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Season Preview 25/26 – Middle of the pack - Queens Park Rangers News Part two of our season preview focuses on an intriguing midtable picture where Middlesbrough and Stoke are stinking the place up, Derby, Disney FC and Millwall feel upwardly mobile, and everybody is l...

Part two of our season preview (with dodgy predictions) focuses on a very fluid midtable picture from which we think there's a surprise play-off contender.

Boro, Bristol City, Derby, Wrexham, Watford, Swansea, Stoke and Millwall all reviewed here...

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Championship 1-24 – Part Two | LoftForWords Get more from LoftForWords on Patreon

Championship 1-24 Part Two

And you thought the first half was too long!

Second part of LFW + AnalyticsQPR debating our Champ 1-24s on the Patreon now.

Featuring Matt Graham on West Brom, Dana Malt on Boro and Matt Elliott on Birmingham.

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Helguson double and Blackstock’s late show settle rare Sousa thriller – History - Queens Park Rangers News An entertaining game from Paulo Sousa’s reign as QPR manager is memorable in and of itself, but Dexter Blackstock’s late Loft End winner after a double from Heidar Helguson against Preston in December...

Blackstock late show settles rare Sousa thriller – History

An entertaining game from Paulo Sousa’s reign as QPR manager is memorable in and of itself, but Dexter Blackstock’s late Loft End winner against PNE in 2008 made it especially so.

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Langford in charge of season opener - Referee - Queens Park Rangers News Experienced Football League official Oliver Langford is the man in the middle for Saturday’s opening home game against Preston.

Here we go again, then.
Saturday's referee is...
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Season Preview 25/26 – The Contenders - Queens Park Rangers News The first part of our annual 1-24 Championship season preview focuses on the bookies’ favourites for promotion, a list dominated by sides coming out of the Premier League with parachute payments with ...

Part one of our season preview (with dodgy predictions) focuses on the bookies' favourites for the title.

Ipswich, Southampton, Leicester, Birmingham, Sheff Utd, Coventry, Norwich and West Brom all reviewed here...

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QPR: The Modern Circus of West London – Column - Queens Park Rangers News As the faithful prepare to return to the Big Top this Saturday for another nine months and 48 games, Gareth Dixon reflects on the potted history of the club and where it stands now in the sport, in Sh...

The curtain lifts. The drums roll. The gates open. The circus continues, and we’re still here.

As the faithful prepare to return, Gareth Dixon reflects on our club and where it stands now in the sport, in W12 and in our lives in 2025.

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Appreciate it mate. Just got to start dropping the 30,000 word written version now 😂

It's so tough making a call like that on July 31, because as you say we're inevitably going to do more business. Good LB, CM and CF before the end of the window and I'll be looking top half. As it stands though, issues.

Championship 1-24 – Part One | LoftForWords Get more from LoftForWords on Patreon

Championship 1-24 Part One

Bit of a monster but you can listen to the thinking that has gone into our 1-24 season preview now on our Patreon.

Part one live now featuring Lovely Jon on Sheff Wed, @ianherbert95.bsky.social on Blackburn and
@derbycountyblog.bsky.social.

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Singing from the same hymn sheet – Fans Forum - Queens Park Rangers News An earlier than usual fan forum was held at Loftus Road on Tuesday night, with CEO/DOF Christian Nourry, head coach Julien Stéphan, director of sporting operations Ben Williams and head of methodology...

Usual minutes, commentary and colour from last night's Fans Forum at Loftus Road...

Lots to like, bits to dislike, some salient points, some absolute word salads.

JS came across very well on first appearance.

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Mark Lazarus 50 years on — Interview - Queens Park Rangers News To mark 50 years since QPR’s League Cup win, and the launch of a commemorative kit for nexy weekend’s game with Cardiff, LFW spoke with Mark Lazarus who scored the winner at Wembley.

RIP Mark Lazarus, a genuine club legend.

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Pre-season and Perpignan – Awaydays - Queens Park Rangers News Stuff and nonsense from on and off the pitch as the QPR in Europe summer pre-season makes a welcome return, and Julien Stéphan gets stuck into shaping the Rangers his way.

Pre-season and Perpignan - Awaydays

Part love letter to France, part summer takeaways on the team and where we think it stands two weeks out.

Stuff and nonsense from Perpignan, Heerenveen, and pre-season in general.

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Burton’s Burrell added out of the blue – Signing - Queens Park Rangers News Totally under the radar, QPR announced the signing of Burton Albion forward Rumarn Burrell on Saturday evening for a fee rumoured to be in the region of £1.3m.

Surprise Saturday night signings? Get in the sea.

Massive thanks to Greg Spires for turning round the Rumarn Burrell video analysis this morning for us.

Everything you could possibly want to know on the latest newbie...

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Pre-season in Perpignan - Ft Kevin Betsy

Rough and ready recordings of Friday’s fun in the sun, lucky to catch up with Kevin Betsy pre-game, full edit now available to all three Patreon tiers...

