The Prospects for Queens Park
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HandsomeHead
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The romance of Queens Park back in the top flight is certainly one I’m attracted to, but less so if they’re playing their games in someplace like Stenhousemuir or Cumbernauld.
If they can afford to rent Hampden I hope they do so.
If they can afford to rent Hampden I hope they do so.
OutOfAmo
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It would be crazy if they didn’t get an agreement to rent Hampden for at least the games against Rangers and them; they would make a fortune.
Shawlands_Bluenose
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What’s to stop Kilmarnock or Motherwell etc deciding they then want to rent Hampden for games against us to make a bit more money?
SDF
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Would they be allowed to though ? I imagine the other teams wouldn't be happy about it.
Not sure them playing 4 games at home v us and Celtic to make more money would be welcomed by their relegation rivals.
HandsomeHead
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I don’t think they can do that. I think they have to register one ground to play their home games in for the season.
You can't just decide to play certain home games at a different ground to make more money.
Roger Daltrey
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Killie won't even allow us to sell out rugby park.
Bad result last night
The Canny Man
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They’ll run out of steam and finish third.
JimmyJankBear234
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Can see them playing out of Broadwood
The Director
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They won’t even sell us the tickets in their own Middens hahaha
Battle Fever's On
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Those teams that won't give us extra tickets to fill their empty stands because their fans told them not to will be delighted to see QP play us and them with 40,000 away fans at the game.
brain
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I know they don’t have many, but their fans would be apoplectic if they did that.
Skylon Niagara
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My thoughts on Queen’s Park being promoted have changed a few times but I’m now of the opinion that having a team in the top league with a 2000 seater capacity would be terrible
Big D
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These clubs don't even want to make more money from us by giving us a bigger allocation at their own grounds, so I can't see them being interested in giving up home advantage to make more money. Their petty fans would rather watch dross every week, than have the extra income to allow them to potentially bring in a couple of new players that might just improve them.
mfgorm
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The article says 1700. Having passed it regularly, I doubt it. The new stand has 6 rows and doesn't run the full length of the pitch. The pitch is supposedly the same size as Hampden.
sonofbunk
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Yeah. If Broomhill leave now their deal with open goal is done then it’s a certainty.
I’d said in another thread, it’s a shame they can just move Broadwood to Shawfield - it would be an ideal ground share for QP and Clyde.
Bearsden Bear
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I look forward to seeing Kilmarnock and Motherwell filling three stands there the way they do at their current homes!
Crazy Diamond
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Shawfield? Are you joking? The place is a derelict mess and, to the best of my knowledge, is destined for demolition (not that it'll take much as it's falling apart). I was in Shawfield many times to see Rangers and it was a terrible venue - terrible nightlines and view interrupted by the numerous lighting poles for the dog and speedway tracks.
Texas ranger
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I did some rough maths when we played them twice at Hamden on our travels up the leagues. Not knowing policing costs etc, it wouldn’t be as much as this, but on a bums in seats versus their regular attendance for a season and additional estimated expenditures ( food, programmes, etc) they picked up approximately seven years revenue from those two games.
GForce
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I know a few QP legends, directors etc and your sums are spot on that'd exactly the number he gave me
sonofbunk
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I said move Broadwood to Shawfield. ie move it brick by brick over.
Just so their in no ambiguity, I don’t literally mean this should happen.
Texas ranger
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Nice work if you can get it.
The journey was significant for a lot of reasons.
In my opinion, and without exaggeration, Rangers fans have done more for Scottish football as a whole in the last decade or so than the combined fans of all the clubs in Scotland have ever done for the game.
At the same time the venom against our support has never been higher in Scotland. Strange country.
Crazy Diamond
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Sorry my mistake, mis-read your post, thought you'd said Broadwood OR Shawfield. I'm pretty sure the Shawfield site is earmarked for redevelopment though.
sonofbunk
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With all the house building in Oatlands that’s a cert
ArfieldSalute
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Still think Dundee will end up winners of the championship
Be good to go to the Glasgow Derby
Precident for Livingston, hibs and hearts to move games v us and them to Murrayfield to boost the gates if allowed.
I'm aware that none of those teams played at Murrayfield before, but hampden is no longer Queens park's stadium so effectively the same.
abitoverdressed
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Lesser Hampden is like a juniors ground. Why did they sell Hampden? Surely the £5m sale price can't have been more than a couple years of rent from the SFA. Even stranger they sold it after finally turning pro.
Arkansasgerstill
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Last game of the season…Queens Park v Dundee. Hopefully a live battle for the title.
The Blue Lamp
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Think Dundee will end up winning it and coming straight up. Queens park got beaten by Arbroath last night. Same shIte coming up and down the league.
Rankrotten
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I'd be stunned if Queens Park were not to be found playing their bigger games Hampden next season if they get promoted. Scotland using the new facilities at lesser Hampden as their base will be a sweetener. They will register the Hampden campus as their home and use safety regs for moving the bigger games over the road.
How can Motherwell and Kilmarnock expect to make money against us when they deliberately leave thousands of seats empty?
Their average attendance is second lowest in championship at 960.
Bringing nothing to the league.
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ForGodForCountryForever
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I hope they come up just for a change in the usual dross clubs and journeymen players.
They should rent Hampden and do something smart like give away 1000s of tickets to kids. It’s a real chance to generate interest in a Club growing and if they just come up and go down without taking advantage it’ll be a real waste.
I think they’d draw quite a few general Football fans as well were they to use a proper stadium.
They should rent Hampden and do something smart like give away 1000s of tickets to kids. It’s a real chance to generate interest in a Club growing and if they just come up and go down without taking advantage it’ll be a real waste.
I think they’d draw quite a few general Football fans as well were they to use a proper stadium.
Kathmandu
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They can’t be allowed to use Hampden unless they are renting it and using it for every game. If they did it just for us and them it would be in unfair financial advantage on the other teams
White Cafu
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I haven’t been following this at all but it does seem bizarre they play at Hampden for years against the shite in League 2, then when they make a push to get up through the leagues they won’t see that benefit when in the top league.
Not only us and celtic, but a few other teams fans would take a good following for a trip there you’d imagine.
That £5m is probably funding the push right enough
Kathmandu
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I think the SFA pretty much made them sell, their contract for use of the ground was up and the basically said unless they sold they would take games annd move all their offices elsewhere. The only think keeping QP afloat was the income from the SFA. They had no option.
gordon_blue
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When the SFA forced them to sell Hampden, QP should have insisted on getting a good alternative stadium out of them.
The Janny
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Wonder where they threatened to move to? Think we all know the answer, queens park should have made the sfa blink first.
omar
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Spoke to a couple of guys involved in cricket yesterday. They had heard that it was St. cadoc’s rather than Queen’s Park. Poloc cricket club are hoping to fight it.
omar
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This is exactly what will happen. The Scotland Under age teams will play at Lesser Hampden from next season onwards. The pitch has the highest specification of anything outwith Ibrox.
Shawlands_Bluenose
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I’m sure Queen’s Park denied being involved in that. They have a long term lease on the facilities at Lochinch
omar
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Yes. They have had to deny it as the feelings are pretty strong. I’ve heard Jackie McNamara, Simon Donnelly and other ex-mutant players are putting money in to St. cadoc’s as a Salford City style project to try to get their ‘senior’ team into the SPFL.
Shawlands_Bluenose
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Didn’t know it was their ex players involved with St Cadocs, just thought it was a few Tims with money from up the Mearns
