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Millwall 2 v 0 Queens Park Rangers
EFL Championship
Saturday, 18th April 2026 Kick-off 12:30
On the move – Preview
Friday, 17th Apr 2026 20:29 by Clive Whittingham

Steve Gallen and Alex Neil have Millwall on the cusp of being the latest ‘challenged’ club to go past QPR and into the Premier League, a rather apt opponent for the R’s this week as the debate about Old Oak Common rears its head once more.

Milllllllll (21-10-11 WLDWLD 3rd) v QPR (16-10-16 LWWWDD 11th)

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Why do I get the feeling this is going to go one of two ways?

With four games to go Millwall have absolutely everything riding on this, while OPTA rated QPR as the Championship’s first team to have 0% chance of anything at either end of the table this season. The Lions go second with a win here, albeit perhaps briefly.

High noon at a packed Den, perennial pain Alex Neil sending out a side with more wins to its name than anyone bar Coventry, a chance to put together a statement piece with Southampton and Ipswich playing later on in the weekend. Cooper, Crama, Coburn and Caleb Taylor climbing high into a sunlit sky over a visiting defence sans Jimmy Dunne – coming here without him last year, Rangers lasted barely a minute. Ivanovic tearing about while we practice that sodding goal kick routine. A febrile atmosphere – a lot of “Milllllllll”, a lot of “you’ll run”, a lot of throat slitting and general testiculating about ‘outside’- and a long afternoon spent hanging around ‘Coward’s Way’ just to sandwich ourselves back into the train to the demilitarised zone that is post-match London Bridge. Floppy flat caps up in early trading. Lettum all come etc.

Millwall haven’t been in the top flight since 1990 though, and the pressure of getting there seems to suddenly be weighing heavy on a team that has finished eighth in this league four times in ten years. From six wins out of seven and ‘get out of our way’, it’s now a one-win-in-five run more wibbly and wobbly than a Roy Hodgson press conference. Their heavy lifting has mostly been done away from home anyway, where they have the division’s best record, as opposed to here, where they’ve already lost seven games. That includes the last two, to a Norwich side with similarly little to play for as us and a very poor Blackburn team (albeit in a game heavily influenced by an appalling refereeing display). Meanwhile, far from giving them an early pass to Mykonos, taking the tyranny of the league table out of QPR’s thinking actually seems to have relaxed them into playing some decent football (not last week) and they arrive five unbeaten.

Handsome Ronnie popping it around, Richard Kone crawling all over them, Rumarn Burrell to come from the bench, two tiers of QPR fans for the first time since 2005, relaxed and confident Rangers here to pray on the nerves. Home crowd aggy with their own players - lots of ‘fackin ‘ell Wawll’ - drifting off early leaving the jubilant travelling hordes revelling in an atmosphere even more sombre than that time they dared to make them play us just five whole days after the actual Queen had died so they tuned the public address system to Mellow Magic and the teams ran out to Luther Vandross. Straight back to London Bridge we go with all that lot long since cleared off, drinks by the river, curry on the way home. You R’s.

There’s been a lot of that in our part of the world this week. Could be one thing, could be another.

Maybe I could be one of those columnists that just gets AI to do it for them. Hey, Chat GPT, do us 2,000 words on the pros and cons of a new QPR stadium would you? Slop out a few “it’s not that, it’s this” paragraphs. Is there a bullet pointed list? You’d better believe it. Phone it in, collect the Patreon, sit in my local pub garden and watch the trains roll by this glorious Friday evening.

Millwall, for instance. I think quite a few of us would begrudgingly quite enjoy them getting this promotion over the line. Because it’s somebody different, because it’s not a parachute payment club, because it gives hope to idiot scum like us, because they deserve it, because it’ll mean we don’t have to go there next year... The Premier League is an egotistical bore fest, it’d do that division some good. Try setting up a VAR review at the pitch side monitor here if the home side have just gone 1-0 up against West Ham in the 86th minute, see how you get on. Have a go at filming “Arsenal Fan TV” in the car park if you like.

But then, no. Because of course not, fuck them. Because it would be another club with all the same restrictions, budgetary constraints, geography etc, going past us like so many Bournemouth, Brighton, Palace, Luton and Brentfords before them. Because it would be even more galling than it already is that they’ll have done it spending exactly the sort of money we’ve been spending, on exactly the sort of players we purport to want, trading in exactly the same way we apparently aspire to, just a lot better than we’ve done it so far and with a bloody Gallen running it for them.

