Ainsworth ‘totally understands’ anger of QPR fans
QPR boss Gareth Ainsworth said he could have no complaints about fan chants from a furious away end at Vicarage Road on Saturday.
Rangers were thumped 4-0 by Watford – with all four goals coming in an abysmal first half – to make it nine defeats in the 14 games Ainsworth has been in charge, with just three wins coming in that time as Rangers narrowly avoided relegation last season.
Since his arrival the team have scored just 10 goals and conceded 29.
Calls of “We want our Rangers back” and ‘you don’t know what you’re doing” rained down from more than 2,500 R’s supporters as the Hornets cruised to a victory that could have been far more emphatic such was their dominance.
But Ainsworth, who took over after Neil Critchley’s short reign last February after the club’s board feared the team was losing touch with the play-off places they occupied in mid-December, insists he was grateful for the support of the fans who stayed until the final whistle.
“The ones that stayed to clap the players at the end of the game were sensational,” Ainsworth said.
“Joe Gubbins made his Championship debut and has waited a long time to do that at this club, to see them clap young kids like Stephen Duke-McKenna, Elijah Dixon-Bonner and Sinclair Armstrong, I thank them for that.
“To the ones that left, I totally understand you as well, it’s football, but Watford were better than us today and that is hard for QPR fans to take because it’s a local game, the rivalry is there
“In years gone by we have had the upper hand on them but today they did.”
07/08/2023 @ 8:19 am
Ainsworth needs to GO RIGHT NOW. 3 WINS OUT OF 14 surely cannot be Good enough. To say that we will have a stronger squad this season can to said in a few words. We are clueless. We Do Not enough strikers. We Cannot find the back of the net. We let in goals at an alarming rate. There’s No Positives. Ainsworth said last season . We need just TWO Wins . In the end we managed to do just that, but unless other teams in the Championship get points deducted for FFP rules we look Doomed under Ainsworth. We have the wrong manager. The style of play does not work. The owners need to REPLACE AINSWORTH NOW. We do not want to be 12 points away from the other teams at the bottom of the Championship.
06/08/2023 @ 7:27 pm
3 wins out of 14 – is this acceptable? at this rate we should amass a grand total of 9 or 10 wins for the season.
06/08/2023 @ 11:46 am
Please don’t keep saying we are going to stay up and the end of Last season it was we only need two wins to stay up justgiven the rest of the League a boust just get on with the tarsk and cut the bull and we will be ok
06/08/2023 @ 10:30 am
This wasn’t one team beating another. There was only one team on the pitch