curious.

I wish QPR luck in getting a new stadium; I’d have thought that the sale of Loftus Road would generate a fair bit of the money required to upgrade the Linford Christie Stadium - if they own Loftus Road, that is (@el presidente- do you know offhand?)

I’m amused that the artist’s impression of what the stand in the new stadium would look like retains columns, thus ensuring that at least some fans continue to have a shit view. #tradition

 

[alfredmizen]

https://www.qpr.co.uk/media/15164/whyqprneedtomove-a4-v5.pdf

Interesting reading from the CEO at QPR.

Essentially, QPR need to move to a new ground or their future looks unstable at best. Problem is the only option they believe is viable, The Linford Christie Stadium, backs onto HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Imperial College and Wormwood Scrubs Park Nature Reserve...

Loftus Road is a rubbish place to watch football but with Tony Fernandes announcing that "his time at the club is coming to an end" are very difficult times ahead for the hoops?

is the old white city stadium still there ?