On a day when many fans began to lose faith in Ian Holloway, QPR produced the kind of performance we have been crying out for all season. As Iain Dowie left the club and rumours of Gerry Francis taking training seemed to be confirmed by eye witnesses many Rangers fans can be forgiven for thinking this was just another crap performance waiting to happen. But finally we saw some changes.

Out went Miklsoko, Warren, Rose, Wardley and Kulscar amd in came a 4-4-2 system. Lee Harper started at last with Bara, Perry, Plummer and Ready in the back four. Tony Scully and Paul Murray made their first starts of the season in midfield alongside Peacock and Darlington. Ngonge and Crouch continued up front.

Rangers started attacking the loft straight away and Tony Scully cut inside on an excellent run and his 25 yard shot was well saved. It was a sign of things to come as QPR played good passing football and caused Watford problems.

It wasn't all one way traffic as a careless Gavin Peacock backpass put Tommy Smith in but Lee Harper did brilliantly to come and save what looked like a certain goal. Ngonge and Crouch were causing so many problems up front. Crouch was proving to be a handful for Darren Ward whilst Ngonge looked impressive against his old club.

After my critisim of Crouch on Saturday it was great to see him perform so well in the first half. His distribution was better and was unlucky not to score. Darlington was doing well on the left but as usual was getting no support from midfield. It was very different on the right though where Scully and Perry were combining very well together and the crosses were much better for Crouch and Ngonge to attack.

Half time and it was very encouraging but as my mate said at half time "I don't know what to think, who knows how they'll play second half". Thats the problem with QPR you never know which one will turn up and a few minutes into the half it looked bad. Watford pressed forward and Lee Harper made an excelent save from Smith.

At least we kept going another good run by Scully saw his shot saved again. Then the breakthrough, Crouch did well in the box and was brought down for a penalty. My view wasn't the best for this so I can't say for sure if it was a foul or not but the Watford players were furious. Anyway Michel Ngonge picked up the ball but Gavin Peacock grabbed it off him to take the penalty. I prayed Peacock would not put it to the same side he always does but he did and the keeper made an easy save. Amazingly then the ref blew up and let us re take it. God Knows why the keeper didn't appear to do anything wrong so it was very harsh. Ngonge stepped up this time to place a very good penalty (the same side as Peacocks) into the net.

After that we had chances to kill the game off. A superb Darlington run was ended with a cross but Crouch was unlucky not to finish it off. Crouch then missed a good chance after Ngonge's layoff but his shot was wasteful. Watford looked average and the main threat came from Wooter again who we gave far to much space to. One of his long range efforts was well saved again by Harper. Sadly we couldn't hold on and a good ball into the box was met by Nielson who headed past Harper. It was a good goal but one we could have prevented.

The goal led to a spell of Watford pressure and Harper was forced to make another save to deny Wooter as we began to fall away. One disapointing moment was a bottle of beer being thrown at Wooter after fans accused him of diving. A quite awful tackle by Baraclough could have broken his leg but at least he picked up the bottle and drank some beer. How long though before police or so called security stop idiots throwign things on the pitch. At a recent game I was told I could not take the lid of my bottle of water to my seat. When I asked why they told me I could throw it. The fact that they suspected I would throw a lid but not the bottle sums up the mentallity of security at QPR.

Back to the game and Scully was looking tired but produced an superb shot from 30 yards and it took a magnificent save to prevent a goal. Baraclough and Plummer appeared to be struggling with knocks but it was Ngonge who came off first. Chris Kiwomya came on and almost found himself with a great chance but Watford cleared the danger well.

In the dying minutes it was all Watford as they put in cross after cross and Moony, Smith and Wooter all had half chances. It was backs to the walls and only one team was going to win it now. Darlignton came off to be repalced by Warren and then in injury time Plummer limped off and on came Danny Maddix to an amazing reception which made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Maddix helped clear the danger and we hung on for a point we deserved and with a bit of luck would have had all three.

All in all this was a much improved performance and we can take heart from the way we played. Shame we face the best side in the division next but nothing is impossible and we must try and build on this at the weekend.

13. Lee Harper : Great to see him back and he did very well. Made some great saves and I am just so happy to see him back. 8/10

24. Perry : Not bad defensivly and tried to get forward in the first half but his head went down like so many others in the second half. He can do so much better than he did today. 5/10

3. Ian Baraclough : Much better than Warren a good defender but he tended to drift into the middle leaving Darlington to cope with the impressive Wooter. 7/10

5. Ready : Gave away a few to many free kicks again and was lucky not be sent off for a terrible tackle near the end but did well tonight. 7/10

17. Plummer : Much better than he was on Saturday and gives everything for the cause 7/10

20. Tony Scully : Look tired towards the end due to lack of matches but was a threat throughout and looked desperate to impress. 8/10

22. Darlington : Much better further up the field and caused far more problems second half. 7/10

8. Peacock : Gave away the ball to much tonight and should have scored with two good chances. 6/10

7. Paul Murray : Worked hard and used the ball well. After such a long layoff he looked very sharp and was my Man of the match. 8/10

26. Crouch : Much better, faded towards the end but that was more due to us playing far to deep than what he was doing. 8/10

9.Michel Ngonge : Worked very hard and was a constant threat. 7/10

Maddix : There's only one Danny Maddix, great to see him back, I felt so proud to see him play in a QPR shirt again. 10/10 :-)

Warren : He really is not very good but didn't do much wrong when he came on 6/10

Kiwomya : Didn't do much but came on at a time when we we playing so deep he could have little or no impact. 6/10