QPR Scrape Past Stanley...

QPR 2-1 Accrington Stanley

Second half goals from Hogan Eprhaim and Wayne Routledge ensured progress in the Carling Cup, as Rangers literally scraped through against brave, Accrington Stanley.



Well, I am sure we have all seen the milk advert years ago and there have been many quotes of 'who are they?... exactly!!!', since the draw was made, but Stanley completely out fought and out played Rangers in the first half and would have had their reward had it not been for debutant, Tom Heaton in the R's goal. The R's fans showed their frustrations at half time as the players left the pitch to a chorus of booing!

After the break, two substitutions saw the R's improve slightly in the second half with Adel Taarabt having a real go and almost single handedly attacked the Stanley back line. Rowan Vine and Damion Stewart both missed good chances for Rangers within minutes of the restart as Taarabt's pace and trickery lifted the home supporters.

The deadlock was finally broken on 68 minutes when Ephraim received the ball just inside the box, let it bounce before calmly placing it past keeper Alan Martin. In the dying minutes, Rangers made the game safe, following a corner which went almost all the way back before coming forward again and ended with substitute, Wayne Routledge crashing his shot off the crossbar.

Symes pulled one back for Stanley with just seconds left and it was no more than they deserved on the night - firing low and hard into the net to the delight of the excellent 150 odd Stanley fans, who sang their hearts out from the moment the game kicked off. They seriously, did not shut up throughout the night and are probably still singing now during their long journey home!! Well done to all of them!!

QPR: Heaton, Ramage, Stewart, Mahon (Routledge 68), Leigertwood, Vine, Buzsaky, Agyemang (Taarabt 46), Gorkss (Borrowdale 46), Connolly, Ephraim. Subs: Helguson, Pellicori, Balanta, Cerny.

Lofty's Man of the Match - Adel Taarabt for QPR but the award must go to Accrington Stanley to a man, for an excellent display on the night. Credit also to Peter Ramage once more, who yet again, was the ONLY QPR player to acknowledge the supporters at the final whistle. I will continue to mention this as I am finding this more and more upsetting as a lot of the R's players are quickly turning into prima donnas, or maybe they are just sulking at being booed...

In summary, I mentioned that Saturday's draw with Forest was our worst performance of the season so far, I stand corrected. With so many negatives, I will end with tonight's positives - QPR are in the next round of the Carling Cup - the performance of Accrington Stanley and their supporters - and finally, myself and PK got in for nothing as a reward for last season's loyalty points. Strange though, as I still feel rather cheated...

Four Games, Three Points...

QPR 1-1 Forest

A spectacular first half strike from Mikele Leigertwood was not enough for Rangers to register their first laegue victory of the season, in what was the poorest performance of the season so far.



Despite the midweek defeat at Bristol City, those that were there continued to give positive feedback as far as the R's performance was concerned, but again, the lack of a striker was still much the topic of conversation amongst another full gang quota before the game.

Onto the game and Forest had started well and would have taken an early lead had Rangers keeper Radek Cerny not produced a fine double save. Further chances for Forest followed ebfore Rangers finally woke up tp create some chances of their own - Adel Taarabt hurriedly shot wide after being found in acres of space by Heidar Helguson and Gary Borrowdale also missed a chance to put the R's ahead by blazing over, following Wayne Routledge's cross. But in Rangers' next attack, Leigertwood found the net on 26 minutes with a left-footed shot from 30 yards that flew past former QPR goalkeeper Lee Camp and into the corner of the net.

But despite all this, Forest equalised 12 minutes into the second half. Camp's long kick was flicked on by Dele Adebola and McGoldrick sneaked between defenders Borrowdale and Kaspars Gorkss to fire home. In truth, from here on in, it looked as though if anyone was going to win, it would be the visitors and former R's striker, Dexter Blackstock saw his parried shot, cleared off the line b7 Peter Ramage late on. But the best chance to win the game came in the dying seconds, when Helguson headed over from Buzsaky's right-wing cross.

