QPR ticket prices

[Barry the bird boggler]

Perhaps its a realistic approach indicating the intention is for the club to pay for itself as much as possible, and given the capacity at Loftus Road is only about 19k, and will therefore probably still sell out the home ends every game, then why not

[Red]

Is there any scope to expand the stadium? Presumably not otherwise they'd already have done it.

[Row Z Royal]

Is there any scope to expand the stadium? Presumably not otherwise they'd already have done it.

Nope. Residential area so no really scope for sideways expansion and structurally not enough of a footing for upwards.

Expect an 'out-of-town' development in Acton or Hillingdon or similar.

[Franchise FC]

Is there any scope to expand the stadium? Presumably not otherwise they'd already have done it.

Nope. Residential area so no really scope for sideways expansion and structurally not enough of a footing for upwards.

Expect an 'out-of-town' development in Acton or Hillingdon or similar.

Could ground share with a lower league club - Olympic Stadium, maybe

[Barry the bird boggler]

[Red]

Is there any scope to expand the stadium? Presumably not otherwise they'd already have done it.

Nope. Residential area so no really scope for sideways expansion and structurally not enough of a footing for upwards.

Expect an 'out-of-town' development in Acton or Hillingdon or similar.

There was talk of Ruislip a while back I think.

It's a the death of a club if it has to move to some soulless out of town stadium though.

[Wax Jacket]

it could mean rebirth

[Top Flight]

Is there any scope to expand the stadium? Presumably not otherwise they'd already have done it.

Nope. Residential area so no really scope for sideways expansion and structurally not enough of a footing for upwards.

Expect an 'out-of-town' development in Acton or Hillingdon or similar.

There was talk of Ruislip a while back I think.

It's a the death of a club if it has to move to some soulless out of town stadium though.

Ruislip is full of QPR fans.

They have quite a big fanbase out in Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Ruislip etc.

If Rangers moved to a 30,000 or 40,000 seat stadia in Hillingdon and had Reading ticket prices they could probably sell out as a Premier League Club and I'm sure they'd get 20 to 25 thousand maybe more as a Championship club. They would need a Mad Stad style complex with lots of parking.

There are 5 tube stations serving just Ruislip alone. It's quite a large area and it has plenty of QPR there.

[Red]

I know Ruislip moderately well as it happens, my uncle used to live there and I've been for bike rides up the canal round that way. In fact I've cycled there and got the tube back on a few occasions, you really are spoilt for choice.

CSB.

[brendywendy]

i cant believe theyve been paying 600 quid to watch at this level after a 50% increase 3 years ago, and are now getting another 40% on top of that.

what a rip off, id be seriously [pissed if this was us.


also LOL at briatori trying to turn them into a "boutique club" whatever that means......

[Jackson Corner]

Expect an 'out-of-town' development in Acton or Hillingdon or similar.[/quote]
There was talk of Ruislip a while back I think.

It's a the death of a club if it has to move to some soulless out of town stadium though.[/quote]

Ruislip is full of QPR fans.

They have quite a big fanbase out in Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Ruislip etc.

If Rangers moved to a 30,000 or 40,000 seat stadia in Hillingdon and had Reading ticket prices they could probably sell out as a Premier League Club and I'm sure they'd get 20 to 25 thousand maybe more as a Championship club. They would need a Mad Stad style complex with lots of parking.

There are 5 tube stations serving just Ruislip alone. It's quite a large area and it has plenty of QPR there.[/quote]

Bollox they couldn't fill the ground this year when they were walking away with the league. I know back in the 70's when they had a decent team they used to get over 20,000. But Chelsea and Fulham were crap then. They have long since deserted and headed up the Kings Road and won't be coming back with those prices.

[jumpers for goalposts]

Next season's match day prices range from £47 - £72

Shocking, and that's just @ £47. Why would you part with £72 to watch a match at Loftus Road?

You can see both goals from the £72 seats.

Genuine

[Terminal Boardom]

Is there any scope to expand the stadium? Presumably not otherwise they'd already have done it.

Have you never been to Loftus Road?



Makes Blundell Park and Goodison Park look rural by comparison

[Top Flight]

Expect an 'out-of-town' development in Acton or Hillingdon or similar.

There was talk of Ruislip a while back I think.

It's a the death of a club if it has to move to some soulless out of town stadium though.[/quote]

Ruislip is full of QPR fans.

They have quite a big fanbase out in Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Ruislip etc.

If Rangers moved to a 30,000 or 40,000 seat stadia in Hillingdon and had Reading ticket prices they could probably sell out as a Premier League Club and I'm sure they'd get 20 to 25 thousand maybe more as a Championship club. They would need a Mad Stad style complex with lots of parking.

There are 5 tube stations serving just Ruislip alone. It's quite a large area and it has plenty of QPR there.[/quote]

Bollox they couldn't fill the ground this year when they were walking away with the league. I know back in the 70's when they had a decent team they used to get over 20,000. But Chelsea and Fulham were crap then. They have long since deserted and headed up the Kings Road and won't be coming back with those prices.[/quote]

I said with Reading prices.

