Match Day Thread Cardiff vs QPR

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Cardiff City vs QPR
Wednesday October 2nd - 19h45
Cardiff City Stadium

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Travel;
Train: 3 hours 11 minutes via the circle line from shepherds bush market to Paddington, then Great Western train to Cardiff...then the 94 bus towards the stadium.
Drive: About 3 hours and 148 miles down the M4.
Cycle: 14 h 54 min (176 miles) via Bristol And Bath Railway Path.

Previous meetings v Cardiff City
Games won: 35
Games drawn: 14
Games lost: 26

Ones to remember;
14 Nov 1931 Cardiff City v Queens Park Rangers W 0-4 Division Three (South)
11 Feb 1933 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 5-1 Division Three (South)
21 Oct 1933 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 4-0 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)

It seems we thrashed them for fun in the 1930's, but not so much since then...

08 Sep 1970 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 4-0 League Cup
28 Sep 1988 Queens Park Rangers v Cardiff City W 3-0 League Cup
11 Oct 1988 Cardiff City v Queens Park Rangers W 1-4 League Cup

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 - A friday night game if I'm not mistaken. I remember their fans singing '4-0 to the sheep shaggers...' Horrible night.

25 May 2003 Cardiff City v Queens Park Rangers L 1-0 League Division 2 Play-Offs - last minute winner that led to such a miserable drive home from the Millenium Stadium...another horrible day.

Players who have played for both;
Gerry Francis;
1968–1979 Queens Park Rangers 295 (53)
1981–1982 Queens Park Rangers 17 (4)
1984 Cardiff City 7 (0)

Matthew Brazier (RIP);
1994–1998 Queens Park Rangers 49 (2)
1998 → Cardiff City (loan) 11 (2)
1999–2002 Cardiff City 56 (3)

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

Leon Jeanne;
1997–2001 Queens Park Rangers 12 (0)
2001–2002 Cardiff City 2 (0)

Jay Bothroyd;
2008–2011 Cardiff City 116 (41)
2011–2013 Queens Park Rangers 25 (3)

Matthew Connolly;
2008–2012 Queens Park Rangers 116 (2)
2012– Cardiff City 137 (7)

Wayne Routledge;
2008–2009 → Cardiff City (loan) 9 (2)
2009–2010 Queens Park Rangers 44 (3)
2011 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 20 (5)

Brian Murphy;
2011–2015 Queens Park Rangers 2 (0)
2016– Cardiff City 5 (0)

Junior Hoilett;
2012–2016 Queens Park Rangers 112 (12)
2016– Cardiff City 118 (15)

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 8 (0)

Preview;
So, swiftly moving on from today...next up is a trip to recently relegated Cardiff City. They haven't had a great start to life back in the Championship, with four draws and one win in the last five. That, plus earlier losses to Reading and Wigan suggests to me that they are not enjoying being back in the second tier. We'll see a couple of familiar faces on Wednesday night, as Neil Warnock has Alex Smithies and Junior Hoilett.

From the official;
A RETURN to winning ways will be on Mark Warburton’s mind when he takes his QPR squad to Cardiff City on Wednesday night.

His R’s had enjoyed four successive victories ahead of Saturday’s game against West Bromwich Albion and that three-point feeling is one that they will be eager to rediscover in the Welsh capital.

Cardiff – who were relegated from the Premier League in May – come into the game in decent form themselves. They are unbeaten at home this term and have not tasted defeat in any of their last six league matches.

Team news
QPR: Yoann Barbet (suspended)

Cardiff City: Isaac Vassell (quadricep), Sol Bamba (knee)

Pre-match words
QPR Manager Mark Warburton: “We know what we face. It is another very, very tough encounter. Cardiff are very good at what they do and are very well managed. We will have to be at it. They have come down from the Premier League, they have dealt with that disappointment and we know they will be a very formidable outfit.”

Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock: “QPR have got a mixture of experience and youth, with one or two of the best young players in the league. We know how difficult it’s going to be on Wednesday night, but we’ve got some very good players who are in form as well. I think it promises to be a cracking game.”

 

Certainly one to remember was our 2-2 draw away in our Championship winning season, I watched it in a bar in Coral Bay and that was one of Adel's best performances for us effectively ending their receding promotion hopes. Not the best quality but here's the highlights...

 

Matthew Connolly played as did Wayne Routledge (however he was there on loan)
I am hoping that this game starts another 4 wins out of 5 sequence for the Super Hoops.

 

Bit worried about this one.

 

be nice to respond with a result, draw would be ok, but I fancy us to come away with all 3 points

 

A point would be a good result....

 

To turn Colin over at home would be nice !!

 

Can’t see this one ending well......but I’m ever hopeful

 

Love the optimism.

 

I'm allowed to look at match day threads again now that the baggies have blown my latest theory out the window.

Thinking of making the trip from Bristol, although maybe my absence is important.

 

I don't really believe in it either, but it's hard being me. I kick down every ladder I walk past, some of the ladder users get frustrated with that, I wheel around a barrow of sand a cement and always fill in cracks and it pains me every time I have to boot a black cat 20m down the street. Still, we're doing ok so far this season.

 

her first visit to cardiff
keep an eye out for her

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I bought a new ladder from my electrical wholesaler a couple of weeks ago. 6 tread, fibre construction. They said they cost £10 per tread, so I just asked for the top 2.

 

Would be glad of a point at Baaadiff but even that maybe hoping for a lot. Not the best fixture to try and get back to winning ways.

 

Just read on our official site that Eze played for the U18's today, which I find astonishing.
QPR U18s: Little, Paiva, Fahmy (Aoraha 11), Mahorn, Trialist, Kalathias (Gordon 60), Jude-Boyd, Griffith, Conte, Mema, Trialist (Eze 60).

Or do we have more than one Mr Eze on our books?