Blog from a QPR fan.

[Hollywood Blue]

No idea if this has been posted on here before or not.
It's a great read though...

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[jimharri]

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About halfway down.

 

[toofaraway]

An excellent blog. Proves although we support different teams we all love football.
After that Sunday QPR will always be special and I hope we give them a warm welcome when they return to Eastlands next season. I really hope his comment that with 5 or 6 years of success we could become as arrogant as Man U supporters - is wrong - please never let us expect to win. Lets remember the days under Stuart Pierce when we would grind out a dull 0-0 draw and still go home estatic because we had'nt lost! My friend who supports Leyton Orient said he already sees signs of arrogance amoungst City supporters sighting the 'We are Man City and we can score when we want' chant as an example. I hope he is wrong.
Anyway to repeat an excellent blog which I'm sure will be enjoyed as much by City fans as QPR's. Well done.

 

[Skashion]

Didn't think much of this part:

In five or six years time, when City have won a load more trophies, many of their supporters will forget their club’s recent trials. Their fans will become as arrogant as United fans are now.

Otherwise it was alright.

 

[The perfect fumble]

I can't see this happening, I really don't, there's something in the fans DNA that won't let this happen.....

"In five or six years time, when City have won a load more trophies, many of their supporters will forget their club’s recent trials. Their fans will become as arrogant as United fans are now."

 

[cibaman]

Great article. I can understand the QPR fans feeling that their achievement in staying up was rather overlooked that day. I thought it was a shame that the QPR players didn't come back onto the pitch once it had been cleared and they were preparing for the trophy presentation.

How sickening it must be to be a Bolton fan or player this summer? I only saw MOTD highlights of their game but they looked really flat towards the end of the game, there was no real sense that they were playing for their PL survival. As if they'd heard that QPR were winning and almost certain to get at least a point. If only they'd known.

 

[Mental_blue]

I can't see this happening, I really don't, there's something in the fans DNA that won't let this happen.....

"In five or six years time, when City have won a load more trophies, many of their supporters will forget their club’s recent trials. Their fans will become as arrogant as United fans are now."

Let's face it, there's signs of this already on here every week and it only takes a few to give us a bad name.

 

[c-t-i-d-87]

Didn't think much of this part:

In five or six years time, when City have won a load more trophies, many of their supporters will forget their club’s recent trials. Their fans will become as arrogant as United fans are now.

Otherwise it was alright.

It is a possibility though, you must concede that?

The club's ticketing allocation and pricing policy over the coming years will be the most significant influence in making such a scenario a reality or preventing it.

If the demographics of our match-going fanbase change drastically due to the above then his prediction wouldn't be too far-fetched IMO.

Seems unlikely at present, but I'm the pessimistic type unfortunately.

 

[Skashion]

It is a possibility though, you must concede that?

The club's ticketing allocation and pricing policy over the coming years will be the most significant influence in making such a scenario a reality or preventing it.

If the demographics of our match-going fanbase changes drastically due to the above then his prediction wouldn't be too far-fetched IMO.

Seems unlikely at present, but I'm the pessimistic type unfortunately.

He didn't say it was a possibility. He said we WILL, that's a term of absolutes; it is inescapable. Far from being inescapable, I think it's unlikely. City fans, as all the fan surveys show, are some of the longest in the tooth. We know we've been shit for a long time and the prognosis is even better from someone of my generation. We went through the very worst of it, the generation that grew up with rag dominance and us being relegated from the Premier League, a stale season in the second flight, and relegation to the third. We can be successful and humble I'm sure.

Yeah, well, good luck in your misery bubble. I want no part of it.

 

[c-t-i-d-87]

It is a possibility though, you must concede that?

The club's ticketing allocation and pricing policy over the coming years will be the most significant influence in making such a scenario a reality or preventing it.

If the demographics of our match-going fanbase changes drastically due to the above then his prediction wouldn't be too far-fetched IMO.

Seems unlikely at present, but I'm the pessimistic type unfortunately.

He didn't say it was a possibility. He said we WILL, that's a term of absolutes; it is inescapable. Far from being inescapable, I think it's unlikely. City fans, as all the fan surveys show, are some of the longest in the tooth. We know we've been shit for a long time and the prognosis is even better from someone of my generation. We went through the very worst of it, the generation that grew up with rag dominance and us being relegated from the Premier League, a stale season in the second flight, and relegation to the third. We can be successful and humble I'm sure.

Yeah, well, good luck in your misery bubble. I want no part of it.

Was it necessary to be quite so patronising?

There's no 'misery bubble' here mate, the ingrained pessimism is still in my bones however.

The topic is a slight worry of mine, I won't pretend otherwise. But I like your attitude, are we of the same generation you say?

Room for one more? I can work on the pessimism..