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Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - jjamez - 23-11-2021

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Huddersfield travel to the capital on Wednesday to face Mark Warburtons Queens Park Rangers at the Kiyan Prince Stadium, aka Loftus Road. The Terriers come into the game on the back of a dogged display in the victory against West Brom, Danel Sinani scoring his second goal of the campaign for Town after it was laid on a plate for him by Danny Ward. Sinani tried to return the favour later in the game, but Ward somehow managed to squander a golden opportunity. Town looked to have a threat about them on the break, despite really testing Sam Johnstone, Sorba Thomas, in another off game, got behind the Albion defence but a poor touch saw him run the ball straight out for a goal kick. West Brom had the lions share of the ball throughout the game, but never really seemed to get into any real sort of rhythm and for all the possession it felt like they never really went anywhere, and for the 20 shots they had on goal, baring Matt Clarkes late diving header, Lee Nicholls seemed to be relatively unchallenged.

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So what is happening at QPR?

Our visitors played on Friday night under the watchful camera of Sky TV. They faced off against Luton Town and won 2-0 thanks to goals from ex Town loanee Chris Willock and everyones favourite footballer Charlie Austin. Rangers have been in decent form this season and sit one place above Town in the final playoff berth. They have been fairly consistent so far, drawing one game more than Town and losing one fewer, and are above us by one point, but with a slightly healthier goal difference.

They began the season at home to Millwall and saw themselves fall behind thanks to a Jed Wallace strike after 11 minutes, centre half Rob Dickie equalised just past the half hour mark with a long range effort to give Rangers a 1-1 draw. Dickie found himself on the scoresheet once again, this time in the league cup as QPR survived a scare against league 2 side Leyton Orient, it took a penalty shootout for Rangers to get past the Orient. Back in league action and it was a trip up to Humberside to tame the Tigers, a 3-0 victory proved to do such with goals coming from Willock, Dykes and Dickie once again, Hull also saw George Moncur receive his marching orders. Staying in the North East, Rangers faced old boss Neil Warnock's Middlesbrough side and soon found themselves trailing thanks to a Uche Ikpeazu penalty after 7 minutes. Jonny Howson scored an own goal to bring Rangers back level, before Moses Odubajo was sent off for his second yellow card. Lyndon Dykes put the ten men ahead before former town player Matty Crooks levelled things up, another former Town player in Willock scored not long after to give the ten men the three points. It was back to home comforts and a late Charlie Austin equaliser was needed to save QPR against Barnsley. Dominik Frieser and Cauley Woodrow got the Tykes off to a flyer, but QPR rallied after the break and Ilias Chair pulled one back in the 76th minute, Austin then saved a point for Rangers with a 91st minute equaliser. It was back into league cup action against Oxford United, Dickie found himself on the scoresheet once again against his former club, before a Leon Chambers-Parrilon own goal saw Rangers progress into the next round. They finished the month off with a 2-0 win at home to Coventry City, with goals coming from Dykes and Yoann Barbet, seeing QPR end August in third position.

September began with a trip to the Select Car Leasing Stadium to face Reading, in what turned out to be a 6 goal thriller. Rangers got off to a good start when defender Michael Morrison put into his own goal, but Reading hit back and went on a bit of a rampage as John Swift went on to score a hattrick. Andre Gray pulled one more back for QPR, before Stefan Johansen scored a late equaliser in injury time to give Rangers a share of the spoils. Next up was a trip to the south coast to face Bournemouth, who inflicted the first league defeat for Mark Warburtons side, goals from Jaidon Anthony and Dominic Solanke put the Cherries 2-0 up, Sam McCallum pulled one back for QPR but they were unable to mount a recovery this time. It would be back to back defeats for the R's as former Rangers and Town striker Nahki Wells hit a 93rd minute winner for Bristol City as they ran out 2-1 victors. Chris Martin opened the scoring for the Robins on the stroke of half time, whilst McCallum made it two in two to restore parity before Wells came back to bite the hand that used to feed him to give Bristol the 3 points. The League cup was back on the agenda for QPR as they welcomed Towns conquerors Everton to the Kiyan Prince Stadium. Austin got QPR up and running in the 18th minute before Lucas Digne equalised for the Toffees, Austin was back at it again when he put QPR back ahead only to see Andros Townsend level things once again after the break. The tie ended up going to penalties which Rangers won 8-7. Rangers' poor run of results in the league continued when they travelled to the Hawthornes to face West Brom, Rangers fans could be forgiven for expecting something different when after 1 minute Andre Gray fired them ahead, but a second half salvo from Karlan Grant turned the game on its head to give Albion all three points. They finished September sitting in 8th position, one place below Town thanks to a 2-0 win at home to Birmingham City, with midfielder Ilias Chair bagging a goal in either half.

