Due to injuries we made several changes to the side that beat Crewe. Karl Ready, Ian Baraclough and Gavin Peacock missed out whilst Christer Warren made his full debut and Jermaine Darlington and Chris Plummer returned from injury.

The system stayed the same with mark Perry moving into midfield in a very defensive line up. The game started in the same way as the Crewe match. Dull. West Brom looked like a struggling side whilst Richard Langley (pictured left) continued his good form in midfield. Rangers were looking quite bright at times and Darlington went on a run past Clement and delivered a curling cross that was well held by the keeper but the forwards should have put more pressure on the keeper.

As usual our best attacks were coming on the right through Darlington and Langley. Another Darlington cross found Stuart Wardley who headed wide. Our first corner of the game almost saw us concede. Christer Warren failed to track Derek McInnes and the midfielder ran 60 yards before collecting Jason Van Blerk's ball and forcing a good save from Lee Harper.

For once we actually looked reasonable from throw ins. No don't get excited. We were not showing good movement and a willingness to want the ball but Christer Warren was able to reach one of the musical statues waiting in the penalty box.

A goal soon followed. A corner from the left by Warren was flicked n by Carlisle and Kiwomya tapped home. At least this is what I have read happened. From my seat in the ground I thought it had gone wide and it was Darlington who missed it. The pause among the traveling support seemed to suggest I wasn't alone in thinking this. It actually felt as if the West Brom fans were turning towards us Saying "You've just scored celebrate" but in reality it was only seconds before the pig bag song was being sung and the silly dance was started.

At this point it looked good. Langley was doing well in midfield and West Brom never looked that dangerous. Time to settle down score another one and go home happy. Wrong! As is typical of QPR we sat back. This allowed West Brom a bit more confidence as the deeper we played the less support the forwards got and the more isolated Langley become.

As the game wore on it was if we were playing with a 6-1-2 formation as Wardley had totally gone missing. This isn't a dig at perry who was doing a good job of tracking Ruel Fox but at this point we needed to defend higher up the pitch and look for another goal. Lee Hughes was beginning to cause problems and twice he saw shots saved by harper are leaving the Rangers defence in a daze. Hughes opened us up again putting Bob Taylor in but he shot well wide. It looked like one of those days for West Brom who were at least having a go compared to us.

Two minutes before half-time Morrow cleared off the line in the middle of a goalmouth scramble as we began to fear the worst and it did get worse. Paul Furlong picked up a knock and on came Peter Crouch to much laughter from both sets of supporters.

Cries of One Rodney Trotter started up from the home fans and "Freak" everytime he touched the ball. Rodn.. I mean Crouch had a great chance to shut everyone up right on half time. Langley put him through and he was unmarked just ten yards out. Here we go I though top corner and three points. But Crouch, no sorry Rodney produced a pathetic side foot attempt which was so poor you had to laugh along with the West Brom fans. It is hard to describe how bad it was as the ball rolled away in the opposite direction to where he was aiming. All funny stuff at the time but the smiles were not so apparent after half time.

Rangers kicked off and Richard Langley tried too run through he West brom defence on his own. This led to him losing the ball and a break was on and we were in trouble. Lee Hughes dribbled the ball into the area and after Fox's shot was parried by Harper, Van Blerk had the simple task of shooting into an unguarded goal. It was not looking good and we were struggling to get a grip in midfield as Langley was doing two men's work and despite doing it very well it wasn't enough.

The referee then came into this own. Earlier in the game he was missed a two footed lunge at Christer Warren and after Furlongs injury he was quite happy to see West brom attack rather than throw the ball back. If they had scored from the throw in we could have asked for the game to be replayed or does that only work in high profile games?

Anyway the referee then finally gave a free kick for another blatant foul on Langley. This time Langley reacted to a very bad tackle and needed to be calmed down by the ref. During this row the ref went card crazy booking Kiwomya and a West Brom defender from pushing eachover but he couldn't get the wall back ten yards.

Even the West Brom fans sang "You don't know what your doing". He lost total control of the game as some bad challenges flew in but saw very few of them.

Another late tackle on Langley saw him reach for a card but he didn't know who did the foul and put the card away. After 60 odd minutes of being kicked all over the pitch, Langley reacted and hacked down a West Brom player. The player was so badly injured he leaped to his feet waving an imaginary card, remember that is supposed to be a booking according to the new rules, and Langley was in the book.

As the game was getting even more scrappy, West Brom looked more likely to score and had loads of possession. But we still almost nicked it when Carlisle headed wide when he should have scored. Finally the goal came and it was deserved despite the ref being blind again. Lee Hughes clearly tugged at Steve Morrow's shirt but play went go on and Hughes took the ball into the area and his shot sneaked past Lee Harper at the near post with the help of a deflection off Chris Plummer. Morrow acted very unprofessionally here chasing the ref rather than the forward and allowing Hughes the time and space to run through and score.

Karl Connolly finally came on but it was too late. Crouch then missed two sitters in the last few minutes. The second from an excellent Warren cross (after good work by Conolly) was harder to miss but he managed it. All in all a poor performance and question marks over the lack of substitutions were asked by supporters rather than how awful the ref was.

Man of the Match: Richard Langley

13. Lee Harper : Not his best game. Made a few good saves but his distribution was very poor. 6/10

22. Jermaine Darlington : Started well causing problems on the right but faded as the game wore on as we defended to deep. 6/10

19. Christer Warren : A decent debut. Another who struggled as we defended deeper but produced some good crosses towards the end. 6/10

4. Steve Morrow : Did very well throughout but cost us the game with a stupid mistake. Why chase the ref Steve? He was fouled but play to the whistle. 7/10

17. Chris Plummer : Was not fully fit but defended well and didn't let us down. 7/10

18. Clarke Carlisle : Not his best game but still did well and was unlucky not to score again. 7/10

24. Mark Perry : Worked hard tracking Ruel Fox and did everything asked of him. 7/10

21. Richard Langley : He was the midfield again today. Working so hard and showing signs of the class player he is. 8/10

27. Stuart Wardley : Never in the game and he needs to be dropped for his and the teams sake. 3/10

33. Paul Furlong : Did OK and made some good layoffs and was missed when he went of injured. 6/10

11. Chris Kiwomya : Not at his best but managed to score. 6/10

10. Karl Connolly : Looked very eager when he came on and deserves a starting place. 7/10

28. Peter Crouch : Just not strong enough and needs time to develop away from laughing supporters. 5/10