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The new manager bounce has not taken effect at Queens Park Rangers once again as Gareth Ainsworth is already finding life tough back at Loftus Road.

The club icon was drafted in quickly from Wycombe Wanderers to replace Neil Critchley after his failed 12-match stint in charge, but he has found the exact same problems on the pitch.

Defeats on his homecoming against Blackburn Rovers and then on the road this past weekend against Rotherham United - both by 3-1 scorelines - have stretched QPR's run of league results to just one win in their last 19 league encounters, picking up a measly nine points out of a possible 57 in that time.

Naturally the fanbase are frustrated, with the team dropping from the Championship's summit in October and now are in 20th position and just seven points above the relegation zone - and there's plenty of blame to be shared out.

Chairman Amit Bhatia, owners Ruben Gnanalingam and Tony Fernandes and CEO Lee Hoos are all under fire for their respective roles in the decline, but in the eyes of FLW's QPR fan pundit Louis Moir, it is Les Ferdinand who is the most culpable.

Once an England international striker, Ferdinand has been the R's director of football since 2015 and eight years later, the club are in perhaps their worst position since the mid 2000's and Louis thinks it's time for him to depart.

"The biggest problem at QPR and why we're in such a mess ultimately it comes down to the owners because they took over the club when we were debt-free, we got promoted to the Premier League, we blew all the money, we managed to come back up and we did the same thing again when having a chance to sort of reset but we blew it all over again," Louis explained.

"But then since we've sort of come back down in 2015, Les Ferdinand - it's got to the point where, and this is a couple of years overdue as well, how is he still in the job? Why has he not been sacked?

"The amount of managers we've gone through, the amount of players that have come through the door that we've signed for money and end up going for free or end up being sold for cheap or end up being rubbish - it's down to him.

"He's running us into the ground, this is by far the worst I've ever seen QPR in my lifetime, it's just dismal and the run continues and that's why you're now seeing a lot more questions asked of people like Les and Lee Hoos and the chairman and the rest of the owners.

"It's an absolute disgrace and I just worry that this will continue if nothing serious is done at the top end of this club, because look at it since Ferdinand has been here - it's been an absolute disaster and it continues to get worse.

"We will not move forward as a football club with him still in charge in the director of football role - you either get him out, and the board would get a lot more respect if they sack Les, and you get someone in the role who knows what they're doing or just don't get a director of football at all."

The Verdict

Things looked so promising in the first few months of the season for QPR under Michael Beale, but it has all unravelled since speculation first emerged over other clubs being keen on him.

There are a number of factors off the field at play as to who is to blame for such a catastrophic downturn in form, but ultimately Ferdinand has been at the club a long time.

A director of football is an important job as a figurehead above the head coach, and ultimately the decline has to fall at his feet.

Under his regime, there have been a number of failures and this season has been the worst of the lot - the morale at Loftus Road amongst the fanbase no doubt would improve if Ferdinand were to depart but there doesn't appear to be a strong chance of that right now.