Lets be honest, who apart from Dave Whelan or Jack Walker in English football in recent times has transformed a backwater football club in the way that Reading has been transformed under JM ? Its a quite remarkable acheivement and the fact that he's still trying to it whilst balancing the books and ...

I find it unbelievable that any so called Reading fan would want Coppell sacked. After what SC has done for the club if we do sack him we will deserve to go down and never see the PL again. Sounds a bit harsh to be honest There is an over reaction thread........ just in case you are interested. # T...

I'll give Lita his due from last night. He could have had another 4 if he had his shooting boots on but he terrorised an admittedly fairly weak Arsenal back line. In itself its no indicator of whether he can fire the goals to keep us up but in these games its his attitude and mindset which has impr...

He was pretty good in my opinion, although he tended to drift in and out of the game. He's got a goodish touch, is a good passer, and is pretty quick, but he's easily knocked off the ball, and whenever he came inside he tended to be muscled out of it. Communication's an issue; once or twice you cou...

how did kebe play? He was pretty good in my opinion, although he tended to drift in and out of the game. He's got a goodish touch, is a good passer, and is pretty quick, but he's easily knocked off the ball, and whenever he came inside he tended to be muscled out of it. Communication's an issue; on...

Oh and Woodcote, I didn't complain, I merely asked you why you persisted in calling him a tw@t, a MiddLOLe CLOLass one at that! :lol: Well, if you're really not complaining, you, me and your middle class twat of a husband will have to do this all again sometime :mrgreen: I'm out of touch but is thi...

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I would suspect that the majority of RFC supporters, including yourself, are middle class.

Don't tell Sharpy.

Just a couple of points:- IIRC Kitson was injured when he arrived so the taking of 3 months to score probably had more to do with his injury. I wonder if Coppell's reluctance to put players straight into the first team is explained to players that we try to sign,e.g Taylor,Lescott,Mensah etc and th...

Depends if you believe that you can only progress by spending big money rather than those rather old fashioned virtues of coaching, man management and teamwork. I'm not sure how much money it would take for a "money manager" to get Reading FC to 8th place in the country. It also depends o...

I'd definitely argue about whether the names you've listed made an immediate impact. Certainly Doyle and Lita hit the ground running but Kits took nigh on 3 months to score his first goal for us whilst Duberry & Gunnarsson were purchased as squad men anyway and Long went straight into the Acade...

I agree we don't see many of Coppell's signings come in and set the world on fire (although it could be argued that the likes of Duberry, Gunnarsson, Doyle, Lita, Long, Ingimasson and Kitson all did excatly that) and that a lot of the issues this year seem to be because Coppell is being so loyal to...

"Players want to come to clubs with ambition, and we like to think we've got ambition "If you look at the summer, Man Utd and Liverpool spent 40million, 50million each, we spent hardly anything. So by definition we're losing ground. "So, for this club to be ambitious we've got be be ...

Vision does make a lot of valid points. I nodded along to a lot of it. One thing though, I read a piece from Coppell that he wouldn't look at short term transfer solutions I would ask why not? Was Duberry not a stop gap because Sonko was out long term? But I digress. How would making a series of sh...

We are still a small club, not much bigger than Wigan in the end. Which great players have they brought in over the last couple of years? Heskey = not bad, Koumas? They've bought in plenty of decent players over the last two or three seasons. Some have paid off, some haven't. Some have been establi...

Nothing beats watching football at KitKat Crescent.

Good God, you tiresome cretins. If you want to know what it is, why don't you try putting 'Greg Halford rumour' into Google and then click on the first link. Honestly, this entire country needs wet nursing these days. The sooner under 25s are banned from the internet the better. Anyone got the URL ...

Good to see they have been granted permission to play in the U18 league..and even better to see one of them scored on debut Also was interested to read that Hunty rates Nam Taehee as one of the best young prospects he has ever seen Well he was at Brentford before us so I'll take his opinion with a ...

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LOVE PLAYER Glen Little In my opinion the most sublimely skillful player i have ever seen playing for us and i saw Mr Friday. Like Mags i firmly believe any crosses that fail to find their target are purely down to inept forward play and nothing to do with Blakey. Any failings in the shooting depar...

For no good reason other than pure mischief making and it gave me a laugh or 2 when i stumbled across it again, i thought i'd resurrect the ultimate RTG/STG thread.

Anyone's views changed a year down the line?