QPR; Cerny, Ramage, Stewart (Gorkss,46), Borrowdale, Leigertwood, Routledge, Pellicori (Vine,61), Faurlin, Helguson, Taarabt (Buzsaky,66). Subs not used; Heaton, Connolly, Mahon, Agyemang

Lofty's Man of the Match - two this week - Alejandro Faurlin for an excellent home debut and Peter Ramage, for being the ONLY R's player to be bothered to come over and acknowledge the supporters at full time!!!

In summary, I personally think that Forest will feel the more disappointed not to have won the game as they looked the more urgent of the two sides in the second half. All of us R's fans are hoping dearly that a new striker will arrive soon, but today, it was poor defending that cost us dearly.

Finally, I must just mention the catering once again as PK decided to try the much recommended, Beef Yorkshire wrap at half time, to which he definitely gave a big thumbs up!!

Brizzle drizzle on our parade

As Rangers made their 3rd away trip to the west country in a week, having previously won 5-0 and drawing 1-1, this time Lofty Heights took the trip to Ashton Gate for tonight’s game against Bristol City. Lee Brown brings you a round-up of the night’s action.



We decided to leave early for the trip down to Bristol and this time we had a new driver with us, Mark, who was making his first trip to Ashton Gate see what he has been missing out on. Sam and Justin were also in attendance.
The journey was a smooth one for the four mob members and all of us were in a confident mood. I predicted a 0-0, Sam 1-1, Mark 2-2 and Justin just predicted a loss. After an hour and a bit down the M4 we arrived at our destination with nearly two hours to kill before the big kick off. There is not much you can do when you arrive to the ground as there is nothing around it apart from a retail park and nothing entertainment wise around the ground so we took the one option we had in front of us...... KFC! Once we finished wiping the grease from our chins we had a quick bet and made our way into the ground. As the facilities aren’t the best in the world at Ashton gate we decided to grab ourselves a few cokes and make our way to the stand and pick out a premium view, if we could find one, but instead settled for getting a place where we could just see both goals and be done with it.

Jim Magilton made three changes from Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Plymouth. Damion Stewart, Mikele Leigertwood and debutant Alejandro Faurlin came in for Kaspers Gorkss, Gavin Mahon and Heidar Helguson; all three were named on the Rangers bench.

As the game started it looked as if Rangers were flirting with a new 4-2-3-1 formation. Leigertwood and Faurlin being the two holding midfielders and Routledge, Taarabt and Buzsaky playing just behind and supporting Agyemang up front.

Rangers were the team that got off to the brighter start. Agyemang and Buzsaky both had efforts flying over the bar. Faurlin made a promising start and looks to be a battling midfielder who isn’t afraid to put a foot in where needed. He also looks to read the game pretty well. I must admit that at times it looked as if he struggled with the pace of the game but as he gains more experience in this league he will become an important part of the team.
After a good 15 minutes of pressure Bristol City started to come back into the game and it was Rangers who had to ride the waves and at times ride their luck.
It seemed as if the QPR left hand side was being targeted and with Danny Haynes’ pace giving Borrowdale a lot to think about it was from here that the hosts had their first real chance. Borrowdale fouled Haynes just outside the 18 yard box. From the free kick Maynard had a glorious chance saved by Cerny. Soon after a Bristol City corner flew into the box and was met by Lewin Nyatanga’s head, it looked as if this was going to go in at the far post but Buzsaky was on the line to head clear and Rangers lived to save another day.
City were soon on the attack once again. Haynes slid Maynard in and was one on one with Cerny; Maynard’s shot beat Cerny and was heading towards the far post....... Rangers fans soon breathed a sigh of relief as we saw the effort roll just past the post. Major let off!!
Rangers were struggling to take a stranglehold on the game and after a wildly late challenge from Faurlin, he picked up his first booking his career in English football. Bristol City were also forced into their 1st substitution of the game soon after due to an injury.

Rangers managed to see the half out and it was a relief to get into half time still at 0-0.

