please log in to view this image Middlesbrough vs QPR The Championship Saturday 2nd September 2023 - 15:00 The Riverside please log in to view this image How to get there from HQ By car: 4 hours 26 minutes and 252 miles up the M1 By train: 5 hours 36 minutes around the Circle or Hammersmith and City line to Kings Cross and then mainline up to Edingburgh, get off at York and get the Transpennine Express to Middlesbrough, then the V1 train to Hudson Quay. What a faff. By bike: National Cycle route 6, 274 miles in 24 hours. Simple. By plane: London Heathrow to Newcastle International Airport...then I guess a train or a taxi? Previous history vs Boro; Games won: 22 Games drawn: 18 Games lost: 19 Ones to remember; 06 Sep 1966 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough W 4-0 League Division Three 04 Oct 1969 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough W 4-0 League Division Two 05 Mar 1983 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough W 6-1 League Division Two 04 Mar 1998 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough W 5-0 League Division 1 Ones to forget; 26 Sep 1970 Middlesbrough v Queens Park Rangers L 6-2 League Division Two 05 Dec 2009 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough L 1-5 League Championship 20 Jan 2018 Queens Park Rangers v Middlesbrough L 0-3 League Championship Players who have played for both; John O'Rourke; 1966–1968 Middlesbrough 64 (38) 1971–1974 Q.P.R. 34 (12) Mikkel Beck; 1996–1999 Middlesbrough 91 (24) 2000 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 11 (4) Emmanuel Ledesma; 2008–2009 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 17 (4) 2012–2015 Middlesbrough 56 (8) Kieron Dyer; 2011–2013 Queens Park Rangers 5 (0) 2013 Middlesbrough 9 (2) Fabio Da Silva; 2012–2013 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 21 (0) 2016–2018 Middlesbrough 48 (1) Alex Baptiste; 2015–2017 Middlesbrough 0 (0) 2017–2019 Queens Park Rangers 30 (0) Luke Young; 2007–2008 Middlesbrough 35 (1) 2011–2014 Queens Park Rangers 24 (2) Ravel Morrison; 2014 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 15 (6) 2017 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 5 (0) 2020 → Middlesbrough (loan) 3 (0) Gary O'Neil 2007–2011 Middlesbrough 109 (8) 2013–2014 Queens Park Rangers 29 (1) Jordan Hugill 2018–2019 → Middlesbrough (loan) 37 (6) 2019–2020 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 39 (13) Grant Hall; 2015–2020 Queens Park Rangers 119 (6) 2020– Middlesbrough 27 (2) Massimi Luongo; 2015–2019 Queens Park Rangers 145 (10) 2022–2023 Middlesbrough 0 (0) Albert Adomah; 2013–2016 Middlesbrough 130 (23) 2020– Queens Park Rangers 106 (6) Joe Lumley; 2013–2021 Queens Park Rangers 77 (0) 2021— Middlesbrough 34 (0) Managed both; Neil Warnock; 2010–2012 Queens Park Rangers 2015 Queens Park Rangers (caretaker) 2020–2021 Middlesbrough Steve McLaren; 2001–2006 Middlesbrough 2018 - 2019 QPR Match Preview; This weekend we head to Middlesbrough, to face a Michael Carrick team who have had an even worse start to the season than us! They've lost three, and drawn one, so sit 22nd in the table. They are below us, having made some big signings over the summer, including striker Emmanuel Latte Lath from Atlanta for around £4.7 million, and keeper Seny Dieng for £2 million...how are those 'big ambitions' working out Seny...or am I bitter? (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Middlesbrough's 'big ambitions' left new goalkeeper Seny Dieng...-a0756937540) As for us, another loss at the weekend, this time away at Southampton, makes it three losses in a row including the cup game. I know Ainsworth is banging on about us 'heading in the right direction' and the need to 'keep believing', but the reality is, if we don't win this game we'll go into the international break knowing it'll be a month since our last win when we play Sunderland on September 16th. Ainsworth spoke, after the Southampton defeat, about taking our chances, and needing to work on that in training. Hope this has been a week of attacking drills in training, and then there are some serious plans in place for training and so we see improvements after the international break, if not this Saturday. No team news on the official...the match preview doesn't say anything. Maybe we are keeping it too secret to surprise the opposition...enjoy if you are making the journey, and as always... ...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!
Great intro as always Dave. I'll be heading up there on Friday as my biggest customer is a Boro season-ticket holder and he's hosting me in the Boro end. Sat with him for the Boro v Coventry 2nd leg Play-Off semi last season and he was a gutted man by full time. Told him to expect more of the same this weekend! Come on you R's!!
Ledesma. Now playing for Las Vegas Lights who sound awfully exciting. I wonder how often he thinks about his hat-trick against Carlisle. Most days probably.
Cheers Dave. I didn’t think we’d be above Boro at any stage this season, so there’s a glimmer of hope.
Schlepped to West Brom on I think a Friday night to see a **** Rangers team away when they were going for promotion. Somehow 2-1 up and seeing out time Pellicori just had to jog the ball into the corner but did something thick and lost the ball and they went up the other end and scored. Alberti I thought had something. Scored 2 at Forest in a draw IIRC. Now playing for a team so **** they don’t have a Wiki page.
Has anyone seen anything about tickets being available on the day, can't find anything? Driving back up from Suffolk Sat morning so don't want to buy one in advance in case I won't make it?
Good record up there last few times, but we know our record against struggling teams at the bottom of the table. We always always help them out ! Come on Rangers, get a win, and a Dykes goal that he celebrates so excitedly that he pulls a muscle under his armpit and has to miss the Scotland games to recover.
In 1974, my partner aged 18 , working as a dining room waitress at Chateau Halifax, a high end dining room with band music in Halifax Nova Scotia, had to wear a black skirt like that with an armless T-Shirt with an inscription that read, "Chateau Halifax, Come Sleep with me Tonight", perhaps a bit risque? No wonder she collected $150/night in tips on top of salary, once $300 from a single client she said (who had just returned from the far north, flush with cash, as he rolled off $100 bills from a wad as payment for his party's meal and numerous drinks to celebrate their return to civilization.
Yeah you can pay on the day. https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/2023/august/30/tickets-middlesbrough-away/ Boro is the one ground in this league I’m destined to never do.
