Rumour - Church off on free

[Divvy]

Unfortuate that some are giving Church abuse on here, for me like all the players that leave Reading for other clubs, thanks for the effort you have put in for us and I wish him the very best for the future, maybe a change of scenary will be good for him. Good luck Simon.

He could have had a change of scenery in January but he decided to stay here and pick up a big wage he wasn't earning instead.



That's missing his purple patch he had for a few months here, but is clear as day he isn't going to cut it as a striker.

[Ian Royal]

If he stays, fine, no vendetta against him. I met him & McCarthy in the pitch invasion last year genuinely going mental. If he leaves he'll leave as the worst striker I've ever seen, but that's through lack of ability rather than lack of drive. Best of luck to him elsewhere.

You would have loved Keith Scott, Robert Fleck, Paul Brayson..

Dean Morgan, Jim McIntyre, Neville Roach, Nicholas Bignall... who was that Irish striker recently... not Karl Sheppard, before him... I think he played a game or two in the League Cup.... David Mooney!

TBH you could include Long from between August 2009 to October 2010.

[St. Brynjar]

If he stays, fine, no vendetta against him. I met him & McCarthy in the pitch invasion last year genuinely going mental. If he leaves he'll leave as the worst striker I've ever seen, but that's through lack of ability rather than lack of drive. Best of luck to him elsewhere.

You would have loved Keith Scott, Robert Fleck, Paul Brayson..

Dean Morgan, Jim McIntyre, Neville Roach, Nicholas Bignall... who was that Irish striker recently... not Karl Sheppard, before him... I think he played a game or two in the League Cup.... David Mooney!

TBH you could include Long from between August 2009 to October 2010.

David Mooney is exempt because he scored a hat trick for me in Fifa 2011 to win the play-off final in the midst of an injury crisis.

Never seen the majority of the others, but it's hard to imagine them being worse than Church who has a permanent residence offside. Games where he started were akin to a sending off before the game began.

[Pepe the Horseman]

You're an idiot.

[Isaac Hunt]

He could have had a change of scenery in January but he decided to stay here and pick up a big wage he wasn't earning instead.

In his defence, and I'm really not a fan of Church by any strentch of the imagination - he was being offered a new contract by RFC purely for reasons which were for the club's benefit...not with his best interests at heart.

Had he have signed it, we'd have then tried to loan him with a view to a sale. We didn't want him. Most players would have done exactly the same.

He has actually run the risk of being unemployed this summer.

[Norfolk Royal]

I've always thought we would have had more chance of selling him if we didn't loan him out.

[Isaac Hunt]

I've always thought we would have had more chance of selling him if we didn't loan him out.

[Ian Royal]

You would have loved Keith Scott, Robert Fleck, Paul Brayson..

Dean Morgan, Jim McIntyre, Neville Roach, Nicholas Bignall... who was that Irish striker recently... not Karl Sheppard, before him... I think he played a game or two in the League Cup.... David Mooney!

TBH you could include Long from between August 2009 to October 2010.

David Mooney is exempt because he scored a hat trick for me in Fifa 2011 to win the play-off final in the midst of an injury crisis.

Never seen the majority of the others, but it's hard to imagine them being worse than Church who has a permanent residence offside. Games where he started were akin to a sending off before the game began.

Simon Church has played comfortably at Championship level. He pisses all over the rest of them. It's only hard to imagine players being worse than him if you don't have a fricking clue.

Paul Brayson played over 40 games for us mostly in Division Two (League One) and he managed a grand total of about 2 goals. I can vividly remember one game where he burst clear of the defence and was one on one with the keeper in a situation you'd expect even Jay Tabb to score 60% of the time. No one in the stadium stood up, because we all knew he had no chance of scoring. And he didn't.

Jim McIntyre was a Scottish striker who had to be played in midfield for him to look competent at the same level.

[Royalwaster]

Is that the same Jay Tabb who never scored a single goal for us ... ever?

[Pete10]

Good he is rubbish.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Good he is rubbish.

Contradicting yourself there m8.

[Terminal Boardom]

personally id like to see him playing under adkins.
if karacan can develop into a passing footballer in a month, then chruchy may be an actual striker with nigels help

You will be asking NA to turn water into wine next.

[Ian Royal]

Is that the same Jay Tabb who never scored a single goal for us ... ever?

That was rather the point.

[TommyF]

Jim McIntyre was a Scottish striker who had to be played in midfield for him to look competent at the same level.

I strangely liked McIntyre. Once you accepted he had more chance scoring in a monastery than on a football pitch and thus overcame the disappointment of never seeing him score. Never a striker but not a bad footballer was my opinion (I accept I may have been the only one to see it though!)

[Pepe the Horseman]

I think McIntyre was similar to Le Fondre.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

McInyre's problem was that he was touted as a centre-forward - which he patently wasn't.

So when he didn't meet expectations as a centre-forward the more excitable got on his back. He was perfectly competent out wide as a supporting striker.

[maffff]

I think McIntyre was similar to Le Fondre.

Similar yes, the same no. Small, quick, agile, run all day long, latching on to loose balls, chasing down, always there at the back post for the little tap ins. So yes similar.

[Norfolk Royal]

McInyre's problem was that he was touted as a centre-forward - which he patently wasn't.

So when he didn't meet expectations as a centre-forward the more excitable got on his back. He was perfectly competent out wide as a supporting striker.

Don't see that really, his performance in the play off final against Walsall was humiliating for him, the club, and the fans.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Paul Brayson played over 40 games for us mostly in Division Two (League One) and he managed a grand total of about 2 goals. I can vividly remember one game where he burst clear of the defence and was one on one with the keeper in a situation you'd expect even Jay Tabb to score 60% of the time. No one in the stadium stood up, because we all knew he had no chance of scoring. And he didn't.

Jim McIntyre was a Scottish striker who had to be played in midfield for him to look competent at the same level.

Brayson scored once (at Wolves) for Reading in his time here. You couldn't fault him for effort and determination but he just was not good enough for the level he was playing. Think that miss was at Fulham in 1999 and would have put us 2-0 up at the start of the 2nd half but instead he missed and we lost 3-1

As I recall McIntyre was essentially a left winger and was played out of position by TB2 so he struggled. When AP turned up as manager McIntyre got largely played out on the left and looked a decent player as a result.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

McInyre's problem was that he was touted as a centre-forward - which he patently wasn't.

So when he didn't meet expectations as a centre-forward the more excitable got on his back. He was perfectly competent out wide as a supporting striker.

Don't see that really, his performance in the play off final against Walsall was humiliating for him, the club, and the fans.

I think it was for most of them in that one game.