Post by QPR Report on Aug 10, 2009 6:59:01 GMT
44 Years Ago Today: Magic - QPR in Div 1 vs Leices
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Forty-Four years ago: One of the most magic moments in QPR History: (You had to have been there just amazing...)
21,000+ saw QPR play their first-ever game in the First Division. QPR drew 1-1 at Loftus Road, with the new stand not yet complete! Substitute Les Allen , soon to be our manager, scored our first goal while Leicester had English record transfer signing (Allan Clarke, 150,000 pounds from Fulham) making his debut.
Springett -
Finch Hazell Watson Harris
Morgan Sibley Keen Morgan
Leach Wilks
Sub: Allen
Remembering the 1968/69 Season - Results, Goals...
"1968/1969 was perhaps the most humiliating season in QPR history (although over the years QPR of course, have their individual humiliating results: Vauxhall Motors, to cite but one). But the euphoria/sense of disbelief that was present at that Leicester game won't be forgotten by anyone who was at that game. The season started with just such euphoria. The feeling of just complete amazement and disbelief that "little QPR" were playing in the same Division as Manchester United and Leeds and Liverpool and Arsenal and Manchester City and Chelsea and Spurs and Everton. Just beyond belief for QPR fans. Something any QPR fan of that era will forever remember.
Having experienced the incredible euphoria of gaining promotion to the then-called First Division (see "Greatest Day in QPR History", QPR then experienced a season of humiliation and a then record-low number of Points (18) (subsequently and thankfully "bettered" by Stoke) and 4 wins all season (all at home);without a single away victory. And every QPR fan old enough to remember that year will recall the numerous occasions, in which QPR were unlucky to have lost.
PHOTOS and MEMORABILIA - Photo of the individualQPR Players from 1968-1969 --- QPR Team Photo from that Era --- QPR vs Manchester United Programme --- More QPR Programmes from that era --- Newcastle vs QPR Programme --- Manchester United vs QPR --- QPR Home programmes from that era
In 1968-1969, QPR had far and away, the worst defensive record in the Division (with 95 goals conceded. The two previous seasons, 36 in 1967/68 amd and 38 in 19666/67, they had the best defenses in their division.
1968-1968: A season that saw
- QPR axe Alec Stock without a single game in charge
- Manager, Tommy Docherty - "The Doc" come and go within one month to be replaed by Neophyte Les Allen as player-manager.
- The South Africa Road Stand built (not complete before the season began)
- Record transfer signing fee broken: 55,000 pounds for former England International, Barry Bridges
- Record transfer sale: The break up of the Morgan twins, with Roger Morgan joining Spurs for 110,000 pounds.
- The League debut of future England captain, Gerry Francis
QPR's pre-season Transfer Activity: Signing Dave Metchick from Peterborough for 5,000!
Rodney Marsh missed the start of the season due to a broken foot.
QPR's only ever-present, defender Ian Watson.
QPR's top goalscorers: Barry Bridges 8 goals from 28 games and Mick Leach 8 goals from 31 games.
Goalkeeping was divided beween Ron Springett, Mike Kelly and then Alan Spratley playing in QPR's final 11 games.
Among the lowlights of the season (and there were many): The 8-1 defeat at Manchester United at the top. The 5-0 defeat at Coventry. And the 0-4 home defeats to Cheslea and WBA. And a League Cup defeat to lowly Peterbrough.
QPR Official Site History - On 1968-1969
"In 1967/68 QPR were promoted to the First Division for the first time by finished second in the table. In 1968/69 the South Africa Road Stand was completed. QPR were relegated after only one season in Division One with only 18 points. Alex Stock left the club, Tommy Docherty came and went in 28 days, and Les Allen took over. On 7th February 1969 Roger Morgan became the first QPR player to be sold for a six-figure fee." QPR
It's a fascinating, counter-factual, impossible-to-resolve question: If QPR hadn't won promotion in 1967/68, would another season in Division II have better prepared the team for Division One? Was 1968-1969 "A Bridge too Far?" - Or would QPR have just fallen away?...
Or if QPR had rather than spending on the South Africa Road stand, instead, strengthened the team: Say by buying Terry Venables a season earlier, etc; a goalkeeper, a forward, would that have made enough of a different?
If Rodney Marsh - Rodddd-neeeee had started the season, fit, would that have made a big enough difference?
