Matty makes a Cash point

IF DARREN MOORE is in seventh heaven, then Steve McClaren has got to dig himself out of hell.

QPR lie bottom of the Championship without a point.

It’s their worst start ever and tomorrow McClaren has to help his battered team to recover from the club’s biggest beating in 31 years when they face Bristol City.

Asked how he mends his broken side, McClaren said: “You put your arm around some of the players, some will get the truth. That’s the key thing. The truth.”

Rangers look like a club in crisis on and off the pitch. The money has been spent. Wasted is more accurate.

There’s a change of chairman and a transfer embargo in January, QPR having agreed a settlement worth almost £42m after breaking financial fair play rules.

McClaren has a young team that will be scarred by what happened, six goals rattled past them in a one-sided second half.

He added: “The first three games I thought we were progressing. We have just taken seven steps back.

“Maybe we needed to go through that. Sometimes you do. It hurts, it’s not nice, not nice for the supporters, not nice for coaches, the board.”

Matt Phillips and QPR’s Joel Lynch left it all square at half-time but then came the deluge.

Phillips got another, Jay Rodriguez netted two penalties and Kieran Gibbs got his first goal for West Brom.

Dwight Gayle, fouled for both penalties, scored himself and so did sub Hal Robson-Kanu.

Phillips said: “That was massive. To score seven goals is a feather in our cap.”