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Sunday's Referee - Queens Park Rangers vSouthampton ( 4:00 )
K A FRIEND G S Evetts and R G Vaughan Fourth Official T M Kettle - Football League


Kent News/Glenn Pearson - Sittingbourne Manager, Garry Abbott on Assistant Manager and Striker, Richard Brady (Once of QPR)
"SITTINGBOURNE manager Gary Abbott believes he has the squad in place to challenge for the Ryman South play-offs. Click to continue reading...

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BBC -Flowers not happy despite victory
QPR assistant manager Tim Flowers insists the team still have a lot to work on despite their 4-0 thrashing of Carlisle in the Carling Cup.
Flowers told BBC London 94.9: "Speaking as a defensive player I was not happy with us. Click to continue reading...

Nick Ward and Archie Thompson will both miss another round, while Michael Theoklitos has also picked up an injury and won't make an appearance against the Wellington Phoenix. The big story this week, though, is the return of Grant Brebner. Brebner hasn't played since December 2007 and looks ready to make his reappearance after a long time [. Click to continue reading...

The Melbourne Victory beat the Wellington Phoenix last night, securing their first ever Pre-Season Cup. After neither side failed to churn out a goal in regular playing time, it was left up to a penalty shoot-out to determine the victor. After both Shane Smeltz and Nick Ward lobbed their penalties over the bar, it wasn't until [. Click to continue reading...

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Dominic Shimmin Trialing at St. Mirren -St. Mirren Unofficial Site "Black and White Army" "...Dumbarton 2 Saints 2 -Tuesday, 22 July 2008 "....[St. Mirren[ handed a debut to trialist centre half Dominic Shimmin. The towering defender apparently is a Londoner who started out with Arsenal and has since played with QPR. Click to continue reading...

- There are just two "survivors" from the First team squad announced two years ago today. Wednesday, July 12, 2006 -QPR Announce Team Numbers- [List includes a number of people who were transfer listed - but didn't include a number of signings yet to be made who have mostly subsequently moved on. Click to continue reading...

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One year ago...another item to make hardened QPR fans worry, even as felt for sure it was just media hype! But certainly it's a very different QPR today

Sunday Mirror/Paul Smith - July 8, 2007 - QPR FACE DROP OVER LOAN DEAL
QUEENS Park Rangers face being relegated from the Championship or handicapped with a severe points deduction when the Football League board meet on Thursday. Click to continue reading...

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Australia play South Africa at Loftus Road, Tuesday 19 August (Maybe Nick Ward will be returning?)

Football Federation Australia - South Africa and The Netherlands to face Qantas Socceroos Monday, 7 July 2008
The road to South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is being mapped out at Football Federation Australia (FFA) with the announcement today of two prestigious international matches in August and September to kick-off the next stage of the World Cup qualifying campaign as well as qualifiers for the 2011 Asian Cup, courtesy of FOXTEL. Click to continue reading...

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With the players now back in training and as one awaits the much-anticipated official announcement of further QPR signings, it's instructive to look back just a couple of years. QPR of course, are still in the same division as they were two years ago, but the squads are very different - as are the circumstances and the team's prospects. Click to continue reading...

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Four Ex-QPR Birthdays:
Two born today; Two born tomorrow
Today's birthday: David Kerslake who turns
44 - Kerslake Record : One-time QPR wonder-kid, in the squad at 16. After several years at QPR, including a couple of consesutive seasons in which he played almost half the games, Kerslake converted into a fullback, moved on to Swindon, then Leeds and then Spurs. Click to continue reading...

This news came out before the weekend, but I never got time to post about it. Nick Ward has been named as Melbourne Victory's Youth Marquee. Under the youth marquee system, every A-League club is allowed to pay one local player under the age of 24 up to $150,000 outside the salary cap. 23-year old Ward, [. Click to continue reading...

Sebastian Ryall is joining the Olyroos as they prepare for the Beijing Olympics. He is one of 25 players picked by Graham Arnold for a training camp in Sydney, due to start tomorrow (Saturday). Billy Celeski and Leigh Broxham are also both in the selection, but Nick Ward misses out because of ongoing injury. Click to continue reading...

Pim Verbeek announced his 22-man selection for a Socceroos training camp next week. Among them are Melbourne Victory's Archie Thompson, Kevin Muscat and Rodrigo Vargas. Only A-League players were picked for the training camp, though Verbeek insists there's no guarantee that he'll pick exclusively A-League players for the opening World Cup qualifier against Qatar on February [. Click to continue reading...

Early in November, Ernie Merrick promised Melbourne Victory fans that the club would sign some new talent in the November transfer window. As the month reached its end last week, Merrick explained the type of player he was looking for: "I am looking for a Paul Wade type of character, a real hard grafter, a box-to-box [. Click to continue reading...

The Melbourne Victory signed Nick Ward today, a 22-year old Olyroo who has been playing in England for the Queens Park Rangers. Some of you may remember him from the inaugural A-League season, when he played for the Perth Glory. Ward is a midfielder, and an attacking one at that. Sounds like just what Melbourne needs [. Click to continue reading...