please log in to view this image QPR welcome west London rivals Brentford to Loftus Road this evening for what should be a captivating Championship clash under the lights in front of the Sky Sports television cameras. The R’s tasted victory in our last outing at Loftus Road against Bristol City but were beaten 1-0 by Sheffield Wednesday in a close encounter last Saturday. Brentford started the season well with early victories against Brighton and Nottingham Forest but have failed to win any of their last four league games and have scored just one goal in those fixtures. Our west London rivals so nearly got their first taste of Premier League football in 2014/15 when a outstanding campaign saw them finish 5th and into the play-offs only to be beaten in the semi-final by Middlesbrough. However they did not quite manage to hit those heights last season, ending the year in a respectable 9th position whilst losing key players Andre Gray and James Tarkowski to Burnley. They’ve also had a number of changes to the coaching setup since Marc Warburton departed the club in May 2015. Dutchman Marinus Dijkhuizen was appointed as his successor but only lasted a few months and Lee Carsley was brought in on an interim basis between September and December 2015. Dean Smith has since come in from Walsall and helped settled the ship. After finishing last season very strong, winning seven of their final nine games, Brentford mainly looked to the lower leagues for their summer recruitment. They brought in six players including Romaine Sawyers from Walsall, John Egan from Gillingham and highly rated goalkeeper Daniel Bentley from Southend. Friday’s showdown marks the 68th match between the two teams from west London with both sides on 22 victories each. please log in to view this image TEAM NEWS QPR: Jordan Cousins and Grant Hall have resumed full training and are in contention for Friday’s derby. However Jake Bidwell will miss the game against his old club with injury and the match also comes too soon for Yeni Ngbakoto and Jamie Mackie. Hasselbaink also confirmed that his squad has had a few knocks which are being assessed. Brentford: The Bees head into this one with no new injury concerns but midfielder Alan McCormack will miss out through suspension. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image PRE MATCH TALK Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: “We’re looking forward to it! Both teams will be up for it and the atmosphere will be buzzing at Loftus Road. We have been mindful that we need to improve our home form. The manner of the win against Bristol City was very positive. We need to take the recent positives into Brentford on Friday. We have to be just as committed again. You have to respect the opposition, but you also have to take risks. I’ll support my players if they take the right risks.” Dean Smith: “The team who keep their discipline on the night, not only in terms of tackles but also with shape and style, will get the upper hand. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink went into QPR the same time that I did here so the QPR team will have all the hallmarks of Jimmy. We feel we are much better equipped this season to go into Loftus Road and be competitive. We will have a good shape, be well organised, and have a number of threats who can score goals.” This is a great Video MATCH ODDS QPR win: 13/8 Draw: 9/4 Brentford: 17/10 QPR first goal scorer: Idrissa Sylla 6/1 Brentford first goal scorer: Scott Hogan 4/1 LAST TIME OUT QPR 3-0 Brentford – Championship, Saturday 12th March 2016 QPR goal-scorers: Junior Hoilett, Sebastian Polter, Tjaronn Chery HEAD TO HEAD (In all competitions) QPR wins: 22 Draws: 23 Brentford wins: 22 MATCH OFFICIALS Referee: James Adcock Assistant Referees: Adam Matthews and Michael George Fourth official: Tim Robinson please log in to view this image Played For Both Stan Bowles Andy Sinton Marcus Bean George Francis Jim Towers Martin Rowlands DJ Campbell Les Ferdinand Rowan Vine Ian Stewart Kenny Sansom Ian Holloway please log in to view this image Miss J. Perez please log in to view this image Welcome To The ''Forever R's'' Club Mark Lazarus & Ray Wilkins please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
I was going to say a bit samey, as if you just pulled this from the club's twitter feed rather than creating it from scratch, but the remembrance stuff is excellent. At the risk of upsetting Stroller
Top Work 999's, lets hope the game is a fitting tribute as well and we can give them bit of a tonking, that would be nice. Up The R's
The problem is that when you're doing fifty odd (depending when when we get knocked out of the cups) of these matchday threads a season it's difficult to make them all unique. There's only a limited amount of material out there as we're a relatively small club compared to the Manchester's and Liverpool's etc, who probably have a plethora of material and resources to draw on. Keeping to a relatively uniform format prevents me from spending too much time on them. Mrs Nines already rolls her eyes when she catches me doing them as if I'm some sort of anorak or something.