At half time I went down to see Gobi and we got straight into the tactical talk. We figured out that Rangers were playing a new style formation but failed to understand why Taarabt was moved into the central strikers role and have Agyemang drop in at left wing. We were also scratching our heads at the fact that we had our best two defenders, Gorkss and Connolly, on the bench. It just doesn’t seem to make any sense. I’m sure Connolly is as baffled as we are! After a good natter deliberating what could happen I resumed my place in my back, which had no back to it, and the second half got under way.

Rangers again started brightly and it seemed as if Magilton had given them a good talking to during the interval.

After good play between Faurlin and Buzsaky, Buzsaky played a lovely pass to Routledge whose shot at the neat post was saved comfortable by the keeper.
Rangers started to knock the ball around quite nicely and Buzsaky, Taarabt, Faurlin and Routledge were at the heart of most of Rangers attacking play.
Rangers best chance soon came. Routledge played a fantastic ball in the box which caused problems in the City defence and evaded everyone until Taarabt met the ball at the far post and, with the goal seemingly being empty from our angle, he managed to poke the ball goal wards but it agonizingly hit the post and come out. How this was missed was simply unbelievable! I still don’t know how he didn’t score.
Bristol City made their 2nd change of the game and this was soon followed by a double Rangers substitution. Pellicori and Vine came on for Taarabt and Agyemang.
Soon after the substitution Rangers were back on the attack. A cross came in from the right and Pellicori rose above everyone and spotted Vine coming into the box unmarked, he nodded down but a City defender just got in front of Vine and cleared the danger.
City were forced into their 3rd substitution of the night, new boy Velicka who had only signed on loan from Glasgow Rangers 24 hours previously looked to take a heavy fall and was stretched off only 18minutes after coming on as a sub.
In what looked a cruel injury this seemed to turn the game in City’s favour as they pressed Rangers back. And it was five minutes later were the damage was done.
After some neat work and opening up the Rangers defence and midfield down the left hand side the ball made its way to Maynard just outside the box, he dropped his shoulder to turn past Hall (I think) and unleash an unstoppable drive past Cerny. Was a very well taken goal!

City continued to press Rangers and two minutes later Maynard nearly got his second. His shot again beat Cerny but once again the effort went just past the far post.
In the last desperation act Faurlin came off after a decent 85 minutes and was replaced by Helguson. Rangers pushed for the last minute equaliser that they deserved for the second half performance. The first glorious chance came when a fantastic came in from the right and was destined for Helguson’s head but for some unknown reason he didn’t throw his head at it and just watched the ball skim past his forehead. All he had to do was make contact and hit the target and it had goal written all over it. Just as it seemed the game was over there was one final chance. After some neat passing Leigertwood found himself in the box, took on 2defenders, got free, all he had to do was blast it, instead he took 3 touches and when he tried to lift the ball over the keeper he was too close and the effort was clawed away and the best effort had gone.

A frustrating end to a deeply frustrating game!

Just to top it off I thought the Ref and Linesmen had shocking games. The linesman in the 2nd half didn’t seem to have a clue what offside meant and raised his flag at near enough any opportunity he could.

Today’s Man of the Match goes to .... Fitz Hall. He followed up a good performance at Plymouth on Saturday with another decent performance here.

QPR: Cerny, Ramage, Stewart, Hall, Leigertwood, Routledge, Buzsaky, Agyemang (Pellicori 67), Faurlin (Helguson 85), Borrowdale, Taarabt (Vine 66).

Subs: Mahon, Gorkss, Connolly, Heaton.

Goal: Maynard (77)

R's on The Road.......... To Bristol City

On this coming Tuesday night QPR supporters once again find themselves on the road to the west country for the third time in a week. This time it’s a shorter trip down the M4 to Bristol City as Rangers look to overcome the disappointment from Saturday’s game down in Plymouth. Lee Brown gives you a few hints and tips for the journey.


The Stadium.

