Our "Family Club" Status

[qblockpete]

We have always been proud that our club is a family club.

When do you think that started to disappear and being in the Premiership, does it mean it will be forever lost?

[WeAreQPR12]

We have always been proud that our club is a family club.

When do you think that started to disappear and being in the Premiership, does it mean it will be forever lost?

It all depends on where the club look to go in the future.

At the moment family's are being priced out but I think they are trying to maximise revenue on an 18,000 capacity. I agree with stain that I won't pay for a st due to the lack of ambition. It sounds negative but in reality who wants to pay huge prices to see our team get thumped against the top sides and struggle against the rest? We are not showing the premiership the respect it deserves. IMO strikers will punish us unlike the championship and I feel for poor Kenny who is an excellent keeper.

[Scarlet pimple]

Think we ceased to be a family club after the 20% st increase, three seasons ago.

And a lot of family's were priced out.....i would hate to think how many have been priced out with the latest debacle

[80sCasual]

I agree Scarlet, Familiy clubs definately don't exist in the prem.

[Bigears]

Family feeling was lost a few seasons ago as fans we spend far more time having a go at each other instead of supporting.

As for the future it depends on who owes it, if its Bernie and Fav then it will be gone within 2 seasons even if we go down.

If its the Mittals and they do what they have indicated and the prices fall so familys can attend then 2 seasons and we will have the fqamily club back.

Thats my veiws

[kevinQPR]

fewer Children are coming with their parents and after this season half could go unless the parents are millionaires

[Connell10]

When flabio and the posion dwarf rocked up to our club the family was all but destroyed! Just dont fit in with their vision of a elite west london projected, which is a real shame imo!

[kevinQPR]

if the little man or orange man done a helicopter flight and went off the radar in some river i would go to their graves and smile
thats how much i hate them

[3London]

We have never been a family club! when was this mystical time?

[LBLOCK]

Always intrigued me that term - just WTF is a family club?
Implies picnics, middle class, happy smiley nuclear mum and dad plus two all watching the game in bliss.

Football was never like that for me as a kid, a teen, young lad and still isn't now as a crusty old truck. Some of my mates bring their kids along, some don't. More often than not the kids want to be left to their own devices.

Now if you were to refer to a community club, a fan focused club or a club of the people then that went years ago. It went from 90% of clubs as football dances to the tune of the pound note.
Any semblance of connection we have left will be gone totally now we are in the Prem and with the current incumbents in charge.

We are where everyone wants to be, I just hope these goons plan medium term and not just shirt term.

Yeah right.


By the way...... It's only June FFS

[RamseyR]

Absolute rubbish. The family club thing is a rose tinted myth.

I was priced out in the early 90s when I had a young family as other things were quite rightly more important than football. Anyone who puts football before other priorities is an absolute tool.

£20 years later I can comfortably afford it but football is just part of a wider entertainmet industry that competes for some of my disposble income and £50 a game does not give value for money so I will probably not partake very often, but that is my decision to make.

It has nothing to do with it being a "family club" or not.

[bushcelt1]

i know people who are no longer able to afford tickets for all their kids after the hikes....so ask them what they think-i'm sure you know the answer. we don't resemble what we once were....and it will get worse. the mugs could have played a better hand infar as P.R........alienating the hardcore is the way forward???? we will lose potential young fans because their parents will tell them not to bother instead of encouraging them.....the mind boggles. the fallout will effect us for a generation at least.

[James1979]

Loads more families were there last season. Was good to see. Remember leaving Palace game (in Palace) and saw young lad and his dad leaving ground (we'd just won in injury time..as if you needed reminding!) and yet lad was weaing his shirt and looked happy as anything. That's what it's all about in my opinion. More families that come the better. Shame that when I became more aware of more families coming, the "I've a bigger fan than you" brigade appeared again!

[rangerforevereastcote]

never really got the family club thing, my boy 11 and had a season ticket for 6 years along with his best mate but thats cos he comes with me despite what its like at rangers esp away not cos its a family club, besides family club makes me think of watford

[LoftusRoadLad]

Having a family stand is so important for the future of our club. We have missed out on potential fans being stuck downstairs for 15 years.