Millwall are third despite selling Japhet Tanganga, Zian Flemming and Romain Esse over the past two seasons, all of whom you’d consider their best player at one time or another in the recent past. In Tristan Crama they’ve already got at least one more cab on the rank who will go higher with or without them, and for big cash too aged just 24. Those four cost them about £3.5m in total, and have already fetched £25m in with Crama still contracted. When we talk about a player trading model, that’s what it’s supposed to look like and where QPR need to get to in the next couple of years if they’re to start challenging. Millwall spending that time receiving Premier League TV money and parachute payments would be… suboptimal.

It’s a timely coincidence we head here, to face this lot, in this situation, just as the apparently long-since-dead possibility of a move to Old Oak Common resurfaces.

Turns out Car Giant’s “own scheme for the regeneration of its land holdings that will incorporate the residential units, jobs and community facilities”, touted in 2014 while wholly rejecting the idea of a new QPR stadium on the site, has actually turned into “encountered difficulties in recent years, with directors being compelled to attempt to sell the business and land… and failure to secure a viable future for the business". The whole thing is set to close by April 24 and the land next to the new HS2 station is now back on the market pitched at the £100m mark.

This has set a message board thread for the ages running. ‘Can we buy the White City Estate, rotate the pitch, and move those guys to Old Oak Common?’ Casually rehousing 4,000+ people two miles away on an old car lot, I’m sure they’ll be thrilled. ‘Can we gradually buy up all the houses on Ellerslie Road and expand that way?’ The most recent sale on Ellerslie Road was a flat in number 30 (so, part of a house), next to the turnstiles, and it went for… £607,000 (!!) in October. Build out over the road. Dig down. Revolving restaurant. Etc etc. Forever and ever. Amen

The usual camps dividing between “QPR is Loftus Road and Loftus Road is QPR” and “QPR will explode into a thousand pieces if it doesn’t get itself into a stadium that looks like everybody’s else’s on some industrial wasteground in the next ten minutes”.

You can probably tell from that which side I lean towards. In my head I recognise a move could be beneficial for the club and I should be campaigning for it, but in my heart I couldn’t ever bear to be parted from my seat at the front of F Block (though it has more recently parted itself from me, physically at least). That’s, essentially, where I am now. I get the logic. But I hate it.

I was, at the time, fully sold on Lee Hoos’ economic assessment of a new stadium versus Loftus Road, and have found it frustrating that so many ideal sites literally at the end of our road have come and gone to office space, shopping centres and posh flats. Even I think we absolutely should have been part of that Westfield development. At the very least Chris Wright’s decision not to buy the school when he could have done, instead pursuing some pipe dream of moving us to Heathrow, was wildly negligent. At Brighton a sensitive, well-backed stadium development has been transformational to the club, which I remember watching in league games at Scunthorpe but now see on my TV in competitive fixtures with Ajax.

But a lot of these clubs that have gone past us - and Millwall could be another - have done so in stadiums with a lot of the restrictions we face (Bournemouth, Brentford, Palace). The Lions have only just fought off an attempt to landgrab everything up to and including their front doorstep for more gentrification by the local authority. Meanwhile there are just as many examples of clubs that got the new stadium, the conference facilities, the concerts, the adjacent hotel, and not only went backwards but still lose money absolutely hand over fist. Derby, for instance. Bolton, 50 conference suites with a capacity for 3,000, hotel on the back of the away end, League One, losing £14m a year per their last accounts. Reading, “largest conference facility in the Thames Valley” (you’ll never sing that), League One, £130m of debt, transfer embargo, revenues at £9m (a third of QPR’s in our “not fit for purpose” hell hole).

You’ve really got to get your new stadium move right. Do it for the right reasons, and have the right people in charge. Just ask West Ham. I think our first trip to their gaff in January has only scared the sceptics among us even more than we already were about the potential of leaving the spiritual home. Hope goes to die at “The Brewdog DJ Booth”.

I would say do the people running our club give you the impression they’re the ones to carry that off for us, but do the people running our club even give you the impression they want to any more? Tony Fernandes was all over this project like a donkey on a waffle, so much so he put out a “WE’RE GOING” press release before actually talking to the bloke with the keys. Is Ruben Gnanalingam the same?

