200% - that scarf was knitted for me by my gran in the 1990s at some point. She supported Portsmouth, and no doubt wanted me to suffer.

It is horrible.

It looks like one of those off-the-shelf badges that you get on Sunday League kits.

The thing about QPR is that as long as you hard Q,P & R reasoanbly and simple and kept away from any Bolton or Fulham silliness, it would be hard not to have a decent original badge.

I also am not a fan of crests or coats of arms

I see Rangers are breaking from their Carling sponsorship....

Amor,

If he's doing that to the badge, I'd be very, very, afraid about the kits.

I wonder if this comes in blue hoops? (from Flav's "Billionaire Couture" collection):

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If the "hoops" don't go all the way around they are not really "hoops" are they?

Bah, that is, of course, true but I'm not describing our strip as having horizontal stripes. As far as I'm concerned they're hoops, just cut off bastardised ones.

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Bah, that is, of course, true but I'm not describing our strip as having horizontal stripes

If they're incomplete hoops then I'd describe them as bars.

What a great motto. "Loftus" - that's yer actual Latin, isn't it?

Come on, don't knock that QPR badge. It's an authentic Versace design.

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More appropriate for a line of supermarket toiletries.

Spookily on that link of AdC's, the trademark requested has been made to cover:

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Shaving soaps and shaving lotions; shaving foams, creams and gels; aftershave lotions; shaving stones; pre-electric shaving lotions; preparations for application to or care of the skin, scalp, hair or nails; soaps; shampoos; cosmetics; perfumes; essential oils; non-medicated toilet preparations; skincare preparations; tissues impregnated with cosmetics; cleansing masks; mouthwashes; deodorants; antiperspirants; toilet waters; dentifrices; toothpastes; and all other goods in the class.

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Bah, that is, of course, true but I'm not describing our strip as having horizontal stripes

If they're incomplete hoops then I'd describe them as bars.

What they should do, of course, is have hoops all the way around and then have the number on a square panel ...

I love it when people get as worked up about kit changes as I do.

This was linked to on the wsc.co.uk homepage and deals with Rochdale who , having worn their original colours of black & white stripes for this their Centenary Season (as opposed to their usual blue) have apparently decided to wear next season's kit of blue and black stripes for the last home game of this season ;

Grrrrrrrrr!

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Friday 18 Apr 2008 10:17:53 by Col

Go on then, we'll wear black and blue as long as we get to see Luis Figo, Patrick Vieira and Hernan Crespo wearing it for us. Full match preview now online.

You know, this might be our final game to be played in the Black and White kit. Well final game for another hundred years, till we celebrate the bicentenary (and we'll get it right that time I promise), but it might just be our last game in a black and white kit.
Of course, we're talking a long shot of us either missing out on the play offs completely, or scraping into that top three, but the decision to wear next season's kit for our final game of the season has incurred the wrath of the support.

It would not be wrong to say that there are many different opinions from supporters. There are those who feel that we shouldn't be playing in the colours of black and blue at all, some feel that we should, but not yet, those who think it should or should not be on sale, and there's some people who are really looking forward to seeing next season's kit. Next season.

But throughout all of the opinions, it is undeniable that there is a very strong viewpoint amongst the club's support base that we should not under any circumstances be wearing the 2008-9 kit on the final game of this season. And I think that's a very important point which needs to be made, that it is a viewpoint amongst the club's support base, and not just people on "that messageboard".

The days of a messageboard reflecting a small insignificant proportion of supporters are long gone. Of course, it's not 100% of the club's support, but was certainly significant enough to ask supporters' views on the colours of the new kit back in September or whenever the decision was made.

This is a wrong decision, and one which needs to be reversed. Nobody will lose face over this decision. It won't be a victory for the fans over the club. If it's a victory for anyone, it will be a victory for common sense. The Centenary season has been a big disappointment and a let down for the fans. Don't kick them in the teeth as it approaches its conclusion.

As I said on the messageboard last week, we as one of the country's least successful sides finally having a chance to make it in their centenary season, which has seen us revert to our centenary kit. Almost makes you think its fate that we're going up. You don't mess with that.

So Saturday could well bring the Centenary to a close in the same way that the Centenary has been handled throughout the last eleven months. You couldn't make it up. Anyway, off my soapbox now.

The thing about QPR is that as long as you hard Q,P & R reasoanbly and simple and kept away from any Bolton or Fulham silliness, it would be hard not to have a decent original badge.

True. 'Q' is a great character, relatively unusual as an initial in English, a simple circle with a swash that gives all kinds of opportunity for expression. The current badge is pretty decent in that regard.

What a great motto. "Loftus" - that's yer actual Latin, isn't it?

Heh. "Loftus Road – London" no less, just to be certain all the tourists know where we are. I don't know why they didn't just print the relavent page from the A-Z and be done with it.

If he's doing that to the badge, I'd be very, very, afraid about the kits.

Well Briatore's been insistent on a least two occasions that the hoops are staying, and the abortion above does seem to reinforce that. What keeping them actually means in his world we don't yet know of course and I'm definitely more apprehensive than I was. For QPR the badge has never been all that important — it's not a symbol that resonates with fans like Liverpool's shitehawk, Arsenal's pop-gun, or Spurs chicken — its the Hoops that are emblematic and if they get seriously screwed around with he'll hear about it big time.

This site looks very good.

I have just read Swansea are having an Unbro kit next season, I'm quite jealous.

The new shirt's not too bad:





But as for goalies' attire: