Everything is good at QPR at the moment. We won 2-0 away at Ipswich last Saturday and our spirits are high and we will be looking to get a back-to-back win against Reading this Saturday.

It is a sell-out and as close to a local derby as we can get without it actually being called a derby because they are only down the road.

It is going to be a full house and hopefully it will be a good game with both teams needing the points for a late push for a place in the play-offs.

Our goal is to get into the play-offs and hopefully it will be possible to do that and we are gong to try and achieve our aim. We are going to treat every game as if promotion depends on it.

But like I have said to a number of people even if we do not make the play-offs then we have to look upon this season as a really good achievement. At the start of the season I think our fans would have taken fourth from bottom and look to consolidate our place in the League.

But this season we have taken to the division like a duck to water and it is important for the supporters to realise that. They should not get carried away if we don’t make the play-offs but we will be trying our best to make them.

There has been some booing which I guess has come from frustration. We have been in the top six and then missed out or it was like if only we would have won that game then we would have taken all three points which would have put us in the play-off places and so on.

Everyone is now looking towards the play-offs and it has come from that frustration, but I think that everyone should just sit back and looks at the season as a whole and remember their expectations for the season. The fact that we are going to be in the Championship next season is an achievement in itself.

As for Birmingham City Ladies, we now have a few games in hand and we are in sixth position but until we play those games we cannot tell how the league is going to shape up.

We were unfortunate to draw Arsenal in both cup competitions and I do think that they will go on and win both of them. So we have gone out to the likely winners both of them and in the league we are still having to play catch-up.

I have learnt a lot from Ian Holloway and I’d by lying if I said that I didn’t take that in when I speak to the girls. He has such a vast experience as a player and a manager and I try to pass that experience on.

I don’t think that there can’t be another Ian Holloway. But I look at his principles on how the game should be played.

This weekend we face Doncaster Rovers Belles and although there is no such thing as a good result when you lose, but to only lose 1-0 to Arsenal last week will give them confidence.

I’m sure that they will be quietly confident that they can get something out of this game and obviously with the trap door of relegation in their face it will mean that it be a full-blooded game and we know that we have got to be at our best to win.

We gave them a hammering last time we played them. We beat them 9-1 in the Cup, so it will not be as easy as last time.

Have a good weekend,

Marcus Bignot