please log in to view this image QPR play host to Bristol City at Loftus Road on Saturday lunchtime, as the 2015/16 Sky Bet Championship campaign reaches its conclusion. Rangers welcome the Robins to W12 for a final day fixture with five points separating Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s men in 13th from Lee Johnson’s side in 18th. Whilst the R’s lost a narrow Championship clash 1-0 to promoted Burnley on Monday, two days earlier Bristol City thrashed Huddersfield Town 4-0 in front of their own supporters at Ashton Gate. Jonathan Kodjia scored twice, reaching 20 goals for the season in the process, as City eased to victory against the Terriers. Kodjia met Joe Bryan's flicked pass to run into the box and open the scoring before the break, beating Terriers goalkeeper Jed Steer with a low finish. Bryan then made it 2-0 and Kodjia hit the 20 goal mark with an effort from 25 yards. Lee Tomlin then showed great control to lift the ball over a defender on the edge of the box before adding a fourth. That win was the Robins’ first in four games, but their form prior to that sequence was impressive, with three wins from their previous five fixtures – a run of form that lifted them clear of the threat of relegation. QPR boss Hasselbaink is again likely to experiment his side for the visit of the Robins, with youngsters Cole Kpekawa and Michael Petrasso again expected to be involved. Johnson will assess the condition of injured defenders Adam Matthews (hamstring) and Aden Flint (knee) before finalising his starting line-up. Out of contract at the end of this season and eager to impress, Scott Wagstaff will be included in the squad, while Johnson may also decide to take a further look at fringe players such as Mark Little and Kieran Agard. please log in to view this image Possible Starting Xl's please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image MATCH ODDS QPR: 13/10 Draw: 23/10 Bristol City win: 7/4 LAST TIME OUT Bristol City 1, QPR 1 – Championship – Saturday 19th December 2015 Scorers: Bristol City – Wilbraham; QPR – Hoilett HEAD TO HEAD QPR wins: 31 Draws: 25 Bristol City wins: 25 MATCH OFFICIALS please log in to view this image Referee: J Simpson Assistant Referees: N Davies & M George Fourth Official: N Kinseley please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Alt-right’ online poison nearly turned me into a racist Anonymous It started with Sam Harris, moved on to Milo Yiannopoulos and almost led to full-scale Islamophobia. If it can happen to a lifelong liberal, it could happen to anyone please log in to view this image Milo Yiannopoulos speaking at a Gays for Trump event. Photograph: YouTube Monday 28 November 2016 12.00 GMT Iam a happily married, young white man. I grew up in a happy, Conservative household. I’ve spent my entire li At the same time, the anti-SJW stuff also moved on to anti-feminism, men’s rights activists – all that stuff. I followed a lot of these people on Twitter, but never shared any of it. I just passively consumed it, because, deep down, I knew I was ashamed of what I was doing. I’d started to roll my eyes when my friends talked about liberal, progressive things. What was wrong with them? Did they not understand what being a real liberal was? All my friends were just SJWs. They didn’t know that free speech was under threat and that politically correct culture and censorship were the true problem. On one occasion I even, I am ashamed to admit, very diplomatically expressed negative sentiments on Islam to my wife. Nothing “overtly racist”, just some of the “innocuous” type of things the YouTubers had presented: “Islam isn’t compatible with western civilisation.” She was taken aback: “Isn’t that a bit … rightwing?” I justified it: “Well, I’m more a left-leaning centrist. PC culture has gone too far, we should be able to discuss these things without shutting down the conversation by calling people racist, or bigots.” The indoctrination was complete. please log in to view this image About a week before the US election, I heard one of these YouTubers use the phrase “red-pilled” – a term from the film The Matrix – in reference to people being awakened to the truth about the world and SJWs. Suddenly I thought: “This is exactly like a cult. What am I doing? I’m turning into an arsehole.” I unsubscribed and unfollowed from everything, and told myself outright: “You’re becoming a racist. What you’re doing is turning you into a