Category: Club

Pre-Season Friendly  Team: Warren, Friel, trialist, Cuthbert, McCann, Dyke, Neziri, Dixon-Bonner, trialist, Talla, Coomes  Subs: Halliday, Adjetey-Brew, Balogun, Aoraha, trialist, Boddy, Scarlett  Attendance: 372  In goal for the Geordies was 37-year-old Sam Beasant, son of Dave Beasant.  Eighteen-year-old Charlie Warren was the Rangers keeper, and the outfield players included Elijah Dixon-Bonner plus two trialists.  Meanwhile Continue reading

Pre-Season Friendly  First-Half: Halliday, Putman, Wilkie, McCann, Leahy, Aoraha, trialist, Kennedy, trialist, O’Brien, trialist  Second-Half: Halliday, Adjetey-Brew, Cuthbert, McDowell, Friel, trialist, Dyke, Neziri, trialist, Talla, Coomes  At one point I didn’t think we would make it to the Charters Community Stadium as signal failure at Waterloo Station was causing chaos!  The Stadium was developed last Continue reading

Pre-Season Friendly  First-Half: Halliday, Friel, Balogun, Wilkie, Adjetey-Brew, Kennedy, Dyke, O’Brien, Vaughan, Talla, Petrie  Second-Half: Halliday, Trialist, Cuthbert, McDowell, Leahy, Trialist, Neill, Sanyaolu, Neziri, Trialist, Coomes  Attendance: 575  Chelmsford moved to the Melbourne Stadium in 2006. There is small, old stand behind one of the goals and at the other end there is an uncovered Continue reading

Pre-Season Friendly  First-Half: Halliday, Trialist A, Balogun, McDowell, Leahy, Petrie, Trialist B, Aoraha, Talla, Coomes. Trialist C  Subs: Cuthbert, Tarbotton, Sanyaolu  Second-Half: Halliday, Friel, Wilkie, Cuthbert, Adjetey-Brew, Sanyaolu, Dyke, Tuck, Vaughan, O’Brien, Kennedy  Sub: Neill  On a hot evening at the TSG Training Centre, the Development Squad took on National League North side, Oxford City. Continue reading

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, Paul Furlong’s side then faced Brentford at Loftus Road.  With many fans still taking their seats, the first shot of the evening was provided by Continue reading

U21 Professional Development League 2  Team: Salamon, Putman, Da Silva, McCann, Wilkie, Tuck, Petrie, Morgan, Bennie, Murphy, Vaughan  Subs: Halliday, Leahy, McDowell, Sutton, Dillon  Following a big drop in the temperature, but on a bright afternoon at Loftus Road, it was Kieran Petrie’s pass to Harry Murphy that provided the first goal attempt in the Continue reading

QPR Development Squad (2) – Burnley U21 (0)  Premier League Cup Semi-Final  Team: Shepperd, Putman, Da Silva, McDowell, Wilkie, Tuck, Bennie, Morgan, Kolli, Murphy, Sutton  Subs: Halliday, Leahy, Dillon, Petrie, O’Brien  After knocking out West Brom in the previous round, Rangers then faced Burnley in the semi-final at Loftus Road.  Ninety seconds or so in Continue reading

U21 Professional Development League 2  Team: Halliday, Leahy, Da Silva, Manufor, McDowell, Talla, Petrie, Neill, Vaughan, O’Brien, Sanyaolu  Subs: Clark, Balogun, Coomes, Neziri, trialist  On a very warm afternoon at the TSG Training Centre, the team sheet revealed that the strong Brentford starting line-up included the likes of £10m signing Gustavo Nunes, South Korean international Continue reading

FA Women’s National Leaue One (South-East)  Team: Wiggins, Cooper, Searle, Brooks, Blodgett, Lewin, Ward-Chambers, Hill, Stanley, D’Santos, Dzyadyk  Subs: Hennessy, Owen, Makowska, Munro, Leach  Attendance: 3,160  Good to bump into Philip Cross pre-match, who had made his way over from Dungannon in Northern Ireland.  The hosts created their first attempt at goal six minutes into Continue reading

U21 Professional Development League 2  Team: Halliday, Putman, Da Silva, Balogun, Wilkie, trialist, Petrie, O’Brien, Vaughan, Murphy, Coomes  Subs: Loades, Shann, Talla, Neill, Hassan  There was a torrential downpour whilst enroute to the SkyEx Community Stadium, but by the time I got off the bus at ‘The Grapes’ it had brightened up.   At No.7 for Continue reading