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Rangers all but confirmed to be playing at Hampden for the first quarter of the season at least. Unclear at this stage what impact this will have on the ridiculous, hipster nonsense of a club that is Queens Park.

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31 minutes ago, TopCat said:

Rangers all but confirmed to be playing at Hampden for the first quarter of the season at least. Unclear at this stage what impact this will have on the ridiculous, hipster nonsense of a club that is Queens Park.

Queen's Park are currently not scheduled to play at Hampden until September, after the first round of Nations League Qualifiers are out of the way. Suppose that will help with scheduling the start of the season anyway.

Shambles what's going on with Lesser Hampden.

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I don’t understand how Lesser is ready to host pre season friendlies vs Celtic for example, as well as some early season fixtures but then they move in September. What is the reason behind it? 

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9 hours ago, dunning1874 said:

Hampden wasn't to be available as the pitch wasn't going to be ready after summer gigs until Scotland v Poland in September, with Queen's Park moving in after that. The price of Rangers getting to use it sooner is spending millions that the SFA (rightly) wouldn't in order to get the pitch in playable condition.

It is nevertheless an outrage that Queen's Park are allowed to use it at all, solely because Lesser is not close to being big enough to host Championship football; tough. It was their own gross incompetence which led to them having a 900 capacity stadium in a footprint that could have easily and even relatively cheaply accommodated 4000+.

The terms of the groundshare should really involve Queen's Park not being allowed to keep any gate receipts over and above the capacity of Lesser - there's nothing in principle stopping everyone else shifting games to Hampden or Murrayfield as they please to rake it in from big away crowds otherwise. If that means they make a colossal loss after paying the rent then tough, they should have built a proper stadium and they can beg Haughey to fling them more money to cover it after all he's already burned on their squad.

They're the biggest parasites in the history of Scottish football. Over a century leeching off the rest of the clubs funding their stadium for them through the SFA, and now leeching off the rest of us again when the disgrace of them making money through Hampden has finally been resolved, they've had their opportunity to design their own stadium and made a complete mess of it.

Agree with everything, but ultimately Haughey owns half of Hampden, and if he wants to let his little play thing stink the place out that’s entirely up to him, and with the power he has over the SFA, there’s very little they can do about it.

The SFA should have told Queen’s Park to take or leave an offer that allowed them exclusive ownership of the ground. Had they walked away from the purchase and chosen to play Scotland games and big cup ties elsewhere they’d have killed off Queen’s Park, or driven the price down to the extent that Queen’s Park had no option.

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3 hours ago, RossMcC1874 said:

Fuck sake. That's all we need with that mob. Hopefully they totally embarrass themselves.

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Need to make sure we turn them over in that opening fixture.

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On 7/11/2024 at 6:33 PM, TopCat said:

Rangers all but confirmed to be playing at Hampden for the first quarter of the season at least. Unclear at this stage what impact this will have on the ridiculous, hipster nonsense of a club that is Queens Park.

Confirmed Rangers to use Hampden (initially) until the Scotland game on 5th September with Queens Park's move in date still pencilled in for the week after.

There was still time for Queens Park to drop their drawers and move their game at Lesser against Livi from Saturday the 10th to Friday 9th August so Rangers can play Ross County at Hampden on the Saturday.

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1 hour ago, Jamie_M said:

Confirmed Rangers to use Hampden (initially) until the Scotland game on 5th September with Queens Park's move in date still pencilled in for the week after.

There was still time for Queens Park to drop their drawers and move their game at Lesser against Livi from Saturday the 10th to Friday 9th August so Rangers can play Ross County at Hampden on the Saturday.

If little Queens Park can play a few games at lesser at the start of the season then why could they not play the whole season there?

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42 minutes ago, Mr.Blue said:

If little Queens Park can play a few games at lesser at the start of the season then why could they not play the whole season there?

They can.  They just want their cake and eat it.  The Bastards.

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