Spud Gun Was anyone expecting us to win this with Harte & Howard starting and playing a negative 4-5-1 formation?
McD missed the opportunity in the January transfer window to bring in a decent central midfielder as back up for Karacan and Leigertwood. We have paid the price for this the past few games. The team is nothing without Lege and Karacan in the middle...
While Reading have 1 decent established centre forward then there is no chance of anything more than midtable. I think Manset will be decent but he's definitely one for the future like Long was when he first joined. They needed someone like Fryatt or Mackail Smith or someone of that ilk along with Manset. Not a lad from Eastleigh. Church and Hunt are just not of the standard required. hunt as 3rd choice ok, but they are deperately short of quality at the top end of the park.
That and one of Reading's best players occupies the bench every week.