That's just the situation we're in, we lost hundreds of millions under Dai, didn't we? We had a few years of massively going over budget in the hopes of getting promoted from the championship and we didn't. I don't think we can really offset that with a few years of reducing budget, because we're pr...

OK, if its winding people up i won't bother anymore. thought I'd been bang on the money with my posts, i'll keep it to myself going forward Nah, keep doing your thing! You're nearly always bang on the money. You're the only/most ITK person on here. Its actually interesting to know how active the cl...

Are we about to get Tommy Smithed again? That would be a shame.

To be fair, Knibbs has been great for us and kept a good relationship with the fans. He deserves a shot higher up the league. I would hate to see him go, but if he does go, I wish him well. The difficulty for us becomes getting someone else in who we can build around. If we don't go up next year, we...

Was this all part of McDermott's long term plan? Fill the Reading squad (both as scout and manager) with players destined to become agents and then use those relationships to help get players in? I doff my hat to the man, he's a visionary.

I'm getting the impression that life in L1 is very much a case of basically doing a yearly squad rebuild. You can't really build long term, anyone young enough and developing well will take their shot at a step up to the champ. I'm really grateful we have a pipeline of promising youngsters coming t...

I'm getting the impression that life in L1 is very much a case of basically doing a yearly squad rebuild. You can't really build long term, anyone young enough and developing well will take their shot at a step up to the champ. I'm really grateful we have a pipeline of promising youngsters coming th...

If more players don't accept the contract extension, the remaining players will be able to go to Thorpe Park and get the team photo from that rubber dinghy rapids ride.

His play style seemed to change quite substantially once Selles left. Previously, he has been keen to take on a defender and use his pace to pelt forward, whereas under Hunt, he seems to hesitate slightly when he gets the ball. Makes me think he's a bit low on confidence at the moment, but clearly d...

Whilst I wouldn't blame him at all for going, especially to a Welsh team, it would be a big loss to see him go. He's one of the players I was hoping we could build a squad around for the future.

Allowing Holzman to leave is a risky strategy. Seems to me like we're banking on Mbengue staying. If Mbengue doesn't sign, then we're down another CB again, with Bindon returning to forest.

Even moreso because you just know he's going to end up at a rival league 1 club like Wycombe or Bristol rovers and end up kicking our arses. Hull was not the right club to go to. You could see that from how they sacked Rosenior, absolute joke. Their chairman is another basket case, I can't help but ...

Was it him that got the club badge on a formula 1 car? That was pretty cool. I have to add that absolutely delicious burrito stand outside the ground on match days, that was a superb decision. Best chicken burrito I've had outside of the town centre. He would have had a solid 8 out of 10 from me if ...

I'm quite impressed with Blackpool, they beat us pretty comprehensively twice this season whilst barely breaking out of second gear. I'm rating them to do well next year. I'm not against signing players from them.

Might not be the year just yet, i think too many of our prized assets will have shown their value and I'm not confident we can fight off the lure of championship football. I'm gonna go ahead an assume we lose Knibbs, Periera and Mbengue to championship clubs and assume that we are not able to get Bi...

At the current moment in time, its hard to see us being much more than a stepping stone for a lot of our players. And to their credit, most (if not all) of the current squad have paid us back in effort and performance, more than we have invested in them. And if they can get a move to a championship ...

I'm really not feeling hopeful ahead of this at all. I can either see Orient going 1-0 up early on and us just playing out a dull draw with a resigned but satisfied crowd, or I can see Orient drawing and us losing 1-0 late on.

I'm actually relieved that we aren't in the playoff spot as it stands. It feels better challenging for it from outside and maybe nicking it, than to have it in your own hands to lose. I get flashbacks to how tough it felt the year Sir Steve's team got relegated and we lost about 8 must-win games in ...

It looked like a harsh decision. Tbh, i felt the ref was poor second half: I don't think the penalty was a genuine foul, it just looked like two players getting close to each other and it seemed like Pereira asked to take the kick, so really wasn't it him that was time wasting, not Stickland? I thou...

I feel like I owe Noel an apology. I was disappointed when Selles left and I didn't think Noel would keep us at the quality we were playing before. I have to eat those words, I think we're overall we're potentially better. We're a little more direct now which looks less fancy overall, but we look fa...