terrible, hateful person.” Until that moment I hadn’t even realised that “alt-right” was what I was becoming; I just thought I was a more open-minded person for tolerating these views. It would take every swearword under the sun to describe how I now feel about tolerating such content and gradually accepting it as truth. I’ve spent every day since feeling shameful for being so blind and so easily coerced. US election day rolled around, and I was filled with dread. Trump’s win felt like EU referendum morning all over again – magnified by a hundred. Although I never shared any of this rubbish with anybody, I feel partly responsible. It’s clear this terrible ideology has now gone mainstream. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Online radicalisation of young white men. It’s here, it’s serious, and I was lucky to be able to snap out of it when I did. And if it can get somebody like me to swallow it – a lifelong liberal – I can’t imagine the damage it is doing overall. It seemed so subtle – at no point did I think my casual and growing Islamophobia was genuine racism. The good news for me is that my journey toward the alt-right was mercifully brief: I never wanted to harm or abuse anybody verbally, it was all very low level – a creeping fear and bigotry that I won’t let infest me again. But I suspect you could, if you don’t catch it quickly, be guided into a much more overt and sinister hatred. I haven’t yet told my wife that this happened, and I honestly don’t know how to. I need to apologise for what I said and tell her that I certainly don’t believe it. It is going to be a tough conversation and I’m not looking forward to it. I didn’t think this could happen to me. But it did and it will haunt me for a long time to come. • The author was not paid a fee for this piece
And another fine girl to finish the season on Thanks for all your HARD work searching the pictures out all year
No doubt we will hear a chant of 'Armand Traore we want you to stay' start up before the usual pitch invasion!
Sat in Westfield whilst my lads are shopping. Seems to be a big turn out from Bristol. Do they have all the away end?
As I still can't attend, I hope I'm not missing a last chance to say goodbye & thank you to Ale & Clint
jimmy the hoover ive never been your greatest fan but your starting line up today looks good if we can get washington to hit a hatrick then possibly we have a play off place in the making so lets hope for a rub of the green and conor go out there and stick that ball in the net four times because i think you will have a goal disalowed today
Phillips not even on the bench - good. Not sure why the BBC match page profiles Jamie Mackie, who is also once again absent from the squad - what a lame duck signing he turned out to be for all his enthusiasm. Glad that strike partnership has been given the opportunity to play together, rather than as late subs. I'll be glad to finally get this lame duck season over with and look forward to next. please log in to view this image Jamie Mackie has scored once for QPR Line-ups QPR 29 Ingram 5 Onuoha 4 Hall 6 Hill 42 Kpekawa 20 Henry 18 Faurlin 11 Gladwin 8 Chery 19 El Khayati 9 Washington Substitutes 13 Lumley 23 Hoilett 24 Perch 33 Polter 34 Petrasso 35 Prohouly 39 Grego-Cox Bristol City 12 O'Donnell 5 Ayling 16 Pearce 17 Baker 13 Golbourne 21 Pack 14 Reid 23 Bryan 9 Tomlin 22 Kodjia 18 Wilbraham Substitutes 2 Little 3 Williams 10 Agard 15 Freeman 24 O'Leary 25 Vyner 30 Dowling Referee: Jeremy Simpson TEAM NEWS QPR have no new injury worries for the visit of Bristol City. Winger Jamie Mackie (hamstring) remains the only absentee, with Matt Ingram, Cole Kpekawa and Michael Petrasso set to keep their places. Bristol City's defender Aden Flint will be rested having dislocating his kneecap. According to boss Lee Johnson, "it popped straight back in". http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36176259
Not sure if Smithies is carrying a knock or if JFH is just giving Ingram an end of season run. Based on his recent performances, Ingram deserves to keep the jersey and it is Smithies to win back.
I would agree but Ingram technically didn't win it himself so bit hard on smithies to have to win it back
After Ingram's brilliant Cardiff away start, Smithies was brought back for the Brighton match and coughed up 4 goals, admittedly in part due to a crap defence in front of him, but reports indicated that he was a bit weak on a couple of them.
