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THE MATCH - TUESDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2016 7.45PM KO


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Back to fortress Hillsborough for a Tuesday night game against one of last seasons relegated prem teams.  QPR have certainly not lived up to their potential this season, especially as surprisingly they kept hold of Austin and Phillips in the summer!!  Austin has now gone but they didn't really make use of the two true quality player that they have.  Their form was so disappointing that they recently changed manager and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has stepped up a division to try to rebuild them and move them back to the prem.

So even though at the  start of the season we would have seen this as a potentially difficult game, they have not challenged like Hull and Burnley have and this becomes a game that will obviously not be easy but is one we should be able to win.

This will be our 64th meeting with QPR and our record is decent at W28 D15 L21.  Our home record against them is excellent, standing at W21 D3 L8, and we have won 4 out of the last 5 at home!!  Our game at Loftus Road earlier in the season ended 0-0 with CC playing what looks like a semi-reserve side for us.  Our last game against them at S6 ended in a nice 3-0 win with Maguire, Best and Buxton getting the goals and them being reduced to 10 men after 33 mins:



LINKS BETWEEN THE CLUBS

Past Players
Gary Bannister, Ron and Peter Springett and Simon Stainrod played for both clubs.  Of course the Springett brothers was an interesting one with us selling Ron to them in exchange for his brother Peter coming the other way!!

Past Managers
Steve Burtenshaw and Trevor Francis have managed both clubs and our ex-player Jim Magilton has also managed them.

I am sure there are other links between the clubs, if you know of any please feel free to mention!!


THE LAST MATCH

All good things come to an end and all that!!!  Against a form team, on their patch, reduced to 10 men and not clicking on all cylinders either led to a disappointing 1-0 defeat at Preston, our first defeat of the current year.  By no means a disaster and we are still nicely placed in the playoff spots but it does put a bit more pressure on this match to get a result.  No real stand out performances and obviously losing FF really hurt our chances of taking anything from this game.  As I said, disappointing!!


OUR TEAM

Well we know FF won't feature in this game but do we see any other changes as well??  Hutch may well be back for this one but if not I am sure Sasso will continue at CB, unless of course Hutch comes back into midfield.  Where was McGeady on Saturday as well??  So who will replace FF??  Will it be McGeady as a winger or will it be Matias in a bit more of a roving role or maybe McGugan just behind a front 2??  Either way FF will be missed but we are not a one-man team these days. 

Westwood

Hunt  Sasso Lees  Pudil

Lee  Hutchinson  Bannan  

McGugan 

Hooper Joao

Lets attack from the start, especially as we seem to usually start so slow, lets get a lead and then push on from there!!


WHO'S THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK

Ref - ANDY DAVIES
Assts - Wayne Barratt and Paul Hodskinson
Fourth Official - Graham Salisbury

MS will hopefully give us the skinny on this guy in previous Owls games!!


CURRENT FORM - League games only

SWFC -      
QPR -  


BIG MAN'S LEAGUE

Current Table

Owlkev  
Imre        
Jacko  
Towinjustonce 
Pei  
Wereham    
Stateside  
Madsteve  
Thurnscoe       
Maddix  
Consilio    
Bottesford  
St Charles  
Wellowlbe
Southey    
Owlshighgreen
Washington
A57owl 


SCORE AND SCORER (SWFC score first, no copying, correct for both only will win, defeats are allowed)

1-0 Lee - Imre
1-0 Hooper - Madsteve
1-1 Nuhiu - Actual Score and Scorer
2-0 Lee - Washington
2-1 Hooper - St Charles
2-1 Bannan - Wereham
2-1 Lee - Owlkev
2-1 Joao - Towinjustonce
3-0 Joao - Consilio
3-1 Hooper - Southey
3-1 Joao - Thurnscoe
3-2 Hooper - Stateside
3-2 Nuhiu - Jacko
6-1 Nuhiu - Maddix


ATTENDANCE (Closest to wins, no copying and no closer than 50 off any previous prediction)

17,666 - Imre
18,188 - Washington
18,500 - Thurnscoe
18,666 - Madsteve
18,888 - Towinjustonce
19,211 - Owlkev
19,233 - Actual Attendance
19,400 - Jacko
19,669 - Maddix
19,754 - Wereham
19,899 - Southey
19,999 - Consilio
20,162 - St Charles
20,450 - Stateside


OTHER RESULTS TO PREDICT (Copying is allowed, all 5 correct will win)

Birmingham v Bolton
Bristol City v Brighton
Burnley v Nottm Forest
Ipswich v Hull
Middlesbrough v Cardiff

DDDDD - Imre
DDDHD - Washington
DDHDD - St Charles
HAADH - Stateside
HAHAH - Wereham
HDHAH - Owlkev
HDHDA - Southey
HDHDD - Madsteve
HDHDH - Towinjustonce
HHHAH - Jacko
HHHDD - Thurnscoe
HHHDH - Maddix
HHHHH - Consilio

THE MUPPET LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PICS





Love this pic!!




The thread awaits the Meggo of Stateside's choice.

Cheers, SCO!

There's a slim chance I've posted this before Maddix.

Ok, no more of the negative stuff. Lets pick ourselves up and power on with 3pts against these sacred bobar stains.

3-2 Hooper

20,450

HAADH

This will be our game plan, CC will get as high as a kite in his office.

Dont think there will be many here for this one as QPR will not even fill a nissan platina up ? so im going for 17,666 and unfortunatly we only have Hooper to relay on for Goals so if he has a bad game ( which he is allowed ) we wont see more than a goal in this game . My heart says 1-0 LEE which ill go with    but my head says 1-1   The other silly prediction stick me all draws down   

Id play Hutch instead of wallace if we had forest !! but we dont so they both must play and id be tempted to play mcgeady is hes fit   id stick wallace up there with nuhui and hooper and mcgeady in wallces hole   it wont happen though as i think hutch will play and we will play the dreaded 4-4-2 with nuhui and hooper on there jacks   there are so many combinations that could be played though which is a bonus as Qpr will not know how to analyse this games tactics from us   got to win this one to keep the Automatic dream alive anything less and its walked out of the door . the playoffs on the other hand will only command a draw from this    and i keep banging on about this !! but im telling you now we dont have a f-cuking chance in the playoffs with the likes of Derby Borro Hull or Burnley none of these teams we would win at there patch 

19669

HHHDH

6-1 Nuhiu

1-0 Hooper

18,666

HDHDD

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The Bastard in Black is Andy Davies from Winchester, Hampshire. This season he has issued 101 yellow cards & 4 red cards from 26 games.

Our record with this clown is:

Apl 14 - OWLS 1-3 Bolton - 5Y

and that's it.

suicide is painless springs to mind with this ref !! he was xxxx terrible in that bolton game !!

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And QPR will park a violent bus on the pitch as they have forgotten how to play football !! this is exactly what Bolton did !! he gave us fcukall !! best leave nuhui in the stands !!

Need Hutch to rough them up a bit because that's what they'll be doing.

In fact we need Hutch for so many reasons, where do you start to begin?

peiowl stop being a knobhead !!

2-1 Bannan

19,754

HAHAH

3-0. Joao

19999

HHHHH