Match Day Thread Swansea vs QPR

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Swansea City vs QPR
The Championship
Saturday May 7th at 12:30pm
The Swansea.com Stadium

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How to get there;
Drive : 3 hr - 3 hr 50 min (186 miles) down the M4.
Train : 4 hr 21 minutes along the Hammersmith and City Line to Paddington then Great Western Railway to Swansea, then X6 Cymru Clipper to the stadium.
Cycle : 19 hr 22 min (219 miles) via National Cycle Rte 47

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Previous meetings vs Swansea;
Games won: 21
Games drawn: 15
Games lost: 16

Ones to remember;
15 Jan 1966 Queens Park Rangers v Swansea Town W 6-2 League Division Three
26 Dec 2010 Queens Park Rangers v Swansea City W 4-0 League Championship

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11 Apr 2012 Queens Park Rangers v Swansea City W 3-0 Premier League
13 Apr 2019 Queens Park Rangers v Swansea City W 4-0 League Championship
05 Jan 2020 Queens Park Rangers v Swansea City W 5-1 FA Cup

Ones to forget;
02 Apr 1923 Swansea Town v Queens Park Rangers L 3-0 Division Three (South)
18 Nov 2001 Swansea City v Queens Park Rangers L 4-0 FA Cup
18 Aug 2012 Queens Park Rangers v Swansea City L 0-5 Premier League.

Players who have played for both;
Robbie James;
1973–1983 Swansea City 393 (102)
1984–1987 Queens Park Rangers 87 (5)
1988–1990 Swansea City 90 (16)

Leighton James;
1977–1978 Queens Park Rangers 28 (4)
1980–1983 Swansea City 88 (27)

Leon Knight;
2001 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 11 (0)
2006–2007 Swansea City 25 (19)

Karl Connolly;
2000–2003 Queens Park Rangers 72 (12)
2003–2004 Swansea City 10 (1)

Angel Rangel;
2007–2018 Swansea City 328 (9)
2018–2021 Queens Park Rangers 41 (2)

Steven Caulker;
2011–2012 → Swansea City (loan) 26 (0)
2014–2017 Queens Park Rangers 50 (3)

Wayne Routledge
2009–2010 Queens Park Rangers 44 (3)
2011 → Queens Park Rangers (loan) 20 (5)
2011– Swansea City 259 (25)

Leroy Fer;
2014–2016 Queens Park Rangers 48 (8)
2016 → Swansea City(loan) 11 (0)
2016–2019 Swansea City 79 (8)

Jake Bidwell;
2016–2019 Queens Park Rangers 122 (2)
2019–2022 Swansea City 92 (3)

Ryan Manning;
2015–2020 Queens Park Rangers 87 (7)
2018–2019 → Rotherham United (loan) 18 (4)
2020– Swansea City 55 (2)

Match Preview;
Two former Premier League sides meeting on the last day of the season, this being Swansea's fourth consecutive season in the Championship. I suspect they, like us, would have been hoping for a promotion push this season but it hasn't happened. As we all know, here ends a very disappointing season for us. A season that promised so much until January, and has been woefully disappointing since January.

Given that, absolutely nothing to play for us except league position. Currently we are 12th in the table. A massive win, and other results going our way could lift us to 9th, and I guess a top ten finish would be nice. A loss, and we'll definitely drop below Swansea, and could finish as low as 16th. Swansea are currently 15th, and could finish as high as 10th if they make up a 12 goal difference, but they could only drop to 16th with a loss. Their main threat is Joël Piroe, who has 24 goals so far, then Michael Obafemi with 12. In comparison, our three joint top scorers, Dykes, Chair and Gray have 9 each.

Hats off if you are making the journey, and will be there to give Warburton, Austin and numerous others a final farewell, and then we'll see what the summer brings.

Team News:
QPR: Jordan Archer, David Marshall, Seny Dieng, Rob Dickie, Moses Odubajo and Chris Willock will miss out for the R’s, with Lee Wallace and Yoann Barbet doubts.

Swansea City: Ben Cabango is out, whilst Korey Smith and Ben Hamer will be pushing for starts.

Pre-match talk:
Mark Warburton (QPR Manager): “We know we have let ourselves down in recent weeks, but we have enough quality in this squad and it’s important that we show that once again tomorrow.

“We have fans making the trip and I hope very much we can deliver a performance that we are proud of.

Russell Martin (Swansea City Manager): “We want to win the game. It’s not about sentiment. It’s about us trying to win a game of football.

“We’ve lost one in 10, we’ve been in great form since the turn of the year really. It’s been a year of ups and downs and we want to finish things off right for the supporters.”

...COME ON YOU SUPER HOOPSA!!!

 

Great work through the season Dave. Big thanks for all the effort put in

 

Yeah, cheers Dave.






But......do we have to.....?

 

I'm going to have to find the motivation to bother to watch this one

 

Thanks for all your hard work Dave over the season but afraid I can't be bothered with this one.

 

Leighton James played for both!

Cheers Dave for continuing this penance so doggedly….

 

Lots of excitement over this game then! Wonder how many will actually go. More info about pubs/restaurants on the official site here;

https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/features/away-fans-guide-swansea-city-050522/

 

It's on QPR+ outside the UK I think so I'll be watching if the Wifi is ip for it.

 

I take my hat off to any QPR fans who make the journey. I may be RTID (thank you, by the way, to the thousands who chant my name week after week!) but they, surely, bleed blue and white Hoops! Respect.

 

https://www.not606.com/threads/swansea-city-v-qpr.400433/

Feel free to post on the threads lads

 

Today’s pre-match introduction from the Swans:

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/pr.../preview-swansea-city-v-queens-park-rangers-0

 

I'd be watching on QPR+ except for some reason I had it in my head the game was tomorrow. Ah well probably just as well I'll miss it, the excitement might be too much to handle.

 

Only five subs named. He really hates our U23s. Ball gets a kick as CB it seems.

 

And 2 of the 5 are Keepers. Hate? He just doesn't rate any of the available U23's enough at the moment, I don't think.

Seny back!

 

Ridiculous to the last.
What harm to give a couple of U23s a first team matchday experience?

There have obviously been serious problems behind the scenes.
I have so many questions like:
Why didn't we really go for it in January?
Why was Austin so unfit looking?
Did we really not play him to stop a 2nd year being triggered?
Is it true that Warburton hardly even spoke to our U23 set up?

I'll always have reservations about Warburton's selections, tactics etc and I'll never be able to shake the feeling of not liking him very much, but I really want to know the whole story.
The club seems to be in a right old mess, just when we thought we were approaching some sensible, calmer waters.

Is Dunne injured?

 

Doesn’t think they are good enough to sit on a bench for 95 minutes? And just get a bit of match day experience? Wow.

 

Kind of exposes his stubborn and, in my opinion, possibly vindictive traits.

 

Why does he need to rate them for a dead rubber game that we have every chance of losing with or without them. What harm can it do?

 

Five subs named in his last game in charge. Making a point by snubbing the under 23's as his last act. All ending in quite a petty way, such a shame. Why not just name two under 23's and give them the experience, even if they only sit on the bench?

 

FFS not enough subs & two goal keepers, why the **** can’t he play 3 youngsters