Of course they wouldn't get 20 or 30K gates on their current prices. It prices most people out. I think clubs should go for big grounds and cheap prices. Reading should expand to 30,000 and they should reduce matchday ticket prices to £10 adults and £5 kids. As should QPR and most other teams. Current football pricing can't be tolerated year after year after year. Especially QPR prices.

[Svlad Cjelli]

From The Kilburn Times

(I have to post the whole thing as it's gone off-line - probably on legal advice)

Flavio and Bernie couldn’t care less about QPR fans

Ben Kosky, (a personal view)
Thursday, June 2, 2011

There can’t be many neutral football fans who felt anything but delighted when AFC Wimbledon won promotion to the Football League.

It was a triumph for Dons supporters, who refused to roll over when their club was commandeered by money men and literally snatched away from them.

Instead, the proud guardians of their club’s heritage determined to rebuild Wimbledon from scratch and, in less than a decade, have ensured that the ‘real’ Dons will again figure on the League’s fixture list.

For the first time in 15 years, QPR will not be among the Football League’s membership. They are back in the Premier League – something that should be cause for great celebration.

Yet is there actually much for Rs fans to celebrate right now? Like Wimbledon fans before them, they are learning how it feels to have their club taken away.

Unlike Wimbledon, Rangers have not – as yet – been physically transferred to another city but, make no mistake, Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone would quite readily do that if it suited them.

Whether supporters like it or not is utterly irrelevant to this pair. They have consistently displayed at best indifference and more often total contempt towards QPR fans ever since they arrived in 2007.

That is why there were no consultations with supporters’ groups before the decision to go ahead with outrageous ticket price rises. That is why fans’ forums have remained a relic of the past.

They don’t care. They never did.
Briatore and Ecclestone have only ever had one ambition for QPR – using it as a vehicle for corporate crowing and boasting, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Roman Abramovich, Malcolm Glazer and Mohamed Al-Fayed.

Now they finally have the chance to indulge themselves – although let’s not forget that, for two and a half years, they made a total pig’s ear of it, leaving a trail of sacked managers, sub-standard players and embarrassing public relations disasters in their wake.

Only when the pair adopted a low profile, allowing Amit Bhatia and Ishan Saksena to take centre stage and make the astute decision to recruit Neil Warnock as manager – did QPR begin to enjoy success on the pitch.

Now Bhatia – a man who genuinely wanted to engage with supporters and threw his backing behind the work of the QPR Community Trust – has gone and Saksena, bizarrely, seems to have been the scapegoat for the Alejandro Faurlin fiasco.

Meanwhile, the real culprit, chairman Gianni Paladini, remains safely in his position, and will presumably continue to oversee player recruitment in a way that has already caused several disasters for the club.

As for Warnock, even if he survives the summer, his position is enormously weakened by the departures of Bhatia and Saksena. It is easy to envisage a situation in which Rangers suffer a couple of heavy defeats and the manager finds himself walking the plank.

According to the risible propaganda churned out by the QPR website, Briatore and Ecclestone saved the club – and the implication is that therefore they have the right to do whatever they wish with it, with no duty of care.

Many now realise that, far from saving QPR, this self-serving duo have in fact ruined the club.
I am one of those fans. I have supported Rangers since the age of six, held a season ticket in the Upper Loft and experienced the rare highs and numerous lows with thousands of others.

The Easter massacre of Chelsea, the Milk Cup final, relegation from the Premier League, the FA Cup exit to Vauxhall Motors, the 2003 play-off final and the joy of promotion at Hillsborough.

And, although I have viewed more games from the press box than the paid seats in recent years, it is still a very painful wrench to admit that I no longer want anything more to do with ‘my’ club.

I do not wish to set foot inside Loftus Road while Briatore and Ecclestone remain in control and I will not purchase club merchandise or anything else to further swell their already bulging wallets.

Oh, to be a Wimbledon fan....

[TFF]

Cheers Dirk,

LOLove it

[Red]

LOL away but it's a serious problem and by no means unique to QPR.

[Tredder]

Indeed, it's by no means a LOL situation, the fans couldn't celebrate promotion until one hour before the game, despite 'winning' the league a week before, and this down to incompetence of the owners, couple that with the lack of open top parade for the fans to celebrate with the players and then the season ticket and match day ticket price rape, despite going up, it's a very sombre atmos around the loft these days.

[No Fixed Abode]

Shame really. QPR is always good for London boozing and a bit of football. Reading should have modelled their stadium similar to Loftus Road. The atmopshere would be much better.

[SHORT AND CURLY]

Reading should have modelled their stadium similar to Loftus Road. The atmopshere would be much better.

Can tell you have never been to the dump that is LR.
I cant even sit down in the poxy seats, the concourse is no more than a corridor, the prices are high and the ground is soulless!
Apart from that its OK