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Reply | Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 10:58 4 Nov 2025
1976 wasn't too clever in Norwich though, was it!!!
Masses of proper pubs in the fine city, serving great micro real ale.
Try the Fat Cat off Dereham Road - with over 50 real ales chalked on the board.
Try "Incredible IPA" - at 5:8% it makes the pain of piss poor play disappear with every sip!
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Reply | My experience last Saturday
at 22:47 3 Nov 2025
There aren't too many Lebanese restaurants in KIng's Lynn either. I just used Google to find if there is one in the area, there's just the one, claiming to be a sort of middle eastern cuisine - but it just does curries.
Seems like I'll have to return to the Mandaloun in Westfield before too long, so I can enjoy another Lebanese mixed grill, and then afterwards suffer another insipid losing display from the clueless R's. [Post edited 3 Nov 22:51]
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Reply | Our fans today were pathetic
at 10:37 3 Nov 2025
I was at Port Vale for the 4-4 draw. Unforgettable. I think it all happened it the last 10 minutes. The fans never gave up. I was a guest of one of their sponsors so I was in the directors box. I couldn't stop laughing at the end.
Hateley was doing one of his Max Wall impressions all afternoon. Useless lazy git, Vales' wingers tore the R's defence to pieces.
When Port Vale brought round sandwiches and drinks afterwards for the sponsors guests, they couldn't understand why I had big smile on my face.. The Vale players came in after getting changed and they looked shell shocked. I started to choke on the sandwiches with the giggles so I decided it was the right time to leave.
I giggled all the way home. I guess I'm paying for it now - after the performance last Saturday.
But that's why I'll never leave early - I've seen it once - it might happen again. [Post edited 3 Nov 10:42]
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Thread | My experience last Saturday
at 09:36 3 Nov 2025
Living now in West Norfolk, I don't often get the chance to experience what QPR dish up these days. My record of not seeing a win since QPR beat Norwich 2-1 on Ollie's return means I am somewhat of an albatross to them.
Saturday was the 17th game that I have watched the R's - either at the Bush or Peterborough or Norwich - since a win, so I travelled down from Kings Lynn expecting the worst. The last game I saw QPR was last April, when they were 2-0 up against Leeds and just managed to hang on for a draw.
I met up with my brother and his two mates in Shepherds Bush just after midday before Saturday's game against Ipswich, hoping that my luck would change,
I can't believe just how much the Bush has changed since the days when we used to roll up to pay three bob entrance and a tanner for a programme to watch Brian Bedford, Mark Lazarus, Rodney and the juniors. No TV Centre, no White City Stadium, no TA drill hall. All very nouveau riche now, high rise plush apartments, craft beer at £6 plus a pop, with tourist trap shops around Westfield.
We decided to have an early lunch there. We turned down trendy burger and pizza joints and went for Mandaloun, https://www.mandaloun.com - a Lebanese restaurant that seemed pretty empty, but they had a board outside that was advertising a special deal on two course lunches for £14.50.
We sat down and were given menus but there was no sign of the special lunches offer. The main courses alone started at £20!! The manager said that the special two course price was a lunchtime Monday - Friday only offer. My brother went outside and brought the sign in and pointed out that there was no mention of Monday to Friday on the board, so we were leaving.
The manager chased after us and said he would do the deal for us. He did. and he also added some pastries and dips free of charge "for the confusion." With a beer, a mixed grill and a dessert, the bill landed up just over £20 a head. Fantastic food. Never had Lebanese food before but it was just brilliant, so tasty and well presented.
I couldn't believe the day would continue in that vein, which proved to be the case, this was confirmed with a soft goal at 3:02 and it was a steady roll downhill afterwards. I was one of the few in the Paddocks who stayed to the bitter end.
I caught the 18:30 LNER train from Kings Cross which arrived in Peterborough at 19:20, the same time the LNER train left in the other direction with the knifer on board. Because of the incident at Huntingdon, First XL cancelled buses to Kings Lynn till 21:40 so I got home just after 23:15.
So, the day ended as expected - a few delights - a few disasters - and the usual headless chicken display from the R's. I'm not surprised there was a silent walk out, it's what we've come to expect.
I feel like I'm living in an alternative universe, where the memories of past glories and efforts aren't matched by the end result of today's teams. Are QPR now an AI team? They're playing without any plan B or any desire to entertain.
Just as well we had the mixed grill on Saturday, it's almost worth the pain when you get a meal that good - and a performance that bad afterwards. I shan't be going to watch the R's for some time, maybe the game at Carrow Road, but that is another ground with bad memories.
Why do we bother Fawlty?? [Post edited 3 Nov 14:00]
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Reply | No subject
at 19:44 31 Oct 2025
Go through the turnstiles and you''l find out what Loftus Road really is.
It's like being in the front row of an old fashioned variety theatre, with a ball as the prop.
I suspect you might be a visitor from outside this "sceptre'd isle, this precious Loft, set in a silver sea, this earth this realm, this Shepherd's Bush, this UURRRRSSSAAAAAHHH"
So, roll up, enjoy the day, avoid the toilets and the duff beer and you should had a good day , regardless of the result. |
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 18:57 25 Oct 2025
Ted
Not mental,
Not physical,
Not emotional........ but ..
Poor selection and management,
After that, it's down to the players selected and what they do.
But the players selected come first -
Dembele, Frey, and Varanne should not be playing in front of Morgan, Kholli, Hayden.
Dembele is so waste of space - he's lucky to get on the bench, picking up splinters.
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Reply | Millwall dilemma
at 21:41 4 Oct 2025
And the answer you want to hear is "I've always wanted to watch someone knock seven colours of tom tit out of the Wall, so take me to Loftus Road, please, and sod my birthday". There's always anothe birthday a year later.
