Match Day Thread Cardiff City vs QPR

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Cardiff City vs QPR
Wednesday 20th January at 19:00
Cardiff City Stadium

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Previous history vs Cardiff City;
Games won: 37
Games drawn: 14
Games lost: 27

Ones to remember;
14 Nov 1931 Cardiff City v Queens Park Rangers W 0-4 Division Three (South)
07 Dec 1935 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 5-1 Division Three (South)
13 Feb 1937 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 6-0 Division Three (South)
27 Dec 1938 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 5-0 Division Three (South)
08 Sep 1970 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 4-0 League Cup
01 Jan 2020 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 6-1 League Championship - happy memories, but seems like so much more than a year ago...to jog the memory;

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Ones to forget;
08 Apr 1950 Cardiff City v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 League Division Two
29 Nov 2002 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City L 0-4 League Division 2 (Friday night, live on Sky...they were chanting 4-0 to the sheep shaggers as the full time whistle blew...I sadly, remember it well.
25 May 2003 Cardiff City v Queens Park Rangers L 1-0 League Division 2 Play-Offs

Players who have played for both;
Wayne Fereday;
1980–1989 Queens Park Rangers 246 (21)
1994–1995 Cardiff City 44 (2)

Trevor Sinclair;
1993–1998 Queens Park Rangers 167 (16)

(During that time he did this;

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2007–2008 Cardiff City 21 (1)

Richard Langley;
1996–2003 Queens Park Rangers 133 (18)
2003–2005 Cardiff City 69 (8)
2005–2006 Queens Park Rangers 33 (3)

Heidur Helguson;
2008–2009 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 7 (3)
2009–2012 Queens Park Rangers 68 (24)
2012–2013 Cardiff City 38 (8)

Jordan Mutch;
2012–2014 Cardiff City 57 (7)
2014–2015 Queens Park Rangers 9 (0)

Steven Caulker;
2013–2014 Cardiff City 38 (5)
2014–2017 Queens Park Rangers 50 (3)

Alex Smithies;
2015–2018 Queens Park Rangers 107 (0)
2018– Cardiff City 53 (0)

Junior Hoilett;
2012–2016 Queens Park Rangers 112 (12)

(During that time he did this;

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2016– Cardiff City 172 (23)

Match Preview;
As I have said before, this fixture holds bitter memories for me. The 0-4 loss at home and the playoff final defeat are two of my worst football memories. I have family in the Cardiff area, and generally like south Wales, but can't stand Cardiff City football club...and I'd love it if we beat them...love it.

Cardiff currently sit five places and five points above us, 15th with 29 points. Their top scorer is Kiefer Moore, with 8 goals, compared to 5 goals for Dykes and Chair, our joint top scorers. They have only conceded 27 so far, so only 3 less than us...which is sort of comforting. Their goalie is an ex-Ranger, Smithies, so I'm sort of glad to see they haven't got an amazing stat for goals conceded...is that bitter of me...maybe. Glatzel and Moore seem to have built up a good striking partnership, with Rolls and Ojo also chipping in with a few goals each...so we have to be on guard and ready to defend well to keep them from scoring a few. As 9's has just pointed out below though, they haven't won since the 16th of December, and only one win in six league games, including a 0-2 loss to local rivals Swansea.

As for us, positive is that we had a break at the weekend and haven't played since our 0-2 win at Luton...but there have been a few changes since then. We have signed De Wijs from Hull, and Masterson (Swindon) and Oteh (Colchester) have both been sent out on loan. More importantly, BOS has seemingly agreed a move to Fenerbahce and will be off at the end of the season. I can understand why he wants to move, and I don't want to wish anything bad on him, but it does feel a bit like he's played the club around here. I know others have said we should leave him out until he goes, but I'd do the opposite...play him for every minute of every game for the rest of the season...give the players who are sticking around the rest, and send him to Turkey as exhausted as possible. As has been discussed on the Transfer Rumours thread, at least Eze had the decency to ensure we got a decent fee for him.

Enjoy those who'll be watching...and as always...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!

 

Thanks Dave and especially for the Hoilett clip!

 

Thanks Dave
I had forgotten- the ONLY good things from 2020 football wise: 01 Jan 2020 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 6-1 League Championship.

 

Never get bored of watching the Trevor Sinclair goal, stunner!

 

Ray Jones’ late winner at Ninian Park

 

2010/11, Adel's winner in 2-1 win put us top and we stayed there for the rest of the season...

 

Great commentary thanks Dave!

 

999's....a team on bad form. Strikers that don't score. And we turn up.......you almost know what's going to happen

 

Warburton mentioned going back to 4 2 3 1 in his pre- match interview on the Official.

 

Yay

 

That won't suit Charlie.

 

That would just be so Warburton, find a winning formula and then change it...

 

If he isnt going to play BOS at WB, maybe it's the best option until / if we bring in a decent WB. But he's also said something like BOS is still a OPR player available for selection until he is told he isn't. So I reckon he's just trying to keep the Opposition guessing.

 

Until Kakay or De Wijs are fit we have three centre-halves and Cameron is 57. Still think we should go with the 352 with Niko in for Bright as Plan A as it kind of works a bit sometimes.

Still need to play a bit tonight though through Chair assuming Cardiff are still essentially a rugby team. Their form is terrible.

 

Exactly. Why change the system. We have appeared much stronger with 3 centre backs and I really don’t want to see us revert to a lone striker social distancing from the rest of the team for the duration of the game.

 

Right looking forward to the R's getting a 1-0 win at Cardiff. No Sky or Radio so will have to watch some QPR fan on Facebook watching it and telling me what's happening. It's funny as he sits there watching the live game and commentating.