Can’t help feel Neil Warnock would have done as well as the next two pinning their names on the QPR manager’s door.

On this day three years ago Warnock's Rangers were top of the Championship and five points clear of second.

As everyone knows the genial Yorkshireman took Rs back to the Promised Land of the Premier League at the end of the season.

Prize guys: Neil Warnock helped QPR win the Championship in 2011

The argument for sacking Warnock in early 2012 is strongly believed to have come from disgruntled players unhappy with training – and more importantly because the club was 17th in the top flight.

The board would take your hand off for that right now.

The grass looked oh so much greener with the appointment of Mark Hughes, but Sparky owed survival on the last day to Stoke, who he ironically now manages on the crazy managerial merry-go-round.

Bad buys: Mark Hughes wasted money in the transfer market

Hughes's choice of new recruits was at best haphazard, at worst, bizarre. Julio Cesar? Sure, Hughes had the Brazilian keeper thrust in front of him, but with Robert Green on board, he should have simply said no. There was more embarrassment than anything else with Cesar. His loan to Toronto FC this month is not necessarily the final chapter.

Ji-Sung Park as captain because he was a 'chirpy' bloke? Yes, but in what language, Mark?

Harry Redknapp has done his best to ship out all the non-sparking misfits from last season, but the man once considered a shoo-in for the England job finds himself worse off than Warnock.

Queens Park Rangers v Huddersfield Town - Sky Bet Football League Championship
Big miss: QPR have struggled without top scorer Charlie Austin

It rather says a lot about luck rather than the brilliance of any one coach.

A fit Charlie Austin would have given Rangers a better chance of automatic promotion than the current situation. But the best manager on the planet is going to struggle without the one man who wins games.

In the last five seasons 11 clubs threatened by Premier League relegation who sacked their manager saw only four improve their position by the end of the season.

It’s all the more reason why Rangers should stick with Harry no matter what, and by what, even if they remain a Championship team come May.