Match Day Thread QPR vs Stoke

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QPR vs Stoke
The Championship
Saturday 20th September 2025 - 12:30pm
Loftus Road

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Previous meetings vs Stoke;
Games won: 22
Games drawn: 12
Games lost: 15

Ones to remember;
24 Jan 1948 Queens Park Rangers v Stoke City W 3-0 FA Cup
29 Nov 1975 Queens Park Rangers v Stoke City W 3-2 League Division One
17 Jan 1984 Queens Park Rangers v Stoke City W 6-0 League Division One
02 Mar 2008 Queens Park Rangers v Stoke City W 3-0 League Championship
19 Nov 2011 Stoke City v Queens Park Rangers W 2-3 Premier League
06 May 2012 Queens Park Rangers v Stoke City W 1-0 Premier League

(Sorry for the poor quality, couldn't find a better one

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Ones to forget;
29 Dec 1973 Stoke City v Queens Park Rangers L 4-1 League Division One
27 Nov 2007 Stoke City v Queens Park Rangers L 3-1 League Championship
31 Jan 2015 Stoke City v Queens Park Rangers L 3-1 Premier League

Players who have played for both;
Mark Stein;
1988–1989 Queens Park Rangers 33 (4)
1991 → Stoke City (loan) 5 (0)
1991–1993 Stoke City 89 (50)
1996–1997 → Stoke City (loan) 11 (4)

Paul Peschisolido;
1994–1996 Stoke City 66 (19)
2000 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 5 (1)

Mike Sheron;
1995–1997 Stoke City 69 (34)
1997–1999 Queens Park Rangers 63 (19)

Tony Scully;
1998 → Stoke City (loan) 7 (0)
1998–2001 Queens Park Rangers 40 (2)

Marlon Broomes;
2000 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 5 (0)
2005–2008 Stoke City 37 (2)

Peter Crouch;
2000–2001 Queens Park Rangers 42 (10)
2011–2019 Stoke City 225 (46)

Clint Hill;
2003–2008 Stoke City 80 (3)
2010–2016 Queens Park Rangers 169 (5)

Richard Johnson;
2004 Stoke City 7 (0)
2004–2005 Queens Park Rangers 17 (0)

Chris Barker - RIP;
2004 → Stoke City (loan) 4 (0)
2007–2008 Queens Park Rangers 25 (0)

Andrew Davies;
2005→ Queens Park Rangers (loan) 9 (0)
2008–2012 Stoke City 2 (0)

Josh Laurent;
2013–2015 Queens Park Rangers 0 (0)
2022– Stoke City 54 (4)

Jordan Cousins;
2016–2019 Queens Park Rangers 61 (1)
2019–2021 Stoke City 39 (0)

Geoff Cameron;
2012–2019 Stoke City 168 (2)
2018–2019 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 19 (1)
2019–2021 Queens Park Rangers 70 (1)

Asmir Begovic;
2010–2015 Stoke City 160 (1)
2023–2024 Queens Park Rangers 45 (0)

Match Preview;
After a great afternoon in northern Wales last weekend, we are back at HQ this Saturday lunchtime, ready to welcome Stoke City, the team we did the double over during our first season back in the Premiership in 2010/11 (yes it was a long time ago, but still a nice memory).

Stoke have started the season very strongly, with four wins and a loss...their only loss coming at the end of August, against West Brom. They sit second in the table, on 12 points. They added to their squad over the summer, with eleven new players coming in as far as I can see, and £8.5 million spent. Most notably, they signed Robert Bozenik from Boavista and Divin Mubama on loan from Man City, the latter has already scored 2 in 5 appearances. In his first summer transfer window since taking over in January, Mark Robbins has certainly added to his squad, with a good balance of experienced players, like Aaron Cresswell and Ben Gibson, alongside the young and exciting prospect such as Divin Saku Mubama and Lamine Cisse. They certainly look like they could be a strong force this season.

As for us, I thoroughly enjoyed watching our trip to Wrexham, and showing the highlights to a few friends and even some of my students this week (education in British culture a very important part of language learning...right ). Going into this game I'd love to see Burrell, Vale, Saito and Kone start and get us going on the front foot from the off. The danger is we welcome the team sitting second in the table, and so sit back, and I don't have enough confidence in our defence to do that and no concede at least one goal, if not more. As we saw against Coventry, this team can leak goals, so best form of defence is surely attack!

Team news and manager comments to go up when on the official, enjoy if you are making it to HQ, and as always...

...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!

 

Nice one Dave

I'm back for this one and looking forward to my spot in NL block

Yeah Stoke have started well but if we can start with a strong midfield and feed Kone we 'could' match them

Regardless, a couple of pints with the OG's, a pie and a decent atmosphere enough for me

 

Sadly I’m away for this one but will be a tough test - when is Poku expected back, I thought it could be this one.

 

we need to win this one
i think i gave new zealands only stoke supporter 2 dozen beers last season

 

Thx Dave. They're flying high atm. I hope we can put a dent in that!

'Cisse, CISSE'!

Or maybe, 'Kone, KONE'!

 

From the WLS article about Walsh's injury:

 

Stokies wins have come against lower ranked teams so far, so this promises to be a good test for both sides.
Hopefully we will see further progress from JS and the lads. The bench looks to be getting stronger and stronger which bodes well for options.
No fannying around at the back please. No early giveaways please.
More positive forward play please. More goals from the forwards please.
Let’s upset things a bit Rrrrsss.

 

WTF is going on with her knee?

 

Team poster.

28 players.
27 staff.

Ffs.

 

Curious what the Head of Integrated Peformance and Head of Performance Services do but someone has to put the cones out.

 

Surprised there isn't a 'Head of Arranging the Chairs', missed a trick there...

 

Do we need both a kit manager and kit assistant
Also there is no job description for Nicholas Madsen

 

I thought I had nobbly knees but that takes the biscuit...

 

Bit of a knee jerk reaction