Would play Puscas in this one, Baldock on the wing. Agree, Ejaria is wasted on the left and Baldock doesn’t have enough to play as a lone striker. Adam has proven himself to be a viable option but let’s play everyone in their best positions. Could also try Obita on the left but think that’s harsh o...

Jerry St Clair 9 January 2001

Surely we all remember the glorious 2-1 win at Hereford in the LDV Vans Trophy? I remember the football special train was absolutely bouncing on the way back with thousands of delerious Royals.

"We're gonna win the van , we're gonna win the van" etc etc.

The player himself openly said he didn’t want to return to Bradford. This is, by the way, the same player that totally flopped last year at Bradford Not sure why Bradford would want a striker who clearly doesn’t want to play for them. It is pretty sad if it’s just to stop “Swindon” considering how ...

Swindon’s only goalscorer recalled back to Bradford. Interesting development especially as the player himself said he didn’t want to go back He's scoring goals, Bradford need a goalscorer and want promotion. Not really sure how its that interesting or newsworthy. The player himself openly said he d...

Not much Gunter could instagram about his Reading experience even if he wanted. Great day at the Hogz with my bestie @gmccleary12 and the Under 12's. Nearly done a goal. Me and @mccleary12 sat on benches together eating our Happy Meals. Shat in a bucket outside the building as wasn't allowed to poo ...

Dont think you will find many top teams that keep playing their back up player when their starter returns from injury based on the team performance. Gunter has done well since being brought back into the fold but that is what you should expect of a back up player. Yiadom has been one of our most im...

"Should we play our best right back when he regains fitness?" Yes. Yes is the answer. Should we keep a back four that has kept 4 clean sheets in a row? Yes. Yes is the answer However Yiadom isn’t back for a couple of weeks yet I don’t think so circumstances by then may change Dont think y...

Interesting views as always. For me Eze is currently ahead of Ejaria. Eze wasn't playing against Pele or Gunter last night he was playing wherever the space was. He is excellent at drifting into space between the lines and then attacking the back four if he gets the ball in the right area. He is al...

Anyone know anything about Shandon Baptiste? As an avid FM player I notice he is very good on the latest game and was seemingly let go for nothing many moons ago. Anyone recall his time here? No idea on his time with us but he was pretty good for Oxford against Man City last night I thought. Very m...

You can't just say "Let's ignore 40% of the games" Why not ignore the most recent four games? A manager is judged over all his games. The team will go down or stay up based on what happened under Gomes plus ALL the games following. The most recent games are two away draws, an away win, a ...

Without the first 4, we're LLWLDD So 5 from 6. About 0.8ppg. Which isn't great, but isn't awful and is certainly an improvement on how Gomes finished. So, pretty horrific then if we're honest. 37points over the season, dead cert relegation. My farts are an improvement on how Gomes finished, that's ...

Swift is not the player Stam bought, he is certainly not the player of the last two seasons. In the last 2/3 games he’s played at the highest level and been effective, it’s like a new signing. And when he doesn’t work there’s Ejaria.... bit difficult for opposition to shutdown both of these players...

Thought it was interesting that Howe was on the bench as Right back sub. With Bowen saying that those that work hard during training will get selected, does that mean that Gunter isn't training well or even interested? I don't think he's injured. Baldock and McCLeary are getting selected as they ar...

Hound I wouldn't write Joao off at all yet.

Hugill was the other we were very strongly linked with, and I think made a bid for, I think he'd have done a good job

I'm not necessarily writing him off just saying that had we got Oliveira then Joao probably wouldn't be here at what is a pretty big gamble

Well yeah. Though McCleary was physical a mess at that point. Beerens an odd one - I think destined to be looked back on more fondly than he was at the time. A massive Part if that play off season though, esp 1st half of the season Barrow should have been able to replace one of them. Other major pr...

To be fair Kitson has made a whole 2nd career based on "opening up".

It's shutting him up that would be the achievement.

Not sure this is the place, but Smith's loan is going well this year. Still only 21. If he gets 15-20 goals in League 2 this year, surely he's worth having around the squad next year? Personally, I don’t think so. Right now, we have too many strikers and I’m not sure Smith is quite good enough to m...

Accepting all the "getting results when playing badly / playing until the bitter end" plaudits I still think Liverpool are there for the taking . Mane is carrying the front 3 at the moment , Salah is clearly not right (probably still carrying an injury) and Firmino's game is suffering a li...

You don`t like him, fair enough, but don`t talk a load of shit,, slightly better than your hero i would say. He reminds me more of Hopeless Rakels, no quality and goes over too easy. How many goals did Rakels score? Puscas has 4 already. I think he'll go on to be an excellent signing. He makes good...

just scanned the TalkReading twitter an its more interesting actually that Adam has replied to a few comments on there. Basically 'we're not putting more effort in', but the level of training 'intensity' has gone up. I do think that is a little damning. But also very much what I want to hear. Proba...