| Leaving loftus road... 01:47 - Jun 9 with 12912 views | qpr_1968 |
what would it mean to you....would it matter?
selfish reasons.....i live local, so yes.
sentimental reasons...yes
moving to a soulless ground in the middle of nowhere....no
yet here's the contradictory bit.....i'd love a 30,000 stadium, with a lovely bit of leg room, and a concourse with decent facilities/toilets/food drink....and safe standing.
what would be the furthest from loftus road you would accept....regardless of where you live.
again for selfish reasons i'd say stay..... |  |
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| Leaving loftus road... on 12:24 - Jun 20 with 1136 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Leaving loftus road... on 09:52 - Jun 20 by wombat |
maybe too easy an option , buy the school and , relocate it to the army cadet land , they get better open space we aquire a useful piece of land , all being at a much more expensive price than CW could have bought it for , issue is is do the club still have the restrictive covenants in place for how many times they can use LR each calender year ? |
We would also have to buy at least twelve of the Imre Close houses. Their gardens extend to a line well into the School End penalty area. Buying only the gardens wouldn't work either for light reasons, we'd have to buy the houses.
Good point about the restrictive covenants. |  |
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| Leaving loftus road... on 13:03 - Jun 20 with 1034 views | Stainrod |
Surely the essential reasons why none of this will happen is:
Buying more land around Loftus Rd would cost fortunes and not significantly increase capacity or improve facilities to use the ground for other events - so hardly any return on investment.
Buying new land for a new stadium would be prohibitive in this part of town, particularly given a lot of fans stubbornly say they wouldn't continue to support the club if it moved too far away.
The economics of football dictate you are only viable if you are in the premier league, and there the revenue is all about tv rather than fans in the stadium.
For these three reasons I think fans will continue to come up with ingenious plans to buy up gardens in Ellerslie Rd and build road tunnels on SA Rd but in ten years time we will still be sitting in the same crap seats in much the same stadium, probably still being served mouth-scorching pukka pies. | | | |
| Leaving loftus road... on 13:06 - Jun 20 with 1008 views | Juzzie |
Please see pervious multiple threads all on the same subject and all saying the same thing. This is essentially a continual Spackman situation! |  | | |
| Leaving loftus road... on 13:22 - Jun 20 with 963 views | nadera78 |
It's simply not true to say that nothing will ever happen. Every year our capacity is reduced further and further - we're probably at about 17.5k now and a good quarter of those are restricted views. And, of course, the old girl has been neglected. So, there will come a point at which we either find ourselves reduced to an even smaller capacity, we find a way to do something with the small spaces around our current site, or we move out entirely. | | | |
| Leaving loftus road... on 16:59 - Jun 21 with 696 views | Esox_Lucius |
Dig down and out, whilst underpinning the properties that are being excavated, and build an underground stadium. We did plastic pitch 1st, we looked at a movable roof, so why not continue that tradition with the UK's first subterranean football stadium? |  |
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| Leaving loftus road... on 22:10 - Jun 21 with 574 views | Tonto |
| Leaving loftus road... on 16:59 - Jun 21 by Esox_Lucius |
Dig down and out, whilst underpinning the properties that are being excavated, and build an underground stadium. We did plastic pitch 1st, we looked at a movable roof, so why not continue that tradition with the UK's first subterranean football stadium? |
Thays fine unless a virgin or BT cable needs moving at which point you require billions to do so. |  |
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| Leaving loftus road... on 09:02 - Jun 22 with 445 views | Esox_Lucius |
| Leaving loftus road... on 22:10 - Jun 21 by Tonto |
Thays fine unless a virgin or BT cable needs moving at which point you require billions to do so. |
That's what Duct tape is for. | |
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| Leaving loftus road... on 13:59 - Jun 22 with 308 views | dutch |
| Leaving loftus road... on 13:03 - Jun 20 by Stainrod |
Surely the essential reasons why none of this will happen is:
Buying more land around Loftus Rd would cost fortunes and not significantly increase capacity or improve facilities to use the ground for other events - so hardly any return on investment.
Buying new land for a new stadium would be prohibitive in this part of town, particularly given a lot of fans stubbornly say they wouldn't continue to support the club if it moved too far away.
The economics of football dictate you are only viable if you are in the premier league, and there the revenue is all about tv rather than fans in the stadium.
For these three reasons I think fans will continue to come up with ingenious plans to buy up gardens in Ellerslie Rd and build road tunnels on SA Rd but in ten years time we will still be sitting in the same crap seats in much the same stadium, probably still being served mouth-scorching pukka pies. |
Fine by me. | | | |
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