Match Day Thread Coventry City vs QPR

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Coventry vs QPR
The Championship
Saturday 23rd August 2025 -3pm
Coventry Building Society Arena​

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How to get there;
Drive : 2 hr to 2 hr 50 min (106 miles) via M40
Train : 2 hr 26 min on the tube to Euston then mainline to Nuneaton then local line to Coventry Arena.
Cycle : 9 hr 32 min (109 miles) via Oxford Canal Walk - plus some time to defrost.

Previous meetings vs Coventry;
Games won: 46
Games drawn: 32
Games lost: 52

Ones to remember;
03 Sep 1910 Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City W 5-0 Southern League First Division
05 Apr 1913 Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City W 4-0 Southern League First Division
28 Apr 1979 Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City W 5-1 League Division One
23 Oct 1993 Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City W 5-1 Premier League
02 Apr 2021 Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City W 3-0 League Championship

Ones to forget;
26 Apr 1928 Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City L 1-5 Division Three (South)
04 Mar 1933 Coventry City v Queens Park Rangers L 7-0 Division Three (South)
01 Feb 1936 Coventry City v Queens Park Rangers L 6-1 Division Three (South)
30 Aug 1952 Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City L 0-4 Division Three (South)
02 May 1955 Coventry City v Queens Park Rangers L 5-1 Division Three (South)
15 Sep 1956 Coventry City v Queens Park Rangers L 5-1 Division Three (South)
25 Feb 1969 Coventry City v Queens Park Rangers L 5-0 League Division One
15 Apr 2023 Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City L 0-3 League Championship

Players who have played for both;
John O’Rourke;
1969–1971 Coventry City 54 (17)
1971–1974 Q.P.R. 34 (12)

Gerry Francis;
1968–1979 Queens Park Rangers 295 (53)
1981–1982 Queens Park Rangers 17 (4)
1982–1983 Coventry City 50 (2)

John Beck;
1972–1976 Queens Park Rangers 40 (1)
1976–1978 Coventry City 69 (6)

Gary Bannister;
1978–1981 Coventry City 22 (3)
1984–1988 Queens Park Rangers 136 (56)
1988–1990 Coventry City 43 (11)

Mark Hateley;
1978–1983 Coventry City 93 (25)
1995–1997 Queens Park Rangers 27 (3)

Alan Brazil;
1986 Coventry City 15 (2)
1986 Queens Park Rangers 4 (1)

Kenny Samson;
1989–1991 Queens Park Rangers 64 (0)
1991–1993 Coventry City 51 (0)

Roy Wegerle;
1990–1992 Queens Park Rangers 65 (29)
1993–1995 Coventry City 53 (9)

Andy Impey;
1990–1997 Queens Park Rangers 188 (13)
2005–2006 Coventry City 16 (0)

Paul Furlong;
1991–1992 Coventry City 37 (4)
2000 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 3 (1)
2002 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 6 (2)
2002–2007 Queens Park Rangers 162 (54)

Jay Bothroyd;
2000–2003 Coventry City 72 (14)
2011–2013 Queens Park Rangers 25 (3)

Leon Best;
2004–2005 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 5 (0)
2007–2010 Coventry City 92 (19)

Leon Clarke;
2006 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 1 (0)
2010–2011 Queens Park Rangers 13 (0)
2013 → Coventry City (loan) 1 (0)
2013–2014 Coventry City 34 (23)

Gary Borrowdale;
2007–2009 Coventry City 21 (0)
2008–2009 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 0 (0)
2009–2013 Queens Park Rangers 22 (0)

Martin Cranie;
2007 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 6 (0)
2009–2012 Coventry City 114 (1)

Todd Kane;
2019–2021 Queens Park Rangers 60 (3)
2021–2023 Coventry City 38 (1)

Jake Bidwell;
2016–2019 Queens Park Rangers 122 (2)
2022– Coventry City 123 (3)

Match Preview;
Busy week on holiday so straight from the official site;

RANGERS return to Sky Bet Championship action at Coventry City on Saturday.
Following our opening-day draw against Preston and last weekend's reverse at Watford, Julien Stéphan's R's head to the Coventry Building Society Arena hunting a first league win of the campaign.

