U21 Professional Development League 2 Team: Lumley, Furlong, Kakay, Diakite, Dieng, Haran (Wise), Manning, Rosenthal, Grego-Cox, Corkery (O’Sullivan), Ismaji (N’Guessan) Sub Not Used: Brzozowski A Charlton player was booked in the opening minutes. Joe Lumley has been in superb form of late and he went down to make a great save to deny the visitors. Continue reading
Month: December 2015
QPR U18 (2) – Charlton Athletic U18 (1)
U18 Professional Development League 2 Team: Brzozowski, Eales, Fox, Donnellan, Matthews, Arthur, Alfa, Clarke, Adams, Darbyshire, Crichlow Charlton were the current league leaders and back in August had defeated the R’s 9-0! In goal for the R’s was Marcin Brzozowski who made his debut last month for Poland’s U18’s and had kept a clean sheet Continue reading
Stan Bowles Fundraising Raffle
QPR have been blessed with a wealth of talented players who pulled on the blue and white hoops, but none were as gifted as Stan Bowles. Stan lit up Loftus Road for the best part of a decade, where his silky skills and brilliant rapport with the crowd earned him legendary status long before his Continue reading
Reading (0) – QPR (1): ‘It was Emotional, the Fans Chanting my Name. I have a Special Relationship with this Club‚’ – Neil Warnock
Team: Green, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Sandro, Faurlin, Petrasso (Austin), Hoilett (Chery), Fer, Phillips Subs Not Used: Smithies, Angella, Henry, Tozser, Luongo Attendance: 16,365 (including 1,367 R’s fans) Nedum Onuoha hit the late winner to make Reading pay for profligacy in front of goal as QPR recorded a 1-0 win at the Madejski Stadium. Jimmy Continue reading
Player 47
In July 2008 the band ‘Wire’ released a CD titled ‘Object 47’. The band confessed they were stuck for ideas for an album title so drew inspiration from the fact that it was their 47th release in a then 32 year long career. Similarly I was stuck for a title for this piece on the Continue reading
Fan sites meeting with QPR media team November 2015
From the club: Ian Taylor, head of media and comms, IT Paul Morrissey, press and media manager, PM David Scriven, webmaster, DS From the sites: Clive Whittingham, LoftforWords, CW Colin Henderson, QPR Report, CH Richard Hennessey, Not606, RH Steve Sayce, IndyR’s, SS Ron Norris, QPRNet, RN John O’Mahoney and Joanne Connolly, AKUTRs, JOM JC Matthew Continue reading
QPR (1) – Leeds United (0)
Team: Green, Perch, Onuoha, Hall, Konchesky, Sandro, Faurlin, Petrasso (Austin), Hoilett (Henry), Suk-Young (Chery), Phillips Subs Not Used: Smithies, Angella, Tozser, Luongo Attendance: 18,031 (including 3,220 away fans) No striker again but at least Charlie Austin was on the bench and I was pleased to see that Michael Petrasso was in our starting line-up. Sandro Continue reading
FA Cup 1st Round, 2nd Replay at Villa Park: Shrewsbury Town (4) – QPR (1)
Team: Brown, Poppitt, Ingham, Clayton, Spence, Smith, Mountford, Gilberg, Addinall, Cameron, Shepherd. Attendance: 3,799 On this day in 1952, the R’s lost 4-1 to Shrewsbury Town in a FA Cup 1st Round, second replay at Villa Park. The first match had been drawn 2-2 at Loftus Road. The replay at Gay Meadow was also drawn Continue reading