Villa stretching the FFP to the limit again no doubt. They had that Terry wage to spend. Arguably Bolasie is more worth it than scumbag Terry. That Terry wage almost screwed them over + u add in a Tammy Abraham and a Tuanzebe. Hoping they will learn a lesson soon with the spending habits. They have...

linkenholtroyal You may have all missed this but David Prutton of Skysports prediction fame for the first time all season has predicted that we will win....

Uh oh.

Fair enough yet he was captain and a regular starter for them. Was only made captain by the manager to send a message to the Fulham owners. If ever there was a reason to say "on pitch captain doesn't matter a damn", it's this. Either that, or the message was "please sack me, I'm just...

Gunter bashing is just tiresome. That is all. Yeah lets just ignore his completely inept displays, let him get away with it. Bless little Chrissy. It's not bashing. He was shite. Players should be called out when they're shite. Especially when we have a RB performing at a much higher standard forke...

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Old Man Andrews Can I note I didn't deal with her in the capacity of a supporter. I am sure she is lovely to the general public.

Did she spurn your advances....

There isn't a woman alive who'd spurn my advances.

Walker Yiadom Ilori Moore Gunter (LB) Ezatolahi Bacuna Swift Sims Bodvarsson Barrow a.n.other for Ezatolahi - he's still in Paris getting his visa sorted out and won't be in the UK till probably Saturday. Desperate and all as our midfield is, I can hardly see him being helicoptered to Preston from ...

Is BT leaving a big blow to the club?? I'm more concerned about the scouts and youth managers moving on than BT. If Brian said he was leaving months ago but would stay on until a replacement has come in, I take it that means the club have waited for the replacement to come in and then recruit repla...

Heard Brum were also facing a points deduction Maybe our best chance of avoiding relegation this year sadly Actually think it’s a shame for Bolton. Not a talented side but very well set up and disciplined - the players and manager don’t deserve it Agreed. Looks like Bolton have come to a deal with ...

"What we want you to hear has been on our website since Friday". Grow up. Did you want to hear the full version? If so, why did you not join STAR and go? Stop being childish. Mainly due to having a life. Try it one day. I'm not a member, wouldn't join any club that would have me. But at t...

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STAR Liaison Summary notes been on STAR website since Friday.

"What we want you to hear has been on our website since Friday".

Grow up.

Did you want to hear the full version? If so, why did you not join STAR and go?

Stop being childish.

There's a manager ratings poll on The Tilehurst End right now - https://thetilehurstend.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2018/9/6/17812638/paul-clement-reading-fc-fans-approval-rating-september-2018-championship?__twitter_impression=true 90% of your readers couldn't be less happy with Clement? 90% of your...

The fullbacks weren't the problem last game - quite the contrary. Could see Yiadom being rightly miffed if we're saying - yeah, you were one the best players last game, so as a reward we'll play you out of position next game. . Errr... isn't that exactly what we did against Weds? Nope, because Yiad...

There's a manager ratings poll on The Tilehurst End right now - https://thetilehurstend.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2018/9/6/17812638/paul-clement-reading-fc-fans-approval-rating-september-2018-championship?__twitter_impression=true I like the geographical breakdown of the votes you can see a big sou...

As mentioned on here already Sims must play and also Aluko needs dropping after his performance last game. I don't care whether you are the club's record signing or not if you are bottling tackles and walking back when your team is under the cosh then I probably speak for everyone when I say you're...

It's not just long contracts, it's foolish contracts. McCleary getting that length of contract with his injury record at that point, which has only got worse, was stupid. Kermorgant getting an extension before he'd returned fully from injury was stupid. Moore getting a big new contract is questiona...

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muirinho , because he'd pumped in billions in the form of interest free loans

Not in that league sadly.

I spotted my typo afterwards but was too lazy to correct!

Madejski has to sadly take a certain amount of blame for the current situation. He sold out firstly to an individual with very questionable credentials, and who had already been rejected by Everton as having failed their due diligence tests, and then repeated the mistake again with the Thais, who w...

There's a lot being about massive long term contracts on this thread; apart from Moore (recently) and probably Aluko who exactly? Swift and I believe Kelly were offered extended deals a year ago which were entirely justified based on their performances during the play off season. Yiadom was given a...

Elm Park Kid Is Madejski really too poor/uninterested to buy the club back and get it on some kind of decent footing? He can't take the money with him and there's no spouse to think about.

Too old and tired I'd say. He's 77 now.

Kevin Doyle has started coaching Ireland U17s

http://www.the42.ie/ireland-ex-players- ... 9-Aug2018/