Post by dylanpresman on Oct 14, 2008 13:22:19 GMT
Am I the only person who has noticed that every year, at least twice a year, something happens that starts a wave of people posting "I'm so disgusted with QPR because of XXX, I don't know if I'm going to renew my season ticket next year/keep coming to QPR/whatever."
Now I've been supporting QPR since the mid 1970s and on the messageboards since they started and I can definitely remember hearing this kind of sentiment about Thompson, CW, Blackburn, Oly, GP, and now Briatore. The posts are all the same "I've been coming since I was a kid, a few years ago I went to every game home and away, but now, because of [insert latest grievance here] its just not the same. I just don't know if I'll be renewing my season ticket next year, my heart is just not in it anymore, etc..."
That isn't to say that the disgust at the ticket price increases isn't real, it is just to say that the melodrama is overblown. I've definitely said this before, but there is a group of QPR fans (and maybe all footie fans) that are such drama queens. Every change is life threatening; every corporate decision that we don't like is proof that the devil is in out midst; every success is heaven and every failure is the hell; every in-form player is the next Pele and every out-of-form player is "found out".
Or maybe I'm missing the point and this really is the BIG one?!?
Now I've been supporting QPR since the mid 1970s and on the messageboards since they started and I can definitely remember hearing this kind of sentiment about Thompson, CW, Blackburn, Oly, GP, and now Briatore. The posts are all the same "I've been coming since I was a kid, a few years ago I went to every game home and away, but now, because of [insert latest grievance here] its just not the same. I just don't know if I'll be renewing my season ticket next year, my heart is just not in it anymore, etc..."
That isn't to say that the disgust at the ticket price increases isn't real, it is just to say that the melodrama is overblown. I've definitely said this before, but there is a group of QPR fans (and maybe all footie fans) that are such drama queens. Every change is life threatening; every corporate decision that we don't like is proof that the devil is in out midst; every success is heaven and every failure is the hell; every in-form player is the next Pele and every out-of-form player is "found out".
Or maybe I'm missing the point and this really is the BIG one?!?
