 Gregory enjoyed some good times as a player with QPR in the 1980s |
Two games later and Gregory has got the club buzzing again, dragging them off the foot of the table on the back of two straight victories.
He upset the national press by refusing to do interviews after QPR beat Southampton at the weekend but BBC Sport has since spoken to the former Aston Villa and Derby manager about life at Loftus Road.
It wasn't deliberate by any stretch of the imagination.
I went for one or two jobs that I wasn't successful in getting and I turned down a couple abroad - one in Ireland and one in Israel - as it would have meant being away from London.
I was doing lots of stuff for TV and radio and was pretty well stacked up at the start of this season.
But I was not doing what I wanted to do and I had my doubts whether I would go back to work. 
I got a phone call on the Sunday and had a meeting with the chairman on the Monday - we sorted out the finer details, which took about 15 minutes.
I came to work on Wednesday, had my first training session on Thursday and we played Hull on the Saturday - it was pretty straightforward really.
I never had a meeting with the players, I just went to the training ground and got on with it.
I was a little bit taken aback that the office at Loftus Road was basically how I remember it as a player 20 years ago. It has not really changed at all so that was a bit of an eye-opener.
The wallpaper is not very nice, the desk is the same and the chair has seen better days but there are far more important things to be done first and we can't afford to get the decorators in anyway.
I thoroughly enjoy the coaching side and the atmosphere. You miss the training ground and everything that goes on there.
Coming in, the whole place has been pretty shambolic so getting everything organised and running smoothly and efficiently is something I enjoy.
I like attention to details and that's one of things I've tried to do - so everyone knows exactly what is going on all of the time. It is habit-forming, which you take on to the pitch on a weekend.
We won two football matches - that gets people buzzing straight away.
We have had a positive attitude on the training ground and I've thrown a bit back at the players and given them the opportunity to make some decisions.
On Friday we trained in the afternoon at Portsmouth. I rang their manager Harry Redknapp and we used Pompey's training ground, which I was grateful for.
I asked the captain Marc Bircham to get the general consensus and everyone wanted to train on Friday afternoon so that's what we did.
If they feel it's more beneficial to train on a Friday afternoon we will support them all the way.
Generally, we have got a few rules - turn up on time, work bloody hard when you get here and look after yourself when you leave.
Then we will see you tomorrow.
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I didn't have any complaints from anyone at QPR, which is all that matters. I spoke to our people but didn't want to talk to the tabloid journalists - there was no point.
On that particular day I thought the result spoke for itself. Why do I need to add to it? We actually got far more coverage on Sunday and Monday than if I had said anything.
When I went to Aston Villa in 1994, Gianni Paladini was a football agent and based in Birmingham so I've got to know him over the years.
I know what he's about and his heart is 100% in this role - he only wants success for the club and he's prepared to work as hard as he can to get it.
He knows how I operate and he was very willing to get me in to try and do the same sort of job I did at Villa and Wycombe.
He has a football head on, even though sometimes he acts like a supporter and gets carried away - like he has over the last two weeks with two wins - but only in a good way.
The chairman is looking at survival this year, then who knows what might happen.
We can all dream. Wigan chairman Dave Whelan had a dream for his club to be playing in the Premiership when they were playing at Springfield Park in the Fourth Division.
It was a dream but it was a dream he realised and when you look at that kind of situation then there's no reason why the rest of us can't dream.
For some of us it will remain a dream but for others it will come true.
We can sit here thinking that maybe we can get there but there is a lot of work to do between now and then.
Watford have done it and I'd like to think we're a bigger club than Watford, with our fanbase there's no reason why we can't dream about doing it as well one day.
When I was a player here we got to the Cup final in 1982, in 1983 we won the Second Division and in 1984 we finished fifth in the top flight and qualified for the Uefa Cup.
I'd settle for that - and why not? Why shouldn't you think that way? There's a lot of work to be done but I'm thoroughly enjoying every day so far.