So, the season is over and managers are busy readying themselves ahead of the transfer window in July. But before we all get caught up in the big-money deals, the broken-down talks and the bright yellow ties - let's take a moment to reflect on last season.

To get the QPR fans' perspective on the last 10 months, we caught up with Loft For Words' Clive Whittingham.

Sum up the season in a tweet

The path to the Championship is paved with stupid wages for past-it players #QPR

PLAYER OF THE SEASON

CHARLIE AUSTIN

Charlie Austin by a hundred thousand million miles. Heaven only knows how bad we'd have been without him.

Struggled a little at first, missed a penalty on the first day of the season, and I was worried he might not step up but he announced his arrival with a wonderful goal at Southampton and has scored consistently ever since.

Has shown a real ability to hone his technique and improve his game as he's moved up through the leagues. Given that we had nobody to play him with and he had to do all the donkey work himself, you wonder how many he'd have scored with a Jamie Vardy-type to do his running, or just in a better team. Richly deserved England call up.

UNSUNG HERO

KARL HENRY

Karl Henry surpassed expectations, became a first team regular when nobody would have had him anywhere near the 11 at the start of the year. He wasn't great though by any means.

MOST DISAPPOINTING

STEVEN CAULKER

Where do you start? Rio Ferdinand is the obvious answer. While he's clearly had a terrible time in his personal life recently, and everybody at QPR obviously wishes him and his family all the best, football-wise it was very clear early on that he should have retired last summer.

For me though, Steven Caulker. I thought he was, and still could be, an amazing signing for us but he's been responsible for some soft goals on the pitch and behaved poorly off it. Needs to lay off the footballer lifestyle and get back to concentrating on actually being a footballer.

Off the field, I thought Harry Redknapp, much like Ferdinand, showed why he should have retired a long time ago. Spending all summer recruiting to play a back three, then abandoning it after a game and a half left us playing 4-4-2 with no right back (because he sold him), no left winger, one fully fit striker and no pace in the team. He then walked out the day after transfer deadline day citing a need to have a knee operation which he still hasn't had. None of this ever gets brought up as he tours around the various TV and radio studios telling his Paolo Di Canio stories for money.

MOMENT OF THE SEASON

WONDER GOALS

The good - we've scored some ridiculously good goals for a poor team, including Zamora's lob at West Brom and Matt Phillips' 43 yarder at Palace (which didn't even feature in the voting for the MOTD Goal of the Season somehow). Austin scoring and having it disallowed, scoring from the resulting free kick and having it disallowed, then scoring a third time and it counting against Man City was quite something - they couldn't live with him that night.

The bad - any one of the dozen or so late goals we've conceded are all burned on the brain. Equalising in the 89th minute against Liverpool, conceding in the 90th, equalising again after 94 minutes and losing to an own goal in the 96th will take some recovering from.

TARGET FOR NEXT SEASON

STEADY THE SHIP

Steady everything down a bit. Re-assess what we want to be as a club, get back to a sensible transfer and wage policy, get rid of some of the high-earning mercenaries and dead wood - all while making sure we don't drop straight through the Championship. Just get back to a football club that people are proud to support, at the moment we're not even likeable.

PLAYER WE MUST SIGN

FORGET SIGNINGS - KEEP PHILLIPS

We're going to need about a dozen I suspect. Keeping Charlie Austin may be unrealistic but Matt Phillips, who came into great form in the second half of the season, may stay and that would be an important move. We need younger players, players with pace, players with something to prove, well scouted players, gems from Premier League academies or rough diamonds from the lower leagues. No more ageing old pros looking for pension top ups. This policy of throwing massive money at players from Tony Fernandes' 2004/05 Premier League sticker book has to stop - it's not working on the pitch or on the balance sheet.

WHO SHOULD LEAVE?

TONY FERNANDES

A very long list, potentially headed by the chairman depending on who would take over. The buck stops with him for the mess we're in and he needs to change the entire way he's approaching this job. The appointment of a CEO with footballing experience, and the role of Les Ferdinand at the centre of everything, with a head coach rather than a manager, suggests a long-needed change of approach. We can only hope it works.

Player wise no QPR fan will be shedding any tears when Shaun Wright-Phillips finally reaches the end of his extortionate four-year contract this summer. Personally I can't wait to see the back of Joey Barton who has let the club down in several massive matches with stupid red cards, concedes possession at an alarming rate, abuses legends of our club on social media and generally, for me, has come to represent everything that's been wrong with the Tony Fernandes era - all about individuals and ego and money rather than team ethics or standards of behaviour. The support base is split down the middle on that one, you'll find plenty of QPR fans who think he's a shining light in the darkness.