Ian Holloway believes QPR are a bigger side than Brentford ahead of the west London derby on Monday but has praised the set-up the club have with Dean Smith.
The two sides clash on Monday night under the Sky cameras having already played once this season in the Carabao Cup, where Brentford came out as 4-1 winners at Loftus Road.
After that game the QPR manager said he couldn't wait to face Brentford with his midfield, and ahead of the league derby Holloway has questioned where the Bees would be had they not sold players like Jota and Scott Hogan in the past, although he praised the way Brentford are going about their business as a club.
He said: "This is a whole new ball game, this is on a Monday night, I had to make a few changes in the last game, because I knew I had to, when that game came up when it was Brentford I had a decision to make as the manager of the club, I was trying to reintegrate some into my squad, fitness wise and I needed the ones who hadn't played to play so that was always going to be the plan whoever we drew.
"Unfortunately that backfired, we lost 4-1, some of our fans moaned like hell when the fourth one went in, but up to that point, at 3-0 down it was pretty shocking but I felt that was the first time we showed, as a second string, a character, we got back in it 3-1 and had the better of the second halves by quite a way and how we didn't get a second goal was unbelievable, and they go and get the fourth which made it an unfair scorleine.
"It never ceases to amaze me that that was taken in the context of, for me, I've got my midfield back let's go and have a go and see if we can catch up to what they've been doing.
"What they've been doing, as a QPR person I don't want to admit it, but it's been very good and we're not in that frame of mind - we've been up, we've been down and we've always been a bigger club than them - I hate to say it but that's the truth.
"I don't want Brentford to get funny, I played for both lots of you and both teams and that's the perception, at the minute you're in a good place, you're trying to get in an even better place and with the scouting network and what you're doing, with your manager who's taken and embraced the way you've played and moved it on another level.
"If he hadn't lost the Hogans of this world, where could you be? If you didn't lose the Jotas of this world, where could you be at the minute? But well done to them.
"All I said is that they might not do well if they keep selling their best players, it's not a good strategy, I had it done to me at Bristol Rovers, if you lose all your strikers it ain't going to help.
"It's a wonderful opportunity for us, if I could pick a game, Brentford at home, if I could pick some more defenders it's make it easier for me but whatever I do we'll have a go at it and have a right go at them.
"I know they'll do that to us because everything goes out the window and I can't wait for it to be honest."
