A FINANCIAL advisor before turning to coaching, Matt Rose would probably acknowledge that not too many Barnsley supporters would be putting their mortgage on the club staying up in 2019-20.

But in his former capacity as a long-serving defender in his playing days at today’s opponents QPR, memories of his time in West London indicate that all is not lost quite yet.

Ex-Arsenal trainee Rose, who played over 250 times for the R’s in a decade-long spell at Loftus Road, fondly recalls some successful survival missions of yore, most notably a stunning final-day win to stave off the drop back in 1998-99.

Barnsley v QPR - Matt Rose to mortgage his future on keeping Reds alive