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Post by stainrodisalegend on Oct 12, 2023 7:26:18 GMT
As is often remarked our fan base is getting older. It’s not just Alan and Bill scrabbling to pick up their dentures under the seats when they celebrate a little too enthusiastically after a rare Rangers goal. Even a hooligan like GT is at home in his caravan these days nursing his piles and his prostate half the time.
So do you ever worry that you might not live to see a Rangers revival like another day at Wembley or an Adel season? I’m not even talking about a repeat of the glory days under Sexton, Venables or Francis. Just to have a team to be proud of in the 2nd tier that you would enjoy taking some mates to see.
I’m 55 and must admit I have started to think that. On a more positive note, clubs like Ipswich show you can turn it round. So on the gloom-meter I would say I’m about in the middle: I can’t see anything positive for about a decade but I do cling to the idea that I’m just about young enough to see one last glory period for our once great club. (Maybe Im just feeling a bit more positive as had a medical check up yesterday and was told I’m still in great condition - even my liver, which frankly amazed me).
Thoughts? (On Rangers, not my liver)
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Oct 12, 2023 7:31:12 GMT
Haha I’m younger than u
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Post by alanwycombe on Oct 12, 2023 8:00:11 GMT
I still have all my own teeth😁
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Post by MattyRangers on Oct 12, 2023 8:02:05 GMT
Sat here today I agree it is hard to see where any 'glory' days are coming from, but we all know how quickly things can change. May seem like a pipe dream at this moment in time, but out of nowhere a decent buyout may appear from some generous owner willing to throwing a few quid at us & all of a sudden things are on the up.
I think we will see better days.... I just hope we dont have to wait too long for it lol
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Oct 12, 2023 8:05:56 GMT
I still have all my own teeth😁 on a chain |
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Post by Stanley75 on Oct 12, 2023 8:13:40 GMT
Sat here today I agree it is hard to see where any 'glory' days are coming from, but we all know how quickly things can change. May seem like a pipe dream at this moment in time, but out of nowhere a decent buyout may appear from some generous owner willing to throwing a few quid at us & all of a sudden things are on the up. I think we will see better days.... I just hope we dont have to wait too long for it lol Like you Matty, there’s always a healthy balance between glass-half-full and realism. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2023 9:40:26 GMT
I will never see the exact QPR I want to ever again in my life: one who regularly produce good/great youth teams and have a good scouting system which identifies talent in the lower leagues and non league to sell on for big amounts to make the club sustainable.
The reality is that football has moved on so far that anyone decent in our Academy will be snaped up for peanuts and players in the first team will be sold for far less than the sums they will eventually be sold for in their next move. In 1995 when we sold Les for £6m the British Transfer record was £8.5m. We wont ever see that kind of deal ever again.
It is, however, possible that we will be 'successful' again though what that success means now is debatable. Regularly finishing mid-table in the Championship is definitely 'success' now in my opinion (though others will disagree) and this is well within our reach with the right board/manager.
To stay regularly in the Premier League will require new owners but it is very likely that, like Paladini onwards, those owners will - sometimes intentionally as Flavio and Ecclestone did - kill the culture of the club and although some would be happy to trade that in for a permanent place at the big table, that wouldn't be success in my mind and I certainly wouldn't want anything to do with it.
We still haven't come back to life from the club being killed once we sold our souls to the money men and although there are occasional moments where it has looked possible that we will 'get our Rangers back' we're still on a life support system and wrong owners will finally lay the real QPR to rest regardless of any claim they make to our history.
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Oct 12, 2023 9:57:58 GMT
Your age u might not see lunchtime 😀
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Post by stainrodisalegend on Oct 12, 2023 10:09:36 GMT
Your age u might not see lunchtime 😀 Savage |
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Post by 2Loftus on Oct 12, 2023 10:35:55 GMT
Can't imagine seeing 'glory days' again at Loftus Road.
But then I didn't imagine seeing glory days when we signed those two old cloggers Derry and Hall, and that spoilt brat Taarabt.
Just as stirring as glory days are the 'We Are Truly Fucked' days - like escaping relegation by the skin of our teeth last season with away wins at (previously unbeaten at home) Burnley and then Stoke.
The last time I felt good (for more than a couple of weeks) about being a QPR fan was during the Warbs period. Not spectacular, but good progress and a happy dressing room - we seemed to be doing things the 'right way' at last.
Today, well, it's pretty dire.
Dream team for me would be Warbs coming in as DoF and Eustace taking over as coach.
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Post by Corbray on Oct 12, 2023 13:32:09 GMT
i think we will have another heyday at some stage or another. most clubs our size (and even ones smaller than us) do have ups and downs. i'm only 30 but as shit as we are now i'd be surprised if we didn't at least make europe at one point in my life.
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Post by MattyRangers on Oct 12, 2023 13:38:42 GMT
i think we will have another heyday at some stage or another. most clubs our size (and even ones smaller than us) do have ups and downs. i'm only 30 but as shit as we are now i'd be surprised if we didn't at least make europe at one point in my life. Assume you aren't counting Swansea away? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2023 14:37:17 GMT
i think we will have another heyday at some stage or another. most clubs our size (and even ones smaller than us) do have ups and downs. i'm only 30 but as shit as we are now i'd be surprised if we didn't at least make europe at one point in my life. Not to stamp on your dreams but to win a European Place now we'd have to finish in the top 7 in the Premier League or win one of the cups (runners up no longer get the place after Millwall 2004). |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Oct 12, 2023 14:43:04 GMT
Who wants to win a European cup anyway. It smell of garlic or cabbage and come with 834 law’s attached to it about displaying it due to climate change
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