No way. I'd never take him on, constantly in trouble with the police and a rapist. More trouble than Drenthe and Partridge combined and Adkins would have too much on his plate with him

MCCARTHY

Gunter Morrison Pearce Obita

Williams Karacan

McCleary Guthrie Robson-Kanu

Pogrebnyak



Bench: Federici, Kelly, Hector, Kuhl, Blackman, Taylor, Tanner

Guys the only reason McCarthy wasn't there is because they couldn't find him at the time! lol, as it was done at the stadium i reckon it was pre-arranged who was going.......i mean, its not as if the players just hang around the ground on non-match days Fairly sure they took the players from the tr...

Guys the only reason McCarthy wasn't there is because they couldn't find him at the time! Not because he's preparing for an imminent move away from the club, and like someone said before me, people like Sigurdsson and Mills have been in the new-kit-shoot and have been sold just weeks later!

I was thinking of a new post for this but thought it's better and appropriate here. I've a source very close to SJM and these are the facts.... As per the take over contract Anton owes £15m by September 30th to be precise , if this is not paid there is a clause where SJM can regain his majority sha...

Regarding wages obviously none of us know the exact figures but here is a stab at it. Leaving Church 7.5K per week Hunt 10K per week Shorey 10K per week Harte 10K per week Tabb 7.5K per week Mills 5K per week Kebe 10K per week Mariappa 10K per week Andersen 5K per week Carrico 10K per week Total 85...

I'd like it to be 4-2-3-1 like this... McCarthy Bridge, Pearce, Morro, Gunter Williams, Karacan Drenthe, Guthrie, McCleary ALF Subs: Feds, Kelly, Obita, HRK, Pog, Ugwu, McAnuff Probably too many wingers on the bench and I'd like to see an U21 like Griffin, Taylor or Samuel on the bench if there are ...

Guys Im sorry but Leigertwood isn't good enough. My brother was in South Africa in April and was watching the game vs Arsenal in a pub, he said that the commentators claimed that it was "tactical suicide" to give Leigertwood the ball, and I know that was the PL but I don't rate him. Sorry

Can I be a signing?

Loads of you will disagree but I'd say Simon Church. Good striker and when the likes of Kitson, Lita and Doyle went he took his opportunity very well, remember his goals against Crystal Palace and Preston in 2009/10? Great finisher, quick and could play in a partnership role or maybe on his own. Eit...

Every player who played tonight, except a couple, should think that they'll be ENORMOUSLY LUCKY to ever play for The Royals again after tonight. And I also hope that those people claiming that Mariappa was "The Answer" to our team's bad performances recently will look at his performance to...

Feel sorry for Cummings. He rarely has a bad game and is as good defensively as Gunter and Kelly but he does lack something when he gets over the half way line. I will always remember his performance as a stand in winger at Cardiff in the P/O semi. He was very good that day. He is a good Championsh...

I reckon we'll get Akpala and Lobato, but we'll also get McDaid on scholarship terms

PLUS Adkins said that we were close with two, but he didn't indicate that those would be the LAST two deals, so there could be more to follow in the next few days

I don't if he's good enough but I reckon Adkins might try to play Blackman up front with Le Fondre. At times last season it worked I.E West Ham in particular, but I still haven't seen enough of him to to come to any conclusions. Overall I'd keep it pretty similar to last weekend: McCarthy Gunter, Mo...

Accrington in 3rd round please (no offence) and a weaker team this round

So when will we know who we're up against?

Royal Prince

St. Brynjar Brett Williams?

Lol, easily forgotten!

Released, wasn't he?

One thing I shall say about today was the team selection. I'm not sure if many would agree but I thought the team and substitutes that Adkins chose were brilliant, absolutely brilliant. He managed to get McCleary, who has been very impressive during pre-season, HRK AND Drenthe all on the same pitch,...

Reading 2-1 Ipswich

Scorers for Reading: ALF, HRK

Scorers for Ipswich: Tabb

McCarthy Penalty save as well

Whoever Adkins picks he's going to make at least a couple of players VERY unhappy , and we need to bear that in mind on Saturday when the we see the team he's picked. On another note, I'd like to see Samuel and Obita involved at least once this season! Not necessarily. We've got at least 48 games t...