October started brightly for Rangers as they welcomed beleaguered Preston to the capital, Lyndon Dykes opened the scoring for QPR before Riis Jakobsen pulled North End level. Josh Earl scored his first professional goal to put Preston ahead straight after the break, but Chair and Jimmy Dunne found the back of the net to see QPR run out 3-2 winners. Next on the agenda was a trip to Craven Cottage to face a marauding Fulham side, It finished 4-1 to the Cottagers, Aleksandr Mitrovic opened the scoring for Fulham, before Dykes equalised for Rangers in the second half. Fulham turned the screw after that though Mitrovic scored once again before Bobby De cordova-Reid and Antonee Robinson bagged a goal each. Rangers were back on home soil when they welcomed Blackburn, and managed to scrape past them thanks to a late Chair goal. The London based side then travelled to London Road to face Peterborough, Chair put QPR ahead before Harrison Burrows levelled before Siriki Dembele scored an injury time winner to condemn Rangers to another defeat. It was back to the League cup as they welcomed Sunderland, the two sides played out a 0-0 draw before the Black Cats produced an upset as they knocked Rangers out on penalties. Nottingham Forest were next to visit QPR and saw Dykes fire the Hoops ahead, before Jack Colback scored a 91st minute equaliser. The result saw QPR finish October in 8th position on 22 points, whilst Town sat 5th on 24. 

November has been a bright month for QPR so far with them picking up a win away at Cardiff thanks to a solitary Gray goal, next up was a trip to the seaside to face Blackpool under the illuminations. Chris Willock opened the scoring for Rangers midway through the first half, but Gary Madine scored from the penalty spot in the second half to give both sides a share of the spoils. They then welcomed Luton for the 2-0 victory last week.

In regards to top performers, Chair and Dykes lead the goalscoring charts for Rangers with 6 goals apiece, Chris Willock is just behind them on 4. In the creative charts, Chair once again leads the way with 5 assists, with Willock on 3. Towns top scorer is Ward with 4, whilst Sorba Thomas has 9 assists in all competitions and is joint top for the league.

In terms of ones to watch, there seems to be three main candidates really;

1- Ilias Chair- The Belgian born Moroccan international joined QPR back in 2017 and after a period of adjusting to the style of play in England, he has made 109 appearances for the R's including a season out on loan at Stevenage. This season seems to be his break out season and will need to sat on or decked. Anyone want to put any more chair puns in?

2- Chris Willock- The former Arsenal youngster had a loan at Town from Benfica whilst Danny Cowley was in charge. A lack of game time in Portugal meant we probably never saw him quite at his best, with him playing catch up fitness wise. Seemed to have a bit of potential but was always hit and miss. Town were rumoured to have wanted to turn the deal permanent at the conclusion of the loan, but faffed around with the deal with Benfica and he ended up picking Warburtons QPR over Town.

3- Lyndon Dykes- Arguably the most complete striker on the QPR books, has height and an eye for goal making him a potent weapon in the opposition penalty area. More Australian than Scottish, but has chosen to represent the Highland nation.

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In the summer, Mark Warburton was quite active, making 10 new signings in total. Charlie Austin joined on a free transfer from West Brom, whilst Jordan Archer and Moses Odubajo joined from Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday on frees. Jordy de Wijs saw his loan deal from Hull turned permanent, Sam Field also saw the same happen with his loan from West Brom. Jimmy Dunne joined from Premier League outfit Burnely upon the expiration of his contract, whilst Sam McCallum and Andre Gray both joined Rangers on loan from Norwich and Watford respectively. In terms of the money signings Steffan Johansen joined for 600k from Fulham whilst Andre Dozzell joined for £1 million from Ipswich, Macauley Bonne joined Ipswich on loan going the other way. In terms of other outgoings, Todd Kane left for Coventry, Paul Smyth joined Leyton Orient, Tom Carroll also joined Ipswich and keepers Joe Lumley and Liam Kelly joined Middlesbrough and Motherwell, all on free transfers. In regards to loan deals out of the club, Nikko Hamalainen went State side to LA Galaxy, Conor Masterson went to Cambridge, Charlie Kelman joined Gillingham, Faysal Bettache came North to Oldham and Olamide Shodipo joined Sheffield Wednesday.

