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Normally can't stand the Daily Mail but one of the best articles I've read on the club in a long time below:
After six wins in their seven matches, nobody can stop the... Power Rangers
By Michael Walker Last updated at 11:54 PM on 19th September 2010
Comments (0) Add to My Stories Rarely, if ever, in the public imagination have Queens Park Rangers featured as a juggernaut.
When the force has been with them in spells down the years, it's been of a different, lighter nature.
But no more: QPR are now a power, a club, a team and a unit that is upwardly mobile and surely bound for a return to the Premier League.
Floor show: Mackie (bottom) celebrates goal No 2 with Leigertwood
The Championship season may be only 44 days and seven games old but QPR's lead at the top of their division is five points.
In their seven games, they have won six and drawn one. The draw, at Derby, was the only game in which QPR have conceded a goal.
It is September, yet it seems inconceivable that QPR will not be promoted. That sounds rash, but rash is how you feel after watching the Londoners repel a talented, if wayward, Leicester City side, then bag two goals courtesy of a striker many Premier League types will have overlooked.
Perfect start: Warnock's QPR look destined for promotion
Jamie Mackie will have his 25th birthday soon. To date his career has taken in Wimbledon, MK Dons, Exeter City, Sutton United and Plymouth Argyle. Should QPR go up, Mackie will cost the club around £500,000.
From Dorking, Mackie wants to play for Scotland apparently. He also scored two in QPR's previous game, a 3-0 victory at Ipswich, who are second in the Championship.
On Saturday, Mackie was compared to Nat Lofthouse by his new manager, Neil Warnock. The tribute came because of Mackie's soaring 12th-minute header that put QPR ahead.
It sealed an assured opening from the visitors and it climaxed a passing move in which Adel Taarabt and Akos Buzsaky were prominent.
They are not the type of player thought of as 'Warnock's sort' but they are his now. So is Mackie, and Hogan Ephraim. These are not musclemen.
Nor is Heidar Helguson, but the 5ft 10in striker led the line and set the tone with a performance of relentless effort.
They gave QPR a collective power and spirit - and it is that which makes them unstoppable at the moment.
The back four are clearly resilient, too. You could see why they have six clean sheets. Latvian centre half Kaspars Gorkss stood out.
The tight organisation restricted a Leicester midfield with creative players such as Richie Wellens, Matt Oakley and £3millon Martyn Waghorn.
It was not until big Steve Howard arrived past the hour mark that Leicester looked capable of a breakthrough.
Yet Paddy Kenny, brought in from Sheffield United by Warnock, was protected well by his defence and it was Mackie who scored the next goal, breaking away to leave Michael Morrison trailing and place a calm shot beyond Carl Ikeme. Over 2,000 'Rs' fans had made the trip from London and Mackie ran to them.
A discussion afterwards centred on whether this was as good a start to the season as the one of 1947-48, when QPR were promoted from the Third Division South. More relevant is that QPR are three points better off than Newcastle were at this stage last season - and we know how that finished.
In 2011 it will be 15 years since QPR were in the Premier League. Given the club's taste for turmoil - Warnock is their eighth manager since 2006 - nothing should be taken for granted. But QPR are looking up.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz1092V46Up
After six wins in their seven matches, nobody can stop the... Power Rangers
By Michael Walker Last updated at 11:54 PM on 19th September 2010
Comments (0) Add to My Stories Rarely, if ever, in the public imagination have Queens Park Rangers featured as a juggernaut.
When the force has been with them in spells down the years, it's been of a different, lighter nature.
But no more: QPR are now a power, a club, a team and a unit that is upwardly mobile and surely bound for a return to the Premier League.
Floor show: Mackie (bottom) celebrates goal No 2 with Leigertwood
The Championship season may be only 44 days and seven games old but QPR's lead at the top of their division is five points.
In their seven games, they have won six and drawn one. The draw, at Derby, was the only game in which QPR have conceded a goal.
It is September, yet it seems inconceivable that QPR will not be promoted. That sounds rash, but rash is how you feel after watching the Londoners repel a talented, if wayward, Leicester City side, then bag two goals courtesy of a striker many Premier League types will have overlooked.
Perfect start: Warnock's QPR look destined for promotion
Jamie Mackie will have his 25th birthday soon. To date his career has taken in Wimbledon, MK Dons, Exeter City, Sutton United and Plymouth Argyle. Should QPR go up, Mackie will cost the club around £500,000.
From Dorking, Mackie wants to play for Scotland apparently. He also scored two in QPR's previous game, a 3-0 victory at Ipswich, who are second in the Championship.
On Saturday, Mackie was compared to Nat Lofthouse by his new manager, Neil Warnock. The tribute came because of Mackie's soaring 12th-minute header that put QPR ahead.
It sealed an assured opening from the visitors and it climaxed a passing move in which Adel Taarabt and Akos Buzsaky were prominent.
They are not the type of player thought of as 'Warnock's sort' but they are his now. So is Mackie, and Hogan Ephraim. These are not musclemen.
Nor is Heidar Helguson, but the 5ft 10in striker led the line and set the tone with a performance of relentless effort.
They gave QPR a collective power and spirit - and it is that which makes them unstoppable at the moment.
The back four are clearly resilient, too. You could see why they have six clean sheets. Latvian centre half Kaspars Gorkss stood out.
The tight organisation restricted a Leicester midfield with creative players such as Richie Wellens, Matt Oakley and £3millon Martyn Waghorn.
It was not until big Steve Howard arrived past the hour mark that Leicester looked capable of a breakthrough.
Yet Paddy Kenny, brought in from Sheffield United by Warnock, was protected well by his defence and it was Mackie who scored the next goal, breaking away to leave Michael Morrison trailing and place a calm shot beyond Carl Ikeme. Over 2,000 'Rs' fans had made the trip from London and Mackie ran to them.
A discussion afterwards centred on whether this was as good a start to the season as the one of 1947-48, when QPR were promoted from the Third Division South. More relevant is that QPR are three points better off than Newcastle were at this stage last season - and we know how that finished.
In 2011 it will be 15 years since QPR were in the Premier League. Given the club's taste for turmoil - Warnock is their eighth manager since 2006 - nothing should be taken for granted. But QPR are looking up.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz1092V46Up
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