Rangers have boosted their pre-season campaign with two games against SPL opposition.
As we noted yesterday the club had already arranged a friendly with Falkirk on Saturday July 26 and today they have announced a second match north of the border – against the country’s oldest football club Kilmarnock. Falkirk have finished seventh in the Premier League for the past two seasons and tenth the year before following promotion from the First Division in 2005. Falkirk moved to a new two sided stadium in 2005 to meet SPL criteria. One time QPR leading scorer Andy Thomson once played for Falkirk but is now with Stenhousenuir in the Scottish Third Division. Kilmarnock are managed by former Bradford City gaffer Jim Jeffries and finished 11th in last season’s Scottish Premier League. Strikers Michel Ngonge and Paul Wright played, with carrying degrees of success and failure, for both clubs. The games give a better look to QPR’s pre-season campaign which this summer, as in many recent years, had looked to be lacking quality opposition in friendlies. The R’s last traveled to Scotland before their first season back in the Championship in 2004/05 – Ian Holloway took his men to an army camp in Inverness. A match against ICT finished 1-1 with a goal from Jamie Cureton pulling the R’s level. Discuss this story on the Message Board Click here and be the first user to comment on this story