There will be no QPR Player of the Year ceremony this season.
After a massively underwhelming season for Queen’s Park Rangers, there seems to have been very little interest among supporters in terms of witnessing any pats on the back for the club’s players.
Due to a lack of ticket sales for the ceremony, the Championship club have decided to cancel the event.
Fans began purchasing tickets last week but they didn’t exactly fly off the shelves, which has prompted the call from the R’s brass.
“We are naturally disappointed that we’ve had to cancel the event,” QPR CEO Lee Hoos told the club’s website.
“I have spoken to a lot of fans over the last 18 months about their desire for the event to return, but it seems the price point is still an issue and therefore we’ve been left with little option but to cancel the event.”
Those loyal QPR fans who did buy tickets for the ceremony will receive a full refund.
The absence of enthusiasm around Loftus Road is not exactly surprising, given the lack of on-pitch success.
QPR currently sit in 16th place of the Championship table, with Ian Holloway’s side having lost three games on the bounce.
But, in response to the announcement of the event’s cancellation, plenty of fans complained about the original asking price.
📝 QPR's 2016/17 Player of the Year event has been cancelled, as CEO Lee Hoos explains: https://t.co/obIhwf5Y4s pic.twitter.com/162bywMCj7
— QPR FC (@QPR) April 10, 2017
@QPRFC it wasn’t because of “lack of sales” it was because it was £119/ticket for a curry
Brentford doing it for £47 @ Radisson Blu Heathrow pic.twitter.com/zvdWqKuilY— ♦GARO♦ (@g_a_zz) April 10, 2017
@Tonyryan111 @g_a_zz @QPRFC £119 ! That’s a disgrace, i’d want to see the original Beatles perform at the end for that price.
— Trevor Absolom (@TrevorAbsolom) April 10, 2017
@QPRFC Are you surprised? £120 for a curry,giving fans a few weeks to find the money! I love these events but plan it at least 4 months in advance
— michael Whelan (@mwhelan1968) April 10, 2017
@QPRFC Shouldn’t have charged an arm and a leg then.
— Steve Collins (@bigstevec) April 10, 2017
@QPRFC Just too expensive.
— Citizen Pete (@PeterHoward7) April 10, 2017
@QPRFC It was simply too much ?
— Pete Richards (@PeteRichards69) April 10, 2017
@QPRFC ? you’ll never pricing fans out of everything.
— Reecetop10 (@Stainrodspeg) April 10, 2017
