QPR AWAY- Sunderland fan in peace!

[boltonboris]

Personally, I will never, ever set foot in any ground that charges over £40 for a ticket

I understand your anger but wouldn't rule it out. Kind of depends whether the current rampant inflation in the price of goods and services is ever matched in wages. I'm sure some of our more venerable contributors shook their heads when prices topped a tenner, but then I bet they never thought they'd see the average UK house price reach £232,000 (or average wage £27,900).

If my wages went up at the same rate as ticket prices, then by all means probably I would.. But they don't..

[Annoyed Grunt]

But, it's not just the ticket price though. You've got travel, food, few beers....almost £100 gone there, for QPR.......no chance.

[DurhamBoy]

Why pick on QPR? The prices for most Premier League fixtures in London are a joke. Chelsea have been taking the piss for years and i don't notice anyone talking about boycotting Stamford Bridge. If people are mad enough to pay those sort of ticket prices, then club's will continue to charge them.

I'm another Sunderland fan here to bother you all. We've been having a lengthy discussion of this over on the SMB http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=612089 should you have any interest whatsoever in what I think, so I won't go over it all again.

What I will say is, in response to this particular question, the "Why QPR?" issue. Certainly Chelsea and Spurs have been charging outrageous amounts for some years, although I've never had to pay the amount to go to Stamford Bridge or White Hart Lane that QPR would be trying to charge me. The more important point is that the comparison with Spurs and Chelsea is a slightly faulty one. A better comparison club to consider would perhaps be Fulham. An established, Premier League club from London, far more part of the top flight than Queens Park Rangers have been for some time, and the price for us to go to Fulham away last season? £35.

QPR can only charge those prices if, as you quite rightly say "people are mad enough to pay those sort of ticket prices". The only way to stop ticket prices rising is to, at some point, refuse to pay that kind of money. We, as football fans, can sit and say that nothing can be done, or we can try and do something, but we can only do it together.

I'd imagine if Bolton are anything like Sunderland that those of you who are going have already bought tickets for this game, and I'd not ask you to not go to a game you've already paid for. But this is a campaign which is hopefully going to include fans of all 20 clubs, and so I'd ask that if you don't believe that QPR's prices are acceptable that you join the facebook group, write to the FSF, write to the Premier League, do anything you can think of to peacefully and legally protest against this worrying trend.

Individually we can't do much, but if enough of us unite behind this, if we complain enough, protest enough, make enough noise and kick up enough of a stink, I genuinely believe that we can do something about this. I'd rather try and fail than do nothing.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Our away support has been boycotting games for years

[BwfcDan]

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117743028321452

Guys, nice to meet you all. Just wondering what the current mindset is for your opening day fixture at QPR. Any form of boycott, petition etc going on? Prices are just unreal and momentum is really picking up on our forum http://www.readytogo.net/smb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; to simply boycott the game apart from a group who will take a banner to the ground stating Enough is enough.

The link to the above Facebook group has some information in which will hopefully raise awareness that they are simply taking the piss!

There's plenty boycotting, but there's also a few who have no responsibilities who can afford £57 for a ticket, who are now moaning like feck at some of our supporters.. They're doing all this cock measuring things about being better fans etc..

Personally, I will never, ever set foot in any ground that charges over £40 for a ticket to watch a game of football. The more people pay at shit holes like Loftus Road, the more OTHER clubs will start to charge, thinking they can get away with it..

It's high time they stopped taking the piss, but as long as people continue to pay, they never will!

No, what pisses me off is when hear people "I'm boycotting QPR" when you know for a fact they had no intention of going in the first place, no matter what the price it is.

Hi Dan

You sicken me. But i still love you

[Lofthouse Lower]

I'm not going.

Even if I wanted to go I wouldn't pay that

But if you want to go, and spend it, that's up to you

But I don't agree with it.

[BwfcDan]

I'm not going.

Even if I wanted to go I wouldn't pay that

But if you want to go, and spend it, that's up to you

But I don't agree with it.

What if i get Rodders to pay for you?

[Lofthouse Lower]

Meet you there

[hisroyalgingerness]

Wasn't going. Not going.

[CAPSLOCK]

Was 70/30 to go

At those prices, no way

But, the comparison with Fulham is shite

They've had 10 years on the gravy train

QPR will get one year

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Not sure there, Caps. Not about QPR's chances of avoiding relegation, but about their comparison with Fulham. Both have/had high-profile, multi-millionaire chairmen/owners; both have sizeable (if not massive) potential reach into the suburbs to the west of the city. Where they differ is that unlike Chairman Mo - who loved lavishing on his playtoy club right up until Steve Marlet proved a waste of money - the Rs owners are merciless capitalists determined to screw as much money as possible out of their enterprise. Hence the ticket prices.

