With a good win at Stoke behind us Rangers travelled to Ipswich with renewed confidence. Ian Holloway had the luxury of being able to pick an unchanged team although there was a slight tactical switch with Langley moving to the left and Rowlands back in central midfield. Georges Santos returned from injury and was on the bench in place of Donnelly.

Rangers started the game brightly and looked a confident side spraying the ball around well and also looked a tight defensive unit when Ipswich came forward. Rangers had the first chance of the game and the weekly controversy soon kicked off.

Richard Langley curled a lovely free kick over the wall and for a second we celebrated thinking it had gone in. Unfortunately it had hit the side netting and off we went to start again. Well that's what we thought but the Ipswich fans and players wer4e angry about something as the keeper lay on the floor.

From my view it looked like Furlong tried to run across to get on any rebound and jumped over the keeper but caught him accidentally. Of course I would say that being a QPR fan but the reaction from the Ipswich players and fans seemed to suggest something more sinister. Furlong was booked and then booed throughout by the home fans

This seemed to liven the home side up and they were soon trying to get in behind us with the plan seeming to be to win as many corners and free kicks around the box as possible.

It wasn't hard to work out why as the delivery from set pieces of Currie was superb all game and it took some excellent goalkeeping from Royce and good defending by Rangers to keep Ipswich out. The home side clearly miss Darren Bent up front and although they looked a threat from set pieces they didn't really have anyone to take advantage of the inviting deliveries from Currie.

Rangers were doing well though and looked a threat going forward. Stefan Moore looked bright alongside Furlong whilst Rowlands was everywhere and looked determined to make the central midfield position his own.

We should have taken the lead after a decent spell through Dan Shittu. Langley played a nice ball into the box after a corner was half cleared, his ball found Shittu but he tried to get too much power on the header rather than guiding it in and ended up missing the goal by a few yards.

We were in front a few minutes later with a lovely goal. Langley got the ball out wide and played a lovely little ball into Stefan Moore who turned and ran at the Ipswich defence.

This frightened the life out if them and he found Ainsworth with a neat pass. Moore then did what he hasn't done enough of this season when he continued his run to give Ainsworth someone to aim for, he was found with a quality cross and Moore headed past the keeper to send the away end into jubilant celebrations. It was an excellent goal and perhaps proved a few people wrong to have written off the youngster so quickly.

A new song was started in the away end as around 2,000 QPR fans sang "Moore, Moore, Moore, How do you like it, how do you like it" for about five minutes as the home fans sat in a bored silence only broken to half heartedly boo Paul Furlong.

Rangers frustratingly seemed to get penned in after the goal after looking in control until then. Ipswich were looking dangerous from corners so it was equally frustrating to give so many corners away.

Royce did well to deny Forster from one of the corners but each one seemed to cause a bit more of a problem as Furlong did well to head one away from under the bar and Royce had to be on top form to palm one away.

The equaliser came from a corner and it wasn't a big surprise when it came. Currie again delivered and it was Jason De Vos who rose above Langley to head past Royce. This was a small QPR side and Ipswich were taking advantage of this at set pieces. Looking at the bench it seemed only a matter of time before Santos or Evatt were brought on to help combat Ipswich's only real threat.

Rangers were still a threat going forward though with Rowlands and Langley buzzing around the midfield and it was another decent move that led to Rangers taking the lead. Langley again had a hand in the goal finding Ainsworth with a nice pass and the Rangers winger got down the line and put a cross over to the far post where Furlong was on hand to touch home for his fourth goal of the season and make sure Rangers went in at half time in the lead.

The talk at the break was that we only really needed to find one more goal then the game would be all over. Ipswich looked a side short of confidence and were there for the taking.

We started the second half well and were close to getting that killer goal on several occasions. The impressive Marcus Bean stormed through the Ipswich defence but was denied by a last ditch tackle.

Langley was next to go close as he stepped up for a free kick 30 yards out and his effort was on target but well saved by Price. Furlong then had a go shooting after good work from Ainsworth but Price again denied Furlong to keep his side in the game.

Furlong was looking more like his old self and he kept the lead in tact with some excellent defending from a dangerous corner scrambling away from Juan who looked set to equalise. Rowlands was also showing his defensive worth mopping up as Ipswich broke through and we began to look comfortable with the three points in the bag.

Stefan Moore had a chance to wrap the game up and did well with a pacy run and shot which beat the keeper but was just wide of the near post.

Ian Holloway then made two changes, which were understandable but in my opinion went on to cost us two points. Lloyds Dyer was replaced by Ian Evatt, which was sensible to combat the threat from corners. Santos also came on with the same intention replacing Langley. The problem was a central midfield of Santos and Bean made us far too defensive and we began to sit back. The midfield was now offering little support to the front two as they forward began to come deeper and deeper to get the ball. Joe Royle sussed this and brought on Magilton who would have 15 minutes to get the ball from deep and make things happen.

Martin Rowlands was next to go off with cramp as Lee Cook replaced him and we now looked happy to hang on for the 2-1. This was a dangerous game to play and with Ipswich looking decent from corners it would only take one mistake to cock up a good afternoons work.

The fresh legs of Cook almost got us a third goal as he sprinted towards goal but instead of going for goal he tried to put Moore in who was trying to take a defender away with his run and wasn't expecting a pass so we quickly lost possession.

With the team now basically sat on the edge of the box inviting Ipswich onto them it was going to be a long four minutes of injury time. In the first of those four minutes Ipswich got themselves level.

Magilton got his foot on the ball and was given far too much time and space to pick a pass out. He lofted a ball into the box for youngster Haynes to get away from Milanese and head past Royce. Considering we had 11 men behind the ball at the time it was criminal that an Ipswich player still managed to be unmarked and score a cruel equaliser.

We now had three minutes to get a deserved winner but it never looked like coming as Ipswich almost nicked a winner themselves with a late burst from Haynes, which Evatt did well to divert away from goal.

So in the end it was just a point for |Rangers in a game we should have won. Taking off Langley for Santos was really a poor mistake which I think cost us the game and invited Ipswich onto us and they eventually got an equaliser.

Still at least we played some decent football at times and I thought Bean was vastly improved on how he looked before he went to Swansea. His partnership in the middle with Rowlands was quite promising. Rowlands was back to his best form in central midfield whilst out wide Langley and Ainsworth were both effective in their roles. At the back Shittu was excellent as were the rest of the back four whilst up from Stefan Moore looked a different players after his goal and hopefully there is more to come from him.

Rangers have a bit of a break now before the next game which is Coventry at home so hopefully a few of the walking wounded like Rose, Gallen and Nygaard may be available to offer some competition to the first eleven.

Man of the Match: Martin Rowlands

Players Ratings: Royce 7, Bignot 7, Dyer 7 (Evatt 7), Shittu 8, Milanese 7, Ainsworth 7, Bean 7, Rowlands 8 (Cook 6), Langley 7 (Santos 6), Furlong 7, Moore 7