We’re told we can’t have a working public address system at Loftus Road because it would cost too much. This week’s “GOOD NEWS – RAIL SEATING EXTENSION” release comes with the significant, slyly mentioned caveat that the people in Y Block will have their season ticket price raised from £262 to minimum £541 to pay for it (bet you don’t remember that bit of the “consultation” do you lads?). Does that sound like an owner who wants to get into this for hundreds of millions of pounds more? Or someone who thinks this bloody club is already costing him quite enough, thank you very much indeed? The land alone is valued at £100m. Palace’s new main stand is costing them £200m. Everton’s new ground cost them £800m. Arsenal and Tottenham declined significantly on the pitch while trying to finance their new builds.

Who would own it? Who would pay for it? How would it be financed? You need a lot of bond holders for something like this. The new HS2 station may be the secret sauce in this, geographically this is probably our last chance in this area, but London isn’t short of conference space or concert venues, and it’s already got two NFL stadiums including one built expressly for the purpose. The site has been complicated by mayor Boris Johnson’s typically cackhanded decision to stick an integral piece of Crossrail infrastructure above ground against all the advice that it needed to be buried, or at least come with the potential to build over. That affects access and egress, and it restricts the acreage and potential you’d need to make this thing pay – hotel, shops, but mainly, loads and loads of high-rise flats. You’d have to be very careful not to maroon us in a financially ruinous bowl, built to the cheapest specifications by the lowest bidder, at the end of some railway sidings in a part of town basically only useful if you want to buy a used car or dispose of a body (and soon not even that… the cars that is).

The theme for clubs that have done well while we haven’t is they’ve had good, shrewd people running them, and we haven’t. Brighton are good because Tony Bloom, Brentford are good because Matt Benham, Millwall are getting there because of the Berylsons and Steve Gallen, Mick Harford recruited a class back office at Luton. The clubs that don’t do well, even in new stadiums, don’t do well because they’re run by morons – Mel Morris at Derby, Dai Yongge at Reading, Ken Anderson at Bolton.

You don’t get good because new stadium. My other team, Hull FC, moved out of their historic, loved, decrepit and falling down home at The Boulevard. The thing was literally condemned almost as soon as they closed the door. We all knew it “wasn’t fit for purpose”. The new stadium in Hull is one of the better ones, and so close you could see it going up behind the posts next to the old place. In two decades since Hull FC have been exactly what they were before – midtable fodder in the topflight, three trophies in 30 years in a sport where only five teams ever win anything, two near financial collapses, constantly lurching from one crisis to the next (including another this week) because of the way the club’s run, and now miles behind the other rugby league club on the other side of the city that plays in a total shithole but has people in charge who know what they're doing with it. Nice hot dogs though. Personally, I miss changing ends at half time and The Threepenny Stand scaring the fuck out of visiting teams.

Reading’s biggest intake of cash wasn’t hotel rooms or banqueting suites, it was a sell on when Michael Olise went from Palace to Bayern. The Washington Racists are not playing the Denver Fucknuggets in the NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL/WTAF at The Den. Anthony Joshua is not rushing to hold his next fight up Cold Blow Lane. The Royal College of Nursing doesn’t hold its AGM in the Barry Kitchener Stand.

In this regard Christian Nourry is 100% spot on and right. Millwall are doing well because they scouted/developed good players, got excellent money for some of them, and reinvested it splendidly. QPR have to grow themselves playing assets they can sell in an incredibly challenged transfer market for Championship clubs. They have to do that by scouting better than they have, signing smarter than they have, dragging the average age of the team down from its ridiculous highs of the post Warburton era, and selling players at the peak of their powers even if that's inconvenient to the team short term. You can’t be loaning Andre Gray, extending Lee Wallace’s contract, bringing in Moses Odubajo, telling clubs to not even bother offering you money for Ilias Chair, Rob Dickie, Seny Dieng… to finish 11th. Nourry has got exactly the right idea, for the right reasons, and you can absolutely do that at Loftus Road (if you weren't so tight and defeatist about the place), but now it’s about the execution. Les and Lee talked good games for a while too.

Rumarn Burrell and Richard Kone are the two to watch in that regard. Nice double-figure settling season in their first swing at the Championship, if they can go into year two fit and firing they are exactly the sort of players you’ll get really good money for. Then you scout again, reinvest, buy more, sell more, and off you go to the races. Brentford sold a lot of £6-8m Jota, Scott Hogan, Ryan Woods types before they got to the £15m Neal Maupay and Ezri Konsa lads, and the £30m+ Said Benrahma, Ollie Watkins, Ivan Toneys beyond that.

I’m really interested to see how Kone, and later Burrell, go tomorrow against a fierce, physical defence and a club we’ve let slip away from us in all of this over recent years. Another one.

