Their time is up!

Can we afford to renew Bidwell's contract? Would we want to? He is rarely 8/10 level and in 3 years with him playing he hasn't really indicated that he can help the club move forward.

The same can be said of the rest of the out of contract players. I'd rather us try bringing in new faces and see if we are any better off. We may not be, but we only end up 16th to 18th anyway so it is worth the risk.

I don't think we'd be able to keep Wells or Hemed even if we wanted to given the amount of money they were reportedly on (£35k+). Cameron has been too injury prone but has talked about his lack of pre-season games hurting his fitness. Of them all Cameron is the most likely to be here next season.

It's Wells and Hemed on the £35k+ salaries not Bidwell.

I imagine Bidwell is on £10k or something around that mark as when he signed 3 years ago we were paying bigger sums. I imagine we are now trying to operate on the average £5k mark and that could be the sticking point why Bidwell, Cousins and Wszolek are all yet to sign new deals.

I do agree with you that Bidwell is at least reliable. If only we hadn't treated Yun Suk Young so badly he could have been our left back for the last 5 years!

It is daunting but I think we need to freshen up the squad quite drastically anyway and it forces our hand to do so. We'll either find some gems or be heading to League 1 but for my money it is a gamble worth taking rather than treading water between 16th and 18th season after season.

If we kept Hall and Cousins and Lynch et al then we are just heading towards more of the same. That is a more daunting prospect than the idea of overhauling the squad which if we get it right could catapult us on to better things.

Here's hoping!

Bradley Dack only cost Blackburn £750k and is now being touted as a £20m striker that is wanted by West Ham. He was exactly the type of player we should have signed and you wonder what our so called scouting team have been doing. 

There are plenty of good young players in the lower leagues and even some of the more experienced players in there mid 20s are better than what we have. A prime example is Sonny Bradley who is now at Luton, he is a big 6ft 5in imposing centre half that helped get Plymouth get promoted and then left at the end of his contract on a free transfer. He wanted to progress and joined Luton who are now about to join us in the Championship.

If Les and his scouting team were worth their salt they would be looking for exactly this type of player. We don't need anymore Spurs rejects. We need players who can score goals and players that can defend. 

We have QPR fans all over the country and in addition to watching QPR many also watch their local league teams and are the best QPR scouts the club could  have.  If I was Sir Les I would be saying to our fans to send his scouting team details of any players they have seen who look to be good prospect. It seems so logical.

I agree about Conor Washington but he was the greater risk because he cost c.£3m whereas Dack was much less of a risk at only £0.75m. Conor was never a great goal scorer at Peterborough and had a record of around a goal every 3   games. Washington's goal scoring record was just about the same as Nakhi Wells record and whilst both work hard neither Is a prolific goal scorer. 

Charlie Austin had scored goals at every club he played for prior to joining us and is an out and out  goalscorer. There was never any risk because he had an amazing goal scoring record at both Swindon and Burnley and he was an already proven goal scorer  in the Championship.


There are proven goal scorers and proven defenders out there but its important that the club does it's homework first.