QPR have completed the three month emergency loan of Man Utd goalkeeper Tom Heaton as cover for Radek Cerny.

Rangers have moved for Heaton after failing to secure the permanent signing of released Coventry goalkeeper Andy Marshall who chose to sign for Aston Villa instead. The 23 year old England youth international is a product of the Old Trafford youth set up and played 21 games in the Championship on loan last season with Cardiff City. He has also spent time on loan at Swindon Town. He is eligible to play Carling Cup football for the R’s which leads me to believe, a complete guess you understand, that his debut will more than likely come in the forthcoming math with Accrington Stanley in that competition.

Manager Jim Magilton told the club’s official website: “I'm delighted we've been able to bring in a keeper of Tom's calibre to the club. We need competition for Radek and Tom will provide that. He's a good keeper, who knows what it takes to play in the Championship. He comes highly-rated, by both Sir Alex Ferguson and our own goalkeeping coach, David Rouse, who worked very closely with him at Old Trafford."

Magilton was less happy with QPR blowing two points at Plymouth on Saturday – a game that looked there for the taking for most of the afternoon but ultimately finished 1-1. Magilton said: “It feels like we've lost the game. We had dealt with everything that they'd thrown at us for 90 minutes, which to be fair wasn't much at all, but one costly second proved to be our undoing. I'm disappointed, because I expect far more from the players and they know that. I expect, with the experience we've got in the team, to see it out comfortably. We need to show more belief.This group of players are incredibly talented but I'm not sure they know just how good they can be.The back four, with the exception of the last minute goal, were excellent. Fitz Hall was absolutely outstanding. Radek had very little to do - coming out to catch a few crosses. So it's incredibly disappointing that we're only talking about a draw, when we deserved so much more.”

Plymouth manager Paul Sturrock admitted he was grateful to escape the game with a point: “I am going to take the positives from the game and doff my cap on deserving a point this time. I was really pleased with how we played in the second half after going 1-0 down in the first. It is the sort of game we might have lost 2-0 last season. This season I have seen a new resolve in us, we kept going until the final minute and that never-say-die attitude earned us a merited point.”

Akos Buzsaky says QPR can take heart from their Home Park performance and just need a change in luck to turn draws into victories. He told the Sunday Mirror: “Expectations are high, but of course we are better this season. We have signed some good players but the main thing is that now the squad has been together for a year and a half and we know each other better. It’s too early to say anything about promotion, but that’s the aim this season - or the play-offs at least. I don’t think there is a psychological problem about winning away and you could see that from our performance. It’s a new season so last season’s record doesn’t matter. It’s a new beginning.

“We can play better than that and we created more chances than Plymouth. It’s going to come. We are going to put everything right. I’m not worried about that. We should have won against Blackpool last week and then we should have won against Plymouth. We just need our luck to change. It was disappointing to be winning for so long and then they scored right at the end. We were very close to winning the game. Romain played very well and he did what goalkeepers are supposed to do – stop goals from being scored. I know how good he is from my time at Plymouth.”

Elsewhere striker Dexter Blackstock has been talking about concentrating on his football, rather than the other issues that affected QPR during his time with us, after scoring the first goal of his second spell with Nottingham Forest against Bradford on Wednesday night. He told the Nottingham Evening Post: “As a professional, all you want is to concentrate on is playing your football. For one reason or another I have never really had that over the last few years. There has always been other issues to think about. If I can get everything else out of the way now and just concentrate my efforts towards a Saturday afternoon, and getting the right results for Forest, it will only benefit me and the club”

Some QPR fans have taken exception to comments made by Accrington Stanley manager John Coleman after his side were drawn at Loftus Road in the next round of the League Cup. Coleman told the Lancashire Telegraph: “Obviously we wanted a money-spinner and I don’t think that will be a money-spinner. We’ll have to do the next best thing and beat them. The way things have gone for us over the last couple of years, I wouldn’t be surprised if we were an orange and everyone else was a normal-sized ball in the draw! We don’t ever seem to get a money-spinner. It’s the luck of the draw but we just need a leg up.” Looking ahead to Bristol City on Tuesday night manager Jim Magilton says big money summer signing Alejandro Faurlin may travel with the squad to Ashton Gate. Speaking in his post match press conference on Saturday Magilton said: “He’s very close to coming back. He had a thigh strain so we didn’t want to bring him back too early, but he will be around the squad for Tuesday’s game.”

Elsewhere in the Championship referee Rob Shoebridge and his assistants have been suspended by the league after the farce at Bristol on Saturday. None of the three officials spotted Palaces’ Freddy Sears had scored a perfectly good goal at Ashton gate and ordered the players to carry on prompting a predictably, and justifiably, furious response from Neil Warnock that carried on into the night when he appeared on the BBC’s highlights show via a telephone link. Warnock said: “I feel really hurt and almost cheated out of a result. I felt sorry for the lads after all the work and preparation they put in. We've already got a transfer embargo upon us and we lost Stern John last week in the first game, a striker, so to score goals is hard enough as it is. The body language of the Bristol players and the fans should have told the referee it was a goal. If it had been at the other end of the pitch, there would have been a riot. Refs make mistakes but morally I felt Bristol should have let us score a goal there.”

Newcastle got their first win of the season on Saturday night when a Shola Ameobi hat trick beat Reading 3-0, but they seem set to lose left winger Damien Duff to Fulham. Preston are hoping to tie up a deal for Liam Miller who was released after a distinctly unimpressive six month spell with QPR last season.

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