Match Day Thread QPR vs Bristol City

Previous history vs Bristol City;
Games won: 39
Games drawn: 28
Games lost: 35

Ones to remember;
26 Dec 1936 Queens Park Rangers v Bristol City W 5-0 Division Three (South)
27 Sep 1980 Queens Park Rangers v Bristol City W 4-0 League Division Two

Ones to forget;
11 Apr 1925 Bristol City v Queens Park Rangers L 5-0 Division Three (South)
20 Apr 1935 Bristol City v Queens Park Rangers L 5-1 Division Three (South)

Players who have played for both;
Leroy Rosenoir;
1985–1987 Queens Park Rangers 38 (8)
1992–1994 Bristol City 51 (12)

Gregory Goodridge;
1995–1996 Queens Park Rangers 7 (1)
1996–2001 Bristol City 120 (14)

Aaron Brown;
1998–2004 Bristol City 160 (12)
2004–2006 Queens Park Rangers 3 (0)

Tommy Doherty;
1996–2005 Bristol City 189 (7)
2005–2008 Queens Park Rangers 15 (0)

Tony Thorpe;
1998–2002 Bristol City 128 (51)
2003–2005 Queens Park Rangers 41 (10)

Matt Hill;
1998–2005 Bristol City 203 (6)
2010 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 16 (0)

Damien Stewart;
2006–2010 Queens Park Rangers 168 (13)
2010–2012 Bristol City 24 (1)

Bradley Orr;
2004–2010 Bristol City 229 (12)
2010–2012 Queens Park Rangers 39 (1)

Patrick Ageymang;
2008–2012 Queens Park Rangers 75 (15)
2010 → Bristol City (loan) 7 (0)

Steven Caulker;
2010–2011 → Bristol City (loan) 29 (2)
2014–2017 Queens Park Rangers 50 (3)

Albert Adomah;
2010–2013 Bristol City 131 (17)
2020–2024 Queens Park Rangers 121 (6)

Danny Simpson;
2013–2014 - Queens Park Rangers 37 (0)
2021 - present - Bristol City 4 (0)

Gary O'Neil;
2013–2014 - Queens Park Rangers 29 (1)
2016–2018 Bristol City 33 (1)

Jay Emmanuel-Thomas;
2013–2015 Bristol City 82 (24)
2015–2018 Queens Park Rangers 12 (3)

Luke Freeman;
2014–2017 Bristol City 105 (10)
2017–2019 Queens Park Rangers 104 (14)

Todd Kane;
2014–2015 → Bristol City (loan) 5 (0)
2019–2021 Queens Park Rangers 60 (3)

Matt Smith;
2014–2015 → Bristol City (loan) 14 (7)
2017–2019 Queens Park Rangers 92 (21)

Ben Hamer;
2015 → Bristol City (loan) 4 (0)
2025– Queens Park Rangers 7 (0)

Ben Gladwin;
2015–2017 Queens Park Rangers 14 (0)
2016 → Bristol City (loan) 1 (0)

Nahki Wells;
2018–2019 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 40 (7)
2019–2020 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 26 (13)
2020 – Bristol City 151 (31)

Chris Martin;
2020–2023 Bristol City 88 (15)
2023 Queens Park Rangers 16 (4)

Rob Dickie;
2020–2023 - Queens Park Rangers119(6)
2023 – Bristol City 100 (8)

Sinclair Armstrong;
2020–2024 Queens Park Rangers 61 (3)
2024– Bristol City 70 (7)

Match Preview;
This Saturday we welcome fellow mid-table side, Bristol City, to Loftus Road. Points wise, we are inseparable, two of three teams sitting on 57 points, alongside Watford. Bristol City are above us, in 11th, due to their goal difference of +1, compared to our -5. Watford lead the trio, with a goal difference of +3. Bristol City will probably be disappointed being where they are, given they made it into the playoffs last year...and lost 6-0 on aggregate to Sheffield United. After that playoff defeat their manager, Liam Manning, left to take over at Norwich, but was sacked after no wins in his first 11 matched. Gerard Struber took over at Ashton Gate, and managed 16 wins, 9 draws and 18 losses before being sacked, leaving Bristol City in 16th place. Cue the arrival or Roy Hodgson, and a resurgence just before they play us. Hodgson has managed two and won two, hence lifting Bristol City to 11th.

As for us, three wins, one draw and a loss from our last five games, and 4 points gained over the Easter weekend, and the mood has certainly been lifted. We look a lot more threatening going forward, and encouragingly, you have to go back five games to find the last time we conceded more than 1 goal...given that was a 4-0 loss at Boro'. Nothing is going to happen this year, so the only thing we have to play for is pride, and doing better than we did last year. Last season we finished 15th, on 56 points...so that points total is already beaten, but we lost two of our last three games last year, before winning on the final day...and it'd be great to carry some good form into the summer break. Not least of all because as it stands, Julien Stefan has won 16, drawn 9 and lost 18 in his time in charge...and I'd love to get his number of wins higher than his losses by the end of the season...probably irrelevant, but a small psychological boost.

Team news and manager comments to go up if/when on the official, and others can add what they know below.

Enjoy if you'll make it to HQ for this one, and as always...

...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!

Sorry mods...forgot to label it a match day thread...and I can't edit that.

Star of David Bardsley said:

In a generation of forgettable QPR players, little Matt Smith was one of the most forgettable.

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I'm not sure what is more depressing, the endless list of players you lot come up with every week for me to add to the list, or the weekly realisation that we have had some distinctly average players over the years.