Vaz Te on a free would be great, If not perhaps try for Shola Ameobi? also now a free agent.

I dont believe we have not scored yet this is becoming ridiculous its not our day we are gonna lose this. Dont beat yourself up, Steve Clarke was well known for his sides being ridiculously hard to beat! (hence West Brom finishing 8th in the prem) Another positive for the reading fans. January wind...

Starting to take control! strong last 10! COME ON URZ

From a boro point of view only thing that's worrying me is that we are not ahead yet which means it can turn against us if you go and score and early goal. From what I've heard you've been profligate in front of goal. So I'd agree that your only worry sounds like missing all your opportunities to w...

Slightly worrying when the 4th official gets more on air time than Pogrebnyak.

Bamford absolutely destroying our defence by all accounts

sputnik And no sponsor.
Bit of a fail all round from whitliers.

I'll take the substitution now..

Unfortunately i think we have seen both sides of the coin as of late, Adkins took McDermotts team and couldn't give them the 'new manager' shake up, i'll be brave and say that Clarke will have a better influence on this current bunch.. Looking forward to seeing what he can do in the summer.

Full side

Federici
Gunter
Obita
Pearce (C)
Hector
Williams
Norwood
HRK
Mackie
POG
Cox

Subs
Anderson
Kelly
Cooper
Karacan
Guthrie
Taylor
Blackman

My apologies, I beg your indulgence Slammed!

Same time as last outing, except 2 changes, POG and FEDS coming in.

(Hoping not to jinx) but for some reason we seem to always do well against Middlesbrough, can we not forget the magical 3-2 first season in the prem? also done them at the riverside 1-0 already this season. Dare i say a Worldy Blackman performance today? I'm going for 2-1 to us, URZZ

jellytot Not sure what 11pm has got to do with it. May wait another week for this one.

I was always under the impression that a player signed on loan had to have his paperwork completed and sent to the FA by 11pm the previous day in order to play.

Then again, I could be wrong?

FTR, it's been confirmed by the Daily Echo reporter down here that we're close. Interesting reading the reporters comments "The deal is not yet complete, but the Championship club are understood to be keen to secure Sharp in time for him to play at Derby tomorrow" I guess we'll know by 11...

Rest assured, I have now spoken with Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed (Random Tuesday night poker game) and have been told this will happen before the end of this week!

How about that for sources!!

SSN reporting that Palace have a Centre Midfielder on his way to the club.. I wonder who that might be?

rfc58 So unless we are getting a player in who is ready to challenge instantly for a place, this leaves us thin on the ground, as Morrison and Pearce aren't exactly ripping up trees.

Senderos in? Doubtful but a possibility

Haag Royal off to Palace for £3m according to SSN

Having a Medical now..

Not happy about this as there goes the only hint of pace our defence had!

chilipepper91 Cracking signing for £1m, think we could be a little light at CM if Guthrie/Karacan gets injured.

Wonder what this would mean for Akpan though...

Williams and Akpan are sufficient cover for Guthrie and Karacan

Alleged £1million bid in, source @mailonline another Midfielder!? Surely not!

Poor in the first half go in 2-0 down,

Great in the second half 2-2 draw at FT