SCIAG Erm, yes I can.
When they were here, we mostly used two defensive midfielders and, except for Bertrand, defensive full backs. Kebe and McAnuff were our only sources of creativity... and we got to the playoff final and then got promoted (and had another playoff campaign under Kebe, 7th place with McAnuff, and a playoff-form second half of the season after Rodgers was sacked). Kebe was twice second in the POTS voting.
Just to prove it, here are their individual stats:
Jimmy Kebe
2008-09 41 appearances 2 goals 11 assists
2009-10 42 appearances 10 goals not very many assists
2010-11 36 appearances 9 goals 7 assists
2011-12 33 appearances 3 goals 10 assists
2012-13 16 appearances 5 goals 2 assists
Jobi McAnuff
2009-10 36 appearances 3 goals 10 assists
2010-11 40 appearances 4 goals 9 assists (plus a goal in the play offs)
2011-12 40 appearances 5 goals 11 assists
2012-13 38 appearances 0 goals 7 assists
2013-14 35 appearances 2 goals ? assists
You don't get those sorts of numbers unless you are a quality winger at this level.
As for inconsistency, would argue Kebe's biggest flaw in his final three seasons for us was that he was too much of a steady Eddie, 7/10 performances most weeks and not enough 8 or 9/10s. McAnuff was the epitome of consistent, it would have been nice if he could shoot...
tl;dr: you don't know what you're talking about.
LOL they were our only sources of creativity because of the way we played, McDermott made it so. Which is why he and those two players got exposed in the PL. Fair enough though, I won't argue with the stats up until 2011-12 as we did end up promoted (although it still applies that they were both inconsistant, your stats over 46 games don't prove otherwise) and I actually enjoyed some of the performances from both players over the years, particularly in the 2010-11 season.
However, its also still true that they are overrated (just by Reading fans). Flashes of quality from McAnuff were all too few and far between in my opinion, he often went missing and did next to nothing. The same could be said of Kebe, who usually only looked interested one game in every five we played. Would say Kebe had too many 5 or 6/10 and not enough 8 or 9/10 all through his Reading career, not just the last 3 seasons. You're right McAnuff was consistantly a 6 or 7/10 most of the time before getting worse. Basically, when they were on their game they were decent players at champ level, sadly this wasnt often enough.
I admit my memories of McAnuff might be somewhat tainted by his poor performances in his last two seasons. For example in the Premier League he played in I think virtually every minute of every game and despite being the captain should have been dropped along with one or two other regulars well before the end of season. If you want to check stats then it will tell you that 0 goals and 7 assists in 38 games made McAnuff our worst winger that season. Although I had to shoot down some on here that were wondering why he wasnt in the running for POTS


I've had this arguement on here before, and people have agreed with me. I've also met people at games who also went regularly that shared the same opinion, so please continue to look at WhoScored.com through your blue and white tinted glasses and convince yourself otherwise.