Lots has changed at Queens Park Rangers over the past five years.
The ups of promotion in 2011, survival in 2012 and the play-off final win in 2014 have been matched with the disappointing lows of relegation in 2013 and 2015, as well as an underwhelming campaign in the Championship last season.
Add heavy spending and FA investigations to the equation and it is easy to understand why being a fan of the Hoops can be an emotional rollercoaster at the best of times.
However, QPR are now in a good position: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has transformed things nicely, Fernandes has taken a backseat and Les Ferdinand has settled into his role as Director of Football.
Furthermore stadium plans are starting to take shape and during a wild summer of spending, QPR went under the radar with shrewd spending on talented young players with good attitudes.
Results have improved and academy players are getting first team opportunities too.
It has not been a smooth ride, though, and these are THREE mistakes the club made on the journey to today's circumstances...
Tony Fernandes' transfers
Tony Fernandes was desperate to break into the football scene and bought a majority share in QPR back in summer 2011.
His inexperience was obvious though.
Whilst he is undoubtedly a brilliant entrepreneur, Fernandes clearly didn't understand football.
He didn't understand what was needed to succeed in the Premier League.
He aimed far too high with the signings and ended up splashing big wages on the wrong type of player.
Julio Cesar, Christopher Samba, Park Ji-Sung, Stephane Mbia, Djibril Cisse, Joey Barton, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Esteban Granero are just a handful of players who were drafted in on high wages.
Most didn't have suitable Premier League experience and QPR had assembled a bunch of high-earning players rather than a team.
This is partially why it didn't work out for them in the Premier League.
Sacking Neil Warnock
Whilst no one is claiming that Neil Warnock is a glamorous manager, he was effective at what he did, very experienced and was unfairly dismissed by QPR.
In another example of Fernandes' uneducated intervention, Mark Hughes promptly replaced Neil Warnock as QPR manager.
Warnock was never really given the opportunity to keep QPR in the Premier League and Hughes only just managed it, despite being dire in the role.
The sacking of Warnock led to a merry-go-round of managers which only now looks to be ended by Hasselbaink's appointment.
Mark Hughes was given too much power at QPR, appointing Mark Rigg as Director of Football who ripped apart the core of the club (from coaches to academy) and allowing his agent to bring in players for the sake of it, such as Jose Bosingwa.
This had a long-term detrimental effect on the club which they are still recovering from to this day.
Harry Redknapp
The appointment of Harry Redknapp was the nail in the coffin for QPR's Premier League hopes.
Appointed in November 2012, he was underachieving for a while with his likeable character saving him from media scathing during his previous failures.
He took QPR down in his first year at the club despite being given ample time and money to save the situation.
Fernandes stuck with Redknapp and he did manage to steer them back to the Premier League via a play-off final victory but the outlay was massive so promotion should have been the very minimum requirement.
Promotion was in spite of him - not because of him - and despite his big spending, QPR were still reliant on Charlie Austin's goals to fire them to promotion.
After fumbling about unsuccessfully in the Premier League for another few months, Redknapp finally resigned in February 2015.
At the time he cited an imminent knee operation and that he couldn't trust the internal hierarchy as his reasons for departing.
Murmurs from inside the club, however, actually believed that he resigned because Fernandes wouldn't sanction a move for Emmanuel Adebayor.
By then, though, Redknapp had already lumbered QPR with the likes of Sandro and Niko Kranjcar and left the club in a position where they were destined for relegation.
His appointment and tenure was a mistake which QPR have paid for ever since and are just starting to recover from.