It happens to us all, a moment when you stand or sit and a light bulb goes off in your mind to say this really has been a bad day. My light bulb went off at around 11.30pm on Tuesday after coming home from Loftus Road to find a leak in what will be the new third bedroom in my house so rather than a late beer in front of sky sports news I was stood being rained on with buckets trying to stop the rain water going into the electrics.

Yes all in all this was a pretty bad night but gave me time to reflect on Rangers latest defeat. Rather than eventually going to bed calm and having sorted out what went wrong in my mind my only thoughts were several swear words around other words such as rubbish, hit a cows arse with a banjo and Helguson.

Almost 24 hours on I sit in the same house where the leak has now been dealt with and feel slightly better about the world and ready to re visit last night with a match report.

OK deep breath, try not swear and here we go.

After a couple of beers in the Springbok we made our way to the Lower Loft with my wife saying she'll miss QPR next season with only a few games to go now before she says farewell to QPR for a while and hello to being a mother. As the rain lashed down she'd quickly changed her mind on the magic of evening games as she sat shivering in her Family Stand seat.

We got in just in time to see the teams come out and it took a little while to see who was playing and what formation we were playing. It took time but we soon worked it out. Sousa had gone back to the 4-4-2 diamond midfield formation that served him well during his first two months at QPR.

Jordi Lopez made his debut in front of the back four with Miller and Leigterwood on the wide points and Routledge behind the front two of Helguson and Blackstock. Much scratching of heads on that one but some fans were happy as they could sing 4-4-2 for a few minutes.

Rangers almost got off to the perfect start as Blackstock and Lopez combined with the Spaniard playing a lovely pass through to Helguson who was clean through and one on one with the keeper. The result was inevitable with Helguson adding this to his list of sitters missed this season and he lifted the ball over the keeper and well wide of the post. That was to be a running theme for the evening.

Norwich were desperate for a win and battled hard having a decent spell early on where they pushed us back and Cerny was called into action to make a mess of a long ball forward before spilling a free kick which was scrambled clear by Gorkss.

Carl Cort then saw his header well saved by Cerny and It had been a nervous start but Rangers soon grabbed control and pinned Norwich back. We dominated midfield with Leigterwood looking strong and having an excellent game whilst Lopez showed plenty of skill and vision on the ball to build attacks through midfield.

Norwich were struggled to get in the game and we really should have gone ahead as we missed some good chances. Dexter Blackstock did well cutting inside and his deflected shot went just over the bar.

Lopez was next to go close with a long range free kick which was curled over the wall and just wide of the post. I think the keeper may have saved it but it was good to see us go close with a free kick.

Our corners were improved as well as Lopez managed to beat the first man a few times but we couldn't text the keeper enough.

A controversial moment followed when Norwich were awarded a penalty. Serial diver Lee Croft knocked the ball too far ahead of him and Lopez saw it out leading to Croft throwing himself on the floor. The ref gave a penalty but there were plenty of protests and the ref went over to speak to the linesmen who confirmed it wasn't a foul and fair play to the ref he gave a corner. The fans cheered singing Lino give us a wave and the corner was comfortably cleared.

The other lino then got involved as a Lopez corner was headed goal wards by Stewart and Rangers claimed it crossed the line and started celebrating, the ref turned to his linesmen but nothing was given and the Norwich fans took the chance to sing the praises of their own lino. It was impossible to see from the Lower Loft if it was a goal but not many QPR fans at that end seemed to be protesting too much.

Rangers were well on top though playing some good football and at half time hopes were high that we'd go on to win the game. Those hopes looked likely to become a reality as we started the second half with Norwich camped in their own half and Rangers dominating.

Liam Miller went close to his first QPR goal with a lob over the keeper but it was a little too high and went over the bar. The pressure continued and there was only one team in it. Delaney was getting plenty of the ball on the left and out in a good cross for Helguson but although not a sitter he made a mess of the chances closing his eyes as the ball hit him in the ace and went wide. He claimed a corner, perhaps if he has kept his eyes open he'd have seen it wasn't.

Lopez was running things in midfield but Leigterwood came close to a goal with a powerful shot from 30 yards out which was heading right to the top corner but the keeper got across to make a fantastic save.

The pressure continued as Blackstock headed wide from a corner and several good build ups were wasted with poor final balls from the full backs. Routledge went on a mazy run from the right into the box but failed to pick anyone out and the chant of We're gonna score in a minute seemed apt as really only one side was going to win this game.

