“It’s amazing how fickle people are” – Mark Warburton fires back at QPR nay-sayers following win v Luton

Queens Park Rangers finally got back on the right track on Sunday afternoon with a 2-1 victory over fellow play-off contenders Luton Town at Kenilworth Road.

The Hoops had won just one of their previous six matches before heading north to face Nathan Jones’ side, that being a 2-1 victory over Blackpool a few weeks ago.

Their recent form has been a far cry from what they were producing around the turn of the year, where Mark Warburton’s side went seven games in the Championship unbeaten and looked like sure-fire promotion contenders.

Back-to-back losses against Blackburn Rovers and Cardiff City, as well as a 1-0 loss last month to relegation-threatened Barnsley saw their top six position look precarious, and R’s fans would have been fearing the worst when Cameron Jerome put the Hatters in-front before half-time this afternoon.

QPR turned it around following the interval though thanks to an Andre Gray spot-kick and then a late winner from Rob Dickie – and it was a result that saw the west London outfit rise from seventh spot all the way into fourth.

Post-match, Warburton used his media obligations to fire back at critical comments made about his side, saying, per West London Sport: “I think most people expected us to lose today. Given some of the comments I have read this week I was surprised we even turned up.

“QPR go there as lambs to the slaughter’ was a comment I read from some guy. Really? QPR are in freefall was another.

“The players are not stupid. They are professional athletes, but you can’t give it the ‘rah, rah, rah as motivation’ – it is a much higher level than that.

“But regardless of that, you still have to apply yourself on the pitch and stand up.

“But it’s amazing how fickle people are. Last week it was