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Programme: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/wells-up-for-it-read-the-robins-matchday-programme/

Good day fellow-Reds. The first game in a block of 12 games before the World Cup and a welcome return to Ashton Gate as we face QPR, its more than month ago since we last played there. There is a national train strike on Saturday so their fans may be stuck on the M4 for a couple of hours. NP has said ‘We'd like to be around the top six when we get to the next break which is the World Cup, we've got a lot of games coming up and it's really important that we are still in a positive position when the next break comes along. That's going to take a lot of hard work from everybody in terms of trying to keep the squad fit and available and making sure our performance levels remain high. If we get to that break in a good position then I think we have more reasons to be optimistic.’ Nigel ‘there are reasons to be optimistic’ Pearson: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/we-need-to-sustain-our-levels-pearson/ We are likely to be without Matty James and Timm Klose who are both carrying injuries. They expect to be boosted by the return of three key first team operators. Defender Jake Clarke-Salter is in line for selection as well as the midfield duo of Luke Amos and Taylor Richards with the latter making just one appearance since his return to Loftus Road on-loan from Brighton and Hove Albion. They parted company with Mark Warburton at the end of last season. On 1st June they appointed Aston Villa assistant manager Michael Beale as their new head coach. The 41-year-old agreed a three-year contract at Loftus Road. He ended his playing career at 21 to become a coach and spent time working in academies at Chelsea and Liverpool. "I've been looking for the right opportunity and I think I have that now - the right club, the right people, the right ambition and the right support," Beale told the QPR website at the time of his appointment. "I'm a London boy and know everything this club stands for. This is a wonderful opportunity for me and a really good time for the club as well." Les Ferdinand MBE is their director of football. They’ve had some quality players over the years and here a journalist, come life-long fan, offers thoughts on their all time best team, http://thememorystore.net/news/2015/05/my-greatest-ever-qpr-xi-journalist-john-crowley-who-first-saw-hoops-play-aged-three Stan Bowles features he once uttered one of football's most famous quotes: ‘I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.’ Sadly he is now struggling with Alzeimer's Disease and requiring full-time care, these two articles give a flavour of his colourful past and his desperately sad present situation: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9115627/Stan-Bowles-Don-Shanks-led-thrilling-lives-Stans-Alzheimers-battle-wiped-memories.htmland https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/8636582/stan-bowles-qpr-legend/ Got me thinking about who would appear in the best Bristol City XI ever team…. Last season both games ended 2-1 Head to head results are close, we’ve won 34, lost 36 and drawn 25 against them. They are in decent form having lost one, drawn two and won three of their last six games. Currently sitting in sixth place (prior to Fridays Hull v Luton game) they will feel, like us, that this could be a good season. Here’s a classic City counter-attacking goal from the pre-NP era ? https://t.co/HZ0dbQ2EJt Of course NW enjoyed a very successful loan spell with them scoring 20 in 66 appearances. Here are five other players who have played for both clubs: https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/features/played-for-both-bristol-city-290922/ They secured the deadline day signing of teenager Tim Iroegbunam on loan from boss Mick Beale's previous club Aston Villa. The 19-year-old midfielder moved to West London on a season-long deal. There were rumours that we wanted him on loan. Defender Ethan Laird also joined them on a season-long loan from Manchester United as did Tyler Roberts from Leeds. Here are all their recent transactions: In Jake Clarke-Salter (free, Chelsea) Kenneth Paal (free, unattached) Tyler Roberts (loan, Leeds United) Taylor Richards (loan, Brighton & Hove Albion) Ethan Laird (loan, Manchester United) Leon Balogun (free, Rangers) Tim Iroegbunam (loan, Aston Villa) Out Charlie Austin (released) Dominic Ball (free, Ipswich Town) Dillon Barnes (released) David Marshall (free, Hibernian) Lee Wallace (released) Keiren Westwood (released) Jordy de Wijs (undisclosed, Fortuna Dusseldorf) Yoann Barbet (released) Moses Odubajo (free, Aris Saloniki) Charlie Kelman (loan, Leyton Orient) Charlie Owens (loan, Colchester United) Stephen Duke-McKenna (loan, Leyton Orient) Total spent: £0m, total received: £810k QPR facts In June 2019, the club gifted the stadium naming rights to The