Not a great game that, but after awful first 20, was always going to be a non event I suppose plus side is Kelly, Evans and Swift all looked tidy and ok at that level. McCleary looked dangerous at times Downside is Yann looked way out of his depth, defence were all pretty poor, Beerens and Williams ...

be no harm him coming along for a trial see if he still has it. No doubt his agent is on the case

in terms of where the money is from - should surely still have some money from the Blackman/Tish/Norwood sales as well. Long term, he potentially sees Moore/Tiago/Blackett as a back 3, which could be formidable. McShane still has big role to play in the mid term though. Agree probably the end of the...

yep true.

notice he is still tweeting RFC news as well - can't let go...

im not sure if this is true but the impression I have of J Low is that he isn't a football writer, where CW was. He seems to do a solid enough job but I don't think he has quite the depth or the ability at the moment to write the opinion pieces CW did I suspect a large number of the hits on GR are d...

Good news and well deserved for AAH

Im surprised there hasn't been more noise about him leaving tbh. Would make a good signing for a top champ team or lower prem

Would hope to get him to sign on a similar deal to Gunter at least - or relatively low buyout clause, big promotion bonus type of thing. Same for Williams

Would rather him go there than to Derby/Villa/Sheff Wed or any of the other usual suspects if we do decide to cash in

Surprised we would pay as much, but potentially a very good player

GetReading suggests the fee is a lower than reported though.

some rumours that Middlesboro were looking at him again, but surely a Champ club would be a better bet for him

Expect he will join someone in the top 8 - be interesting to see who.

Seen Nugent's name thrown about a bit as well.

would make sense this one - similar situation to Blackett I suppose - young player not deemed good enough for the Prem

was very highly rated a few years back

Yes, some valid points certainly - but Liam Kelly has come through, Quinn hopefully will be back and Beerens did ok in a sort of advanced mid role, so wouldn't be overly concerned Obviously if someone of real quality becomes available you'd snap them up but expect those players will be in short supp...

I don't think we've the cash for Rhodes

Notice Patrick Bamford may be available. Not seen a lot of him actually playing, but his scoring record in this division is good. Not done anything in the prem for a couple of years now though

If we don't sell anyone, this window is a tough one to call. Ideally we'd get a centre back for cover, but not sure who would move to us solely to cover McShane and Moore who have been generally a very good pairing. Midfield and Wing looks well covered, RB and LB are covered, though I agree only Obi...

Yes he has been excellent and a big future awaits him I suspect - streets above a lot of the writers you read in the nationals

Good luck to him

Also, bye to Charles Watts whose last game was today, only felt like mentioning it because I liked his coverage of Reading so it's a shame to to see him go but he moves into a role elsewhere where he gets to cover Arsenal and as an Arsenal fan, well, he wasn't going to say no. Second that. He has b...

I read somewhere they have only got 2 points from teams in the top half of the table this year

On paper would be a massive surprise not to win this one, but they do still have some quality. With Williams, obita and swift hopefully back, we really should win this one though

I don't see many likely destinations in the Prem to be honest. Top 12 are prob aiming higher than that, and unless he fancies being dumped straight into a grim relegation battle at Swansea/Sunderland or the like, he's prob best off at a top end champ club

Of course we'd like him, but I don't realistically think we'd spend that much money, or he'd be too keen on coming (unless this was part of a bigger - i.e. 25m - investment on players) 9m is probably about right in a world where Matej Vydra costs 8m. Clearly a good player, but the injury record is a...

If Williams goes in Jan (my bet is Swansea will try to take him) then it would be worth a look.

We seem very anti-Loans this year though after last year's shambles