Plymouth_Royalfloyd__streete I said in pre-season that I was seeing far too much of our Alex Pearce and Jem Karacan in the starting line-up for my liking. If these two are regular Championship-quality players then my name is Brendan Rodgers.
Did you actually watch any pre-season games.
Yep, I saw the Wycombe and Wolves games and thought that they were probably the two poorest Reading players on the park in both games. Karacan gives the ball away like it is going out of fashion, he is probably playing a division above his true ability. Same can be said about Pearce. Still, they're academy products and square pegs into round holes is apparent proof of the massive success of the academy. For me, Sig and Church are by far the two best prospects and every other young player who has come through recently is a long way behind those two, neither of whom are the finished article.
, that is fanatical support - I often don't feel as if I can be bothered travelling from East Reading to watch us play. I disagree somewhat about the merits of Karacan's performances in the friendlies, but most importantly McD seems to agree with you and that is the be-all and end-all. But if Karacan starts more than 15-20 games this season then I will be amazed - he was massively found out today in the stuff that matters, competitive league football matches.
I thought the were showing a slow mo and then I remembered it was real life and not on telly and he really was going that slow.