| Elijah Dixon-Bonner 20:31 - Dec 30 with 1451 views | MickB |
Now only on the bench for Morcambe, near the bottom of the National League. |  | | |  |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 21:58 - Dec 30 with 1255 views | colinallcars |
We should have signed George Dixon-Dockgreen. |  | | |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 22:00 - Dec 30 with 1244 views | mart_Goblin |
Sutton now starting games which is at least something |  | | |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 22:11 - Dec 30 with 1205 views | numptydumpty |
He is one that sometimes gives the impression that he has some qualities within but the potential never seems to appear.
Am not sure why.
i thought he could have been a half decent league one player, but clearly not. |  |
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| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 22:36 - Dec 30 with 1087 views | Loyalitat |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 22:00 - Dec 30 by mart_Goblin |
Sutton now starting games which is at least something |
That's hardly a ringing endorsement of our much-vaunted development set-up. One player from that age group is playing for relegation-threatened Morecambe in the National League. Many others playing at clubs in tiers 2 and 3 of the non-league pyramid.
There are at least three previous players who were rejected by QPR but are now featuring for better teams in the Conference league. Players being: Gubbins and Kendall at Southend and Drewe at Woking. There's Arkell Jude-Boyd, another of our former young players, now in his second season at Cheltenham in league 2.
Are these young pups any better than the names above. Just curious. [Post edited 30 Dec 2025 23:18]
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| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 22:37 - Dec 30 with 1084 views | stevec |
It’s frightening how Dixon Bonner was given grace here for a prolonged period but can’t even get a game at a team down the bottom of the National League. |  | | |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 23:35 - Dec 30 with 955 views | derbyhoop |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 22:36 - Dec 30 by Loyalitat |
That's hardly a ringing endorsement of our much-vaunted development set-up. One player from that age group is playing for relegation-threatened Morecambe in the National League. Many others playing at clubs in tiers 2 and 3 of the non-league pyramid.
There are at least three previous players who were rejected by QPR but are now featuring for better teams in the Conference league. Players being: Gubbins and Kendall at Southend and Drewe at Woking. There's Arkell Jude-Boyd, another of our former young players, now in his second season at Cheltenham in league 2.
Are these young pups any better than the names above. Just curious. [Post edited 30 Dec 2025 23:18]
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If you want to highlight players who've left QPR.and gone on to have a career, what is Josh Laurent doing in the PL, with Burnley? |  |
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| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 23:56 - Dec 30 with 905 views | 7374Ranger |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 22:36 - Dec 30 by Loyalitat |
That's hardly a ringing endorsement of our much-vaunted development set-up. One player from that age group is playing for relegation-threatened Morecambe in the National League. Many others playing at clubs in tiers 2 and 3 of the non-league pyramid.
There are at least three previous players who were rejected by QPR but are now featuring for better teams in the Conference league. Players being: Gubbins and Kendall at Southend and Drewe at Woking. There's Arkell Jude-Boyd, another of our former young players, now in his second season at Cheltenham in league 2.
Are these young pups any better than the names above. Just curious. [Post edited 30 Dec 2025 23:18]
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And there is one from the Development squad in years gone by, that we let go for an undisclosed fee (probably 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps) now playing in the Premiership with Burnley... Josh Laurent. | | | |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 00:15 - Dec 31 with 851 views | MrSheen |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 23:35 - Dec 30 by derbyhoop |
If you want to highlight players who've left QPR.and gone on to have a career, what is Josh Laurent doing in the PL, with Burnley? |
Let go by us, then let go by Brentford in his early 20s. Never played for either. If Harvey Elliott hadn’t been swiped by Fulham, or Sterling bought by Liverpool, we’d have a bit more to talk about. |  | | |
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| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 10:54 - Dec 31 with 529 views | bosh67 |
I think him and Luke Amos are similar in some respects although Amos's career has been crippled by injury. He's still only 28! Both Amos and Bonner-Dixon I think suffer from split football personality. Some games they would look like they really belonged and others they were a bit like Casper The Friendly Ghost.
I can sort of sympathise with this because when I was a young lad (many centuries ago) I could go onto a football pitch and be the best player on it. You don't train with Glenn Roeder, Ray Wilkins and Glenn Hoddle as a youth player if you have nothing. The problem for me was at youth level I simply couldn't do it every game. Something switched off in certain games and I would be invisible. I got a few injuries and dropped down the pecking order. So obviously I should have been a shoe in at QPR! :)
The point is I think Dixon-Bonner and Amos have talent. The problem is if you can only switch that on now and then you're never going to make it at the higher levels. I couldn't do it. Many can't, despite having real ability. |  |
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| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 14:20 - Dec 31 with 387 views | aston_hoop |
Elijah Dixon-Bonner turns 25 tomorrow, that is 6 years older than Kieran Morgan, Daniel Bennie and Esquerdinha. The bloke had played so little senior football that he's just gone way past the point of catching up now. |  |
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| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 14:39 - Dec 31 with 336 views | Dorse |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 10:54 - Dec 31 by bosh67 |
I think him and Luke Amos are similar in some respects although Amos's career has been crippled by injury. He's still only 28! Both Amos and Bonner-Dixon I think suffer from split football personality. Some games they would look like they really belonged and others they were a bit like Casper The Friendly Ghost.
I can sort of sympathise with this because when I was a young lad (many centuries ago) I could go onto a football pitch and be the best player on it. You don't train with Glenn Roeder, Ray Wilkins and Glenn Hoddle as a youth player if you have nothing. The problem for me was at youth level I simply couldn't do it every game. Something switched off in certain games and I would be invisible. I got a few injuries and dropped down the pecking order. So obviously I should have been a shoe in at QPR! :)
The point is I think Dixon-Bonner and Amos have talent. The problem is if you can only switch that on now and then you're never going to make it at the higher levels. I couldn't do it. Many can't, despite having real ability. |
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| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 14:43 - Dec 31 with 320 views | Pindarus |
Stephen Duke-Mckenna features quite regularly as a scorer for Harrogate. | | | |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 15:05 - Dec 31 with 261 views | mart_Goblin |
| Elijah Dixon-Bonner on 22:36 - Dec 30 by Loyalitat |
That's hardly a ringing endorsement of our much-vaunted development set-up. One player from that age group is playing for relegation-threatened Morecambe in the National League. Many others playing at clubs in tiers 2 and 3 of the non-league pyramid.
There are at least three previous players who were rejected by QPR but are now featuring for better teams in the Conference league. Players being: Gubbins and Kendall at Southend and Drewe at Woking. There's Arkell Jude-Boyd, another of our former young players, now in his second season at Cheltenham in league 2.
Are these young pups any better than the names above. Just curious. [Post edited 30 Dec 2025 23:18]
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Fully agree.
My point was more that until recently Sutton wasn’t even getting on the pitch . | | | |
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