Match Day Thread QPR v Southampton 07.02.15

Kick-off: Saturday 7th February 2015 at 15:00.
Venue: Loftus Road.

Injury news:
Southampton: Schneiderlin and Wanyama are back in training and will be fit. Alderweireld will rejoin training later this week and could be ready. Rodriguez is a long term absentee.

QPR: Taarabt missed the Stoke game through injury, but should return to the squad. Long term absentees include, Faurlin, Traore and Sandro.

Form:
QPR:
DDLLLL

Southampton:
DWWWLL

Likely teams:
QPR:
Green
Isla Dunne Caulker Hill
Barton Fer Henry Krancjar
Vargas Austin

Southampton:
Forster
Clyne Fonte Alderweireld Targett
Schneiderlin Wanyama
Tadic Davis Elia
Pelle

Match Officials:
Referee: Roger East
Assistants: R West and M Scholes
Fourth official: D Coote

Prediction: 1-1.
COYR!

 

Tadic has been a bit of the pace recently and does not appear 100% fit to me so I would start with Mane instead and go at QPR from the start.
I think we will bounce back and win this.

 

Doubt Toby will be fit...we haven't even seen him (unlike Wanyama and Schneiderlin). My prediction is 3-1.

 

If Toby is fit:

Forster
Fonte Toby Yoshida
Clyne Davis Wanyama Morgan Elia
Pelle Mane

Davis, Gardos, Targett, Reed, JWP, Tadic, Djuricic

 

I don't see Redknapp going as a positive really. Swansea had just lost their star striker and their best midfielder couldn't play, so it should have been easy, right? I would rather have played QPR just as they were, thank you.

 

What's up Beefy? Nothing to say?

 

If Redknapp has left for the reason he stated, there would be no reason for these 2 to leave until a new manager came in.

 

With Yoshida back, I reckon we might go to 3 at the back.

 

He has written something.

 

Sherwood it is then (it would seem).

 

QPR fans still reckon that Redknapp has done a good job, well he got them back up I suppose, but look where they are now. He is incapable of building a team...hires masses of players and just hopes that somehow everything will fall into place. He just makes steam come out of my ears

 

I have always thought Harry Redknapp was what we used to call a lucky manager. As some have said he seemed to usually get a few has-beens together who have pulled it off for him. As things go a bit wrong he doesn't seem to have the ability to find a way out without almost bankrupting his club by buying or borrowing loads of players. Not sure his tactical awareness is up to scratch these days either.

 

The problem with Redknapp is that he can't seem to see anything beyond getting new players in. The idea of actually coaching and improving those you already have seems like an anathema to him.

 

I reckon he's worried about being thrashed on Saturday 0-5 and decided to leave now before the mighty Saints demolish them?

 

Ok, so that explains the twitch.

 

Just - check out their results and form following Sshteve McClaren's departure to Derby.

 

Les Ferdinand has been appointed as "Director of Football" at QPR...

 

Ramsey/Bond in temporary charge.

 

I'm a bit confused that were playing a match at the unusual time of 3pm on a Saturday.