Match Day Thread Sheffield Wednesday vs QPR

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Sheffield Wednesday vs QPR
Hillsborough
Sunday 5th May 2019 - 12:30pm

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Travel;
Public Transport : 3 hours 18 minutes round the circle line to St Pancras then up the East Midland Line to Sheffield, then the #8 bus to the ground.
Drive : 3 hours 27 minutes and 167 miles up the M1
Cycle : 15 h 42 min (183 miles) via National Cycle Rte 6

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Previous Meetings vs Sheffield Wednesday;
Games won: 23
Games drawn: 17
Games lost: 30

Ones to remember;
14 Aug 1971 Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield Wednesday W 3-0 League Division Two
06 Nov 1973 Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield Wednesday W 8-2 League Cup
24 Aug 1994 Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield Wednesday W 3-2 Premier League - my first game at Loftus Road. Happy memories.
29 Nov 2003 Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield Wednesday W 3-0 League Division 2
08 May 2004 Sheffield Wednesday v Queens Park Rangers W 1-3 League Division 2:
Couple in this that are in with a shout for the top job now:

23 Oct 2018 Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield Wednesday W 3-0 League Championship

Ones to forget:
14 Dec 1968 Sheffield Wednesday v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 League Division One
02 May 1987 Sheffield Wednesday v Queens Park Rangers L 7-1 League Division One

31 Aug 1991 Sheffield Wednesday v Queens Park Rangers L 4-1 League Division One
02 Dec 1992 Sheffield Wednesday v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 League Cup
09 Sep 1995 Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield Wednesday L 0-3 Premier League
02 Dec 2000 Sheffield Wednesday v Queens Park Rangers L 5-2 League Division 1

Players who have played for both:
Gary Bannister;
1981–1984 Sheffield Wednesday 118 (55)
1984–1988 Queens Park Rangers 136 (56)

Andy Sinton:
1989–1993 Queens Park Rangers 161 (22)
1993–1996 Sheffield Wednesday 62 (3)

Adam Bolder;
2007–2009 Queens Park Rangers 40 (2)
2008 → Sheffield Wednesday (loan) 13 (2)

Jay Bothroyd;
2011–2013 Queens Park Rangers 25 (3)
2012–2013 →Sheffield Wednesday (loan) 14 (1)

Match Preview
Fortunately both teams go into this game with nothing to play for. Depending on how results go, Sheffield Wednesday could finish as high as 8th or as low as 13th. We could also climb to 17th with a win and a 25 goal swing in our favour, which would take us above Birmingham. If we lose, we could finish 20th.

I'm just pleased we finish the season with a meaningless game, and no worries of the drop. I always wanted this season to be a year of steadying the ship, and getting things sorted on and off the pitch. Frustratingly, I don't really feel that has happened. The new stadium is still a dim and distant dream, we have gone through another manager and find ourselves with yet another caretaker manager in charge as the powers that be again promise to 'get the right man'. As we go into the summer I'm expecting a lot of players to be heading out, but can't see us being an attractive option for players we might want to sign.

That said, it hasn't been all doom and gloom. I have enjoyed watching Freeman this year, and think he has developed into a very good player...and youngsters like Eze and Bright-Samuel have been given the chance to progress. All good stuff. I'm sure there will be a thread reviewing the season as a whole, but in the midst of the chaos there have been some positives.

Not much to add from the official, we even had the same 'classic enconter'...but here it is;
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2018/19 will come to an end for QPR on Sunday lunch-time when they head north to face Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.

The clash will bring the curtain down on what has been a very up-and-down season for the R’s.

After a difficult start, Rangers enjoyed a fantastic autumn, which took them to the brink of the play-off places, but since the turn of the year they have been unable to sustain a good run of form.

Any fears of relegation were quashed by a thumping victory over Swansea City last month and at the weekend the R’s will want to go out on a positive note.

They will be supported by more than 500 fans at Hillsborough and, depending on caretaker boss John Eustace’s team selection, the traveling R’s may well get to see some of the club’s younger players in action again.

COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!! ​

 

staceys hoping to make this game

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She’s a real cool dude

 

Oh another one, no, make it stop

 

not long now till the pre season friendlies start

 

I promise this will be the last one for a while.

 

Although we've got nothing to actually play for, I demand that the players make a statement with this game. Eustace should also make a statement with his team selection, that he means business.

Basically, people need to show that they still want to be at the club.

 

Stacey! Yeh, have seen her a few games, but she never turns up on the day.

 

Stacey has saved the thread for me

 

Bump

 

I was wondering if anyone had gone and then noticed its tomorrow

 

It sure has!

One can really feel the excitement and anticipation for this match.

 

For the first time ever, QPR box office rang to ask if I'm renewing my ST (I'm not). Smacks of desperation?

 

Bansal-McNulty?

 

Under 23's - could have been an actor apparently, certainly has the name...

 

Mine has always been electing to renew on a year by year basis. I nearly lost my seat last season because I renewed late. It may be you ticked a box originally agreeing to automatic renewal. This is the first time ever that the club has contacted me to renew, which makes me think figures are down this year

 

Line up smacks of next seasons first 11

 

I’ve been getting regular emails asking me to renew for the last few months, even though I haven’t had an ST for about 4 seasons. I’d get one if it was about half the price (still well over £500) that I’m being offered, but knowing that there is zero chance that I will attend many of the 23 home games makes it a daft decision.

Data management chaos.