With money being tight at the moment this was one away game to many for me so I was stuck listening to the game on the Internet and on Crapital Gold who spent more time talking about Southampton v Man City than QPR. So much for being number one for London clubs.

Anyway with Simon Royce going back to Leicester and Clarke Carlisle going off injured this was always going to be a difficult game. It sounded like one of those days for Rangers ont he commentary and hats off to the official site for the commentary yesterday which was far better than I had expected.

Anyway the match report this week will obviously be a bit different. Below are some of the views from the QPR mailing list of the game.

Here's what Dominic Byne had to say about the game

Just back from a disappointing day. We had a phenomenal start and there were times in the first 15 or 20 minutes when it was completely one way traffic towards the Crewe goal. But you had the feeling that we might rue not failing to turn that pressure into an early goal.

But even after Carlisle went off things seemed ok. The defence had an easy time of it for quite a spell so there was a chance to reorganise. Then came an awful mix up. Shittu seemed more to blame than Digby but we were a long way from that end so it was difficult to tell. Either way it was a terrible mix up and we gifted them a goal. It wasn't Shittu's only error but before anyone leaps on Shittu or Digby just bear in mind that both were responsible at various moments throughout the game for saving us defensively.

We had a disappointing second half performance. Their second goal was offside according to the 500 or so R's fans who were roughly level with the linesman and the play. I couldn't tell from my position on the half way line. Either way 2-0 to Crewe was not a travesty of a scoreline by that time. What was definitely out of order was the reaction of a few idiots who chased the linesman up and down the touchline swearing abuse at him. Also there was an idiot who threw a bottle from not far behind where we were. I don't mind giving linesmen fair abuse from the crowd - I do it myself when it is justified - but this was way over the top and could bring the club into disrepute.

Furlong had a mare of game. He just did not win headers, hold the ball up or really justify his place in today's team. There will be other days when he is worth his weight in gold. This just wasn't one of those days. I wanted Gallen to take the penalty but it had obviously been decided on the training ground that, in the absence of Connolly or Thomson, Furlong would step up. The penalty wasn't the worst I've seen. It was not badly struck but it wasn't perfectly positioned and the goalkeeper read it right. It was a metaphor for the whole game.

Rangers weren't awful, but we didn't really click and Crewe read us well.

John McCookoe had a different reading of the game on the QPR Mailing List

I have quite a different reading of the game being at the end where Shittu made the cock up for the first goal. Some bloke in front of me blamed Digby for it somehow but I thought that was ridiculous. A long punt upfield was expertly brought down by Shittu but the resulting bouncing ball was halfway between Shittu and Forbes.

They both dithered and a Crewe lad nipped in and finished niftily. Shittu actually went on to make 2 more serious blunders, one was right at the end of the first half when he chested the ball in our area which was quickly intercepted by a Crewe lad who then crossed across the goal. The other one was I believe at the start of the second half when he completely miscontrolled a ball and let the impressive blond no 17 in for a one on one with Digby, impressive except for his finishing thankfully.

We did start well but for the last 70 minutes we were run ragged really. I don't think we could have complained if it had ended 5-0 so superior were Crewe.

I absolutely knew the penalty was going to be saved and I thought it was a very poor kick too, the keeper barely had to parry it so softly was it struck. Furlong did have a nightmare, Gallen and Langley in touches showed what we know they are capable of but I thought the only bright performances were from Digby, Connolly in the first half and Oli.

It was just a bad day all round really, we'll probably be brilliant against Blackpool.