It's a bit like choosing between losing your sight or your genitals. Seeing Colin's gurning face milking the applause on the pitch in Cardiff, or watching the cottagers (lol) in the neutral end gently applauding their fantastically talented team of future megastars returning to their "rightful...

Well if Wednesday win, then the biggest Reading-win-prediciton would be the worst prediction and vice-versa if it's a draw, then it's the biggest win posted (could be 3-0 to Wednesday AND 3-0 to Reading (for example) GD, goals scored is taken into consideration so a 3-0 defeat is worse than a 3-1 d...

Stephen Bush of the New Statesman played Football Manager for hours and claimed it was work. To justify it, he wrote this article about the likely effects of Brexit (assuming it actually happens of course)

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/04/wi ... -any-guide

I think this will be a tougher game than we envisage. The pressure is off them as they're safe so they're likely to have a right go at us. I actually think we should play 5 at the back and keep ourselves solid. Who'd be in that back 5 though? Neither Aluko or Barrow are defensive at all, the idea o...

Think Blackett was a midfielder in his youth career, so may well have a bit of knowledge in the position. It might work I'm not sure if he has the footballing intelligence to pull it off to be honest. Blackett is a very basic footballer and if things are kept simple he is a perfectly acceptable def...

The players certainly approve. Liam Moore has paid for coach travel for the original 50 to Sheffield Wednesday

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2018/a ... ch-travel/

I think this will be a tougher game than we envisage. The pressure is off them as they're safe so they're likely to have a right go at us. I actually think we should play 5 at the back and keep ourselves solid. Who'd be in that back 5 though? Neither Aluko or Barrow are defensive at all, the idea o...

Can you release players still in contract? surely its not that easy. It's never going to be easy to shift contracted players unless there is a demand for them, unlikely with our overpaid, underperforming lot. My opinion assuming we stay up: Mannone - Keep Jakkola - Out of Contract, release Bond - O...

Don't want to be horrible about the U23's as overall they've had a decent season, but this side contains a number of players some people have been clamouring to get a run in the senior side. Assumed you meant Loader until I saw the line-up. Were you talking about Smith and maybe Rinomhota? I haven'...

Just a small twist on this title......If we do stay up I think its gonna be tough again next season. I think the teams coming up and teams coming down (especially) are gonna be bloody tough. The fact the three coming down from above have been in the PL a while really does give them a bit of an adva...

1-3 Frost Finished 1-4. Don't want to be horrible about the U23's as overall they've had a decent season, but this side contains a number of players some people have been clamouring to get a run in the senior side. You've got to think that them not getting a go is down to them not being good enough...

I'd buy Kitson's autobiography anyway, I reckon it would be a good read. Agreed, think it would be very entertaining. Maybe with a forward by Glen Little? presumably not one from Graeme Murty though, assuming Dave is the secret footballer. Next stage after TSF "coming out" would be identi...

If we stay up and avoid selling the entire team we will probably have the most experienced squad in the Championship. Premier league football - check Play-off - check Relegation battle - check Mid-table obscurity- check. Anyone else in the league capable of claiming that? You forgot European footba...

strap wrote:

biff wrote:Have it on player authority that it is indeed Kitson.

I was at the recent Kitson RFCFPA do at the Tilehurst BL, Kits did pretty much deny it wasn't him. Could have been a smokescreen of course.

which means it was him. Right?

Though at least there's something resting on our games, unlike 2 & 3 seasons ago when no games ever really seemed to matter and our team performances largely reflected that Was thinking that - would there be more enthusiasm for the "player lap of appreciation" last home game if we've ...

If we stay up and avoid selling the entire team we will probably have the most experienced squad in the Championship. Premier league football - check Play-off - check Relegation battle - check Mid-table obscurity- check. Anyone else in the league capable of claiming that? You forgot European footba...

Imagine swapping Fosu for Harriot :roll: I think a lot of us felt Fosu was moved on far too quickly. Can we cease with this myth that Fosu was discarded or moved on. He was offered a new contract last May and chose to move on. Once people have got it into their heads that something is the club's fa...

Stranded wrote:

strap wrote:
Frankly I fear we are stuck with BT due to the impact of Rooney's Rule, (or whatever it's called these days).

Sorry strap, but that comes across as borderline racist there. Plus there is no Rooney rule in English football.

Not borderline, just racist.

This was never going to be an easy or quick victory, particularly under the Conservatives, but the very fact that a PL club has put in a trial proposal and intend to ask for a review of the rejection is extremely positive. Especially given the utterly empty reason for rejection. It'll probably take...

Not much cheer on the injury front. First of all - John Swift has said he's had to learn a new way of running to protect his hamstrings. No wonder he's looking a bit sluggish since he came back, that's going to take a while to adapt to. Secondly - Blackett is 50/50, and Clement says nobody else will...