To get the ball rolling, this is how the Times sees us:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article6736633.ece?token=null&offset=48&page=5
Reading
The best footballing team in the Championship for the first half of last season, Reading’s collapse after Christmas signalled the end for Steve Coppell. Brendan Rodgers, having breezed through Watford, is not short on contacts and the new manager went to Chelsea, where he worked with José Mourinho, to make his first signing, Ryan Bertrand, the England youth international, on loan. With Kevin Doyle, Leroy Lita, Dave Kitson and Graeme Murty gone, and questions over Stephen Hunt’s future, Rodgers highlights the need for quality above quantity: that’s a lot of faith in Tommy Smith, the Watford forward, and Danny Dervite, the Tottenham Hotspur defender, his prime targets.
Prediction: 10
Seems like a fair assessment to me, however they are tipping Sheffield United for the title, and Newcastle to finish a lowly 20th.