FA Cup First Round Replay
Tuesday November 26th  

Queens Park Rangers 1

Vauxhall Motors 1

   
A.Thomson P.Brazier
   
Vauxhall Won 4-3 on Penalties
   

Not a match report as such but with such anger and disappointment raging inside I felt it was best just to have a rant instead of going through what happened in the game. Hopefully I'll feel inspired enough tomorrow to write an actual report.

You can talk and moan about managers until you are blue in the face. You can spend the rest of this week screaming for a new manager if you want. But in my humble opinion once again tonight QPR fans, the QPR manager and QPR as a club were let down by the players.

Of the players we have fit I felt Ollie picked possibly the best side available. Shittu has been disappointing in the last few weeks and many have called for him to be dropped. Palmer was back in defence, Padula started as did Burgess and our best two fit strikers started the game.

We played a 4-4-2 we virtually the same team that got us to to the top of the league two months ago (only Shittu, Gallen and Rose missing by my reckoning) The team picked should have been good enough to beat most division two teams, they didn't ever look like winning this game though.

Quite what Holloway is supposed to do now I don't know. Perhaps the call for him to go will grow louder with the inevitable defeat on Friday, whatever. If we appoint Arsene Wenger tomorrow he'll still have the same players and have to face gutless performances from his players as Holloway had to suffer tonight

A word or two on a few players.

Williams was a disgrace, couldn't get past his man all night showing he is not a winger then went back to left back and got even worse.

Palmer was awful in defence. His worst performance since joining Rangers. He was utter shite

Carlisle looked fucked, he needs a rest from the first team.

What the hell has happened to Forbes, his confidence has gone

Bircham was dead on his feet in extra time, the one thing I felt Ollie did get wrong and he should have been taken off. Mind you Williams was so piss poor you can see why he went off instead.

Furlong, what a pathetic excuse for a striker,. Won one header all night and as he walked up to take his penalty I got my bag and got ready to go home. Credit for having the bottle to take one but he never looked like scoring it.

Thomson was alright when we played the ball to his feet but that wasn't to often.

Only player to come out with credit was Oli who had a good ten minute spell in the second half. Apart from him Murphy did ok and Langley showed glimpses of quality but nowhere near enough.

That was quite simply one of the worst performances and one of the worst nights I can remember as a QPR fan. It took 25 minutes to get into the stadium despite only 50 people in a queue to get in. The lower loft had one turnstile open and some of our fans wanted exact seat numbers for tickets, for Christ's sake sit where you like! We asked for 2 tickets and the bloke asked what block, what row? With people shouting hurry up behind we didn't give a fuck but he took and age to find us a ticket. We ended up sitting where we liked.

The performance was bad enough but the nasty atmosphere in the first half with every QPR player being called a c**t and the team getting crazy abuse when Vauxhall dared to actually attack us. Carlisle told the Loft to fuck off by the look of it and i couldn't blame him. Not defending the players performance but the fans were never behind the team. Amazingly most of the abuse thrown at the team was while we were 1-0 up.

Of course that had nothing to do with the result, the fans don't win or lose football matches and if you don't like what people are saying and the mood of where you are sitting you do what I did and move for the second half. Just thought that was worth a mention though as I want to get this off my chest, I mean how can I sleep after that performance.

Full credit to Vauxhall Motors, they deserved it and should have won it before we got to penalties. So that's £130,000 out of the window and I would guess that ends the chances of us getting Sir Les back ( I was guessing we'd pay him out of that). The end of the game was heart breaking for me, I wasn't shocked but seeing my girlfriend in tears brings it home to you how low we have sunk.

What do we do know then?

Sack the manager?

Well I don't think that's the answer, it's the easy answer but whoever is in charge I doubt they would have picked a better side tonight from who we have and as for motivating them do the players really need a manager to inspire them for an FA Cup game?

He can work on tactics, set pieces, patterns of play etc all week but if they go on the pitch and play like that what's the point in working so damn hard all week. If they don't want to play for him why did they sign for QPR with ollie as manager?

No manager is perfect and if the players think they can do better elsewhere perhaps they should give Chris Kiwomya or Karl ready a ring and see if the grass really is greener on the other side. We've sacked managers int he past to please the players.

Sacking Francis was supposed to get a reaction out of the players, it didn't and the same happened after Houston left. The players were supposed to be playing shit becasue he was manager but they got even worse after he left.

Change the team?

Well easier said than done. Would be nice to see Wes Daly get a game but apart from him who else do we have to come in and really change things in two days? Sadly no one. Pacquette and Leroy are decent players but no better than the current crop of strikers we have missing chance after chance every week.

Honestly I don't know what needs to be done. The players need to have a good hard look at themselves and begin going back to basics passing and moving off the ball. Ian Holloway has a massive job ahead of him to lift the players now, I don't envy him.

As for us the fans, we have a big part to play on Friday. We have to get right behind the team and sing our bollocks or boobies if your a girl off. I expect many will be all out for the managers head now and for those of you who are stop and think for a minute.

This result was unacceptable but why did we lose this game. Was it poor team selection? Poor Tactics? or Piss Poor performances from well paid professional footballers. I think it's the later but you can't sack a player can you.