Queens Park Rangers will breathe a huge sigh of relief once the current season has finally crashed to an end. 

The R's sit perilously close to the drop zone, in terms of places, but look like they will just scrape over the line and into the second-tier line-up for next season.

We all should have known, and many of us did, that when Steve McClaren was appointed as manager last summer that it was not going to end well at all.

Luckily, it seems like they also sacked him at just the right time as well, allowing John Eustace to take temporary charge of them and breathe vague signs of life back into the team.

However, the hunt for McClaren's permanent replacement goes on, with Tim Sherwood remaining the club's preferred choice - for whatever reason.

Whether it is Sherwood, or an alternative choice, they will have a big job on their hands and one that will surely take a decent length of time to get right.

But, although he has only been there a short while, there is one lesson that they can learn from Eustace's work.

For a while, it appeared that the West London side had lost all their bite in attack but last weekend, during their 4-0 thrashing of Swansea City at Loftus Road, they whirred back into life.

And it looks like the simple decision to move Josh Scowen into a more attacking role worked wonders.

Until now, he had been largely deployed in a central midfield role under McClaren and even forced into right-back on occasion.

But his stand-out display against the Swans, topped off with a classy assist for Tomer Hemed's second of the match, has handed McClaren's successor a useful cheat to kick off his time in charge.

He has scored just once this season and contributed three assists but his encouraging performance last weekend shows that he is surely going to add to that tally next season if used in the same way.