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Hendo Looks like Shane Duffy is off to Celtic, which will obviously cool any interest they had in Moore.

But might revive Brighton’s interest...

Ben White has signed a new deal at Brighton so maybe not.

This evening's match was a 0-0 draw against Portimonense, report here: https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2020/september/portimonense-preseason-report This has to be the strangest pre season we will ever know. Utterly bizarre. Isn’t it just? Just so odd. the performance against a Primeira Liga side i...

Have we still heard nothing from the new manager?

But if Mr Paunović does get a good start from that lot then the sky’s the limit. Oh how lovely that would be, rather than yet another season of limping along, no win for a while, fans get restless, drop down the table, pressure builds, then win a couple and look ok. Then no win for a while and so w...

The difference between Stam's first and second seasons I found astonishing. I don't feel there was 'fluke' about our promotion push - we were in the playoffs places from November time through to May iirc. It just all went very wrong in season two, mainly the defensive solidity at home disappearing....

The squad isn't good enough. Nor is he going to have much say in the players he is given. That's part of the frustration. Last seasons improvement has effectively been binned. Last seasons ‘improvement’ we hardly set the world alight last season Championship is an unforgiving competitive league. At...

Having stepped away from his position as First Team Manager

Interesting way to spin it...

As someone else said years ago the new manager thing was quite exciting.p, who would we get, what would their plan be, what players will come in and also all of the circus aside, however a club is run its true that if you’re winning games you can, to a degree out the club politics to one side, but ...

Because oxf*rd it why not. Give it till Jan and we will be looking for a new manager again as have a bunch of oxf*rd reactionary basket case headless chickens who run this shambles of a club. I'll go for one of the revolving door managers such as Pulis, Warnock, Pardew or anybody who any of us have...

I was born in Reading, lived there for many years and support the club, always will. Past, what, five (ish) years have been, well a number of words could be used. A joke, tedious, turgid, embarrassing, waste of time/money etc and it’s a crying shame having that following the success, the football, ...

If Paunovich proves to be a master stroke and we play great football and win the League I will be oxf*rd delighted. :? Who wouldn’t? Ian as it would prove him to be wrong and completely lacking in football knowledge. He is done with the club though apparently, won't be posting on the team board any...

It is all rather odd. I certainly had a scenario in mind that meant this was actually all very logical but Bowen opting to walk away blows that’s out of the water. Not sure who does the transfers now, presumably outsourced again. Not too worried about the urgency of signings, we are fine for the st...

It is all rather odd. I certainly had a scenario in mind that meant this was actually all very logical but Bowen opting to walk away blows that’s out of the water. Not sure who does the transfers now, presumably outsourced again. Not too worried about the urgency of signings, we are fine for the st...

I was born in Reading, lived there for many years and support the club, always will. Past, what, five (ish) years have been, well a number of words could be used. A joke, tedious, turgid, embarrassing, waste of time/money etc and it’s a crying shame having that following the success, the football, ...

If’s Bizarre that on the one hand people go on about it being ‘our’ club and on the other wish all sorts of bad things on it. If it’s our club why would you want it to get relegated ? Who wins there ? As for telling people they personally ‘deserve’ relegation we’ll guess what ? We ALL get relegated...

I was born in Reading, lived there for many years and support the club, always will. Past, what, five (ish) years have been, well a number of words could be used. A joke, tedious, turgid, embarrassing, waste of time/money etc and it’s a crying shame having that following the success, the football, t...

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Look, I get the way this whole managerial change has happened is a mess but Bowen is being played up as having achieved far more than he did which I'm finding quite ridiculous, I think it's fair to say it was wrong to do it so close to the season's start but that's about it.

Well said sir

There's two things to consider here. The decision to remove Bowen and appoint him. And how he performs. How he performs can only be judged after 10 - 20 games in charge so I'll leave that, my issues have nothing to do with the new guy. Regardless of how good or bad an appointment it might seem, onc...

Stranded if we are top 6 by end of October majority will be happy enough with life.

True dat

Good post. I get where Ian is coming from but hope the new manager looks at the players he has available and selects a formation that gets the best out of them rather than choosing the formation first and trying to make it work with the players at his disposal. If he does, it won't be one that uses...