I bet every penny you own that we couldn't have afforded those premiership players without their parent club picking up a fairly decent percentage of their wages. The numbers might be different, but the principal is exactly the same. If you ignore the fact that we are owed money for players (from H...

Apparently Robin Friday shat in some Oxford United tosser's kit bag.

Pardew did all the work and it took Coppell 3 years to finish it You normally present your case well, even if I don't happen to agree with it. But this is just LOL funny. Pardew did a great job, but "all the work"? Three years is an age in football - if Coppell was as bad as you claim, we...

PS I wasn't slagging him off - just telling it like it is. Greatest Reading man ever as far as I'm concerned.

Rumoured to be going to villa? :shock: Rumoured by whom? My guess is he longer has the heart for it - as I said elsewhere, he should stick to punditry if he can't face a managerial challenge like that any more. :roll: FFS... just tad premature to be slating the guy like this, before all the facts a...

LoyalRoyal22 He has retired from football management aswell!!

There you go.

Snowball Rumoured to be going to villa?

Rumoured by whom?

My guess is he longer has the heart for it - as I said elsewhere, he should stick to punditry if he can't face a managerial challenge like that any more.

I thought he liked a challenge?

If he hasn't got the heart for it, surely he should stick to punditry from now on?

Oh 'eck. Ninteen days to go.

I really hate August.

Rasiak saves the day...that Rasiak who Reading fans most want to get rid of, I wish he was as good as Shane Long. Create chances and Rasiak will put them away. The problem is when you are looking for a bit of creativity, some craft in a tight game, he's too often not the right man for the job. Happ...

So Hull can potentially find the money to sign Robert Koren (his wages won't be that cheap and nor will the signing on fee) but they can't afford to pay us for Hunt. THe sooner the FL place immediate transfer embargoes (loans and frees included) on clubs who default on transfer payments to other cl...

The most annoying thing is that we NEED another CB because it is the one position where we are seriously short on options. This is the real point, in my view. Forget JM's motivations, or what happened in the past. Arguably, we have the midfield and strikeforce to at least compete in this league. Bu...

So thats it ... A case of survival this season and hope that the deficit doesnt get any bigger.... 'greed. Expectations down from possible playoffs to mid-table. The sooner the league gets a grip on all the spendthrifts who are, or have been, distorting the picture (Pompey, Hull, Cardiff, etc) the ...

So thats it ... A case of survival this season and hope that the deficit doesnt get any bigger.... 'greed. Expectations down from possible playoffs to mid-table. The sooner the league gets a grip on all the spendthrifts who are, or have been, distorting the picture (Pompey, Hull, Cardiff, etc) the ...

Just hope it's football related and not his missus coming out of remission...

To be fair it's a pretty good assessment and the only major error is calling Cisse a wide man. He never said we lost two regular starters just quality players. Agreed, it's a decent suummary. Guardian man yesterday had Williams down as a C-B (presumably mixing him up with the Williams of...Doncaste...

Kebe is fit, so team picks itself:-

Fed
Griff
Mills
Pearce
Williams
Tabb
Howard
Kebe
McAnuff
Sig
Church

I know some people would think this as melodramatic, but I really don't think I can bring myself to go on Saturday now. This goes beyond RFC. I simply cannot support - financially and morally - a system that basically now has legal confirmation it's a law unto itself. A system that gets away with p...

Bristol City are told by Manchester United they can have Michael Owen on loan after an approach for Danny Welbeck is rebuffed. :o Wow. Coppell going up.. If they take Owen this will surely be final proof that SC is willing to change his ways. Loanees, aged GKs, now possibly washed-up Premiership st...

So all those who are moaning that we already have a left back, I take it you were up in arms when Zurab was playing last season in place of Alex Pearce? The reason I see the two scenarios differently is because Williams is an established player at this level. If he turns out to be as poor as Pearce...