Were QPR wrong to basically stick with their team which had got them out of the Third Division?
Edit another year...
Forty-Four years ago: One of the most magic moments in QPR History: (You had to have been there just amazing...)
21,000+ saw QPR play their first-ever game in the First Division. QPR drew 1-1 at Loftus Road, with the new stand not yet complete! Substitute Les Allen , soon to be our manager, scored our first goal while Leicester had English record transfer signing (Allan Clarke, 150,000 pounds from Fulham) making his debut.
Springett -
Finch Hazell Watson Harris
Morgan Sibley Keen Morgan
Leach Wilks
Sub: Allen
Remembering the 1968/69 Season - Results, Goals...
"1968/1969 was perhaps the most humiliating season in QPR history (although over the years QPR of course, have their individual humiliating results: Vauxhall Motors, to cite but one). But the euphoria/sense of disbelief that was present at that Leicester game won't be forgotten by anyone who was at that game. The season started with just such euphoria. The feeling of just complete amazement and disbelief that "little QPR" were playing in the same Division as Manchester United and Leeds and Liverpool and Arsenal and Manchester City and Chelsea and Spurs and Everton. Just beyond belief for QPR fans. Something any QPR fan of that era will forever remember.
Having experienced the incredible euphoria of gaining promotion to the then-called First Division (see "Greatest Day in QPR History", QPR then experienced a season of humiliation and a then record-low number of Points (18) (subsequently and thankfully "bettered" by Stoke) and 4 wins all season (all at home);without a single away victory. And every QPR fan old enough to remember that year will recall the numerous occasions, in which QPR were unlucky to have lost.
PHOTOS and MEMORABILIA - Photo of the individualQPR Players from 1968-1969 --- QPR Team Photo from that Era --- QPR vs Manchester United Programme --- More QPR Programmes from that era --- Newcastle vs QPR Programme --- Manchester United vs QPR --- QPR Home programmes from that era
In 1968-1969, QPR had far and away, the worst defensive record in the Division (with 95 goals conceded. The two previous seasons, 36 in 1967/68 amd and 38 in 19666/67, they had the best defenses in their division.
1968-1968: A season that saw
- QPR axe Alec Stock without a single game in charge
- Manager, Tommy Docherty - "The Doc" come and go within one month to be replaed by Neophyte Les Allen as player-manager.
- The South Africa Road Stand built (not complete before the season began)
- Record transfer signing fee broken: 55,000 pounds for former England International, Barry Bridges
- Record transfer sale: The break up of the Morgan twins, with Roger Morgan joining Spurs for 110,000 pounds.
- The League debut of future England captain, Gerry Francis
QPR's pre-season Transfer Activity: Signing Dave Metchick from Peterborough for 5,000!
Rodney Marsh missed the start of the season due to a broken foot.
QPR's only ever-present, defender Ian Watson.
QPR's top goalscorers: Barry Bridges 8 goals from 28 games and Mick Leach 8 goals from 31 games.
Goalkeeping was divided beween Ron Springett, Mike Kelly and then Alan Spratley playing in QPR's final 11 games.
Among the lowlights of the season (and there were many): The 8-1 defeat at Manchester United at the top. The 5-0 defeat at Coventry. And the 0-4 home defeats to Cheslea and WBA. And a League Cup defeat to lowly Peterbrough.
QPR Official Site History - On 1968-1969
"In 1967/68 QPR were promoted to the First Division for the first time by finished second in the table. In 1968/69 the South Africa Road Stand was completed. QPR were relegated after only one season in Division One with only 18 points. Alex Stock left the club, Tommy Docherty came and went in 28 days, and Les Allen took over. On 7th February 1969 Roger Morgan became the first QPR player to be sold for a six-figure fee." QPR
It's a fascinating, counter-factual, impossible-to-resolve question: If QPR hadn't won promotion in 1967/68, would another season in Division II have better prepared the team for Division One? Was 1968-1969 "A Bridge too Far?" - Or would QPR have just fallen away?...
Or if QPR had rather than spending on the South Africa Road stand, instead, strengthened the team: Say by buying Terry Venables a season earlier, etc; a goalkeeper, a forward, would that have made enough of a different?
If Rodney Marsh - Rodddd-neeeee had started the season, fit, would that have made a big enough difference?
Were QPR wrong to basically stick with their team which had got them out of the Third Division?
