West Brom and QPR lost their managers around a month apart, with the surreal Alan Irvine experiment being cut short just after Christmas, and Harry Redknapp’s seemingly inevitable resignation following an unsuccessful January transfer window. Obviously the circumstances were slightly different and Rangers were in a much more perilous position but the past few months have shown exactly how and how not to arrange a managerial succession. West Brom spotted the way things were going early, moved on their underperforming manager and brought in a proven relegation firefighter, whereas QPR dithered, let their own flailing boss decide his own fate and then gave the job to a coach with no previous managerial experience. Chris Ramsey seems like a decent man and under the right circumstances could probably be a good manager, but these are very much not the right circumstances. The two squads are of comparable quality, so imagine what difference they could have made if Tony Fernandes (who, admittedly, was understandably and rightly preoccupied with other matters at the time relating to the missing AirAsia plane) or Philip Beard recognised their side was only going one way and brought in Pulis, before West Brom or anyone else had got there. As it is QPR have somehow managed to get worse after Redknapp’s departure, losing six of the seven games since Ramsey took the helm, while the Baggies have sauntered clear of trouble with only three league defeats in Pulis’s time. QPR were actually one place above West Brom on the day Irvine was shown the door; a win for the Baggies on Saturday will put them 14 points clear. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. NM
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