how can you know the full facts when nobody but the players and the manager knows what happens in the dressing room? and when has that stopped you from doing the same? I don't really make much assumptions when it comes to Reading FC. Unlike a certain somebody who came on here and started telling us...

I think he'd make a damn fine goalkeeper.

Keane was never going to offer £7m for Lita.

Strangely enough I hated Keane as a player but quite like him as a manager - he seems quite balanced and fair. Really. I never hated him as a player; but I do as a manager. Just because he was a world-class player he thinks he is a world class manager. He has pissed away £20m on crap!! ! I love him...

Can someone explain to me why Sidwell has looked so poor when he's played for Chelsea this season? Shouldn't playing with a bunch of top class players have made him look better? It would be foolish to argue that he hasn't been missed for his defensive work and box-to-box energy but he really didn't ...

Thumb-a-queer-lift in ignoring the facts shocker!

I think you've raised and answered your own question re MM. His input is not producing goals from open play yet but he is bedding in with the team and vice versa. His more subtle approach does require the attackers to be consistently on the same wavelength and that doesn't happen overnight. Next sea...

I agree with all that you say Ian. I reckon we could sell Lita, spend a net couple of million on a new back up striker and another couple of works in progress and still stay up comfortably next season! Just imagine the frothing at the mouth from the usual suspects as Sunderland, Wigan, M'Boro, Brum,...

Smoking Kills Dancing Doe Sid and Marek would be the perfect partners hip imo for us.

But Sid will end up at a Villa type club, as he was always going to really.

Still fair play for him for giving it a go at Chelsea, he won't be looking back and saying what if??

I agree with everything you say. (Well, in that post...!)

Leroy is a natural finisher and will always get you goals at what ever level he plays at

Poor choice of cliches there if I may say so.

So far he hasn't scored a single League goal at what ever level he has played this season!

Although many of us felt he was a bit slow giving him an extended opportunity, Coppell's softly softly approach with Bikey has worked very well and I would imagine that Long is probably only an injury to Doyle or Kitson to getting a similar chance to establish himself. Hopefully because he has not b...

Here's an, on balance, rather favourable review of Lita from a Charlton board. They want him to stay.

http://www.charltonlife.com/forum/comme ... e=1#Item_0

(They don't seem to be as positive about Pardew.)

You taking this stance is ridiculous, considering your rants against players like Lita. Exactly. I agree with Spacey. :shock: The whole we will/won’t be relegated debate has been characterised by fans taking the moral high ground against those who doubted we could stay up. Now that it looks like we...

I think RR’s post and similar say more about an inferiority complex, a need to be shown as ‘right’, than it does about the generally passionate support for the club on this board, and the desire of the fans for it to do well. Some people panic when things aren't going well, others don't. These reac...

In any season for every club there are ups and there are downs.

The reactions of the fans during the downs speak volumes about their character.

Focher

skipper

Focher Darren Moore looks solid for Derby

Yeah, based on them conceeding most goals this term. No Thanks.

i can t believe you took that seriously

I've got the wrong bloke haven't I?

Derby have one decent defender don't they? If it's not Moore, who is it?

He can't do it all himself! Good player from what I've seen - decent shout that.

At the end of the season I hope we can reflect on and admire the skill with which the very gradual transformation of the Championship squad has been started. It could have been done faster for sure (I have wanted Bikey to be given a decent run for 18 months now for instance) but if we retain our PL ...

I can't answer the questions in full but Oster has started 8 games this season, that's all.

We have won 3 of them and conceded only 9 goals.