Who do you want?

[SPARTA]

1. Coppell
2. Hughton
3. Mackay

But I don't want Adkins out!

[Maguire]

Mike Read is going to be available soon.

Already a regular in the North Stand of course, so knows a bit about the team

[WoodleyRoyal]

there hasn't been a player manager for a while, i vote for chris gunter as the current club captain and leader

[Tilehurstsouthbank]

there hasn't been a player manager for a while, i vote for chris gunter as the current club captain and leader

Gunter can't even do his own job properly! Manager? I hope this is tongue in cheek.

[Cureton's Volley]

Brian
Dolan
Parky

[Dave_Kitson]

Dave Kitson

[bobby1413]

Graeme Murty

[Sanguine]

We really need to take a step back and think about what Reading FC looks like from the outside. Our current ownership situation surely makes us an unattractive proposition.

Does it? Can you explain that please? I'm not saying you are wrong but with new owners in place now with potential money to invest I would say we are more attractive than we have been for a while.....

As under the tin said - the proof is in the pudding, and to outsiders the pudding so far appears insubstantial. Although they do have a nice box in the West stand.

You won't convince a high calibre manager to come in and manage a team where a sizeable chunk of the matchday squad are in their first year at that level, recent history is of best players being sold and some of the squad's 'better' players are primadonnas.

Perhaps my opinion is tinted by our frustrating form, but I just don't see managing Guthrie, Pearce, Pog and Jake Taylor as particularly attractive, without millions to spend on new recruits.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Who the fcuk is voting for Malky Mackay?

[Royalcop]

Hard to see beyond McDermott - thought he was harshly treated by AZ and no doubt might feel he has unfinished business at the club, plus he knows us inside out and has the requisite experience and track record at this level (which Parky and Dolan do not). Whether of course he would leave a presumably well-paid, cushy number at Arsenal for a Championship relegation fight is another matter.

[Cureton's Volley]

I doubt Brian would come back now. Indeed, why would he?

He won the league with an average squad, and then got fųcked over for it. Deserves better than this shitpit.

[Wycombe Royal]

We really need to take a step back and think about what Reading FC looks like from the outside. Our current ownership situation surely makes us an unattractive proposition.

Does it? Can you explain that please? I'm not saying you are wrong but with new owners in place now with potential money to invest I would say we are more attractive than we have been for a while.....

As under the tin said - the proof is in the pudding, and to outsiders the pudding so far appears insubstantial. Although they do have a nice box in the West stand.

You won't convince a high calibre manager to come in and manage a team where a sizeable chunk of the matchday squad are in their first year at that level, recent history is of best players being sold and some of the squad's 'better' players are primadonnas.

Perhaps my opinion is tinted by our frustrating form, but I just don't see managing Guthrie, Pearce, Pog and Jake Taylor as particularly attractive, without millions to spend on new recruits.

A lot of managers don't look at it like that and if the right contract is on offer they will take it. Most of things you mentioned were applicable when Adkins took over.

As it happens I would prefer us to go with a younger lower league manager who wants to take the step up, hence my suggestion of Gary Rowett who is doing a great job at Burton Albion. Our squad has some pretty good players in it, coupled with some excellent youngsters coming through and new owners who potentially (and I use that word for a reason) could invest some money.

There are very few clubs where millions of pounds are on offer to a new manager to invest on players so I don't see that as being an issue. Managers know the financial constraints that clubs are under now and they are also aware that many vacancies come up because the club is not doing very well.

[muddyfeet]

McD wouldn't come back and I don't blame him!

It is worrying that seemingly competent Managers disintegrate when they come to Reading (Rodgers, Adkins etc) and do a perfectly good job elsewhere!

[BraisingsteakRoyal]

Realistically Dolan.

Unrealistically, Pulis or Moyes.

[Winston Smith]

Late 90's Carmen Electra

[Alan Partridge]

Wouldn't mind ELO to be honest

I was there with the rest of the crowd saying, "Come back on ELO and play some more"

[Royalcop]

It is worrying that seemingly competent Managers disintegrate when they come to Reading (Rodgers, Adkins etc) and do a perfectly good job elsewhere!

I don't think that's unique to us, lots of managers do well at one club but can't replicate their success at another - look at Moyes or Hodgson. It just goes to show that the manager is a small cog in a much bigger machine that can bring success or failure.

[under the tin]

There are very few clubs where millions of pounds are on offer to a new manager to invest on players so I don't see that as being an issue. Managers know the financial constraints that clubs are under now and they are also aware that many vacancies come up because the club is not doing very well.

Fair enough, but most industries are, to a degree, incestuous. Whether the channels of communication are official ones, like the LMA, or whether it's a manager ringing up an old mate/ex colleague, there is also the extra dimension of how the club itself is viewed.
I suspect that Vincent Tan will shortly find it very difficult to fill the next vacancy at Cardiff with a British manager. The word will go out that they don't make bargepoles long enough.....
In the same vein, McDermott was rewarded by this club for his overachievement with little or no backing and eventually, the sack.
Equally, Adkins, although has not achieved anything yet is also suffering from a lack of backing. Should he get the old "tin tack", given the similarity to the demise of his predecessor, it's would certainly raise questions in the mind of potential candidates.

[RoyalRuss86]

Glenn Hoddle

[Zana Badawi]

NA hasn't gone yet...

But Id want somebody that can unite all the fans and be liked by the players. You know, a top bloke.

As Glen Little doesn't have his badges, Id be all over Dolan - but didn't he say he didn't want the job when McDermott was sacked? Plus who would do his job in the academy?