Brentford 3 QPR 1 (11/01/20. Wells. 12,324)

Think there is little activity on here, in all honesty, as it’s just another game although seems to be plenty of rivalry from them towards us. I know not everyone will feel that way but I’ve never been bothered by Brentford and used to go there as a kid as school always got free tickets so I don’t mind them personally

Away end is cramped but good atmosphere if the team turn up. Bit chaotic for refreshments and a piss but that’s the charm of old grounds like theirs and ours. From memory their singers are other end behind goal.

Will be drinking in Acton this match before game given earky kick off then wander up about 1130

Should be a decent game if we turn up

I normally miss that amount of time at QPR getting beers and taking a leak anyway so that's okay with me haha. Thanks for the info though.


As for the rivaly ... I always had them down as just a friendly little club around the corner where people used to go because it was a £1 to get in. I dont see them as rivals but now we play them more and more, I really want to beat them. GOt a couple of Brentford at work as well so gives it more meaning as I never get to gloat!

same here, they always seem to step it up massively against us whereas we look nervous and uninterested. still, we've been relentless in front of goal the past 2 games so hopefully we can bring the game to them

Brentford,just a team my mate and my sons mate played for. Nothing else.

Hi friendly Bee here again. You do realise the reason Rangers are not very popular with Bees fans is because in 1967 when Griffin Park still had a capacity of 38,000 you tried to take us over and close us down so Rangers could use GP instead of LR. Anyway onto Saturday, we are both in great form. Should be a cracking game and atmosphere. Totally sold out GP.

It wasn't as clear cut as you think it was, your chairman was up for it too.
"Dennis Signy OBE speaks to Vital QPR once more, about his time within Brentford and the possible take-over by Queens Park Rangers in 1967.



Signy who previous spoke to Vital QPR concerning his time under Jim Gregory and Alec Stock, now moves to speak about Rangers potential acquisition of Brentford in 1967 as well as John Lyall agreeing to manage Rangers.



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The biggest story of my career over 60 years in newspapers and football came in 1967 … the QPR bid to take over Brentford.



The headline story went round the world yet, strangely for me, I did not write a word on the subject. I was general manager of Brentford at the time – in fact, I started the whole saga.



It was a chance remark I made to Jim Gregory that sparked off the soccer sensation of 1967. Billy Gray was my team manager at Brentford – having turned down an offer from Alec Stock to join him with Rangers – and he and I were standing in Ellerslie Road waiting for my wife to arrive for a game against Carlisle United, when we saw Jim.



The previous Saturday Bernard Joy, the famous ex-centre half who wrote so authoratively over the years for the Evening Standard, had produced a feature on the old theme of ground sharing and had linked Brentford and QPR as logical clubs to tie up.



Jim asked: ‘How many do you think we’ll get tonight?’



I told him: ‘I don’t know – about 18,000. If you were playing at Griffin Park you’d get 30,000’ (in actual fact the gate was 19,146).



From that casual remark we progressed to a discussion on Joy’s ground-sharing theme and, when Jim Gregory said that he might be interested in pursuing this further I said I would mention it to my chairman, Jack Dunnett, Brentford’s MP chairman.



I did – and that started the train of events that led to the eventual take-over bid. The two chairmen went into the appeals of ground-sharing but moved on to discuss the possibility of Rangers buying the Brentford ground – capacity at the time 38,000.



Various idea were thrashed around by the two wealthy chairman, including Brentford using Griffin Park on alternate weeks as tenants of Rangers.



Homely Loftus Road, as I recorded at the time, was Rangers’ 16th home and I dubbed them as veritable gypsies of the soccer scene in historical parlance – the happy wanderers.



I remember sitting in on some of the preliminary discussions as a modestly paid journalist who had moved into football management and knew more about headlines than balance sheets. I did understand, though, that both clubs were losing money heavily.



I was fascinated hearing sums of thousands and hundreds of thousands of pounds being bandied about between the Mayfair solicitor who was my chairman and the self-made millionaire from Rangers.



It was like Monopoly – with real money. I used to smile at being asked to intervene with important decisions.



The discussions evolved into this: – Rangers were to buy Griffin Park for £220,000 and were to sell Loftus Road to he council for £310,000. The £90,000 surplus was intended to be used to improve Griffin Park. I was to be in publicity and fund-raising projects.



What was not known even when the story broke in the newspapers and on radio and television was that the two clubs were UNDER CONTRACT. After he breakdown of the merger talks Jim Gregory had proposed to Jack Dunnett: ‘We’ll buy you out, shares, ground, the players, the lot’.



The deal was announced on Jim’s 39th birthday. Alec Stock was to be overall manager and Billy Gray and Bill Dodgin the coaches. I, the ideas man of the project, was bombarded by telephone.



The Daily Mail headlined: ‘Fans call it a sell -out’. The Daily Mirror: ‘Goodbye, Brentford’ .



The next crowd at Griffin Park was a best-of-season 10, 650 and the fans left us in no doubt what they thought of the idea. ‘Who done it? Dunnett dunnit’ was the poster I remember.



To cut it short, it never went through and I resigned some weeks later and Billy Gray followed me out of Griffin Park when Dunnett handed over to new chairman Ron Blindell.



Would it have been such a bad thing? I recall Alec Stock’s words: ‘This would be a great thing for us. If agreement is reached it will mean that we have a first-class ground for what is already a first-class team’. Jim Gregory said: ‘Economically it was a good proposition for Rangers’.



Ironically, when I joined Rangers as chief executive alongside manager Jim Smith in the Eighties, another take-over propelled Jim Gregory and the club into the headlines. I was not involved in the talks between Jim and Fulham chairman David Bulstrode that led to the infamous Fulham Park Rangers proposition.



I was not part of that plan and I left Rangers when David Bulstrode, with whom I got on well, took over as chairman.



Unfortunately that episode ended my long association with Jim Gregory. Despite the eventual acrimony I have outstanding memories of our years together."

Funnily enough I did used to be a milkman so she did used to wake up in bed with one.

I think there were 2 main reasons. In our first season up the owner was willing to splash the cash in the January window when we were in a play off place but MW turned down the chance because he wanted to keep faith in the then current squad. Secondly he wanted the ultimate say on transfers whereas we had a committee of 2 DoFs the Owner using stats based player identification before actual scouting for potential incoming. All players were for sale - at the right price. MW didn't accept this and so was told his contract would not be renewed at the end of the season.

Prefer Spartak Hounslow. Anyway enough from me before I get banned! Enjoy Saturday everyone.

It will be interesting to see how we will play against them, but IMO we have to run at them regardless how solid in possession they have been season. Wells & Co will literally have to work their socks off, I think.

Fuckin ell Hud , i`d have wrapped you up , give you a massive cuddle !

appropriate response to sub standard facilities.....

true...

I am 30 but class Chelsea and only CHelsea as our proper rivals.

The more we play Brentford and Fulham the more they annoy me but only a hatred for Chelsea. Maybe a bit of jealously of Brentford atm. New ground, good team, well run. Shit fans though.