Does anyone know if anything was mentioned by NA at the STAR forum this week regarding transfers? We can only hope now that we manage to keep Pog. Think he will be good in Champ if he can accept the drop and stay. Lot better than anything now left I think.Although theres always that bloke at Bognor...

Christ. Another target missed. We are running out of options! Or is Hammond about to slash the cash on a CF who plays for Eastbourne utd who scored 11 goals last season but has great potential!!!!! Cant continue to live off the Doyle and Long signings.

I think we have a very strong squad - but so do several other Championship teams this season. The big questions for me clearly are: a) can ALF and the Pog do the business up front and b) what difference can NA make? That's what it comes down to - on paper there are several teams that are expecting ...

Hopefully true, but expect it's bullshit. He was told his hip was so bad he may never play again. He then activated an additional year on his contract as insurance, and he's still a long way off being fit. The chances of him breaking down and then calling time on his career are very high, and all t...

With our recent lull in activity in the transfer market it led me to wondering have we ever spent over the odds on a player? With the premiss that you have to speculate to accumulate and (we all know what happens every time we get promoted) is this lack of risk taking holding us back . I can think o...

Hang on a minute - didn't AZ criticise BM for not bringing in more players in the summer & Jan transfer window? I believe the club released about 10 players at the end of the season including first teamers Harte, Shorey, Hunt, Tabb & Chuch as a squad player plus some youngsters & Carric...

Have a feeling that following all the positive noises from AZ, we have once again f/cked up the transfer window and are going into the season with an incomplete team. No AM, no striker and just another bunch of frees. If we were serious about promotion and staying up we need to spend some actual mo...

Fact Wigan 0-3, Villa 1-2 OG, Southampton 0-2, Liverpool 0-0, QPR 0-0, Man City 0-2, Swansea 0-3 No Reading player has scored at home for over 10 hours - Adkins has been in charge for 5 of the 7 games at home, with Pog, Hunt, Alf, Blackman & HRK at his disposal but even with new tactics, still ...

Does anyone else feel that we are being too confident about this season? Fact; We have appointed a manager who got sacked from his last job Fact: we were very poor in the premiership last year Fact; We were missing an experienced playmaker and a goalscorer - which we still dont have Fact: Still mis...

As much as I was pretty disappointed we lost so convincingly I'm not going to get worried about it. People seem to forget that this is the first time we have pretty much played our best eleven or a team that Adkins thinks will possible start come 3pm next Saturday. It was also against a Premier Lea...

I could point out that Adkins won back to back promotions and his sacking was political rather than performance related and has a track record of overachieving whilst playing attractive football, that we won this league 2 seasons ago with a weaker squad, that Danny Guthrie was the playmaker in a te...

Does anyone else feel that we are being too confident about this season? Fact; We have appointed a manager who got sacked from his last job Fact: we were very poor in the premiership last year Fact; We were missing an experienced playmaker and a goalscorer - which we still dont have Fact: Still mis...

Does anyone else feel that we are being too confident about this season? Fact; We have appointed a manager who got sacked from his last job Fact: we were very poor in the premiership last year Fact; We were missing an experienced playmaker and a goalscorer - which we still dont have Fact: Still mis...

URZZZZZ Lol in regards to Fact 1. 99% of managers without a job were sacked, or obviously they would have a job still

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Does anyone else feel that we are being too confident about this season? Fact; We have appointed a manager who got sacked from his last job Fact: we were very poor in the premiership last year Fact; We were missing an experienced playmaker and a goalscorer - which we still dont have Fact: Still miss...

I'd like to think we're aiming a little higher, but Mackie would certainly fit the 'Reading Way'. Honest hardworker with a decent record. I like him. and I'd be happy with us signing him. Not bad as a back up but not good enough for a team supposedly favourite to go up. Unfortunately everyone is ex...

Not sure I agree. We will most likely be playing 4-2-3-1 and I would expect a lot of goals to come from the 3 (HRK/Kebe/Drenthe/McCleary etc). I think ALF, Blackman and Roberts (if he ever recovers) can all play the striker role plus if Pog goes I am sure we will bring at least one more in (Austin/S...

I'd be amazed if we let him go for nothing when he'd leave a big hole in our squad. I am sure we would like 3M (supposedly the release clause number) but if no one will pay it then cancelling the contract by mutual consent would seem a good option (if he does not want to stay) and save us 50K a wee...

No one seems to think Kebe will play then, despite the new contract. Good point. I think hes nearly ready but perhaps not until 2/3 games in. He wasnt playing at Bristol.I just hope we sign a new striker or keep Pog as Alf up on his own will be a disaster. If we sign someone good definite challenge...

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paddy20 I can only see Williams being a back up.

lol wut? You think we paid >£2m for a back up?

Frankly I think that is what he will be eventually after we find Karacan is the better player given his new role