Ashton Gate. Current Capacity - 21,479



Bristol South End was the original name of the club until they turned professional and founded the club under the new name of Bristol City. In 1900 the club merged with local rivals Bedminster, who themselves were founded in 1887 under the name of Southville. Bedminster’s home was Ashton Gate but when the two teams merged together under the name Bristol City, they played very few games at Ashton Gate and it wasn’t until 1904 that this ground was made the permanent home for the club.
In 1934 Bristol City won the Welsh Cup, despite being an English team.
In 1994 the Blackthorn Atyeo Stand (named after the clubs highest goal scorer John Atyeo) was transformed from an open terrace into an all seater stand. This is behind the goal at one end of the ground.
In 1995 the Dolman Stand had the lower tier of the Stand added. This is also has the Evening Post Dolman Exhibition Hall, home to the Supporters Club.
Opposite the Dolman Stand is the Prime Time Williams Stand. This is a very old looking stand and still has wooden seats for fans in this area. The directors box and press are accommodated here.
Then behind the other goal is the Micra Wedlock Stand, this is where the visiting support will be housed for this fixture. Again this is an old stand and is all seated but the chairs don’t have backs on them so be very careful if you do decide to sit down. The view is restricted slightly by pillars in various positions in the stand.

The History between the teams.

At Bristol City (37)

Bristol City 17
QPR 9
Draw 11

Rangers haven’t won at Ashton Gate since the 2002/2003 season. It was the 21st September and a 3-1 victory courtesy of goals from Karl Connolly (2) and a certain Kevin Gallen.
The last two fixtures at Bristol City have ended in draws. Last season was a 1-1 draw with Blackstock getting the goal. The most memorable game was the opening fixture of the 2007/2008 season and a 2-2 draw in an exciting encounter between the two teams. Bristol City seemed to of nicked a win at the death with a late goal from Scott Murray and it was a superb strike which was worthy of winning any game. Rangers didn’t give up on the game and equalised almost instantly via a Damion Stewart header right at the death when it seemed the game had been lost for the visitors.



How to get there.

By Car:- For those with the benefit of sat nav the post code you require is BS3 2EJ.
There are two ways you can attack the journey into Bristol. One way is to come off the M4 at junction 20 and drive down the M32 which leads into the City Centre, from here you will see signposts for the ground and is relatively easy to find.
The easiest route is to come off the M4 onto the M5 and come off the M5 at junction 18. From here travel down the A4 along Portway and follow the signs for Bristol Airport/Taunton (A38). Go over Brunel Way Bridge and branch to the left hand side onto Winterstoke Road and you will see the ground on your left hand side.
In regards to parking there is a car park on Ashton Vale Road which is just off the Winterstoke Road on the right hand side.

By Train:- You are most likely to arrive at Bristol Temple Meads station which is a good two miles or so away from the ground. You can get a taxi to the ground from here and will cost you roughly £6 for the trip. I wouldn’t advise walking to the ground as it is a fair trek .

Pubs 'n' Grub.

There are no pubs near the ground that would be advised to be used by the travelling support so if you feel like a beer then I would point you in the direction of the City Centre and enjoy a tipple there.
No alcohol is sold inside the away stand.
Food is available outside the ground in the form of KFC, otherwise most of the food options would have to be relied on the in ground catering or once again the City Centre for all your favourite food retailers.

Déjà vu in Plymouth...

Plymouth 1-1 QPR

In the first league away fixture of the season QPR travelled down to Devon for the second time in 5 days to take on today’s hosts Plymouth Argyle. Lee Brown describes how today’s unbelievable events unfold.

