QPR dig at Stoke

[knowles]

Thought you might like to read this in relation to Pulis' comments about the referee's interview in the Ipswich programme. Quite what it has to do with their referee for the Barnsley match I don't know!!



Barnsley v Queens Park Rangers
Referee – Eddie Ilderton (Tyne and Wear)
Assistants – Murphy (Nottingham) and Newbold (Leicester)
Fourth Official – Bramley (Yorkshire)
Keith Stroud has bee in the headlines a couple of times in the past ten days – and not for the right reasons. First Stoke City manager Tony Pulis complained about the official following their game at Ipswich last month. Ipswich give a page in their matchday programme over to the day’s referee for an interview about his time in football and the match and Stroud said in his that he was looking forward to a match between two sides who play the games in different ways.

He didn’t go so far as to say Stoke City are a team of very large gentlemen whose success is based entirely on getting the ball in the air and up to the penalty area as quickly and as often as possible while Ipswich try and pass it every now and again but you know what he meant. When Stoke were denied a late penalty at Portman Road Pulis saw an opportunity and moaned to the authorities about the interview and the referee pre-judging the match. Personally I think that’s a load of nonsense from a manager sore at his team dropping points and looking for somebody to blame.

You’d have to be a blind man not to notice that Ipswich and Stoke play the game in different ways and I’m not sure why there’s a problem with the match referee saying that. Stroud didn’t express an opinion either way on which style of play he preferred – who knows, he may enjoy running around with his neck craned towards the sky looking for Stoke’s latest aimless punt down the field or long throw? Anyway apparently Football League referees' chief David Allison has apparently written back to Stoke agreeing with Pulis and the league are now reviewing whether or not referees should be allowed to do pre-match interviews.

It would be a shame if they were told not to in my opinion. The interview in the Ipswich programme is something a bit different and quite an enjoyable read generally – I picked up a copy from their FA Cup game with Portsmouth during which Mark Halsey was recalling his trip to Wembley as a QPR fan for the FA Cup final with Tottenham and it was an excellent piece. As long as they’re not coming out and showing a preference for one side or the other then what’s the problem?

No pre-match interview for Stroud this week, but no shortage of controversy either. I think Ian Holloway is still at the Ricoh Arena now moaning to anybody that will listen about the penalty decision that gave Coventry their first goal. Even Chris Coleman admitted he had no idea why it had been given and to be honest, despite winding the replay back several times, I still can’t see a reason for it myself. Still, Leicester lost again, chortle.

Our referee on Tuesday night at Barnsley is Eddie Ilderton. Our game at Wigan was one of the first league mtches of his career back in 2002 but we haven’t seen him since so it will be interesting to see what we get – his card averages are certainly encouraging.

So far this season Ilderton has booked 52 (2.26 a game) and sent three off in 23 matches. This will be his eighth Championship match of the season. His two biggest hauls this season have both come in Championship matches – seven and one in the Coventry v Burnley match in January, five and one in Watford’s win at Scunthorpe back in the autumn. Last season he booked 110 (3.23 a game) and sent off nine in 34 matches so his average has got considerably lower this campaign.

This is his first QPR appointment this season but he has had a Barnsley game already, they beat Bristol City 3-0 at Oakwell in October with all the goals coming in the final 20 minutes of the match. Ilderton booked two players from each side. Last season he was in charge as the Tykes beat Ipswich 1-0 in Yorkshire – again two players from each team were shown yellow cards, the goal came in stoppage time at the end of the match. QPR fans travelling north will be hoping for no repeat of those impressive result on Tuesday night.

The only QPR match of his career to date came in October 2002 when we drew 1-1 at Wigan in League One. Rangers were thoroughly good value for their point that night and would have had all three had Ilderton not bottled a blatant penalty decision in the opening two minutes when Andy Thomson was chopped down in the Wigan penalty area. A combination of the decision coming so early in the game, and at the home end of the ground, probably influenced Ilderton unduly on that occasion because the replays showed it was a clear and obvious penalty. Thomson did eventually score, right on the stroke of half time to equalise – the home fans abused the referee for the amount of stoppage time he added on prior to that goal.

