MIKE Sheron, the hit-man who helped QPR knock Wanderers back into the mid-table melee, still fancies the Reebok boys to come good.

The former Machester City striker scored the second and decisive goal that cost Wanderers their fourth defeat in five games at Loftus Road on Saturday.

But he isn't writing them off.

"I'm sure Bolton will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season," the Rangers star predicted, despite the relatively comfortable manner in which Gerry Francis' so-called strugglers claimed their second win in four days.

"We thought it was going to be a tough game. Bolton have come out of the Premiership but they have probably not hit it off as a lot of people thought they might.

"This league is very tough though - as we have discovered ourselves. We were supposed to be the worst team in the league but it's a false position and it will get better.

"But then Manchester City have been saying that for some time . . ."

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