The day started very early today for the four of us travelling down to Plymouth. Lofty was the driver for the day taking Justin, Jointy and myself on a trip to the west country that not only had a sense of déjà vu about it but also a day that none of us will forget in a hurry, for both good and bad reasons.
The journey down was a nightmare from start to finish! After picking up both Justin and Jointy from home via Northolt and Hayes they hit traffic instantly on the M4 and this delayed the journey by half an hour straight away. Who would do roadworks on a Saturday?? Do these people not know that the motorways are usually full of excitable football fans travelling up and down the country to see their teams? At 10.30 they guys picked me up from Reading's stadium, where I had been dropped off so I could join the guys and enjoy the days 'entertainment' in good company.
After a smooth journey down the M4 we cut onto the M5 at Bristol and hit Nightmare Street. We were practically bumper to bumper for nearly an hour and a half, seeing thousands and this isn't an exaggeration, thousands of caravans! There were more caravans on the road up and down the M5 to fill all the caravan parks in this country. It was like a caravan cruise had been planned down the motorway. After spending ages stuck in this traffic we decided to let the sat nav take control and take us on a detour it planned for us. It took us through the little village town of Banwell and en route we came across a cathedral, castle, tractors, a scrap yard and believe it or not more caravans! After taking this detour we found that all we done had cut out one junction and were really no better off, although it did take 20 miles off our journey. As we continued to struggle on down the motorway we decided to play a little game between ourselves and predict all the scores from the Premiership, Championship, League 1 and League 2 fixtures. We would award 2 points for a correct score and 1 point for a right outcome. It was a £5 entry and made things slightly more interesting as we continued to go along at 10-20 mph. Finally we came to the source of the problem just past junction 25 on the M5, a burnt out car, I couldn't recognize the car as it was pretty crispy as we went past. Hopefully no-one was hurt in the process.
Once we got past this we started to fly. We needed to do 80 miles in just over 50 minutes and that was just to arrive 20 minutes after kick off. After some fantastic driving from Lewis Hamilton, sorry i mean Lofty, we arrived and parked at the ground at 3.05 and walked round the stadium to the away entrance before taking our seats only 12 minutes into the game.

Jim Magilton made 2 changes from last weekend’s league match against Blackpool, Buzsaky and Leigertwood coming in for Balanta and Rowlands through injuries in the previous game.
New Loan signing Tom Heaton from Man United took his place on the bench for his first game in a three month loan period. Welcome to Tom from all at Lofty Heights.



Having missed the first 10-15 minutes I really cannot comment on anything that happened so we shall bypass all to what we did witness.
As we entered the stand Rangers were awarded a free kick. Akos Buzsaky stepped up and struck a fierce drive which Larrieu got stung with but lead to no further danger.
It was a real battle of the defences with neither team really having a killer pass to thread through the defence and create any clear goal scoring opportunities.
The majority of the action was coming from the Grandstand where the Plymouth fans were. In the space of 10minutes 3 people got ejected from the ground for what looked like arguments being started between themselves. It really was quite unbelievable to see!
As the half reached the halfway point Rangers begun to hit a little bit of a groove and looked the more attacking side. Routledge attempted a 25yard effort which seemed to slide just wide of the Plymouth goal.
Rangers really were beginning to look the most threatening going forwards, Taarabt and Routledge were usually at the heart of us going forwards without really troubling Larrieu in the Plymouth goal.
As time went on we witnessed another 3 Plymouth fans get rejected from the stands. It really was quite strange how Plymouth fans were fighting within themselves!
With 5 minutes left of the first half and the game seemingly heading for 0-0 at half time, myself and Lofty headed downstairs for refreshments as the four of us had created quite a thirst and hunger in the long journey down. This is where the day got even worse!!
Whilst we were in the queue for food and drink we heard the Rangers fans erupt, a goal just when it seemed unlikely! Everyone downstairs were curious as to who the goal scorer was and we found out that it was Helguson, who to be fair was a spectator for most of the first half. Having seen the highlights i can now describe the goal.
Taarabt collected the ball and ventured down the left flank, cut in and looked to shoot from just outside the left side of the 18yard box, the shot hit the defenders boot and spun into the ground going towards goal and there was Helguson following up to nod home his first goal of the season. 1-0 Half time.

As we enjoyed the half time interval downstairs with the hard earned food and soft drinks we bumped into a few friendly faces in Paul 'the Elf', Nik, Sarah and Vikki that we haven't seen in a long while. We all managed to pick up on how vunerable we looked on the left side of defence and how Gorkss was pretty much playing in two different positions throughout the half as Borrowdale was slow to get back and wasn't playing his best game for Rangers this season. The Rangers defence really did look like it could absorb anything that was thrown at it, just the left side worried us.



