Says he wants regular football but I can't see another premiership team wanting him. Maybe a Good championship striker? I can think of three Premiership teams who would have him in the starting line up... Hull, Palace and Cardiff. You could argue that he'd have a decent chance of starting for Norwi...

He and the FA really are prize idiots. Our national team desperately needs to be rebuilt and feature young up and coming players so Hodgson decides to look to give a 31 year old his first opportunity in the squad! :twisted: Yeah just like the spanish national team do.. oh wait.. no. http://en.wikip...

I think Samuel and Obita are the closest, though in Obita's case that's only really because of fitness issues. Taylor and Tanner could be in with shots of playing behind the striker if we want to play 4-2-3-1 but don't have options there (if Drenthe and McAnuff get injured, for example). If Gorkss g...

That doesn't mean anything though?

An unfit Drenthe can't be any worse at defending than HRK.

Judge Drenthe Robson-Kanu, McCleary ... are all better wingers.

Bless.

TBM Until he's fit, Drenthe will have to play that role behind the front man, as he wont get back and support the full back - so with Guthrie taking the other CM spot it only leaves Karacan to miss out

To be fair, HRK has little to no defensive ability, and I've not seen much from McCleary either.

Don't get me wrong I love Reading and do not wish to disrespect the club in any way but to say that we have international players and a great misfield and a great defence is pie in the sky, Have you forgotten (WE GOT RELEGATED) with almost the same squad as we have now ! We sold our best players. W...

If we bought Rhodes for 10m and Austin for 5m, were promoted on their goals, I rather think that Promotion to the Prem would give us vastly more than 15M Option A- spend £15m on luxury players, 70% chance of promotion, promoted Option B- spend little more, 50% chance of promotion, promoted Option C...

I'm fairly confident that Zamora and Johnson will play more games than Roberts does. I do think we have a good Championship striker in Alfie though. That may well be the case, but that's damning with faint praise... Neither played has played more than 30 league games since 08/09. Now neither has Ro...

Charlie Austin has scored 20 goals twice in four seasons as a professional. I think it is fair to say he has a 50% chance of scoring at least 20 goals. In 6 years as a pro, Jordan Rhodes has scored 25 goals or more twice. Again, it seems like far from a certainty that he will score 25 goals this sea...

paddy20 Cant see us scoring. We havent since February

So we're never going to score at home again?

3-1, McCleary, Pog, ALF. And it won't be Tabb who scores for Ipswich.

He needs to drop down to prove himself after failing in 3 different top flights, so in that sense it is realistic.

Do I think we should go after him? No thanks.

Just before McDermott left, I looked at Pogrebnyak's shot-to-goals ratio and it was pretty impressive. The problem was that he wasn't getting enough shots. He was dropped (along with Guthrie and Pearce) when we were at our most attacking, then when he came back in the side he was averaging about one...

I'm not sure I've ever seen a better first touch from a Reading player. That's crazy good.

I'm not really keeping tabs on the injury situation. It's just Kebe, HRK and Williams with question marks but none of them firmly out? Oh, and Roberts of course. Based on that, I'd like: McCarthy; Kelly, Pearce, Mariappa, Bridge; Karacan, Guthrie; Drenthe, McAnuff, McCleary; Pogrebnyak Subs: Federic...

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loyalroyal4life Linked with Forest, I think they will be strong for auto with him and mackie as a strikeforce

Not forgetting Cox

And Henderson... oh wait.

They may as well get Connor Wickham on loan and complete the set.

It's not looking much like we'll be playing 2 up though, which I thought would get the best out of ALF and Pog, though would leave us light on strikers and stuck with the same sort of system we're looking to move away from. Pog and Alf are both goalscorers before all else. IMO with a really success...

Did we really pay £1m for Leigertwood? I cannot find any confirmation of that That was the fee being floated around at the time, a few months later people started calling it £500-750k Team of players from Haag Royal's list (no goalkeeper): Murty-------Mariappa--Gorkss-----Kelly ---------Leigertwood...

Two years ago, we won the league. Since then, we have made the following adjustments: Griffin->Gunter Connolly-> Kelly Harte-> Bridge Gorkss->Mariappa Crap Morrison-> Good Morrison Antonio-> McCleary Tabb-> Guthrie Mullins-> Akpan Leigertwood-> Williams Howard->Drenthe Church-> Pogrebnyak Afobe-> Bl...

15 goals!?!?! He can't get one against a League Two side who for large spells last season found themselves fighting relegation from the football league. How anyone thinks he is any good is beyond me. We could play Morecambe, Accrington, AFC Wimbledon or even Newport County and I would bet you he wo...