 
In ode of Rangers manager Mark Warburton, lets see if you earn your bread in this quiz about the staple of fine English cuisine, does your loaf know your loaves?

1- An European bread now popular in the States, traditionally topped with poppy seeds or sesame seeds but other toppings can be now found. The first mentions of it come way back in the 1600's.

2- A sweet bread that is often used as a dessert bread with things like chocolate chips in it, it is made by using extra milk and/or cream. This doesn't mean it doesn't do savoury as it can still be found with meat and cheese inside.

3- Made using a batter instead of a dough, and made by putting on a griddle, it is fairly porous and served normally with a helping of butter that always seems to get all over your fingers. Very popular in Britain and some of its former colonies.

4- A type of bread that is hugely popular in the middle east and some Mediterranean countries, can be found cooking on many streets and is often associated with many popular dishes from those areas. Not as risen as a standard loaf of bread due to only proving for a few minutes before cooking.

5- Thin in size and made with wheat flour; usually eaten with curry dishes; pieces are used to wrap around and pick up each bite of the cooked dish. 

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Hopefully you are all slightly peckish now and hungry for more of the thread!

In terms of head to heads, it is fairly even between the two sides, with Town winning 15 and QPR winning 13, there has also been 9 draws between the two sides. The sides first met back in 1932 where Town won a FA Cup tie 5-0 at Leeds Road, the first league meeting would come in 1967 also in West Yorkshire, where Town would emerge 1-0 victors in the old Division two clash. The two sides would meet in Division two for a while before a 23 year wait for a league fixture with the two sides being separated until a 1996 meeting at the McAlpine Stadium, which QPR would win 2-1. The sides would be constant oppositions for each other until 2003 where Town would sink into the bottom tier, the following years would see QPR make it to the Premier League whilst Town rebuilt and made their way back to the Championship where the two sides would meet once again after QPR fell from the Premier League, the first fixture back was a 1-1 draw with James Vaughan scoring for Town, with Junior Hoilett scoring for Rangers. The most recent fixtures between the two sides have been in favour of Town, with Town doing the double over Rangers in our promotion season, we drew down in London after our relegation, but managed to pull off a victory in what would be one of the last meetings before lockdown. In our lockdown meetings Town would win both games, with one of our most impressive first half performances coming at the John Smiths Stadium where Harry Toffolo and Josh Koroma, Juninho Bacuna would score the only goal in the return fixture to give Town one of their few victories post Christmas last season.

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Carlos Corberán:

"Hoggy is not going to be available for the next 6-8 weeks. Lees didn't feel well the day before the game, that's why he wasn't involved, it wasn't any injury. Holmes, we'll see. Today he did some work on the pitch, and we'll evaluate him tomorrow."

"I think we were better pressing against West Brom in the midfield. For me, Scott High and Lewis O'Brien pressed really well, and put their midfield under pressure. We have areas to improve, too. To perform better we need to analyse our performance and start again"

"I think the last two game's that Scott High has played has been of a much higher level. After the Luton game, there was some time where he didn't play, and that affected his performance against Peterborough, for example. O'Brien offers many many positive things"

"As soon as we don't have Hoggy or Vallejo, we have to decide which the academy
player is close to help us, so Jon Russell starts to get involved. When you are watching a B Team player who offers something that is different to the First Team, that's a positive"

"I'm satisfied when I'm watching the First Team staff developing the younger players. We aren't a Club divided in to groups, when one of the Academy or B Team players looks ready, if they can offer something different, they will be involved"

"I was very pleased with the performance of Naby Sarr. Sarr faced the challenge of playing without having played many minutes before that very well".

It seems likely that Jordan Rhodes will be missing for this game as he continues his recovery from injury, the same can be said for Pipa, whilst Hogg, Rowe and Vallejo are longer term absentees. Duane Holmes appears the most likely to return from injury with him a possible candidate for tomorrow, failing that, the home fixture against Middlesbrough at the weekend.

As for QPR, boss Mark Warburton says he’ll make a number of late selection calls once more, Lyndon Dykes, Andre Gray, Moses Odubajo and Jordy de Wijs were all rated as 50-50 to make Friday’s 2-0 win over Luton Town at Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium, only to miss out.

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Speaking ahead of the clash, Warburton said “Some are going to be close.

