Worst attacking options since January 2000

[Ian Royal]

Not very mobile either. Relies on quality balls put into the box. McAnuff has a downer or gets injured, Rasiak stops scoring.

We really really need January or to recall Mooney. I don't care how shit he is, or whether we're trying to sell him to Charlton. It is simply unacceptable to have one fit striker at the club. Church has been carrying knocks for several weeks so it's not like this is unexpected.

Rodgers is doing a lot of good work, but it just isn't good enough to allow this situation to develop, no matter how tight resources are.

[Row Z Royal]

I'll play!

[Kitson12]

Missing Lita and Kitson? Lita certainly seems to be coming back into his element @ Boro now.

[SteveRoyal]

We'll have Thorvaldsson in January, but I still think we need another striker in. Long surely can't be classed as a striker?

[Kitson12]

Fat Fcuk is more appropriate.

[Ian Royal]

I wish Long all the best, but at another club please. I'm sure we can get a few £££,£££ for him from someone and he really needs to step down or sideways to become a first choice player. If we can also sell Mooney for a bit of cash, then I would definitely like to see us bring in a second striker as well as The Icelandic bloke.

Potentially we could flog Marek for quite a lot, replace him with Stock and still have a bit left over to contribute to a second striker. I wouldn't be too upset to lose Cisse for money as well, providing we get a right back in so Tabb is freed up in his real role.

[1871 Royal]

To be fair to Tabb though, he is currently the best right back at the club

[Ian Royal]

To be fair to Tabb though, he is currently the best right back at the club

Yes, although I still have hope for Cummings, but having a left footed central midfielder at right back, no matter how well he's doing at the moment, is not the answer.

[RoyalBlue]

I wish Long all the best, but at another club please. I'm sure we can get a few £££,£££ for him from someone and he really needs to step down or sideways to become a first choice player. If we can also sell Mooney for a bit of cash, then I would definitely like to see us bring in a second striker as well as The Icelandic bloke.

Potentially we could flog Marek for quite a lot, replace him with Stock and still have a bit left over to contribute to a second striker. I wouldn't be too upset to lose Cisse for money as well, providing we get a right back in so Tabb is freed up in his real role.

You've been rumbled! In proposing that we sell Marek, our last remaining asset of any real value, you have revealed yourself as not just a Madejski supporter but the man himself!

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Don't we have any youth strikers we could put on the bench?

Vasilev?

http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/Profile ... 63,00.html

[1871 Royal]

To be fair to Tabb though, he is currently the best right back at the club

Yes, although I still have hope for Cummings, but having a left footed central midfielder at right back, no matter how well he's doing at the moment, is not the answer.

Totally agree with you but as a temporary position you can't fault him.

[1871 Royal]

Don't we have any youth strikers we could put on the bench?

Vasilev?

Been out injured for 8 months and probably not ready for first team championship football just yet.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Don't we have any youth strikers we could put on the bench?

Vasilev?

Been out injured for 8 months and probably not ready for first team championship football just yet.

Ok, didn't know that. Thanks.

[Ian Royal]

I wish Long all the best, but at another club please. I'm sure we can get a few £££,£££ for him from someone and he really needs to step down or sideways to become a first choice player. If we can also sell Mooney for a bit of cash, then I would definitely like to see us bring in a second striker as well as The Icelandic bloke.

Potentially we could flog Marek for quite a lot, replace him with Stock and still have a bit left over to contribute to a second striker. I wouldn't be too upset to lose Cisse for money as well, providing we get a right back in so Tabb is freed up in his real role.

You've been rumbled! In proposing that we sell Marek, our last remaining asset of any real value, you have revealed yourself as not just a Madejski supporter but the man himself!

I'm not suggesting we should, just that if we do (and it's quite possible because he'll be on high wages and worth a pretty penny, whilst being no where near irreplaceable), we should have a fair bit available in January.

If I had £250m to my name do you really think I'd be pissing about on here with the likes of you?

[LoyalRoyalFan]

If Nicky Hammond hadn't acted so quickly in releasing Lita, we might have scored a few more goals.

[Ian Royal]

If Nicky Hammond hadn't acted so quickly in releasing Lita, we might have scored a few more goals.

We couldn't have kept Lita if we wanted to, which we quite rightly didn't. He was a disruptive influence with a bad attitude who didn't want to be here (he did refuse a contract offer which you happily choose to ignore). We needed to go elsewhere. Well done to him, it's working so far. I think the proof of how good he is will be in how many he's got come the END of the season and where he is playing next season.

Even if he's got 15+ and is in the Prem, it was still the right decision for him to go.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

If Nicky Hammond hadn't acted so quickly in releasing Lita, we might have scored a few more goals.

We couldn't have kept Lita if we wanted to, which we quite rightly didn't. He was a disruptive influence with a bad attitude who didn't want to be here (he did refuse a contract offer which you happily choose to ignore). We needed to go elsewhere. Well done to him, it's working so far. I think the proof of how good he is will be in how many he's got come the END of the season and where he is playing next season.

Even if he's got 15+ and is in the Prem, it was still the right decision for him to go.

I thought, he said he was happy to stay at the club and discuss a new contract?

[Ryn]

A new contract that involved more money. He refused the initial offer.

[Alan Partridge]

Real shame to be honest because I think Lita spearheading this 4-5-1 would have really worked. In his excellent spell in the PRem, a number of those games he was a lone striker. Also with a more passing game and Matejovsky playing these defense splitting passes, he really could have benfitted from that, whilst also being our number 1 striker. That little ego boost he seems to need to bring the best out of him. It's no surprise he's scoring goals for Middlesbrough, he's a good striker for this level.

[Schards#2]

Real shame to be honest because I think Lita spearheading this 4-5-1 would have really worked. In his excellent spell in the PRem, a number of those games he was a lone striker. Also with a more passing game and Matejovsky playing these defense splitting passes, he really could have benfitted from that, whilst also being our number 1 striker. That little ego boost he seems to need to bring the best out of him. It's no surprise he's scoring goals for Middlesbrough, he's a good striker for this level.

Judging by some of the comments on here comparing Church favourably to him, I'm guessing it will have come as a shock to some.