The games have been coming thick and fast over Christmas and the latest one saw Rangers make the short trip to Watford, which has rarely been a happy hunting ground for us.

Rangers usually get the whole end at Vicarage Road so I was in no rush to get tickets for this one but it turned out to be too late as Rangers only had 2,000 tickets and they sold out quickly. I was pretty disappointed to miss out on this one but then again we always lose at Watford.

So instead I opted to watch the first half via Soccer Saturday and then popped off to Comet to look at a new TV during the second half before seeing Bee Movie at the cinema.

The teams were announced on the official site at about half two and the reaction on various message board beggared belief. De Canio made changes after a tough Christmas schedule and two more games to come this week. He rested Buzsacky and Vine dropping them to the bench. The reaction was one of doom and gloom with most posters on the message boards slating the manager before a ball was kicked. The fact that we had attacking options on the bench to come on and change the game was lost of most people and it was more than a little frustrating to see so many write us off before a ball was kicked.

De Canio kept faith with Bob Malcolm who was arrested for drink driving on Boxing day and even had the front to blame the referee at Plymouth for the offence. The irony of Big Bad Bob being arrested for speeding can't have been lost on anyone but he started at right back in possibly his last game for the club.

Damion Stewart returned after suspension in defence whilst there were changes in midfield. Martin Rowlands started in the middle with Leigertwood suspended and seventeen-year-old Angelo Balanta was handed a full debut on the left wing. Up front Dexter Blackstock returned to be partnered by Marc Nygaard.

Rangers started on the back foot with the home side looking to improve on a run, which has seen them fail to win at home for two months. On the break Rangers looked dangerous and we quickly took a shock lead. Balanta got the ball on the left and brought it down before playing a lovely volleyed pass through to Blackstock. Dexter ran in between two defenders and found himself brought down for a penalty in front of the noisy 2,000 QPR fans.

Soccer Saturday went straight to the game with the QPR fans visible behind the match day reporter, I held by breath as he reported a penalty for QPR. Martin Rowlands stepped up to take it and before anything could be said I could see blue and white hoped shirts in the away end celebrating as Rowlands sent the keeper the wrong way and found the bottom corner. 1-0 to the super hoops but still a long way to go.

Watford were shell shocked but continued to push forward as Rangers continued to catch them on the break. Chris Barker won a corner on the left which Rowlands floated into the box and Blackstock's deflected effort was tipped just over the bar by the keeper. This was all going far too well and the resulting corner saw Stewart run on and smash a header into the back of the net for his fourth goal of the season and his third in December. The watching Danny Shittu must have been impressed with the goal and was very similar to many of the goals Big Dan used to get for us.

Back home I was struggling to believe we were 2-0 up and being a typical QPR fan had a sinking feeling we'd probably still get beat. How wrong I was though as things got even better before half time.

Watford had chances to get back into the game as a Williamson shot beat Camp and hit the post whilst Nathan Ellington should have done better with a decent chance from ten yards out.

Rangers were flying going forward and were making a mockery of the moans and groans many fans were busy typing an hour earlier on the dotorg message board. A nice passing move saw Rowlands combine with Bolder who found Balanta and the youngster showed great awareness to knock it on for Rowlands again and he got into space before volleying past the keeper and make it 3-0. As the scoreline came up on Sky Sports News I found it hard not to laugh, after sitting through some right crap this season here I was missing out on our best performance.

Half time came and it was still 3-0, I can only imagine what the scenes of joy, excitement and disbelief must have been like among the QPR fans at Vicarage Road.

The superstitious side of me said that I must spend the second half the same way I have the first but then I remembered I'd just ordered two cinema tickets so we made our way to the car and made the journey for a bit of shopping and then onto Uxbridge.

I decided against listening to BBC London on the way as they were doing the West Ham game so instead we put on a Baker and Kelly podcast and just hoped that we'd hang on to a great victory. When we arrived at Comet my plan to buy a new TV seemed a genius one as they were showing final score on BBC. Carly pointed out a few good televisions to buy but they were showing Buggs Bunny so I had no real interest in them and just continued watching Ray Stubbs and the very slow goal service they have, why couldn't they put on Sky Sports and who cares that Tottenham have scored again, what's the QPR score.

Then it flashed up, Watford 1 QPR 4 (Akos Buzsacky 80). Hurray three points safe. Back at the Vicarage Road the action had gone like this. Shittu came on at half time and spent much of his time up front forcing Nygaard to come deep and mark him. Watford got back in the game early on in the half when a ball to the far post was headed across goal by Francis and Rehmann cleared off the line only to see the ball hit Camp and roll into the net. A lifeline for Watford but not a great one. De Canio made two bold attacking changes bringing on Vine and Buzsacky for the tiring Ainsworth and Balanta and the change gave us a new attacking impetus which got us a fourth goal. Perhaps De Canio does know what he is doing after all.

The goal came when Rowlands again did well to find space and he found Buzsacky who waltzed round the keeper, looked up and placed the ball in between four Watford defenders on the line into the back of the net. He ran the full length of the pitch to celebrate with the jubilant QPR fans and back in Comet I wanted to jump up and down but decided against that course of action.

Typically we conceded again with a brilliant volley from Danny Shittu and back in Comet I spent the final few minutes of the game blaming BBC1 for the fact the game hadn't finished yet. At Vicarage Road there was still time for another chance as Blackstock did well to sprint from the half way line past a defender before shooting just wide of the post and agonisingly missing out on the goal he had deserved.

In the end a 4-2 win was a stunning result and sees QPR move out of the bottom three to the heady heights of nineteenth, our highest league position since August.

My day ended with the arranged trip the cinema to see Bee Movie and then the goal feast that was Match of the Day.

So the final game of the year ends on a high note for Rangers and there are many reasons to look forward to 2008. Rangers have not had a better chance to compete at the top end of this division for a long time and with the right players brought in Rangers should have enough about us to stay up and find ourselves in a position to challenge next season.

Of course the relegation battle is far from over and we could easily find ourselves back in the bottom three on Tuesday against Ian Holloway's Leicester, a fixture that usually ends in a draw at Loftus Road. We do have something to build on though and if the rumours are true we have some exciting additions to look forward to in the next few days.

One incoming player has been confirmed with Kieran Lee joining on loan from Manchester United on the 2nd January. Lee can play at full back or in midfield and I expect he'll be replacing Bob Malcolm at right back.

After that it's a case of who do you believe. If reports are to be believed Lee will be joined at QPR this week by defenders Fitz Hall (from Wigan) and Martin Connolly (from Arsenal) along with forwards Patrick Agyemang (Preston) and Darryl Murphy (Sunderland).

A deal for Hogan Ephraim is also said to have been done. Rowan Vine and Akos Buzsacky are also expected to make loan moves permanent in January. Again these are just rumours and it remains to be seen who comes and who leaves during a big month for the club.