Mick McCarthy looking to keep loan pair DJ Campbell and Richie Wellens at Ipswich

Campbell bagged his third goal in five appearances since joining from QPR to seal Saturday's 1-0 win at Birmingham and end Ipswich's sorry 12-match winless run in McCarthy's first game at the helm.

The striker is a month into his three-month stay at Portman Road but McCarthy is already looking to tie him down longer.

"He's a goalscorer, there's no question about that," McCarthy said. "I'll have to be talking to the powers that be and try and keep him because he's a great little character. He's good around the place. I thought he played well."

Midfielder Wellens is another of eight loan players in total at Ipswich, although his month-long stay is now at an end.

Speaking on Saturday, McCarthy added: "I thought Richie was terrific. I hope I can keep him, I'll have to speak to Nigel (Pearson, Leicester manager) about that."

QPR boss Mark Hughes happy with his side's second half display against Reading

Djibril Cisse's goal just after the hour rescued Hughes's side who had gone behind to Kaspars Gorkss's opener.

"Credit to us second-half we made a much better game of it, in terms of being brave in possession, getting on the ball and really driving the game to Reading," Hughes told Sky Sports.

"First-half we were too passive, certainly in the initial period we could not get out and get our foot on the ball and play the type of game we wanted to.

"Credit to Reading they have a certain way of playing, they peg you back, get the ball up into good areas and have front guys who work really hard and they retain possession high up in your own half so the initial period we found difficult as we could not get on the ball and play the football we know we can, and then we concede a goal from a set play which was disappointing from our point of view as we have talked about it for weeks on end now and it still causes us a problem.

"But in terms of chances created we have kept on knocking and we have got a great finish from Djib and Adel could have won it late on and we are disappointed as it is a home game and we wanted to take maximum points and once again we haven't been able to do that but in terms of second-half it was much better but first-half we found it more difficult.

"We just had to up the tempo, be a bit braver and force the issue a little bit more than we did in the first half and I thought we did that, Esteban Granero got on the ball in a more progressive way, Samba Diakite got to grips with it and I thought Adel was the shining light for us."

QPR remain without a win, like Reading, and Hughes admits that they need to get a maximum haul as soon as possible.

"The sooner we get it the better, credit to Reading, they didn't allow us to play our expansive game and allow us to pass and move which is what we want to do," he said.

"I have said time and time again, we are in a situ ation that nobody anticipated and we are working exceptionally hard. It is a difficult period - difficult games - that will change, the key to it is the first [win] then things will settle down and we can play our football."

Nelsen: QPR problems are small

QPR host Reading on Sunday still looking for their first Premier League win of the season after nine matches.

The club's season is "in crisis" and manager Mark Hughes is close to losing his job if some articles written this week are to be believed.

Yet for R's defender Nelsen, all the talk of doom is laughable. Not because the New Zealand centre-back does not care, but because of the strife that he, his countrymen, and the people of the east coast of the United States have or are enduring.

Nelsen, a Stanford graduate and therefore one of the most intelligent footballers in the game, watched with sadness as deadly storm Sandy battered New York this week, killing over 100 people in its path.

The destruction triggered desperately sad memories of the 2011 earthquake back in Nelsen's home town of Christchurch.

All of a sudden talk of expensively-paid footballers with fast cars going through a "crisis" became almost laughable for the 35-y ear-old.

"What's happened on the east coast and thinking about what happened in Christchurch puts things in to perspective," Nelsen said.

"All of us get caught up in our day-to-day issues and problems, but in the grand scheme of things... things like that are humbling."

Nelsen was reminded of the destruction caused by the Christchurch earthquake when he returned to his homeland recently to play for his national side.

The defender was playing at Blackburn when the quake struck 19 months ago.

"When it struck there was a feeling of helplessness," he recalls.

"My sister went in to childbirth actually when the quake happened.

"She got stuck in a part of Christchurch that got blocked off. She went in to labour. No one could get to her. All the phones were cut off.

"My parents were calling me because they couldn't get to her.

"Everyone was running around looking for people, for their loved ones and no one knew where any one was.

"It was a pretty crazy time. We played there a couple of weeks ago and it's like a ghost town.

"Everything has had to be torn down. There were tumbleweeds going through the streets."

Nelsen is one of the most interesting figures in top-flight football. The Kiwi left his hometown to move to America at the age of 20 to study in North Carolina. From there he transferred to Stanford, where he graduated with a political science degree, and met some interesting people.

"One day I was on the driving range with Tiger Woods and the guy who founded Yahoo," Nelsen said.

"I was out of my depth in that conversation."

Nelsen took a sabbatical after graduating with the idea that he would return to his studies to become a lawyer.

Fourteen years later, after spells at DC United, Blackburn and Tottenham, he has put the idea of taking the bar to bed.

"I've met far too many lawyers and they have pushed me away from law," the defen der said with a smile.

For now Nelsen intends to concentrate solely on dragging Rangers from the foot of the table, starting with a win against fellow strugglers Reading.

Although QPR have conceded an average of two goals a game this term, Nelsen has been one of their most consistent performers, but he knows that the team need to start winning matches quickly.

The centre-half admits he feels for Hughes, with whom he worked previously at Blackburn.

"It is horrible (for Hughes)," Nelsen said.

"If we make a mistake, get injured or get sent off, it is always the manager who takes the full responsibility so I feel bad for him.

"But his work ethic is very good; he's first in last out.

"I know the manager is doing everything he can to win football games.

"We are all trying to do it. If we do lose it's not because we are under prepared or not trying. We are."

QPR manager Mark Hughes hopes to bag his first Premier League win of the season

QPR welcome Reading to Loftus Road on Sunday with Hughes still looking to register his first Barclays Premier League win of the season.

