Match Day Thread Bristol City vs QPR

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Bristol City vs QPR
The Championship
Saturday 1st October - 15:00
Ashton Gate

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How to get there;
Drive : Around 2 hours 30 minutes, 116 miles along the M4.
Train : There are strikes. Recommended you take National Express bus from Hammersmith Bus Station to Heathrow, then Heathrow to Bristol.
Cycle : 11 hours and 12 minutes, 131 miles along National Cycle Route 57.

Previous history vs Bristol City;
Games won: 36
Games drawn: 25
Games lost: 34

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;
Trevor Challis;
1994–1998 Queens Park Rangers 13 (0)
1998–2003 Bristol Rovers 145 (1)

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)

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

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

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)

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

Nahki Wells;
2018–2019 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 40 (7)
2019–2020 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 26 (13)
2020 – Bristol City 104 (23)

Match Preview;
To reiterate, there are train strikes. Don't rock up at Paddington hoping to get on a train.

In February 2021 Nigel Pearson took over at Bristol City after they had lost six games in a row under previous boss, Dean Holden. Pearson managed to get them to a 17th place finish, in no small part thanks to 22 goals from Andreas Wisemann. This form hasn't continued in quite the same way this year, as he has 4 goals so far. Their top scorer is Tommy Conway, with 7, followed by former R Nahki Wells, with 5. A look through their squad and they don't have any superstar players that I am very familiar with, but looks like a good group of young players who confused the photo shoot for the club website with a photo shoot for a teen magazine...https://www.bcfc.co.uk/teams/mens-first-team/

They have, so far, won four, drawn two and lost four, so sit one point and three places behind us, in 9th with 14 points. As for us, the international break is over. Hopefully this hasn't only been an opportunity for Lyndon Dykes to pick up an illness (please lets not allow him to come back and spread it amongst our squad), but also a chance for a some of the other players to have a bit of extra time on the training field with Beale. His training has been highly spoken of by those he has worked with, so I'm hoping we will continue to see the fruit of that on the field.

Team News
QPR: Jake Clarke-Salter and Luke Amos are ready and available for selection following longer-term injuries - but the fixture comes too soon for Rob Dickie and Taylor Richards. Sinclair Armstrong (thigh) is also out.

Bristol City: Bristol City will be without Matty James and Timm Klose for the visit of QPR.

Pre-match Talk
Mick Beale (QPR head coach): “Nigel Pearson is a really good manager who has steadied the ship and got them (Bristol City) looking upwards. They seem to be in a good place. Their home form has been excellent so far this season and they have a good team.

“But we can take confidence from our performances on the road already this season. I think there’ll be goals and I’m really looking forward to the game. They’ll be looking for three points and we’ll be going for them as well.”

Nigel Pearson (Bristol City manager): “They’re (QPR) a good Championship side who will be there or thereabouts, and I’m sure will be involved in the promotion race.

“We know it will be a tough one but as I always try to point out, we are aware of what our opponents are about and know that if we can sustain our levels and show the drive that we have so far, we have a chance of winning any game.”

Enjoy those who are making the trip, and as always...

...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!

 

Gregory Goodridge

 

Signed for Ellerton United, in Barbados, in 2017 aged 51 and is still listed as playing for them.

 

Aaron who
3 games in two years

 

Afternoon guys -nice to get back to the hussle and bussle of the championship-both teams have had a rest unfortunately for us we have had players away on international duties.
Should be a good open game with plenty of attacking play.
Should be a decent crowd as well.
may the best team win.
I'm going 2.0 to the reds

 

We've had 8 away on international duties ! As always Dykes won't be fit , hopefully Chair will be available

 

As Hammersmith has said...we've had players away as have a lot of other Championship sides. A lot won't have played the full 90 in all the international games though, so they shouldn't come back too exhausted.

 

Wow eight we only had three key players away -eight that is impressive most of your first team I would guess.

 

Not necessarily, Nico is an international even though he's awful. Not much of a pool to draw on there though, but he won't be in our squad barring full back issues. Chair is the main concern as Morocco play either tonight or tomorrow in South America, so by the time he arrives back in England he'll be tired. Didn't play the other night at all so may well play in this game. Dykes has a virus apparently so it may well be Roberts up top again as he came on as sub for Wales.

 

A couple of under 21s as well

 

Illias on the bench tonight and actually the game is being played in Seville at Real Betis's ground so travel not an issue........

 

The ex-players part always interests me, especially the number of games played.
I would have thought Tommy Doherty (yes this one) and Gary O'Neill played loads more games than that.

I even remember Aaron Brown so he obviously left a very bad impression in those 3 games!

 

Due to a combination of holiday and family commitments, this is the first game I'd considered going to since I was last at HQ on 20th Aug but now away again.
Hoping for an Rs win but we'll have to overcome however many Wells inevitably scores!

 

That twat Weimann always scores against us too ! It'll have to be 3-2 to the hoops !

 

Here's hoping!
https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/b...mann-injury-update-following-austria-absence/

 

He is fit will play Saturday however these three are on fire Tommy Conway and Nahki Wells and Antoine Semenyo banging the goals in.

 

How very depressing. Wells is a guaranteed scorer.

 

To be fair Wells is the highest paid player at Ashton Gate and has struggled since his move from Burnley-however this season under Nigel Pearson he is a different player -he has his mojo back-Tommy Conway is dynamite at present as is Semenyo and of course Andy Weimann is playing well again.Your defence will do well to stop these four scoring.

 

Same with our two no 10’s who are fire at present, so you can get your red robin to go Bob Bob bobbing along & sod off on Saturday

 

You seem very confident.