QPR youth boss Steve Gallen admits they need to reclaim their academy status.
The Rs had their application rejected by the Premier League this season.
"If you look at Tottenham, for example, the gap between the first team and youth team is just as wide, but the difference is that as an Academy, Tottenham are playing the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea week in, week out, and we need games like that every week as well," Gallen told the Kilburn Times.
"Some teams we play just come and park the bus to try and stop us playing. One schoolboy game we played last season finished 16-2, what good does that do you? It gives you a false sense of security.
"At the moment we have lads making one or two appearances, like against Rochdale in the Carling Cup the other night - then they're gone. We need someone to come in and stay in.
"With no disrespect to any of the sides we've played, my boys need to be playing the likes of Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea, we need to work out where we are."
