Year Ago: QPR Lost at Luton...Playoffs Talk...Bean to Blackpool...Carbone to QPR Rumours...Bungs Talk...CFO Pennington Departure...Freedman Birthday

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One year ago...

QPR lost to Luton 0-2.
QPR's team:
QPR: Royce, Bignot (Taylor 83), Shittu, Rose, Ainsworth (Moore 79), Santos, Cook, Baidoo (Nygaard h/t), Furlong, Lomas, Langley
Subs not used: Milanese, Donnelly,
QPR Match Report - Official Site

Assessing Playoff Hopes:
Dave Bassett Assesses Who'll Make the Playoffs - "QPR aren't good enough"
Jan 21 2006 Ian Hunt, Western Mail
THE race for a Championship play-off spot remains wide open, Cardiff City being one of 11 clubs who entertain realistic hopes of claiming one of the four places on offer....a long list of chasing teams - from Leeds in third right down to Stoke in 13th - harbouring hopes ....Burnley, Norwich, QPR, Luton and Stoke in their wake cannot yet be discounted from the play-off equation....
Dave Bassett...., believes Cardiff are one of seven teams - Leeds, Watford, Palace, Preston, Wolves and Norwich being the others - who have a good chance of getting into the play-offs....
, ......The former Wimbledon manager, though, is unequivocal about the prospects of his most recent employers - and QPR - squeezing into the top six.
"Southampton have got no chance," he says...""QPR aren't good enough either....
Western Mail: Page 2: The Bluebirds and their Championship play-off rivals
QPR - January arrivals: Andy Taylor: Defender brought in on loan from Blackburn to beef up the back-line. The youngster, whose loan spell at Loftus Road could be extended, can play anywhere across the back four.
Marcin Kus: Polish international defender signed on a six-month loan from Polonia Warsaw.
Next six matches: Luton (a), Leicester (h), Leeds (a), Millwall (h), Crystal Palace (a), Stoke (h)
Play-off prospects: Currently five points adrift of the top six, Ian Holloway's side lack a prolific goalscorer and it is doubtful they have the strength in depth to make the play-offs. Western Press
There was continuing talk about Holloway comments about bungs with newspaper headlines such as from the Mirror "Bungs The Evidence - "Mirror Reveals....Holloway says offered 'Bung' for Gino Padula" Mirror-

The Telegraph re Holloway/Bungs - Telegraph

Independent - "Holloway 'offered £30,000 by agent'

FA Bungs Investigation Announced
FA Statement
BBC - BBC
Sporting Life

Benito Carbone to QPR Rumour - Sky Sport's "Benni eyes Rangers move

Mirror - D BRAT BENI COULD BE BACK TOO - Mirror

Happy birthday to Dougie Freedman - One player we definitely let "get away".
Given a free transfer by QPR to Barnet in July 1974 without having played a first team game for QPR. In his first Barnet season, started scoring prolifically. In total, with his various clubs, he's played something like 400 League games and scored 150 goals and a couple of Scottish caps ..From Barnet went to Crystal Palace...Wolves...Nottingham Forrest...back to Crystal Palace:
Not that many players released by QPR have done that well elsewhere. Freedman is clearly a major exception. Details

QPR Official Site - Marcus Bean Joins Blackpool
Marcus Bean has completed his move to Blackpool on a free transfer....
Although Marcus Bean's move is a free transfer there is a sell on clause so that the Superhoops will get a percentage of any future transfer fee. QPR

BLACKPOOL OFFICIAL
The Seasiders completed the signing of Queen's Park Rangers midfielder MARCUS BEAN late on Friday afternoon....
Bean has been at Loftus Road since the age of ten and has progressed through ranks to make his senior debut at the age of seventeen, but it will be one he will want to forget as he suffered the ignominy of being sent off in a game that saw four players receive the red card.
Bean's energetic style of play and ability to break up play saw the Hammersmith born man pick up QPR's Young Player of the Season last term, but the lack of first team action this season saw Marcus take up a loan spell at Swansea City where he made nine appearances. On his return to Loftus Road Bean played a part in six games, his last being in the R's 1-0 Boxing Day defeat at Brighton. Following discussions with Rangers manager Ian Holloway, Marcus decided to seek regular first team football elsewhere and jumped at the chance to join the Seasiders....Blackpool