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- Trains from London Bridge to South Bermondsey are running every quarter hour (11.00, 11.16, 11.30, 11.46, 12.00) and take four minutes.

- A tube strike scheduled for Tuesday-Friday next week is still set to go ahead, affecting our home game with Swansea. Significant disruption is expected on all lines from midday on Tuesday with TFL saying specifically no Central Line on the middle section between White City and Liverpool Street, no Picadilly Line and no Circle Line. There will be no service at all after the game. Good luck everybody.

- Tickets for Ipswich away will go on sale early next week – digital tickets so no need for a postage release.

Below the fold

Team News: Rumarn Burrell returned from his near four-month absence with a tidy cameo off the bench in the Bristol City game and will push for more minutes here. Jimmy Dunne missed that game and although QPR kept a first clean sheet in 12 games without him you’d think his involvement is pretty key to getting a result against Millwall’s physical approach – his absence from this fixture last year contributed to QPR conceding after a minute. Other than that we wait to see which of the Ilias Chair, Nicolas Madsen, Justin Obikwu cohort of medium termers might make it back before the end of the season. Ziyad Larkeche is back on the grass but has long since been ruled out of this campaign along with Karamoko Dembele. Koki Saito has missed the last two but I haven’t seen mention of why. Leon Scarlett, still just 16, has made the bench in recent games and was part of the development squad’s midweek London Senior Cup semi-final success over Cheshunt – the boys will face Dulwich Hamlet in the final on April 28.

Millwall have enacted a push for promotion this year despite an injury list to rival even our own, with Massimo Luongo’s ACL blow out at Loftus Road one of a dozen or more injuries to blight their campaign. Alfie Doughty and Billy Mitchell stand an outside chance of being back for this game but Will Smallbone (stop it) and Daniel Kelly are still sidelined. Alex Neil was playing his cards close to his chest in the pre-match.

Elsewhere: We’re very firmly into end game territory now and having rather botched their chance last week by only drawing at home to whipping boys Sheff Wed, Coventry will now be promoted this weekend if they avoid defeat tonight at Blackburn and Millwall fail to beat us, and will be champions with a win if Ipswich then lose to Middlesbrough on Sunday.

That Blackburn game tonight has big repercussions at the other end of the table as well. Rovers have 48 points but have fallen behind Portsmouth following their shock victory over Ipswich during the week. What’s more, Michael O’Neill’s side were losing at Southampton on the same night – a game brought forward a fortnight because of the Saints’ FA Cup semi-final commitments. It means the Lancashire side now only have three games left, starting tonight against Cov, and finishing on the final day against Leicester. Oxford are four points behind with a game in hand and a homer against Sheff Wed to come but it’s Derby away up first for them.

That shock Pompey win puts them within sight of safety, and they’ll be there for real tomorrow if they beat hapless Leicester in the early game. Gary Rowett this week said his squad “wasn’t equipped for a relegation battle” after their home defeat to Swansea and the midweek scores left the Foxes requiring snookers. Now five points adrift with four to play they have Hull and Millwall to come at home before finishing at Blackburn.

The Foxes may yet get that trick shot they require. West Brom, despite strenuous denials on their part, have been charged with a PSR breach which is tipped to bring a “minor points deduction”. Under the rules that has to be metered out this season and the EFL have promised a hearing before the end of this month. Holy Ale Faurlin PTSD, Batman. Points would be useful for James Morrison’s men at Preston Knob End on Saturday.

Middlesbrough looked the best side in the league in victory at Loftus Road last month but haven’t won since and their wobble, along with similar missteps at Ipswich and Millwall, might yet let Southampton in to grab second spot. They’re now fourth, above Boro, on an 18-match unbeaten run of which 14 have been won and the automatic spots are just three points away ahead of a trip to Swansea.

Hull are very much in possession of the final play off spot ahead of a home game with Birmingham with Wrexham (Stoke H) and Derby (Oxford H) four and five points back respectively.

Bristol City v Norwich, Sheff Wed v Charlton and Watford v Sheff Utd are this weekend’s for want of something better to do with their time fixtures.

Referee: Tom Nield feels like a pretty ballsy choice for this one. Details.

Form

- With a record of 16 wins and 16 defeats, QPR could scarcely be any more midtable currently sitting 11th. The 58 points attained with four to play is already the team’s best total since getting to 66 in 2021/22.

