I don’t think its fair at all to say he was often poor with a few purple patches. You seem to be misrepresenting people's reasons for signing him too. We're going to struggle very hard to recruit quality League One players with the potential to step up from within League One, especially without pay...

Would rather we avoided on the basis that I feel it would be sentimental than actual ability. If my memory serves me right, often he was a poor player for us and had 1 or 2 purple patches a season. If we want to get promoted we need players who can deliver consistently. He is a big personality whic...

Would rather we avoided on the basis that I feel it would be sentimental than actual ability. If my memory serves me right, often he was a poor player for us and had 1 or 2 purple patches a season. If we want to get promoted we need players who can deliver consistently. He is a big personality which...

retro royal Read that he's a bit slow and not likely to be much more than league one player, maybe disgruntled Lincoln fan

If we’re promoted from league one and he’s playing for us regularly, then I think everyone’s a winner.

Conflict of interest is a regular challenge all businesses face. If the club is being run sensibly, I would imagine there are extra steps in the process to stop Garry Monk style situations from happening.

So nearly the end of the week during which 'Big Announcements' were promised.... With an "S" - as in more than one... At my count, we've had the Joel renewal - a "Big Announcement"... And the internal promotion of a goalkeeping coach to the first team.... That second one is a st...

So nearly the end of the week during which 'Big Announcements' were promised.... With an "S" - as in more than one... At my count, we've had the Joel renewal - a "Big Announcement"... And the internal promotion of a goalkeeping coach to the first team.... That second one is a st...

Training ground was a kick in the teeth but it was put to bed so quickly so didn’t feel too low ultimately. I lost all confidence after Shrewsbury although I didn’t watch the game itself so didn’t take much promise like others did. It felt like we just weren’t good enough, had no easy way to bridge ...

Realistically you want your first choice centre halves to be 46 game players, hasn’t played even close to that in the past three seasons. Worth having on trial but his injury record does scare me a little bit.

I guess no playoffs gives us that two or so weeks we could do with to plan.

Playoffs has to be the aim.

Could be a special day if things go our way with that and a near sell out crowd. Not sure there’s much more motivation a footballer could need to give it absolutely everything.

Twitter truly does bring the worst out in people. Pissy when journalists don’t report anything, pissy when they get wrong. That Haung guy may have got a thing or two correct in the past but if you chose to take his tweets as fact then that’s entirely your own call, don’t expect journalists to automa...

We were very lucky to not concede in the opening quarter, but all credit to them as we got back into it. Glad Wifi and Garcia were hooked off as early as they were. Poor games and seemed a bit lazy, contrast to Rushesha and Wareham who gave us the energy we needed (really liked the look of Rushesha)...

Unfortunately a game where we were physically dominated. Referee didn’t do his job in addressing this which gave Blackpool the licence to exploit that. Felt we really struggled to deal with Ashley Fletcher’s physical presence too. I don’t think it called for the reaction it got though. Arguably the ...

The thing I like about this squad the most is the sheer hidden gems we’ve found. Pereira never been a no 1 before, gets his chance and shines. Mbengue’s progression has been outstanding. Bindon has continued to impress too. Elliott and Savage seem to finally have found their feet at this level after...

Imagine it’s the club looking after his welfare and letting him train to get fit rather than having intent to sign him. Wish him all the best, however his future lies away from Reading.

From the Port Vale forum: I agree. I wish we had an owner who’d put some money in like Daii Yoonge. I don’t know what Reading fans were moaning about. That squad of theirs is chock full of players who earn much more than ours and they were still paying Andy Carroll 15k a week until about October. Of...

One of their fans decided to use a homophobic slur to describe one Reading fan, they’re quite keen to tell us that it’s only a minority. Funny that. Given we recently had a 'fan' use a racist slur, I wouldn’t be too quick to tar them all with the same brush, because that shit works both ways. They ...

They have plenty of games in hand so hope the new manager bounce doesn’t kick in quite this yet.

One of their fans decided to use a homophobic slur to describe one Reading fan, they’re quite keen to tell us that it’s only a minority. Funny that.