Given we now play after the draw for the 4th round .......

[Harold]

Added to that the fact that staying in the Prem is of more importance than a cup run I reckon.

Most Reading fans think the Cup is more important and proves you to be a better team than winning the league.

[RoyalBlue]

We should field our best team. Fielding a second string team is demoralizing and fatalistic. Afterall, how many FA cups have we won?

And how many years did it take us to get into the top division?!

Stuff the cup until we are mathematically assured of at least another season in the top flight!

[Memories Of India]

We should field our best team. Fielding a second string team is demoralizing and fatalistic. Afterall, how many FA cups have we won?

We've lost more matches than anyone else.

...apart from Marlow.

However, unlike Marlow, we're entitled to wear our home kit for every match.

[Fluff]

Balls to the cup(at least to the semi final)

[bobby m's syrup]

Yesterday, I caught myself thinking, "field a stronger team on Tuesday if we get a plum draw in Round 4". Then I remembered, we get 'plum draws' almost every week.

Perhaps we need a 'feeder team' to play these annoying cup ties. Are Oxford Utd for sale?, they would probably cost less than a decent striker from the League of Ireland

[weybridgewanderer]

my gut feel is if we get the opportunity of chelsea or arsenal at home then some pressure may be brought on coppell to make sure we get through as we may fill the mad stad

if however we get something like norwich away then the club will have no interest in the next round

[shadesrwrf]

my gut feel is if we get the opportunity of chelsea or arsenal at home then some pressure may be broought on coppell to make sure we get through as we may full the mad stad

My gut feeling is the danger of losing major players to injury at this stage in a crucial season for the club far outweighs any short-term gain from hosting such games.

[ScottishRoyal]

The boss had obviously named his team for the game, with Bobby Convey set to start and Dave Kitson on the bench, while young Alex Pearce was also among the subs.

Coppell is likely to name a very similar 16 for the rearranged game this coming Tuesday, saying, "Not a great deal will change. There might be one or two first teamers back."

http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/pa ... 03,00.html

And there again there might not.

Coppell in thinly veiled ticket promo shocker.

Kitson might start, that'll be the only change i'd have thought.

[ScottishRoyal]

Yesterday, I caught myself thinking, "field a stronger team on Tuesday if we get a plum draw in Round 4". Then I remembered, we get 'plum draws' almost every week.

Perhaps we need a 'feeder team' to play these annoying cup ties. Are Oxford Utd for sale?, they would probably cost less than a decent striker from the League of Ireland

Robert Maxwell lives!