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It's great to have a new bigger stadium and I hope more QPR fans come If prices are reasonable. Honestly, I am only worried the number of tourists will kill the atmosphere. Mind you I do not consider myself a tourist
Just thinking when it comes to a site and staying in White City we kind of have H&F council over a barrel. Currently there are not only three professional football clubs in the borough but three premier league clubs which is unheard of.
Now this must generate a fair amount of income for the borough each week with the best part of 80k people passing through. Chelsea are already looking to up and leave the borough and if we cannot secure the plot of land we want (sounds like we potentially have) they could be left with just Foolham.
On this basis I would certainly be pushing them hard for subsidies as if we do put up a stadium of anything between 30 to 40k they will also benefit and the Unigate/BBC site is the right location.
If we were building in some bleak out post outside of London and you had a blank canvas and unlimited funds to build you would put a stadium where there are excellent transport links, incorporates a shopping centre and has quick routes to other parts of the capital; well we have all that if we build on either of the two sites and we will not have had to pay a penny towards it other then the outlay for a ground.
All we need to worry about is how we make the stadium make money on the occasions there is no football. Is there the possibility that the club puts a ground perhaps on the Unigate site and over the road on the derelict land by the BBC builds hotel etc etc so there is an additional income
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