If you don't get the right answer on these lines, consider that you may have married the wrong woman.
"Marry in haste, repent in leisure." UUURRRSSSSAAAHHHH.
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Reply | QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing
at 16:32 30 Jun 2025
"QPR Park is melting in the dark, all the Percy Dalton's flowing down, someone's left the programmes in the rain, I don't think that I can take them, 'cos it took so long to make them, and I"ll never have those old rangers again, oh no, oh nooo.....oh noooooooooooo.........."
That's not the Richard Harris version. It's more like - "Carpathia here, we'll come and rescue you boys ,we promise, we'll rescue you!" "Bugger off Carpathia, we've half a tank of gin left. Let me tell you about Stan The Man". Cop this in Morse". It goes like this :- "Dit, dit dit, dah, dit, dah, dah, dit, dit, dah dit dah, Didley dee , diddle dah, didley dee , diddle dah,Doo Wah Diddy, Widdy, Dah Widdt Doo.doth giddy doo, Didley dee , diddle dah, didley dee , diddle dah"
When it get to 32 degrees, plus a gallon of G & T with Titanic Ice, and when you live in Norfolk that really hits the spot,
We will always have ...... Brian Bedford, Rodney Marsh -- and Stan The Man. Stan The Man ........... the King, the Star, The Universe.. Which is rather like the 105 bus on time and The White Hart, recently voted by CAMRA as 'The worst pub in London, ...... but it has a charm we can't explain. It's certainly not the beer"
When we came back from the White City to Loftus Road in 1964,, this song was always played on a crap tannoy,, courtesy of WG Records ,Shepherds Bush Market
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=doowah+diddy&t=osx&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2
It''s football Alec, but not football' as we know it.
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Reply | RIP Brian Wilson
at 19:16 11 Jun 2025
I wish they all could be Loftus Road Girls, Surfing QPR, God only knows if my seat's in Block Q, Wouldn't it be nice to know who the new manager is. |
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Reply | Plymouth/Hull – Awaydays
at 22:18 30 Jan 2025
A work of art. Should be available on Audible next month. Knocks the shit out of Shakespeare. Pure genius war correspondent stuff |
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Reply | Our crowds these days compared to years gone by....
at 14:44 24 Jan 2025
In the good old days, it was always cash only entry through a turnstile. Who knows haw many were really watching?
In 1963/4 I went to the White City for most of the home games - travelling there on the 105 bus that often failed to run. The White City was a ground totally lacking in atmosphere, you could have a dozen rows of terraces to yourself because most attendances were around the 6,000 mark.
The teams used to appear out of a tunnel in the ground to the tune of "The Entry Of The Gladiators" that you could barely hear. Separated by the running track and the greyhound track and no one went behind the goals because, with the track and greyhound curve, one end was in Shepherds Bush Market and the other end was in Ladbroke Grove. Atmosphere was worse than Sunday School.
We lost to Millwall and even they couldn't be arsed to make any trouble.
In 1964/65, The R's moved back to Loftus Road. In the first home game in September, there were supposedly 10,000 in the ground to see the R's beat Peterborough 3-0 and the noise was fantastic because the pitch was so close.
However, results didn't improve on the pitch. I was there in 1965 when there were only 3,250 present (which I believe is a record for the lowest attendance ever at a QPR game) to see Brian Bedford score a hat trick to beat Oldham 3-2.
I've never ever heard a crowd make so much noise as when the R's beat Leicester 4-2 in the League Cup Quarter Final in 1967. The papers said 15,000 were there but I'm sure loads more got in over the fences.
Attendances in the 60''s 70's and 80's were even more unreliable than the weather forecasts were, because it was cash only entry on the day. Once you sell tickets, the attendance figure is more accountable.
It was so much fun in those days. "In those days", means mid sixties to mid seventies. After mid seventies, I moved away, and I could only go a few times a year and that time seems to be when crowds got really nasty.
This is the first time in 50 years that's it's starting to feel like the good old days again, because it's a proper team- playing as a team - and no-one watching game after game, can believe what they see is happening on the pitch.
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Reply | Chair
at 13:12 23 Jan 2025
Correct, I was allowing for a lengthy VAR at Stockley Heaven which involved lots of lines being drawn across Golgotha city’s ground before the thumbs down was shown. [Post edited 23 Jan 13:39]
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Reply | Chair
at 09:05 23 Jan 2025
But it took seven days for the revival, and after that, he took an upwards direction that amazed everyone. [Post edited 23 Jan 9:06]
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Reply | Chair
at 21:09 22 Jan 2025
Jesus would struggle to get Into the starting eleven this year - but there’s always a place for him on the bench. Has trouble with some crosses though! [Post edited 22 Jan 21:23]
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 22:32 8 Jan 2025
It will be Alfie. Followed up by the 50 year old ghost of John Motson screaming:- “Oh yes for the youngster!”
2-1 to the R’s it will be! [Post edited 8 Jan 22:38]
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Reply | Happy Christmas Loftforwords
at 20:10 24 Dec 2024
We got used to supporting the cxxnts when Redknobb was here and he hired his mates from the 365 betting shop.
The different in the quality and positivity in crowd support between now and then is amazing. That's because every player now seems to be playing for the team and not themselves,
It's almost like it's the sixties and seventies again. Is Marti the new Alec? Sombreros for goalposts anyone?
Thanks to Clive for the fantastic job he does with LFW, with a great sense of humour using proper English grammar and syntax too.
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Reply | Morrison, anyone notice?
at 07:36 1 Dec 2024
Getting such a positive press now that he lives on love street, lingers long on love street, he has a house and garden , I would like to see what happens….
He has wisdom and knows what to do - he has me and he has ……….. YOU!!! [Post edited 1 Dec 2024 7:38]
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