QPR 0-1 Saints - Match Thread

[trousers]

It feels like our season is now well and truly back on the high-speed track and, having dismissed our prospects of auto-promotion only a few weeks ago, I'm now starting to feel that it's not beyond the realms of reeasonable possibility! Great to have the good old optimistic Trousers of yore back just in time for the season of goodwill!

Same starting line up as vs Blackburn please Mr Martin

QPR 1 Saints 3

Merry Christmas one and all!

 

Edited 18 December, 2023 by trousers

[EssEffCee]

This one got banana skin written all over it. They've had a bit of a resurgence recently and we're less than convincing away from home.

That said we should 100% be aiming to win this one and with Ipswich playing Leeds and Leicester over Xmas it could be a huge 3 points.

Edited 18 December, 2023 by EssEffCee

[AlexLaw76]

0-3

comfortable as they come.....AA and Edozie to score

[waylander]

QPR failed to beat 10 man Plymouth in their last home game. We should be winning this one.

[Toussaint]

I'm going, I've never seen Saints lose away apart from when we haven't drawn or won. That's got to be a good omen? 3 - 0 Saints

[Lee On Solent Saint]

3 minutes ago, Toussaint said:

I'm going, I've never seen Saints lose away apart from when we haven't drawn or won. That's got to be a good omen? 3 - 0 Saints

My only concern is Dykes. I know he is a bit of a McBurnie type bully centre forward, but traditionally those are just the types of players that unsettle us

[Pamplemousse]

Hopefully we can put behind us our recent habit of drawing 1-1 away to shit teams and pick up 3 points. If we do want automatic promotion, this is a game we have to win. Hopefully buoyed by the news that one of Ipswich and Leeds will definitely drop points before we kick off so 3 points may equal 3rd place or 3 points closer to automatics.

[Sheaf Saint]

2 hours ago, waylander said:

QPR failed to beat 10 man Plymouth in their last home game. We should be winning this one.

And they managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at Hillsborough on Saturday as well. 

They had a couple of decent results before that, but I don't think they are likely to really threaten us. 

It's a game we should win on paper, so I'm going for another frustrating 1-1 after we dominate possession in the first half and then concede a soft goal in the second.

[Wade Garrett]

Put the same side out.  We’ll fucking destroy the Shepherds Bush wankers.

[Toadhall Saint]

Draw

[Colinjb]

A possible Banana skin. I don't think we will win.

2-2. 

[The Cat]

Guaranteed win here because I'm going with my youngest but the eldest can't go. Me and the youngest have a 100% win record at away games when it's just been us.

[sfc4prem]

3-1 to us. Arma to score and get back on track.

[Chewy]

Makes sense to keep an unchanged side after such a performance, but with 4 games in 9 days there’ll be some rotation required at some stage.

with that in mind I wouldn’t be distraught to see one or two different personnel - hopefully the likes of Shea or Charlie, rather than Ryan!

[southbourne saint]

Flynn Downs picked up a fifth yellow card on Saturday is he banned?

[Pamplemousse]

6 minutes ago, southbourne saint said:

Flynn Downs picked up a fifth yellow card on Saturday is he banned?

No, the threshold increased last week from 5 to 10 yellows.

[Sheaf Saint]

7 minutes ago, southbourne saint said:

Flynn Downs picked up a fifth yellow card on Saturday is he banned?

No, they reset after 19 games I believe.

[Suhari]

We're gonna cook them a new one.

3-0 Saints.

[John Boy Saint]

Boss who’s an R’s fan is dragging me, and his mate, along with him to sit on my hands - then out for some grub after.

Bizarrely I have seen more of QPR with my own mince pies than Saints this season. Saw them at SMS in August, then he asked me along when his mate was ill, where I witnessed their first home win since March (?) - glad I did as the 3rd goal was a superb display of singular sheer bloody mindedness and belligerence that bamboozled a defender so much that he sliced into his own net.

Do what we do well and we will be fine, fanny about and the Boss might be delving further down the wine list later!

[ErwinK1961]

3 hours ago, The Cat said:

Guaranteed win here because I'm going with my youngest but the eldest can't go. Me and the youngest have a 100% win record at away games when it's just been us.

Probably time to tell the eldest he isn’t the favourite.

[southbourne saint]

26 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

No, the threshold increased last week from 5 to 10 yellows.

Many thanks that's great news

 

[SaintBobby]

We should win this at some ease. Only very bad luck or a dire performance will derail us.

