Queens Park Rangers v Swindon Town Official Matchday Thread

[Berniman]

Great night.  Shaded the first half and deserved to be 1 up.  Ranger won everything in the air, he is like Zebedee.  Thought QPR got away with a lot of challenges, jumping in, leading to Smith getting injured.  The Ref was a homer, except for he didn't seem to like Charlie.

Have to say I thought the abuse of Charlie was OTT.  I know he has moved on and it is the norm, but after the goals he scored for us, and being a relatively local lad, I couldn't hand out the shit that was handed out tonight.  Would we treat Nathan Thompson the same if he moved on under the same circumstances?

To go against the majority, I thought Pritchard was poor, very lightweight and ineffective.  As much as his goal was a great relief, I can't say I agree with the quality of it, more down to perseverance than skill.  I was crying out for Storey to replace him instead of Ranger, we might as well have not had a striker on the pitch after Ranger went off, Storey is not able to play up front on his own and was lazy in tracking back, which at the time is what we needed.

Still, great result, and good to be there.  Thought Wes, Ward, Nathan and Ranger played well, and Luongo ran himself into the ground.

Thought the fans were good, except for the young knobs after that thought it would be clever to start singing on a full train whilst pounding on the roof. And then the four of them goading the one Arsenal fan on the train with our Arsenal Cup Final song.  Stick to the Fanta boys...

[jayohaitchenn]

We're going to get absolutely twatted tonight. 5 - 0 at least.

Dr Chang eat your heart out!

[london_red]

Well that wasn't bad. Played better football than a strong QPR side boasting internationals for at least an hour.

Did drop deeper and came under pressure once Ranger came off, but he looked fucked and hardly a shock he couldn't play 180 minutes in 4 days yet.

All in all pleasing to see quality, work rate and the right tactical and personnel decisions being made. What more can you ask for really?

Obviously won't be like this every week but should give them confidence, and it's nice to know how good we can be when it clicks.

[Peter Venkman]

I was driving back from a week in Edinburgh so didnt get to hear it but was getting txt updates, wasn't too sure when I got a txt saying Ranger 1-0 whether they missed the letter 's' off the end .

Fantastic result though and very proud of them.

[Dr Pierre Chang]

Superb evening, will post more about the match in a bit..but I hope that shuts up the 'midtable will be a great season brigade'. That showed what this side can be capable of and there are more signings to come.

My man of the match, Kasim, I have found him hit or miss so far but he was superb last night. Likewise Grant Hall.

[Forza_Swindon]

Extremely pleased that my usual trick of totally avoiding away game commentary worked! (had Soccer Saturday on for Shrews game, maybe I'd best give that up too...?)

Think I'd like a similar level opponent but at home in the next round - reasonably exciting but not totally unrealistic in terms of winning it...

[Bathtime]

Great result....hopefully this will arrest some of the negative shit that has been written on here recently. Slight problem that there is not much strength in depth in our squad so I am sure there will be ample opportunity for the negative types to return.

Keep the faith in the Red Army.

[Reg Smeeton]

Great result....hopefully this will arrest some of the negative shit that has been written on here recently. Slight problem that there is not much strength in depth in our squad so I am sure there will be ample opportunity for the negative types to return.

Why not just enjoy a decent win for a few days...

[pauld]

Why not just enjoy a decent win for a few days...

Quite so. We were great, enjoy it, not everything needs to be turned into a "Yah boo sucks, see told you so".

Have to say I thought the abuse of Charlie was OTT.  I know he has moved on and it is the norm, but after the goals he scored for us, and being a relatively local lad, I couldn't hand out the shit that was handed out tonight.  Would we treat Nathan Thompson the same if he moved on under the same circumstances?

May have been where you were, but all I heard was "Charlie, Charlie what's the score?" (and once slightly amended to "Charlie, where do you score?" ) which seemed fairly reasonable/tame to me tbh. If there was more than that then I'd agree, no need for it. Always find it a bit embarrassing when we do that tbh, it's like the jilted ex who can't move on, just makes you look petty.

Anyway, I like playing Charlie in the 2nd round of the League Cup - pretty much a bye!

[corner]

Ball no,20 in the next round draw tonight.

[Saxondale]

Just watched the highlights on STFC player.  The bbc text feed last night said that QPR had a clear penalty turned down.  Yep, apart from the fact that he clearly took the ball.

Its all very promising at the moment apart from the lack of depth to our squad.  An injury to central defence or striker and we're a bit fucked.  Hope this gets sorted.

[Langers]

That dive from their left back was embarrassing too, good to see the ref spotted it.

It was hilarious when Austin scored, it took the QPR fans a good minute to realise it was disallowed 

[jayohaitchenn]

Are the highlights online anywhere? Having trouble logging on to player.

[london_red]

That dive from their left back was embarrassing too, good to see the ref spotted it.

It was hilarious when Austin scored, it took the QPR fans a good minute to realise it was disallowed 

And me 

[sonicyouth]

And me 

And the commentator despite Ling repeatedly saying "offside" to him