“We’ll see how the likes of Moses, Lyndon and Andre are. Huddersfield have suffered like we have. Many teams have had extensive injury lists. Things are a little easier now, but the consequences of the scheduling before the last international breaks is clear to see – it has been very demanding.”

Our opponents come here with plenty of incentive,” Warburton added. “They had a good result against West Brom at the weekend (1-0 win). But you can create some daylight for yourselves if you can get a good run of wins and performances, and that’s our aim.

“We’re also very respectful of the fact that Huddersfield will see it as a big opportunity as well. Tactically, they are very strong and strong out of possession. They are hard to break down and are very strong at set-pieces – they have scored a number of goals from them as they look to cause mayhem and chaos in the box. They’re a very dynamic team and have rotation in their ranks. They’re a good side and we know what we face – we have no doubt about the quality we face.

“The table doesn’t lie at this stage and we will have to meet the challenge – same old rhetoric!”

Plenty of players have played for both sides, with some notable players including Alex Smithies and Nahki Wells, both of whom were key players for QPR at certain stages during their times there, other players include the likes of Rob Green, who never made an appearance for Town, but made plenty for QPR. Jack Robinson also spent a few seasons at QPR, including one where they loaned him to Town, fellow fullback Danny Simpson had the one season at QPR, but he faired better than he did here, and is probably liked more by their fans than ours.

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Instead of a played for both quiz, this week we will try a played for both missing vowels round. so for example hddrsfld twn would be Huddersfield Town, but I might make them harder by putting breaks in the name where it shouldn't be, aren't I nice  Angel

1) JLLY NCH

2) SCRG BRN

3) DMND LNY

4) KVN GLLN

5) LNK GHT

And now for your favourite anagrams

1) Jeans Honest Fan

2) Old Damn Canal

3) Might Annoy

4) Audio Ceiling

5) Alibi Belly

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - ritchiebaby - 23-11-2021

Perfect timing from me and thee, jjamez. Nice reading, light and easy to digest (unlike Snooty's 7-course meals).

And not like Warburton's No 3 CRUMPETS, which need warming to a light crisp before getting the butter treatment. If you like The Stones' Sticky Fingers album, they're also delicious with honey.

And Annie2 is Old McDonald, sorry Alan McDonald.

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - Lord Snooty - 23-11-2021

Nice one, jjamez. Good timing indeed, ritchiebabes. Reading this whilst watching Bake Off. Big Grin

1) JoeL LYNCH

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - theo_luddite - 23-11-2021

A tasty morsel if ever I saw one jjamez.

ritchie beat me to the crumpets or pikelets as we sometimes call them. 1 & 5 could have two answers each and I'm possibly wrong with both.

1 could be a bloomer or it could be what I call a beer sponge. In other words a pretzel, not them shrapnel type salty curly twiglet things but the big breaded knot usually associated with Germany/Austria. Often also with a sea salt topping on them but great when downing beers in Germany or better still at a baseball game in Toronto (or elsewhere in North America) along with a big bag of still in the shells peanuts Big Grin .

5 depending on which half of the world you live in is either a chapati (Indian subcontinent, typically) or a roti (West Indies/Jamaica/Caribbean) though both names can be interchangeable. In the case of the roti it is often used to wrap the likes of a goat/mutton curry in completely and is served with a bowl of dhal (dahl?). Well, in the West Indian restaurants in Toronto I used to frequent it was. In either case wash 'em down with a cold lager type beer, or three. Tongue Vegetarian versions are available - including the roti's.

If I'm wrong, I just added to your collective edumacations about a few more serving ideas. Smartass
4 - bread - instructions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoThr6sVhGg
4 - footballers - Kevin Gallen

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - jjamez - 23-11-2021

Well your answer to number 1 is close. But if I gave any more hints it would be obvious

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - theo_luddite - 23-11-2021

In that case it's a bagel, but I still prefer a beer sponge
Oy vey

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - Lord Snooty - 24-11-2021

5) LeoN KniGHT
2) oSCaR GoBeRN

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - ritchiebaby - 24-11-2021

3 is DaMieN DeLaNeY

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - jjamez - 24-11-2021

All correct. Just noticed you put a video for pita breads there Theo. Feels like ages since I last had one, but I had a kebab the other week

RE: Her Maj's Park Wardens vs Unruly Terriers - Amelia Chaffinch - 24-11-2021

That Warburton fella makes a good fruit loaf. Orange is my favourite at the moment.