More of a cagoule than an anorak......as you well know it's deeply appreciated. Enjoy the game, I'm meant to be driving to Devon, but as the women here haven't even started to pack I reckon it will be some time yet......
There's one positive about leaving so late. You and the family can listen to the R's game on the car's wireless and get to shout out expletives in unison.
"Brentford, who have gone four Championship games without a victory, are without a victory at Loftus Road in 52 years" Hopefully, as is our nature, we don't oblige. http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37724480
More info about these brave men posted on INDYRS. My own Grandfather was one of the lucky ones that made it back after three years in France. His only son, born 1916 (my Dad) was named Victor for victory and my Grandfather carried a French 10 centime coin in his pocket through WWI for luck and my Dad carried the same coin through WWII, now on my key chain. please log in to view this image ] We Will Remember Them Posted on November 10, 2013 by Finney The following servicemen had at some time played for Queen’s Park Rangers and all tragically lost their lives serving their Country: Corporal Albert ‘Ben’ Butler’ – Apart from playing for QPR, he was also the first professional footballer in the ranks of 17th Middlesex to be killed in action (I wrote more about him in my commemoration article of 2011). Albert Bonass – He joined Rangers in 1939 and later became a reserve policemen before joining the RAF. Apparently he was a Ju-jitsu expert and between 1940 and 1945 he guested for Fulham, Aldershot, Brentford, Watford, Luton, Southampton and York. He lost his life in 1945 when his Stirling bomber crashed in Yorkshire during a training flight, eight weeks or so after VJ Day. Colin Clarke – Played in 6 league games for the R’s between 1936 and 1938. He was a Luton Town player at the time of his death in March 1943. Alan Fowler – He guested a few times for the R’s in 1940/41 and also 1943/44, but was actually on Swindon Town’s books although they did not compete between 1940 and 1945. Sgt Fowler served in the Dorsetshire Regiment and lost his life in July 1944 after the D-Day landings. He is buried in the Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery. Evelyn Henry Lintott – Apart from making 35 appearances for QPR, Lintott was also our first full England international. He was killed leading his men of the 15th West Yorkshire Regiment on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was the first professional footballer to receive a commission. Frank Cannon – It now seems that Frank Cannon was born in Ware in Hertfordshire on 8th November 1888. He began his career with Hitchin Town whilst working for a firm of solicitors. Later he made 29 appearances for QPR before signing for West Ham. He was transferred from the Bedfordshire Regiment to the Essex Regiment, rising to the rank of Sgt Major. Aged 27, he was killed by shrapnel at Ypres on 15th February 1916, leaving behind his wife Violet and three children. He was buried at Potijze Burial Ground in Belgium. Quarter Master Sgt J.P. Martin described the circumstances of his death in a letter: “He was just ready to leave the trench when several shrapnel shells burst over him, wounding him and several others. Although his wound was rather serious, he was wounded in the back. It was quite thought he would get back to England and recover, but I am sorry to say he died on his way to the dressing station about an hour after he was hit”. Joseph Dines – Apart from winning more than 30 amateur caps for England, he also played in all three matches in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm for the Great Britain team which won him a gold medal. He made his one appearance for QPR on 16th April 1910 against West Ham. Joseph Dines was one of three brothers to enlist and served as a Second-Lieutenant in the King’s Liverpool Regiment, but he only survived for eleven days. He was cut down by machine gun fire on 27th September 1918 in Pas-de-Calais on the Western Front and buried in the Grand Ravine British Cemetery, Havrincourt. Albert Edwards – He made 17 1st team appearances for QPR and also played for Bristol City and Newport County, but lost his life in the Great War. Oscar Horace Stanley Linkson – Andrew Riddoch’s book: ‘When the Whistle Blows’ mentions the time that this former Manchester United right-back was actually arrested on one occasion after he absented himself with Pte Wilfred Nixon of Fulham to play for the Rangers at White Hart Lane. Pte Linkson lost his life on 8th August 1916 and is commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial. His mother never accepted that her son was dead, choosing to believe that he had run away to escape what she believed to be an unhappy marriage. He left behind a widow and two young children at the family home in Barnet. Harry Vernon Thornton – 37 Rangers appearances and scored 10 goals. Like many other players, he joined the ‘Footballer’s Battalion’ and later died in France John H. Pennifer – He arrived at QPR in 1913 and after