andykeenan Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 http://bit.ly/1hPDAMhGotta keep up with the times new grounds now sure older generation be really sad history etc. Loftus Road is 18,00 can't compete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 I wasn't aware they had 40000 fans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 I wasn't aware they had 40000 fans... They don't. Fernandes is just an idiot. As i said last year, just putting lipstick on a pig 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 London is so big they could probably get 30k through the gates fairly easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 (edited) London is so big they could probably get 30k through the gates fairly easily. That's true.. Edited December 23, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 its not just trying to get a few thousand more though, its 20,000 more fans, in an area of London with Chelsea and fulham, with arsenal & spurs not far down the road either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Loftus Road is 18,00 can't compete I don't whether that's something to do with QPR or a horse I should be betting on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 They are a pretty big club with quite a lot of fans, bigger than Fulham for example. I recon they would get in the high 20,000s to most games and would sell out for the big games/derbys etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 What was their average attendance last year? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Gotta keep up with the times new grounds now sure older generation be really sad history etc. Loftus Road is 18,00 can't compete Translation please 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 What was their average attendance last year? 17779http://lmgtfy.com/?q=QPR+average+attendance+2012 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Yeah, they sold out pretty much every game when they were in the prem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted December 24, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2013 Mmm as long as they keep on winning they will fill the ground, however give it 5 losses in a row and they will be playing in a emprty industrial unit with a mortgage that makes Maxwell's swim seem viable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Yeah, they sold out pretty much every game when they were in the prem. Wigan sold out most if not every game in there first season in the prem, it soon droppped off. I just don't get what Fernandes is trying to achieve with this, to me he comes across as a bloke who is trying to show he has big dick when all he has is your average size todger, if qpr have a waiting list for season tickets, having a bigger stadium makes sense, but they don't and are competing in an area with 2 other premier league clubs and a city with dozens of professional clubs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 (edited) You can't compare apples with oranges though. Wigan is a fairly small town without a tradition of football fifteen miles from Manchester and fifteen miles from Liverpool. They can't really pull in out of town fans and the ones who do live there have four of the biggest clubs in the country virtually on their doorstep. QPR on the other hand play in a city which is home to almost 8.5 million people. Edited December 24, 2013 by The_Rev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloBarnesi Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Old Oak (aka Wormwood Scrubs) is going to get an international railway station if HS2 goes through, so none of this is surprising. But will it happen? Remember Pompey’s Herzog & De Meuron’s new stadium??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 You can't compare apples with oranges though. Wigan is a fairly small town without a tradition of football fifteen miles from Manchester and fifteen miles from Liverpool. They can't really pull in out of town fans and the ones who do live there have four of the biggest clubs in the country virtually on their doorstep. QPR on the other hand play in a city which is home to almost 8.5 million people. Its a fair comment about Wigan being able to attract fans, yes they come from a small town but they did, for 1 season at least pull 27,000 to the jjb, what happened to those 10k fans that stopped going after that first season? For qpr to pull in the sort of attendances that this new stadium has they will need to out perform the other clubs in there area of London to make them attractive to your fair weather fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Whatever the case I am sure all football fans will miss Loftus Road with its no leg room, pillars, and cramped facilities . Like a hole in the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 The thing with these clubs building new grounds is they only see this through best case scenario spectacles. With respect QPR have been in the premier league for two of the past 20 seasons or something like that. West Ham are also a club that have been in the championship for 3 of the past 10 seasons. Are QPR really going to fill a 40k ground playing championship football on a Tuesday at home to Doncaster, no chance. For the Olympic stadium to work, West Ham simply can't afford to go down (do they move in next summer or the one after?). I think that's part of the reason they're keeping Big Sam on. I know they're poor at the minute but he never relegates teams from the prem. But yeah 60k fans turning up for championship games isn't going to happen. The support London teams get is overestimated. Arsenal are the biggest club in London and they rarely sell out the emirates now, Chelsea's crowds would drop if they finished out of the top 4 for a year or two. Probably only Spurs have a legit case given WHL is only 36k and they could fit a lot more in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Fair play to them. I guess to stand any chance of getting anything like 35k - 40k regularly they would need a certain level of relative success which would mean at the very least being in the Premier League. Shows ambition and can't fault any club for doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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