Following on from the first game thread I was wondering which season stuck out in people's memory as a favourite, I think mine was one of the seasons we were in Division 3 (old Money) 03/04.
Post by northwesthoop on Jun 13, 2019 16:01:24 GMT
It has to be 10/11 the Championship winning season.
Not only was that team a joy to watch you turned up thinking we would win which doesn't happen often as a QPR fan. 19 games unbeaten to start the season was amazing, every Saturday night riding high with win after win after win.
I too loved the TEAM in that era 2002-2004 but 10/11 pips it for my favourite specific season.
Hopefully we will all get another season like that again before too long.
Without doubt it would be Dave Sexton's 1975/76 team. It was the best QPR team that I have ever seen, Phil Parkes,Dave Clement, Frank McLintock, Dave Webb, Ian Gillard, Dave Thomas, John Hollins, Gerry Francis, Don Masson, Stan Bowles and Don Givens. We didn't lose at home for the entire season and we were unlucky not to win the old League 1.
It was a team full of internationals and it had some of the most skillfull and most exciting players to have ever graced the Loftus Road pitch. Those oldies amongst us who got to see them play every week were so lucky.
I know it's easy to say a year where we won every game or won the title (such as 10-11) and that's why I'm picking my answer from a different view.
Even though we had a run of games where we did and won absolutely nothing, I'm saying 08-09. Why you may ask? Look at what we did in the first half of that season.
Our season started with a centre back scoring a goal of the season contender (Fitz Hall v Barnsley), we picked up the biggest ever win I've seen us pick up (4-0 v Carlisle), Ledesma bein unstoppable in the same game made Southampton look ordinary on Sky, somehow picked up a ridiculous win at Norwich! Not to mention Carling Cup success away to (at the time) a superb Aston Villa side to set up a memorable night away to Manchester United. Any other night we would've won that and set up a Quarter Final tie for ourselves.
As well as all of that, who could forget the two unforgettable nights at home to Wolves and Birmingham. Rowlands and Di Carmine both scoring absolute belters in front of the Loft and under the lights to seal 1-0 wins against both sides who were top of the league at the time. That image of Ainsworth (caretaker at the time) celebrating after the Birmingham win in the snow will live with me forever.
What followed all of that may have been garbage, but we even ended the season with a cracker, coming back from 2 down to beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 in another memorable game!
Honestly, I don't even care that everything in the middle of all of that was absolute garbage, that season was more than memorable already for all the right reasons. Like I said it's easy to pick the 10-11 season and that honestly was an amazing season too, but 08-09 was just completley magical for all the reasons I've mentioned
We’ve always been a team of surprise results Season just gone beating Leeds twice and beating villa at home and drawing away Years ago beating Man U 4-1 away Beating Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford bridge But then again we lose to teams like Rotherham who hadn’t won a away game till then
We’ve always been a team of surprise results Season just gone beating Leeds twice and beating villa at home and drawing away Years ago beating Man U 4-1 away Beating Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford bridge But then again we lose to teams like Rotherham who hadn’t won a away game till then
This is QPR in a nutshell really.
We've always been the team to play when you are on a losing streak or the team to play when you haven't scored for 4 1/2 years!
But then we take some scalps too. In our more recent Premier League adventure we beat Chelsea (twice), Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Everton and always gave City a game at Loftus Road (2 draws, 1 we should have won).
Like Stoatey I loved the 75/76 season where I went to every home game, But I think my favourite season was the one after when we played in the UEFA cup, again I think I went to all the home games but going to the UEFA cup matches was something else. The atmosphere at those games was great and must have frightened some of the teams we played as the players were so close to the pitch.
I also went to the 2 matches we played at highbury when we could not play on our plastic pitch, but somehow it was not the same