QPR boss Neil Warnock is the right man to take the club forward (Picture: Getty Images)

QPR shouldn’t have to look far to replace Chris Ramsey, with the man currently in interim charge being the perfect man to take the club forward this season.

Neil Warnock may not want the job on a permanent basis but he’s exactly who we need for the rest of the season if the remit from the top is now to challenge for promotion.

With Nigel Pearson definitely not being considered, thankfully, the other names linked are all managers with no experience of getting sides promoted to the top flight.

Gary Rowett is going nowhere according to Birmingham’s chairman, so that leaves us with Kenny Jackett and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink linked.




The former had a spell at QPR as assistant manager but the Championship is as high as he’s been, while the latter has no experience of this league, let alone getting out of it.

Despite the Chelsea connections giving Hasselbaink a short time with fans patience, he wouldn’t be a bad shout if we were thinking long term. But we are not.

The owners made that clear when they changed the remit this season to one of promotion rather than consolidation.

Ramsey was soon dismissed when it was clear he wouldn’t be the man to deliver Tony Fernandes and his co-owners the Premier League mega riches.

The front-runner appears to be Hasselbaink, but can he bring those riches when he’s yet to even manage at this level and his success at Burton was helped by the solid foundations the club has. Not to forget the work Rowett did.

QPR need to push for promotion while they have Charlie Austin (Picture: Getty Images)

There are no solid foundations at QPR, they take too long to put in place and our owners don’t have patience for that.

So it takes a special kind of character to work for a club that has been run on a whim for years now.

None of this will come as a surprise to Warnock, who has been there and done it at the club.

He turned us around from a likely drop towards League One to Championship winners in less than 18 months and although you don’t want an unsuccessful second coming tarnishing those memories, he is exactly what we need right now.

Results so far might not jump off the page, one win, one draw and one defeat. But performances are improving even if the over reliance on Charlie Austin continues to be shown.

With his experience of what it takes to get out of this league he’s not only the safest bet, but also after a month under his management it avoids another change of methods and settling in period for both players and the new man.

He’s not the long term answer and I hate that we’ve moved away from the long term building so soon, but if the club want to challenge this year then keeping Warnock in charge till the end of the season gives them as good a chance as any.

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