2 or 3 nil 

[The Curse of St Mary's]

Sorry to hijack an unrelated thread but has anyone received Plymouth tickets in the post yet?

[Yorkshire Saint]

3-0 QPR

One for Paul Parker

Two for Les Ferdinand

 

[SNSUN]

They lost to Wednesday (who like QPR are improving) in the last game but before that they got 10 points in 4 games. QPR should not be underestimated and I do think our unbeaten run will end soon, we're due some bad luck somewhere...

...but I don't think it will be here. The likes of Aribo have come in recently and shown they can do a job and, just maybe, scoring 4 at Blackburn may give the lads the confidence to score some more goals. 1-3 Saints but it's a tough place to go.

[Mr Nimbus]

2-0 Saints. Bit edgy towards the end but we will see it through.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 hour ago, The Curse of St Mary's said:

Sorry to hijack an unrelated thread but has anyone received Plymouth tickets in the post yet?

Am still waiting for my Blackburn tickets. Had to go to the ticket office Saturday to get them re-printed. Was surprised they didn't charge me 

[manji]

21 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

This one got banana skin written all over it. They've had a bit of a resurgence recently and we're less than convincing away from home.

That said we should 100% be aiming to win this one and with Ipswich playing Leeds and Leicester over Xmas it could be a huge 3 points.

Every game is a banana skin to some on here🙄

[JRM]

3 hours ago, Yorkshire Saint said:

3-0 QPR

One for Paul Parker

Two for Les Ferdinand

 

Always a difficult place to go due to the plastic pitch 

[Turkish]

4 hours ago, Yorkshire Saint said:

3-0 QPR

One for Paul Parker

Two for Les Ferdinand

 

Bloody hell thats a couple of names from the past

Memories of QPR

Obviously the plastic pitch

QPRs Guinness Kit in the mid 80s was one of the best kits i remember as a kid

Losing 4-0 on the plastic pitch there the season we finished second

Peter Hucker was their keeper at the time, thinking it was truly hilarious to say his name really loud as it sounded like Peter Fucker

Terry Fenwick, Simon Stainrod other very good players from that team

I remember them being 4-0 down at home in a game when i was a kid and drawing it 5-5

Us selling Colin Clarke to them for £800k as Clarke had said he wanted to join a bigger club

Having a cup game in the mid 80s that went to a third reply i think, something kids of today would not be able to comprehend

QPRs mob being in the Milton for a night game when i was about 8 or 9.

Clubs like us, QPR, Leicester and Coventry are about as similar as you can get back in those days. 

 

Edited 19 December, 2023 by Turkish

[east-stand-nic]

They have the second worst home record in the division, so most would say away banker. And let's be honest, it should be. But once again, it is only a matter of waiting until we see the line up and style of play/tactics. We have been keeping clean sheets of late and conceding far fewer in general. Think we will need to score 2 to win this one, and will indeed thus go for QPR 1 - 2 Saints.

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[notnowcato]

35 minutes ago, manji said:

Every game is a banana skin to some on here🙄

yep... usually followed by "Saintsy".

[igsey]

Bree starts over Manning and we win, Manning starts and it's a draw at best...

[Miltonaggro]

2-0 Saints and comfortable, Leeds and Ipswich draw 0-0 which puts us third and eight points from second.  

Bollocks to Michael Gove, Louis Theroux and the rest of the Shepherd's Bush massive.  If you need an indicator of how shit QPR are, their chairman is Lee Hoos...  

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, JRM said:

Always a difficult place to go due to the plastic pitch 

The previous pitch had more mud than Glastonbury.

[Yorkshire Saint]

3 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

The previous pitch had more mud than Glastonbury.

More sand too

[InTheChannel]

Some of you may watch the Carabao Cup action tonight! A competition Southampton spectacularly crashed out of. Has this actually been beneficial to our season?

https://inthechannel.blogspot.com/2023/12/has-lack-of-carabao-cup-action-been.html?m=0
 

twitter: @inthechannel76

 

[Midfield_General]

My first ever Saints game was when we beat QPR 5-1 at The Dell on the opening day of the 1986-87 season. Colin Clarke scored a hat-trick on his debut for us and instantly became my hero. Nick Holmes and Danny Wallace also got one each. They had a young David Seaman in goal. 

So in honour of that, we're going to win 5-1. 