- It’s come with that element of QPR chaos though. They’ve scored more goals (58) than third placed Millwall (56) but only the bottom two Leicester (64) and Sheff Wed (82) have conceded more than Rangers’ 63.

- QPR have lost 71-, 5-0, 4-0 and 4-1 at various points this season, while also recording a 6-1 and a 4-1 win. Last weekend’s 0-0 bore draw with Bristol City was also their sixth scoreless draw of the season – more than any other club.

- Last week’s shut-out was QPR’s first clean sheet in 12 games, going back to their previous 0-0 draw at Charlton in February. Rangers have ten clean sheets this season. Nobody in the division has more than Millwall (16, level with Coventry).

- That draw with Bristol City makes it five unbeaten for QPR after they’d lost their previous four straight, conceding 12 goals and failing to score once. Avoiding defeat here will make it six without defeat, the joint longest unbeaten run under Julian Stephan.

- QPR have won only two of their last 12 away games, but conversely have only lost two of the last eight on the road.

- Millwall lifted themselves from play-off hopefuls to automatic promotion contenders with a run of six wins from seven games through February and March. They also won a crucial six-pointer at Middlesbrough on Good Friday, but that is now their only win in five games (D2 L2).

- Only Coventry (25) have won more games this season than Millwall (21).

- Contrary to their image, most of Millwall’s heavy lifting this season has been done away from home where no team in the division has a better record than their 10-7-4 for 37 points.

- Millwall have already lost seven times at The Den this season (Norwich, Blackburn, Portsmouth, Hull, Coventry, Wrexham, Boro) including three of the last five games here. No other team in the top six has lost more than seven home games and 12 Championship teams have lost fewer, including fourth bottom West Brom (five).

- Blackburn and Norwich have both won on this ground in the last two, despite Millwall leading in both games. Wawll last lost three home games in a row in November 2023.

- Millwall are attempting to return to the top flight of English football for the first time since 1990. Their best Championship finish since promotion from League One in 2017 is eighth on four separate occasions. Their highest finish since they last played in top tier was fourth in 2001/02.

- QPR (11th) are Millwall’s highest placed remaining opponent. From here they play Stoke A (16th), Leicester A (23rd) and Oxford H (22nd).

- Rumarn Burrell and Richard Kone (ten each) are QPR’s joint top scorers this season, the first R’s players to get into double figures since Andre Gray in 2021/22 (also ten).

- Behind them Paul Smyth and Own Goals are tied on six. QPR have never had more own goals scored in their favour in a single season before, and no Championship side has had more in 25/26 – Ipswich are level, also on six.

- Ipswich (20) are also the only team to have scored more goals in the final 15 minutes of games than QPR and Wrexham (17 each). Millwall come next with 16, same as Coventry.

- And only Ipswich (17) have scored more goals off the bench this season than Millwall (14).

- Brad Potts’ goal for Preston on Easter Monday was the 16th QPR have conceded in the ten minutes straight after half time this season in all comps – 23.5% of all the goals the team have conceded overall.

- QPR’s last 20 wins have all come with less possession than their opponent – they are yet to win a game this season where they have dominated the ball. The last time it happened was a 2-1 home win against Blackburn in February 2025.

- Millwall won the first meeting between the sides at Loftus Road, 2-1, with first half goals from Femi Azeez and Mihailo Ivanovic. The Lions have won four of their last six league games against QPR, losing only once, and are looking to complete the double over the Hoops for the first time since 1988-89 in the top flight.

- QPR have lost the last two league games against Millwall, last having a longer losing run against them between 1937 and 1953 (four).

- QPR lost 2-1 here last season, conceding the first goal after just a minute with Jimmy Dunne out injured/discussing a move to Sheff Utd. There are some kooky stats around Dunne’s absences over the last three seasons. Not surprisingly, Rangers win more with Dunne than they do without (39 wins from 111 Dunne starts versus six out of 23 when he doesn’t, win percentage 35% versus 26%, 1.3 points a game versus 1.1). However, bizarrely, the team concedes marginally more goals with him in it than it does without (1.4 per game versus 1.3, 27/111 24% clean sheets versus 6/23 26% without). @JTSupple

- Josh Coburn and Mihailo Ivanovic (nine each) are the top scorers here. Coburn has scored five goals in six games and nine in 18 after bagging just one in the 18 immediately before that.

- Femi Azeez has been directly involved in 15 goals in the Championship for Millwall (eight goals, seven assists). Six of his seven assists have been from open play.

