Match Day Thread Huddersfield Town vs QPR

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Huddersfield vs QPR
English Championship
Saturday 8th February 2020 - 15:00
John Smith's Stadium

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Travel;
Drive: 3 and half hours and 190 miles up the M1.
Train : Just over 4 hours from Kings Cross to Leeds then the Transpennine Express train to Huddersfield.
Cycle : 18 h 19 min (205 miles) via National Cycle Rte 6

Previous Meetings vs Huddersfield;
Games won: 13
Games drawn: 9
Games lost: 12

Ones to remember;
20 Apr 1968 Queens Park Rangers v Huddersfield Town W 3-0 League Division Two
17 Sep 2002 Queens Park Rangers v Huddersfield Town W 3-0 League Division 2
04 Mar 2003 Huddersfield Town v Queens Park Rangers W 0-3 League Division 2

Ones to forget;
23 Jan 1932 Huddersfield Town v Queens Park Rangers L 5-0 FA Cup
15 Jan 1949 Huddersfield Town v Queens Park Rangers L 5-0 FA Cup
17 Oct 1998 Huddersfield Town v Queens Park Rangers L 2-0 League Division 1

Players who have played for both;
Kevin Gallen;
1994–2000 Queens Park Rangers 172 (36)
2000–2001 Huddersfield Town 38 (10)
2001–2007 Queens Park Rangers 197 (54)

Alex Smithies;
2007–2015 Huddersfield Town 247 (0)
2015–2018 Queens Park Rangers 107 (0)

Joel Lynch;
2012–2016 Huddersfield Town 122 (8)
2016–2019 Queens Park Rangers 90 (7)

Nahki Wells;
2014 → Huddersfield Town (loan) 1 (1)
2014–2017 Huddersfield Town 143 (44)
2018–2019 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 40 (7)
2019–2020 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 26 (13)

Match Preview;
Heading up north to visit 20th place Huddersfield, who have 1 win in their last 5 games, and sit only 3 points above the relegation zone. Seems they are in serious danger of doing the double drop, having been relegated from the Premiership last season. Obvious threat from them is from Karlan Grant, who has 13 goals so far this season...so 2 more than our top scorer (that still plays for us) Hugill, who has 11.

We'll be hoping to bounce back after a disappointing home loss to Bristol City as, realistically, we now don't really have much to play for during the rest of the season...which, to be honest, I am quite happy with. At one point I was worrying we'd be dragged down the table, but that hasn't happened...but we haven't been consistent enough this year to mount any sort of climb towards the playoffs.

Team news
QPR: Geoff Cameron (suspended), Charlie Owens (knee).

Huddersfield: Kamil Grabara (head), Jonathan Hogg (hamstring).

 

9 points off a relagation place, hmmm, quite a lot to play for still.

 

Kevin Gallen

 

Fair point, maybe I'm being overly confident, a dangerous error.

 

Slim chance I might get to this as another grandchild due any day in Manchester.

If I find myself up North over weekend, I might excuse myself for a bit!

 

Now that is dedication from a Grandfather. So good to see.

 

They were cr2p most of the season but recently won away at Hull.
The thing that worries me most is that they are only 6 points behind us (3 if the beat us)... that is not good as they in that relegation area.

 

what kit will we wear?

 

I reckon Kiwi will know.

He is very well connected!

 

We will be mint fresh

 

Maybe we should wear the mint shirts with blue shorts and socks just to avoid too much sameness....

 

Probably our best chance of a point given we’ll be passing it to them all match regardless.

 

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first time these girls have been to huddersfield
if you see them say hello

 

Clive's preview which highlights the parts of Les Ferdinand's interview with the evening standard that wasn't widely reported......in his opinion we're around 18 months to 2 years away from being competitive again.......first time that a timescale has been mentioned by club...

https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/51913/the-end-of-the-tunnel--preview

 

Safe to assume we’re getting pumped today.

Good luck to anyone travelling.

 

By all accounts after they went 3-0 down at the Ruperts last week they fairly outplayed them for the rest of the match and were unlucky to lose. They've still got some of their Premier League players so another tough afternoon in prospect.

My late brother-in-law lived there in the 90s, the town is a shytehole but drive 15 minutes away from their ground and you're out in stunning countryside up by Emley Moor, that might be a better choice today...

 

FFP is the unfunniest joke of the century.
In reality, we are still the only club that has been punished (Brum's was also unfunny).
I am really looking forward to other clubs getting whacked: but they probably won't!

 

Barbet being back is a positive.

Amos retaining his place for another 62 minutes of nothing isn’t. Unfortunate that Shodipo is the one to lose out on the bench but Pugh is clearly having an illicit affair with Warburton.

 

Oteh on the bench. Hope he is up to it!