Hughes' men were handed a difficult start to the season and have taken on Manchester City, Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea in their opening nine games, but now they face a winnable run of matches against Reading, Stoke and Southampton.

"We have in recent weeks played against teams in the top half of the table and we have acquitted ourselves well without getting the points we felt we deserved," Hughes said.

"Now we are up against teams that are in and around us so they take on more significance because we need to get maximum points.

"We know we've got opportunities in the games we have coming up to get more points on the board and that's our intention.

He added: "Nobody needs to feel sorry for me. This is football. It's fine. You can do everything correctly and sometimes you can get a curve ba ll and the roof starts falling in.

"There is nothing you can do about it."

Winger extends Wycombe stay

The 19-year-old has missed the club's last two matches but hopes to return in their FA Cup clash with Crewe.

His three games for the Blues so far have yielded one goal and he has also won two penalties.

Regis: Players angry over JT ban

The former England and West Brom striker, part of the generation of black players that first made the breakthrough into the English game, is the uncle of Reading striker Jason Roberts, who refused to wear the T-shirts at the weekend along with Rio and Anton Ferdinand.

He believes that unhappiness with the four-match ban given to Terry for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand is behind the protest.

"There is a feeling that John Terry has been let off lightly," said Regis, quoted in the Guardian. "You are not going to stamp out racism with laws - it is intrinsic to some people. But where it rears its ugly head the authorities have to stamp down and, if they don't do it with the right force, it gives the impression that it's okay.

"Black players have been voicing their opinion for a long time but feel it hasn't been listened to. They were unhappy at the time it took for the FA to sort things out - a whole year in the John Terry case.

"Then Luis S uarez got eight games, while Terry got four - what is the difference? The panel's assessment was that Suarez said the word several times while John Terry only said it once?

"Come on. Do we have zero tolerance or not?

"This is a different generation from mine. We had to put up with abuse. They are more articulate, they have more confidence and they want a clear and vehement message given."

Meanwhile, a national anti-racism organisation has called for a summit meeting to tackle the grievances of those players who boycotted the T-shirts.

Show Racism the Red Card says it understands why the players refused to wear the shirts.

A statement from Show Racism the Red Card said: "We fully understand the anger of the Ferdinand family and Jason Roberts in relation to the FA handling of the John Terry case. Both Rio and Jason are long-standing patrons of our campaign and are recognised in our Hall of Fame for their work.

"The issue of not wearing the Kick It Out (KIO) shirts at the weekend highlights the displeasure of certain players in relation to the footballing authorities' handling of the incidents of racism in the game.

"We call on the players involved to now sit down with us, KIO and the PFA to draw up a plan of action to present to the footballing authorities and Government."

Meanwhile, Wales and Aberdeen keeper Jason Brown claimed black players could be driven towards setting up a breakaway anti-racism group.

He told Sky Sports News: "People come out and say there can't be a breakaway, I'm all for that. We don't want to be rebels and break away, but if they're not doing enough, they're driving us to go down that road.

"I know four to five players who have met with Kick It Out and the PFA (Professional Footballers' Association) and gave them suggestions, but it seems they must have got lost because they have done nothing."

PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor has urged his mem bers not to take that route.

"We have moved forward as much as we have done so far by being together," he was quoted as saying by the Daily Mirror.

"It might not be as quick as people would like but when you look at our staff there is so much experience there.

"A breakaway group would only serve to weaken us and prevent us building bridges with the people who can affect change."

Hughes the man for Fernandes

Winless Rangers lie bottom of the Premier League having picked up just three points from nine matches, despite a heavy outlay on new players over the summer.

Fernandes, however, is refusing to panic about the team's position.

After a battling 1-0 loss to Arsenal last weekend, the Malaysian entrepreneur gave his full backing to Hughes on Twitter and took the same stance on Thursday night on QPR's London Call-In show.

"You can't blame Mark for the position we're in but we're a vastly more consistent team than we were," said Fernandes.

"The team has got the makings of a great team and Mark can get the best out of them.

"I'm an old fashioned guy that believes in stability and changing things is going to achieve nothing.

"Cream eventually rises to the top. I'm fully behind Mark, as are the shareholders. We haven't had luck but we have enough quality in the squad."

Hughes succeeded Neil Warnock as QPR manager in January and the team avoided relegation from the Premier League on the final day of the 2011-12 campaign.

The Welshman recruited a raft of new players over the summer, including goalkeeper Julio Cesar from Inter Milan, Park Ji-sung from Premier League rivals Manchester United and midfielder Esteban Granero from Real Madrid.

But so far this term the London outfit have lost six and drawn three of their nine top-flight fixtures.

Fernandes, who was announced as the majority shareholder at Loftus Road in August 2011, has backed the team to come good and was particularly buoyed by watching the side train on Tuesday.

"We've got tremendous quality at the club," he said. "I went down to the training ground and the players' spirit was exciting for me, there was real camaraderie there.

"Some of them are big stars, they love what they're doing here, we think we've made the right decisions.

"We knew we had to strengthen some areas and it seemed to make sense at the time so we went for it.

"I don't regret any of the signings I've made. If you had read interviews I gave at the start of the season I said it was going to be tough because they (the new players) needed to gel."

Hughes criticised referee Anthony Taylor at the weekend after claiming Mikel Arteta's winner for Arsenal was offside, while Fernandes thinks the R's have been on the rough end of a few decisions this season.

The 48-year-old expressed sympathy for referees but added his voice to a growing number of people wanting to see technology introduced to help the match officials.

"I can't understand for the life of me why administrators won't use technology," he added.

"The technology is there. At the Grand National, would you have someone there deciding the winner?

"I do feel the smaller clubs get the odd rough decision.

"This controversy is going to continue until someone has the guts to go into technology."