Northampton Town (1) – QPR (1)

Team: Smithies, Onuoha, Caulker, Hall, Perch, Shodipo, Henry, Gladwin, Luongo, Chery, Polter Subs Not Used: Ingram, Furlong, Kpekawa, Doughty, Emmanuel-Thomas Attendance: 2,423 (including 663 R’s fans) On a scorching afternoon, Joe English collected Alan Barnes, Ron Hill and myself from outside Harrow & Wealdstone Railway Station. We parked up close to the Sixfields Stadium and Continue reading


Hendon (4) – QPR U21 (5)

Team: Hudnott, Wilson, Williams, Anastasiou, Arthur, Hamalainen, Crichlow, Clarke, Adams, Darbyshire, Prohouly Attendance: 423 The pre-season friendlies were now coming thick and fast. This was my first visit to Silver Jubilee Park, and was just two days after the trip to Kings Langley on Saturday. Hendon had recently moved into the former home of Kingsbury Continue reading


Kings Langley (1) – QPR U21 (4)

Team: Lumley, Kakay, trialist (Davide?), Sandro, trialist (Matt Smythe), Arthur, Crichlow, Comley, Grego-Cox, Manning, Prohouly Sub Not Used: Hudnott Joe English picked up Alan Barnes and myself from outside Harrow & Wealdstone Station. The team sheet revealed two trialists, which included Matt Smythe (the other one wasn’t named) plus, surprisingly, Sandro. We were still finishing Continue reading


Wealdstone (1) – QPR U21’s (2)

Team: Hudnott (Brzozowski), Springer-Downes (Akinola), Kelly (Barzey), Manning (Fox), Arthur (Eales), Eales (Darbyshire), Bowler (Folkes), Anastasiou (Klass), Adams (Eshun), Eze (Clarke), Elliott Attendance: 333 Rangers took early control and on 4 minutes deservedly took the lead. Following a good move through midfield, Ryan Manning finished well from the edge of the box. QPR continued to Continue reading


Aldershot Town (2) – QPR (3)

1st half line-up: Ingram, Robinson, Perch, Hall, Hamalainen, Henry, Comley, Gladwin, Shodipo. Emmanuel-Thomas, Grego-Cox 2nd half line-up: Lumley, Onuoha, Kpekawa, Caulker, Furlong, Kakay, Doughty, Prohouly, El Khayati, Polter, Chery Attendance: 1,429 Simon Staal was over from Sweden for the weekend and I met up with him at Waterloo Station. We headed for the Crimea Inn, Continue reading