QPR v PNE 7Dec 2 - 0 FT

Heard that Pugh and Cameron also played their part

Post Preston Stats

The win against Preston moves us up to 14th place and back to within 4 points of the play off places.

The top 2 Leeds and West Brom have disappeared from the view of pretty much everybody but the standard below is so low that there is no reason with a bit of consistency we can't get back in the mix for the top 6.

We have a much kinder run of fixtures ahead too with only one match against in the top half left this year - we face the teams 13th, 24th, 17th, 18th and 12th to see out 2019.

We now have a 12 point cushion over the bottom 3. Safe.

The main news from the Preston win was it ended our run of having gone 25 competitive matches, over 8 months, without keeping a clean sheet. We were the last football league team to manage that feat in 2019/20.

It was our first win against Preston since 2010 and our first win in 8 league games so we got a lot of monkey's off our back!



It was the first time both Joe Lumley and Todd Kane have been on the winning side since we beat Millwall on 21 September.

For Grant Hall it was even longer, a mix of being injured and coming back into a team on a bad run mean he hadn't tasted victory since we beat Luton on 14 September.

Toni Leistner get's himself back up to a 50% win rate, he has the best percentage other than Yoann Barbet who has now missed 7 games in a row.

Ebere Eze and Ryan Manning maintain their 100% appearance records.

I think it comes down to what confidence we have in making the playoffs. There must have been enquiries by now and no doubt his agent is pushing for the move due.

This game and last are the way we should continue to play from now on and frankly should have been the tactics since our loss v Brentford.

Anyway, back on track with some good looking fixtures ahead.

Hoping for a Merry Christmas!

absolutely. I am hoping that we made enough during last summer by selling a few and not spending much means that we are not desperate to balance the books.

He's young and English which immediately increases his value in the market.

He also seems to be improving at a rapid rate, whilst still having a lot he can improve on, so his potential appears to be huge right now.

Anything less than the £12-15 million mark would be scandalous.

But this is the club that once sold Trevor Sinclair for £1 million plus Keith Rowland and Iain Dowie so let's see...