Daily Mail Snideness Update: re Price Reductions

[QPR Report]

I'm not one of those paranoid/conspiratorial "They Hate Us/They have it in for us" types...But, they sure seem to like to put the boot in.

qprreport.blogspot.com/2008/10/media-on-qprs-ticket-reduction.html

[dylanpresman]

My work's firewall's filter won't let me see your blog. Can you c&p the article here?

[dreamr]

They have a tendency to publish demoralising statements on the eve or morning of matches, based on something they found out using telepathy or some other unique journalistic method. I honestly think the QPC thing was made up, and I'm not a Flavio apologist. It was printed just before our inglorious loss at home to Derby:

qprreport.blogspot.com/2008/09/qpr-name-change.html

(I'm not blaming us losing on the Mail. That was the fault of the team and management. It's still crap though).

I wouldn't be suprised if some new fantasy is rolled out before the weekend. It's clearly just jealousy. They support Norwich or someone.

[dreamr]

Daily Mail - HATCHET MAN: Shock horror - QPR realise they won't sell any £50 tickets in the Championship

QPR, whose owners are among the richest in the world, have decided they cannot get away with £50 tickets for bigger games and have announced they are to be scrapped.
Apparently it is the economic climate which has persuaded them to do away with the idea - not the backlash from fans.
Look at all those empty seats: QPR co-owner Flavio Briatore has wisely decided to scrap £50 seats at Loftus Road in fear of a fan backlash.
Hatchet Man suspects the club actually recognised a serious PR own goal eventually and feared rows of empty seats.
Either that or one of their owners, Lakshmi Mittal, now believes he can sympathise with Rangers’ supporters after reportedly losing £20billion, half his fortune, in the credit crunch. Hmmm, you decide..." (Daily Mail)

[dreamr]

The original QPC 'scoop', if anyone's interested:


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QPR Name Change?

Hopefully just media hype, although there were board rumours a few months ago, but then the talk was "London Rangers"

Daily Mail/Charles Sale - QPC is definitely a move too far, Flavio

The super-rich owners of London Championship team QPR have been discussing
changing the name of the club to Queens Park City in order to emphasis its location in the capital.
Renault boss Flavio Briatore, in Singapore preparing his Formula One team for the first night grand prix this weekend, has been openly debating the idea with friends in football and motor racing.
But Rangers fans, already not happy about the huge hike in prices at Loftus Road which has seen the introduction of the first £50 ticket in the Championship this season, won’t be impressed with losing a club name that has been in existence since 1887. The team was called St Jude’s for its first two years.
Nor will Briatore and his billionaire co-owners, Bernie Ecclestone and Lakshmi Mittal, whose combined wealth makes QPR currently the second richest club in the country behind Manchester City, find the Football League in agreement. Commercial motives for name changes are not approved in the lower divisions or the Premier League.
Briatore has also made public that the three owners, who easily have the resources to buy their way out of the Championship, would prefer to fine-tune their football vehicle outside the top flight and bide their time in reaching the top flight, especially in the current state of flux with club ownership. Daily Mail


# posted by Administrator @ 12:44 AM

Comments:

If they change the name and get away with it, Ill cry.

Itll be like loosing a family member.

# posted by Aitor : 2:09 PM

Look, I can handle the change in logo, ticket prices and the fireworks and trendy music and mascots and stuff because in return we have been given a team that can play football. But if they think they can just change the name of an institution that has run through the blood of countless generations of those from W12 and its hinterlands - they are gravely mistaken. Someone tell Flavour Flave we will will be gettin all Godfather on is ass if he even gives the merest of thoughts to a name change. Unlucky trying to do a last minute ticket hike on unsuspecting Derby fans - worth the try.

# posted by Daniel : 5:12 PM

I'd say the guy writing for the Daily Mail is either a Wolves, Birmingham, Reading, PNE etc fan. Why produce such nonsense on the day of a game? Clearly to stir it up. The Daily Mail is total tripe.

# posted by Irish r : 10:38 PM

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