Match Day Thread Stoke vs QPR

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Stoke City vs QPR
The Championship
Wednesday 14th April 2024 - 19:45
BET365 Stadium

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How to get there;
Drive : Approx 3 hours and 162 miles via the A40/M40 then M6 toll then A500.
Train : 2 hours and 57 minutes via tube to Euston then mainline to Stoke-on-Trent then 24 bus to the stadium.
Cycle : 14 hours and 34 minutes and 167 miles on National Cycle Route 5

Previous history vs Stoke;
Games won: 20
Games drawn: 11
Games lost: 13

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

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

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)

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– Queens Park Rangers 27 (0)

Match Preview;
Always how my wife loves to spend Valentine's Day...watching me spend quality time with her whilst also sneakily checking the score on my phone. Cheers fixtures people.

This Wednesday we head to 20th place Stoke City. They are in a run of four straight defeats, including a 0-5 home loss to Leicester City. Their top scorer is Cunha Vidigal with 6 goals, having joined from Portuguese club, Marítimo, in the summer. Their manager, Steven Schumacher previously manager Plymouth for three years, getting them promoted back to the Championship in 2023, after 4 years in charge there. He left when Stole came calling in December, and took his coaching team with him. Stoke now sit 5 places and 4 points behind Plymouth.

As for us, due to holiday I haven't seen anymore than the two minutes highlights of Saturday's game, but all on here seemed positive that we got the draw, and Frey and Hodge were very highly spoken of. Let's hope we can build on that performance and come back from Stoke with all three points on Wednesday.

Team news and manager comments to go up asap...and as always...

... COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!

P.s - writing this whilst watching 'The Superbowl' as on holiday in the US. I say 'The Superbowl', because so far I've seen more adverts than sport. Plus my friends here didn't like the rugby and no padding comment.

 

"Some people just watch it for the adverts...but 1 in 3 Americans watch it so it must be worth it!"

"1.5 billion watched the last World Cup Final."

"Oh".

 

Erm.......okey dokey.
Er......what?!!

 

Cheers Dave (and while you’re on your hols too - top man).
It’s yet another ‘six-pointer’ game for us. Could we get this one across the line (or maybe above the line would be more apt).
Probably not, but many will be embracing that hope once again. I suspect Hayden might be rested so expecting a fresh Field back into pastures green.

 

Cheers Dave.

Stoke, propped up by the hideous Bet365 Coates family and their £8bn, and only afloat because these weasels have ‘bought’ the stadium and training ground from the club. I thought that particular loophole had been closed with Derby?

Let’s smash these ****ers, decades of stinking up the PL and championship with no joy delivered at all.

 

I’m getting to fear games where if we win we get out of the bottom three, how many this season so far, 4-5?

 

Surely the biggest match of the season so far...

Sky red button

(Millwall v Ipswich, main event)

 

How many times do teams end their losing run when they play us?

 

Normally I would agree with you Col.
I have a premonition that we might get our desired victory on this occasion.

 

A team we've actually beaten more.times than lost to.

Quite an important match. Like very important. Like immense, colossal, gargantuan, seismic, tectonic and black hole gravitational!

 

I think we can do it on a cold Wednesday night in Stoke......

 

Can add Begovic to the list.

 

Another opportunity to finally get out of the relegation zone.

Will we take this one? Hopefully.

 

Josh Laurent

 

Sorensen. Looked it up and he was on the bench.

 

Andrew Davies was a legend of both clubs.

 

Shame he gave up footy to write **** adaptations of classic fiction for telly.

 

I assume I’m 20 years too young for this gag.

 

Not at all. He might have stopped now but he was churning out ersatz versions of War and Peace, Les Miserables, A Suitable Boy in the last ten years.