Certainly if he carries on improving and scoring at his current rate, an injury to one of the current crop of England strikers and he might get a call up. Although it's a big if at the moment. With Rodriguez fit again for Southampton and scoring, I make half a dozen at least in front before Charlie gets a look in. I'd rather he carries on quietly the way he's going, learning, growing in confidence and hopefully he'll polish off the points of his game that do need improving. But I have to say I did have my doubts about Austin, I always thought he would get goals, but his first touch and hold up play were woeful at the beginning of the season and for this reason I didn't think he'd keep his spot for long. I'm glad to say he's proving me wrong, but only because it's these areas of his game that are improving with each game. Not only that he's making intelligent runs that were lacking before, his second goal against Villa where he ghosted in front of the defender was perfect. I think we need to consider offering him a lucrative contract before January, otherwise someone may be tempted to make him an offer.
Apologies for that, it crossed my mind Monday after those two very well taken goals. Natural goal scorers are of a premium in the top flight, and I can see one or two "bigger" clubs sniffing around come the new year.
Honestly don't think he is quite ready yet; That said, what an inspiration to youngsters, from grass roots to Premier League and possibly the international stage. Would like to see him established as a "feared" premier league striker with us and then he can push on for leading the England line, with a lion on his shirt and hoops in his heart.
The step up to International football is huge imo. Far too early for this kind of talk imo. Just keep on banging them in to keep us up Charlie. (Then we'll lose him to a bigger club!!)
It's important the team is set up to provide him with scoring opportunities, and yes, it's important that we get him nailed down with a new contract because if we do go down we'll have every mid-table PL team after him and there's no way he'll want to go back to the Championship especially if he does get an England call-up...
I think the penalty miss against Hull has cost us (and him) more than we realize. IF he had scored that he might have done much better in the following few games where he showed a lack of confidence. He might have been on 8-9 goals by now! (and we might have been above Sunderland, Leicester and Palace).
If this guy can somehow win one, why not our Charlie, who plays with 10 times the commitment? please log in to view this image From brickie to big league? Charlie Austin on his journey from building sites to QPR please log in to view this image On a Wednesday afternoon in December 2008, Charlie Austin left the building site, after a hard day of bricklaying, drove to Lymington on the South Coast and boarded the ferry across to the Isle of Wight. From there, the Poole Town players took a coach across the island to face Brading Town. Under struggling floodlights, Austin scored a hat-trick and Poole won 4-2, to stay top of the Wessex Premier Division. Then it was back on the bus, the 11.30pm ferry and then the drive back to his parentsâ in Bournemouth. Austin got in just before 1am, and was up at 5.30am for another day of bricklaying. âThat was the way it was back then,â reflects Austin, 24, who is well aware of how far he has come. âWhen I think about those days, I think about what could have happened.â What has happened, is one of the more remarkable stories of modern English football. Five years on from his ninth tier days, Austin is on the brink of the Premier League, his broad shoulders carrying the weight of a promotion campaign, and all that that means to Queenâs Park Rangers. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...urney-from-building-sites-to-qpr-9089272.html Can you imagine this guy carrying a hod of bricks? Whoops, my bad, that damn nipple thing! http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/20/article-0-19656CD5000005DC-783_634x741.jpg
Realistically he's a long way off being another Les Ferdinand or Ian Wright. Very few no league players make it to the very top, Tony Book was good enough but never got the chance.
By the same logic he's doing that in a team which will hit 27/28 points on average, which is even more impressive. For the second season running we are hugely dependant on Charlie, though I think Vargas could share the burden a bit, looks class to me.
The very one who came from Bath City in the Southern league already over 30. Great player. You got a problem with that?
