QPR 0 Plymouth 0
There were no prizes for guessing Rangers' final home game of the season would turn out to be a little less than sensatiional. Not even the unusual sight of two youngsters holding up play with mini pitch invasion could rouse the game from its slumbers.
With the players' end of season party only hours away and thoughts maybe already turning to the end of season trip to Bahrain in 10 days' time, this was a decidedly subdued performance by the home side.
Flavio Briatore could not wait even for the season's formalities to be over for the Gulf state to claim his presence. The QPR chairman decided to forego the pleasure of Loftus Road for the Grand Prix racetrack this weekend. It was a good call.
These end of term affairs are seldom much cop when there is so little to play for, although Argyle still faced a slight threat of relegation before kick-off.
Rangers had clocked up 10 0-0s already this season and seemed intent on claiming another one, but for Patrick Agyemang at least, it was never going to be wasted afternoon. The striker, who has been missing since picking up a thigh muscle injury back in January, relished his chance to be involved again,
Not that the Ghanaian was able to inspire a toothless Rangers before making way for youngster Antonio German for his first appearance for QPR on home soil.
Gareth Ainsworth, manning the ship for the second time this season after the latest managerial exit, of course, started with Mikele Leigertwood at right back - Matt Connolly dislodging Damien Delaney at left-back.
But the interim boss knows he can tinker as much as he likes providing he plays with two strikers.
Briatore is said to have phoned Paulo Sousa from Malaysia at half-time a couple of weeks ago to demand the introduction of a second striker for the second half and Ainsworth wasn't about to fall into that trap. But it made little difference for Rangers to have Heidar Helguson alongside Agyemang. They still created very few openings throughout.
Rangers' lack of urgency at the outset betrayed the becalmed nature of their ambitions and it was Argyle who went closest early on. Twice Paul Gallagher found space to fire off shots at goal and when Radek Cerny failed to gather a cross from the right, Ashley Barnes hooked the loose ball over the bar in another wasted chance by the visitors.
Gallagher also volleyed just over in the second half, while Jamie Mackie forced Cerny into a fine low save seven minutes from time. Mackie also might have won it at the death after turning Kaspars Gorkss on the halfway line and bursting through before firing straight at Cerny.
It was a weak finish wihich summed up the fare and it was not an afternoon to leave Briatore regretting his decision to return to the bosom of the Renault family in Bahrain.
