Jamie Pitman, Richard O'Kelly and ... QPR

Sadly, Hereford United boss Jamie Pitman was 'relieved of his duties' this morning according to an official club e-mail to the media. At two o'clock the club announced that former first team coach Richard O'Kelly, 55, will be taking on the role.

Given the club's position in League Two, some fans might question the use of the word "sadly", but I speak as I find and on a personal level, I found Jamie to be a pleasant guy to deal with. He was also passionate about his role and the team, despite the fact that it is a club limited in financial resources.

O'Kelly was a player with Walsall, Port Vale and Grimsby Town and a coach with West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Doncaster Rovers and Hereford United, where he was assistant manager to Graham Turner for two years. He knows the club and learned from one of its legends and has a good reputation within the game.

It's good to see that the directors appear to have also noted Pitman's positive qualities and have asked him to stay on in a coaching capacity.

I suspect that a few Bulls fans will be glad to see the change made now while there is still time to secure their league status and, of course, they may well be right. However, I hope the supporters will always remember the job Pitman did last season when things looked to be going pear-shaped.

To be fair to the club's directors though, they haven't rushed into any knee-jerk decision and following last night's BBC programme " QPR: the Four Year Plan", it's obvious that there are plenty of people in football less qualified to run a club! If you haven't seen it, it's well worth 90 minutes of any football supporter's time.

The way  Flavio Briatore and Gianni Paladini treated people like Iain Dowie (f***ing stupid), Gareth Ainsworth (pr*ck in the dug-out), Paulo Sousa and Jim Magilton with utter disdain and a total lack of respect, was nothing short of a disgrace.

When you think that someone like Ainsworth has played for nearly one dozen clubs and is still well thought of - and respected - by fans of all of them, it just goes to show how little Briatore and Paladini know about the game.

Frankly, with people like this in charge of a club it's not always the manager's head the supporters should be calling for (as the QPR fans quickly identified). In my opinion, if these two jokers ever try to involve themselves with the sport again, the FA, should take a long hard look at the "fit and proper person" clause before agreeing to let anywhere near a football stadium.