[JRM]

9 hours ago, Turkish said:

Bloody hell thats a couple of names from the past

Memories of QPR

Obviously the plastic pitch

QPRs Guinness Kit in the mid 80s was one of the best kits i remember as a kid

Losing 4-0 on the plastic pitch there the season we finished second

Peter Hucker was their keeper at the time, thinking it was truly hilarious to say his name really loud as it sounded like Peter Fucker

Terry Fenwick, Simon Stainrod other very good players from that team

I remember them being 4-0 down at home in a game when i was a kid and drawing it 5-5

Us selling Colin Clarke to them for £800k as Clarke had said he wanted to join a bigger club

Having a cup game in the mid 80s that went to a third reply i think, something kids of today would not be able to comprehend

QPRs mob being in the Milton for a night game when i was about 8 or 9.

Clubs like us, QPR, Leicester and Coventry are about as similar as you can get back in those days. 

 

That is a classic kit, I've always quite liked Loftus Road, not changed really since the 80s, I remember a brilliant 4-1 away win there in the 89/90 season would be good to see another performance like that. 

Also remember thousands of Saints going there for England B v Russia B in 1998. 

Edited 19 December, 2023 by JRM

[Pamplemousse]

8 hours ago, Miltonaggro said:

2-0 Saints and comfortable, Leeds and Ipswich draw 0-0 which puts us third and eight points from second.  

Bollocks to Michael Gove, Louis Theroux and the rest of the Shepherd's Bush massive.  If you need an indicator of how shit QPR are, their chairman is Lee Hoos...  

He's as popular there as he was here

[Miltonaggro]

14 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

He's as popular there as he was here

Been there eight years though, felt like he was at saints for eight minutes. That was too long. 

[Turkish]

21 minutes ago, JRM said:

That is a classic kit, I've always quite liked Loftus Road, not changed really since the 80s, I remember a brilliant 4-1 away win there in the 89/90 season would be good to see another performance like that. 

Also remember thousands of Saints going there for England B v Russia B in 1998. 

That was a great season, we won 4-1 at loftus road then beat Liverpool 4-1 at the Dell the week after in what is still probably the best Saints performance I’ve ever seen. 
 

I also remember them beating us 4-1 at the Dell around that time. We were all over them and they had four shots at goal and scored 4 times. 

[spyinthesky]

Last time I went to Loftus Road Terry Curran got sent off.

I also watched France & Uruguay draw 0-0 in a 1966 World |Cup Group Stage at the old White City Stadium where QPR decamped for a while

[SaintBobby]

My first ever Saints game was a 4-0 defeat at QPR. About 1984, I think.

Never forgiven them. Still have the "scar tissue".

[eurosaint]

Last time I went there I was in the home end behind the goal when Jason Dodd equalised with a screamer in the last minute (I think it ended 2-2) !

I jumped up as everyone else stayed silent and a steward politely asked me to leave (for my own safety) which I did as there was only a minute or so left !

Hoping for better on Saturday !!

 

[millsy]

Last time I went to Loftus Road was 89. Hopefully same result this Saturday when I go back.

4-1 away win with goals from Shearer, Wallace (2) and Le Tissier. We then beat Liverpool 4-1 at home the next week. 

What a team that was.

Flowers, Dodd, Benali, Osman, Ruddock, Case, Cockerill, Le Tissier, Rideout, Shearer, Wallace

 

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Edited 20 December, 2023 by millsy

[Wade Garrett]

If I go, I might buy a Trevor Francis Tracksuit from a mush in Shepherds Bush.

Edited 20 December, 2023 by Wade Garrett

[Turkish]

It seems like ages since we played them last? Assume it was the season they went down from the premier league, 2011 was it? They beat us 2-1 at St Marys though, Pochetino had not long been manager. They had that made approach to signing players, signed about 18 players that summer. Didn't Hughes get sacked at the start of the season?

Edited 20 December, 2023 by Turkish

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 hour ago, millsy said:

Last time I went to Loftus Road was 89. Hopefully same result this Saturday when I go back.

4-1 away win with goals from Shearer, Wallace (2) and Le Tissier. We then beat Liverpool 4-1 at home the next week. 

What a team that was.

Flowers, Dodd, Benali, Osman, Ruddock, Case, Cockerill, Le Tissier, Rideout, Shearer, Wallace

 

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Wasn't that Dodd's first start for us?

[The Cat]

12 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It seems like ages since we played them last? Assume it was the season they went down from the premier league, 2011 was it? They beat us 2-1 at St Marys though, Pochetino had not long been manager. They had that made approach to signing players, signed about 18 players that summer. Didn't Hughes get sacked at the start of the season?

It was 2015 when we were last in the same league. We won 1-0 there, Mane scored right at the end.