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Post by rickyqpr on Aug 24, 2018 10:43:37 GMT
I don't. My dad used to take me along and as I was very small he used to carry me for most of the game. Had to stand during half time , he would then have his smoke. I think he took me along from about the age of 6, but only a couple of time a season. It was a treat, he himself could not afford to go along for every game. I remember going along to White City and not being able to see very much at all. The first game that I can remember at Loftus Road was in the 1963/64 season when I was 10. Champions elect Coventry smashed us 3-6. Our only glory being that we scored the last 2 goals. I expected loads of goals for every match after that.
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Post by Marc on Aug 24, 2018 11:20:25 GMT
Boxing day 1971, dad took me to Brisbane Road (I was 7), we lost 2-0 to Leyton Orient. Like yours Ricky, my dad couldn't afford to go to every game but we did manage to get to the reverse fixture which we won,
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Post by northolt on Aug 24, 2018 11:22:59 GMT
My first game was 1966 we beat Sc**thorpe 5-1 and I'm sure Ray Clemence was in goal and Keith Burkinshaw played CH for them.I dont remember too much about the game but think it was mid week and still have the programme somewhere.
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Post by Macmoish on Aug 24, 2018 11:45:08 GMT
December 1967 - QPR at home to Portsmouth (QPR won...that's the way it's meant to work!)
I remember it vividly: The pre-game; buying the programme - and "sweeties".... The Hoops Winning... And getting to the ground
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Post by bowranger on Aug 24, 2018 11:47:01 GMT
I barely remember my first game. My mum and dad used to take me from, I think, about age 3 so my first game would have been around 1989/1990. I'm fairly sure it was against Notts County? My mum keeps the programme as a momento to the lifelong suffering they signed me up for so I'll have to ask her to dig it out.
Apparently I used to spend most of the time climbing over the seats and annoying the people around me, so often had to be taken home at half time. I last the full 90 minutes these days but beyond that, my behaviour hasn't actually changed a bit. I just swear more, now.
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Post by terryb on Aug 24, 2018 12:06:07 GMT
I was a glory hunter & first saw Rangers away to Orient soon after the League Cup win. It was a rather tedious 0-0 in front of a very large away following shortly before Rodney got married.
My first visit to Loftus Road was for the first home game the following season - a 2-0 win against Norwich with goals (I think) from Keen & I Morgan. That season finished with the wonderful trip to Villa Park in May 1968!
However, I did not really become a Ranger until the relegation of '68/69 as I had started playing adult football in 1967 aged 15 & Chesham United were my footballing love. My professional "team" were Liverpool until I saw the light on the road to Damascus! I was a fully fledged Ranger from about April 1969.
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Post by marshbowles10 on Aug 24, 2018 17:01:07 GMT
Norwich at home 1967. 2-0. Happy Days
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Post by Ashdown_Ranger on Aug 24, 2018 17:04:45 GMT
I barely remember my first game. My mum and dad used to take me from, I think, about age 3... Probably about the last time you had enough leg room!
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Post by Ashdown_Ranger on Aug 24, 2018 17:18:02 GMT
My first game was away at Charlton - early '70s I think.
My dad never liked football, so I'd been going to see Charlton with a school friend and his dad.
But, for whatever reason (I think it was that QPR were the only team I'd seen on TV with horizontal hoops, rather than stripes, and I really liked their shirts!), I was already a closet QPR fan.
My dad could see I was gutted when we were 2-0 at half time, and tried cheering me up with a 'Plenty of time to catch up...'
My non-football dad gained new levels of respect as Rangers came back to win 2-3.
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Post by kewgreen on Aug 24, 2018 17:24:45 GMT
1947, no idea who we played or the result, my overwhelming memory was that all kids were always sent down to stand at the front wall on the Loft. In the warm up before the game all players would take shots at the goal, and it was Frank Neary who bad a powerful shot hit one that was coming at me full in the face, the ball stretched the net, I closed my eyes and it stoped an inch or two away. After that I stayed with my Dad sitting the crush barrier forever suffering pins and needles in both legs.
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Post by Macmoish on Aug 24, 2018 17:42:02 GMT
At times like this, I miss Gramps' response!
But for me in 1967: Think back - The Morgan twins; Rodney Marsh...The checkered programme...the 3.15 kick off...The hoop Shirts... The initials QPR or the full name Queen's Park Rangers... The cozy stadium with the players virtually next to the fans
Just great
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Post by Bushman on Aug 24, 2018 19:18:05 GMT
Sept 1959 v Newport. Bedford scored a couple in a 3-0 win and we were back in hoops for the first time since 1953!
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Post by stylecouncillor on Aug 24, 2018 20:45:29 GMT
No ... I know my father and 2 uncles got season tickets in south Africa road. I know i went with them and sat between them. I know they first got them after promotion to the 1st division in 73/74 so I would of been 7 if i went august or 8 in September. The first game of the season was Southampton so it could of been that. If not would certainly of been early that season.
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Post by salts on Aug 24, 2018 20:47:50 GMT
15 Nov 1975 - Ipswich 1 QPR 1. Aged 8. Taken by an adult Ipswich fan and an adult Bolton fan.
Don Givens scored with his left foot. Many years later he admitted it was one of the best goals he ever scored as it was with his left foot.
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Post by dan on Aug 25, 2018 2:24:40 GMT
13 January 2001. First and only game I've ever been to. We beat West Brom 2-0.
I'm determined to get to one within the next year or two. I just can't hit up London in the summer, which seams to always be the case.
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Post by terryb on Aug 25, 2018 8:56:59 GMT
15 Nov 1975 - Ipswich 1 QPR 1. Aged 8. Taken by an adult Ipswich fan and an adult Bolton fan. Don Givens scored with his left foot. Many years later he admitted it was one of the best goals he ever scored as it was with his left foot. I believe that was the day that Gerry Francis suffered the back injury that ruined his career. And Ipswich fans couldn't understand why I detested Mick Mills!
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