Kiyan Prince Foundation, a local charity set up by the father of Kiyan Prince. Prince was a former QPR youth player who was fatally stabbed in 2006. They pioneered AstroTurf pitches in the UK – they were the first football club to replace grass with artificial pitches in 1981 and they were the first club to remove them in 1988. In January 2002, a family of QPR fans called the Winton’s funded the transfer of Danny Shittu to QPR from Charlton Athletic – the Winton family also funded the signing of striker Doudou the summer prior. In 1967 QPR became the first Third Division team to lift the League Cup, coming from two goals behind to beat West Brom 3-2 in the final. Well known fans include: Bill Bailey - Comedian, Martin Clunes - Actor, Pete Doherty - Singer, Ashley Giles - Cricketer and Shane Richie - Actor. Their early history Queens Park Rangers F.C. were formed in 1886, when a team known as St Jude's Institute (formed 1884) merged with Christchurch Rangers (formed 1882), although their official founding date is 1882 the same as when Christchurch were first formed. They were called Queens Park Rangers, because most of the players came from the Queens Park area of North-West London. QPR became a professional team in 1889. The club were elected into the Southern Football League in 1899. They first won the Southern Football League in 1907–08. As Southern League champions that year, the club played in the first ever Charity Shield match, against the Football League champions, Manchester United. They lost 0–4 in a replay after the first game had finished 1-1. Both games were played at Stamford Bridge. QPR were Southern League champions for a second time in 1911–12. The club joined the Football League in 1920, when the Third Division was formed, mainly with Southern League clubs. When the Third Division was split into North and South the following season, QPR, like most of the former Southern League clubs that had joined the Football League to form the Third Division, were in the Third Division (South). QPR played their home games in nearly 20 different stadia (a league record), before permanently settling in Loftus Road in 1917 (although the team briefly played at White City between 1931–32 and 1962–63 in the hope of attracting larger crowds). The club played on two grounds within Park Royal. The first was the Horse Ring, the site of the now-demolished Guinness Brewery, on the Royal Agricultural Society's show grounds from 1904 to 1907 which had a capacity of 40,000. When the Society sold the grounds in 1907, the club moved to the Park Royal Ground, 400 yards south, an almost exact replica of Ayresome Park, with a capacity of 60,000. They were forced to move out in February 1915 as the ground was taken over by the Army. More recent history A fascinating TV programme ‘The four year plan’ is worth a watch: The film chronicled the take over of the nearly bankrupt club in 2007 by a consortium of billionaires and their effort to promote the team to the Premier League by 2011. The consortium consisted of Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and Alejandro Agag, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and Amit Bhatia. It is an observational documentary that follows the club from within the boardroom. The cameras for this documentary were brought in by the new owners to create the film, and although the club gave permission for the cameras to be there, they had no say on where or when the cameras would be filming. The title derives from a statement made by Briatore in 2007 where he declared his 'target to be Premier League in four years'. Alternative QPR acronyms Print Queue Device Driver Queer Platonic Relationship Question, Persuade, Refer (suicide prevention program) Quality-Price Ratio (wine evaluation) Quarterly Progress Report Quadrature Partial Response Quarterly Performance Review Quarterly Program Review Quality Problem Report Quarterly Progress Review Quality Project Requirement Quarterly Production Review Quality Pricing Program Quantitative Performance Requirements Quick Progress Report Given the importance of promoting good mental health I’m particularly struck by the value of QPR standing for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the three simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR can learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone towards help. The ref is Jeremy Simpson. His record is 7 games 33 yellow and no reds. He was in charge of our 3-3 draw at Blackpool this season. Assistant Referees: Nigel Lugg and Lee Venamore. Fourth Official: Scott Oldham. Here is what Rob Atkinson said in his pre-match interview: Dave Fevs informed this excellent coverage for their fan base: https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/58625 Whether you are one of the 20,000+ who will be at Ashton Gate or be supporting the City from elsewhere, enjoy and here’s to a great performance and another home win! COYR.

