Independent Rs Messageboard

QPR Development Squad – Premier League Cup Winners after a 3-1 Win Over Brentford Premier League Cup Final Team: Salamon, Putman, Da Silva, McDowell, Wilkie, Tuck, Dillon, Morgan, Bennie, Murphy, Sutton Subs: Halliday, McCann, Petrie, O’Brien, Vaughan After disposing of Burnley in the semi-final, Pa...

We've had U21's, U23's and even a 'B' side. But the best way to 'develop' players in my opinion had been in the Football Combination League days when our young players would have the benefit of playing alongside & against seasoned pro's from top division sides. That said, its good to see some of...

Good luck to them. From the Club.. 'Seven Development Squad players are to leave QPR this summer. Noah McCann, Alfie Tuck, Jake Coomes, Jake Leahy, Jack McDowell, Rohan Vaughan and Joel Halliday will all move onto pastures new. Centre-back McCann - a Scotland youth international - has been with the ...

From 1933: ‘Baseball Started in Earnest on Saturday at the Queen’s Park Rangers Ground’ The West London Observer filed the following report on 12th May 1933: ‘The Anglo-American Baseball Club, who have taken the Queen’s Park Rangers’ ground at Loftus Road, Shepherd’s Bush, for the summer, open their...

From the Indy's Facebook group... David Price 'What a day. M1 full of Rangers. I was taken by a couple of brummie coppers who were friends of my uncle and got tickets. They said what's all the fuss about this bloke Marsh. Rodders duly obliged by beating 2 men knocking a great pass. I was 12, the Hol...

There’s a Riot going on…with Cliff Richard? Are you sure? Cliff Richard is possibly not the first name to spring to mind in answer to the question ‘Whose show at the Chiswick Empire was stopped by a riot?’ But I swear it’s true. It was 1 May 1959 and you never know, there may be a few readers out th...

And Alan Barnes wrote this for the Indy's website in 2008... Writing about that great day in May 1968 was difficult for some reason. The day seems to have become a memory blur for me and its not drink related! I remember being on one of Daphne’s Supporters Club coaches (the Victor of her day, only b...

The last game of the Season, and as an 11 year old, it all seemed so simple to me. All we had to do was play Aston Villa away, beat them, and we would be in the ‘Promised Land’ (the old First Division) for the first time in our history. I was lucky enough to be taken to the game by a family friend. ...

Defeating Birmingham 2-0 in front of 26,000 in our last home game set us up for the biggest league game ever at Villa Park. It was us or Blackpool to go up as runners-up and the buzz aound W12 was electric – not so at school though, all those armchair numpties just didn’t understand what it felt lik...