Team Line Up
		24. Radek Cerny
15. Peter Ramage		13. Kaspars Gorkks	3. Damien Stewart		16. Matthew Connolly
		20. Jordi Lopez
7. Wayne Routledge		4. Gavin Mahon (c)	6. Mikele Leigterwood		21. Matteo Alberti
			18. Liam Miller		Romone Rose
		22. Samuel Di Carmine	9. Dexter Blackstock
Substitutes

Rangers slumped to a third defeat in four matches to make it eight games without a win for Rangers and leave us well out of the playoff race and looking over the shoulder at the bottom three.

Sousa changed things to play a 4-4-2 away from home which will have please Flavio and most fans but as ever left us wide open in midfield and unable to keep the ball. No shock that the 2 up front didn't work away from home just as it didn't for the first 4 months of the season. Quite why we have abandoned the 4-5-1 which served us so well away from home is anyone's guess but from the start it seemed likely that a home win was on the cards here.

Damien Delaney missed out through injury so at least he won't be blamed for this one. The former scapegoat Peter Ramage came back in whilst Matteo Alberti and Gavin Mahon replaced Lopez and Miller.

Rangers got off to a poor start when Damien Stewart scored a farcical own goal under no pressure heading past Cerny. Rangers went further behind when Paul Heffernan made it 2-0 and the in form home side had the game wrapped up.

Rangers huffed and puffed and had chances but once again failed to score a goal for the third game in a row and suffered another defeat.

The pressure on Paulo Sousa will be intense again now especially from our trigger happy owner but we have far bigger problems than the manager. If Sousa goes we will be looking for our seventh manager in sixteen months which may show that the manager is not the entire problem.

Here are the thoughts of some QPR fans who went to the game from the QPR Mailing List.

Jim Frayling

In car on M18 looking for positives.

Rose looked promising, good but far from finished article.

Ramage was my MOTM, very efficient.

Er... Had we not gifted them two goals we may have drawn.

Kind of game that happens to you when in form or out of it and can't change your fortune for better or worse.

Poor games from Routledge, Legs, Dex, Di Carmine, Alberti. All capable of more, I only exclude Mahon cos he isn't.

Back four fine apart from goals. Which is the point really.

Listless performance once two down - have the players been reading the papers?

Clive Gifford

To be honest, I thought the songs for Di Canio and, for that matter, Furlong and a hearty chant for Ramage who, at least showed some desire and actually, some good craft as right full back, were all fine. The songs were sung in good spirit. God knows why! At the end of the game, Ramage came over to the crowd, not over as in edge of the penalty area, but over to the front of the stand and chucked his shirt into the crowd. Nice gesture on a pretty dismal night.

Some woeful performances including Dexter Bambi Blackstock who could not stay upright, seems to have no upper body strength and Baggio-ed the best chance of the night over the bar. Really poor, although the old chestnut about the service the front two received partially explained it. But that looked a simple striking chance which he failed to get anywhere near the target. Not good enough.

Two good shots just off target from Legs whose passing was all over the shop, Mahon was tidy but supertanker slow at times, Routledge ineffectual and Alberti...oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Almost Louis/Lewis Hamiltonesque (and those who were at Burnley a few years ago will know what I mean). Connolly I thought looked our best defender and Cerny made a bit of a meal of one save to his left and an excellent save to his right but that was about it.

Good tactical change by Sousa to go three at the back - they really weren't hurting us nor us them - but things only improved marginally.

Following the lazy newspaper piece about Holloway being lined up for a return, I expect a bunch of abuse aimed at the old boy as always, but I'm not sure tonight's performance was that much better than during his dark days and tonight's was from a far better crop of players (so we are told) and far, far more expensive to both buy and pay wages to.