Now I want to talk about Reading. I've seen a lot of criticism of McDermott, but blimey, isn't he doing the best that he could be expected to do considering the fact that he was given nothing to spend? Reading have spent nothing, nada, zilch. You are now playing in the best league in the world, I b...

And the substitutions? Yeh, brilliant, take off Hunt - the only striker capable of jumping and winning a header - and then proceed to revert to our much favoured hoofball! Pog won several headers. According to Reading FC on Twitter, Brian said "The players are disappointed because they want to...

No, you've got to come to expect it from him after a while.

Lionel Messi (who, by the way, had been labeled a waste of time until Barcelona's backroom staff thought he had potential). He signed for his local team, Newell's Old Boys, aged 8. They are one of the biggest clubs in Argentina. River Plate, one of the two big clubs in Argentina, were going to sign...

yesterdays fans > todays fans And those of us that have been supporting the club for 30 years? An opinion that differs from your own doesn't make anyone a better or lesser fan. Feds was superb last year, it looks like a one off mind, as previous to that he always looked likely to make a mistake, an...

We aren't a team of average Championship players. After McDermott took over, we were the second best team in the league for about 3 months, then we got in the playoff final, then we got promoted. Average players don't have that level of improvement. Most of our players are top-end Championship playe...

Arshavin would not fit with Brian's style of play.

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But iirc Pearce has been utter gash whenever he's played on the left side of CB,

You don't remember correctly, he played well to the left of Mills when Zurab was injured, and he was playing better than HNA gave him credit for before that too.

Do not understand why our biggest aerial threat (Pearce) has been suddenly dropped. Gorkks is good for all his experience but will not develop any further as a player. Pearce on the other hand I'm pretty sure was once being compared to the young John Terry of ten years ago. Its obvious to everyone ...

Want: McCarthy; Gunter, Pearce, Mariappa, Shorey; Kebe, Legs, Guthrie, McAnuff; Roberts, Pog/Hunt/ALF
We'll get: McCarthy; Cummings, Mariappa, Gorkss, Shorey; Kebe, Legs, Tabb, McAnuff; Roberts/Hunt, Pog

I don't think this is worth getting worked up over. It's a tiny sample size, 12 or 13 fans per club, which will never be representative of the country as a whole. I bet we could find 12 Reading fans who think Dominic Samuel should be playing ahead of Jason Roberts.

I think you're being harsh on many of the Arsenal players there, Hoop. Koscielny played 43 matches last season and has already played 7 this season. Djourou played 29 last season. Giroud is a very good striker and was involved heavily in the comeback. Arshavin has been disappointing for Arsenal rece...

Curbs - NEVER!! Poyet - YES PLEASE!! Hoddle - NEVER!! Dolan - Maybe, but concerned same 'Reading Way' and long ball continues.. Gibbs - NEVER!! Malky - NO Redknapp - YES PLEASE!! ole gunnar solskjaer - Maybe Powell - NO Pearson - NEVER!! Sven - NEVER!! Fabio - NO Lulz. Anyone who wouldn't want Fabi...

McCarthy 6- couldn't be faulted for any of the goals, but otherwise only had simple saves to make. Good distribution choices, particularly as he can't kick. Cummings 5- good going forward, but deary me, his marking seems to cost us every week. Bring Gunter back in. Mariappa 7- our best defender Gork...

marcusopp Our wide options are very good. Not many clubs outside the top 4 have a player of McCleary's quality on the bench.

Chelsea, Liverpool, Everton, West Brom, QPR, Norwich, Swansea, Southampton, West Ham?

(That's over half the clubs who weren't in last season's top four and aren't Reading)

If the footballing world is institutionally racist against black managers, then I don't think having to interview them will make a jolt of difference. If boards don't want to hire black people, they won't hire them. What are the current stats for black managers? 6 out of 97 (given Barnet have two ma...

I just remembered Duberry and De la Cruz. A couple of old timers might be what we need. some experienced heads. They may not have played much but offered more advice and support than i'd imagine Simon Church De La Cruz was a free iirc, and Duberry was in January. Our signings in the first window: S...

If he gets his place back in the team after the way Alex Mc has played over recent games then an awful lot of people are going to be very unhappy - because that's not the way BMc has worked in the past. That's exactly how BMc works. If a senior player is injured, it doesn't matter how well his depu...

Presumably Man U, Man City and Arsenal ( All teams who do not know a good player when they see him), will now forget about Zaha and look at our players! It's always nice to know that other RFC fans know all about football! - NOT!!!!!!!! But none of those clubs would consider signing Zaha for their ...

All three have outperformed Zaha at Championship level.