The second half begun and we promptly took our seats and we hoped to not miss another vital piece of action all game.
In a fairly even opening 10 minutes it was Rangers that had the first major chance of the first half.
Taarabt cut in from his wide left role that he was occupying in the second period, swapping roles with Buzsaky, he found himself in the middle of the park just outside the 18yard box. He curled an effort that just whisked past the post into the side netting, very very close to being the second goal that Rangers needed.
On 60 minutes Helguson came off for Agyemang.
Again the game was played in midfield with both defences absorbing any attacks their opponents threw at them.
On 73 minutes Hogan Ephraim came on for the tiring Buzsaky. 4 minutes later Rowan vine came on for Taarabt.
Plymouth were slowly beginning to put the pressure on the Rangers defence in search of an equalizer. This left Plymouth open to a Rangers counter attack and we set upon looking for our first victory of the season.
With roughly five minutes of normal time left Vine was set free and run towards goal and only had the Plymouth keeper to beat. Rather than taking his chance early with the angle to goal more open Vine took the ball on into the 18 yard box and Larrieu was able to close the angle down, Vine tried placing his shot past the keeper but was denied by a good stop and wasted the opportunity to secure Rangers first victory at Plymouth since the 2002/2003 season.
As the game closed out and Plymouth putting more and more pressure on the Rangers defence we found that we had to survive five, yes five, minutes of injury time. How there was five minutes extra I struggle to believe, it was more like three after having just one major stoppage through injury.
Plymouth pressed for the elusive equalizer and nearly got it. A ball came in from the right hand side and caused all sorts of problems in the Rangers defence. After a bit of a scramble it was Gavin Mahon who cleared off the line and put the ball out for a throw in.
From the throw in a long ball was thrown into the box and once again the Rangers defence panicked and with Cerny being less than commanding and claiming the loose ball, it hit the unfortunate Gorkss to deflect into the net to gift Plymouth an equalizer that if I'm perfectly honest they definitely did not deserve.
Once again, for the second time in two years we were left cursing a last minute goal at Home Park. The game can be so cruel sometimes!
As we made our way out of the stadium we were met with the chants "1-0 and u messed it up(a slightly censored version)" and the funniest one of them all " You're just a small town in London!". Someone figure that one out as it confused us all and just made us laugh for quite a while.

Today’s Man of the Day is Lofty for driving the four of us down to Plymouth in difficult conditions and managing to remain calm enough to get us to the ground and only missing 10minutes of the game. A big thank you to him from all of us.

The Man of the Match as voted in the car by us all was - Wayne Routledge.


Once we got through all the funny chants we headed straight to the burger vans, where me and Lofty took the challenge of eating a Bellybuster. In this is a burger, jumbo sausage, bacon and cheese. (As pictured below)



We demolished them before grabbing a few sweet delights for the journey home. I do recommend the warm donuts, they went down a treat!

The journey home was a very smooth one and encountered no problems at all. We also found out our winner for the predictions and the chance to take home £15 more than expected. After all the games were ticked off the final scores were :-
4th- Jointy 19 points, 3rd- Lofty 21 points and we had a tie for first between myself and Justin for first place, both of us getting 26 points. After trying to find a winner by using the most amount of correct scores we were still tied on 6-6! Times got desperate so we had to predict the five results from the Scottish Third Division. After 3 games the scores were tied, as the 4th result got read out I took a 1 point lead with the deciding result to come..... Livingston beat Montrose 2-0, Justin predicted the 2-0 win...... Luckily so did I and collected the money.
A good end to what was a frustrating day of football but at the end of the day the four of us had a really good giggle through the day!

R's on the Road.......... To Plymouth Argyle

Lee Brown brings you some info, hints and tips for those R's fans making the long journey down to Plymouth this weekend.



After a long trip down to Devon on Tuesday night to play Exeter in the triumphant 5-0 League Cup victory, Rangers again face an even longer journey down the M5 to Plymouth in the first domestic away game of the season.

The Stadium.

