Charlie Austin

[bigray]

Anybody got any idea of how many minutes he has played since joining Southampton?
On the bench again at the weekend.
Should have stayed with us and got a game or two.

[nasser95]

I came up with the dream that we'd resign him on loan this season, but as was said to me, he's been injured and in that time, Long has been crazy in form and tough to displace. He'll get game time next year and probably start banging them in.

[Garyd73]

Been injured for most of his time at Southampton. I am sure he would rather have scored the winner at OT rather than been injured and on our bench or maybe the odd game at Preston. I am sure his bank manager would agree he is better at Southampton than with us.

[Norths]

Anybody got any idea of how many minutes he has played since joining Southampton?
On the bench again at the weekend.
Should have stayed with us and got a game or two.

[MattyRangers]

Matey I work with is a Soton ST holder, reckons Pelle is being shipped out in the summer and Austin will be their main man next season.

[Norths]

Matey I work with is a Soton ST holder, reckons Pelle is being shipped out in the summer and Austin will be their main man next season.

Yeah, that's probably been the plan all along. Although Shane Long will also have a say in that.
Costly six month loan deal for them at £4m when you think about it.

[maidstone_hoop]

He's hardly played due to injury and now on the bench as long is in fantastic form.

He'll get his chance and he'll bang the goals in. I think Southampton wanted to get him in when they did even knowing his injury as even at 4 mill it was a snip.

[Hove Ranger]

They stumped up the £4 mill to give them exclusivity as no one else was willing to match it.

[Shepherds Mush]

They'll get £170m + just for being in the PL next season....£4m on Austin is hardly a gamble.

[3London]

fourth choice striker

behind Long , pelle, rodriguez.

20 plus goals a season for QPR or bench warming..can't help thinking Charlies career is going in the opposite direction than he had hoped

[nanocopic]

fourth choice striker

behind Long , pelle, rodriguez.

20 plus goals a season for QPR or bench warming..can't help thinking Charlies career is going in the opposite direction than he had hoped

He will get a chance, Pelle is not at his best and Rodriguez is gonna have a tough time getting back into the first team. Austin has only been on the bench for a few games, he has mainly been injured since he arrived.One game he was injured that day efore the match, another he got injured in training on the thursday. He has just kept getting niggles all season just like with us.

[Jimmy Floyd Rabbit]

Will be there top man next season. That was always the plan.

[jmelanie]

There must be a reason behind all these injuries. Also I notice a lot of his tweets are about the academy he is setting up or other matters. He doesn't often mention premiership football. I wonder if his heart is really in it and he is looking at doing other things.

[dave58]

if they cant use him we'll have him on loan PLEASE

[Shania]

There must be a reason behind all these injuries. Also I notice a lot of his tweets are about the academy he is setting up or other matters. He doesn't often mention premiership football. I wonder if his heart is really in it and he is looking at doing other things.

Agreed. He needs a training/fitness regime purely designed for him.