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QPR head back Down Under for Macarthur’s Kealey Adamson – Signing - Queens Park Rangers News QPR continue to shop Australian, with Macarthur’s 22-year-old right back Kealey Adamson joining Daniel Bennie and Jaylan Pearman at the club for an undisclosed fee.

QPR head back Down Under for Kealey Adamson...

Usual Greg Spires analysis on the newbie, but also Network Ten legend Simon Hill (@simonhill1894.bsky.social) who has commentated on the A League for 20+ years, joins us with insight into Adamson & Pearman...

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QPR complete head-turning acquisition of Peterborough’s Poku – Signing - Queens Park Rangers News Beating off competition from Birmingham, Swansea, Massive Rangers and apparently 24 other clubs besides, QPR have signed Peterborough winger Kwame Poku for a compensation fee.

QPR complete head-turning Poku signing...

Properly exciting this one. All your Greg Spires video analysis here within to explain why.

Great to see us adding pace, durability, athleticism and end product to a team lacking all four previously.

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Mbengue capture a positive sign of lessons learned at QPR - Signing - Queens Park Rangers News Reading’s athletic centre back Amadou Mbengue is QPR’s first senior signing of the 2025 summer transfer window – an acquisition that shows desire to learn from the recruitment mistakes of 24/25.

Mbengue capture a positive sign of lessons learned...

Apologies, blame Eurostar, belatedly here's the Mbengue write up - delighted Greg Spires is back with us this summer for the analysis and video clips, strong summer comeback from him here...

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That's really kind mate, thank you. Appreciate the support.

Some good interviews in the archive on that thing.

As QPR appoint Julien Stéphan, hear from ESPN & 5Live's French expert @julienlaurens.bsky.social, L'Equipe/SoFoot journo Raphael Brosse, and CBS/On The Continent's
@jonlegossip.bsky.social on what we can expect.

Live now to all sub tiers on our Patreon...

www.patreon.com/posts/julien...

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Catastrophe, ou formidable? Stéphan steps into Loftus Road hot seat - Column - Queens Park Rangers News Former Rennes and Strasbourg manager Julien Stéphan has been given the nod to replace Marti Cifuentes at QPR, signing a two-year deal at Loftus Road.

Catastrophe, ou formidable? Stéphan steps into Loftus Road hot seat...

Former Rennes and Strasbourg manager Julien Stéphan has been given the nod to replace Marti Cifuentes at QPR, signing a two-year deal at Loftus Road.

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If Steve Evans turns up in a beret I'm gonna stick the podcast out anyway because the guests are brilliant.

You reckon? 😇

The video was filmed at Glanford Park in Scunny as well, just to add to the ambience.

Right, better try find some French football experts to talk to then hadn't I? Suggestions, recommendations welcome...

End of Term Report 24/25 – Strikers | LoftForWords Get more from LoftForWords on Patreon

And if you want to hear what being locked in a room and forced to talk about QPR players for 3 hours does after 9 months of being locked in a ground and forced to watch QPR players, then the unravelling of myself @lunkface.bsky.social @andyhillman.bsky.social & @jtsupple.bsky.social is here...

End of Term Report 24/25 – Attack - Queens Park Rangers News The fourth and final part of our annual statistical deep dive into the QPR squad takes us through the army of short kings behind a collection of mostly injured strikers, some of our brightest and best...

End of Term 24/25 - Attack

Not to give the impression we've finally cracked but the final part goes off piste in all kinds of directions - France's oldest woman, foul mouthed Japanese schoolboys, Michi Frey's audition for Cocaine Bear 2...

Fin.

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End of Term Report 24/25 – Midfield/Attack | LoftForWords Get more from LoftForWords on Patreon

And there's another full hour of debate, argument and stats in reaching these grades which has gone live to all three Patreon tiers this morning too.

Myself, @lunkface.bsky.social @andyhillman.bsky.social and @jtsupple.bsky.social crunch the numbers...

End of Term Report 24/25 – Midfield - Queens Park Rangers News Part three of our annual report card into each individual performance at QPR last season focuses on a midfield where there’s a recruitment success story, and a significant failure.

End of Term Report 24/25 - Midfield

Part three of our annual report card into each individual performance at QPR last season focuses on a midfield where there’s a recruitment success story, and a significant failure.

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End Of Term Report 24/25 - Goalkeepers/Defenders | LoftForWords Get more from LoftForWords on Patreon

And as ever you can listen to the debate that led us to these marks on the Patreon...

End of Term Report 24/25 – Defenders - Queens Park Rangers News Part two of our annual report card on QPR’s squad of the past season focuses on an injury plagued defence and includes our only two A ratings.

End Of Term Report 24/25 - Defence

Part two of our annual report card on QPR’s squad of the past season focuses on an injury plagued defence and includes our only two A ratings.

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