The only way Norwich were going to score was going to be a complete cock up by Rangers. Of course this is QPR we're talking about and soon enough the clock up occurred.

Delaney volleyed a ball back to Gorkss which the big defender struggled to keep under control, he should have knocked it out for a throw in but tried to play his way out and did well holding off Hoolihan and playing it to Stewart. Sadly Stewart had a rush of blood and gave it back to an under pressure Gorkks and Norwich won it back passing to Russell who shot straight at Cerny but to complete the catalogue of catastrophes the ball went straight through Cerny's hands and into the net. Norwich fans went mad, QPR stood in sheer disbelief and what looked like being a home win was going rather tits up.

I looked up at the scoreboard to see how long was left and just couldn't see how we were going to score two goals in twenty minutes to win this game. The players seemed to be of the same opinion as me as well and looked completely shot of confidence after that.

Ephraim replaced Miller to give us the farcical sight of two wingers trying to play on the right wing whilst over on the left plenty of space for Delaney but as hard as he tried his crossing was getting worse and worse.

The front two fell to pieces and despite plenty of pressure we created little in the final ten minutes other than a Gorkss header which was easily saved. Fitz Hall and Di Carmine came on to little effect as we went 3-4-3 but the result was now inevitable and the ref finally put us out of our misery and gave Norwich fans a night to remember.

This was actually the best we've played at home for a while and for an hour we were so much the better side it was embarrassing. Once again though a failure to take our chances has cost us not only this game but any faint hopes of the playoffs.

Helguson once again missed several really good chances and it seems he can't play a full game without missing at least one easy chance. At home if Blackstock doesn't score then we don't have many other options and the longer it went we were only a cock up away from conceding which we did.

The positives were Lopez who looks a good player and I thought Leigterwood had a good game. If only we got the ball to Cook out wide as often as we did Delaney. My mood went from sympathy to anger with him by the end as he put cross after cross into the middle and never found a QPR shirt. In his defence though it may help if a QPR player actually bust a gut to attack the ball rather than stand and watch it sail past them.

The diamond formation works ok but the problem is asking the full backs to deliver crosses and too often they can't. I can see why Sousa played it though as Loftus Road is a narrow pitch and the wide players have struggled in recent weeks so to play through the middle made sense and actually worked well for most of the game. It was one of those nights though when no matter how we played we were not going to win.

It's all so frustrating at the moment, we really need a win soon, the playoffs have gone but we can't allow the season to just die out as we could easily finish lower mid table or worse.

Sadly the fall out of the defeat seems to be that Sousa is going to carry the can and after just four months he is in danger of losing his job. I think that is ridiculous and we really should be giving him more time.

I've said before and I'll say again QPR have plenty of good individuals in the team which means we can beat good teams like Wolves and lose to teams like Norwich. It was the same last season under De Canio when we followed up a spanking of Stoke with a pitiful performance at Coventry, were hammered at Cardiff then thrashed Bristol City 4 days later. Until we give a manager time, money and the power to build a team rather than a group of individuals we are going nowhere fast and will continue to be inconsistent.

Personally I'd like to know why we gave the job to Dowie last year and were stunned that he made us hard to beat and not play football like Barcelona and then give it to Sousa, a young manager who was going to learn as he went along and then four months later act stunned that he has made mistakes and learnt as he has gone along.

It's easy to point at teams around us and say they are not as good as us but they have managers who have been given time to build a team. Sousa has not had that yet and personally if I was in charge at Rangers I'd come out and back Sousa saying he is the man for us and will be given time to make his mark at Rangers.

I think the pressure should be on Paladini rather than Sousa. We've spent a fortune on players only to have a squad that is unbalanced to say the least. We built a squad last season to stay up but since then we've added only Routledge to take us up a level the other signings since then have been baffling at times and not really worked. We have tons of central midfield players but all season it's been obvious we need a quality striker with pace and we've done nothing about it.

At the end of the day though the team Sousa picked should have won this game and would have won it had we taken the simple chances we created.

Oh well only a few days before we go through it all again when Sheffield United come to Loftus Road. I can't wait!

Man of the Match: Jordi Lopez

Players Ratings: Cerny 4, Connolly 6, Gorkks 5 (Hall 6), Stewart 5, Delaney 6, Lopez 7, Miller 5 (Ephraim 5), Leigterwood 7, Routledge 5, Helguson 4 (Di Carmine 5) Blackstock 5