Issue 388: print edition
Issue 388
Print Status: readily available
Online Status: available as a digital flipbook
Offline: available as a large-size pdf
Our first edition of the 2024/25 season is a 64-page offering, which in just about equal measures reflects on the successful finish to last season, with three successive wins securing the club's status in the Championship, while looking ahead to this season and what might lie in store for Queens Park Rangers.
As always there's more content than just that, including Ray Eaton analysing the number of appearances various players have made in a hooped shirt in more modern times. Our extended Vox Pop feature asks Rangers fans for their views on Marti Cifuentes, our prospects this season, the summer comings and goings, and the new TV deal with Sky, which will see a multitude of Championship games kicking off at 12.30pm. That's also the theme of Ed-lines, in which editor Dave Thomas reveals the hidden cost to the deal that the overwhelming majority of football supporters are clearly against.
The adverse affect this will have on attendances, both home and away, is blindingly obvious. The same applies to the atmosphere at matches. It's already acknowledged that lunchtime kick-offs are generally flat. Now it's not just the number of televised matches but the inconvenience - and added costs, let's not forget - of getting to them.
Dave Thomas