just 3 appearances, he enlisted the following year. Pennifer played a number of times for the 17th Middlesex. Andrew Riddoch records that: ‘Three days later, a 17th Middlesex team played Hampstead Town at the Avenue Ground in Cricklewood Lane, winning 3-1. Pte Henry Pennifer of QPR scored two of the battalion’s goals…’ He died at the Battle of the Somme. please log in to view this image Corporal John Tosswill – Made just 3 appearances for QPR before joining the Royal Engineers. He became a dispatch rider and returned home after being wounded, but passed away aged 24 on the operating table in Eastbourne Military Hospital on 28th September 1915. The following obituary appeared in the Liverpool Echo on 2nd October 1915, and is reproduced with permission (as is the above pic) from the football historian Kjell Hanssen.: ‘A likable fellow, somewhat eccentric, deaf, and a good-class footballer. That is how one might sum up Corporal J.S. Tosswill, whose death is announced this morning. His ear deficiency used to cause some curious happenings in football matches, for he was not able to hear the referee’s signal, and oftimes was seen to proceed to score goals what time the crowd and other players were waiting to take a free kick!’ ‘Poor Tosswill (writes “Bee”) was a bit of a wag, and his letters to me were always novel and interesting. He was with Liverpool but for a short time, afterwards proceeding to Coventry City. He was brought from Queen’s Park Rangers, and learnt his game with Tunbridge Wells Rangers. On the outbreak of war he joined the R.E. section, and was soon made a corporal. A capital cricketer, he played for a time with Stanley. His death took place this morning as a result of an operation at Eastbourne’. Rangers stalwart Jimmy Eggleton was gassed in World War 1 and he continued to suffer with chest problems throughout his life. Dennis Higgins was an amateur defender who played thirty times for the club before joining the Sportsmen Battalion and becoming an officer. He was so badly injured at Ypres in Flanders that he never played again. Apart from the servicemen associated with playing for QPR and losing their lives, there must have been numerous fans too. Sadly, at least two have been killed in the current conflict in Afghanistan: Lance Corporal Tom Keogh – He came from the Hallfield Estate in Paddington and was only 24 when he died from a gunshot wound in Sangin, Helmand Province. Acting Corporal David Barnsdale – 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal). He was killed clearing explosive devices and was also the same age as Tom. His parents laid a wreath on the Loftus Road centre circle before the Burnley home game in 2010. please log in to view this image (The above postcard is from my collection) The War Memorial on the eastern corner of the Bush Green was restored earlier in the year with a stepped, granite plinth. The inscription reads: “In grateful and honoured memory of the men of this borough who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 also of those who gave their lives in the Second World War 1939-1945”. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Steve Russell (My thanks once again to Andrew Riddoch for giving me permission to reproduce sections of his highly recommended book: ‘When the Whistle Blows’ – Also, my thanks to football historian Kjell Hanssen and our Club Historian of course, Gordon Macey, for all the players career details). http://www.indyrs.co.uk/2013/11/we-will-remember-them-6/ One Response to We Will Remember Them please log in to view this image ESSEXURs aka Colin Woodley says: November 11, 2013 at 8:49 am A fitting tribute Steve to some very brave men and women who have lost their lives for us. My own family left Devon to seek their fortune in London settling in Notting Hill in very deprived conditions in the 1870’s. Two brothers were killed in WW1 one being my Grandfather. One other brother survived. Their father died within the year probably with a broken heart. The brothers could well of been early QPR fans as my own father, born in 1910, was a staunch QPR fan. WW1 left few families untouched..mine paid a big price.
Right I'm off to the game and a pre-match pint in the Bull in Westfields. Hopefully we'll have 3 points in the bag on my return. COYR's!
Looking forward to this one It'll come down to the midfield battle. Woods is a talented player for them, but we have Luongo who's classy in his own right. Come on U R's
Thanks for the great thread 999s ..................I will be watching it all night I will be missing this one...at my daughters hen-do tonight.....first in Aylesbury but then with a bit of luck driving to Bletcley as the match gets towards the end. My seat will be admirally taken by Melbian all the way from Australia...so lets hope he has a memorable match for him to take back down under Come on u RRRRs
Thanks again Nines, and Kilburn, particularly for the In Remembrance detail. Really looking forward to this one too - especially as storms permitting here in Thailand, I should be able to see this one on live TV for a change. It's been awhile.
