please log in to view this image v please log in to view this image SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIPVenue: Loftus Road Date: Wednesday, 18 September Kick-off: 19:45 BST please log in to view this image THE MANAGERS please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 'Arry briefs SWP & Hoilett and the new Brighton manager Ãscar GarcÃa Junyent Ref Watch: Referee: Andrew Madley Assistants: Wade Norcott & Dean Treleaven Fourth Official: Christopher O`Donnell Andrew Madley is the match official for tonight`s game against the Seagulls. Last season, Madley issued 106 yellow cards and 3 red cards in 38 games. Read more: http://www.qpr.vitalfootball.co.uk/matchprere.asp?a=332670#ixzz2fG8LBIfg Team News QPR have injury doubts over winger Junior Hoilett (hamstring) and striker Andrew Johnson (knee). On-loan left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto is pushing for a start but midfielder Niko Kranjcar is set to miss out with a groin problem. Brighton will be without top-scorer Leonardo Ulloa, who begins a three-game ban after a red card on Sunday. Strikers Craig Mackail-Smith (Achilles) and Will Hoskins (knee) are still out so Ashley Barnes will start. please log in to view this image MATCH FACTS QPR are the only unbeaten team in the Championship. QPR are the only Championship team yet to concede a goal in the second half this season. The R`s are yet to concede with Richard Dunne on the field this season, going five games (all competitions) without conceding. QPR have had a man sent off in each of their last two home matches in the league against the Seagulls. The Seagulls have scored just two goals in their last six league visits to Loftus Road and are currently eight league games without a win there (D4 L4). LAST FIVE QPR: WWLWW BRIGHTON: LWWDD Head-to-head • QPR and Brighton have met 75 times competitively over 93 years, with each winning 30. • This is the first time they have met since the 2005-06 Championship season, when the game at Loftus Road ended 1-1. • Brighton are attempting to secure a first win in nine league trips to QPR, their last a 1-0 victory in September 1957. Queens Park Rangers • QPR are attempting to complete a run of five straight league victories, and their best league sequence since Ian Holloway's side won seven on the spin in the Championship in October 2004. • Harry Redknapp's side boast the meanest defence in the Football League, with two goals conceded in six games, and four straight clean sheets. • The Hoops have not conceded in 415 minutes of Championship football, since James Vaughan struck the opening goal in a 1-1 draw at Huddersfield on 10 August. Brighton & Hove Albion • Brighton kicked off the league season with back-to-back defeats, but are unbeaten since (W2 D2), conceding just one goal in four games. • An opposition player has been sent off in each of the Seagulls' last three league matches. • They also boast just two goalscorers in the Championship; Andrew Crofts (two goals) and Argentine Leonardo Ulloa (four), but the latter was shown a red card against Reading on Saturday. Latest Odds QPR 5/6 DRAW 5/2 Brighton 100/30 QPR Possible Starting Lineup GREEN SIMPSON - DUNNE - ONUOHA - ASSOU-EKOTTO WRIGHT-PHILLIPS - HENRY - O`NEILL- BARTON - PHILLIPS AUSTIN Brighton Possible Starting Lineup KUSZCZAK CALDERON - UPSON - WARD - GREER BUCKLEY - CROFTS - CASKEY - LOPEZ LUALUA BARNES Read more: http://www.qpr.vitalfootball.co.uk/matchprere.asp?a=332670#ixzz2fG7xS5Bc
I was just about to same the same......OMG, PMSL (as the kids say). Even though if i was being pedantic, i would suggest the Brighton manager has changed his nationality from Spanish to Mexican
Well spotted Tram, that's the reason I chose that one. I lived on the ground floor right in the middle. If I didn't have the 10p to get in on a match day, I used to go up to the top floor where you could see the Loft half of the pitch. Great view for the second half when we attacked that end. When I got a bit older, I cut a whole in the wire fence above my school toilets and used to get in that way if I couldn't pay.
Here's the loftforwords opposition focus: "Garcia brings continental touch as Poyet mystery rumbles on"- http://loftforwords.fansnetwork.co....t-mystery-rumbles-on-–-opposition-focus
Good work Grifter, that's a good read. It's interesting to read the Brighton fans comments at the bottom of the page. Going by them we should win.. Gulp!
And here's the match preview: "Never mind the quality, count the points"- http://loftforwords.fansnetwork.co....uality-count-the-points-–-match-preview Cheers nines! I do wonder whether this will end up being a stalemate. Their best attacking players are out (Ulloa, Mackail-Smith, Bridcutt), and so are ours (Hoillet, M.Phillips, Johnson, Kranjcar). I don't think it will be a pushover, and going by those fans comments, perhaps tomorrow isn't the day to field slow fullbacks... (BAE debut please!).
Who's going tonight? ... I know Willy, Nines and Joe Pesci ... I am in my usual Z6 with a couple of mates both Arsenal and a bit Brighton (well they go once in a while) ... One of them is Solly March's of Brighton old junior football manager ... I hope he doesn't play for the Seagulls tonight as it's my biggest fear ... I sense he will score if he is included
Great photo 9's of the old flats not that I share your affection for them. 55 years ago I was a paper boy delivering there. Sundays were the time to go off sick but you didnt do that then. The first problem was that the family living in the furthest flat from the lift on the top floor chose that day to have half the sunday papers delivered along with the weeks mags and comics so the bag was a ton weight. The trouble was that the lift normally broke down at weekends when there was no call out so it was a climb upstairs. And then on the days you heard the lift coming down, would it or wont it? almost every time the floor of the lift was awash with piss from some dirty bastard returning from the Smuts. I then had the choice. stand on tiptoe and hold my breath or walk up the stairs. thankfully it never broke down. I had visions of me being in there until monday. Count your blessings living on the ground floor.
I'll be there tonight, with the old man. I think a night game, under lights and a full on atmosphere is all we need to turn dodgy one-nils into a terrifying display of skill, speed and attack on all fronts. Loud and proud tonight, let's do it.
Previous Encounters with Brighton & Hove Albion http://qprreport.proboards.com/thread/37195/previous-encounters-brighton-hove-albion
Anyone who is up in time - having a pre-match pint in the Crown and Sceptre if you're able. I'll be the chap in the black Harrington Jacket and the ever-so-distinguished silver hair....
Hope I am wrong, but I cant see a "terrifying display of skill, speed and attack on all fronts". Perhaps when Austin, Phillips, Carrol, Kranjcar, Barton, SWP have played a few games together, we may see that against some weaker sides. Tonight will probably be a very tight contest. Not sure how their injuries and suspensions will affect their style. Hopefully we can scrape another goal from somewhere.
I will get their at either 6:30ish or 7:00ish, but if you think I'm going around saying that I'm looking for Willy you've got another think coming...... Are you and your old man coming down the pub Woody?