Appears we will be without Matty James and Timm Klose v QPR as both are injured.

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Jersey Bulls record goalscorer Sol Solomon has left the club after their 1-0 FA Vase win at Shoreham. BBC Jersey understands that Solomon, who scored 60 goals in 71 appearances, is to sign for Northern Premier League side Marine. Solomon, who has had trials at Luton Town, had left the islanders a year ago to go to university in Liverpool, but returned to the island soon after. He came on as a 64th-minute substitute in Jersey's win on Saturday. Francis Lekimamati's 91st-minute goal saw the Bulls progress to the first-round of the competition. "We are sad but also delighted to announce that our leading scorer, Sol, played his last game for the club today," Jersey Bulls said in a statement. Solomon was the second-highest scorer in last season's FA Cup with nine goals as the Bulls made the third qualifying round. But he was ineligible to play for Jersey's representative side in the annual Muratti Vase clash with Guernsey in May as he was contracted to the Bulls

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Grassroots Football Experience Survey The new season is up and running, so for the first time we're carrying out our regular grassroots football experience survey and we want to hear from you! Understanding your overall satisfaction and your experience of grassroots football is extremely important to us. Your feedback helps us to continually improve your football experience. The survey is short and should only take 5 minutes. After completing the full survey you will have the chance to enter into a prize draw to win one of ten Amazon vouchers, each worth £50. Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you. COMPLETE SURVEY The survey runs multiple times during the season, giving you regular opportunities to tell us about your recent experiences of the game. This particular survey will close on October 14th 2022, with the prizes being drawn shortly after.

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Sol Bamba linked apparently: https://www.bristolworld.com/sport/football/bristol-city/on-trial-bristol-city-defender-linked-with-cardiff-city-vacancy-3847786

Think this topic has been discussed on here before. I’m astonished by how poor we are when we have a thrown in, typically we lose the ball or end up going backwards. Yesterday their first goal came from us conceding the ball from our throw in!

Bristol Live version…. So we're 10 games into the season and as the old adage goes, that is when the table starts to take shape. As of Sunday morning, the Robins sit in ninth on point adrift of the playoffs. There won't be many people who wouldn't have taken that before the season got underway and City have navigated their way through a series of tricky tests. There's also the reminder that six of those games have come away from home. Arguably, City could and probably should be higher in the league. The referee cost them against Hull and individual errors have proved costly in games against Sunderland, Norwich and Blackpool. There is no doubt that will remain a concern and it proves there is still plenty of work to do from a defensive perspective but that is counteracted by the fact there remains progress all over the pitch, emphasised by the performances of the last two matches. At the moment, it seems those days of last season where City concede first and collapse are long behind them. They're drilled, organised and most importantly, showing the same levels of dedication and commitment in each fixture to succeed.

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/we-can-make-big-strides-this-season-pearson/ With almost a quarter of the season gone NP today claimed ‘we can make big strides this year.’ On the evidence of our first ten games I think he is spot on. We are playing attractive and effective football, are joint leading scorers (along with top of the table Sheffield United), look far more disciplined, organized and resilient and in each of our four defeats (all by one goal) we could have claimed a point. With 14 points, from four wins and two draws, we occupy ninth place and have played four of the teams who currently are in the top seven. Of course we very much remain work in progress and have conceded a few poor goals, have a small squad and have thankfully avoided too many injuries or disciplinary setbacks. Compared with recent seasons things are looking much more positive.

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AS and JW on for TC and Alex Scott

First half thoughts. Very open game throughout the first half, they should have been two up before we equalised and the TC had a great chance for us. We are certainly in the game, although Burnley have had a lot of the ball they haven't caused us too many problems. It’s all to play for.

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https://breakingthelines.com/player-analysis/tommy-conway-bristol-citys-new-kid-on-the-block-spearheading-success/