2006-07 Season

18th in the Championship
League Cup: 2nd round: Port Vale a. 2-3
FA Cup: 3rd round replay: Luton Town a. 0-1

Highlight:
4-2 win over Crystal Palace, 4/11/06

Low Spot:
0-5 drubbing at Southend United, 9/2/07

Good:
Lee Cook
Talented left sider who is attracting attention from the Premier League. Takes people on which is becoming a rarer treat for spectators these days.
Martin Rowlands
QPR aren't the leagues' most prolific scorers so the ten Rowlands chipped in with were very welcome. Especially dangerous with a dead ball.

Bad:
Zesh Rehman
Much was expected of the defender signed from Fulham but he looked ill at ease even at this level and spent a spell on loan in League One with Brighton.
Marc Nygaard
Hulking striker who is almost preposterously immobile. Not really very good in the air either, considering his size. No good on the deck if we're being honest.
What exactly does this guy bring to the party?

In Brief:
This turned out to be a long and trying season for QPR. A poor start saw Gary Waddock sacked and John Gregory brought in as manager.
Three wins at the start of November suggested that Gregory was the man to turn things around but these were followed by five straight defeats and relegation was a constant fear from then on.
The club enjoyed a productive April when four games out of five were won to stave of the threat of relegation but there was nothing to truly convince the onlooker that next season promises anything substantially better.
Gregory based his approach almost wholly on the physical with towering centre forwards chasing and jumping after hopeful high balls forward for the most part.
This is hardly in keeping with the fine footballing traditions of this club but needs must, I suppose.
Hopefully next season will see an improvement in the quality of entertainment as well as the league position.

Q.P.R - Club History

Queens Park Rangers Football Club originated from the amalgamation of two teams in 1885 and was known as St Judes, changing to its' present name two years later.

The club moved to Loftus Road in 1917 and has been based there since, bar for two short stays at the White City.

In 1920 they became founder members of Division Three South and remained stuck in that division until 1948 when the club enjoyed a very good season, winning the Division Three South championship and making it through to the quarter finals of the FA Cup before crashing 5-0 to Derby County in a replay.

There was a quick return to the lower standard, however, and when the divisions split they settled into the new third division until a burst of activity in the late 1960's.

In 1967, under the management of Alec Stock, the club won both the Division Three title and the League Cup, after a thrilling victory over West Bromwich Albion in the first final staged at Wembley.

This was followed instantly by promotion to the first division but the rise was too sudden and an emphatic relegation was the result, the club managing only four wins and eighteen points for the entire season.

When QPR next went back into the top flight, however, they were better prepared for the big time and in 1976 they were pipped to the league title by Liverpool by a single point.

This team was founded on the experienced core of Frank McLintock, Dave Webb and John Hollins, included the England internationals Phil Parkes, Dave Clement, Ian Gillard, Gerry Francis, Dave Thomas and Stan Bowles as well as the two Don's, Masson and Givens.

Unfortunately this was the peak of the clubs achievements and this side quickly broke up. The clubs progress was also hampered by the major injury problems suffered by the inspirational captain, Francis.

The club slipped back into the second division but the FA Cup final it reached in 1982, losing narrowly to Spurs after a replay, showed a new team was ready for the first division, to where they returned in 1983.

From then onwards QPR enjoyed a thirteen year stay in the top flight, easily the longest in their history, but despite producing a series of competitive sides and many outstanding individuals, the nearest they came to any silverware was the League Cup final they reached in 1986, only to lose comprehensively to an inspired Oxford United.

Presently the club are trying to establish themselves in the Football League Championship after a few disturbing years in which financial concerns and a drop into the second division caused concern about the clubs future.

Two of QPR's standing records are of interest for their unusual nature.

The most goals scored in any one game for Rangers is four. This feat has been managed on six occassions but by only two men.

George Goddard scored four on four occassions between 1929 and 31 and Tom Cheetham did so twice in 1935 and 38, both times against Aldershot.

Another surprising statistic is that the clubs record defeat stands at 8-1, a scoreline that was recorded against Rangers twice in the space of four years, firstly by Mansfield Town in the third division in 1965 and then repeated by Manchester United in 1969, this time in the first division, however.

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