1. Plymouth Argyle, 17 GP, 8-6-2, +18 GD, 31 Points 2. QPR, 17 GP, 8-6-2, +15 GD, 31 Points ------ 15 November Loftus Road ------ Rangers News No Furlong or Rose. Shittu may be available for the bench. No real injury news on the official site, but I think everyone else is pretty much fit. The Opponent They're top; we want to be. Their last two matches have seen them exit the FA Cup and the LDV. They lost 2-3 at Northampton in the FAC and went out on penalties after a 2-2 draw with Wycombe in the LDV. Their recent league form is much better, however, but they seem to have cooled a bit in their last two: 1/11 H Oldham D 2-2 25/10 H Blackpool W 1-0 22/10 A Sheffield Wednesday W 3-1 18/10 A Port Vale W 5-1 11/10 H Tranmere W 6-0 The Referee Trevor Parkes will officiate. He's worked 15 matches, handing out 46 yellows and 2 reds this season -- 3 D1, 4 D2, 5 D3, 2 LC, 1 FAC. He hasn't worked a QPR match this season or last. He refereed two QPR matches in 01/02, a 0-2 away loss to Bristol City and a 0-0 home draw with Chesterfield.
QPR Chris Day Richard Edghill Terrell Forbes Clarke Carlisle Gino Padula Martin Rowlands Marcus Bean Marc Bircham Kevin McLeod Tony Thorpe Kevin Gallen Steve Palmer Gareth Ainsworth Eric Sabin Dan Shittu Richard Pacquette
Plymouth Luke McCormick David Worrell Graham Coughlan Paul Wotton Lee Hodges David Norris Steve Adams Jason Bent Peter Gilbert Micky Evans Ian Stonebridge Nathan Lowndes Marino Keith Martin Phillips Tony Capaldi Hasney Aljofree
Pressure from the Rs now, several corners thus far...not taken well. Kenny Jackett's pissed I suspect.
Free Kick- Edgehill. again not taken well. The tempo is starting to flag a bit. Still most of the posession by the R's though; Gallen and Thorpe have both missed decent chances.
The atmosphere in the stadium has definately picked up now, though I must say the Brentford mid-week game sounded louder to my ears.
Gotta scoot, no 2nd half commentary from me sorry. The old ball and cha.....er, the always right and perfect and beautiful love of my life wants to go furniture shopping. Ech. The sacrifices I make....actually I just want to make sure she doesen't buy THAT couch she had her eye on last time. Haha.
Gallen, Thorpe, Gallen; 3-0 -- great result. 17,049 at Loftus Road -- great crowd. Can't wait to get to Loftus Road on the 29th!
Goddammit, what a half I missed. She didnt get the couch though. Nice couch, but it's a full-size sleeper and she wanted to put it upstairs. I would sooner be boiled in monkey semen than move that up and down a flight of stairs.
Great result Wow... that was impressive. 3-0 over the Pilgrims. Looks like an 11,000 mile round trip to Cardiff Millennium won't become a ritual pilgrimage for me the way things might be going... dare I tempt fate... automatic p-p-p-p-promotion - there, I said it, now let the Gods do their worst. I think it's Swindon next, then two supposed pre-season favourites for promotion: Seagulls and Owls, both of whom seem to have lost the will to fly at the moment - so what were two tough games look very winnable now. Nice big crowd today apparently - the only league game in the Smoke, plus the two top teams, so it was a good earner for the club. Sorry to read about the hooliganism - I've never associated QPR with it, unlike Chelsea and, sorry to say, Spurs. With the punch up today and the episodes at Grimsby, and the Man City cup match, the club, which has a terrific image in the eyes of the outside world (those that know the club) is now getting a bad rep in the public eye, which is unfortunate. I hope the club can do something before they get into trouble with the authorities. Fines and points deducted are the last thing The Rs need right now. I'm wearing me Guinness Hoops shirt to the England rubgy at the pub tonight - looks kinda like a rugby shirt and then people will read the QPR badge - the subtle advertising continues........... One down (QPR winning) and three to go - I need wins from the Earthquakes here in Cali, and England wins in the footie and rugby world cup semi. Yooooooooooooooooooo Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr's!
One of my best ever days in Shepherds Bush. Plenty of comments and pictures to come when I have a chance - bedtime now though.
Re: Great result Here's what I know about what happened in that regard today http://www.qpr.org/cgi-bin/noswearmsg.pl?threads=1&icons=1&off=0&num=250&startat=0&msg=53861.html
Looks like I jumped the gun - I thought it was an arranged "off" by rival firms of both clubs. Looks like it was just a Plymouth firm. Shame on them, 'coz their away support seems phenomenal but marred by a minority of throwback knuckledraggers. I just wonder: if the police knew so much about the existence and whereabouts of this Plymouth mob, how is that they were allowed to do what they did? Anyway, main thing is the right team won and it sounded like an emotional, glorious day for Hoops fans over there. A Quakes victory in the MLS semi-final achieved as well, and now #3: the England-France rugby semi. Long night ahead!
An extended highlights package is now up on QPR World -- 10:30 of action from the match. Excellent stuff! Quite a nice free-kick first goal from Gallen. Thorpe made 'em pay the price for a poor clearance on the second. You've got to love that about Thorpe -- he will take advantage of your errors. Nicely played ball from Forbes on the last goal and a sweet, sweet finish from Gallen. What an atmosphere at the match too. I can't wait to get there for the Sheffield Wednesday match. Hopefully they'll bring a big group down and we'll have one heckuva day. Any more thoughts on the match, Kevin?