QPR boss Harry Redknapp believes fans of the promoted teams have nothing to moan about despite all three sides currently languishing in the relegation places.
Rangers are 19th in the Premier League table, sandwiched between fellow newcomers Leicester, who are bottom, and Burnley.
All three promoted teams have struggled to adjust to the pace of the top flight so far but there is cause for optimism, with only four points separating 12th from 18th.
Redknapp insist the new arrivals are doing as well as can be expected and believes unhappy supporters need a reality check.
"I don't know what people expect," Redknapp said. "Unless you're a massive club with great resources, you're stepping into a different division completely -- it's very difficult.
"The other two lads [Nigel Pearson and Sean Dyche] have done amazing jobs at Leicester and Burnley and we're not cut adrift. We're still right in amongst it."
He added: "I don't know if anyone is bulletproof but you can only do your best and if that isn't good enough that's how it goes."
Pearson led Leicester to automatic promotion last season but the Foxes boss became engaged in a spat with a critical supporter during the team's 3-1 defeat to Liverpool on Tuesday.
Redknapp, who has endured relegation battles with Portsmouth, Southampton and West Ham in the past, has sympathy for Pearson.
"I've been lucky with home fans wherever I've been but away from home you get grief, you hear things that make you feel sick -- idiots who sit there with their grandkids and shout filth," Redknapp said. "It's not easy, I'm quite likely to turn round and give someone a mouthful.
"It doesn't do you any good but it's very hard when you feel you're being hard done by. You pick a team, send the players out, what can you do? Nobody wants to get beat.
"People moan at Nigel Pearson, he's got more or less the same team that came up last year.
"We're all in the same boat -- there's not an awful lot of difference in the teams that came up, it's different if you're spending 25 million pounds on a striker.
"I don't know what Leicester fans expect Nigel to be doing, he's done an excellent job so far."