Snippets: Carlisle Response to QPR Draw....Ex-QPRs Updates.... Several Ex-QPR Birthdays

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UPDATED: 1:30 PM

Ex-QPR Jon Munday has signed for non-league Grays.
Setanta: Grays boss Mick Woodward could throw defender Jon Munday straight into the team following his arrival at The Rec.
The former QPR youngster has signed for The Blues after spells with Kidderminster and Worcester and is in contention to start against Northwich...."Setanta


Carlisle Official SiteIT'S ANOTHER LONG ONE
United Boss John Ward gave us his reaction, early this morning, to the Carling Cup second-round draw that sees United faced with a 616 mile round-trip as they make their way to play Queen's Park Rangers in just under a fortnight's time.
He said: "The first thing that springs to mind with a draw like that are the travelling difficulties, both for the team but in particular our supporters. It's a really tough draw in that sense, and especially when you consider that we are in London on the Saturday anyway, for the Orient game. However, from a football point of view and definitely from a player point of view, it's a cracking game. Our players can now put themselves up against a team that is expected to make it to the Premier League next season, so we can look forward to facing a challenge like that. Yes, of course we would have preferred it to have been at home, but we'll take the experience and see what we can use from it. Prior to the Shrewsbury game we mentioned that we wanted to go through so that we could face another test in the second-round, and that's exactly what we've got."
"They are a side that are getting plenty of publicity both on and off the pitch," he added. "They have some high profile backing now, and they genuinely expect to make that next step up. I think it's quite exciting for us to go up against a team like that. I don't think many people will give us much of a chance, but we don't mind that. We'll be going down there to give it a go, and we will be doing our best to get through to round-three. You never know, we might actually get a home draw if we do!"
"The first thing we did this morning was sit down and look at the logistics of it all," he admitted. "We are considering all of the options and I would imagine, at this point, that we will decide to travel back up after the Orient game and then go down there again on the Monday. I think the lads would prefer to be back at home on the Sunday and get a bit of rest and family time, rather than stay down there, but we'll see."
"Our intention is still to go ahead with the open training session on the Monday after the Orient game, as we had arranged," he concluded. "That's something that we are very keen to do with the fans but, obviously, we do have to see where we are once we have finalised our QPR travelling details."
Amazing fact of the day:
QPR Manager Iain Dowie will face Carlisle United in the second-round of the Carling Cup for the third year in a row ... with his third club!
He won 1-0 against Neil McDonald's Cumbrians with Charlton Athletic, at the Valley, in 2006. He followed that up with a 2-0 victory up here, with Coventry City, when Greg Abbott held the reins, and he completes his hat-trick when the Blues travel to Loftus Road under the tutelage of John Ward.
Now that's fascinating!
Carlisle


EX-QPRS
Ex-QPR Tony Thorpe back with Luton.
Luton Today.Carl Field: - Thorpe back in Town Ex-Hatter returns to training Striker Tony Thorpe says he wants to repay Luton Town after it was revealed he is back training with his former club.
Thorpe, 34, who has scored 70 goals in 164 league appearances for the Hatters, first played for the club between 1992-1998, before later returning for two short loan spells, along with another permanent stint in 2002.
His departure to QPR while the club were in administration in 2003 left a bitter taste in the mouth of Luton supporters but, after returning for the Legends game earlier this year, that may now be water under the bridge.
Thorpe spent last season at Southern League outfit Barton Rovers and, after clearing up confusion about whether he is allowed to play professionally after speculation he had received an insurance payout for his damaged cornea, he contacted the club, offering to help out. Luton Today


Ex-QPR Loan, Jerome Thomas moves from Charlton to Portsmouth on season-long loan. BBC (Almost as weird as when Charlton signed Gavin Peacock on a loan from QPR)


Ex-QPR Pat Kanyuka is back available for Swindon (too late!) - Report


RECENT EX-QPR BIRTHDAYS

Yesterday:
Karl Ready turned 36 - QPR's Welsh International Center Half made 200+ appearance for QPR over a decade, making his debutin 1992 before being released after QPR's relegation to the 2nd (read Third) Division in 2001. Career -- Career II

Martin Allen turned 43, now manager of Leicester and cousin of Clive Allen and Bradley Allen, made his debut as midfielder in 1985. Famously fell out with then manager, Trevor Francis, when he chose to be with his wife for the birth of his child over playing for QPR. Was sold to West Ham...Career

Andy King turned 52 - Goalscoring midfielder, signed by Tommy Docherty in September 1980, with some of the Clive Allen/Paul Goddard money of a then-record 450,000 pounds...The following season, scored in the first three games before QPR's manager, Terry Venables, sold him in September 1981 for about the same fee to West Bromwich Albion (who QPR beat that season in the FA Cup Semi Final semi final) Career

Dave Metchick 14 August 1943 - Joined QPR from Peterbrough in 1968.

George Kulcsar - 12 Aug 1967. Ray Harford's first signing. Joined from Barnsley for 250,000 pounds. Victim of Mengitis scare under Gerry Francis. Kulscar/Career

Kurt Bakholt 12 Aug 1963. Danish International. Joined QPR in 1985/86. Made one appearance as sub. Career

Tony Witter - 12 August 1965, Gerry Francis first signing (jointing signing with Thompson) from Crystal Palace. Career

Mickey Walsh - 13 August 1954. Signed by Steve Burtenshaw from Everton in a swop for Peter Eastoe near the end of the 1978/79 relegation season from Division One. Career

Don Givens - August 9, 1949. No more needs to be said. Bowles and Givens! Stolen from Luton. His goals took us up. And formed a fantastic partnership with Bowles from 1973 to 1977. Career