Phil Parkinson must be pretty famous Stateside now. Obviously due to his managerial success at Wrexham, not his playing career.

Reading Chronicle spinning a line from an interview with RC as a sign of a potential early flip... Behind a pay wall so haven't read the details, but could be a softening up exercise if there is an opportunity for a quick profit... Seems to be blaming his hip replacement.... Reading FC owner and ch...

The period since Richardson came in reminds me of when Pardew came in. Functional football, not particularly pretty, but it picked up points. I think Richardson has a better squad to use than Pardew did at the time, so there is some fair criticism of the style of play - though football has obviously...

It’s not that formations pass their sell by date in isolation, it’s in response to the default formation change of all other teams. If the current convention is for five in midfield, four in midfield can struggle. Deeper second strikers don’t always cut the mustard in terms of ball winning and crea...

skipper

Pepe the Horseman

skipper who was the last person to score a hatrick for us?

Jack Marriott today.

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hahahaha, I should have been clearer.

Today was the first I remember in an age. Who was the previous one?

Puscas?

It generally shows that we've improved since LR was appointed - but it is worth noting that NH was handicapped by lack of signings at the start of the season. Still think that overall it was the right decision to change managers. Do you agree so too, as I know at the start you said that it was a mi...

Stranded A relative random over on Twitter claiming they have been told that is dead.

So club announcement at 18:00 then.

Waiting to hear from Brogue, before throwing in the towel on this one

Brogue

WestYorksRoyal Colchester journo reporting it'll only happen if they can get a replacement in.

they have enquired about taking WiFi on loan till the end of the season as part of the deal.

They can have Camara.

*xf*rd now reportedly after him so that’ll be the end of that. Maybe. Depends on what his advisors say to him. Be part of an Ox*ord team that's in a Championship relegation battle, or at Reading where you'll almost certainly be a starter, looking up instead of down and training and playing in bette...

Any more Reading business either in or out? Just expecting Savage to depart to a Championship relegation battle somewhere and for Garcia to go for a pittance. Hoping though that, if Savage goes, the club would have a replacement target lined up. The Savage situation aside, I'd like to see proper co...

Brogue I know we are not allowed to criticise anyone on here but I’m going to say it anyway, PoC is shit

Great striker though!

Hope I'm proven wrong, but I never feel confident when I see the XI and don't have a clue what the formation is. Keane as a no.10? Doyle on the wing? Kyerewaa at RWB? Your guess as good as mine. Straight 442? Pereira Nyambe O’Connor Dorsett Roberts Kyerewaa Savage Wing Doyle Marriott Keane That is ...

Clyde1998 Linked with Club Brugge now: https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/201 ... f-Gr-Pczbg

OOC in the summer, according to that account. Might be time to cash in.

Was Stevens really in the Academy, wasn’t he just an associated schoolboy for a year before signing with *xf*rd’s youth system? Kelvin too.....think some have been introduced too early in the past though through necessity due to the restrictions the club were under. I think Kelvin and Garcia at lea...

deleted my post as the 2004 date doesn't equate to 24, but 2002 - so my premise didnt make sense No, I think you were right. We can remove Elliott from the squad as he's out for the season anyway, so that's one. I agree with you that the 3 most likely candidates for a loan or sale are probably Stic...

Supposedly quick; works hard; defensively good. On the face of it, a positive loan for us. I do think this will allow at least one of Abrefa or Ahmed to go on loan, which will hopefully have a positive impact on their development. I wouldn't be surprised if they both went out on loan. The right bac...

I've been thinking that Richardson might want to play Marriott and Keane up front together, but our full back positions are possibly too weak to play it confidently. Whether that's 442 or 352, Dorsett isn't a full back and Yiadom is getting on a bit now. Good positions to sign for me and means Dorse...

I think it’s more likely you pick those up end of season but yeah it’d be nice to pick up a few more of the Savage types we did a couple of years ago and more time for academy lads I do think it’s prob experience that gets you out of this division generally though Yeah, absolutely agree with this. ...

Thinking more realistically with what we've been told about the new ownership, what would the AI prompt look like for the 'ideal' CF needed from Jan til May? Desired attributes in order of priority...? The script you'd give our Head of AI to enter into the exclusive AI algorithm & database Read...

I'd say Savage is better at those cute little through balls and 1-2's around the top of the box than Wing is (his ball to Wing for his goal against Bristol Rovers away last season, for example). Wing is probably better at the longer balls over the top (see Marriott's goal vs Plymouth) and we all kno...