Bowler should be an excellent player at this level, not sure if he is left or right wing but should give us an extra dimension up top and a significant upgrade on big kelvin or Chem Campbell. Would like to see a big unit of a forward added as a plan B as a target man for these crosses into the box, ...

Finally a break from playing Swansea as our showcase pre season friendly!!! where we struggled to get 4,000 fans in the stadium. The Portsmouth friendly is pretty good also :D I remember hosting Newcastle Utd a while back 2-2 draw i think and pretty sure we had nearly 18,000 in for that game so ther...

Watched the game on Royals TV, thought we looked pretty solid first half with them coming closest with a header against the bar. Second half was a bit of a borefest due to 11 changes from each side. Fair result overall. Both our keepers didn't have much to do so hard to judge really. Our biggest tas...

Loving that we're building the squad with young hungry players who seem to have bags of potential!! My only slight concern would be getting these new guys to gel together ready for what is a pretty tough set of fixtures over the first month and a bit!! The midfield should be fine with no new faces b...

One of my favorite memories as a Reading fan was the Plymouth game! we got battered for 60mins and then one goal changed the whole game. Amazing atmosphere in the South Bank for the last 30mins :D :D :D 100%. Never gone home from a game so pissed wet through, with the biggest smile on my chops. I s...

26 year old right winger currently on the book of Nottingham Forest. Hails from Chertsey and previously with QPR, Everton and Blackpool. Including various loan periods he’s managed 17 goals in 148 league appearances. Made 18 Championship appearances last season on loan at Preston and then Luton. Ne...

Plymouth away on a Boxing Day is pretty disgusting. Long trip to do I remember a Christmas away visit to Plymouth in 87. Gail force wind and horizontal rain blown into our faces for 90 minutes. We won 3-1. A repeat would be nice. As an aside, I used to go up Prospect Park and play footie with the C...

......................Pereira Abrefa, O'Connor, Stickland, Garcia ......................Wing .................Elliott, Savage ..Camara.........................Knibbs .........................? It's not looking fabulous As a starting 11 or 10 (No Striker :D ) that's not to bad! Pereira is clearly th...

......................Pereira Abrefa, O'Connor, Stickland, Garcia ......................Wing .................Elliott, Savage ..Camara.........................Knibbs .........................? It's not looking fabulous As a starting 11 or 10 (No Striker :D ) that's not to bad! Pereira is clearly th...

Perhaps this year it should be taken in the Jazz Cafe or the bar of one of the players locals. Then they could all lounge about leaning on posts and stools and looking like male fashion catalogue models from the 1970s/1980s. Maybe on top of a huge rotating 200ft x 200ft Huntly & Palmers Biscuit...

Its a kit that will grow on you and to be fair it is unique and has the heritage and culture aspect nailed down :D , but in all honesty the kit could have been Pink and Yellow and modelled by Mr Blobby and i really wouldn't have cared because we have a club to support!!!! Now next years could be int...

Royal Ginger Excellent bit of business. Going to be hard pressed to top that during the off season. Delighted.

One of either Savage staying and Mbengue signing a new contract and that would be amazing!!! Both would be surreal!!!

EL GATO just confirmed on the Reading Offical site until 2028!!! that's huge and just got us a few more points next seasons tally

Really should be NO as it rarely works out well the second time but then my brain throws me that memory of the 3-2 win at home against Wigan with his 97th min headed winner and then i'm thinking well maybe just for one season

Borussia Dortmunds Bynoe-Gittens (Born in Reading) and at Reading from 2013-18 has just had an offer from Chelsea for 42 million!! I believe Reading got him on a youth contract from Chelsea.
Don't suppose anyone inserted a sell on clause by any chance

Really not sure about this one and sat on the fence!!! Their is a good player there and he did score 7 scores with 4 assists but most of his best stuff came early on in his loan with the second loan period he was bang average at best!! The good thing is he is age, at 22 he clearly has time to improv...

Would be a big miss but we have Elliot returning to fitness and if it allows us to play Craig in his natural DM position i wouldn't be to worried. Would leave us Elliot, Wing, Craig and Knibbs in the Middle with U23s as back up.

morganb Wonder if David Button has designs on being a goalkeeper coach?

That really isn't a bad call at all!! he's well liked and respected and its the natural progression for a keeper.

Has an impressive goalscoring record 65 (17 goals) for Larne, 62 (32 goals) for Cliftonville and now at Ross County and scoring goals and guess what? The guy is Irish!!!! Sign him up, our record with Irish forwards ain't to shabby :D :D :D :D :D On a serious note, exactly the type of player we shoul...

Recognise very few of those names. Of those that sound familiar only ones that stick out that I'd want to double check age and performance stats for are Poku and Jade Jones. Same here, Poku and Jade Jones are the two speedsters from Peterbrough and i think there were a few Championship sides sniffi...