[BL3]

Certainly Chelsea and Spurs have been charging outrageous amounts for some years, although I've never had to pay the amount to go to Stamford Bridge or White Hart Lane that QPR would be trying to charge me.

If memory serves, Chelsea charged BWFC supporters £50 and Spurs charged £40 last season and these aren't even 'Category A' fixtures. QPR have a much smaller ground than either of those two clubs, so on that basis, they could argue that they are entitled to charge more. Personally i think if you're going to boycott one, you should boycott them all. Fulham and Arsenal are the only London-based clubs in the Premier League that charge even vaguely sensible prices for non 'Category A' games.

[CAPSLOCK]

Not sure there, Caps. Not about QPR's chances of avoiding relegation, but about their comparison with Fulham. Both have/had high-profile, multi-millionaire chairmen/owners; both have sizeable (if not massive) potential reach into the suburbs to the west of the city. Where they differ is that unlike Chairman Mo - who loved lavishing on his playtoy club right up until Steve Marlet proved a waste of money - the Rs owners are merciless capitalists determined to screw as much money as possible out of their enterprise. Hence the ticket prices.

He did put some money in, but he used his buying power much more when the opposition had 2 n 6

He's had a fair few quid through his paws while he'd been at the top table

Anyway, don't care, not going!

[Bijou Bob]

I'm all in favour of a boycott tbh, but then come on, own up, how many on here went to Wembley and stumped up 6 quid for a hot dog?!!

Unless we take a stand together as fans, clubs will continue to take the pish. It will only take 3 matches at most where away support is very low and the protest banners come out and it'd be the talk of the night on MOTD. If the club chairman gets asked the same question week in, week out, then something might change. Then again, he might love having no away support as their ground becomes something of a fortress.

I'd planned this as a rant for 606 in a weeks time or so. Let's at least make the bar steward justify it.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Not sure there, Caps. Not about QPR's chances of avoiding relegation, but about their comparison with Fulham. Both have/had high-profile, multi-millionaire chairmen/owners; both have sizeable (if not massive) potential reach into the suburbs to the west of the city. Where they differ is that unlike Chairman Mo - who loved lavishing on his playtoy club right up until Steve Marlet proved a waste of money - the Rs owners are merciless capitalists determined to screw as much money as possible out of their enterprise. Hence the ticket prices.

He did put some money in, but he used his buying power much more when the opposition had 2 n 6

He's had a fair few quid through his paws while he'd been at the top table

Anyway, don't care, not going!

Heh heh! Yeah, Al-Fayed loved it when his team was clocking up 100pts per season but less so when Tigana needed lots of cash to compete - especially when signings like Marlet failed...

[officer_dibble]

Good luck (but fat chance) to any campaign......I won't be there, like I wouldn't go to Anfield, Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge...cannot justify that much on a match ticket, no pay rise for 3 years (yes public sector thats 3 whole years and not one strike), mortgage etc.

All I can say is it is games like this that make me proud and glad to be a Wanderer. Where they don't rip you off.

[LiOC]

I won't be there. Any other (bar Spurs and Chelski) first game and I'd be there but I literally cannot afford it. Having a job in retail, Season ticket payments going, ridiculous travel prices, silly beer and pie prices. For the Chelski price at least you're watching some of the best people of the league (although I still can't pay it), and Wembley (although extravegant) is at least a special occasion, the Stokies probably think it was a bargain for what they got to see.
I doubt it'll change but it's unfair and wrong. My wage'll never increase at the rate these prices do and while the economies like this people in my line of work need to be keeping some for a rainy day too.
Gotta agree Officer Dibble, whatever else the wanderers can be accused of we are not rip offs.

[Prufrock]

I was looking forward to this. They can shove it up their arse. A year working means I'm upping my £25 limit to £30, but no more.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

All I can say is it is games like this that make me proud and glad to be a Wanderer. Where they don't rip you off.

Through the club's deeply-held beliefs? Or the necessary realisation that tickets weren't selling? QPR (etc) have a market they can rip off. BWFC don't.

[Lord Kangana]

I'm sure they'll find out soon enough that actually they don't. It'll be full for the bigger games and local derbies, but I'm convinced they'll be getting some shit attendances when the likes of us (but not actually us, as we're first home game...) rock up. Which of the untermensch have they got as a midweek in february, say?