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Post by londonranger on Dec 23, 2008 15:28:39 GMT
Charlton vQPR Boxing day kick off 1;30. Results over holidays in local Derbies are unpredictable. So charlton have won half their home games and we have lost half our away games. So a draw would be sensible. But Charlton havent won for 15 straight games. Our pre Paulo team would lose this game and provide Atticks first win in a long time. But I think we will win 4-1.
Now home to Watford that could be rough and I see a draw 2-2 or maybe a loss. Depends which team drinks less over the hols or maybe drinks more?
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Post by QPR Report on Dec 23, 2008 15:47:32 GMT
It's like the good old days....or even better, when there were 3 games in 4 or 5 days over Easter. Especially good was when you played the same team home and away on successive days. Sure it was tiring for the players having to play and travel. But that's what made it so great.
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Post by londonranger on Dec 23, 2008 16:41:44 GMT
Like Southend Southend and Bournemouth and you took the train from Fenchurch st. to Saffend. lots of goals too.
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Post by QPR Report on Dec 23, 2008 19:33:24 GMT
Something I posted on my blog some last year: Nostalgia: Playing Same Team Twice Over Christmas or Easter...Forty Years Ago, QPR's Boxing Day Game at Plymouth-  "One of the things that evoke nostalgia for "the good old days" (in hazy memory, if not always at the time) was the old home and away games against the same team, over Christmas or Easter - sometimes even on consecutive days. Not quite clear why this ended: whether it was too punishing on the players, but end it did (as did the three games in four or five days over Easter). The last time this occurred, was forty years ago in QPR's 1967/68 Promotion season. QPR's opponents: Plymouth Argyle, away on Boxing Day! (And four days later, Plymouth at Loftus Road.) On Boxing Day, 1967, QPR won at Plymouth 1-0 through a Mike Keen penalty. Four days later, QPR completed their double, by defeating Plymouth 4-1 at Loftus Road. Rodney Marsh, 2 and Mike Keen 2. Springett, Clement Hazell Keetch Harris, Morgan, Keen, Sanderson, Morgan, McGovern, Marsh. (Mick McGovern making his QPR debut) (In the 'return game', Wilks replaced McGovern. In 1966/67 played Brighton (H) 3-0 and next day away (2-2). In 1964/65: QPR were at Bristol Rovers on Boxing Day, and then a couple of days later, home to Bristol Rovers. In 1963/64, over Easter, QPR played Wrexham at home; Reading the next day and then Wrexham a couple of days later. And so one.
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