My happiness level at 10pm tonight: Win by 2 or more - happy clappy until Monday Win by 1 - very happy Draw - happy Lose by 1 - content were still in it Lose by 2 - unhappy Lose by 3 or more - pissed off I've already got my 2nd leg ticket. I hope the team make sure its one of the first few!
Wigan Athletic v Queens Park Rangers SkyBet Championship Friday, 9th May 2014 Kick-off 19:45 The real quiz – preview Friday, 9th May 2014 13:48 by Clive Whittingham After a dull, uninspiring season of football, QPR can finally inject some excitement back into our lives as the play-offs begin for them this evening with a trip to Wigan Athletic. Wigan Athletic (5th) v Queens Park Rangers (4th) Championship play-off semi-final, first leg >>> Friday May 9, 2014 >>> Kick Off 19.45 >>> DW Stadium, Wigan >>> Live on Sky Sports 1 Well this is all jolly exciting isn’t it? A play-off. Only the second in the history of Queens Park Rangers. **** just got real. Now we’ll learn as we go along I’m sure but the first thing you’ll need to know, and will almost certainly be told immediately, is that the play-off final in the Championship is, in fact, the “richest game in world football” with the victor riding off into the sunset to suckle £120m from Richard Scudamore’s smokeyteet. Ignore the pain or glory, this is all about money. Never mind the quality, feel the width. The second thing you’ll be told, probably in the form of a rhetorical question if it’s Don Goodman on the commentary gantry, is that the end of season play-offs are a “complete lottery”. Form, fitness, ability – it all goes clean out of the window apparently. In much the same way as Harry Redknapp picks his QPR starting elevens, the main contenders are slung into a hat or a bowl or a device of some similar description and the lucky one to be drawn out by the footballing Gods wins. There is a slither of truth in this. The play-offs often have a way of breaking the heart of the most talented team taking part. The Ipswich Town side of the late 1990s were widely recognised as the best footballing side in the second tier but a tendency to panic near the end of campaigns left them facing four successive play-off failures. The pain became so much that the Tractor Boys used the presense of their chairman David Sheepshanks on the FA board to lobby for a rule change and so now, uniquely in the world of two-legged cup football, away goals no longer count in these semi-finals. Ipswich left to reflect on a terrific job of bolting an empty stable door on that one. Everybody has a favourite theory as to how you can weight the luck in your favour. Read more here......... http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/35012/?
Over the next two games either we turn it on, play as the calibre of players in our team suggests we can play, or we flop, fail to perform, and probably Harry goes. Either way, we end up in a stronger position.
IanJTaylor ‏@IJTaylor81 1m The kit is all laid out and ready in the @OfficialQPR dressing room #weRtogether #findaway #WIGvQPR pic.twitter.com/NyLZGMXBRo please log in to view this image
I am very positive / exited for tonight´s game and strongly hope that the R´s will show their superiority when it matters most. I predict a win and a relaxing Monday evening...
QPR FC ‏@OfficialQPR 4 min The #QPR squad have arrived at the DW Stadium #WIGvQPR https://vine.co/v/MgZXQ0nFVWv [video]https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/687E2A6B5B1076598021913014272_2f3ee300219.0.3.6687 208938901336957.mp4?versionId=wyhMCUSWpcwUCKlqmC67 HcoXkRDAmqsd[/video]
@OfficialQPR XI: Green, Simpson, Onuoha, Dunne, Hill, Hoilett, Barton, OâNeil, Traore, Morrison, Austin @OfficialQPR XI Subs: Murphy, Carroll, Yun, Doyle, Hughes, Henry, Kranjcar
If anyones interested: Wigan Athletic: Carson, Caldwell, Maloney, Gomez, McManaman, McArthur, Boyce, Beausejour, Perch, Kiernan, Fortune
What happened to Benayoun? Hopefully O'Neil will return to his form in his first match for us. Poor old Yun. What does he have to do? Now the big question.....what wine should I drink throughout the game.......
Well you got the place and method wrong! Beheaded at Tower Gate is's what you mean. But you wrong on Dunne too. He was done months ago.
Looks like 4 4 2 with Traore and Hoillet wide and Barton and ON struggling between them. But maybe Arry is playing it cagey with Austin as a 4th CB!
