Favourite Reading XI

[Ian Royal]

Sal Bibbo - Biiiiiiiiibbo! And he looked like he had no neck.
Murty - Captain marvelous, only just beat Skippy into the team
Kerr - didn't see much of him but a top player. Shorey has tarnished himself in his last season here.
Wdowczyk - What a name, what a player.
A. Williams - scored against Wolves when he played for them. Also a legend
Meaker - In the team for getting an assist for Adie's own goal and general hilarity
Gilkes - Legend! Runrunrunrun Gilkesy
Parkinson - Another legend and thoroughly nice but hard as nails chap. Couple of top goals
Harper - good passer and most entertaining
Kitson - Great striker and outspoken
Morley - 20+ goals in a crap side. The only player I've ever seen score a penalty rebound with his head.

Subs:
Hahnemann - throwing the shirts
Andy Bernal - Skippy
Little - sublime skills
Quinn - great player, great goal against Wolves
Viveash - solely in case Wdowczyk gets injured so we can bring back Adrian's Wall.
Cureton - Brentford
Caskey - a player who should have achieved so much more.

[From Despair To Where?]

Morley - 20+ goals in a crap side. The only player I've ever seen score a penalty rebound with his head.

A penalty rebound that was no more than 6 inches off the ground.

[howser]

Steve Death
Graeme Murty
Ade Williams
Darius
Nick Shorey
Tom Jenkins
Steve Sidwell
Tony Wagstaffe
George Harris
Trevor Senior
Kerry Dixon

Subs:-
Shaka
Colin Meldrum
Stuart Beavon
Stephen Hunt
Kevin Doyle

[hutch]

Steve Francis,
Dylan Kerr m`lord,
Steve Wood,
Andre Bikey,
Murts,
Run run run run Gilkesy,
Super Simon Osborn,
Phil Parkinson,
Jerry Williams,
Jimmy Quinn,
Trevor (legend) Senior

Subs, Leighton, David Lee, Gooding, Morley, Horrix.

[wolsey]

Steve Death

Stevie Rich
Keith Curle
Adie Wiliams
Colin Baillie

Paul Canoville
Richie Bowman
Terry Hurlock
Glen Little

Percy Freeman
Trevor Senior

Subs:
Shaka
Gary Peters
John Hulme
Kevin Bremner
Gilksey
Dean Horrix
Les Chappell

[Bill Oddie's Beard]

Shaka

Murts
Williams
Bikey
Kerr

Little
Parky
Caskey
Lambert

Cureton
Kitson


Caskey just pips Osborn in centre midfield, wasn't sure who to partner curo with but went with Kits ahead of Archie and Jimmy Quinn.

[Focher]

Mikailov ('The Wigster')

Murty
Ver Dove Check
Hicks (Englands No.5)
Kerr (My lord)

Little (The best player to have played for Reading)
Sidwell
Parkinson
Gilkes (The quickest player to have graced a pitch in English football)

Quinn (Sheer class)
Forster

Subs .

Westwood (i cant do a goal kick over the half way line)
Cureton
Hurlock
Whitehurst
SHunt

[Tony Le Mesmer]

all my fav's seem to be forwards, but as a 4 3 3 id go for:

Neil Hislop

Graeme Murty
Martin Hicks
Adrian Williams
Steve Richardson

Glen Little
Steve Sidwell
Michael Gilkes

Jimmy Quinn
Trevor Senior
Jamie Cureton

Special mention for Derek Christie, but you can't include everyone.

[Negative_Jeff]

Dixon

Williams A
Widdow Check (Luton PA Announcer)!
Upson

Little
Sidwell
Osborn
Gilkes

Terry
Morley
Nogan

[CMRoyal]

Shaka
Murts
Shorey
Adie W
Dariusz
Blakey
Osborn
Siddy
Gilkesy
Kits
Quinn

Subs:-

USA
Ricco
Superman
Parky
Cureton

[The Prisoner]

Oh god. This is one of those "post and realise straight away that you missed someone out" threads!

here goes

Death
Murty Wdowcyzk Bikey Kerr
Gilkes Hetzke Sidwell Scott Taylor
Forster Quinn

Probably should have found room for Cureton, USA, James Lambert, Butler, Neil Webb, Kerry Dixon and god knows how many others....

[Broxroyal]

Death

Dennis M. Butler
Williams
Youlden
White

Bowman
B. Wagstaff
Osborn
Jenkins

Dixon
Friday


Shaka
Hetzke
Meldrum
Harris
Bremner

[The Prisoner]

Whenever I think about this I always try and fit in 'the Rouge' somewhere, but have absolutley no idea why!!

I would not say Rouge was in my favourite Reading FC team but i will always have a soft spot for him after he came on as a sub in the Thames Valley Derby and scored two late goals to beat the Pox.

My Reading Team

Shaka/Death (Could not choose one over the other)

Lindon Jones, Aidie Williams, Darius, Mark White

Gilkes, Sanchez, Webb, Little

Friday, Senior

Subs
Death/Shaka, Jerry Williams, Doyle, Bremner and Ivar

Manager Mark Mcghee.

Fav kit 1970's blue and white hoops ie Robin Friday stylie

Fair play ! I nearly put Richie Bowman in myself - he was a legend when I started going as a nipper in the 70s. You are only one of two so far with Robin Friday - which I think says more about the Hob Nob demographic than the man's talent.

And what about Linden Jones? I remember him in a 2-1 win on the astroturf at PNE in about 1989. Went with a PNE fan and actually stood in the home terraces for some reason (not that there were many on them). Happened to mention that he was Welsh as he broke up yet another woeful PNE attack, two lads behind me heard and started a sheep shagger chant! Linden, if you are reading this, I'm sorry. And we could have done with you last weekend. We were wearing that horrible light blue HAT Painting kit and PNE had their Coloroll one on. Who were HAT Painting?! How said that I remember that.....