Very few games elsewhere this Tuesday night with I officially being an FA Cup Replay date – we are one of just three re-arranged matches at our level. Jarnail Singh has in form Dagenham against high flying Hereford in League Two, Nigel Miller has Morecambe v Grimsby in the paint pot trophy.



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[LDE76]

"This week, our Celebrity Fanzone writer is lifelong Rangers supporter Pete Doherty. Pete kindly took time away from looking for a vein to give his views on The R's upcoming fixtures..."

Hope Coatsey is wearing his bullet-proof vest when he visits the board-room on Sunday.

[potter84]

We'll show um on sunday...GOOOARRRNNN STOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nantwichstokie]

'You’d have to be a blind man not to notice that Ipswich and Stoke play the game in different ways and I’m not sure why there’s a problem with the match referee saying that.'

What a load of bollox! It was interesting to note on Saturday that are 'graceful' opponents from Suffolk were equally adept at 'punting' the ball forward. In fact I felt that Ipswich adopted a similar style of play to ourselves and mixed it up. Stoke City are / were the underdogs. Were unfasionable and it is obvious that the media plays up to previous conceptions of a teams style of football. Ipswich in particular were prime examples of a side who do not play football much different to Stoke.

The media and other supporters are in denial part jealously, part ignorance. They better deal with it though because Stoke City are on the way....

[andy9196]

'Personally I think that’s a load of nonsense from a manager sore at his team dropping points and looking for somebody to blame.'

I am sure tone would of complained if we had won, lost or drawn !!

Lets show them on Sunday !!!

Come on Stoke

[soicowboy]

Let them get on with it- we're far better than QPR and if we play well we should win- as the table shows. A lot of jealousy re Stoke- love it ;D

[CalgaryPotter]

Never mind that dig........

www.clubfanzine.com/QPR/forum.posts.php?id_t=30970#10

I get the impression that we may look like monkeys if we don't take a decent following down there.

Seem to be some hostilities still in evidence even though the supporters from this board showed great respect to their club after the young lad died earlier in the year.

[Stick It On Cort's Head]

Who cares ,we are top , they are in no mans land.

They have agyemangdedangdedangydegangaddang, and we have ric.

They have stewart- we have shawcross

They have vine- we have lawrence

They have that fat bastard buzsacky- we have super Glenny WHEEEELLANNN!!

They have shit no hopers, we have quality players.

[DrGonzo]

It's really getting funny now - we really are pissing people of now aren't we! Loving all this bitter vitriol we are getting - I can see there jealous spiteful faces and I FARKING LOVE IT!!!! ;D

[CalgaryPotter]

"Anything, your doh can do,
Stoke can do better.
We can do anything better than you.
No you can't yes we can
No you can't yes we can"

From the musical "Annie get your Gun"

[soicowboy]

Like I said on another thread- I a shit-hole of a ground with a shite view. Even the TV cameras struggle to get a decent vantage point.


No mark team- delusions of rivalry

[ted1965]

It seems the only way to promote yourself at the moment in this league is to knock what is successful. The fact that Rangers new Italian manager seems to have as much affect on their results as the amount of money he spent since he took over could have something to do with it.

It’s a little like everyone hating the team who win everything, yes we can complain but in the end it doesn’t matter a toss to them, they simply look down on you from above and say up yours, where are your trophies.

It’s amazing how nobody gave us a passing glance when we were mid table mediocrities. There was no mention of how we played other than we were hard to beat. It seems since we added that extra ingredient of being winners it’s rubbed a few people up the wrong way.

I would point out it takes a little of everything to succeed in this league, you need to have those who can graft and win the battles, that allow your better players to produce the kind of moments Liam and Ricardo have done so many times for us this season. I agree for a good part of the season, the comments about long ball could have been levelled at us, now there is far more ground football being played, the midfield at that point was there simply to fight and battle our way through games. Now it’s a midfield designed to win games, play the kind of football that the so called better sides seem to thrive on, yet look at the facts, the so called football purists are pretty much struggling to keep pace, why simply because they don’t have enough players prepared to roll up their sleeves and compete.

We have found both, impact players who can produce the moments of magic and the grafters prepared to do the dirty job of wining battles so they can show their ability, that is what makes a good side and by God at this level we have become a good side as our league position shows, you don’t get their by accident.