Completely Hughes-Less...

QPR 0-1 Fulham

Pavel Pogrebnyak's 7th minute strike was enough for the visitors as QPR succumbed to yet another frustrating and disappointing defeat at Loftus Road - helped in no way by debutant, Samba Diakete's red card on 32 minutes.

Due to our earlyish F.A.Cup exit, we had a free weekend last Saturday and following our many disappointing results, the QPR team were rewarded with a week in Portugal at a training camp/team bonding week - I know what I would get if I under performed at work...

From what we heard all over the internet, the week went very well. But there were also alledged stories of a player headbutting another and also suprised me somewhat that Macheda was tweeting about his triumph in the head tennis tournament? - well, that will get us out of the shit won't it? Harsh? Maybe...

So, with the players refreshed, we were eagerly awaiting the game and surely Rangers would be looking to gain revenge for the 6-0 defeat earlier this season? There was also plenty of interest from the Fulham supporters, with the Mark Hughes, Bobby Zamora thing and also their chance to continue to gloat. So much so, the A-Z's were dusted off and an extremely rare, large Fulham following were in attendance. It must have been heart warming for their players to run out to a more or less full away end. Normal service will be no doubt be resumed for their game at Villa in March...

Anyway, moving onto the game, and as mentioned in the opening paragraph, Fulham won, 1-0.













QPR: Kenny, Diakite, Hill, Taarabt, Mackie, Barton, Wright-Phillips (Buzsaky 83), Taiwo (Traore 72), Ferdinand, Onuoha, Zamora. Subs: Cerny, Derry, Gabbidon, Bothroyd, Smith.

Man of the Match - little discussion amongst a very disappointed gang. There were mentions of Clint Hill from Jess, Corp and Smithy respectively and PK at first mentioned Ferdinand. But as always, we go with the majority, which was from myself, Jenson, Sam(who after the match, said she would like to kick every one of those ***** in the head!), Luke, Lee and California Hoop, the award from this one is N/A.

Ok, this may be a tad controversial but I haven't dwelled too much on the match itself. But basically, when I see little heart, desire or passion from the players out there, it hardly inspires my enthusiasm either. Clint Hill, Adel Taarabt and Jamie Mackie were the only ones, in my opinion, that came out of today's game with any credit. What is the common denomenator with these three? They were last year's players and it seems at the moment that when at a time where the players need to stand up and be counted, it is the ones that helped get us into the Premier League in the first place, that are doing so.

Mark Hughes today, got this one wrong and playing with just one striker at home was extremely surprising, especially as Zamora is hardly a player that suits that particular role. We are looking for a leader, is Joey Barton up to the task? He certainly isn't letting his football do the talking and certainly not the in the way he talks on twitter. SWP is in my opinion, a good player, but is completely shot of confidence and his hideous miss with 8 minutes to go, to me is the result of that. Paddy Kenny is the shadow of the keeper he was last season and it is becoming more and more obvioius as weeks go by, that he just not communicate with his back four effectively, or if at all?

I come on these pages week after week, as does Lee and we do our best to not be too negative and look at the positive aspects of the performances. But sadly, with this one I just cannot defend them.

Anyway, today is done and we move on to Everton next week. Must win or must not lose? Anyone's guess but let's just hope that whatever it is, the message gets through to the players...

Come on You R'ssssssssss!!!