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QPR co-chairman Tony Fernandes has given his full backing to director of football Les Ferdinand and manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink despite the clubs disappointing attempt to bounce straight back into the Premier League. QPR are 12th in the Championship, 13 points behind sixth-placed Sheffield Wednesday - who they play on Tuesday night at Hillsborough - with Hasselbaink collecting just two wins from his 14 games in charge.But, although Fernandes accepts it has been a struggle on their return to English footballs second tier, he believes the right pieces are in place at Loftus Road. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (left) poses with director of football Les Ferdinand after being appointed QPR boss I think Les has been a fantastic guy, he told Sky Sports News HQ. Some of the fans give him stick but he knows what he wants, hes done some great deals for us, hes honest, hes hard-working.Jimmy is new but I love his enthusiasm. Again, he knows what he wants, hes very forthright. Hes very clear. I hope this is the foundation weve been dreaming of for a long, long time. We want to be back this season, who wouldnt? Weve probably missed the boat this time so I hope in the short term we start playing good football and we start giving players who are going to be here for the long-term game time. Hopefully well be competing in the not-too-distant future. Charlie Austin left Loftus Road in January in a £4m move to Southampton Fernandes believes Southampton got one of the bargains of the season when they signed striker Charlie Austin for £4m in January, but thinks the club could have hung on to the striker had they been closer to the play-off places.A club that he really wanted to go to came in and made an offer, so we said okay. We took what money we could, he added.It wasnt what we would have liked but we got some money. I tried very hard to extend his contract, we were close while in the Premier League and then we lost one game and he got nervous about it.We would have fought very hard to keep him [had we been higher in the table] and I think Charlie would have stayed and helped to take us up. Its hypothetical now, but the player would have made a big impact. It wasnt cashing in, the player wanted to go. Sky Sports Pub Ticket Giveaway Were giving away 5,000 Sky Bet Football League and 5,000 Race day tickets this February Also See: QPR video QPR fixtures QPR stats Bet ￡5 Get ￡20 Free Christian Yelich Jersey . -- About a third of the way through the regular season, the Washington Wizards are at . Eric Sogard Jersey . Tests earlier this week revealed a Grade 2 left hamstring strain for Sabathia, who was hurt in last Fridays start against San Francisco. Its an injury that will require about eight weeks to heal. 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Hawks center Dwight Howard was ejected late in the fourth quarter of a key early-season Eastern Conference game in Charlotte?after throwing an elbow at the head of Hornets center Cody Zeller.Friday nights game, a 100-96 Hawks loss, turned with 5:38 remaining when Howard delivered an intentional elbow to Zellers face and received a flagrant foul 2.Howard, who had 10 points and 18 rebounds after missing the previous game due to a quad injury, had been a key factor up until that point, but the Hawks seemed to collapse without him. Atlanta led by three at the time of Howards ejection. The Hornets scored the next nine points and went on to snap Atlantas six-game winning streak.Before the possession that ended with the hit on Zeller, Howard appeared to get frustrated with him at the other end of the court when he got boxed out on a free throw.It wasnt like I tried to hit him in the face, Howard said after the game, bbut my job is to protect my house at all costs.ddddddddddddI am making no apologies for it. I cant do nothing but live with it.Asked if he thought the foul was flagrant, Howard responded, Its basketball.Zeller said after the game he didnt think Howards elbow to the face was a dirty play.I have taken a lot of hard hits with two older brothers, Zeller said. I knew it was going to be a physical game. But it was a huge play in the game because they couldnt go to him late in the game and we went on a run.Paul Millsap, who led the Hawks with 22 points and 13 rebounds, said the ejection fueled the home crowd.Plays like that are momentum shifts, Millsap said. It kind of sparked them. They took that and added fuel to the fire.Information from The Associated Press was included in this report. ' ' '