- Barry Bannan has made 20 appearances against QPR, more than any other side, and from those he has won seven, drawn nine and lost just four times. He has scored twice and assisted a further four goals. He has beaten us more than any team bar Blackburn and Forest (both nine).

Prediction

In our Prediction League for 2025/26 we’ll once again be handing out prizes for being top at Christmas and overall winner from The Art of Football - sample the merch from our sponsor’s newly extended QPR collection here. JB007007 made big moves over Easter and now leads Garnham by six points with four games to go. QPR_Hibs won last season’s Prediction League at a canter and is lending his thoughts to this year’s previews…

“I've just come back from a good few days in York, a really lovely city. My very mild superpower is that I'm usually able to find cheap, high-quality places to stay wherever I travel, and the apartment that I booked this time was certainly no exception. It had all mod-cons and was perfectly located in the city - one of the best places that I've stayed since I went to 'Hastingshoops' family-run place down in, well, Hastings actually (5 stars, truly exceptional!) There was just one minor issue with the York apartment. They did love a good warning message. It had all the hallmarks of Victor Meldrew's excessive use of post-it notes in the 'One Foot in the Grave' TV series.

“When I arrived, the first thing that I saw was a deterrent that ‘This door must not be opened under any circumstances.’ So, obviously that's the first thing you try to do. Locked. Checking inside the fridge you discover a note to explain why they had not provided any fresh milk, and that they were actually doing everyone a favour by somehow saving the planet in this respect. On the coffee table, a handy guide to my 'home away from home' included an extensive price list for breakages (kettle £50, toaster £50 etc.) and an out-of-hours telephone number that you could ring if you had any issues. But, be warned, if they deemed said issue to be too trivial, they would impose a charge - you guessed it, £50.

“To be fair, it was a beautiful place, and I can understand all of the warnings, to a certain extent, because the general public are a bunch of idiots and you've got to spell things out to them. It was fortunate, however, that I remembered to check out on time (late check out fee £50) and that I didn't lose my key (£50.)

“Clive summed up last Saturday's game perfectly as the most nil nil that ever did nil. There were moments during the match when Bristol City were passing the ball across their own back four when I was shouting at them to launch it into our box, so at least something might happen. The official stats say that there were 23 shots in the game, but I can't remember many of them. The only surprise was that the pass completion figures were as low as 87% - it seemed to me that there were about a thousand passes, back and forth, along the defences on both sides.

“An impressive performance by the Development Squad in the London Senior Cup semi-final on Wednesday night has naturally led to some discussion on the forum about whether a few of these youngsters should be given some minutes in our remaining Championship games. It seems like an obvious thing to do - surely that Bristol City game was the perfect chance to give Leon Scarlett 10 minutes. I guess that the counter argument is that we already have one of the youngest teams in the league and that you want to carry on giving game time to Bennie, Kolli and Morgan.

“With Ipswich stuttering to a defeat against Portsmouth on Tuesday, a game finally played at the third time of asking, our Saturday opponents, Millwall have a chance (temporarily at least) to overtake them in the race for automatic promotion. Millwall's results have been all over the place in the last few weeks, losing easy fixtures at home and then winning tough away games at Boro and Hull. Their run-in looks pretty straightforward though, and they'll want to get off to a flying start by beating us in the 'Sky Super Not Even On The Main Channel Early Brunch Special.' I'm not sure what team Julien will select and whether that team will already be on their summer holidays, so I'm not expecting great things from us. Handsome Ronnie did well as stand in captain last week and may be asked to lead the team again if Jimmy Dunne is still absent with a ‘minor knee issue.’”

QPR_Hibs Prediction: Millwall 2-0 QPR. No scorer.

LFW’s Prediction: Millwall 2-0 QPR. No scorer.

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Myke added 23:09 - Apr 17
Cheers Clive, a very thought-provoking piece. On a completely different note, I was told by one of my student’s the other day (a big Arsenal fan) that Leon Scarlett’s sister plays for the gooners.
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TacticalR added 11:12 - Apr 18
Thanks for your preview.

Thanks also for the cons of the stadium move. Definitely not a silver bullet. To be honest, because the debate has been going on for so long, and because the last new stadium move iteration with Fernandes and Beard turned into such a non-event, I am having trouble getting worked about it this time around.

On the pitch, I wonder if we can take advantage of Millwall's wobble (even if we have lost momentum since the Watford game)?
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francisbowles added 11:58 - Apr 18
Unbeaten run of five. Got to fight to keep it going.
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