Lying in wait for QPR are a Coventry side unbeaten in their first two Sky Bet Championship fixtures this season.

Frank Lampard's Sky Blues were 5-3 victors at Derby last time out.
 
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No, it is a tough fixture to follow a shaky start. I would snap your hands off for a draw (with the proviso it doesn't come from a late home equaliser)
 
Cheers Dave. This is the closest away game to where I live, but putting the ground in the middle of nowhere, with virtually no public transport, no decent places to drink within miles and charging £20 to park is a powerful disincentive, so I’m not going. Birmingham, WBA and Leicester are much further in distance but infinitely more fun.

We shouldn’t have a chance in this one, so we’ll probably do ok.
 
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sb_73 said:
Cheers Dave. This is the closest away game to where I live, but putting the ground in the middle of nowhere, with virtually no public transport, no decent places to drink within miles and charging £20 to park is a powerful disincentive, so I’m not going. Birmingham, WBA and Leicester are much further in distance but infinitely more fun.

We shouldn’t have a chance in this one, so we’ll probably do ok.
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The big Spoons in the centre is quite pleasant and run by a QPR fan. The something Standard. Flying Standard? Royal Standard? Standard Standard?

Anyway I’m sacking it off this year. Had considered going via Leamington for a change of scenery.
 
Star of David Bardsley said:
The big Spoons in the centre is quite pleasant and run by a QPR fan. The something Standard. Flying Standard? Royal Standard? Standard Standard?

Anyway I’m sacking it off this year. Had considered going via Leamington for a change of scenery.
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Flying Standard. Then you have to get on a bus with a load of locals to get to the Tescos, sorry stadium. Last year I got the train from Leamington which was fine, but one an hour and impossible to get on one coming back. Ended up a £50 taxi ride.
 
sb_73 said:
Flying Standard. Then you have to get on a bus with a load of locals to get to the Tescos, sorry stadium. Last year I got the train from Leamington which was fine, but one an hour and impossible to get on one coming back. Ended up a £50 taxi ride.
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We just got an Uber last time. The football peasant wagon is a step too far having saved a small fortune in Spoons.
 
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Some good memories at Cov (I think my dad left me at home for the Eoin Jess game, probably for the best).

Winning in the last minute as Santos bundled one in half a yard over the line the last time I think we played at Highfield Road. A proper ground before this Ikea monstrosity vaguely in Coventry they’re in now.

Adomah getting the winner in another 2-1 which we didn’t deserve in a run of games where we often won in games we really deserved to draw and it seemed we were set for big things. It went to **** very soon after.

A crap QPR team’s resurgence under John Gregory as the mighty Jimmy Smith scored there for I think a 1-0 win with a home attendance of about 583.

Chair’s delightful goal in a meaningless last day game two seasons ago.

Some stinkers too, not least the very first league game at the stadium.
 
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I can’t see us getting anything out this game, so much so, l’m not even considering coming over for it. Just hope it’s a respectable result and our new manager can get the players gelling…….
 
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JS has said that Dunne will be available for this match and Poku should be back for the Wrexham game.
 
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WBA2_QPR3 said:
Nice one Dave

Call me negative but I don't see us getting much from this one
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I am on agreement with you, although I still stubbornly put us down for a win. This lot score for fun, I believe they won 5-3 in their last game away from home!
 
QPR: Julien Stephan on Watford loss, identity and Coventry City - BBC Sport https://share.google/ZUJzuRHeNHLG6uunn

'Fans shouldn't expect a string of wins to begin the Championship season and Stephan wants the fanbase to be patient as he and the club carry out their project.'

We are officially "A Project"
 
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