my understanding is we are not paying a penny for Rahman or Hendrick - the only caveat is they must start in 90% of games if fit. This could be part of the problem. Kieran Maguire on one of his recent podcasts said that this kind of loan condition would break EFL rules. Did he? From the EFL Rules: ...

FA Cup highlights are up on the FA Player - https://faplayer.thefa.com/video/MF9xZWpwNmlwciU3QyUyRnNlY3Rpb24lM0ZwYWdlJTNEaG9tZS1wYWdlJTdDY2Fyb3VzZWwtNA%3D%3D Or, if you're a masochist, the full match too - https://faplayer.thefa.com/video/MF93M2FwdWIzOCU3QyUyRnNlY3Rpb24lM0ZwYWdlJTNEaG9tZS1wYWdlJTdDY...

Hound Nailed on home win this. Be nice to not try to spend the entire game camped in our own half though

Assume it’ll be much the same team as started vs Blackpool. Yiadom replacing Mbengue

Given that Blackpool was a game Ince expected to win, I fully expect us to go back to the 532 in one he does not!

Presumably the numbers heading to Ireland could be Carey’s contacts. We’ve not picked up many Irish based players recently, wonder if we’ll be operating more in that market ? Not like we haven't sent players there recently - NML went to St Patrick's last year, a couple of years ago we had a couple ...

Royals and Racers

Royals and Racers Goalkeeper Matt Rowley has joined Bognor Regis Town on loan.

Played last night in the 1-0 defeat at Hornchurch and got booked

Had a couple of hairy moments sweeping from the highlights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOl9spM0mbc

Royals and Racers Dowie 46 mins
2-0 53 mins Rose
3-0 70 mins Rose
F-T 3-0

Obviously the keeper helped out on Sunday, but that second Rose goal is one I expect us to score quite a few times this season

JL says Twine is agent talk

Random rumour on Twitter: Millwall lead Queens Park Rangers & Reading in the race to sign Oostende midfielder Cameron McGeehan. https://mobile.twitter.com/efl_hub/status/1349497783666040835 He normally plays a bit further forward, but I wonder if he could play a JL/Rino type role - he seems to ...

I'd be pretty confident of a 4-2-3-1 but who knows how that'll actually look

Rafael
Yiadom Morrison Moore Richards
Laurent Rino
Olise Swift Ejaria
Joao

Although I think it'd be better to have Swift as part of the double pivot - and I guess we could have someone like Baldock play behind Joao

Headed for Cardiff? Liverpool may be pissed off with us Although Ejaria is training with us so maybe not Ejaria signed for us so I would hope so. Has he signed though ? Not even in the squad for Colchester, no picture of him holding up a scarf, no pictures of him train8ng with us since he allegedly...

My concern with Olise is end product. He got an assist in the last match but that’s as many as he got all last season. Danny Loader got a lot of criticism for not taking his chances and they play in similar positions. Extent to which Olise is a more creative player and therefore depends on the forw...

Yes definitely concerning that Pauno picked that side... hopefully he’s not another manager who likes to play players out of position but it’s not a great start. It’s going to take him a while to learn about his players and how to deploy them, which isn’t really ideal so close to the start of the l...

Apologies if mentioned or i have missed it but i do think its poor from McCleary and Gunter that there has been no "social media" goodbyes. I actually like the pair and shame it has come to an end, but i thought it would be acknowledged in some way that they are not on our payroll. Unless...

Apologies if mentioned or i have missed it but i do think its poor from McCleary and Gunter that there has been no "social media" goodbyes. I actually like the pair and shame it has come to an end, but i thought it would be acknowledged in some way that they are not on our payroll. Unless...

And they've just signed a new striker with over 100 caps for South Korea

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2020/s ... on-ga-eul/

Why Holsgrove? What has he done to date that would make his sale such a mistake? I've honestly not seen or heard anything about him that suggests he is the missing piece of the puzzle. He is a central midfielder is he not, so where would he fit in to the current midfield - would he oust Academy gra...

Not many options for us at the moment with Meite suspended and McIntyre and Puscas out. I guess it would make sense to mirror the friendly XI as much as possible Rafael Yiadom Holmes Morrison Moore Richards Rinomhota Laurent Swift Olise Joao Southwood Araruna Dorsett Samuels/Aluko Ejaria Baldock Mc...

It was £10 for midweek games pre-coronavirus too, only difference is that now all games will be on there. And this will continue for as long as grounds are below 50% capacity.

He does have a pretty extensive injury record though, it must be said

Cooper, Stacey, Dickie, Fosu....we really dropped the ball. It was clear at the time they were not far off the required standard (they are not another Antonio who was sold at the right time). What is their collective value now? Was it Stam and Tevreden who shipped them out? Fine with hindsight but ...