Iain Dowie was adamant Rangers deserved more than the point they gained thanks to Dexter Blackstock's late equaliser against Blackpool.

Trailing to Gary Taylor-Fletcher's stunning first half effort, the R's responded with an Alamo like display in the second half, only to fail to bag the all-important second goal late on.

"We showed great drive and great desire to come back into the game after they scored from their only chance of the entire 90 minutes," Dowie told www.qpr.co.uk.

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"Blackpool are a good side, make no mistake. Of course we are disappointed with a point, but they are the fourth best side away from home in the division and they've already won at Birmingham this season.

"In the second half our display was full of energy and hunger and a point was the minimum we deserved from the match."

With the R's trailing at half-time, Dowie rang the changes at the break, introducing Mikele Leigertwood and Patrick Agyemang at the expense of the tiring Daniel Parejo and Emmanuel Ledesma - and switching to a 4-4-2 in the process.

"We had to freshen it up at half-time. I felt we needed another focus point and Patrick and Mikele gave us that.

"I felt we created numerous chances. I'm not sure what the goal was disallowed for and I thought we should have had a penalty late in the day.

"I'm not sure why, but when the keeper spills one and it squirts out, the referee gives a foul.

"There were certainly a few odd decisions late on, but sometimes they go for you and other times they don't.

"I'm looking forward to seeing the stats afterwards, because we were by far superior in all departments."