Please do not blame us for what our club is doing we are as shocked as anyone to see our board charge away fans £40.
Our fear is that teams will do the same to us.
The QPR board is mad on this issue and out of touch with the real world.
We hope to do a protest for the Derby game and i welcome Derby fans to post on our website. www.indyrs.co.uk.

I fear the worst for our club under this kind of price madness.

I used to always want to support QPR, but I had no way of justifying it. They always seemed, when I was growing up, to be the sophisticated face of the First Division relegation struggle. Needless to say, I've gone off them a bit now.

It's funny what money can do. I think it tends to have almost universally negative effects at football clubs. The team become different, if only in perception, and a gulf between club and its supporters grows that not even success is really sufficient to bridge. I have a friend who is a Man City supporter. He is very uneasy about City's new-found insane wealth. It's nice to be able to afford things, is his basic argument, but it's just not the same any more, is it?

I KNOW WHO YOU MEAN.

Of course, the Manchester city fans have chosen to manifest their unease by wearing faux Arab headdresses to their games. It's a very public show of disgust at the new regime.

Not all of them EIM. Let's not make slurs about them like certain people do about Newcastle fans, eh?

Tony C and DGLH, yesterday.

Those wacky dressers were presumably the ones that prefered to stay at home for City games before the money turned up.

Was it somewhere OTF/WSC related that I saw the suggestion that if these new club-owners are so sodding rich, why don't they subsidise ticket prices?

Given the attempted transfer market plays of Manchester City's new owners, I can't imagine they are reliant on ticket sales for coin. So how about using what you were going to pay Berbatov et al every week to halve ticket prices and give the fans a treat?

I don't understand how rich owners equates to increased prices - apart from the obvious, obviously.

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Those wacky dressers were presumably the ones that prefered to stay at home for City games before the money turned up.

Oh! Ha! They were wearing "funny" head-dresses! Now I see. I thought we were supposed to be laughing at that bloke's ridiculous 'tache.

Just as a disclaimer, those two aren't Manchester city fans. Or at least, if they are, it's just a coincidence.

I did a google image search for 'dick heads in arab headresses to make a lame gag on OTF', or something, and they came up.

I was at the ManCity-CFC game (don't ask...) and there were quite a few enthusiastic arab dressers...

In fairness there's nothing worse than an unenthusiastic Arab dresser.

It's funny what money can do. I think it tends to have almost universally negative effects at football clubs. The team become different, if only in perception, and a gulf between club and its supporters grows that not even success is really sufficient to bridge. I have a friend who is a Man City supporter. He is very uneasy about City's new-found insane wealth. It's nice to be able to afford things, is his basic argument, but it's just not the same any more, is it?

But then there's the other side of the coin, where those who perhaps didn't really say all that much while Man City was just trundling, normal-world, same-as-the-rest Man City, now laugh heartily at the rest of all the other club supporters because they don't have a seemingly-endless supply of money to back them, chiding them with the happy news that they'll be 'watching Kaka and Messi' and 'Champions League, here we come', where in previous times, they probably wouldn't have expressed a peep in opinion. Trouble is - rather like Newcastle fans - the earnest, considerate few who give thought to this new state of affairs will be drowned out by those who are only too happy to warm themselves by the glow of UAE wealth (or, where the Toon reference comes in, the thoughtfully quiet drowned out by the boorishly loud).

Any criticism will be slung back with the accusation 'you're just jealous'. Well, of course we're jealous. It's human nature, what else could we possibly feel? Are we supposed to stand back, applaud and send cards with 'warm congratulations on suddenly being having a bank account the size of an orbiting moon?'

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Any criticism will be slung back with the accusation 'you're just jealous'. Well, of course we're jealous. It's human nature, what else could we possibly feel? Are we supposed to stand back, applaud and send cards with 'warm congratulations on suddenly being having a bank account the size of an orbiting moon?'

What's wrong with plain old disgust or even annoyance?

What's wrong with plain old disgust or even annoyance?

Nothing at all, but there must be a second where somebody would feel that they wish they had that amount of money, too, just an instant of the old green-eyes and nothing more. I felt i