It is certainly a case of the old and the new for QPR this weekend as David Phillips takes charge of our home game with Bristol City, the first appointment with either club for this rookie official, and the experienced Steve Tanner referees our trip to Ipswich on Monday.

QPR v Bristol City
Referee: David Phillips (Sussex)
Assistants – Jerden (Essex) and Norcott (Essex)
Fourth Official – Collins (Surrey)

Ipswich Town v QPR
Referee: Steve Tanner (Somerset)
Assistants – Drysdale (Lincolnshire) and Martin (Northamptonshire)
Fourth Official – Hambling (Norfolk)

This will be the third Championship game of Phillips’ career after refereeing Watford v Barnsley and Peterborough v Middlesbrough earlier this season. So far he has shown 49 yellows and one red in 15 matches this season, a high average of 3.266 yellow cards a match. He has shown 16 yellows and a red in his last five games alone and his biggest haul in a game this season is seven yellows in a match between Colchester and Leeds in August. Last season he showed 61 yellows and five reds in 25 matches – 2.44 yellows a match.

Looking ahead to Monday at Ipswich we have Somerset official Steve Tanner in charge for the first time in two seasons. So far this season Tanner has shown 35 yellows (2.916 a game) and two reds in 12 matches. Five of those games have been in the Championship and they have accounted for 15 of his yellow cards and two of his reds. The Somerset official appears to have been dropped from the elite list this season after refereeing 11 Premiership games last season – his last top flight appointment was Man City v Sunderland last year where he booked eight and sent one off. His biggest single haul in a game this season is six yellows and a red in the Swansea v Plymouth game at the start of December.

His last QPR appointment was in 2007/08 when the R’s beat Hull 2-0 at Loftus Road. His rating of six placed him joint 15th on the referee league for that season. In 2006/07 he refereed us against Colchester and Derby earning an average rating of 4.5 and finishing 24th on the referee league.

Referee: Steve Tanner (Somerset) – 6 Not a bad display at all but suddenly went a bit card mad in the second half when the game didn't really require it. Still, we've had a lot worse for sure. LFW Hull Match Report

Ref: Steve Tanner - With Rangers putting in such a torrid performance we couldn't even look to blame the ref. Milanese was rightly booked for a poor challenge and so was Cook of all people for a late tackle. The game did flow though and Mr Wiley didn't do anything to ruin the game…..we only did that ourselves. LFW Colchester Match Report

Referee: S Tanner 2 - Thoroughly, totally, completely useless. Wrongly disallowed Furlong's goal on the advice of an equally crap linesman, got bookings fro Howard, Furlong, Idiakez, Bignot and Cook wrong, failed to book Idiakez and McEveley when they deserved it, missed at least two blatant penalties, too much whistle, too many cards. An horrendous and at times mystifying performance. Unbelievably bad. LFW Derby Match Report

In 2005/06 Tanner had three QPR games during the campaign – a home win against Crewe and defeats against Plymouth (where he booked nine QPR players) and Crewe. His average rating of 6.33 placed him 11th on that year’s referee league.

Referee: S J Tanner - 6 - gave some questionable decisions in favour of QPR in the first half and was obviously told in no uncertain terms by lovely Mr McCall that such behaviour wouldn't be tolerated in the second half. Spent the second half awarding various set pieces to Sheff Utd. Strangely though at no point did he penalise Santos for the blatant shirt pulling on Shipperley. He penalised Georges for just about everything else though! Credit where it's due, Rangers' time wasting antics in the second half were right from the Paul Gerrard master class and deserved the lengthy stoppage time they got. Luckily Moore made the five minutes academic. LFW Sheff Utd match report

Ref: S Tanner (Somerset) 6 - Missed the constant elbowing on anybody within striking distance by Evans and harshly carded Dyer, Baidoo and Connolly, but rarely for a game with twelve cards in it there isn't much criticism you can throw his way. Got the penalty decision right, most of the cards were the correct decision and he actually did very well to keep hold of a game that threatened to boil over on numerous occasions. Not helped by QPR's discipline which was, at times, deplorable. LFW Plymouth match report

Ref: S Tanner (Somerset) 7 - The referee had a fairly decent game and let the game flow well. With such a bad performance from the R's most of the frustration were vented at the team rather than the officials. He rightly booked Bircham for a very late tackle and many would have given a pen when their striker went down in he area after an Evatt tackle. LFW Crewe match report

Tanner has already been in charge of Ipswich this season - he was the man in the middle as the Tractor Boys lost 2-0 at West Brom in August showing no cards in the process. Last season he had them for a 2-0 home defeat by Wolves and 3-2 away loss against Preston so long may that run of results continue.

Elsewhere this Bank Holiday weekend there are numerous appointments that stand out from the list. Village idiot Stuart Attwell has Sheff Wed Newcastle on Saturday while Trevor Kettle will be ruining Christmases for MK Dons and Stockport and then has Sheff Utd v Preston on Monday. It could be worse, you could be a fan of Cheltenham and Bournemouth or Barnsley and Middlesbrough who both have the dubious pleasure of Andy Hall’s company this weekend. Premiership referee Mark Clattenburg is down at our level on Monday for the Midlands derby between Forest and Coventry. Kevin Friend certainly seems to be flavour of the month at the moment and he drops down from the Premiership for Stockport v Leeds.

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