Top 5 Loan Signings

[Memories Of India]

David Byrne was pretty good. We should have signed him at the time.

IIRC he was available for about £50k but Mr Madejski said no.

[Lieutenant Pigeon]

1 Upson
2 Wright
3 Watson
4 Salako
5 Juryeff

I'd go along with that I always thought Ian Juryeff would have been a really good signing for us...


C.

[shaka's shorts]

paul cannoville - winger from Chelsea. I think he was a loan rathere than perm signing whose career was cut short with injury soon after he joined - he was class....didn't he get injured playing cricket?

[Harold]

Robert Codnor.

[Memories Of India]

1 Upson
2 Wright
3 Watson
4 Salako
5 Juryeff

I'd go along with that I always thought Ian Juryeff would have been a really good signing for us...


C.

Juryeff had the biggest man-boobs ever seen in League football.

[Rudolph Hucker]

FAO Shaka's Shorts.........
Paul Canoville was a permanent signing by Ian Branfoot. In the region of £60,000 I believe which was quite a lot at the time. He lit Elm Park up for a tragically brief spell before being nobbled by Dave Swindlehurst on a cold midweek evening up at Sunderland. Don't think he ever played again ~ what a waste.

John Salako was my favourite loanee. Hadn't seen many ex-England players pulling on the hoops before him(although there's been a few since!) and he put in some fantastic performances at places like Bury, Wrexham and Bristol City ~ places I hope we never have to visit again!

[Forbury Lion]

I remember reading somewhere that in ye oldie Elm Park days Reading tried to sell a player and then realised he was only on loan to them from Arsenal or somewhere

[From Despair To Where?]

Honourable mention for Bob Hazell. Sent off within half an hour of his debut for headbutting someone. It was the legendary 0-0er against Barnsley where Paul Futcher got sent off for being Ron's brother.

[John Peel]

John Salako and Steve Mautone. The latter just because we could ryhme his name with loan in his song.

'Steve Mautone, he's on loan, Steve Mautone, he's on loan!'

[Platypuss]

FAO Shaka's Shorts.........
Paul Canoville was a permanent signing by Ian Branfoot. In the region of £60,000 I believe which was quite a lot at the time. He lit Elm Park up for a tragically brief spell before being nobbled by Dave Swindlehurst on a cold midweek evening up at Sunderland. Don't think he ever played again ~ what a waste.

He did make a come back, and I think he even scored on his return the next season (v Oldham?). Unfortunately his leg failed to properly recover and he only played a handful of games after that before retiring.

He was Chelsea's first black player and got massively booed on his debut by his own "fans".

[Thomas L'Heureux]

Worst could soon be Peter Mate. i hope not though

Why?! He scored in his only first team appearance and it's hardly his fault he got injured.

There's been far worse.

[The whole year inn]

Steve Blatherwick.

Quality in the games vs Wolves at Elm Park, flick on for Archie and he did the rest.

[Top Flight]

Mark Robson was a very good loan signing for us. He was on loan from Spurs as a 17 year old. Very skinny boy. Ended up playing for Charlton.

Good on paper, regrettably less than satisfactory on the field of play, he was lazy and ineffective. As documented recently on the GF forum, he was roundly barracked by the travelling loyal Royals at The Valley in the '94 match, and celebrated his goal by sticking his fingers up at us - what a guy.

I'm not talking about how he played for Charlton. Before he joined Charlton he was on loan with us as a skinny little kid from Tottenham.

When he played for us, I remember him skinning most full backs and the South Bank singing sign him on. The reason he was barracked by the loyal Royals at the Valley in 94 was probably because he decided to join Charlton a couple of years earlier instead of us.

He was a good player for us during his loan spell. If he didn't fulfil his potential and became cr*p while at Charlton then thats another matter. I don't watch Charlton so I wouldn't know.

I agree with the other poster that said Robson was swamped in his kit.

[Big Ern]

Robert Codnor.

Fook off. Worst player ever to wear a Reading shirt.

[Barry the bird boggler]

paul cannoville - winger from Chelsea. I think he was a loan rathere than perm signing whose career was cut short with injury soon after he joined - he was class....didn't he get injured playing cricket?

Canoville was a permanent signing, costing us 60k. Career was finished at Sunderland about 10 games into the 86/87 season.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Anyone remember Paul Lemon?

[urz_1871]

Ben roberts was one of the best we had if i remember rightly he was a quality keeper that i thaught was a lot better than Hahnemann

I actually thought that aswell. When we signed Hahnemann, i thought to myself that we should of tried to sign Roberts instead.

But the best loan signing for me was matty upson. I have never seen a player have so much impact on the team. I remember the Portsmouth game, think it was Upson's last game for us before he went back to Arsenal and Pompey were top of the league aswell.

But for some reason i felt really relaxed about our defending coz i knew they wouldnt get past Upson.

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Anyone remember Paul Lemon?

yep, midfielder. Porterfield signing?

Dave Cowling on the wing was another.

[johnnym]

kenny brown always a favourite for me

[Gordons Cumming]

Robert Codnor.

Fook off. Worst player ever to wear a Reading shirt.

Roger Joslyn?