Home Park. Current Capacity – 19,500

Home Park has gone through two major redevelopments over the last 65 years. The first one was totally unplanned as Home Park was destroyed by German bombers during the blitz on Plymouth during World War 2. Having been totally rebuilt once the war was over a second redevelopment took place and was completed in 2002. On Boxing Day in 2001 the Devonport End and Barn Park End were both opened for the first time in the fixture against local rivals Torquay. A month later, on 26th January the Lyndhurst End opened up for the game against Oxford.
The main Grandstand remains as the original stand that was rebuilt after the war. In 2007 it was fitted with temporary seating, complying with the UK authorities ruling on terracing. This has reduced the capacity from 23,000(roughly) due to the 3,500 temporary seats being in place.
There are plans afoot to completely rebuild the Grandstand and completing the redevelopment, this will result in a multi-tiered stand with boxes, conference centre and all the usual corporate facilities. There are even talks of maybe building a hotel or providing housing, this is all rumour so we shall see how this goes. Work is planned for 2010 if this all gets the green light.

Rangers fans will take their places in the Barn Park End in the left corner which enables a lot of singing and banter between both set of fans. 1000 tickets have been allocated to us.




The History between the teams.

At Plymouth Argyle (23)

Plymouth 16
QPR 5
Draw 2

Home Park does not give many happy memories to Rangers Fans on their travels having not won in the last 6 attempts of trying (and I have been to 4 of them!). The last victory was 18th Jan 2003 in the play-off season, a Richard Pacquette goal being the difference maker.


How to get there.

By Car: -
For those of you who use sat nav. here is your lucky post code PL2 3DQ

For those who don’t, here is a rough guide for you......
Get onto the M5 and follow it down where it turns into the A38 and follow all the way down to Plymouth. Just as you enter the Plymouth border take the left turning onto the A386. This road will split in 2, ensure that you keep to the left hand side (it will be signposted ‘Plymouth’) and after a mile or so you will see the ground on the left hand side.
There is a large car park right next to the ground which is very cheap to park in. The only slight downside to it is that it is a first in, first out car park and this can lead you to being sat waiting half an hour or so after full time before you can get ready for that long journey home.
For those of you more daring, there is street parking available nearer the city centre but be careful where you park.

By Train:-
You have 1 of 2 choices to make as you come out of the station, either grab a cab and enjoy a 5 minute journey to the ground for the expense of a few gold nuggets or you can choose to walk to the ground. If you choose to walk then you have a 15-20 minute walk ahead of you. As you come out of the station turn right and walk downhill and under the railway bridge. Carry walking straight on and you will arrive at your destination, with the ground being on the right hand side.

Pubs 'n' Grub.

If you like to enjoy a swift beverage before the game then I would point you in the direction of the Britannia pub. It is a Wetherspoons pub so you can sip your favourite beverage at a very reasonable price. I have been to this pub on 3 occasions and have found this a very friendly place to be. This usually gets very busy and has security staff on the door controlling the show so you can relax and enjoy the pre match build up.
A place to avoid is the Embassy Club; this is located just opposite the Britannia.
This is an easy pub to find, come out of the car park and take a left, walking downhill; the pub is on the opposite side of the road on the corner of a street. It’s roughly a 5-10 minute walk.
If you don’t fancy the pub option then alcohol is served inside the ground, so I am informed.

Where food is concerned I am unaware of what is available in the city centre, I’m sure the usual variety of culinary delights are available there but it is a bit of a walk away.
Otherwise there is a large amount of burger vans to cater for all your needs outside the ground. They are all gathered outside the Devonport End, right next to the car park.

Carling Cup Draw............ Who Are They???? Exactly!!

In tonights Carling Cup draw the Superhoops have been drawn at home to Accrington Stanley.



Famed for the 1980's advert where two school kids drink milk talking about football and the famous line "Accrington Stanley?? Who are they?" "Exactly!!" came to fruitition.

Jim Magilton told the official QPR website "I'm happy we've got a home draw.

"It'll be nice to be at Loftus Road, especially when you take into account the travelling we've got in the early part of the season."

"This competition is one we want to progress in, but it won't be easy against a good Accrington side. I know John Coleman very, very well and he'll be looking to come here and cause an upset, that's for sure."


QPR beat Exeter 5-0 and Accrington beat Walsall in their first round ties last night to set up this Second Round affair.

The Tie will be played on the week commencing 24th August.