Almost everyone who is an "established" U21 is in Portugal, including the likes of Paul and Abdul Salam, so expect it is effectively an U18 team supplemented with one or two extra players. Tuma might be playing?

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Reading Lincoln Peterborough Portsmouth Derby Shrewsbury Leyton Orient Wigan Charlton Northampton Exeter Carlisle Cambridge Stevenage Barnsley Burton Albion Wycombe Port Vale Blackpool Cheltenham Bolton Fleetwood Bristol Rovers Oxford Utd Randomised, with Reading moved from 15th to top. Oxford being...

It’s not like Dai is some sort of stereotypical Chinese name. If anything it sounds Welsh.

If the group was called “It’s All Gone Wong” then it could reasonably be called racist, but in this case it’s his real Welsh name rather than a racist joke.

“Most of his time with us” - not sure that’s particularly accurate. Started off well before getting injured, had an awful period in January time before being one of our better players from mid-February time Agree with OMA that he’s not someone we should be going back for but out of all the midfield...

Under-rated:- McCarthy This must be about someone other than Alex McCarthy, right? No-I never thought he was much appreciated when with us. :shock: Next you'll be telling me that you thought Dave Kitson was under-appreciated. McCarthy was utterly beloved, we used to call him "England's number ...

We seem to be without a central midfield again. Knibbs and Walcott are useful signings, but are we once again going to patch together a CM from loanees in August? Our midfield will be McIntyre and Hutchinson, which should last about ten minutes before one or both picks up a knee injury. Christ that...

WestYorksRoyal We seem to be without a central midfield again. Knibbs and Walcott are useful signings, but are we once again going to patch together a CM from loanees in August?

Our midfield will be McIntyre and Hutchinson, which should last about ten minutes before one or both picks up a knee injury.

The fans: “why hasn’t the club made a statement” The club: “here’s a statement” The fans the next day: “why hasn’t the club made a statement” Have the club got cat 1 Academy status back? I'm 95% sure we are ineligible to get category one whilst we are in League One That’s not true because Derby have...

Gandalf Presley Would say near enough every record signing at the time flattered to deceive - Hurlock, Moran, Nogan (post 94/95), Caskey, Butler (slightly unfair but mediocre at best post 00/01), Lita, Seol, Halford, Fae, Pog, Aluko, Puscas...

Pig was a free transfer.

Could replace him with Ilori.

South Coast Royal Under-rated:-
McCarthy

This must be about someone other than Alex McCarthy, right?

fartdad There is only one Mr loader.

On one hand he designed a website which is certainly one of the websites of all time.

On the other hand his son is shit at football.

Don't think that will wash seeing as I think it's the third instance, which was recent, which has triggered the action. The last occasion was after the disgracefully late announcement of deduction of points at the start of April? That deduction would have been earlier if we didn't try and argue it ...

I'd group Jokull in with Dorsett. They're in a similar boat, loans to a good level last season. Dorsett has made his debut, Jokull hasn't, but that's mostly academic (unless you're Jokull).

A few triallists and a few makeweights.

Royal_jimmy I bet we haven't submitted anything in response

I understand we have submitted a response written on the back of a napkin. It is just the word “guilty”, but spelled wrong.

'Good enough for the Championship' is quite a wide category though. Do we mean good enough to playing in a promotion chasing side, or good enough for a team that can hang on in the league? There's a big difference between the quality of players at Leeds and Rotherham. Other than Richards, none of t...

Reading Biscuits would probably be the most popular name because of the ties to club history. But there are three other traditional Reading Bs. Forget about beer, because Burton are the Brewers. But both Bulbs and Bricks have metaphorical resonance. Reading Builders strikes me as a progressive name ...

McIntyre isn't a full back. Has traits to play there, but can't do it. He's had some really good games at left back to be fair. Against Swansea at home he had a really good game playing left wing back - up there with NGW's best games for us. I almost couldn't believe it was him because it went agai...

Because he came through the academy, so people assumed he was better than he was. Yeah nah, not having that. People didn't "assume" he was good, people saw that he was good. He proved his worth on the pitch. Otherwise everyone would be talking about how Tom Hateley was a good player. Our ...

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Orion1871 Eric Obinna Chukwenyelu

The GOAT

Was he the one who crossed it in for the winning goal against Sheffield United, or was that Sekou Baradji?

Baradji.

Obinna didn't really do anything notable.