The KC Stadium hasn’t been a happy hunting ground for many sides this season but Rangers travelled north feeling pretty confident after last week’s late draw against Preston.

De Canio made changes to the team with Delaney returning from suspension to replace Connolly at left back against his old club. Gareth Ainsworth won his first start since the cup game at Chelsea with Leigterwood dropping to the bench. Once again injury ruled out Buzsacky from the squad and he will be hoping to return in time for the game against Charlton next week.

This was a game the home side had to win and their fans seemed desperate to beat us with a bizarre match preview appearing on the Hull City Rivals site where the editor of that site had a personal rant about QPR with the main moan about us being that some fans got upset about songs about the London bombings two years ago and that we beat them twice after appointing a new manager. How naughty of us. He also seemed confident of an easy home win but I'm sure he spent most of today with the hump after his side failed to beat Rangesr for the second time this season.

Confidence must have been high from the Hull fans though and they fully expected another high scoring home win against us but were quickly in for a surprise. Rangers started the game brightly with the Hull players looking like the pressure was getting to them.

Rangers had the better of the early exchanges and almost grabbed the lead when a ball by Delaney to the far post was headed goal wards by Ainsworth but proved to be a comfortable save for the keeper.

Rangers kept going and were using the ball well, a long ball forward by Ainsworth was beautifully brought under control by Agyemang who fired in a shot from the edge of the area which was saved again by the keeper.

The games controversial moment came in the fourteenth minute and had the home fans and players seething. Delaney played the ball down the left for Ephraim who cut inside and crossed into the middle where Blackstock was on hand to poke the ball goal wards. The ball hit the post and appeared to just cross the line before being cleared to Rowlands who buried his shot into the bottom corner. It didn’t matter though as the linesmen had already flagged to give the goal to Blackstock and the Rangers players celebrated.

Television pictures since show the whole of the ball didn’t cross the line so the home side had every right to be aggrieved but at full speed which is how the linesmen saw it the ball appeared to have gone in but until you get goal line technology these decisions are always going to come up. If the goal had not been given we’d have scored anyway though as Rowlands put away the loose ball but that appears to have been ignored by the moaners and groaners from Hull.

Anyway the record books will show that Blackstock scored at Hull and that was his third goal in the last four games as he looks to end a poor season for him on a high note.

As the home side looked to get back in the game Rangers almost scored a second as Myhill flapped at a Blackstock header and was fortunate to keep the ball out.

Hull appeared to have very little idea how to break Rangers down and the main plan seemed to be hoof it long to Windass and hope he can flick it on for Campbell. This proved to be easy to deal with as Fitz Hall was equal to every long ball and lee Camp was a virtual spectator until the final few minutes of the half.

Hull’s first real chance came from a free kick after Stewart needlessly climbed all over Windass. Andy Dawson lined up the free kick right on the edge of the box and his curling effort was brilliantly saved by Lee Camp as he got a hand on the ball to turn it away for a corner.

Rangers went in at half time with the lead and probably deserved it on the balance of play in that first half. The second half was always going to be more difficult though and we made a disappointing start when Blackstock was forced off with an injury. De Canio opted to bring on Leigterwood and switch to a 4-5-1 system which restricted Hulls movement through midfield. In truth though hull were more than happy to bypass the midfield and continued to lump it forward to Windass without any real success.

Caleb Folan came on to add more height to the attack and he almost levelled the scored heading wide of the post in one of Hulls rare chances.

Rangers were happy to sit back and soak up the pressure and looked pretty comfortable for most of the half. Fraser Campbell had two chances to level the scores but his first hit the side netting and his second was headed straight at Camp for a comfortable save.

Angelo Balanta came on for Agyemang who also picked up a knock and with the clock ticking down Hull continued with plan A of hoof and hope by throwing a defender up front. Rangers were showing no real ambition to get a second goal and when the board went up to signal five minutes injury time this gave Hull the lift they needed and the inevitable last equaliser followed.

It was poor defending by Rangers as Folan ran down the right without a challenge and picked out the centre back Dawson who was unmarked in the six yard box for a simple tap in. With Mancienne, Stewart and Hall all marking no one in the middle questions will be asked about how Dawson was allowed so much space to score.

Hull now had their tails up and looked for a winner but couldn’t get one and in the end a draw was probably a fair result. It’s never easy to take a last minute equaliser though and that’s the eighth time this season we have conceded in the 90th minute.

I think most of us would have taken a point before the game but much like at Wolves we were so close and if we had held on the win would have made us mathematically safe. As ever though some fans will complain about us trying to sit on the lead during the second half but after a dismal start to the season it’s good to see us pick up points away from home. We’ve only been beaten once on the road now since January which has included tough trips to Wolves, Ipswich, Barnsley and now Hull.

Rangers can also draw some confidence from the fact that Hull are the form side in the division and could be in the premiership next season so we really should have nothing to fear next season with a few new additions.

Next up for Rangers is Charlton and a return to Loftus Road for Lee Cook who should be guaranteed a good reception from the QPR fans after he gave his Ł250,000 signing on fee from Fulham back to QPR to try and help the club out.